The Bibliophile: A Magazine and Review for the Collector, Student and General Reader, Volumen 2Bibliophile Office., 1908 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
The Bibliophile: A Magazine and Review for the Collector, Student ..., Volumen 2 Vista completa - 1908 |
The Bibliophile: A Magazine and Review for the Collector, Student ..., Volumen 1 Vista completa - 1908 |
Términos y frases comunes
admirable appeared artist BALDASSARRE CASTIGLIONE beautiful Bibliophile Blake blue book-plate Brontë calf centavos centimes cents century chapter Charlotte Brontë charm collection collector colour copy crown and C.A. Don Quixote E. V. Lucas early edition England English engraved famous folio France French garden George give given green gum print hand illus illustrations important interest issued James Thomson John JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY King Lady lepta letters literary London Lord matter ment morocco Napoleon never original paper perforated 14 PERMISSION OF MESSRS plates poems poet poetry portrait possess present printed published Queen reader realised remarkable reproduced Rider Haggard Rubáiyát Rylands salon Shakespeare Sheffield plate sketch sold Sotheby's stamps story Thackeray things Thomson tion to-day translation vellum vols volume watermark words writing written
Pasajes populares
Página 317 - Unanxious for ourselves, and only wish As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves and re-resolves; then dies the same.
Página 317 - And why .' because he thinks himself immortal. All men think all men mortal but themselves ; Themselves, when some alarming shock of Fate Strikes through their wounded hearts the sudden dread: But their hearts wounded, like the wounded air, Soon close; where past the shaft no trace is found. As from the wing no scar the sky retains, The parted wave no furrow from the keel, So dies in human hearts the thought of death : E'en with the tender tear which Nature sheds O'er those we love, we drop it in...
Página 317 - And that through every stage. When young, indeed, In full content, we, sometimes, nobly rest. Un-anxious for ourselves ; and only wish. As duteous sons, cur fathers were more wise.
Página 72 - RENOWNED Spenser, lie a thought more nigh To learned Chaucer, and rare Beaumont lie A little nearer Spenser, to make room For Shakespeare in your threefold, fourfold Tomb. To lodge all four in one bed make a shift Until Doomsday, for hardly will a fifth Betwixt this day and that by Fate be slain For whom your curtains may be drawn again.
Página 25 - A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness — Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
Página 15 - They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep: And Bahram, that great Hunter — the Wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, but cannot break his Sleep.
Página 249 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
Página 29 - And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck...
Página 61 - Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.
Página 249 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.