 But where a book is at once both good and rare, where the individual is almost the species, and when that perishes, We know not where is that Promethean torch That can its light relumine; such a book, for instance, as the Life of the Duke of Newcastle,...  A Book of English Essays (1600-1900) - Pagina 153di Stanley V. Makower, Basil H. Blackwell - 1913 - 573 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Charles Lamb - 1828 - 266 pagine
...and when that perishes, We. know not where is that Promethean torch That can its light relumine— such a book, for instance, as the Life of the Duke of Newcastle, by his Duchess—no casket is rich enough, no casing sufficiently durable, to honour and keep safe such a... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1833 - 308 pagine
...and when that perishes, We know not where is that Promethean torch That can its light relumine" — such a book, for instance, as the Life of the Duke...; but old editions of writers, such as Sir Philip Sydney, Bishop Taylor, Milton in his prose-works, Fuller — of whom we have reprints, yet the books... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1835 - 440 pagine
...perishes, We know not where is that Promethean torch v. j . That can its light relumine — • „•, such a book, for instance, as the Life of the Duke...reprinted; but old editions of writers, such as Sir Philip Sydney, Bishop Taylor, Milton in his prose-works, Fuller — of whom we have reprints, yet the books... | |
 | 1835 - 432 pagine
...when that perishes, \Ve know not where is that Promethean torch That can its light relumine — auch a book, for instance, as the Life of the Duke of Newcastle,...jewel. Not only rare volumes of this description, which aeem hopeless ever to be reprinted; but old editions of writers, such as Sir Philip Sidney, Bishop... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1836 - 324 pagine
...and when that perishes, We know not where is that Promethean torch That can its light relumiuc — such a book, for instance, as the Life of the Duke...; but old editions of writers, such as Sir Philip Sydney, Bishop Taylor, Milton in his prose-works, Fuller — of whom we have reprints, yet the books... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1836 - 326 pagine
...and when that perishes, We know not where is that Promethean torch That can its light relumine — such a book, for instance, as the Life of the Duke...; but old editions of writers, such as Sir Philip Sydney, Bishop Taylor, Milton in his prose-works, Fuller — of whom we have reprints, yet the books... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pagine
...and when that perishes, " We know not where is that Promethean torch That can its light relumine" — such a book, for instance, as the Life of the Duke of Newcastle, by his dutchess — no casket is rich enough, no casing sufficiently durable, to honour and keep safe such... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1840 - 304 pagine
...species, and when that perishes, We know not where is that Promethean torch That can its light relumine— such a book, for instance, as the Life of the Duke...; but old editions of writers, such as Sir Philip Sydney, Bishop Taylor, Milton in his proseworks, Fuller — of whom we hace reprints, yet the -books... | |
 | 1893 - 840 pagine
...that perishes — We know not where is that Promethean spark That can its light relumine — MI. li a book, for instance, as the " Life of the Duke of...is rich enough, no casing sufficiently durable, to house and keep safe such a jewel." 2 « " I fear my ambition Inclines to vainglory. For I am very ambitious... | |
 | 1846 - 608 pagine
...affectation, and good sense. " Such a book, for instance," says Charles Lamb, " as the Life of the Ihike of Newcastle by his Duchess ; no casket is rich enough, no casing sufficiently durable, to honor and keep safe such a jewel."* . • "When 1 first intended," says the duchess, " to write this... | |
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