Books and ReadingBaker & Taylor Company, 1908 - 381 psl. |
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... THING TO DO WITH A BOOK Philip Gilbert Hamerton COMPLETE ESSAYS DETACHED THOUGHTS ON BOOKS AND READING BOOKS AND READING BY WAY OF PREFACE " Some said. COOKS , WARRIORS , AND AUTHORS AN AFFECTIONATE EXHORTATION Он , MY YOUNG ASPIRANT ...
... THING TO DO WITH A BOOK Philip Gilbert Hamerton COMPLETE ESSAYS DETACHED THOUGHTS ON BOOKS AND READING BOOKS AND READING BY WAY OF PREFACE " Some said. COOKS , WARRIORS , AND AUTHORS AN AFFECTIONATE EXHORTATION Он , MY YOUNG ASPIRANT ...
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... things , shall dare to assert in what unreal corner of time and space that man's mind is ; or what better proof he has of the existence of the poor goods and chattels about him , which at that moment ( to him ) are non - existent ? " Oh ...
... things , shall dare to assert in what unreal corner of time and space that man's mind is ; or what better proof he has of the existence of the poor goods and chattels about him , which at that moment ( to him ) are non - existent ? " Oh ...
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... things I find within the boards of my Old Testament . What a silence in those old books as of a half - peopled world what bleating of flocks - what green pastoral rest what indubitable existence ! Across brawling centuries of blood and ...
... things I find within the boards of my Old Testament . What a silence in those old books as of a half - peopled world what bleating of flocks - what green pastoral rest what indubitable existence ! Across brawling centuries of blood and ...
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... things I find within the boards of my Old Testament . What a silence in those old books as of a half - peopled world what bleating of flocks - what green pastoral rest what indubitable existence ! Across brawling centuries of blood and ...
... things I find within the boards of my Old Testament . What a silence in those old books as of a half - peopled world what bleating of flocks - what green pastoral rest what indubitable existence ! Across brawling centuries of blood and ...
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... things thou canst desire are not to be compared with it . In this happy world I met Washington Irving , Fenimore Cooper , Hawthorne , Willis , Longfellow , Whittier , and all your great American authors , historical , poetical ...
... things thou canst desire are not to be compared with it . In this happy world I met Washington Irving , Fenimore Cooper , Hawthorne , Willis , Longfellow , Whittier , and all your great American authors , historical , poetical ...
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Æschylus Anatomy of Melancholy ancient antiquity authors beautiful better called character CHARLES LAMB confess delight edition English Essays fancy feel folio forget friends genius give Greek hand hear heart Homer human imagination intellectual kind knowledge Lady learned leaves less light literary literature living look matter ment Milton mind modern Montaigne moral nature ness never night noble novel old books OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES once paper pass perhaps persons perusal PHILIP GILBERT HAMERTON Pillow Book Plato pleasure Plutarch poet poetry printed reader romance Samuel Pepys scene scholar selection Shakespeare shelves soul speak spirit story talk taste things Thomas Bodley THOMAS CARLYLE thou thought Tibullus tion Tom Jones true truth turn volumes walk whole WILLIAM HAZLITT wisdom wise words writing written young
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