The Amenities of Book-collecting and Kindred AffectionsAtlantic Monthly Press, 1918 - 355 pagina's |
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Pagina 18
... thousand dollars , and while I was doing some preliminary financing the book disappeared , and forever ; and I have never ceased regretting that the dedication copy of Boswell's " Life of Johnson , " to Sir Joshua Rey- nolds , passed ...
... thousand dollars , and while I was doing some preliminary financing the book disappeared , and forever ; and I have never ceased regretting that the dedication copy of Boswell's " Life of Johnson , " to Sir Joshua Rey- nolds , passed ...
Pagina 18
... thousand dollars , and while I was doing some preliminary financing the book disappeared , and forever ; and I have never ceased regretting that the dedication copy of Boswell's " Life of Johnson , " to Sir Joshua Rey- nolds , passed ...
... thousand dollars , and while I was doing some preliminary financing the book disappeared , and forever ; and I have never ceased regretting that the dedication copy of Boswell's " Life of Johnson , " to Sir Joshua Rey- nolds , passed ...
Pagina 21
... is almost vain to look for any item under a hundred pounds , and not infrequently they run to several thousand . 1 See infra , chapter XI , pp . 307f . A catalogue now on my writing table tells me of BOOK - COLLECTING ABROAD 21.
... is almost vain to look for any item under a hundred pounds , and not infrequently they run to several thousand . 1 See infra , chapter XI , pp . 307f . A catalogue now on my writing table tells me of BOOK - COLLECTING ABROAD 21.
Pagina 34
... thousand dollars for a copy of the Gutenberg Bible , purchased for Mr. Henry E. Hunt- ington at the Hoe sale ; and not only did he pay the highest price he also bought more than any other purchaser of the fine books disposed of at that ...
... thousand dollars for a copy of the Gutenberg Bible , purchased for Mr. Henry E. Hunt- ington at the Hoe sale ; and not only did he pay the highest price he also bought more than any other purchaser of the fine books disposed of at that ...
Pagina 44
... thousand dollars for a copy of the Gutenberg Bible , purchased for Mr. Henry E. Hunt- ington at the Hoe sale ; and not only did he pay the highest price - he also bought more than any other purchaser of the fine books disposed of at ...
... thousand dollars for a copy of the Gutenberg Bible , purchased for Mr. Henry E. Hunt- ington at the Hoe sale ; and not only did he pay the highest price - he also bought more than any other purchaser of the fine books disposed of at ...
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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...