I confess that I have much of that feeling in which the superstition concerning relics has originated; and I am sorry when I see the name of a former owner obliterated in a book, or the plate of his arms defaced. Poor memorials though they be, yet they... Private Libraries of Providence - Página 146de Horatio Rogers - 1878 - 255 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Robert Southey - 1829 - 478 páginas
...confess that I have much of that feeling in which the superstition concerning relics has originated; and I am sorry when I see the name of a former owner obliterated...almost as unwilling to destroy them, as to efface the Hicjacet of a tombstone. There may be sometimes a pleasure in recognizing them, sometimes a salutary... | |
| Robert Southey - 1829 - 476 páginas
...confess that I have much of that feeling in which the superstition concerning relics has originated ; and I am sorry when I see the name of a former owner obliterated...almost as unwilling to destroy them, as to efface the Hicjacet of a tombstone. There may be sometimes a pleasure in recognizing them, sometimes a salutary... | |
| Robert Southey - 1831 - 488 páginas
...confess that I have much of that feeling in which the superstition concerning relics has originated ; and I am sorry when I see the name of a former owner obliterated...in recognizing them, sometimes a salutary sadness. Yonder Chronicle of King D. Manoel, by Damiam de Goes, and yonder General History of Spain, by Esteban... | |
| George Crabbe - 1834 - 358 páginas
...volumes have been cast up from the wreck of the family or convent libraries during the late revolution I am sorry when I see the name of a former owner obliterated...memorials though they be, yet they are something saved for a while from oblivion ; and I should be almost as unwilling to destroy them, as to efface the Hicjacet... | |
| George Crabbe - 1834 - 362 páginas
...from the wreck of the family or convent libraries during the late revolution I am sorry when I seethe name of a former owner obliterated in a book, or the...memorials though they be, yet they are something saved for a while from oblivion ; and I should be almost as unwilling to destroy them, as to efface the Hie jacct... | |
| George Crabbe - 1834 - 358 páginas
...volumes have been cast up from the wreck of the family or convent libraries during the late revolution I am sorry when I see the name of a former owner obliterated...in a book, or the plate of his arms defaced. Poor memortals though they be, yet they are something saved for a while from oblivion ; and I should be... | |
| George Crabbe - 1840 - 360 páginas
...volumes have been cast up from the wreck of the family or convent libraries during the late revolution I am sorry when I see the name of a former owner obliterated...in a book, or the plate of his arms defaced. Poor memortals though they be, yet they are something saved for a while from oblivion; and I should be almost... | |
| George Crabbe - 1847 - 618 páginas
...or ng the l«te revolution I am sorry Humes nave been cast up from invent libraries during the late when I see the name of a former owner obliterated...memorials though they be, yet they are something saved for a while from oblivion ; and I should l>e almost as unwilling to destroy them, as to efface the Hie... | |
| 1875 - 556 páginas
...me when I know to whom it has belonged, and through what 'scenes and changes' it has past; * * * and I am sorry when I see the name of a former owner obliterated ¡na book, or the plate of his arms defaced. Poor memorials though they be, yet they are something... | |
| Book-lover - 1884 - 530 páginas
...confess that I have much of that feeling in which the superstition concerning relics has originated ; and I am sorry when I see the name of a former owner obliterated...memorials though they be, yet they are something saved for a while from oblivion ; and I should be almost as unwilling to destroy them, as to efface the Hie jacet... | |
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