 | Charles Lamb - 1879 - 248 pages
...though all the souls of all the writers, that have bequeathed their labors to these Bodleians, were reposing here, as in some dormitory, or middle state....inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of those sciential apples which... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1879 - 732 pages
...though all the souls of all the writers, that have bequeathed their labours to these Bodleians, were iiricnt walkin; amid their foliage ; and the odour of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant ¡is the... | |
 | Charles Lamb - Poetry - 1879 - 672 pages
...though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labours to these Bodleians were reposing here, as in some dormitory or middle state....profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could rts soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage ; and the odour of... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labours to these Bodleians were 1 seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odour of their old moth-scented coverings... | |
 | English authors - 1880 - 178 pages
...dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I would as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage ; and the odours of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of those scireutial apples... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1881 - 472 pages
...though all the souls of all the writers, that have bequeathed their labors to these Bodleians, were reposing here as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, then: winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their... | |
 | Book-lover - 1883 - 336 pages
...though all the souls of all the writers, that have bequeathed their labours to these Bodlelans, were reposing here, as in some dormitory, or middle state....profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could :,-i soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their follage ; and the odour of... | |
 | Book-lover - 1883 - 262 pages
...though all the souls of all the writers, that have bequeathed their labours to these Bodleians.ware reposing here, as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to prefane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I eould as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning,... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - English language - 1883 - 156 pages
...example in the following : — " I do not want to handle, to profane tbe leaves their winding sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning walking amid their foliage." — Lamb. Here the leaves of the books in a library arc first compared to the " winding sheets" of... | |
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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 these Bodleians, were reposing here, as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves,... 
