The Amenities of Book-collecting and Kindred AffectionsAtlantic Monthly Press, 1918 - 355 pagina's |
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Pagina xi
... never met . Not wishing to strain the rather precarious friend- ship with Mr. Sedgwick which was the outcome of my first venture , it was several years before I ven- tured to try him with another paper . This I called " A Ridiculous ...
... never met . Not wishing to strain the rather precarious friend- ship with Mr. Sedgwick which was the outcome of my first venture , it was several years before I ven- tured to try him with another paper . This I called " A Ridiculous ...
Pagina 4
... never yet heard a man admit paying a fair price for a rug , much less a high one . " Look at this Schera- zak , a friend remarks ; " I paid only nine dollars for it and it's worth five hundred if it's worth a penny . " When he is ...
... never yet heard a man admit paying a fair price for a rug , much less a high one . " Look at this Schera- zak , a friend remarks ; " I paid only nine dollars for it and it's worth five hundred if it's worth a penny . " When he is ...
Pagina 7
... never to neglect the past . " Old books are best , " says Beverly Chew , beloved of all col- lectors ; and I recall Lowell's remark : " There is a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us . " It was a ...
... never to neglect the past . " Old books are best , " says Beverly Chew , beloved of all col- lectors ; and I recall Lowell's remark : " There is a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us . " It was a ...
Pagina 7
... never caught me , nor has " black letter . " It is not necessary for me to study how to tell a Caxton . Cax- tons do not fall in my way , except single leaves now and then , and these I take as Goldsmith took his religion , on faith ...
... never caught me , nor has " black letter . " It is not necessary for me to study how to tell a Caxton . Cax- tons do not fall in my way , except single leaves now and then , and these I take as Goldsmith took his religion , on faith ...
Pagina 7
... never to be forgotten are the rambles I enjoyed with my first bookseller , Fred Hutt of Clement's Inn Passage , sub- sequently of Red Lion Passage , now no more . Poor fellow ! when , early in 1914 , I went to look him up , I found that ...
... never to be forgotten are the rambles I enjoyed with my first bookseller , Fred Hutt of Clement's Inn Passage , sub- sequently of Red Lion Passage , now no more . Poor fellow ! when , early in 1914 , I went to look him up , I found that ...
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The Amenities of Book-collecting and Kindred Affections Alfred Edward Newton Volledige weergave - 1922 |
The Amenities of Book-collecting and Kindred Affections Alfred Edward Newton Volledige weergave - 1918 |
The Amenities of Book-collecting and Kindred Affections Alfred Edward Newton Volledige weergave - 1918 |
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Pagina 85 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Pagina xiii - Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil, for our lamps are gone out. But the wise answered, saying, Not so, lest there be not enough for us and you; but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.
Pagina 79 - I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit; told the landlady I should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill.
Pagina 242 - To drift with every passion till my soul Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play. Is it for this that I have given away Mine ancient wisdom, and austere control? Methinks my life is a twice-written scroll Scrawled over on some boyish holiday With idle songs for pipe and virelay, Which do but mar the secret of the whole. Surely there was a time I might have trod The sunlit heights...
Pagina 101 - Then I told how for seven long years, in hope sometimes, sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W n ; and, as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and difficulty, and denial meant in maidens — when suddenly, turning to Alice, the soul of the first Alice looked out at her eyes with such a reality of re-presentment, that I became in doubt which of them stood there before me, or whose that bright hair was...
Pagina 78 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of madeira and a glass before him.
Pagina 159 - MADAM, — If I interpret your letter right, you are ignominiously married : if it is yet undone, let us once more talk together. If you have abandoned your children and your religion, God forgive your wickedness; if you have forfeited your fame and your country, may your folly do no further mischief.
Pagina 252 - Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.
Pagina 150 - Oft in danger, yet alive, We are come to thirty-five ; Long may better years arrive, Better years than thirty-five. Could philosophers contrive Life to stop at thirty-five, Time his hours should never drive O'er the bounds of thirty-five. High to soar, and deep to dive, Nature gives at thirty-five. Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five : For howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five : He that ever hopes to thrive Must...
Pagina 235 - OLIVER GOLDSMITH, A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn...