Reminiscences of a Literary Life, Volume 2J. Major, 1836 - Bibliographical literature |
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Page 560
... spirits , to carry her up the " great staircase " before she had made the Tour " of all the rooms below ; " and most marvellous , or at least incomprehensible , to me , it is , that of a mansion , in which the FINEST PRIVATE LIBRARY IN ...
... spirits , to carry her up the " great staircase " before she had made the Tour " of all the rooms below ; " and most marvellous , or at least incomprehensible , to me , it is , that of a mansion , in which the FINEST PRIVATE LIBRARY IN ...
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... spirit . The reader will pro- bably rather thank me than otherwise for the perusal of a few of these answers . That of the late James Boswell - of whom see p . 383 , ante - shall lead the van . 66 MY DEAR DECAMERONIAN , " Many thanks to ...
... spirit . The reader will pro- bably rather thank me than otherwise for the perusal of a few of these answers . That of the late James Boswell - of whom see p . 383 , ante - shall lead the van . 66 MY DEAR DECAMERONIAN , " Many thanks to ...
Page 589
... spirit of emulation . Two years may be said to have elapsed in the preparation of those materials for the work which related to the Engravings . During that time the Bibliographical Tour was almost ready to be started . I had originally ...
... spirit of emulation . Two years may be said to have elapsed in the preparation of those materials for the work which related to the Engravings . During that time the Bibliographical Tour was almost ready to be started . I had originally ...
Page 593
... spirit , of pe- culiar habits , of deep learning ... a foreigner , long domiciled in this Noble Family ... with whom I was wont to have much familiar and pleasing discourse . MR . OCHEDA * , like the greater number of those just * On ...
... spirit , of pe- culiar habits , of deep learning ... a foreigner , long domiciled in this Noble Family ... with whom I was wont to have much familiar and pleasing discourse . MR . OCHEDA * , like the greater number of those just * On ...
Page 594
... spirit of Christian sincerity and benevolence . And thus , FAREWELL TO ALTHORP ! which he retired to Italy to die in his native province . I subjoin a fac- simile of his autograph - from one of the only two notes , or letters , which I ...
... spirit of Christian sincerity and benevolence . And thus , FAREWELL TO ALTHORP ! which he retired to Italy to die in his native province . I subjoin a fac- simile of his autograph - from one of the only two notes , or letters , which I ...
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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.