From bulky folios down to slender twelves, The choicest tomes in many an even row, Display’d their letter’d backs upon the shelves, A goodly show.
Heaping verses on verses and tomes upon tomes, He could ne’er reach the best point and vigour of Holmes.
Mr. Tomes treats an unworn topic with freshness and authentic skill, and we welcome his bright and candid book as a more valuable contribution to literature than most contemporary novels and poems.
The chief topic Mr. Tomes discusses is the manufacture of champagne wines; but his book is also descriptive of life in Rheims and the adjacent country, as he knew it during two years' residence in that ancient city.
I knew Count Tomes passed for somewhat of a scandal-monger, so his remarks made little impression on me beyond whetting my curiosity.
And the client too," saidTomes aloud; but nobody had heard what I had said.
The works themselves are in Migne's Patrologia Graeca, tomes 3 and 4, with a Latin version.
To gratify this curiosity, I have descended from this region of fancy and fable, where everything is liable to take an imaginary tint, and have carried my researches among the dusty tomes of the old Jesuits’ Library, in the University.
I've studied Glanville and James the wise, And wizard black-letter tomes which treat Of demons of every name and size Which a Christian man is presumed to meet, But never a hint and never a line Can I find of a reading fiend like mine.
There are books for use, stout, everyday articles, and books for pious contemplation, original editions, or tomes that have belonged to great collectors.
The ancient tomes exuded their peculiar odor, and the low, sing-song voice of the speaker seemed far removed from the life they had just left outside.
But where were all these tomesand scrolls and books now?
And now it is scarcely ever heard of, save when brought out from old scholastic tomes by some theological delver.
Even as the great Augustine Questioned earth and sea and sky, And the dusty tomes of learning And old poesy.
Besides this ivth volume of the Bibliotheca Orientalis, the extracts in the three preceding tomes (tom.
The series is continued with some disorder in the xvth and xvith tomes of the Memoires Ecclesiastiques of Tillemont.
He went to a bookshelf and perused the titles on the various tomes that were there.
So each time I needed a plot or a play I searched o'er the tomes where musty plots lay Bulging out with ideas from craniums dust, Whose shades may have helped as I now know and trust.
While my colleagues and others were pounding out tomes of wonderful sophistry I have been pounding away at the screen of the occult.
Being men as well as scholars, we would win from its parchment-covered tomes those elements which if they do not represent everlasting verities, are at least symbols of the permanent necessities of the human mind.
Another fundamental doctrine with Duns Scotus is that theology is not a speculative, but a practical, science--a position which Duns unfortunately disproved with his tomes of metaphysics!
There are enormous commentaries on the Psalms and Prophets, and the Gospels (Tomes VII.
We can hardly blame them, when tomes and encyclopaedias were being heaped mountain high, with life crushed beneath the monstrous pile, or escaping from it.
The first of his tomes (the Speculum naturale) is to be devoted to a full description of the forms and species of created beings, which make up the visible world.
Two tomesremain of Albert's opera, containing much that is very different from anything already considered.
Of course, the first and chief is his Summa theologiae, contained in Tomes XVII.
His commentary on the Sentences fills thirteen tomes of the Paris edition!
The immortal Alcuin sang the praises of this library in a tedious lay; and what glorious tomes of antiquity he there enumerates!
The monks sold to that rare collector, thirty-two choice tomes triginta duos libros, for the sum of fifty pounds of silver quinginta libris argenti.
He had written and published under other names tomes of essays of at least equal merit.
Tomes thought he ought to be put straight out of the house.
I did ask him to lunch just for your sake, although I saw Eddie was shocked, and I was afraid Tomes would give warning.
Tomes and his footman were a band of malicious pirates who took pleasure in cutting for the table the very buds which McKellar was cherishing for the horticultural show.
He thinks about as you do--" At this moment the door opened andTomes himself entered.
Cord just nodded at this, which evidently meant that the visitor was to be admitted, for Tomesnever made a mistake and Verriman presently entered.
Let the adept exercise his craft upon tomes in worn-out leather bindings; with the repairing of books in their original boards our amateur himself will deal.
Usually there is no need to rebind these ancient tomes whose 'joints' are so delicately described by the bookseller as 'tender': their very infirmity will ensure that they be accorded careful handling.
In this case some of the books were taken by the inmates with them into exile in Flanders; and when the small community migrated thence to Portugal, the precious tomes were carried reverently with them.
Presently this little comedy revealed itself to Eleanor, and, after an amused glance at the retreating figure of her misguided friend, she would bury herself inTomes on the British Colonies, and abandon Alicia to the visitor's wiles.
How many sets of books have been destroyed, how many massive tomes have been withered by the heat, how many dainty books of poetry have been swept away!
Some domestic facts are celebrated in the Chronicles of Pisa, Genoa, and Venice, in the vith, ixth, and xiith tomes of Muratori.
Alys, apparently, had not measured up to Rush's secret ideal of the wholly desirable woman, nor appealed to that throbbing vein of romanticism which he had striven to bury beneath the dusty tomes of the law.
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