A Bibliographical Catalogue of Books Privately Printed: Including Those of the Bannatyne, Maitland and Roxburghe Clubs, and of the Private Presses at Darlington, Auchinleck, Lee Priory, Newcastle, Middle Hill, and Strawberry Hill, Volume 2J. and A. Arch, 1834 - 563 pages |
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Account Auchinleck Bannatyne Bart Bishop of Durham British Museum Brockett Castle catalogue Church Cleveland-row collection contains contribution copies were printed copy was printed County of Durham Darlington Dedication Dibdin Duke Edinburgh Editor Edward Emerson Charnley England engraved Extracts fac-simile Faculty of Advocates Fifty copies folio George Allan George Bannatyne Glasgow Hayman Rooke Henry Hodgson Honourable Horace Walpole Index India paper John Warwick Johnson and Warwick Kent Lady late leaves Lee Priory Press Letter Library London Lord M.DCC.LVIII M.DCCC.XXX Maitland Club manuscript MEMOIRS Middle Hill Newcastle upon Tyne original Poems possession Preface Prefixed Presented press of Lee Printed at Edinburgh Printed at Strawberry Printed for Emerson printed on India printer private press published Reprinted Richard Robert Roxburghe Club Scotland Shakspeare Press sheet Sir Egerton Brydges Strawberry Hill Thomas Thomson Three hundred copies Title title-page tract Union-street verses volume William wood-cut written
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Page 521 - Beings, All but a scattered few, live out their time, Husbanding that which they possess within, And go to the grave, unthought of. Strongest minds Are often those of whom the noisy world Hears least ; else surely this Man had not left His graces unrevealed and unproclaimed.
Page 373 - Th' endeavour of this present breath may buy That honour, which shall bate his scythe's keen edge, And make us heirs of all eternity.
Page 374 - Ever charming, ever new, When will the landscape tire the view! The fountain's fall, the river's flow, The woody valleys warm and low; The windy summit, wild and high, Roughly rushing on the sky! The pleasant seat, the ruin'd tower, The naked rock, the shady bower; The town and village, dome and farm, Each give each a double charm, As pearls upon an Ethiop's arm.
Page 380 - Subtle as Sphinx; as sweet and musical As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair; And, when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. Never durst poet touch a pen to write, Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs; O, then his lines would ravish savage ears, And plant in tyrants mild humility.
Page 486 - The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
Page 487 - I insisted — he persisted. I told my Lady Hertford, it was no matter, I would print it, I was determined. I sat down and wrote a flattering dedication to Lord Powis, which I knew he would swallow : he did, and gave up his ancestor.
Page 501 - A State of Facts, in defence of his Majesty's right to certain Fee-farm rents in the county of Norfolk," 1758, 4to. 11. " An Account of a Copper Table, containing two inscriptions in the Greek and Latin tongues ; discovered in the year 1732, near Heraclea, in the Bay of Tarentum, in Magna Grecia.
Page 494 - Ossian was more the ruin of Chatterton than I. Two years passed between my doubting the authenticity of Rowley's poems and his death. I never knew he had been in London till some time after he had undone and poisoned himself there.
Page 378 - The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And , as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Page 458 - Newes from Scotland : Declaring the damnable Life of Doctor Fian a notable Sorcerer, who was burned at Edenbrough in Januarie last, 1591 ; which Doctor was Register to the Devill, that sundrie Times preached at North Baricke Kirke, to a Number of notorious Witches.