 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 - 1845 - 398 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... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1850 - 406 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...; 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, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1850 - 490 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 Newcastle, by his dutchess — no casket is rich enough, no casing sufficiently durable, to honour... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1851 - 396 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... | |
 | 1855 - 724 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... | |
 | 1853 - 888 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." The romantic character of the Duke, his loyalty and well-tested bravery in the perilous times through... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1853 - 610 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 safe such a jewel." The romantic character of the Duke, his loyalty and well-tested... | |
 | 1853 - 460 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...for instance, as the Life of the Duke of Newcastle, bv his Duchess, no casket is rich enough, no casing sufficiently durable, to honour and keep safe such... | |
 | 1853 - 446 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 of Neweastle, by his Duchess, no casket is rich enough, no casing sufficiently durable, to honour and... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1855 - 624 páginas
...relumine" — such a book, for instance, as the Life of the Duke ol Newcastle, by his dulchess — no casket is rich enough, no casing sufficiently durable,...jewel. Not only rare volumes of this description, which seen) hopeless ever to be reprinted, but old editions of writers, such as Sir Philip Sidney, Bishop... | |
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