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BACON An Advertisement Touching a
Holy War. Epistle Dedicatory.

Yon second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures which he dispenses. f.

LEIGH HUNT-On the Beneficence of
Book-stalls.

If I publish this poem for you, speaking as a trader, I shall be a considerable loser. Did I publish all I admire, out of sympathy with the author, I should be a ruined man. g. BULWER-LYTTON-My Novel. Bk. VI. Ch. XIV.

If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandize, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book.

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In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoön how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.

k. EMERSON-Society and Solitude. Art. Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief, And that is Sculpture. This vast ball, the Earth,

Was moulded out of clay, and baked in fire;
Men, women, and all animals that breathe
Are statues, and not paintings.
LONGFELLOW-Michael Angelo.

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* produced several new grins of his own invention, having been used to cut faces for many years together over his last.

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Ye tuneful cobblers! still your notes prolong,
Compose at once a slipper and a song;
So shall the fair your handiwork peruse,
Your sonnets sure shall please-perhaps your
shoes.

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What trade are you? Truly, sir, in respect of a fine workman, I am but, as you would say, a cobbler. Julius Cæsar. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 9.

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What trade art thou? answer me directly. A trade, sir, that, I hope, I may use with a safe conscience; which is, indeed. sir, a mender of bad soles.

p. Julius Cæsar. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 12.

Wherefore art not in thy shop to-day?

Why dost thou lead these men about the

streets?

Truly, sir, to wear out their shoes, to get myself into more work.

Boots.

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Julius Cæsar. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 31.

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