 | John Ferriar - Bible - 1809 - 30 pages
...in many a dusty lot : Whatever trash Midwinter gave to day, Or Harper's rhiming sons, in paper gray, At ev'ry auction, bent on fresh supplies, He cons his Catalogue with anxious eyes : 55 Where'er the slim Italics mark the page, Curious and rare his ardent mind engage. Unlike the Swans,... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - Bibliographical literature - 1811 - 844 pages
...One of these copies now remains with him for sale. * The passage, above alluded to, is as follows : At ev'ry auction, bent on fresh supplies, He cons...the page, Curious and rare his ardent mind engage. The Bibliomania; v. 54. t A slight mention of Mons. Berryer, the father-in-law of Lamoignon, is made... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - Bibliographical literature - 1811 - 828 pages
...alluded to, a as follows : At iv'ry auction, bent on fresh supplies, He cons his catalogue with anxions eyes : Where'er the slim Italics mark the page, Curious and rare his ardent mind engage. The Bibliomania; v. 54. t A slight mention of Mons. Berryer, the father-in-law of Lamoignon, is made... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - Bibliographical literature - 1842 - 790 pages
...' The passage, above alluded to, is as follows : At tv'ry auction, bent on fresh impplies, He conn his catalogue with anxious eyes : Where'er the slim Italics mark the page, / rwrfom- mid rire hi* ardent mind engage. Tli, Bibliomania ; v. 54. t A slight mention of Mons. Berryer,... | |
 | 1853 - 566 pages
...rare," the stanch bibliomaniac, the provident collector, will ensure its preservation forevermore. " Unlike the swans, in Tuscan song display'd, He hovers...names from endless night, And give Cokain or Fletcher back to light! " If such, then, is the unhappy lot of a bad book, even of one which, after every preparation... | |
 | Thomas Grognall Didbin - Bibliography - 1876 - 750 pages
...BERRYER and CAILLARD t — when he views the morocco * The passage, above alluded to, is as follows : At ev'ry auction, bent on fresh supplies, He cons...the page, Curious and rare his ardent mind engage. TAe Bibliomania ; v. 54. t A slight mention of Mons. Berryer, the father-in-law of Lamoignon, is made... | |
 | Library science - 1880 - 244 pages
...many a dusty lot : AVhatever trash Midwinter gave to day, Or Harper's rhiming sons, in paper gray. At ev'ry auction, bent on fresh supplies, He cons...names from endless night, And give Cokain or Fletcher back to light. In red morocco drest he loves to boast The bloody murder, or the yelling ghost ; Or... | |
 | leypoldt - 1880 - 370 pages
...in many a dusty lot : Whatever trash Midwinter gave to day, Or Harper's rhiming sons, in paper gray. At ev'ry auction, bent on fresh supplies, He cons...names from endless night, And give Cokain or Fletcher back to light. In red morocco drest he loves to boast The bloody murder, or the yelling ghost ; Or... | |
 | Ernest Chester Thomas - Libraries - 1880 - 618 pages
...in many a dusty lot : Whatever trash Midwinter gave to day, Or Harper's rhiming sons, in paper gray. At ev'ry auction, bent on fresh supplies, He cons...Italics mark the page, Curious and rare his ardent miud engage. Unlike the Swans, in Tuscan Song display'd, He hovers eager o'er Oblivion's Shade, To... | |
 | Brander Matthews - Book verse - 1886 - 188 pages
...in many a dusty lot: Whatever trash Midwinter gave to day, Or Harper's rhiming sons, in paper gray, At ev'ry auction, bent on fresh supplies, He cons...names from endless night, And give COKAIN or FLETCHER t back to light. In red morocco drest he loves to boast The bloody murder, or the yelling ghost; Or... | |
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At ev'ry auction, bent on fresh supplies, He cons his Catalogue with anxious eyes : Where'er the slim Italics mark the page, Curious and rare his ardent mind engage. Unlike the Swans, in Tuscan Song display'd, He hovers eager o'er Oblivion's Shade, To... 
