 | 1855 - 724 sivua
...female writers, from the Duchess of Newcastle, of whose life of her husband Charles Lamb wrote, — " no casket is rich enough, no casing sufficiently durable, to honour and keep safe such a jewel," to Hannah More, of whom Sydney Smith said, ban • tering, that he spoke timidly of her, as of a mysterious... | |
 | 1853 - 446 sivua
...light relumine. Such a book, for instance, as the Life of the Duke of Neweastle, by his Duchess, no casket is rich enough, no casing sufficiently durable, to honour and keep safe such a jewel." The romantic character of the Duke, his loyalty and well-tested bravery in the perilous times through... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1855 - 624 sivua
...relumine" — such a book, for instance, as the Life of the Duke ol Newcastle, by his dulchess — no casket is rich enough, no casing sufficiently durable,...jewel. Not only rare volumes of this description, which seen) hopeless ever to be reprinted, but old editions of writers, such as Sir Philip Sidney, Bishop... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1856 - 408 sivua
...relumine" — such a book, for instance, as the Life of the Duke ol JNewcastle, by his dutchess — no casket is rich enough, no casing sufficiently durable,...writers, such as Sir Philip Sidney, Bishop Taylor. Mil ton. in his prose- works, Fuller — of whom we have reprints, yet the books themselves, though... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1857 - 564 sivua
...relumine"— such a book, for instance, as the Life of the Duke ol Newcastle, by his dutchess — no casket is rich enough, no casing sufficiently durable,...as Sir Philip Sidney, Bishop Taylor. Milton in his i.rose-works, Fuller — of whom we have reprints, yet the books themselves, though they go about,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1857 - 380 sivua
...— no casket is rich enough, no casing sufficiently durable, to honor and keep such a jewel safe. Not only rare volumes of this description, which seem...; 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... | |
 | 1857 - 986 sivua
...female writers, from the Duchess of Newcastle, of whose life of her husband Charles Lamb wrote, — " no casket is rich enough, no casing sufficiently durable, to honour and keep safe such a jewel," to Hannah More, of whom Sydney Smith said, ban • tering, that he spoke timidly of her, as of a mysterious... | |
 | John Saunders - 1858 - 806 sivua
...relumine ;' such a book, for instance, as the Life of the Dvie of Seecastle, by his duchess, — no casket is rich enough, no casing sufficiently durable, to honour and keep safe such a jewel." That a book so dainty and unique should be but little known in the present day, is not surprising.... | |
 | 1861 - 520 sivua
...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 jewel."J The compliment, however, is after all a sort of left-handed one ; for it implies that The... | |
 | John Meredith Read - 1866 - 774 sivua
...and a poet, playwright, and philosophic writer. Of her life of her husband, Charles Lamb said : ' No casket is rich enough, no casing sufficiently durable, to honour and keep safe such a jewel.' P. 122. The Earle of Kingston. Robert Pierrepont, first Earl (1584-1643). P. 122. Ilix eldest sonne.... | |
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... eterne." 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... 
