 Books that can be held in the hand, and carried to the fireside, are the best after all."— Samuel Johnson. " The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 4621824Full view - About this book
 | 1824 - 792 pages
...tendency of this brave exploit ? to cancel the riehestlegacy that ever was bequeathed to him, iinil i » prove his own bastardy in relation to the most illustrious...genius. The scene of this beautiful dialogue (one of the most perfect) is laid in the woods and wilds of Penshurst. What can be finer than the following... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1824 - 424 pages
...respected and revered, is a crime the more odious, as it can be committed only by great violence to his feelings, against the loud reclamations of Justice...cannot squander: why depreciate them? To Antiquity again...but afar from Aristophanes. MARVEL. them no trouble to teach, and upon which they employed... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1846 - 618 pages
...that Gratitude has erected to Genius, and to break the lamp that is lighted by Devotion over agaiust the image of Love > The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity can not squander: why depreciate them? To Antiquity again ; but afar from Aristophanes. Marvel. Our... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1876 - 538 pages
...that Gratitude has erected to Genius,, and to break the lamp that is lighted by Devotion over against the image of Love ? The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity can not squander : why depreciate them ? To Antiquity again ; but afar from Aristophanes. Marvel. Our... | |
 | 1905 - 348 pages
...can be held in the hand, and carried to the fireside, are the best after all."— Samuel Johnson. " The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander." — Chanel Lamb. 1. BQ A Biographical and Bibliographical Fragment. 22 pages. Presented on November... | |
 | English authors - 1880 - 178 pages
...sailing on a wish from world to world. (Ibid, Milton and Andrew Marvell). BOOKS PERPETUAL RICHES. — The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander. (Ibid.) GENIUS CONSOLATOE. — I do not wonder you are attached to Tuscany. Many as have been your... | |
 | 1885 - 330 pages
...can be held in the hand, and carried to the fireside, are the best, after all."—Samuel "Johnson. "The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander."—Charles Lamb. I B. <®. A Biographical and Bibliographical Fragment. 22 Pages. Presented... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1883 - 460 pages
...that Gratitude has erected to Genius, and to break the lamp that is lighted by Devotion over against the image of Love ? The writings of the wise are the...? To Antiquity again ; but afar from Aristophanes. Marvel. Our admiration of Antiquity is in part extraneous from her merits ; yet even this part, strange... | |
 | Alexander Ireland - 1883 - 320 pages
...wish from world to world.— Imaginary Conversations : Milton in conversation with Andrew Marvell. The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander. — Ibid. Logic, however unper verted, is not for boys; argument is among the most dangerous of early... | |
 | 1883 - 366 pages
...that can be held in the hand, and carried to the fireside, are the best after all."—Samuel Johnson. "The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander."—Charles Lamb. I. 38. i®. A Biographical and Bibliographical Fragment. 22 Pages. Presented... | |
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