Reminiscences of a Literary Life, Volume 2J. Major, 1836 - Bibliographical literature |
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Page 557
... mind ; Here the Devout their peaceful temple choose , And here the Poet meets his favouring Muse . CRABBE - The Library . In the third volume of The Bibliographical De- cameron , and in a note at the 388th page of that same volume ...
... mind ; Here the Devout their peaceful temple choose , And here the Poet meets his favouring Muse . CRABBE - The Library . In the third volume of The Bibliographical De- cameron , and in a note at the 388th page of that same volume ...
Page 578
... the gun . My game was always sure , and always plentiful . In fact , the only difficulty lay in the choice of the object . What preserves ! What covers ! To a mind consti- tuted like my own , it was " l'EMBARRAS DE 578 ALTHORP .
... the gun . My game was always sure , and always plentiful . In fact , the only difficulty lay in the choice of the object . What preserves ! What covers ! To a mind consti- tuted like my own , it was " l'EMBARRAS DE 578 ALTHORP .
Page 583
... mind sensibly touched with the conflicting anxieties which beset him . 66 66 " Constitution Row , Gray's Inn Road , Jan. 26 , 1819 . DEAR SIR , I called on Mr. Arch on Saturday , and saw the exquisitely finished Drawing you referred me ...
... mind sensibly touched with the conflicting anxieties which beset him . 66 66 " Constitution Row , Gray's Inn Road , Jan. 26 , 1819 . DEAR SIR , I called on Mr. Arch on Saturday , and saw the exquisitely finished Drawing you referred me ...
Page 592
... mind my own " Reminiscences " of these Christmas sym- posia . Beauty , wit , taste , goodness , on one side- learning , science , art , eloquence , public distinction , on the other — and rank in both . In more ancient times , here was ...
... mind my own " Reminiscences " of these Christmas sym- posia . Beauty , wit , taste , goodness , on one side- learning , science , art , eloquence , public distinction , on the other — and rank in both . In more ancient times , here was ...
Page 608
... mind . It requires the spirits and mania of a *** . Write what you wish to be done as to Toby , or ' not To Be ‡ . ' " Yours , very sincerely , « Residence , York , Oct. 16 , 1815 . * See vol . iii . p . 420 . JOHN EYRE . " + Lord ...
... mind . It requires the spirits and mania of a *** . Write what you wish to be done as to Toby , or ' not To Be ‡ . ' " Yours , very sincerely , « Residence , York , Oct. 16 , 1815 . * See vol . iii . p . 420 . JOHN EYRE . " + Lord ...
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Page 739 - So I piped with merry cheer. ' Piper, pipe that song again : ' So I piped ; he wept to hear. 'Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe, Sing thy songs of happy cheer : ' So I sung the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. ' Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read...
Page 559 - All things that love the sun are out of doors : The sky rejoices in the morning's birth ; The grass is bright with rain-drops ; — on the moors The hare is running races in her mirth ; And with her feet she from the plashy earth Raises a mist ; that, glittering in the sun, Runs with her all the way, wherever she doth run.
Page 811 - ... that it will please him to save and defend us in all dangers ghostly and bodily; and that he will keep us from all sin and wickedness, and from our ghostly enemy, and from everlasting death.
Page 822 - But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love ; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
Page 879 - Catalogue of the Library collected by Miss Richardson Currer at Eshton Hall, Craven, Yorkshire, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY.
Page 736 - Thou knowest the mask of night is on my face, Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night.
Page 752 - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name...
Page 599 - Durham, and in accordance with his pursuits and plans ; having for its object the publication of inedited Manuscripts, illustrative of the intellectual, the moral, the religious, and the social condition of those parts of England and Scotland included on the east between the Humber and the Frith of Forth, and on the west between the Mersey and the Clyde, a region which constituted the ancient Kingdom of Northumbria.
Page 806 - Lord, on the simple and ignorant, who have been led astray, and recall them to a sense of their duty : And to persons of all ranks and conditions in this country, vouchsafe such a measure of Thy grace, that, our hearts being...
Page 772 - JESUS hath now many lovers of His heavenly kingdom, but few bearers of His Cross. He hath many desirous of consolation, but few of tribulation. He findeth many companions of His table, but few of His abstinence.