The Book Lover: A Magazine of Book Lore, Issues 1-5Book Lover, 1900 - Bibliography |
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... English , and al- together enjoy themselves , as is the habit of the maverick . The happiest mortal in the world is the man , or woman , who writes a long screed , reads it over ecstatically six times , sends it to a publication ...
... English , and al- together enjoy themselves , as is the habit of the maverick . The happiest mortal in the world is the man , or woman , who writes a long screed , reads it over ecstatically six times , sends it to a publication ...
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... English by anything I have read for a long time . " And Charles Lamb spoke of her as " the unobtrusive , quiet soul , who digged her noiseless way so per- severingly through that rugged Paraguay mine . How she Dobrizhoffered it all out ...
... English by anything I have read for a long time . " And Charles Lamb spoke of her as " the unobtrusive , quiet soul , who digged her noiseless way so per- severingly through that rugged Paraguay mine . How she Dobrizhoffered it all out ...
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... English official that had ever crossed the Atlantic . His only superior was the Lord Chancellor , but his coming was not to be thought of , considering his solemn charge of the Great Seal . When Lord Brougham was Chancellor he was ...
... English official that had ever crossed the Atlantic . His only superior was the Lord Chancellor , but his coming was not to be thought of , considering his solemn charge of the Great Seal . When Lord Brougham was Chancellor he was ...
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... English Dictionary entails was recently explained by Dr. Murray before a meet- ing of the Philological Society at the University College , Gower street , London , Professor Skeat being Chairman . Dr. Murray told how the con- stantly ...
... English Dictionary entails was recently explained by Dr. Murray before a meet- ing of the Philological Society at the University College , Gower street , London , Professor Skeat being Chairman . Dr. Murray told how the con- stantly ...
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... English prose and poetry . It is too soon perhaps for us to dogmatize with confidence . For in general it is a good rule to observe that when a hundred years have come and gone since a writer inscribed Finis in the book of his earthly ...
... English prose and poetry . It is too soon perhaps for us to dogmatize with confidence . For in general it is a good rule to observe that when a hundred years have come and gone since a writer inscribed Finis in the book of his earthly ...
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Page 16 - TO HELEN. Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.
Page 191 - And bore him to a chapel nigh the field, A broken chancel with a broken cross, That stood on a dark strait of barren land. On one side lay the Ocean, and on one Lay a great water, and the moon was full.
Page 451 - ... noise Of bagpipers on distant Highland hills. The Shepherd, at such warning, of his flock Bethought him, and he to himself would say 'The winds are now devising work for me!
Page 247 - The Discoverie of a Gaping Gulf whereinto England is like to be swallowed by another French marriage, if the Lord forbid not the banes by letting her Majestie see the sin and punishment thereof (1579).
Page 67 - Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment.
Page 84 - Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits — and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
Page 380 - Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an...
Page 192 - As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight, The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 44 - This grave contains all that was mortal of a young English poet, who, on his death-bed, in the bitterness of his heart at the malicious power of his enemies, desired these words to be engraven on his tombstone : " Here lies one whose name was writ in water...
Page 189 - Christ was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it, And what that word did make it, That I believe and take it.