 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...  The London Magazine - Page 341822Full view - About this book
 | Charles Lamb - 1828 - 266 pages
...and when that perishes, We. know not where is that Promethean torch That can its light 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... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1833 - 308 pages
...and when that perishes, We know not where is that Promethean torch That can its light relumine" — such a book, for instance, as the Life of the Duke...; 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... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1835 - 440 pages
...perishes, We know not where is that Promethean torch v. j . That can its light relumine — • „•, such a book, for instance, as the Life of the Duke...reprinted; 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... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...That can its light relumine — •uch a book, for instance, as the Life of the Duke of Neweastle, by his Duchess — no casket is rich enough, no casing...as Sir Philip Sidney, Bishop Taylor, Milton in his prose works, Fuller, of whom we have reprints ; yet the books themselves, though they go about, and... | |
 | 1835 - 432 pages
...when that perishes, \Ve know not where is that Promethean torch That can its light relumine — auch a book, for instance, as the Life of the Duke of Newcastle,...jewel. Not only rare volumes of this description, which aeem hopeless ever to be reprinted; but old editions of writers, such as Sir Philip Sidney, Bishop... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1836 - 324 pages
...and when that perishes, We know not where is that Promethean torch That can its light relumiuc — such a book, for instance, as the Life of the Duke...; 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... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1836 - 326 pages
...and when that perishes, We know not where is that Promethean torch That can its light relumine — such a book, for instance, as the Life of the Duke...; 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... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pages
...and when that perishes, " We know not where is that Promethean torch That can its light relumine" — such a book, for instance, as the Life of the Duke of Newcastle, by his dutchess — no casket is rich enough, no casing sufficiently durable, to honour and keep safe such... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1840 - 304 pages
...species, and when that perishes, We know not where is that Promethean torch That can its light relumine— such a book, for instance, as the Life of the Duke...; but old editions of writers, such as Sir Philip Sydney, Bishop Taylor, Milton in his proseworks, Fuller — of whom we hace reprints, yet the -books... | |
 | 1893 - 840 pages
...that perishes — We know not where is that Promethean spark That can its light relumine — MI. li a book, for instance, as the " Life of the Duke of...is rich enough, no casing sufficiently durable, to house and keep safe such a jewel." 2 « " I fear my ambition Inclines to vainglory. For I am very ambitious... | |
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