A Sentimental Library: Comprising Books Formerly Owned by Famous Writers, Presentation Copies, Manuscripts, and DrawingsPrivately Printed [by the De Vinne Press], 1914 - 332 páginas |
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... give information about little - known volumes . The auto- graphs have not been catalogued separately , the description of each appearing in connection with the book with which its interest is associated . In the preface to his catalogue ...
... give information about little - known volumes . The auto- graphs have not been catalogued separately , the description of each appearing in connection with the book with which its interest is associated . In the preface to his catalogue ...
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... gives some new characteristic or new fact about the writer , and where these allusions are obscure or need explanation they are made plain by the owner's notes , pre- pared with study and loving care . The bringing together of a set of ...
... gives some new characteristic or new fact about the writer , and where these allusions are obscure or need explanation they are made plain by the owner's notes , pre- pared with study and loving care . The bringing together of a set of ...
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... gives one of his characteristic descriptions : " Say that he stands four feet and a nail high , by his own yard measure ; still have you no idea ; nor when I tell you that his dear hump seems to me of the buffalo , in- dicative and ...
... gives one of his characteristic descriptions : " Say that he stands four feet and a nail high , by his own yard measure ; still have you no idea ; nor when I tell you that his dear hump seems to me of the buffalo , in- dicative and ...
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... gives the foregoing as the correct account of an incident which he states he heard repeatedly from Madox Brown . RED COTTON NIGHT - CAP COUNTRY ; or Turf and Towers . By Robert Browning . London , 1873 . Post 8vo . Original cloth ...
... gives the foregoing as the correct account of an incident which he states he heard repeatedly from Madox Brown . RED COTTON NIGHT - CAP COUNTRY ; or Turf and Towers . By Robert Browning . London , 1873 . Post 8vo . Original cloth ...
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... gives what the gives . I appeal To all who bear babes ! In the hour When the veil of the body we fee , then . reveal wan's li , whJe torments reve The mother hood's advent in power , The Manuscript of Mrs. Browning's Poem " Only a Curl ...
... gives what the gives . I appeal To all who bear babes ! In the hour When the veil of the body we fee , then . reveal wan's li , whJe torments reve The mother hood's advent in power , The Manuscript of Mrs. Browning's Poem " Only a Curl ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Alfred Tennyson autograph inscription autograph letter book-plate Bound by Riviere Bound by Zaehnsdorf Bradbury & Evans Brontë Carlyle Chapman & Hall Charles Dickens Charles Lamb Charlotte Brontë contains copy belonged Crown 8vo Dante Gabriel Rossetti Dated dear death Dickens's edges as issued edition engravings essay fly-leaf folio Foolscap 8vo Frederick Locker-Lampson George Cruikshank gilt Half calf Half levant Half morocco half-title hand Hazlitt Hogarth illustrations Inserted John Keats Kolle Lamb's Leigh Hunt letter from Dickens levant morocco Locker-Lampson London Lord Byron manuscript Mary Mary Shelley Miss Moxon Murray notes Old calf Original boards Original cloth original paper covers Percy Bysshe Shelley Pickwick poem poet poet's polished calf portraits Post 8vo Presentation copy printed published regarding Robert Browning says Shelley's signature sketch Small 8vo sonnet Southey Swinburne Thackeray Thackeray's Thomas title-page uncut verses vols volume W. M. Rossetti W. M. Thackeray William Wordsworth write written wrote
Pasajes populares
Página 37 - Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires,— 'tis to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, And claim a kindred with you; for ye are A beauty and a mystery, and create In us such love and reverence from afar, That fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star.
Página 134 - And published by a friend to perpetuate his memory. Printed by his own copies. Printed for HUMPHREY MOSELEY, and are to be sold at his shop, at the sign of the Princes Arms in St.
Página 32 - In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a Sigh I wish it mine ; When He can in one Couplet fix More Sense than I can do in six; It gives me such a jealous Fit, I cry "Pox take him and his Wit!
Página 284 - Bear through sorrow, wrong, and ruth, In thy heart the dew of youth, On thy lips the smile of truth. O, that dew, like balm, shall steal Into wounds, that cannot heal, Even as sleep our eyes doth seal ; And that smile, like sunshine, dart Into many a sunless heart, For a smile of God thou art.
Página 219 - I came from India as a child, and our ship touched at an island on the way home, where my black servant took me a long walk over rocks and hills until we reached a garden, where we saw a man walking.
Página 66 - ... into a dark letterbox, in a dark office, up a dark court in Fleet Street — appeared in all the glory of print; on which occasion, by-the-bye, — how well I recollect it!
Página 251 - I confess, I then envied him this mighty privilege, of which he seemed so proud ; but it was not long before I obtained the same mark of distinction'.
Página 18 - This world's no blot for us Nor blank; it means intensely, and means good: To find its meaning is my meat and drink.
Página 100 - Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam ; and the Salaman and Absal of Jami; rendered into English verse.
Página 172 - If a woman, whose reputation has yet remained unstained, if without either guardian or husband to control she should throw herself upon your mercy, if with a beating heart she should confess the love she has borne you many years, if she should secure to you secresy and safety, if she should return your kindness with fond affection and unbounded devotion, could you betray her, or would you be silent as the grave ? "I am not given to many words.