The Book Lover: A Magazine of Book Lore, Issues 1-5Book Lover, 1900 - Bibliography |
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... fact , the desert of Mr. Way's career seems to me and I say this in no spirit of bitterness - the desert of his career seems to me to be strewn with oases . I recollect that less than a year ago this same gentleman picked up for twenty ...
... fact , the desert of Mr. Way's career seems to me and I say this in no spirit of bitterness - the desert of his career seems to me to be strewn with oases . I recollect that less than a year ago this same gentleman picked up for twenty ...
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... fact that one of his sons was engaged in " the Quixotic business of compiling a catalogue of the first editions of American authors . " The scheme was one that he deemed wholly impracticable ; there was " nothing in it , " he said . I ...
... fact that one of his sons was engaged in " the Quixotic business of compiling a catalogue of the first editions of American authors . " The scheme was one that he deemed wholly impracticable ; there was " nothing in it , " he said . I ...
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... fact that book publishing is a losing venture . It may be asked why if this is true the pub- lishers continue to do business . The answer is threefold . First , they are generally men of act- ive , energetic natures , and they do not ...
... fact that book publishing is a losing venture . It may be asked why if this is true the pub- lishers continue to do business . The answer is threefold . First , they are generally men of act- ive , energetic natures , and they do not ...
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... facts , and ask what , books are most read , or at least con- sulted at the present day , an honest plebiscite , even among those who care for books , will prob- ably bring out at the top of the poll works of ref- erence , Dictionaries ...
... facts , and ask what , books are most read , or at least con- sulted at the present day , an honest plebiscite , even among those who care for books , will prob- ably bring out at the top of the poll works of ref- erence , Dictionaries ...
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... fact that the results to be derived , though they might be poor , were mine own . That , indeed , is the attraction of Biblia A - Biblia . There are books that draw you out of yourself , and for the time put you in that No Man's Land ...
... fact that the results to be derived , though they might be poor , were mine own . That , indeed , is the attraction of Biblia A - Biblia . There are books that draw you out of yourself , and for the time put you in that No Man's Land ...
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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.