snoopy9438
czołg
Dołączył: 14 Lut 2011
Posty: 2614
Przeczytał: 0 tematów
Ostrzeżeń: 0/10
Skąd: England
|
 Wysłany: Sob 17:46, 19 Lut 2011 Temat postu: uggs for cheap|We came from the seaand to the sea |
|
|
justly celebratedand the prices they bear in public sales
sufficiently demonstrate the estimation in which they are at present held.''
The regard for these precious books still obtainsand we meet with it
in curiously out-of-the-way placesas well as in those libraries where one
would naturally expect to find it. My young friend Irving Way (himself a
collector of rare enthusiasm) tells me that recently during a pilgrimage
through the state of Texas he came upon a gentleman who showed him in
his modest home the most superb collection of Elzevirs he had ever set
eyes upon,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]!
How far-reaching is thy graceO bibliomania,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]! How good and sweet
THE LOVE AFFAIRS OF A BIBLIOMANIAC
80
it is that no distanceno environmentno povertyno distress can appall or
stay thee. Like that grim spectre we call deaththou knockest impartially
at the palace portal and at the cottage door. And it seemeth thy especial
delight to bring unto the lonely in desert places the companionship that
exalteth humanity,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]!
It makes me groan to think of the number of Elzevirs that are lost in
the libraries of rich parvenus who know nothing of and care no thing for
the treasures about them further than a certain vulgar vanity which is
involved. When Catherinyilai：
[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
Post został pochwalony 0 razy
|
|
