Addison, Joseph (1672-1719).
The Legacies of Genius[14]
The Authors' Advantage[60]
The evil that Men do[80]
A great Book is a great evil[119]
Chance Readings[145]
A Lady's Library[209]
Books for a Lady's Library[211]
Alcott, Amos Bronson (1799-1888).
The Fellowship of Books [6]
Alcuin or Ealwhine (735-804).
An Episcopal Library[311]
Arblay, Frances, Madame d' (1752-1840).
Royal Patronage of Books[253]
Armstrong, John (1709-79).
Read without Prejudice[127]
Arnold, Matthew (1822-88).
The Grand Mine of Diction[297]
Ascham, Roger (1515-68).
Books that do Hurt[77]
Epitomes[138]
Athenian Mercury, The
Whether 'tis lawful to read Romances[85]
Aungervile. See Bury.
Austen, Jane (1775-1817).
Only a Novel[87]
Bacon, Francis, Lord Verulam and Viscount St. Albans (1561-1626).
Enduring Monuments[46]
Old Authors to Read[65]
Dedications[97]
'Books will speak plain'[113]
Studies[124]
Commonplace Books[141]
Over-reading[157]
A great Necromancer[287]
The Shrines of the Ancient Saints[325]
Bailey, Philip James (1816-1902).
'Worthy Books'[5]
Bale, John, Bishop of Ossory (1495-1563).
A most Horrible Infamy[325]
Barclay, Alexander (1475?-1552).
Envoy to Fools[218]
Barnes, William (1801-86).
Learning[173]
Barrow, Isaac (1630-77).
He that loveth a Book will never want[3]
Barton, Bernard (1784-1849).
Composed in the Rev. J. Mitford's Library[324]
Baxter, Richard (1615-91).
Romances are Pernicious[84]
Books preferred to Preachers[108]
Bayly, Thomas Haynes (1797-1839).
A Novel of High Life[88]
Beaconsfield, Earl of. See Disraeli, Benjamin.
Beecher, Henry Ward (1813-1887).
The Bodleian: a Dead Sea of Books[364]
Beresford, James (1764-1840).
Bibliosophia[225]
Eye-worship[242]
Blackie, John Stuart (1809-95).
Overrating the Value of Books[162]
Blanchard, Samuel Laman (1804-45).
The Double Lesson[192]
The Art of Book-keeping[280]
Blount, Charles (1654-93).
The Imprimatur[119]
Boswell, James (1740-95). See also Johnson.
Shakespeare in Heaven[48]
Reading according to Inclination[128]
Johnson's Cursory Reading[148]
Talking from Books[153]
The Dog and the Bone[170]
Books you may hold in your hand[247]
Brant, Sebastian (1458-1521).
The Chief Fool[216]
Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-82).
Superfluous Books[58]
Browne, Sir William (1692-1774).
Oxford and Cambridge: an Epigram[113]
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-61).
'Books are men of higher stature'[39]
Reading as Intellectual Indolence[159]
The Poets[205]
The World of Books[206]
A Forced Sale[259]
The Library in the Garret[318]
Browning, Robert (1812-89).
Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis[236]
The Find[257]
Brydges, Grey, Lord Chandos (1579?-1621).
The greatest Clerks be not always the wisest Men[149]
Buckingham, Duke of. See Sheffield.
Bulwer. See Lytton, Lord.
Bunyan, John (1628-88).
The Scriptures: what are they?[292]
Burney, Fanny. See Arblay.
Burns, Robert (1759-96).
The Bookworms[249]
The big Ha'-Bible[298]
Burton, John Hill (1809-81).
A Sense of Humour[18]
A Course of Reading[134]
Definitions[235]
Burton, Robert (1577-1640).
An extraordinary Delight to study[26]
'Though they write contemptu gloriae'[51]
Every Man his Due[89]
Read the Scriptures[290]
To be chained with good Authors[356]
Bury, Richard de, Bishop of Durham (1281-1345).
The Desirable Tabernacle[13]
Books as Memorials[43]
Woman and Books[203]
Of Handling Books[239]
Deductions from Scripture[240]
Mammon and Books[273]
Butler, Joseph (1692-1752).
The Habit of Casual Reading[147]
Butler, Samuel (1612-80).
Superficial Readers[151]
Butler, Samuel (1835-1902).
Books in a New Light[330]
Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824).
A Lasting Link of Ages[52]
''Tis pleasant, sure'[95]
Love and the Library[198]
To Mr. Murray[268]
Calverley, Charles Stuart (1831-84).
Of Reading[135]
Campion, Thomas (1567?-1620).
The Writer to his Book[261]
Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881).
The Miraculous Art of Writing[42]
The Virtue of a True Book[52]
The Real Working Effective Church[109]
The True University of These Days[112]
A Very Priceless Thing[295]
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de (1547-1616).
'There is no Book so bad'[117]
The Burning of Don Quixote's Books[155]
Chandos, Lord. See Brydges.
Channing, William Ellery (1780-1842).
Books the True Levellers[19]
The Diffusion of Books and its Effect upon Culture[60]
Folly generated by Books[156]
Chaucer, Geoffrey (1340 ?-1400).
To Drive the Night Away[169]
Farewell to Books in Springtime[172]
The Oxford Scholar and his Books[216]
Chesterfield Earl of. See Stanhope.
Churchyard, Thomas (1520 ?-1604).
Books is Nurse to Truth[33]
Cobbett, William (1762-1835).
The Danger of Poets and Romances[86]
A Birth of Intellect[184]
Coleridge, Hartley (1796-1849).
Suitable Bindings[246]
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834).
Books as Fruitful Trees[129]
Reading to kill Time[153]
The Pilgrim's Progress[293]
Collier, Jeremy (1650-1726).
Of the Entertainment of Books[34]
Colton, Charles Caleb (1780 ?-1832).
'We should choose our Books'[6]
'There are many Books written'[120]
Readers and Writers[123]
Title-readers[154]
Books and Men[159]
Cook, Eliza (1818-89).
Old Story Books[177]
'Cornwall, Barry.' See Procter, B. W.
Cowley, Abraham (1618-67).
'May I a small house'[12]
Material for Poesy[295]
Pindaric Ode[360]
Cowper, William (1731-1800).
Books bad and good[81]
Swallowing the Husks[158]
'Twere well with most, if Books'[208]
An Ode to Mr. John Rouse (translated from Milton)[357]
Crabbe, George (1754-1832).
The Prouder Pleasures of the Mind[26]
The Old Bachelor's Books[21]
The Peasant's Library[317]
The Library[337]
Crashaw, Richard (1613 ?-49).
Upon the Book of St. Teresa[106]
On a Prayer-Book sent to Mrs. M. R.[200]
On George Herbert's The Temple, sent to a Gentlewoman[201]
Cross, Mary Ann. See Eliot.
Daniel, Samuel (1562-1619).
Immortality in Books[46]
O Blessed Letters[51]
To the Countess of Bedford[195]
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321).
Love's Purveyor[192]
Davenant, Sir William (1606-68).
Hidden Treasure[92]
Davies, Sir John (1569-1626).
What profits it[163]
Davy, Sir Humphry (1778-1829).
Permanence for Thought[41]
Dawson, George (1821-76).
The Consulting-room of a Wise Man[309]
The Reference Library[327]
Denham, Sir John (1615-69).
For wisdom, piety, delight, or use[33]
De Quincey, Thomas (1785-1859).
Instruction or Amusement[36]
The Distraction of Choice[61]
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall (1776-1847).
An Unworthy Professor[227]
A Bibliomaniac[228]
Book Illustrations and Nightmare[247]
Dickens, Charles (1812-70).
Early Reading[188]
What a Heart-breaking Shop[272]
Digby, Sir Kenelm (1603-65).
Reading in Bed[169]
Dillon, Wentworth, Earl of Roscommon (1633 ?-85).
'Choose an author as you choose a friend'[7]
Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-81).
'Lady Constance guanoed her mind'[88]
Biography preferred to History[99]
'The author who speaks about his own Books'[154]
D'Israeli, Isaac (1766-1848).
Golden volumes! richest treasures[226]
A Malady of weak Minds[227]
Accidents to Books[275]
Dodd, William (1729-77).
In Prison[15]
Donne, John (1573-1631).
Valediction to his Book[190]
The Library and the Grave[305]
Dovaston, John Freeman Milward (1782-1854).
The Cure for Bookworms[253]
Drayton, Michael (1563-1631).
Immortality in Song[56]
Translations from the Classics[100]
Drummond, William (1585-1649).
The Strange Quality of Books[47]
The Book of Nature[283]
Of Libraries: The Bodleian[355]
Dryden, John (1631-1700).
A Learned Plagiary[91]
Under Mr. Milton's Picture[106]
Dudley, Earl of. See Ward.
Dyer, George (1755-1841).
'Libraries are the wardrobes of literature'[306]
Ealwhine. See Alcuin.
Earle, John, Bishop of Salisbury (1601 ?-65).
'His Invention is no more'[94]
A Critic[114]
A Pretender to Learning[150]
An Antiquary[219]
'Eliot, George' (1819-80).
The Vocation[260]
'Wise books, For half the truths they hold'[287]
Of The Imitation of Christ[299]
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-82).
A Company of the Wisest and the Wittiest[6]
The Theory of Books[21]
The Book the Highest Delight[28]
The pleasure derived from Books[29]
Our Debt to a Book[29]
A Sort of Third Estate[74]
On Reading Translations[99]
Merit in Quotation[103]
The Need of a Guide to Books[111]
The Final Verdict upon Books[116]
'Talent alone cannot make a writer'[116]
Reading between Lines[122]
Rules for Reading[132]
A Diet of Books[133]
Erasmus, Desiderius (1466 ?-1536).
The Royal Road[123]
Faber, Frederick William (1814-63).
The English of the Bible[297]
A College Library[365]
Ferriar, John (1761-1815).
The Bibliomania[220]
Fielding, Henry (1707-54).
The filial piety of Books[118]
Fletcher, John (1579-1625).
The Library a Glorious Court[305]
Fletcher, Phineas (1582-1650).
Upon my Brother's Book[106]
Foster, John (1770-1843).
The Influence of Books[38]
Reflections in a Library[332]
Fuller, Thomas (1608-61).
The Multiplicity of Books[57]
Printers gain by bad Books[79]
'A commonplace Book contains many notions'[142]
Garnett, Richard (1835-1906).
Our master, Meleager[95]
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (1810-65).
Books for the Salon[304]
Gay, John (1685-1732).
The Elephant and the Bookseller[264]
On a Miscellany of Poems[265]
Gibbon, Edward (1737-94).
Abstracts of Books[138]
Early Reading[183]
Women's Want[210]
Gilfillan, George (1813-78).
The True Poem on the Library[335]
Gissing, George (1857-1903).
The Mood for Books[40]
The Scent of Books[310]
Glanvill, Joseph (1636-80).
'That silly vanity of impertinent citations'[102]
The Mote and the Beam[118]
Godwin, William (1756-1836).
The Depositary of everything honourable[15]
Bad Books and debauched Minds[83]
Goldsmith, Oliver (1728-74).
Sweet Unreproaching Companions[4]
The Reading of New Books[67]
Literary Hypocrisy[115]
'I love everything that is old'[269]
Greene, Robert (1558-92).
Books for Magic[288]
Hale, Sir Matthew (1609-76).
No Book like the Bible[293]
Hales, John (1584-1656).
The Method of reading profane History[136]
Hall, John (1627-56).
Men in their Nightgowns[98]
When to Read[164]
Hall, Joseph, Bishop of Exeter and Norwich (1574-1656).
How to spend our Days[125]
Reading and Meal Times[170]
On the Sight of a Great Library[331]
Hamilton, Sir William (1788-1856).
Underscoring[140]
Hare, Augustus William (1792-1834), and Julius Charles Hare (1795-1855).
In the Seat of the Scorner[115]
Books of One Thought[121]
Purple Patches[122]
Books that provoke Thought[131]
Desultory Reading[148]
Brains squashed by Books[156]
Harington, Sir John (1561-1612).
Against writers that carp[114]
Hazlitt, William (1778-1830).
The only Things that last for ever[49]
On Reading Old Books[69]
On Reading New Books[71]
The best Books the commonest[182]
The visionary Gleam[189]
The enviable Bookworm[228]
Ears nailed to Books[229]
Helps, Sir Arthur (1813-75).
Biography[99]
Thoughts in a Library[334]
Hemans, Felicia Dorothea (1793-1835).
To a Family Bible[294]
Herbert, George (1593-1633).
The Parson's Accessory Knowledge[140]
Herrick, Robert (1591-1674).
To His Book[45]
'Thou art a plant.'
'Make haste away.'
'If hap it must.'
'The bound, almost.'
'Go thou forth.'
His Prayer for Absolution[77]
Virginibus Puerisque[84]
Lines have their linings, and Books their buckram[242]
Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871).
A Taste to be Prayed For[27]
Novels as Engines of Civilization[87]
Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679).
'If I had read as much as other men'[158]
Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-94).
Old and New Books[74]
Presentation Copies[98]
'The foolishest Book'[118]
The Literary Harem[233]
Purchasing an Act of Piety[258]
The Study[307]
The Library as a Key to Character[309]
'Every library should try to be complete'[318]
Hood, Thomas (1799-1845).
Rich Fare[29]
Howell, James (1594?-1666).
The Choice of Books[125]
Marriage and Books[198]
The Value of Book Borrowing[275]
Hunt, James Henry Leigh (1784-1859).
On Parting with my Books[9]
Love that is large[16]
Authors as Lovers of Books[20]
The Authors' Metamorphosis[50]
A Library of One[62]
A Literatura Hilaris[167]
Early Reading[187]
Kissing a Folio[233]
Delight in Book-Prints[248]
The Second-hand Catalogue[256]
Borrowing and Lending[278]
Wedded to Books[278]
The Book of Books[294]
Literary Geography[300]
Scotland[300]
England[301]
Ireland[302]
The Library as Study[305]
Charles Lamb's Library[323]
Irving, Washington (1783-1859).
True Friends that Cheer[9]
Jago, Richard (1715-81).
To a Lady furnishing her Library[212]
Jefferies, Richard (1848-87).
When Translations are to be preferred[101]
In the British Museum Library[328]
Jerrold, Douglas William (1803-57).
'A blessed companion is a Book'[12]
Johnson, Lionel (1869-1902).
Oxford Nights[366]
Johnson, Samuel (1709-84). See also Boswell.
Why Books are Read[37]
An ignorant Age hath many Books[60]
The Moons of Literature[67]
Books of Morality[108]
The Secret Influence of Books[109]
Dead Counsellors are safest[109]
Reading According to Inclination[128]
Marginal Notes and Commonplace Books[143]
Getting a Boy forward[181]
At Large in the Library[181]
Early Reading[183]
Jonson, Ben (1573 ?-1637).
To Sir Henry Goodyer[10]
To my Book[76]
Book-makers and Plagiarists[91]
To George Chapman[101]
What Shakespeare hath left us[103]
On the Portrait of Shakespeare[105]
The first Authors for Youth[180]
To my Bookseller[261]
Keats, John (1795-1821).
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer[100]
King, William (1663-1712).
A Moth[252]
A Modern Library[311]
Kingsley, Charles (1819-75).
Useful and Mighty Things[25]
Liberty and Bad Books[83]
Lamb, Charles (1775-1834).
Grace before Books[1]
A Catholic Taste in Books[17]
A Whimsical Surprise[84]
Books with One Idea in Them[121]
When and Where to Read[130]
Proof of good Matter[170]
Out-of-doors Reading[171]
Discrimination in Bindings[244]
The Treasure[254]
The Readers at the Bookstall[255]
To the Editor of The Everyday Book[269]
The Poor Student[274]
Borrowers of Books[276]
The Bodleians of Oxford[364]
Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864).
To Wordsworth[21]
'Well I remember how you smiled'[57]
The Dead alone Canonized[66]
The Classics[67]
To Leigh Hunt[95]
Small Authors Dangerous[131]
Old-Fashioned Verse[186]
Sent with Poems[202]
Safe and untouched[312]
Law, William (1686-1761).
Classicus[66]
Poetry and Piety[209]
Leighton, Robert (1822-69).
The Libraries of Heaven[49]
Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818).
In Paternoster Row[263]
Locke, John (1632-1704).
Chewing the Cud[126]
A new Method of a Commonplace Book[141]
Lockhart, John Gibson (1794-1854).
The Bible and Burns[298]
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-82).
My Books[10]
'The sweet serenity'[20]
Bayard Taylor[234]
The Wind over the Chimney[286]
Lowe, Robert, Lord Sherbrooke (1811-92).
Remunerative Reading [39]
Lowell, James Russell (1819-91).
Security in Old Books[75]
Literature for Desolate Islands[303]
Lyly, John (1554 ?-1606).
Fashion in Books[43]
'Far more seemly were it'[304]
Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Baron (1803-73).
The Souls of Books[22]
The Classics always Modern[68]
The Bee and the Butterfly[143]
The Pharmacy of Books[165]
The Library an Heraclea[329]
M., J. (fl. 1627).
On the Library at Cambridge[368]
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Lord (1800-59).
Action and Reaction[53]
The Value of Modern Books[73]
Original Editions[96]
The Critics' Influence on the Public[117]
Classical Education for Women[207]
'I would rather be a poor man'[232]
Maccreery, John (1768-1832).
Bookbindings[243]
Maginn, William (1793-1842).
The Booksellers' Banquet[271]
Mallet, David (1705 ?-65).
The Reading Coxcomb[152]
Maurice, Frederick Denison (1805-72).
The Ultimate Test of Books[53]
The Message of Books[161]
Milton, John (1608-74).
Books are not dead things[47]
'To the pure all things are pure'[83]
Plagiarie[90]
Shakespeare's livelong Monument[105]
'Deep-versed in Books and shallow in himself'[157]
Tetrachordon[256]
An Ode to Mr. John Rouse (translated by Cowper)[357]
Mitford, Mary Russell (1787-1855).
That invention of the enemy—an Abridgement[96]
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (1689-1762).
A cheap and lasting Pleasure[204]
Montaigne, Michael Eyquem de (1533-92).
John Florio's Translation—
The Commodity Reaped of Books[32]
Coats for Mackerel[44]
Transplantation[90]
Inductive Criticism[122]
'There's more ado to interpret interpretation'[122]
Bescribbling with Notes[139]
Skipping Wit[144]
Books an Enemy to Health[163]
Early Reading[182]
Letter-Ferrets[218]
The Author's Library[319]
Moore, Thomas (1779-1852).
'My only Books'[196]
A Counter Attraction[199]
More, Hannah (1745-1833).
A Daughter's Favourite Novels[86]
Literary Cookery[92]
More, Sir Thomas (1478-1535).
Of a New-married Student[198]
Norris, John (1657-1711).
'Reading without thinking'[142]
Norton, Caroline Elizabeth Sarah (Lady Stirling-Maxwell) (1808-77).
To my Books[8]
Norton, John Bruce (1815-83).
Merton Library[365]
Oldham, John (1653-83).
To Cosmelia[199]
Orford, Earl of. See Walpole.
Overbury, Sir Thomas (1581-1613).
Man's Prerogative[13]
Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718).
The Bookworm[250]
Parrot, Henry (fl. 1600-26).
Ad Bibliopolam[262]
Pattison, Mark (1813-84).
The Manufactory of Books[92]
Payn, James (1830-98).
The Blessed Chloroform of the Mind[168]
Peacham, Henry (1576 ?-1643 ?).
A Bookish Ambition[149]
Care as to Bindings[241]
Peacock, Thomas Love (1785-1866).
The Outside of a Book[247]
Percy, Thomas, Bishop of Dromore (1729-1811).
Why Books were Invented[37]
Petrarch (Petrarca) Francesco (1304-74).
The Delightful Society of Books[1]
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744).
Style v. Sense[114]
Where Fools Rush In[115]
Homer and Virgil[127]
Lintott's New Miscellany[267]
Cibber's Library[313]
Praed, Winthrop Mackworth (1802-39).
To Helen: written in Keble's Christian Year[201]
Prideaux, Peter (1578-1650).
On the Death of Sir Thomas Bodley[356]
Procter, Adelaide Anne (1825-64).
A Student[238]
Procter, Bryan Waller (Barry Cornwall) (1787-1874).
My Books[8]
Quarles, Francis (1572-1644).
On Buying the Bible[291]
Rabelais, François (1483-1553).
By Divine Inspiration[41]
Writing at Meal Times[171]
Richardson, Samuel (1689-1761).
Advice to Mothers[181]
Robertson, Frederick William (1816-53).
Books instead of Stimulants[165]
Rochester, Earl of. See Wilmot.
Roscoe, William Caldwell (1823-59).
To my Books on Parting with Them[9]
Roscommon, Earl of. See Dillon.
Ruskin, John (1819-1900).
Books of the Hour and of all Time[54]
Taste in Literature and Art[117]
Reading and Illiteracy[159]
Girls' Reading[208]
The Most Valuable Book[254]
National Expenditure on Books[274]
Libraries for Every City[326]
St. Albans, Viscount. See Bacon.
Saxe, John Godfrey (1816-87).
The Library[354]
Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832).
Appetite and Satiety[147]
The Ghost of Betty Barnes[203]
The Antiquary's Treasures[231]
The Bannatyne Club[270]
Dominie Sampson in the Library[315]
Selden, John (1584-1654).
'It is good to have translations'[100]
Quotation[102]
Censorship[119]
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616).
'Who will believe my verse'[55]
'Study is like the heaven's glorious sun'[159]
'How well he's read'[162]
Books and Eyesight[164]
Reading for Love's Sake[189]
The Book of the Brain[191]
Books as Spokesmen[194]
Women's eyes[196]
'Marriage! my years are young'[198]
'The state, whereon I studied'[215]
Dainties that are Bred of a Book[219]
'Is not the leaf turned down'[240]
Gold Clasps and a Golden Story[242]
Nobler than Contents[242]
'Hark you, sir; I'll have them very fairly bound'[243]
'In Nature's infinite Book'[283]
The Secret of Strength[288]
Red Letters and Conjuring[289]
'Come, and take choice'[306]
'Of his gentleness, Knowing I loved my Books'[310]
'Me, poor man,—my library'[316]
Sheffield, John, Duke of Buckingham (1648-1721).
The Sufficiency of Homer[127]
Sherbrooke, Viscount. See Lowe.
Sheridan, Caroline Elizabeth Sarah. See Norton.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816).
'Steal! to be sure they will'[91]
Lydia Languish and the Circulating Library[213]
A neat Rivulet of Text[249]
Sheridan, Thomas (1687-1738).
Our Best Acquaintance[11]
Shirley, James (1596-1666).
Sweet and Happy Hours[26]
A Book of Flesh and Blood[196]
Skelton, John (1460 ?-1529).
An Edition de luxe[241]
Smith, Alexander (1830-67).
The True Elysian Fields[11]
Power and Gladness[32]
Smith, Sydney (1771-1845).
A Short Cut to Fame[154]
'No furniture so charming as Books'[264]
South, Robert (1634-1716).
'He who has published an injurious Book'[80]
A little Book the most excellent[120]
'Much reading is like much eating'[158]
Southey, Robert (1774-1843).
My days among the Dead are passed[4]
A Heavenly Delight[5]
The Best of all Possible Company[5]
More than Meat, Drink, and Clothing[28]
A Library of Twelve[62]
Reading several Books at a time[130]
Homo Unius Libri[292]
A Colloquy in a Library[320]
Spenser, Edmund (1552 ?-99).
One day I wrote her name[56]
To his Book: of his Lady[195]
Stanhope, Philip Dormer, Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773).
A Consolation for the Deaf[4]
Books and the World[180]
The last Editions the best[235]
'Tis folly to be wise[246]
Genteel Ornaments[273]
Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729).
Exercise for the Mind[37]
Stephen, Sir James (1789-1859).
Poets as Commentators[136]
Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768).
The Company of Mutes[3]
Mr. Shandy's Library[314]
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894).
Picture-Books in Winter[174]
Stirling-Maxwell, Lady. See Norton.
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745).
The Battle of the Books[63]
Recipe for an Anthology[94]
Cupid and the Book of Poems[194]
A Standard for Language[296]
'I have sometimes heard'[303]
Sylvester, Josuah (1563-1618).
Surcloying the Stomach[156]
Symonds, John Addington (1840-93).
[Greek: hupothêkê eis emauton]('Back to thy books!')[197]
Taylor, John (1580-1653).
Books and Thieves[77]
To the Good or Bad Reader[150]
Fast and Loose[289]
On Coryat's Crudities[302]
Temple, Sir William (1628-99).
The Multiplication of Originals[59]
Ancient and Modern Books[63]
Books as Signposts[110]
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809-92).
Poets and their Bibliographies[98]
Merlin's Book[289]
Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-63).
Novels are Sweets[89]
'There are no race of people who talk about Books'[153]
A Kindly Tie[187]
Thomson, James (1700-48).
The Mighty Dead[161]
Thomson, Richard (1794-1865).
The Book of Life[284]
Tickle, Thomas (1686-1740).
The Hornbook[175]
Tooke, John Horne (1736-1812).
Read Few Books well[129]
Trapp, Joseph (1679-1747).
Oxford and Cambridge: an Epigram[113]
Trench, Richard Chevenix, Archbishop of Dublin (1807-86).
Books and Life[160]
Tupper, Martin Farquhar (1810-89).
Books and Friends[12]
Turner, Charles Tennyson (1808-79).
On Certain Books[82]
Vaughan, Henry (1622-95).
To his Books[13]
The Book[284]
To the Holy Bible[290]
On Sir Thomas Bodley's Library[362]
Vere, Sir Aubrey de (1788-1846).
Sacred and Profane Writers[296]
Verulam, Lord. See Bacon.
Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de (1694-1778).
Multiplication is Vexation[59]
The Seat of Authority[107]
Waller, Sir William (1597 ?-1668).
The Contentment I have in my Books[2]
Riding Post[146]
Full Libraries and Empty Heads[149]
Walpole, Horatio, Earl of Orford (1717-97).
Lounging Books[169]
Literary Upholsterers[264]
Ward, John William, Earl of Dudley (1781-1833).
A Preference for Great Models[72]
Watts, Isaac (1674-1748).
Books to be Marked[139]
Wesley, John (1703-91).
'I read only the Bible'[291]
A Man of one Book[292]
Whitelocke, Bulstrode (1605-75).
The Soul's Viaticum[368]
Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-92).
A Magnate in the Realm of Books[7]
The Library[326]
Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester (1647-80).
'Books bear him up awhile'[39]
Wilson, John (d. 1889).
O for a Booke[171]
Wither, George (1588-1667).
Mountebank Authors[78]
'Good God! how many dungboats'[94]
In bondage to the Bookseller[262]
Wordsworth, William (1770-1850).
Books a substantial World [21]
The Tables Turned[172]
Early Reading[184]
Young, Edward (1683-1765).
How Volumes Swell[93]
An ignorant Book-collector[219]
Notes[369]
Index of Authors mentioned in the Text and in the Notes[400]

GRACE BEFORE BOOKS

I own that I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner. I want a form for setting out upon a pleasant walk, for a moonlight ramble, for a friendly meeting, or a solved problem. Why have we none for books, those spiritual repasts—a grace before Milton—a grace before Shakespeare—a devotional exercise proper to be said before reading the Fairy Queen?—but, the received ritual having prescribed these forms to the solitary ceremony of manducation, I shall confine my observations to the experience which I have had of the grace, properly so called; commending my new scheme for extension to a niche in the grand philosophical, poetical, and perchance in part heretical liturgy, now compiling by my friend Homo Humanus, for the use of a certain snug congregation of Utopian Rabelaesian Christians, no matter where assembled.—C. Lamb. Grace before Meat.

THE DELIGHTFUL SOCIETY OF BOOKS

These friends of mine regard the pleasures of the world as the supreme good; they do not comprehend that it is possible to renounce these pleasures. They are ignorant of my resources. I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command. They come at my call, and return when I desire them: they are never out of humour, and they answer all my questions with readiness. Some present in review before me the events of past ages; others reveal to me the secrets of Nature: these teach me how to live, and those how to die: these dispel my melancholy by their mirth, and amuse me by their sallies of wit: and some there are who prepare my soul to suffer everything, to desire nothing, and to become thoroughly acquainted with itself. In a word, they open a door to all the arts and sciences. As a reward for such great services, they require only a corner of my little house, where they may be safely sheltered from the depredations of their enemies. In fine, I carry them with me into the fields, the silence of which suits them better than the business and tumults of cities.—Petrarch. Life by S. Dodson.

THE CONTENTMENT I HAVE IN MY BOOKS

Here is the best solitary company in the world: and in this particular chiefly excelling any other, that in my study I am sure to converse with none but wise men; but abroad it is impossible for me to avoid the society of fools. What an advantage have I by this good fellowship that, besides the help which I receive from hence, in reference to my life after this life, I can enjoy the life of so many ages before I lived!—that I can be acquainted with the passages of three or four thousand years ago, as if they were the weekly occurrences! Here, without travelling so far as Endor, I can call up the ablest spirits of those times; the learnedest philosophers, the wisest counsellors, the greatest generals, and make them serviceable to me. I can make bold with the best jewels they have in their treasury, with the same freedom that the Israelites borrowed of the Egyptians, and, without suspicion of felony, make use of them as mine own. I can here, without trespassing, go into their vineyards, and not only eat my fill of their grapes for my pleasure, but put up as much as I will in my vessel, and store it up for my profit and advantage.

How doth this prospect at once set off the goodness of God to me, and discover mine own weakness? His goodness in providing these helps for the improvement of mine understanding; and my weakness in needing them. What a pitiful, simple creature am I, that cannot live to any purpose, without the help of so many other men's brains! Lord, let this be the first lesson that I learn from these silent counsellors, to know my own ignorance: other knowledge puffeth up, this edifieth.—Sir W. Waller. Divine Meditations.