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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Página xi
... hand and a pencil in active employment . He does not deliberately refuse food if it be thrust upon him ; but at table , when tempted with his favorite dishes , he is likely to be checking with his pencil in some London price - list the ...
... hand and a pencil in active employment . He does not deliberately refuse food if it be thrust upon him ; but at table , when tempted with his favorite dishes , he is likely to be checking with his pencil in some London price - list the ...
Página xiii
... hand for a moment ? " He caressed the volume , looking at it longingly with tears in his eyes . Scoff not , O reader of " the six best sellers " ! That old man was a poet , though he had never written a line ; and , if you think such ...
... hand for a moment ? " He caressed the volume , looking at it longingly with tears in his eyes . Scoff not , O reader of " the six best sellers " ! That old man was a poet , though he had never written a line ; and , if you think such ...
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... hand . The first edition of " Adonais " ( Pisa , with the types of Didot , 1821 ) was given by Shelley to the young artist Joseph Severn , in whose arms Keats died , and has , facing the title ( inserted there no doubt by Severn himself ) ...
... hand . The first edition of " Adonais " ( Pisa , with the types of Didot , 1821 ) was given by Shelley to the young artist Joseph Severn , in whose arms Keats died , and has , facing the title ( inserted there no doubt by Severn himself ) ...
Página xxiv
... hand . The first edition of " The Princess " also has corrections , as has " The Idylls of the Hearth , " actually proof - sheets of the " Enoch Arden " volume . There are also proof - sheets with corrections of " The Window . " A ...
... hand . The first edition of " The Princess " also has corrections , as has " The Idylls of the Hearth , " actually proof - sheets of the " Enoch Arden " volume . There are also proof - sheets with corrections of " The Window . " A ...
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... hand . Later issues of the first edition have the verses printed on page 236 ; and these have been generally con- sidered the first issues . It is obvious , however , that a few copies were first published with the blank page 236 , and ...
... hand . Later issues of the first edition have the verses printed on page 236 ; and these have been generally con- sidered the first issues . It is obvious , however , that a few copies were first published with the blank page 236 , and ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Sentimental Library: Comprising Books Formerly Owned by Famous Writers ... Harry B Smith Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
Sentimental Library: Comprising Books Formerly Owned by Famous Writers ... Harry B. Smith Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
A Sentimental Library: Comprising Books Formerly Owned by Famous Writers ... Harry Bache Smith Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
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.