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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 23aHnbr of tl)c Clnattaiiulilc The Books I cannot hope to huy, Their phantoms round me waltf and wheel, They pass hefore the dreaming eye, Ere Sleep the dreaming eye can seal. A kind of literary reel They dance; hut fair the hindings shine. Prose cannot tell them what I feel, The Books that never can he mine! There frisk Editions rare and shy, Morocco clad from head to heel; Shakspearian quartos; Comedy As first she flashed from Richard Steele ; And quaint De Foe on Mrs. Veal; And, lord of landing net and line, Old Iaah with his fishing creel, The Books that never can he mine! Incunahles ! for you I sigh, Black letter, at thy founts I kneel, Old tales of Perraulfs nursery, For you I'd go without a meal! For Books wherein did Aldus deal And rare Galiot du Pre I pine. The watches of the night reveal The Books that never can he mine! ENVOY. Prince, hear a hopeless Bard's appeal; Reverse the rules of Mine and Thine ; Make it legitimate to steal The Books that never can he mine! AESCHYLUS, 21, 24 Aldus, 72, 77 AngoulSme, Marguerite d', 74 Annius, 24, 25 Archilochus, 25 Aristotle, 32, 76 Arnold, Matthew, 65, 98 Asselineau, Charles, 171 Athanasius, 26 Aumale, Due d', 85 Bacon, 21 Barberini, Cardinal, 80 Bauchart, Quentin, 124 Bayle, 25 BSjart, Madeleine, 128 Bennet, M., 2 Besant, W., 26 Blimber, Mrs., 26 Bookman's Purgatory, A, 161 Borel, Petrus, 86 Borgia, Alexander, 25 Bossuet, 83, 87, 88 Boswell, James, 28 Bozerian, 97 Bronte, Charlotte, 134 Browning, Robert, 36, 6 Brunet, 87, 123 Bryant, Jacob, 28 Byron, Lord, 62 Campanella, 73 Cato, 25 Catullus, 27 Chambord, Comte de, 72 Charlemagne, 75, 97 Chateaub...
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