| William Roberts - 1896 - 262 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... | |
| William Roberts - 1896 - 264 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 Scott - 1898 - 764 страници
...diminished upon a hasty examination of the contents of these volumes. Some, indeed, of belles-lettres, poems, plays, or memoirs, he tossed indignantly aside,...That weight of wood, with leathern coat o'erlaid, (14) Those ample clasps of solid metal made, The close-pressed leaves, unoped for many an age, The... | |
| Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 432 страници
...Size, the Dress, For these the Manners, nay, the Mind express ; The Chain Library Wimborne Minster That weight of wood, with leathern coat o'erlaid, Those ample clasps, of solid metal made ; The close-prest leaves, unclosed for many an age, The dull red edging of the well-filled page ; On the... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1899 - 442 страници
...GEORGE CRABBE. [For biographical sketch, see VoL 19, page 306.] u~ The Chain Library Wimborne Minster That weight of wood, with leathern coat o'erlaid, Those ample clasps, of solid metal made ; The close-prest leaves, unclosed for many an age, The dull red edging of the well-filled page; On the broad... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1901 - 648 страници
...:— ' 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 press'd leaves, unclosed for many an age ; The dull red edging of the well-filled page ; On the... | |
| 1901 - 884 страници
...— 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 press'd leaves, unclosed for many an age; The dull red edging of the well-filled page; On the... | |
| René Louis Huchon - 1907 - 596 страници
...First let us v1ew the form, the size, the dress ; For these the manners, nay, the mind express : 1 That weight of wood, with leathern coat o'erlaid ;...clasps, of solid metal made ; The close-press'd leaves, unclosed for many an age ; The dull red edging of the well-fill'd page ; On the broad back the stubborn... | |
| Walter Scott - 1908 - 448 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...unoped for many an age, The dull red edging of the well-filled page, On the broad back the stubborn ridges roll'd, Where yet the title stands in tarnish'd... | |
| Robert Maynard Leonard - 1911 - 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-pressed leaves unoped for many an age; The dull red edging of the well-filled page ; On the broad... | |
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