The Book-hunter at HomeG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1920 - 391 páginas |
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... shelves . So , if you are young and enthusiastic , and not to be deterred by a series of wild - goose chases , happy indeed will be your lot . For over the post - prandial pipe you will be able to hand such and such a treasure to your ...
... shelves . So , if you are young and enthusiastic , and not to be deterred by a series of wild - goose chases , happy indeed will be your lot . For over the post - prandial pipe you will be able to hand such and such a treasure to your ...
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... shelves of the library , and are , in fact , pariahs . Their owner did not really want them , and he can never quite forgive their presence on his shelves . Generally their stay in any one home is not a long one , for they are weeded ...
... shelves of the library , and are , in fact , pariahs . Their owner did not really want them , and he can never quite forgive their presence on his shelves . Generally their stay in any one home is not a long one , for they are weeded ...
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... shelves . In this way all of the books which the young man had first noticed gradually disappeared , with one exception . This was a volume bound in calf , containing some rather curious poems , and no one seemed to want it . At length ...
... shelves . In this way all of the books which the young man had first noticed gradually disappeared , with one exception . This was a volume bound in calf , containing some rather curious poems , and no one seemed to want it . At length ...
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... shelves of some neglected country library . Mr. Duff himself records the discovery recently of a copy of Caxton's Speculum ' ' amongst some rubbish in the offices of a solicitor at Birkenhead . ' What a vast number of books there is ...
... shelves of some neglected country library . Mr. Duff himself records the discovery recently of a copy of Caxton's Speculum ' ' amongst some rubbish in the offices of a solicitor at Birkenhead . ' What a vast number of books there is ...
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... shelf of a small parish library in Suffolk ; and it was offered for sale ' presumably as being un- readable to country folk , and capable of being turned into hard cash wherewith a few works of fiction might be purchased . ' Acquired by ...
... shelf of a small parish library in Suffolk ; and it was offered for sale ' presumably as being un- readable to country folk , and capable of being turned into hard cash wherewith a few works of fiction might be purchased . ' Acquired by ...
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Página 183 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Página 133 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Página 127 - ... al noble lordes and ladyes wyth al other estates, of what estate or degree they been of, that shal see and rede in this sayd book and werke, that they take the good and honest actes in their remembraunce, and to folowe the same...
Página 365 - Nay, let me have one book more, — and then I have done, — wherein I might see all plants, herbs, and trees, that grow upon the earth.
Página 365 - Be she as chaste as was Penelope, As wise as Saba, or as beautiful As was bright Lucifer before his fall.
Página 126 - And if aught else great bards beside In sage and solemn tunes have sung, Of turneys, and of trophies hung, Of forests, and enchantments drear, Where more is meant than meets the ear.
Página 365 - Philosophy is odious and obscure; Both law and physic are for petty wits; Divinity is basest of the three, Unpleasant, harsh, contemptible, and vile: 'Tis magic, magic, that hath ravish'd me.
Página 224 - ... the free and ingenuous sort of such as evidently were born to study and love learning for itself, not for lucre, or any other end but the service of God and of truth, and perhaps that lasting fame and perpetuity of praise which God and good men have consented shall be the reward of those whose published labours advance the good of mankind...
Página 365 - Thanks, Mephistophilis: yet fain would I have a book wherein I might behold all spells and incantations, that I might raise up spirits when I please.
Página 52 - I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be...