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... The London Magazine - Pàgina 341822Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Charles Lamb - 1828 - 266 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 - 430 pàgines
...That can its light relumine — •uch a book, for instance, as the Life of the Duke of Neweastle, by his Duchess — no casket is rich enough, no casing...as Sir Philip Sidney, Bishop Taylor, Milton in his prose works, Fuller, of whom we have reprints ; yet the books themselves, though they go about, and... | |
| 1835 - 432 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
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