This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: ...meet with some of his little songs: here is an admonitory one, from The Antiquary, on Time: --"Why sitt'st thou by that ruined hall, Thou aged carle, so stern and gray? Dost thou its former pride recall, Or ponder how it passed away?" "Know'st thou not me?" the Deep Voice cried; "So long enjoyed, so oft misused- ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: ...meet with some of his little songs: here is an admonitory one, from The Antiquary, on Time: --"Why sitt'st thou by that ruined hall, Thou aged carle, so stern and gray? Dost thou its former pride recall, Or ponder how it passed away?" "Know'st thou not me?" the Deep Voice cried; "So long enjoyed, so oft misused--Alternate, in thy fickle pride, Desired, neglected, and accused! "Before my breath, like blazing flax, Man and his marvels pass away; And changing empires wane and wax, Are founded, flourish, and decay. "Redeem mine hours--the space is brief--While in my glass the sand-grains shiver, And measureless thy joy or grief, When Time and thou shall part forever!" Now for a dainty little Serenade, from The Pirate: --Love wakes and weeps, while Beauty sleeps! O for Music's softest numbers, To prompt a theme for Beauty's dream, Soft as the pillow of her slumbers! Through groves of palm sigh gales of balm, Fire-flies on the air are wheeling; While through the gloom comes soft perfume, The distant beds of flowers revealing. O wake and live! No dream can give A shadowed bliss the real excelling; No longer sleep, from lattice peep, And list the tale that love is telling! His Marmion is replete with glowing and picturesque passages, stirring descriptions, and the tumult and clash of arms. When Captain Ferguson was serving in the Peninsular war, a copy of this work reached him; and while his men were lying prostrate on the ground, and he kneeling at their head, he read aloud the description of the battle in the sixth canto, --the listening soldiers interrupting him only by a joyous huzza whenever the French shot struck the banks close above them. This incident presents one of the most remarkable instances on record of the power ...
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Add this copy of Festival of Song: a Series of Evenings With the Poets to cart. $68.00, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published by Anson D.F. Randolph Company.
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Good. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Leather binding. Gilt lettering on cover and spine as well as pages edges. Previous owners name on fly-leaf, but no other extraneous markings. All pages are intact and binding is strong. Remarkable condition for age of copy. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
Add this copy of Festival of Song: a Series of Evenings With the Poets to cart. $257.00, very good condition, Sold by Brenner's Collectable Books rated 2.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Manasquan, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1866 by Bunce & Huntington.
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Near Fine/Fine. 8vo., xiv, 376pp, Beautiful First Edition, bound in publisher's pebbled brown leather. Boards with embossed designs and borders with gilt stamped titles on both front and back. Spine with five raised bands with compartment decoration similar to boards. Titles in gilt in second compartment. Gilt board edges and gilt decorated turn-ins. a.e.g. Marbled end-papers. 73 "...pictures, by memebers of the national Academy of Design. Engraved by Bobbett & Hooper". Square, tight and clean throughout with no foxing or interior blemishes. Page edges only just starting to tone but barely. Gentle rubbing to spine ends and tips a few quite minor scuffs to boards. Contemporary ownership signatures on front paste-down and end-paper. One in the year of publication and the other in 1874. Very well-preserved. Anthology of excerpts from poems from well-known, and not so well-known pets through the ages, as well as accompanying commentary. A simply gorgeous collectable copy.
