And there were seen, descending from on high, His messengers, and in the tepid eyes Gathering their flight about the secret founts Where came the virgins wandering sole to stretch The nude pomp of their perfect loveliness.
As the skylark that mounts With the dawn to the sun, As the flash from the founts Of the swift Helicon, Song comes;--and I sing!
In secret sympathies of mind, In founts of feeling which retain Their pure, fresh flow, we yet may find Our early dreams not wholly vain 1841.
Founts gushed beside my pilgrim way, Cool shadows on the greensward lay, Flowers swung upon the bending spray.
Their scallop-shells so many bring The fabled founts of song to try, They've drained, for aught I know, the spring Of Aganippe dry.
The decanters and wine-bottles on the move, and the beer and soda-founts pouring out continual streams, with a whiz.
I have resolved to take at least one brief draught from the pure founts of inspiration of my time.
I was not train'd in Academic bowers, And to those learned streams I nothing owe Which copious from those twin fair founts do flow; Mine have been anything but studious hours.
Drain the sweet founts that only thrive by wasting; Black manhood comes, when riotous guilty living Hands thee the cup that shall be death in tasting.
Besides, her school had always looked to the ancient nations of the East for the primeval founts of inspiration, the mysterious lore of mightier races long gone by.
Tis theirs to adumbrate and suggest; To point toward founts of buried lore; Leaving, in reverence, unexpressed What Man must know not, yet adore.
The speaker is the curate himself: "Long may these founts of Charity remain, And never shrink, but to be filled again; True!
Long may these founts of Charity remain, And never shrink, but to be fill'd again; True!
But there were finer vibrations as well--for the safely-prowling infant, though none perhaps so fine as when he stood long and drank deep at those founts of romance that gushed from the huge placards of the theatre.
But if at any time thou cease Such channels to provide, The very fountsof love for thee Will soon be parched and dried.
So grateful tears shall flow the faster, In founts of gladness from mine eyes!
But if at any time thou cease Such channels to provide, The very founts of love to thee Will soon be parched and dried.
Because their marble founts Gush'd with more pride than do a wretch's tears?
From the founts Of thine exhaustless light, make clear the road Through toil and darkness, into God's repose!
The three Vale Press founts and also the punches and matrices were destroyed when the Press ceased publishing.
Other Italian printers had fountsboth of Gothic and of Roman types.
One of the most interesting of the privately owned fountsis the "Otter" Greek type designed by the late Mr. Robert Proctor, and shown in the page from the Odyssey printed on page 43.
The Roman type used by the early Italian printers is, then, the prototype from which all other Roman founts are descended.
It was these founts that really inaugurated the new development; and the foundry of the Gebr.
Roman founts the full vigour and monumentality of his later period of activity is clearly expressed; while the most recent of all, the "Mediaeval" (p.
Since the "old-style" founts were designed about the middle of last century, what new book types have been cast by the founders for use by the printing trade generally have as a rule been mere variations of letter already in vogue.
This is remarkably clear, and in its amalgamation of Roman forms with the characteristics of German founts it has proved both sound and serviceable, and it is one, moreover, which offers no difficulty whatever to the foreigner.
On the other hand, Mr. Mallock had little difficulty in distinguishing the different founts in the facsimiles from the Novum Organum and Spenser’s Complaints.
This was printed in the smaller of the two founts of black letter in double columns, with some good initials and a great many woodcuts that had evidently been used before, as they extend beyond the letterpress.
James returned to England with 3500 matrices of various founts of Roman and Italics, as well as sets of Greek and some black letter.
One of the founts of type used by Machlinia is of peculiar interest, by reason of its close resemblance to Caxton's type No.
Three founts of black letter, somewhat resembling in size and shape those of Wynkyn de Worde, were used in printing these books, and the devices of both men are found in them.
At the same time Berthelet was passing through the press Sir Thomas Elyot's Dictionary, a work of no small labour, if one may judge from the number of founts used in printing it.
In this respect it was a worthy successor to the best Aldine founts of the sixteenth century.
Wermueller's Spiritual and Most Precious Pearl, and in 1596 two founts of Hebrew letter were used by Barnes, but the stock of this letter was small.
It was clearly not one of the founts belonging to the University, for, had it been, Baskett would have had no power to mortgage it.
He believed that good books should be well printed, and on his accession to power under Elizabeth, he encouraged John Day and others, both with his authority and his purse, to cut new founts of type and to print books in a worthy form.
They included a fount of black letter, and several founts of Roman and Italic of all sizes, and one of Greek letter, all of which had belonged to Thomas East, and were by this time the worse for wear.
These founts of Gothic closely resemble some in use in Italy at this time.
But those used by John and Wendelin of Speier, and at a later date by Antonio Miscomini, were also good, as also were several of the founts used at Rome and Milan.
He burdened Greek scholarship for three centuries with a thoroughly bad style in Greek types, and the cursive substitute which he provided for the fine roman founts for which Italy had been famous almost drove them from the field.
By Jenson and many early printers in Italy, and by Husner and a few others in Germany, the majuscules of the founts used in the text were massed together in headings with admirable effect.
Thus when Bishop Fell, about 1670, was equipping the University Press at Oxford with better type, he employed an agent in Holland to purchase founts for him.
Lastly, a third fount, larger than either of the others, was produced and used for the text of a folio Greek Testament in 1550, the other two founts appearing in the prefatory matter and notes.
Meanwhile Robert I had taken with him a set of matrices of the royal Greek types, and with these and other founts printed at Geneva until his death in 1559.
English founts of which we have any reason to be proud date from the appearance about 1716 of William Caslon, who established a firm of type founders which has enjoyed a long and deservedly prosperous career.
We gather from Moxon that Blaew's improvements were slowly copied in England, and we know that the English printers still continued to buy their best founts from Holland.
Some of these are good, some almost bad, or while good in themselves, suitable only for use with black-letter founts and too heavy for use with roman letter.
At Naples and Bologna, on the other hand, some quite early roman founts are curiously hard and heavy.
But if at any time we cease Such channels to provide, The very founts of love for us Will soon be parched and dried.
The founts of casual adventure had, it seemed, run stone dry; such weather was enough to dry up anything.
Nymphs bred high On tops of hills, or in the founts of floods, In herby marshes, or in leafy woods?
In life to them must I Turn as to founts whence peace and safety swell: And e'en were death, which else I fear not, nigh, Their sight alone would teach me to be well.
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