| Joseph Addison - 1875 - 566 pages
...quintessence, many a bulky author would make appearance in a Penny-paper : there would be scarce such 1 thing m nature as a folio : the works of an age would be contained on a few shelves not t mention millions of volumes that would be utterly annihilated. I_an"ot th>nk that the... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...quintessence, many a bulky author would make his appearance in a penny paper. There would be scarce such a thing in nature as a folio; the works of an age would be contained on a few shelves ; not to mention millions of volumes that would he utterly annihilated. ADDISON : Spectator,... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...quintessence, many a bulky author would make his appearance in a penny paper. There would be scarce such a 8 7 shelves ; not to mention millions of volumes that would be utterly annihilated. ADDISON : Spectator,... | |
| Cyclopaedia - 1885 - 1120 pages
...bulky author would make his appearance in a penny pamphlet, and there would be scarce any such thing ua folio : the works of an age would be contained on a few shelves, not to mention millions of volumes that would be utterly destroyed. BOOKS— The Three. The... | |
| Albert Romer Frey - Comparative literature - 1886 - 62 pages
...bulky author would make his appearance in a penny pamphlet ; and there would be scarce any such thing as a folio ; the works of an age would be contained on a few shelves, not to mention millions of volumes that would be utterly destroyed." And this maxirn may be... | |
| William Wheeler - Spectator - 1892 - 200 pages
...quintessence many a bulky author would make his appearance in a penny paper. There would be scarce such a thing in nature as a Folio. The works of an age would be contained on a few shelves ; not to mention millions of books that would be utterly annihilated." In our own times we... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1892 - 358 pages
...quintessence, many a bulky author would make his appearance in a penny-paper : there would be scarce such a thing in nature as a folio : the works of an age would be contained on a few shelves ; not to mention millions of volumes that would be utterly annihilated. I cannot think that... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1894 - 358 pages
...quintessence, many a bulky author would make his appearance in a penny-paper : there would be scarce such a thing in nature as a folio : the works of an age would be contained on a few shelves ; not to mention millions of volumes that would be utterly annihilated. I cannot think that... | |
| Robert Maynard Leonard - Anthologies - 1911 - 452 pages
...quintessence, many a bulky author would make his appearance in a penny-paper : there would be scarce such a thing in nature as a folio : the works of an age would be contained on a few shelves, not to mention millions of volumes that would be utterly annihilated. . . . When knowledge,... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1915 - 464 pages
...quintessence, many a bulky author would make his appearance in a penny paper : there would be scarce such a thing in nature as a folio : the works of an age would be contained on a few shelves; not to mention millions of volumes that would be utterly annihilated. I cannot think that... | |
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