Reminiscences of a Literary Life, Volume 2J. Major, 1836 - Bibliographical literature |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 100
Page 567
... printed in Italics were afterwards altered for the following : Earl Spencer . - Phillips . Henry , first Earl of Sunderland . Anne , second Countess of Sunderland . John , Duke of Marlborough . John , Marquis of Blandford . Georgiana ...
... printed in Italics were afterwards altered for the following : Earl Spencer . - Phillips . Henry , first Earl of Sunderland . Anne , second Countess of Sunderland . John , Duke of Marlborough . John , Marquis of Blandford . Georgiana ...
Page 569
... printed with a new type , at the SHAKSPEARE PRESS , upon paper of the finest quality . It will be embellished with engrav- ings , executed by artists of the first eminence . Among these engravings will be the portraits of the First ...
... printed with a new type , at the SHAKSPEARE PRESS , upon paper of the finest quality . It will be embellished with engrav- ings , executed by artists of the first eminence . Among these engravings will be the portraits of the First ...
Page 572
... printed for private distribution - the fourth and last volume of a Descriptive Catalogue of his Library - with his portrait ( " Vir Ipsissimus " ) pre- fixed . I have to acknowledge many favours from him in the course of our mutual ...
... printed for private distribution - the fourth and last volume of a Descriptive Catalogue of his Library - with his portrait ( " Vir Ipsissimus " ) pre- fixed . I have to acknowledge many favours from him in the course of our mutual ...
Page 574
... printed at Paris , 1574. This book is very scarce , and I am not sure if Lord Spencer has it . I believe , how- ever , that Mr. Heber has a copy . May success attend you , and believe me " Yours , most truly , " CHARLES HATCHETT ...
... printed at Paris , 1574. This book is very scarce , and I am not sure if Lord Spencer has it . I believe , how- ever , that Mr. Heber has a copy . May success attend you , and believe me " Yours , most truly , " CHARLES HATCHETT ...
Page 581
... printed at Venice in the year 1488 - thus : 66 THAMYRAS ad lectorem ' Quisquis ab insano nimium cruciatur amore : Aut perdit stabili tempora longa fide : Hos legat ardentes animo trepidante calores : Fundere quos captis dura puella ...
... printed at Venice in the year 1488 - thus : 66 THAMYRAS ad lectorem ' Quisquis ab insano nimium cruciatur amore : Aut perdit stabili tempora longa fide : Hos legat ardentes animo trepidante calores : Fundere quos captis dura puella ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
66 MY DEAR Abraham John Valpy admiration alluded Althorp amiable Archdeacon beautiful Bible Bibliographical Bibliomania bibliopolistic Bishop bookseller British British Museum called Catalogue character Christian church collection curious Dawson Turner DEAR SIR Decameron delight Douce Earl Earl Spencer engraved executed fac-simile feeling folio gentleman GEORGE HIBBERT gratifying hand heart Henry honour hope House John Kensington kind labours Lady large paper copy late letter Library Companion literary living London Lord Spencer Magdalen College ment mention Messrs never octavo Orator original Owner pencil perhaps picture Pitt plates pleased pleasure portrait possession present printed published Quintilian reader received respect Roxburghe Roxburghe Club scarcely sermon spirit splendid Subscribers talents taste thing Thomas Thomas à Kempis thou tion Tour vellum volume wish worthy Wynkyn de Worde
Popular passages
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.