 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
 | Mary Louisa Boyle - 1881 - 394 páginas
...better known than her own literary merits may lay claim to. Elia says, ' where a book is good and rare, such a book, for instance, as the life of the Duke of Newcastle, by his Duchess, no casket is sufficiently durable to honour and keep safe such a jewel.' In 1643, the year in which Lord Newcastle... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1882 - 464 páginas
...species, and when that perishes, We know not where is that Promethean torch That can its light rehimine ; Not only rare volumes of this description, which seem...reprinted, but old editions of writers, such as Sir Philip Sydney, Bishop Taylor, Milton in his prose works, Fuller, (of whom we have reprints, yet the books... | |
 | Alexander Ireland - 1883 - 320 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...sufficiently durable, to honour and keep safe such a jewel. I do not know a more heartless sight than the reprint of the Anatomy of Melancholy. What need was there... | |
 | Eric Sutherland Robertson - 1883 - 438 páginas
...can its lights relumine ; ' such a book, for instance, as the Life of the Duke of Newcastle, by the Duchess ; no casket is rich enough, no casing sufficiently durable, to honour and keep safe such a jewel." No later critic has supported in writing the emphatic praise of Elia, though a recent editor of Her... | |
 | Book-lover - 1883 - 336 páginas
...rare — where the individual is almost the species, and when thut perishes, We know not where is that Promethean torch That can its light relumine— such a book, for instance, as the Life of the Dnke of Newcastle, by his Duchess— no casket is rich enough, no casing sufficiently durable, to honour... | |
 | Book-lover - 1884 - 530 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...sufficiently durable, to honour and keep safe such a jewel. . . . I do not know a more heartless sight than the reprint of the Anatomy of Melancholy. What need... | |
 | 1884 - 532 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...sufficiently durable, to honour and keep safe ' such a jewel. . . . I do not know a more heartless sight than the reprint of the Anatomy of Melancholy. What need... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1884 - 546 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...is rich enough, no casing sufficiently durable, to honor and keep safe such a jewel. Not only rare volumes of this description, which seem hopeless ever... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1885 - 296 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 " —...; but old editions of writers, such as Sir Philip Sydney, Bishop Taylor, Milton in his prose-works, Fuller — of whom we have reprints, yet the books... | |
 | Irving Browne - 1885 - 128 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...is rich enough, no casing sufficiently durable, to honor and keep safe such a jewel. Not only rare volumes of this description, which seem hopeless ever... | |
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