 | New York (N.Y.) - 1840 - 818 pages
...shop to another in search of a book, .nd finding twenty copies of it, «fa date immediately before nd after that of the only edition which will be of any use to ou, and which you, consequently, never find. The state of writhing torture into which you are occasionally... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - Literature - 1891 - 436 pages
...joy," to tear yourself awav. Wandering from one shop to another in search ot a book, and timling twenty copies of it, of a date immediately before and after that of the only edition which will be of any n»" to you, and which you, cansequentlv, never find. The state of writhing torture into which you... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 462 pages
...joy," to tear yourself away. Wandering from one shop to another in search of a book, and finding twenty copies of it, of a date immediately before and after...use to you, and which you, consequently, never find. The state of writhing torture into which you are occasionally thrown by the sudden and unexpected questions... | |
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... to tear yourself away. Wandering from one shop to another in search of a book, and finding twenty copies of it, of a date immediately before and after that of the only edition which will be of any use to you, and which you, consequently, never find.... 