Miss Currer, who suffered from deafness, was an intimate friend of Richard Heber, and it was rumoured at one time that this distinguished bibliomaniac was engaged to be married to Miss Currer, but the event did not transpire.
That Rawlinson was a bibliomaniac there can be no question, for if he had a score copies of one book, he would purchase another for the mere gratification of possessing it.
The difference between a bibliophile and a bibliomaniac has been described as between one who adorns his mind, and the other his book-cases.
This is Hazlewood's own copy, and it is enriched and decorated by him in the most extravagant style of the bibliomaniac school in which he held so eminent a position.
I say, the tender-hearted bibliomaniac thinks that all these rare and precious black letter gems were sold, collectively, for only 2l.
All hail to thee--transcendant bibliomaniac of other times!
O si sic"--may we say to many a heavy-metalled book-auction bibliomaniac of the present day!
After the mid-day dinner the little party withdrew to the library, where the Bibliomaniac began to discourse somewhat learnedly upon his hobby.
You have the right idea, the human idea," said Mr. Pedagog, and even the Bibliomaniac was inclined to agree.
The bibliomaniac heaps up books from avarice or some animal instinct; he is a collector, it is said, 'without intelligent curiosity.
I bade him welcome and we twain Discussed with buoyant hearts The various things that appertain To bibliomaniac arts.
Untouched of bibliomaniac grace That saveth such as we, They wallow in that dreadful place!
Untouched of bibliomaniac grace, That saveth such as we, They wallow in that dreadful place," Says Dibdin's ghost to me.
I bade him welcome, and we twain Discussed with buoyant hearts The various things that appertain To bibliomaniac arts.
In fact, volumes have been written concerning extinct books, not without interest to the bibliomaniac who is fired with the passion for possessing something which no one else has got.
Was ever an unfortunate bibliomaniac dosed with such a medicine before?
Was he really sincere in his child lyrics and his bibliomaniac writings or was he cleverly playing a part?
Then the indefatigable bibliomaniacproceeded along the quays.
Only those who saw that bedroom, wherein the bed was the least conspicuous piece of furniture, can conceive any idea of what the bedroom of a bibliomaniac is like.
The great bibliomaniac who had made so many discoveries of this kind, quite as difficult to detect, discovered that Victor Hugo was the author of Han d'Islande.
Into these lines Field managed to throw all the exulting fanaticism of the hopeless bibliomaniac without suppressing one jot of the chuckle of the profane scoffer.
His book had selected the bibliomaniac Faustinus as a patron.
The seated figure represents a bibliomaniac who treats his books as mere curiosities from which he derives no mental improvement.
Richard de Bury had exceptional opportunities for gratifying his bibliomaniac passions.
It is the best type of the bibliomaniac soul, for the quickness of its apprehensions betokens that it is alert and keen and capable of instantaneous impressions and enthusiasms.
So there is an outlook for every mood, and I doubt not that this ingenious provision contributes potently towards promoting bibliomaniac harmony and prosperity in my friend's household.
And we have a similar feeling toward such of our number as for the nonce become imbued with a passion for any of the other little fads which bibliomaniac flesh is heir to.
But whether they went to the payment of living expenses, to the importunity of some threatening creditor, or were divided between the joys of the bibliomaniac and the bon vivant, Field in his most confiding humor never disclosed to me.
It is written in pencil on what appears to be a sheet from a pad of ledger paper, watermarked "1879," a fact I mention for the benefit of his bibliomaniac admirers.
That must have been what the Bibliomaniac had taken," he added, turning to the genial gentleman who occasionally imbibed.
VI The Idiot was unusually thoughtful--a fact which made the School-Master and the Bibliomaniac unusually nervous.
He would have gone home disappointed," said the Idiot, with a look of surprise on his face, which seemed to indicate that in his opinion the Bibliomaniac was very dull-witted not to have solved the problem for himself.
It does not affect the fact that I was thinking about the Bibliomaniac and Mr. Pedagog.
There is as much difference between the inclinations and taste of a bibliophile and a bibliomaniac as between a slight cold and the advanced stages of consumption.
Some one has said that "to call a bibliophile a bibliomaniacis to conduct a lover, languishing for his maiden's smile, to an asylum for the demented, and to shut him up in the ward for the incurables.
On a sudden a broad white flash of lightning--nothing more than summer heat--made our bibliomaniac lay his head upon his pillow and turn his eyes in an opposite direction.
Peignot says a bibliomaniac is one who has "a passion for possessing books; not so much to be instructed by them as to gratify the eye by looking on them.
You don't happen to know a bibliomaniac who might commit murder?
My dear Wigan, if Baines had said that Eade was a bibliomaniac I should have gone to West Street at once.
Had there not been some diversion of that kind, it is certain that the Bibliomaniac would have assaulted him.
Is it true, as the Bibliomaniac asserts, that Mrs. Smithers leaves all her milk and butter in your room overnight, relying upon your coolness to keep them fresh?
But I do agree with theBibliomaniac that our streets are far from perfection," he added.
I only asked my last question because the behavior of the Bibliomaniac and Mr. Whitechoker and the School-master for some time past has worried me, and I didn't know but what you might work up a nice little practice among us.
VII "Our streets appear to be as far from perfect as ever," said the Bibliomaniac with a sigh, as he looked out through the window at the great pools of water that gathered in the basins made by the sinking of the Belgian blocks.
The School-master and the Bibliomaniac had combined forces to give him a taste of his own medicine.
Even our friend theBibliomaniac at times has seemed to me to be very absent-minded.
You are right for once, Mr. Idiot," said the Bibliomaniac approvingly.
For theBibliomaniac I have a little surprise in store in the shape of a copy of the Congressional Record for December 7th which I picked up on a street car last Friday morning.
That vermiform appendix craze was all a fad anyhow," said the Bibliomaniac sourly.
Bibliomaniac one Sunday morning while the mush was being served.
That leaves only two of us--the Bibliomaniacand the Doctor himself.
As a rule, I can agree to almost anything my friend the Bibliomaniac says, but in this case I cannot accept his views.
Meanwhile theBibliomaniac had chosen to reflect seriously upon the Idiot's intelligence for his approval of unions.
