Reader, if haply thou art blessed with a moderate collection, be shy of showing it; or if thy heart overfloweth to lend them, lend thy books; but let it be to such a one as STC — he will return them (generally anticipating the time appointed) with usury;... Table-talk on Books, Men, and Manners - עמוד 152נערך על ידי - 1853 - 229 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
| 1848 - 580 דפים
...haply thou art blessed with a moderate collection, be shy of showing it ; or if thy heart overflows to lend them, lend thy books : but let it be to such...enriched with annotations, tripling their value. I havo had experience. Many are these precious MSB. of his — (in matter oftentimes, and almost in quantity... | |
| 1848 - 616 דפים
...symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes;' but he makes one exception: * Reader,* he says, * if haply thou art blessed with a moderate collection, be shy of showing it ; or if thy heart overflows to lend them, lend thy books ; but let it be to such a one ae STC He will returu them (generally... | |
| 1903 - 666 דפים
...Donne's 'Poems.' The notes in the last named explain and justify Charles Lamb, who said :— " Reader, if haply thou art blessed with a moderate collection, be shy of showing it ; or, if thy heart overiloweth to lend them, lend thy books ; but let it be to such a one as STC ; he will return them... | |
| Robert Conger Pell - 1850 - 196 דפים
...my dear Charles Lamb, and then you will not be angry that I have bescribbled your book. — S. TC, 2d May, 1811." His friend alludes to this practice,...them, lend thy books, but let it be to such a one as ST 0.- — he will return them (generally anticipating the time appointed) with, usury; enriched with... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1850 - 406 דפים
...ever by nature constituted to comprehend a tittle ! — Was there not Zimmerman on Solitude ? Reader, if haply thou art blessed with a moderate collection,...them, lend thy books ; but let it be to such a one as S TC — he will return them (generally anticipating the time appointed) with usury; enriched with... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1851 - 396 דפים
...ever by nature constituted to comprehend a tittle ! — Was tlicre not Zimmerman on Solitude ? Reader, if haply thou art blessed with a moderate collection,...value. I have had experience. Many are these precious MSS. of his — (in matter oftentimes, and almost in quantity not unfrequently, vying with the originals)... | |
| Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1851 - 964 דפים
...haply thou art blessed with a moderate collection, be shy of showing it ; or if thy heart overflows to lend them, lend thy books ; but let it be to such a one as 8. TC — he will return them (generally anticipating the time appointed) with usury ; enriched with... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1852 - 524 דפים
...books to lend, and the heart to lend them, to " let it be to such a one as STC ; he will return them with usury, enriched with annotations tripling their...value. I have had experience. Many are these precious MSS. of his — (in matter sometimes, and almost in quantity not unfrequently, vying with the originals)... | |
| 1852 - 536 דפים
...other witness of experience — counsels those who have books to lend, and the heart to lend them, to " let it be to such a one as STC ; he will return them with usury, enriched with annotations tripling their value. I have had experience. Many are these precious... | |
| 1852 - 516 דפים
...other witness of experience — counsels those who have books to lend, and the heart to lend them, to " let it be to such a one as STC ; he will return them with usury, enriched with annotations tripling their value. I have had experience. Many are these precious... | |
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