The Bookmart, Volumen4Richard Halkett Bookmart Publishing Company, 1887 |
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... readers were few and incuri- ous ; and readers were few and incurious partly from this very difficulty of getting books . Even when the great agitations of religious and political polemics roused their desire for books , the slow ...
... readers were few and incuri- ous ; and readers were few and incurious partly from this very difficulty of getting books . Even when the great agitations of religious and political polemics roused their desire for books , the slow ...
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... reading or listening . We seem to smell parchment and papyrus everywhere . We see them even at meals listening to their slaves reading , or reclining ou couches with an unrolled papyrus in their hands . The women were as well read in ...
... reading or listening . We seem to smell parchment and papyrus everywhere . We see them even at meals listening to their slaves reading , or reclining ou couches with an unrolled papyrus in their hands . The women were as well read in ...
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... readers were numerous . Wherein then lies the source of the difference ? In the fact of slave - labour . In Rome there were hundreds , nay thousands , of slaves ein- ployed in that work of transcribing , which , in the Middle Ages was ...
... readers were numerous . Wherein then lies the source of the difference ? In the fact of slave - labour . In Rome there were hundreds , nay thousands , of slaves ein- ployed in that work of transcribing , which , in the Middle Ages was ...
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... READING . Copenhagen , January , 1886 . In ' Macbeth , ' Act I. sc . vi . , Banquo , in describing the pleasant situation of Macbeth's castle , says ( ac- cording to the reading now universally accepted ) : - This guest of summer , The ...
... READING . Copenhagen , January , 1886 . In ' Macbeth , ' Act I. sc . vi . , Banquo , in describing the pleasant situation of Macbeth's castle , says ( ac- cording to the reading now universally accepted ) : - This guest of summer , The ...
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... readers find themselves nowhere , like Prince Firouz Schah on his enchanted horse . Compared with Hegel's grasp of the truth of art , much of our most admirable criticism appears to be little better than very tender but imperfect ...
... readers find themselves nowhere , like Prince Firouz Schah on his enchanted horse . Compared with Hegel's grasp of the truth of art , much of our most admirable criticism appears to be little better than very tender but imperfect ...
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Página 400 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land...
Página 354 - Since there's no help, come, let us kiss and part, — Nay I have done, you get no more of me; And I am glad, yea glad with all my heart, That thus so cleanly I myself can free; Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.
Página 219 - For my descent then, it was, as is well known by many, of a low and inconsiderable generation ; my father's house being of that rank that is meanest and most despised of all the families in the land.
Página 353 - Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not.
Página 10 - If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of reason, virtue, and religion, the multitude; that numerous piece of monstrosity, which taken asunder seem men, and the reasonable creatures of God, but confused together, make but one great beast, and a monstrosity more prodigious tban hydra; it is no breach of charity to call these fools...
Página 447 - ... accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Página 352 - If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts. And every sweetness that inspired their hearts. Their minds, and muses on admired themes; If all the heavenly quintessence they still From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as in a mirror, we perceive The highest reaches of a human wit; If these had made one poem's period, And all...
Página 262 - Enthralls the crimson stomacher; A cuff neglectful, and thereby Ribbands to flow confusedly; A winning wave, deserving note, In the tempestuous petticoat ; A careless shoestring, in whose tie I see a wild civility; — Do more bewitch me, than when art Is too precise in every part.
Página 222 - Some books are only cursorily to be tasted of. Namely first, voluminous books, the task of a man's life to read them over; secondly, auxiliary books, only to be repaired to on occasions ; thirdly, such as are mere pieces of formality, so that if you look on them, you look through them; and he that peeps through the casement of the index, sees as much as if he were in the house.
Página 10 - The world that I regard is myself, it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast mine eye on; for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes for my recreation.