Author-Writer-Poet

The monument of vanished minds.-SIR WM. DAVE

NANT, Gondibert.

Book II, canto v.

MILTON, Paradise Lost. Bk. IX, 1. 24.

Books which are no books.

LAMB, Detached Thoughts on Books.

The spectacles of books.

DRYDEN, Essay on Dramatic Poetry.

Neither rhyme nor reason.

Beware of the Bibliomanie.

As You Like It. iii, 2.

Married to immortal verse.

CHESTERFIELD, Letters. March 19, 1750.
MILTON, L'Allegro. 1. 132.

Books are sepulchres of thought.

LONGFELLOW, Wind over Chimney. St. 8.

The monument of vanished minds.

WM. DAVENANT, Gondibert. Bk. II, canto v.

They had no poet, and they died.

A deal of skimble-skamble stuff.

POPE, Odes. Bk. IV.

King Henry IV. Pt. I, iii, 1.

No author ever spared a brother.

GAY, Elephant and Bookseller.

This dull product of a scoffer's pen.

WORDSWORTH, The Excursion. Bk. II.

The lover of letters loves power too.

EMERSON, Society and Solitude. Clubs.

I'll make thee glorious by my pen.

MONTROSE, My Dear and Only Love.