Book-lore: A Magazine Devoted to Old Time Literature, Volume 3

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Elliot Stock, 1886 - Bibliography
 

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Page 115 - An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by vesting the Copies of printed Books in the Authors or Purchasers of such Copies during the Times therein mentioned...
Page 96 - Come, read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish the thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time.
Page 72 - Paradise lost. A Poem written in Ten Books By John Milton. Licensed and Entred according to Order. London printed, and are to be sold by Peter Parker under Creed Church neer Aldgate ; And by Robert Boulter at the Turks Head in Bishopsgatestreet ; And Matthias Walker under St. Dunstons Church in Fleetstreet 1667.
Page 131 - ... whom others gave Bibles to and no help ; wrote or studied again, or read to his wife and friends the whole evening ; took a crust of bread, or a glass of whey for his supper ; and went early to bed.
Page 97 - And nights devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul the music Of wonderful melodies. Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That, follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Page 127 - When any sick to me apply I physics, bleeds, and sweats 'em ; If after that they choose to die, What's that to me ? — I Lettsom.
Page 162 - I have written upon these plates the very things which the brother of Jared saw; and there never was greater things made manifest, than that which was made manifest unto the brother of Jared ; wherefore the Lord hath commanded me to write them ; and I have written them. And he commanded me that I should seal them up ; and he also hath commanded that I should seal up the interpretation thereof; wherefore I have sealed up the interpreters, according to the commandment of the Lord...
Page 11 - On the Nature and Origin of Evil; On Providence; On Nature, Contemplation and The One; and on the Descent of the Soul.
Page 96 - For, like strains of martial music, Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavor ; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet. Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start...
Page 13 - Sallust on the Gods and the World; and the Pythagoric Sentences of Demophilus, Translated from the Greek; and Five Hymns by Proclus, in the Original Greek, with a Poetical Version. To Which Are Added, Five Hymns by the Translator.

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