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...volumes which displayed the antique and venerable attributes so happily described by a modern poet : That weight of wood, with leathern coat o'erlaid ;...clasps, of solid metal made; The close-pressed leaves unoped for many an age; The dull red edging of the well-filled page ; On the broad back the stubborn...

...pig-skin covered volumes of the late lamented bishop, with their oaken boards and brazen clasps, — That weight of wood, with leathern coat o'erlaid,...clasps of solid metal made, The close-pressed leaves unoped for many an age, The dull red edging of the well-fill'd page, On the broad back the stubborn...

...volumes which displayed the antique and venerable attributes so happily described by a modern poet: — That weight of wood, with leathern coat o'erlaid, Those ample clasps of solid metal made, The close-press'd leaves unoped for many an age, The dull red edging of the well-fill'd page, On the broad...

...Professions fruitful pour their Offspring round ; Reasoners and Wits are next their place allow'd, 1 And last, of vulgar Tribes, a countless Crowd. First...o'erlaid, Those ample Clasps, of solid Metal made ; The close-prest Leaves, unclos'd for many an age, The dull red Edging of the well-fill'd Page; On the broad...

...champion of huge proportions, who turns out to be no better than a barber, after all ! Gazing upon " That weight of wood, with leathern coat o'erlaid,...clasps, of solid metal made, The close-pressed leaves, unloosed for many an age, The dull red edging of the well-filled page, On the broad back the stubborn...

...has made up its mind to be fugitive, as well as minute. What a change from the ancient volume ! — " That weight of wood, with leathern coat o'erlaid, Those ample clasps, of solid metal made ; The close-press'd leaves, unoped for many an age, The dull red edging of the well fill'd page ; On the...

...their contents. I feel a deep reverence, almost amounting to a tendre, for what Crabbe describes as " That weight of wood, with leathern coat o'erlaid ;...unclosed for many an age, The dull red edging of the well filled page." All have their charms for me. But with the permission of Mr. Crabbe let me leave...

...housekeeper were she to forget, that our Jure Divino lay under a western window. Surely then naught but " That weight of wood, with leathern coat o'erlaid, Those ample clasps of solid metal made," can be the " toga" for our old fathers to wrap their majestic thoughts in. Why, as soon would we see...

...Professions fruitful pour their offspring round; 140 Reasoners and wits are next their place allow'd, And last, of vulgar tribes a countless crowd. First,...o'erlaid ; Those ample clasps, of solid metal made ; The close-press'd leaves, unclosed for many an age ; The dull red edging of the well-fill'd page ; On the...