 being accounted the best book of the kind, my " pen cannot enough describe how A. Wood's " tender affections and insatiable desire of know" ledge were ravished, and melted down, by the " reading of that book. What by music, and rare " books that he found...  Walks in Oxford. 2 vols. [in 1]. - Stran 218avtor: W M. Wade - 1817Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1875 - 866 strani
...insatiable desire of knowledge were ravished and melted down by the reading of that book. What with music and rare books that he found in the public library, his life at this time was a perfect elysium (p. 68). Nordid he merely play with his subject even while I am confessing this... | |
 | Laurence Hutton - 1903 - 326 strani
...landlords, then and now, he was not always popular, but he says that "by music and rare books which he found in the Public Library his life, at this time and after, was a perfect Elysium." There are eighteen Postmasters now at Merton. Mr. Moore tells us that " the Postmaster is an institution... | |
 | Henry Julian White - 1906 - 132 strani
...enjoyments with his friends ; in spite of his quarrels he could write of the years following 1656 : "What by music and rare books that he found in the...life, at this time and after, was a perfect Elysium." Yet his tongue was so bitter that the Warden in 1677 told him he was "a disturber of the peace of the... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1909 - 298 strani
...of Warwickshire, " how A. Wood's tender affections and insatiable desire of knowledg were ravish'd and melted down by the reading of that book. What...life at this time and after was a perfect Elysium." " Wood often went for long, solitary walks, collecting arms and monumental inscriptions from the churches,... | |
 | James Maclehose - 1913 - 502 strani
...insatiable desire of knowledge were ravished and melted down by the reading of that book. What with music and rare books that he found in the public library,...life, at this time and after, was a perfect Elysium.' Wood's book is valuable not only for the portrait of the man and for its innumerable notes on the literary... | |
 | Sir Charles Edward Mallet - 1924 - 572 strani
...insatiable desire of knowledg were ravish 'd and melted downe by the reading of that book. What by musick and rare books that he found in the public library,...life, at this time and after, was a perfect Elysium." Fired by this great example, Wood began in the following October to survey and transcribe inscriptions... | |
 | Sir Charles Edward Mallet - 1924 - 574 strani
...insatiable desire of knowledg were ravish'd and melted downe by the reading of that book. What by 1n us irk and rare books that he found in the public library, his life, at this tune and after, was a perfect Elysium." Fired by this great example, Wood began in the following October... | |
 | Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England) - 1891 - 576 strani
...insatiable desire of knowledg were ravish'd and melted downe by the reading of that book. What by musick and rare books that he found in the public library,...life, at this time and after, was a perfect Elysium. September. — The 4 of September (Th.), 1656, I bought me a pcrewige of my barber, 6s. October. —... | |
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