The Book Lovers' Anthology by Various
Chapter 1 No.1
Sit here and muse!-it is an antique room-
High-roofed, with casements, through whose purple pane
Unwilling Daylight steals amidst the gloom,
Shy as a fearful stranger.
There They reign
(In loftier pomp than waking life had known),
The Kings of Thought!-not crowned until the grave
When Agamemnon sinks into the tomb,
The beggar Homer mounts the Monarch's throne!
Ye ever-living and imperial Souls,
Who rule us from the page in which ye breathe,
All that divide us from the clod ye gave!-
Law-Order-Love-Intelligence-the Sense
Of Beauty-Music and the Minstrel's wreath!-
What were our wanderings if without your goals?
As air and light, the glory ye dispense
Becomes our being-who of us can tell
What he had been, had Cadmus never taught
The art that fixes into form the thought-
Had Plato never spoken from his cell,
Or his high harp blind Homer never strung?
Kinder all earth hath grown since genial Shakespeare sung!
Chapter 1 No.1
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Chapter 2 No.2
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Chapter 3 No.3
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Chapter 4 No.4
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Chapter 5 No.5
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Chapter 6 Tennyson Turner.
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Chapter 7 S. Calverley. Proverbial Philosophy.
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Chapter 8 Lamb. Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading.
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Chapter 9 Lamb.
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Chapter 10 Johnson.
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