The Library

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Macmillan & Company, 1881 - 184 páginas
 

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Página 130 - Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Página 43 - La premiere chose qu'on doit faire quand on a emprunte un Livre, c'est de le lire, afin de pouvoir le rendre plutot.
Página 124 - Or serve (like other fools) to fill a room ; Such with their shelves as due proportion hold, Or their fond parents dressed in red and gold ; Or where the pictures for the page atone And Quarles is saved by beauties not his own.
Página 148 - Poet's Wit and Uumour," and so forth. But the Held here grows too wide to be dealt with in detail, and it is impossible to do more than mention a few of the books most prominent for merit or originality. Amongst these there is the "Shakespeare
Página 15 - Selling books is nearly as bad as losing friends, than which life has no worse sorrow. A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself. As a man's tastes and opinions are developed his books put on a different aspect. He hardly knows the "Poems and Ballads" he used to declaim, and cannot recover the enigmatic charm of "Sordello.

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