The Bookworm: An Illustrated Treasury of Old-time Literature, Volume 1Elliot Stock, 1888 |
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appeared ballad Ben Jonson bequeath Bible bibliographical bookseller Bookworm Boswell British Museum Bunyan's called catalogue Caxton century Church collection contains copy Coster curious Dean death dedication Earl early edition editor England English engraved famous folio Gerard Groot give Grub Street Journal Gutenberg Haarlem hand hath Henry Henry Condell Hermippus Honble honour interesting issued John Johnson King known labours Lackington Latin learned letter librarian literary literature London Lord manuscript movable types original paper Pilgrim's Pilgrim's Progress plates poem poet portrait present printer probably published purchase Quaker quarto readers remarkable Royal Shakespeare sold things Thomas Thomas à Kempis thou tion title-page translation vols volume Wat Tyler William WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE words worth writing written wrote Wynkyn de Worde
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Página 274 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Página 208 - Yet must I not give Nature all; thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion; and, that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
Página 103 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...
Página 208 - The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Página 251 - I believe, Sir, you have a great many. Norway, too, has noble wild prospects ; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England !" This unexpected and pointed sally produced a roar of applause.
Página 165 - We have but collected them, and done an office to the dead, to procure his Orphanes, Guardians ; without ambition either of selfe-profit, or fame : onely to keepe the memory of so worthy a Friend, and Fellow alive, as was our SHAKESPEARE, by humble offer of his playes, to your most noble patronage.
Página 250 - Campbell is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years * ; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shows that he has good principles.
Página 209 - But stay, I see thee in the hemisphere Advanced, and made a constellation there ! Shine forth, thou Star of Poets, and with rage, Or influence, chide or cheer the drooping stage, Which, since thy flight from hence, hath mourned like night, And despairs day but for thy volume's light.
Página 326 - Was there ever yet any thing written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?
Página 165 - Wherein, as we have justly observed, no man to come neere your LL but with a kind of religious addresse, it hath bin the height of our care, who are the presenters, to make the present worthy of your HH by the perfection.