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Página 252
... headed- ' Volentes sibi comparare infrascriptos libros magna cum diligentia correctos , ac in huiusmodi littera moguntie impres- sos , bene continuatos , veniant ad locum habitationis infrascriptum . ' and at the foot is printed in ...
... headed- ' Volentes sibi comparare infrascriptos libros magna cum diligentia correctos , ac in huiusmodi littera moguntie impres- sos , bene continuatos , veniant ad locum habitationis infrascriptum . ' and at the foot is printed in ...
Página 254
... headings , 1 For Schoeffer's list , see Mr. E. G. Duff's ' Early Printed Books , ' 1893 , p . 31 , where there is also an illustration of it . For Caxton's advertisement , see an excellent article upon these early catalogues , by Mr ...
... headings , 1 For Schoeffer's list , see Mr. E. G. Duff's ' Early Printed Books , ' 1893 , p . 31 , where there is also an illustration of it . For Caxton's advertisement , see an excellent article upon these early catalogues , by Mr ...
Página 255
... headed ' Libri venales Venetiis impressi . ' Some thirty or more of these catalogues of German printers , 1 produced before the end of the fifteenth century , are known . In 1485 Antoine Verard , one of the most im- portant figures in ...
... headed ' Libri venales Venetiis impressi . ' Some thirty or more of these catalogues of German printers , 1 produced before the end of the fifteenth century , are known . In 1485 Antoine Verard , one of the most im- portant figures in ...
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... headings Grammatica , Dialectica , Rhetorica , Historica , Poetica , Moralia , Physica et Mathematica , Theologia , Legalis , and Medica . Under each of these headings the books are divided into ' Graece ' and ' Latine , ' but ' Gram ...
... headings Grammatica , Dialectica , Rhetorica , Historica , Poetica , Moralia , Physica et Mathematica , Theologia , Legalis , and Medica . Under each of these headings the books are divided into ' Graece ' and ' Latine , ' but ' Gram ...
Página 274
... heading ' Thackerayana . ' It was printed in 1837 , on blue writing paper , and issued privately in buff wrappers . Recently it has fetched £ 153 , but you may have a hundred for it any day . ( Shelley's Adonais : An Elegy on the Death ...
... heading ' Thackerayana . ' It was printed in 1837 , on blue writing paper , and issued privately in buff wrappers . Recently it has fetched £ 153 , but you may have a hundred for it any day . ( Shelley's Adonais : An Elegy on the Death ...
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Página 185 - 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 135 - 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 129 - ... 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 367 - Be she as chaste as was Penelope, As wise as Saba, or as beautiful As was bright Lucifer before his fall.
Página 128 - 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 367 - 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 367 - Turns to them. Faust. Now would I have a book where I might see all characters and planets of the heavens, that I might know their motions and dispositions. Meph. Here they are too. Turns to them. Faust. 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 367 - 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 54 - 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...
Página 44 - With awe, around these silent walks I tread; These are the lasting mansions of the dead:— " The dead," methinks a thousand tongues reply: " These are the tombs of such as cannot die ! " Crown'd with eternal fame, they sit sublime, " And laugh at all the little strife of time.