The English Gentleman's Library Manual: Or, A Guide to the Formation of a Library of Select Literature; Accompanied with Original Notices, Biographical and Critical, of Authors and BooksW. Goodhugh, 1827 - 392 sider |
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Side 105 - —Not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure, and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom : what is more is fame, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence, And renders us in things that most concern,
Side 140 - only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Side 29 - The common remark as to the utility of reading history having been made.— Johnson. We must consider how very little history there is; I mean real authentic history. That certain kings reigned, and certain battles were fought, we can depend upon as true; but all the colouring, all the philosophy of history, is conjecture.
Side 96 - 4s, the second edition, corrected, of the Life of Andrew Melville, containing Illustrations of the Ecclesiastical and Literary History of Scotland, during the latter part of the Sixteenth and beginning of the Seventeenth Century, with an Appendix,
Side 68 - another person enter the house. "This (said Dryden) is Tonson; you will take care not to depart before he goes away, for I have not completed the sheet which I promised him, and if you leave me unprotected, I shall suffer all the rudeness to which his resentment can prompt
Side 145 - a sufficient price too when it was sold, for then the fame of Goldsmith bad not been elevated, as it afterwards was, by his Traveller; and the bookseller had such faint hopes of profit by his bargain, that he kept the manuscript by him a long time, and did not publish it till after the Traveller had appeared.
Side 250 - was an extraordinary misjudgment of the celebrated Waller, who speaks thus of the first appearance of Paradise Lost; " The old blind schoolmaster, John Milton, hath " published a tedious poem on the fall of man; if "its length be not considered a merit, it has no "other.
Side 285 - tombs of knights and high born dames of gorgeous workmanship, with their effigies in coloured marble. On every side the eye was struck with some instance of aspiring mortality; some haughty memorial which human pride had erected over its kindred dust, in this temple of the most humble of all religions. The
Side 69 - as to a market. This drew to the place a mighty trade, the rather because the shops were spacious, and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom failed to meet with agreeable conversation; and the booksellers themselves were knowing and conversable men, with whom, for the sake of bookish knowledge, the greatest wits
Side 137 - Sir William Temple was the first writer who gave cadence to English prose: before his time they were careless of arrangement, and did not mind whether a sentence ended with an important word, or an Insignificant word, or with what part of speech it was concluded.