Literary Collector: A Monthly Magazine of Booklore and Bibliography, כרך 5

כריכה קדמית
Frederick C. Bursch, Annie Dennis Bursch
G. D. Smith, 1903
 

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עמוד 130 - Since honour from the honourer proceeds, How well do they deserve, that memorize And leave in books for all posterities The names of worthies and their virtuous deeds ; When all their glory else, like water-weeds Without their element, presently dies, And all their greatness quite forgotten lies, And when and how they flourished no man heeds ! How poor remembrances are statues, tombs And other monuments that men erect To princes, which remain in closed rooms, Where but a few behold them, in respect...
עמוד 158 - Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise.
עמוד 64 - GILLRAY'S CARICATURES. Printed from the Original Plates, all engraved by Himself between 1779 and 1810; comprising the best Political and Humorous Satires of the Reign of GEORGE THE THIRD, in upwards of 600 highly spirited Engravings. Atlas folio, half-morocco extra, gilt edges, £,j ios.
עמוד 158 - Thinks of thy fate and checks her tears. And she, the mother of thy boys. Though in her eye and faded cheek Is read the grief she will not speak, The memory of her buried Joys, And even she who gave thee birth, Will by their pilgrim-circled hearth Talk of thy doom without a sigh: For thou art freedom's now and fame's, One of the few, the immortal names, That were not born to die.
עמוד 97 - The History of Wood Engraving is a noble volume, unique in its way, and no library will be complete without it. Mr. Jackson's reputation rests upon a firm basis — his name is attached to some of the brightest and best of the modern engravings.

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