Word: shelleys
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Alphabetical arrangement of the bookcase is the occasion, of course, of obvious indignities and incongruities. F. Scott Fitzgerald and the translator of Omar might, it is true, find a common meeting jug, but it is hard to conceive of Shakespeare or Shelley mushing up the Yukon with Robert W. Service, or of Thomas Gray passing the time of day with Eddie Gest...
...deaths of books are nearly always tragic. Either they are destroyed by violence or they suffer a lingering dissolution. How the younger volumes must look up to the martyred Aeschylus, found ? wet and bedraggled ? in the pocket of the drowned Shelley! J.A.T...
...Daily Express (London) : " Before we organize a Fascismo to defend our dead, Shakespeare may be whisked off to Salt Lake City, Milton may be planted in Schenectady, Shelley in Bitter Creek, Dickens in Denver, Tennyson in Tallahassee, and William Penn in Penobscot...
...English boy's encounter with Pan himself- to his great delight and the utter horror of all his relatives and friends. Another youngster discovers that a certain blind alley in London is the stopping-place for a line of celestial omnibuses, conducted by such defunct immortals as Shelley, Dante and Sir Thomas Browne. A curate meets a Faun. A very worthy man attempt- ing to bring up his young fiancee by hand is aghast to see her escape from respectability into that other kingdom where the dryads of the Greeks still live and are happy. An eerie beauty quickens...
...will be a privilege to show some of these attractive books: "The Prisoner of Chillon", printed in illumined script on hand made paper and bound in full French levant with gold tooling. The Ricardi Press "Rupert Brooke", bound in 3-4 French levant and printed on hand made paper; Shelley's "Lyrical Poems", beautifully printed and sumptuously bound; these and many others will delight the eye of the book lover and connoisseur...