Songs of the Press and Other Poems, Relative to the Art of Printing: Original and SelectedSimpkin and Marshall, 1833 - 120 Seiten |
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... live on the fat of the land without pie . Huzza ! & c . , July , 1823 . J. W. Walker . LINES ON PRINTING . HAIL , mystic art ! which men like angels taught , To speak to eyes , and paint embodied thought ! The deaf and dumb , blest ...
... live on the fat of the land without pie . Huzza ! & c . , July , 1823 . J. W. Walker . LINES ON PRINTING . HAIL , mystic art ! which men like angels taught , To speak to eyes , and paint embodied thought ! The deaf and dumb , blest ...
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... other words those novels , Composed of kings , and queens , and lords , Of border wars , and gothic hordes That used to live in hovels . Let friendship and mirth here united be found , And C 2 SONGS OF THE PRESS . 27 Dean Swift.
... other words those novels , Composed of kings , and queens , and lords , Of border wars , and gothic hordes That used to live in hovels . Let friendship and mirth here united be found , And C 2 SONGS OF THE PRESS . 27 Dean Swift.
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... live unknown Than run the hazard to be known , and damn'd . Thus Critics do make cowards of us all . And thus the healthful face of many a poem Is sicklied o'er with a pale manuscript ; And enterprisers of great fire and spirit , With ...
... live unknown Than run the hazard to be known , and damn'd . Thus Critics do make cowards of us all . And thus the healthful face of many a poem Is sicklied o'er with a pale manuscript ; And enterprisers of great fire and spirit , With ...
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... lives at work they're closely keeping . Others , erratic from their mother's breast , Are by some untam'd devil still possest- These are your harum - scarum jolly boys , Who love Scotch ale , and glory in their noise ; Who , if their ...
... lives at work they're closely keeping . Others , erratic from their mother's breast , Are by some untam'd devil still possest- These are your harum - scarum jolly boys , Who love Scotch ale , and glory in their noise ; Who , if their ...
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... live in deathless story , And song preserve their chaplets green ; Yet still the brightest rays of glory Circle one god - like brow serene ; Tis his , whose youthful valour aided Columbia's cause , when hostile bands Were laying waste ...
... live in deathless story , And song preserve their chaplets green ; Yet still the brightest rays of glory Circle one god - like brow serene ; Tis his , whose youthful valour aided Columbia's cause , when hostile bands Were laying waste ...
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art of Printing Bible bless blest bound brother brought brow C. H. Timperley called carol Caxton chapel chiromancy choral strains CHRISTOPHER BARKER Composing Room compositor copy correct cries critics daily deeds Devil earth ev'ry false cut fame Faust foul freedom frisket genius gentlemen George Crabbe give glory Greek Green hail hand happy head heart Huzza immortal invention is't labours leave letters light live London Lord mankind Mentz mighty mind mine-a Muse ne'er newspapers night noble Art's praise Nottingham o'er paper patriots Philemon Holland poem Press and Liberty pressmen printer PRINTER'S DEVIL proof Richard Jago round Samuel Woodworth sheet sing smile SONG soul spread stone swell the choral thee thou thought throne Timperley Torquato Tasso truth Typographical Society Typos Tyrants Westminster Westminster Abbey WILLIAM CAXTON Written
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Seite 73 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Seite 62 - Touch-paper, to be sure. What are our poets, take them as they fall, Good, bad, rich, poor, much read, not read at all ? Them and their works in the same class you'll find ; They are the mere waste-paper of mankind.
Seite 28 - Or praise the judgment of the town, And help yourself to run it down. Give up your fond paternal pride, Nor argue on the weaker side : For, poems read without a name We...
Seite 97 - I thank God there are no free schools, nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both...
Seite 54 - Muse and dancing pleasure ! 0 for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees, and sparkling with a brook, Where through the quivering boughs the sunbeams shoot Their arrowy diamonds upon flower and fruit, While stealing airs come fuming o'er the stream, And lull the fancy to a waking dream ! There should'st thou come, O first of my desires!
Seite 18 - Let there be light! ' Grim darkness felt his might, And fled away; Then startled seas and mountains cold Shone forth, all bright in blue and gold, And cried, — "'Tis day! 'tis day!''
Seite 19 - Our souls have holy light within, And every form of grief and sin Shall see and feel its fire. By earth, and hell, and...
Seite 38 - ... the first intimation of which he makes to the Father of the Chapel, usually the oldest printer in the house, who, should he conceive that the charge can be substantiated, and the injury supposed to have been received is of such magnitude as to call for the interference of the law, summonses the members of the Chapel before him at the imposing- stone, and there receives the allegations and the defence in solemn assembly, and dispenses justice with typographical rigour and impartiality.
Seite 33 - Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns? Here runs the mountainous and craggy ridge That tempts Ambition. On the summit, see The seals of office glitter in his eyes ; He climbs, he pants, he grasps them ! At...
Seite 38 - The punishment generally consists in the criminal providing a libation, by which the offending workmen may wash away the stain that his misconduct has laid upon the body at large. Should the plaintiff not be able to substantiate his charge, the fine then falls upon himself for having maliciously arraigned...