 | 1859 - 784 ページ
...champion of huge proportions, who turns out to be no better than a barber, after all ! Gazing upon " That weight of wood, with leathern coat o'erlaid,...clasps, of solid metal made, The close-pressed leaves, unloosed for many an age, The dull red edging of the well-filled page, On the broad back the stubborn... | |
 | 1855 - 1216 ページ
...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, Those ample clasps, of solid metal made ; The close-press'd leaves, unoped for many an age, The dull red edging of the well fill'd page ; On the... | |
 | 1848 - 52 ページ
...their contents. I feel a deep reverence, almost amounting to a tendre, for what Crabbe describes as " That weight of wood, with leathern coat o'erlaid ;...unclosed for many an age, The dull red edging of the well filled page." All have their charms for me. But with the permission of Mr. Crabbe let me leave... | |
 | 1852 - 44 ページ
...housekeeper were she to forget, that our Jure Divino lay under a western window. Surely then naught but " That weight of wood, with leathern coat o'erlaid, Those ample clasps of solid metal made," can be the " toga" for our old fathers to wrap their majestic thoughts in. Why, as soon would we see... | |
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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... 
