I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him. h. BACON-An Advertisement Touching a You second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures which he dispenses. ¿. LEIGH HUNT-On the Beneficence of If I publish this poem for you, speaking as a trader, I shall be a considerable loser. Did I publish all I admire, out of sympathy with the author, I should be a ruined man. J. BULWER-LYTTON-My Novel. Bk. VI. Ch. XIV. If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandize, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book. kc. VOLTAIRE-A Philosophical Dictionary. Books. Sec. 1. The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes The more the statue grows. MICHAEL ANGELO m. Sonnet. Trans. by Mrs. Henry Roscoe. In sculpture did ever any body call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal. n. EMERSON Society and Solitude. And the cold marble leapt to life a god. MILMAN-The Belvedere Apollo. 0. Art. Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm. The sculptor does not work for the ana- tomist, but for the common observer of life and nature. 1. RUSKIN-True and Beautiful. Sculpture. So stands the statue that enchants the world, So bending tries to veil the matchless boast, SHOEMAKING, POPE--Rape of the Lock. Canto III. Line 7. Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapors which the head invade, m. TOBACCONISTS. Am I not--a smoker and a brother? N. Smoker's Guide. Ch. IV. Look at me--follow me--smell me! The "stunning" cigar I am smoking is one of a sample intended for the Captain General of Cuba, and the King of Spain, and positively cost a shilling! Oh! I have some dearer at home. Yes the expense is frightful, but it! who can smoke the monstrous rubbish of the shops? * * 0. A VETERAN OF SMOKEDOM-The Smoker's Guide. Ch. IV. To smoke a cigar through a mouthpiece is equivalent to kissing a lady through a respirator. p. A VETERAN OF SMOKEDOM-The Smoker's Guide. Ch. V. Sublime tobacco! which from east to west, Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest; Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe, Like other charmers, wooing the caress 1. BYRON-The Island. Canto II. St. 19. Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Thy worst effect is banishing for hours C. grey beard. King Lear. Act II. Sc. 2. What a beard hast thou got! thou hast got more hair on thy chin, than Dobbin my thill-horse has on his tail. d. Merchant of Venice. Act II. Sc. 2. Whose beard they have sing'd off with brands of fire; And, ever as it blaz'd, they threw on him Great pails of puddled mire to quench the hair: My master preaches patience to him, and the while His man with scissors nicks him for a fool. e. Comedy of Errors. Act V. Sc. 1. UMBRELLA-MAKERS. Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise; Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade, Safe through the wet on clinking pattens tread. Ham.-Hath this fellow no feeling of his business, that he sings at gravemaking? Hor.-Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness. k. Hamlet. Act V. Sc. 1. The houses that he makes last till doomsday. Hamlet. Act V. Sc. 1. 1. What is he, that builds stronger than either the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter? Hamlet. Act V. Sc. 1. m. |