The Book Lover: A Magazine of Book Lore, Issues 1-5Book Lover, 1900 - Bibliography |
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... course Col. Henry L. Turner hath a heart that inclines to the literature of war and the military , so also hath Col. C. W. Laing ; and our charming friend , F. W. Gookin , is possessor of a pleasing madness for Japanese art in ...
... course Col. Henry L. Turner hath a heart that inclines to the literature of war and the military , so also hath Col. C. W. Laing ; and our charming friend , F. W. Gookin , is possessor of a pleasing madness for Japanese art in ...
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... course , it some- times happens , once in a hundred times let us say , that the publisher does clear something for himself , but this is so rare an incident as hardly to be worthy of consideration in the exploitation of a serious theme ...
... course , it some- times happens , once in a hundred times let us say , that the publisher does clear something for himself , but this is so rare an incident as hardly to be worthy of consideration in the exploitation of a serious theme ...
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... course they were passages which these men had seen as extracts and had committed . Mill said : " I feel greatly the compliment paid me by these frequent quotations ; it is , perhaps , not good for me to be thus referred to , yet my ...
... course they were passages which these men had seen as extracts and had committed . Mill said : " I feel greatly the compliment paid me by these frequent quotations ; it is , perhaps , not good for me to be thus referred to , yet my ...
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... course of time it developed into a serious and not too happy case of obsession . Guy ran to dramatic novelties , and soon accumulated such a passion for them that he decided to go into the business of buying and selling , so that he ...
... course of time it developed into a serious and not too happy case of obsession . Guy ran to dramatic novelties , and soon accumulated such a passion for them that he decided to go into the business of buying and selling , so that he ...
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... course- had done with his hornbook , he was presently harassed by some dreadful little spelling - book or another . One of the pioneers in this line was called " A petee schole of spellinge and writinge Englishe . " dated 1580. As a ...
... course- had done with his hornbook , he was presently harassed by some dreadful little spelling - book or another . One of the pioneers in this line was called " A petee schole of spellinge and writinge Englishe . " dated 1580. As a ...
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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.