 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 616 pages
...bequeathed their labours to the Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory or middle state. ... I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage...mothscented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of the sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard. — LAMB, CHARLES, 1820, Ovford in the Long... | |
 | Caleb Thomas Winchester - Authors, English - 1910 - 272 pages
...though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labors to these Bodleians, were i 113 reposing here, as in some dormitory, or middle state....do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage... | |
 | Libraries - 1910 - 680 pages
...though VV 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....do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding sheets. . . I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage." Thus wrote Charles Lamb,... | |
 | Caleb Thomas Winchester - Authors, English - 1910 - 276 pages
...some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to 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... | |
 | John Russell Hayes - 1910 - 290 pages
...later found at the Bodleian Library — the odor of old moth-scented coverings of folios and quartos as fragrant as the first bloom of those sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchards. Old Books are best! I confess to that belief. Why else did I put aside the prim little Shakespeares... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English essays - 1911 - 348 pages
...all the -writers, that have bequeathed their labors to these Bodleians, were reposing here, as in IB some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to...inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of those sciential 20 apples... | |
 | TEMPLE SCOTT - 1911 - 294 pages
...• though aH the souls of aH the writers, that have bequeathed their labors to these BocSeians, were reposing here, as in some dormitory, or middle state....do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage;... | |
 | Oxford (England) - 1911 - 492 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....do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage,... | |
 | Temple Scott - Books and reading - 1911 - 294 pages
...some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to 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... | |
 | Library Association - Bibliography - 1913 - 822 pages
...in so pat with ours ". The exquisite sincerity of Lamb's enthusiasm for books has become proverbial. some dormitory or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding sheets, could as soon I dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage;... | |
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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,... 
