 | Henry Pitman - 1863
...shall rest unransacked, from the bright, new work, fresh from the press, up to the most ancient — " That weight of wood, with leathern coat o'erlaid, Those ample clasps of solid metal made, The close-press'd leaves, unop'd for many an age, The dull red edging of the well-fill'd page, On the broad... | |
 | Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1863 - 355 ページ
...who haunt book-stalls and luxuriate in old editions appreciate the satisfaction with which I survey " That weight of wood, with leathern coat o'erlaid, Those ample clasps of solid metal made, The close press'd leaves unclosed for many an age, The dull red edging of the well-filled page, And the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1864
...volumes whicli displayed the antique and venerable attributes so happily described by a modern poet : That weight of wood, with leathern coat o'erlaid,...clasps of solid metal made, The close-pressed leaves unoped for many an age, The dull red edging of the well-filled page, On the broad back the stubborn... | |
 | 1864
...shall rest unransacked, from the bright, new work, fresh fawn the press, up to the most ancient — " That weight of wood, with leathern coat o'erlaid, Those ample clasps of solid metal made, The close-press'd leaves, unop'd for many an age, The dull red edging of the well-fill'd page, On the broad... | |
 | Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1864 - 311 ページ
...for its portrait to the author of these well-known lines descriptive of a mediaeval volume : — " That weight of wood, with leathern coat o'erlaid, Those ample clasps of solid metal made, The close-press'd leaves unclosed for many an age, The dull red edging of the well-filled page, On the... | |
 | 1859
...inflictions of a Leech. Would not their involuntary exclamation be, What a change from the ancient tome ! " That weight of wood, with leathern coat o'erlaid, Those ample clasps of solid metal made ; The close-press'd leaves, unoped for many an age, The dull red edging of the well-fillM page; On the broad... | |
 | George Crabbe, A. C. Cunningham - 1877 - 523 ページ
...Professions fruitful pour their offspring round ; Reasoners and wits are next their pkiee allow'd, And last, of vulgar tribes a countless crowd. First,...o'erlaid; Those ample clasps, of solid metal made; The close-press'd leaves, unclosed for many an agt The dull red edging of the well-fill d page; On the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877
...volumes which displayed the antique and venerable attributes so happily described by a modern poet : That weight of wood, with leathern coat o'erlaid,...clasps of solid metal made, The close-pressed leaves unoped for many an age. The dull red-edging of the well-filled page, On the broad back the stubborn... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877
...volumes which displayed the antique and venerable attributes so happily described by a modern poet : That weight of wood, with leathern coat o'erlaid,...clasps of solid metal made, The close-pressed leaves unoped for many an age, The dull red-edging of the well-filled page, On the broad back the stubborn... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1891
...has made up its mind to be fugitive as well as minute. What a change from the ancient volume ! — "That weight of wood, with leathern coat o'erlaid,...close-pressed leaves, unclosed for many an age, The dull-red edging of the well-filled page ; On the broad back the stubborn ridges rolled, Where yet the... | |
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And last, of vulgar tribes a countless crowd. First, let us view the form, the size, the dress; For these the manners, nay the mind, express: That weight of wood, with leathern coat o'erlaid; Those ample clasps, of solid metal made; The close-press'd... 
