 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
 | John Thomson - 1899 - 84 páginas
..."writes to him and of him." Charles Lamb held the book to be "both good and " rare — no casket being rich enough, no casing sufficiently durable, to honour and " keep safe such a jewel." The Life of the duchess forms " the eleventh and last book" of a volume " Written " by the thrice Noble,... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1902 - 302 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 — "...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, Mary Lamb - 1903 - 542 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... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1913 - 484 páginas
...— where the in" dividual is almost the species, and when that perishes, We know not where is that Promethean torch That can its light relumine — such...; 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... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1903 - 536 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... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903 - 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...Newcastle, by his Duchess — no casket is rich enough, 44 no casing sufficiently durable, to honour and keep safe such a jewel. Not only rare volumes of this... | |
 | John Rogers - 1903 - 116 páginas
...book is, the less it demands from binding . . . but where a book is at once both good and rare ... no casket is rich enough, no casing sufficiently durable, to honour and keep safe such a jewel." The evident commonsense of such a statement appeals to everyone who owns and reads books. There is... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (Count) - 1903 - 378 páginas
...(published in 1667 in his lifetime) is worth all the rest. " No casket is rich enough," declared Lamb, ' ' no casing sufficiently durable, to honour and keep safe such a jewel." Equally charming is her autobiographical sketch. Pepys gives an amusing account of the performance... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1904 - 226 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...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... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1904 - 460 páginas
...— where the individual is 15 almost the species, and when that perishes, We know not where is that Promethean torch That can its light relumine — such...— no casket is rich enough, no casing sufficiently 20 durable, to honour and keep safe such a jewel. Not only rare volumes of this description, which... | |
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