 But where a book is at once both good and rare, where the individual is almost the species, and when that perishes, We know not where is that Promethean torch That can its light relumine; such a book, for instance, as the Life of the Duke of Newcastle,...  Museum of Foreign Literature and Science - Página 84editado por - 1822Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Charles Lamb - 1855 - 798 páginas
...rare— where the individual is almost the species, and when that perishes, " We know not where is that Promethean torch That can its light relumine" — such a book, for instance, as the Life of the Duke ot Newcastle, by his dntchess — no casket is rich enough, no casing sufficiently durable, to honour... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1856 - 408 páginas
...— where the individual is almost the species, and when that perishes, " We know not where is that Promethean torch That can its light relumine" — such a book, for instance, as the Life of the Duke ol JNewcastle, by his dutchess — no casket is rich enough, no casing sufficiently durable, to honour... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1857 - 380 páginas
...rare — where the individual is almost the species, and when that perishes, We know not where is that Promethean torch That can its light relumine — such...is rich enough, no casing sufficiently durable, to honor and keep such a jewel safe. Not only rare volumes of this description, which seem hopeless ever... | |
 | 1857 - 986 páginas
...female writers, from the Duchess of Newcastle, of whose life of her husband Charles Lamb wrote, — " no casket is rich enough, no casing sufficiently durable, to honour and keep safe such a jewel," to Hannah More, of whom Sydney Smith said, ban • tering, that he spoke timidly of her, as of a mysterious... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1857 - 564 páginas
...almost the species, and when that perishes, " We know not where, is that Promethean torch That can Us light relumine"— such a book, for instance, as the Life of the Duke ol Newcastle, by his dutchess — no casket is rich enough, no casing sufficiently durable, to honour... | |
 | John Saunders - 1858 - 806 páginas
...; " where the individual is almost the species, aud when that perishes, ' Wo know not where is that Promethean torch That can its light relumine ;' such a book, for instance, as the Life of the Dvie of Seecastle, by his duchess, — no casket is rich enough, no casing sufficiently durable, to... | |
 | 1861 - 520 páginas
...rare — where the individual is almost the species, and when that perishes, We know not where is that Promethean torch That can its light relumine — "...sufficiently durable, to honour and keep safe such a jewel."J The compliment, however, is after all a sort of left-handed one ; for it implies that The... | |
 | John Ward Dean, George Folsom, John Gilmary Shea, Henry Reed Stiles, Henry Barton Dawson - 1865 - 446 páginas
...contains, besides Philosophical Letters, The Life of the Duke of Newcastle by the Duchess." MS. note. Such a book, for instance, as the Life of the Duke...is rich enough, no casing sufficiently durable to honor and keep safe such a jewel." — Elia. Newcastle (Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of), The World's... | |
 | John Ward Dean, George Folsom, John Gilmary Shea, Henry Reed Stiles, Henry Barton Dawson - 1865 - 446 páginas
...contains, besides Philosophical Letters, The Life of the Duke of Newcastle by the Duchess." MS. note. Such a book, for instance, as the Life of the Duke...is rich enough, no casing sufficiently durable to honor and keep safe such a jewel." — Elia. Newcastle (Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of), The World's... | |
 | John Ward Dean, George Folsom, John Gilmary Shea, Henry Reed Stiles, Henry Barton Dawson - 1865 - 510 páginas
...contains, besides Philosophical Letters, The Life of the Duke of Newcastle by the Duchess." MS. note. Such a book, for instance, as the Life of the Duke...is rich enough, no casing sufficiently durable to honor and keep safe such a jewel." — Elia. Newcastle (Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of), The World's... | |
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