The Book Lover: A Magazine of Book Lore, Issues 1-5Book Lover, 1900 - Bibliography |
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... letter which her father wrote to her on December 30 , 1845 : " My Dearest Nanny : Your letter has made me and mamma very happy , and very sad too that we are away from our dearest little girls . But I for one shall see you before very ...
... letter which her father wrote to her on December 30 , 1845 : " My Dearest Nanny : Your letter has made me and mamma very happy , and very sad too that we are away from our dearest little girls . But I for one shall see you before very ...
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... letters until he was fairly ripe . From the point of view of the publisher , perhaps the value of the proposition becomes less obvious . Never having risen to the proud position of a pub- lisher myself , I do not feel as competent to ...
... letters until he was fairly ripe . From the point of view of the publisher , perhaps the value of the proposition becomes less obvious . Never having risen to the proud position of a pub- lisher myself , I do not feel as competent to ...
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... letters through a long and busy life , could not fail to hold much of surpassing interest , and a volume made up of reminiscences of contact and personal acquaintance with the great figures in literature and politics in this and other ...
... letters through a long and busy life , could not fail to hold much of surpassing interest , and a volume made up of reminiscences of contact and personal acquaintance with the great figures in literature and politics in this and other ...
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... letter from Field in the years agone , in which he had inclosed $ 10 as the sufficient price for the volume , given to ... letters making frantic inquiry for books were received from him . Mrs. F. S. Peabody , a distinguished extra illus ...
... letter from Field in the years agone , in which he had inclosed $ 10 as the sufficient price for the volume , given to ... letters making frantic inquiry for books were received from him . Mrs. F. S. Peabody , a distinguished extra illus ...
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... letter L - would be complete before the middle of the present cen- tury . It was , however , very difficult to plan out the work in equal sections of a letter . The differ- ence represented a degree as great as the propor- tion of the 3 ...
... letter L - would be complete before the middle of the present cen- tury . It was , however , very difficult to plan out the work in equal sections of a letter . The differ- ence represented a degree as great as the propor- tion of the 3 ...
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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.