The Earlier History of English BooksellingS. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, limited, 1889 - 341 páginas |
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Página 144 - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus; the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty Kings; the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers; the hall where the eloquence of...
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Página 305 - And further, by these, my son, be admonished : of making many books there is no end ; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Página 3 - The price of books became so high, that persons of a moderate fortune could not afford to purchase them. The Countess of Anjou paid for a copy of the Homilies of Haimon, Bishop of Halberstadt, two hundred sheep, five quarters of wheat, and the same quantity of rye and millet.
Página 164 - THREE poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first, in loftiness of thought surpass'd ; The next, in majesty ; in both the last. The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third, she join'd the former two.
Página 204 - Mr. Lintot began in this manner: "Now damn them ! what if they should put it into the newspaper, how you and I went together to Oxford ? what would I care? If I should go down into Sussex, they would say I was gone to the Speaker. But what of that ? If my son were but big enough to go on with the business, by G — d I would keep as good company as old Jacob.