Printing Types, Their History, Forms, and Use: A Study in Survivals, Volume 2

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Harvard University Press, 1922
 

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Pagina 74 - Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain...
Pagina 107 - Nov. n, 1895, he says:"I began printing books with the hope of producing some which would have a definite claim to beauty, while at the same time they should be easy to read and should not dazzle the eye, or trouble the intellect of the reader by eccentricity of form in the letters. I have always been a great admirer of the calligraphy of Middle Ages, and of the earlier printing which took its place. As to the fifteenth...
Pagina 74 - Quem ad finem sese effrenata iactabit audacia ? nihilne te nocturnum praesidium Palatii, nihil urbis vigiliae, nihil timor populi, nihil concursus bonorum omnium, nihil hie munitissimus habendi senatus locus, nihil horum ora vultusque moverunt ? patere tua consilia non sentis ? constrictara iam horum omnium scientia teneri coniurationem tuam non vides?
Pagina 30 - El ingenioso Hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha, compuesto por Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
Pagina 113 - I neither praise nor blame, but say that so it is: some people praise this homeliness overmuch, as if the land were the very axle-tree of the world ; so do not I, nor any unblinded by pride in themselves and all that belongs to them : others there are who scorn it and the tameness of it: not I any the more: though it would indeed be hard if there were nothing else in the world, no wonders, no terrors, no unspeakable beauties...
Pagina 60 - Catilina, patientia nostra ? quamdiu etiam furor iste tuus [nos] eludet ? quem ad finem sese effrenata jactabit audacia ? nihilne te nocturnum praesidium Palatii, nihil urbis vigiliae, nihil timor populi, nihil concursus bonorum omnium, nihil hic munitissimus habendi senatus locus, nihil horum ora vultusque moverunt...
Pagina 45 - Amongst the several mechanic Arts that have engaged my attention, there is no one which I have pursued with so much steadiness and pleasure, as that of Letter-Founding. Having been an early admirer of the beauty of Letters, I became insensibly desirous of contributing to the perfection of them.
Pagina 7 - Omnis homines qui sese student praestare ceteris animalibus summa ope niti decet ne vitam silentio transeant veluti pecora, quae natura prona atque ventri oboedientia finxit. Sed nostra omnis vis in animo et corpore sita est; animi imperio, corporis servitio magis utimur; alterum nobis cum dis, alterum cum beluis commune est.
Pagina 107 - I wanted was letter pure in form; severe, without needless excrescences; solid, without the thickening and thinning of the line, which is the essential fault of the ordinary modern type, and which makes it difficult to read; and not compressed laterally, as all later type has grown to be owing to commercial exigencies.
Pagina 108 - After a while I felt that I must have a Gothic as well as a Roman fount ; and herein the task I set myself was to redeem the Gothic character from the charge of unreadableness which is commonly brought against it.

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