A Journey Round the Library of a Bibliomaniac: Or, Cento of Notes and Reminiscences Concerning Rare, Curious, and Valuable BooksW. Davis, 1821 - 96 sider |
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... volumes , folio , having neither title - page , signatures , nor catch - words : the initial letters of the different books and chapters , are not printed , but painted by the illuminators , in order , as is conjectured , ( De Bure ...
... volumes , folio , having neither title - page , signatures , nor catch - words : the initial letters of the different books and chapters , are not printed , but painted by the illuminators , in order , as is conjectured , ( De Bure ...
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... volume is often wanting . - Six hundred copies were printed of this costly Polyglott Bible . A copy sold in the Merly Collection for 631 . Mr. Roscoe's copy , 5 vols . ( wanting the Lexicon ) brought 35l . 14s . But , perhaps the ...
... volume is often wanting . - Six hundred copies were printed of this costly Polyglott Bible . A copy sold in the Merly Collection for 631 . Mr. Roscoe's copy , 5 vols . ( wanting the Lexicon ) brought 35l . 14s . But , perhaps the ...
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... volume , one of the scarcest in the English language , has the author's portrait at full - length on the back of the title , with a branch of laurel in his hand . * Skelton , who was Poet Laureate to Oxford University , and Tutor to ...
... volume , one of the scarcest in the English language , has the author's portrait at full - length on the back of the title , with a branch of laurel in his hand . * Skelton , who was Poet Laureate to Oxford University , and Tutor to ...
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... volume of this work . " I have great reason , " continues Dr. Ferriar , " to believe that it was in the Skelton Library some years ago , where I suspect Sterne found most of the authors of this class ; for Mr. Hall's Poetry shews that ...
... volume of this work . " I have great reason , " continues Dr. Ferriar , " to believe that it was in the Skelton Library some years ago , where I suspect Sterne found most of the authors of this class ; for Mr. Hall's Poetry shews that ...
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... volume lent Dr. Ferriar by his friends " are , a man of learning , such as the times afforded ; a soldier very fond of talking over his past dangers ; a physician , who is sometimes found deficient in his philosophy ; and a droll , who ...
... volume lent Dr. Ferriar by his friends " are , a man of learning , such as the times afforded ; a soldier very fond of talking over his past dangers ; a physician , who is sometimes found deficient in his philosophy ; and a droll , who ...
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A Journey Round the Library of a Bibliomaniac: Or, Cento of Notes and ... William Davis Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1821 |
A Journey Round the Library of a Bibliomaniac: Or, Cento of Notes and ... William Davis (bibliographer.) Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1821 |
A journey round the library of a bibliomaniac William Davis (bibliographer.) Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1821 |
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Side 82 - Thou dost drink, and dance, and sing, Happier than the happiest king! All the fields which thou dost see, All the plants belong to thee; All that summer hours produce, Fertile made with early juice. Man for thee does sow and plough; Farmer he, and landlord thou!
Side 92 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent ; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect in a hair as heart ; As full, as perfect in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns. To Him no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all.
Side 65 - I FIRST adventure, with fool-hardy might, To tread the steps of perilous despite. I first adventure, follow me who list, And be the second English satirist.
Side 33 - Wilt thou leave thy sins and go to heaven, or have thy sins and go to hell...
Side 29 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new : Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
Side 71 - The Man in the Moon, or a Discourse of a Voyage thither, by Domingo Gonsales, l638,"Svo.
Side 70 - They are full of spirit and poetry; as much of the first as Dr. Donne, and far more of the latter: they were written at the university when he was about twenty-three years old, and in queen Elizabeth's time.