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Transcriber's Note: Obvious typographical errors have been corrected in this text. For a complete list, please see the bottom of this document.HOURS IN A LIBRARY
VOL. I.
HOURS IN A LIBRARY
BY
LESLIE STEPHEN
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NEW EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
LONDON SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE 1892
[ All rights reserved ]
CONTENTS
OF
THE FIRST VOLUME
PAGEDE FOE'S NOVELS 1
RICHARDSON'S NOVELS 47
POPE AS A MORALIST 94
SIR WALTER SCOTT 137
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE 169
BALZAC'S NOVELS 199 2flyer screensaver builder crack software.
DE QUINCEY 237
SIR THOMAS BROWNE 269
JONATHAN EDWARDS 300
HORACE WALPOLE 345
OPINIONS OF AUTHORS
Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed. BACON, Advancement of Learning .
We visit at the shrine, drink in some measure of the inspiration, and cannot easily breathe in other air less pure, accustomed to immortal fruits. HAZLITT'S Plain Speaker .
What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labours to the Bodleian were reposing here as in some dormitory or middle state. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odour of their old moth scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of the sciential apples which grew around the happy orchard. CHARLES LAMB, Oxford in the Long Vacation .
My neighbours think me often alone, and yet at such times I am in company with more than five hundred mutes, each of whom communicates his ideas to me by dumb signs quite as intelligibly as any person living can do by uttering of words; and with a motion of my hand I can bring them as near to me as I please; I handle them as I like; they never complain of ill usage; and when dismissed from my presence, though ever so abruptly, take no offence. STERNE, Letters .
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes, EMERSON, Books, Society, and Solitude .
Nothing is pleasanter than exploring in a library. LANDOR, Pericles and Aspasia .
I never come into a library (saith Heinsius) but I bolt the door to me, excluding lust, ambition, avarice, and all such vices whose nurse is idleness, the mother of ignorance and melancholy herself; and in the very lap of eternity, among so many divine souls, I take my seat with so lofty a spirit and sweet content that I pity all our great ones and rich men that know not their happiness. BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy .
I do not know that I am happiest when alone; but this I am sure of, that I am never long even in the society of her I love without a yearning for the company of my lamp and my utterly confused and tumbled over library. BYRON, Moore's Life .
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