PENCILLED PASSAGES. "Let every book-worm, when in any fragment COLERIDGE. Published for the Benefit of the Asylum for Idiots. LONDON: JAMES NISBET AND CO., BERNERS STREET. 1857. PREFACE. IN the course of more than twenty years' reading, I have been in the habit of pencilling, in the margin of my books, such passages as I have thought either particularly interesting or beautiful, the re-perusal of which has given me pleasure. In the hope that such feeling may extend to others, they are now offered in a collected form; and I take the opportunity to thank those parties who have kindly permitted me to make extracts from their works. I lay no claim to originality, as, in the words of Montaigne, "I have here only made a garland of choice flowers; I bring nothing of my own but the thread that binds them." B. S. FOREST HILL, June, 1857. |