 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1875 - 450 страници
...collection bore a very different character. The deceased prelate, a divine of the old and deeply-learned cast, had loaded his shelves with volumes which displayed...venerable attributes so happily described by a modern poet I—- That weight of wood, with leathern coat o'crlaid, Those ample clasps of solid metal made, The... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 552 страници
...collection bore a very different character. The deceased prelate, a divine of the old and deeply-learned cast, had loaded his shelves with volumes which displayed...o'erlaid, Those ample clasps of solid metal made, The close-pressed leaves unoped for many an age. The dull red-edging of the well-filled page, On the broad... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 514 страници
...collection bore a very different character. The deceased prelate, a divine of the old and deeply-learned cast, had loaded his shelves with volumes which displayed...o'erlaid, Those ample clasps of solid metal made, The close-pressed leaves unoped for many an age, The dull red-edging of the well-filled page, On the broad... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 650 страници
...collection bore a very diffirent character. The deceased prelate, a divine of the old and deeply-learned cast, had loaded his shelves with volumes which displayed...a modern poet : That weight of wood, with leathern mat oVthud, Those ample clasps of solid metal made. The f li'Ke-jireswd loaves uimin-d fur many an... | |
 | George Crabbe, A. C. Cunningham - 1877 - 568 страници
...crowd. First, let us view the form, the size, the dress; For these the manners, nay the mind express ; That weight of wood, with leathern coat o'erlaid;...clasps, of solid metal made; The close-press'd leaves, unclosed for many an agt The dull red edging of the well-fill d page; On the broad back the stubborn... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1878 - 452 страници
...collection bore a very different character. The deceased prelate, a divine of the old and deeply-learned cast, had loaded his shelves with volumes which displayed...o'erlaid, Those ample clasps of solid metal made, The close-press' d leaves unop'd for many an age, The dull red edging of the well-fill'd page, On the broad... | |
 | Brander Matthews - 1886 - 188 страници
...crowd. First, let us view the form, the size, the dress: For these the manners, nay the mind, express : That weight of wood, with leathern coat o'erlaid; Those ample clasps of solid metal made; The close-pressed leaves, unclosed for many an age • The dull red edging of the well-filled page ; On... | |
 | Brander Matthews - 1886 - 194 страници
...crowd. First, let us view the form, the size, the dress : For these the manners, nay the mind, express : That weight of wood, with leathern coat o'erlaid ; Those ample clasps of solid metal made ; The close-pressed leaves, unclosed for many an age ; The dull red edging of the well-filled page ; On the... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1888 - 280 страници
...crowd. First, let us view the form, the size, the dress ; For these the manners, nay the mind express : That weight of wood, with leathern coat o'erlaid ; Those ample clasps, of solid metal made ; The close-pressed leaves, unclosed for many an age ; The dull red edging of the well-filled page ; On the... | |
 | Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton - 1891 - 574 страници
...has made up its mind to be fugitive as well as minute. What a change from the ancient volume ! — "That weight of wood, with leathern coat o'erlaid, Those ample clasps, of solid metal made ; The close-pressed leaves, unclosed for many an age, The dull-red edging of the well-filled page ; On the... | |
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