| James Dennistoun - 1851 - 520 lapas
...glorious court, where hourly I converse With the old sages and philosophers, And sometimes for variety confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels,...Unto a strict account, and in my fancy Deface their ill-placed statues." Here accordingly we find him corresponding with Isaac Casaubon, as to a MS. of... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1851 - 608 lapas
...to me A glorious court, where hourly I converse With the old sagea and philosophers; And somelimes for variety I confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels." Not only is there the pleasant sense of property, the rare editions, and the wonderful bargains,... | |
| 1852 - 636 lapas
...contain My books, the best companions, is to me A glorious court, where hourly I converse With the old sages and philosophers; And sometimes for variety...With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels." Not only is there the pleasant sense of property, the rare editions, and the wonderful bargains,... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 lapas
...my books the best companions is To me a glorious court, where hourly I Converse with the old sages and philosophers ; And sometimes, for variety,...a strict account ; and, in my fancy, Deface their ill-placed statues. RELICS of love and life's enchanted spring ! A. WATTS. THE volume of the world... | |
| Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 lapas
...Contain my books, the best companions, is To me a glorious court, where hourly I Converse with the old sages and philosophers; And sometimes for variety,...victories, if unjustly got, Unto a strict account; and m my fancy, Deface their ill-plac'd statues. Can I then Part with such constant pleasures, to embrace... | |
| 1854 - 378 lapas
...Contain my books, the best companion, is To me a glorious court, where hourly 1 Converse with the old sages and philosophers ; And sometimes for variety,...Unto a strict account ; and in my fancy, Deface their ill-placed statues. Can I then Pan with such constant pleasures to embrace Uncertain vanities ? No... | |
| Random readings - 1854 - 204 lapas
...contain My books, the best companions, is to me A glorious court, where hourly I converse With the old sages and philosophers; And sometimes for variety...Unto a strict account, and in my fancy Deface their ill-placed statues." BEAUMONT AND FLETCHEB. DID the reader ever see a real Bookworm? I mean the insect,... | |
| 1854 - 794 lapas
...Contain my books, the best companions, is To me a glorious court, where hourly I Converse with the old sages and philosophers ; And sometimes, for variety,...Unto a strict account; and in my fancy Deface their ill placed statues. Can I then Part with such constant pleasures, to embrace Uncertain vanities? No;... | |
| George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - 1856 - 640 lapas
...composition. CHAPTER IY. THE RESULTS OF PRINTING. Sometimes for vanity I converse With kings and conquerors, weigh their counsels, Calling their victories, if unjustly got, Unto a strict account. ANON. THERE is no doubt that something of a similar nature to the newspaper of the present day existed... | |
| James Hamilton - 1857 - 532 lapas
...contain My books, the beet companions, is to me A glorious court, where hourly I converse With the old sages and philosophers ; And sometimes for variety...With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels." Not only is there the pleasant sense of property the rare editions, and the wonderful bargains,... | |
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