The Bookworm: An Illustrated Treasury of Old-time Literature, Volume 2Elliot Stock, 1889 - Anthologies |
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Page 263 - A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee: Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to...
Page 315 - M. William Shake-speare, His True Chronicle History of the life and death of King Lear, and his three Daughters.
Page 362 - Unlike his descendants he wrote his book to illustrate his portraits ; he did not collect his portraits to illustrate his book. He was followed at once by other collectors, who wanted a valid excuse for their collecting, and an asylum for their collections ; and Clarendon's " History of the Rebellion and Civil War of England," Walton's " Lives," " The History of the Worthies of England, Endeavoured by Thomas Fuller, DD...
Page 80 - Wherefore that here we may briefly end : of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least 175 as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 80 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power. Both angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Page 21 - A Collection of the Names of the Merchants Living IN AND ABOUT THE CITY OF LONDON ; very usefull and necessary.
Page 207 - Bedford's daintiest dress, They are graceful, attenuate, polished, But they gather the dust, no less ; — For the row that I prize is yonder, Away on the unglazed shelves, The bulged and the bruised octavos, The dear and the dumpy twelves, — Montaigne with his sheep-skin blistered, And Howell the worse for wear, And the worm-drilled Jesuits...
Page 362 - The dog is a Whig. I do not like much to see a Whig in any dress; but I hate to see a Whig in a parson's gown.
Page 307 - He is a fine little fellow — Boz, I think. Clear blue, intelligent eyes, eyebrows that he arches amazingly, large protrusive rather loose mouth, a face of most extreme mobility, which he shuttles about — eyebrows, eyes, mouth and all — in a very singular manner while speaking. Surmount this with a loose coil of common-coloured hair, and set it on a small compact figure, very small, and dressed a la D'Orsay rather than well — this is Pickwick. For the rest a quiet, shrewd-looking, little fellow,...
Page 173 - ... a pretty gardenhouse in Petty France, in Westminster, next door to the Lord Scudamore's, and opening into St. James's Park.