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
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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