A Magnificent Farce: And Other Diversions of a Book-collector |
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Page 204 - Tiger, tiger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry ? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes ? On what wings dare he aspire ? What the hand dare seize the fire...
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Page 130 - I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start...
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Page 87 - The Three Princes of Serendip. As their Highnesses travelled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | A Magnificent Farce: And Other Diversions of a Book-collector |
| Author | Alfred Edward Newton |
| Publisher | Atlantic Monthly Press, 1921 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 30 Nov 2006 |
| Length | 267 pages |
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