 | Eliza Lynn, Elizabeth Lynn Linton - 1879 - 400 oldal
...bibliomaniac. But you never call one a horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people ruining themselves by...the book-shelves of the United Kingdom, public and private, would fetch, as compared with the contents of its winecellars ? What position would its expenditure... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1879 - 442 oldal
...bibliomaniac. But you never call one a horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people ruining themselves by...the book-shelves of the United Kingdom, public and private, would fetch, as compared with the contents of its winecellars ? What position would its expenditure... | |
 | Benjamin Ward Richardson - 1879 - 430 oldal
...bibliomaniac. But you never call one a horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people ruining themselves by...the book-shelves of the United Kingdom, public and private, would fetch, as compared with the contents of its winecellars ? What position would its expenditure... | |
 | Charles Mills - 1879 - 440 oldal
...bibliomaniac. But you never call one a horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people ruining themselves by...the book-shelves of the United Kingdom, public and private, would fetch, as compared with the contents of its winecellars ? What position would its expenditure... | |
 | James Anson Farrer - 1879 - 400 oldal
...a horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of peotle ruining themselves by their books. Or, to go lower...the book-shelves of the United Kingdom, public and private, would fetch, as compared with the contents of its ,winecellars 1 What position would its expenditure... | |
 | James Payn - 1879 - 360 oldal
...a horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of peotle ruining themselves by their books. Or, to go lower...the book-shelves of the United Kingdom, public and private, would fetch, as compared with the contents of its winecellars ? What position would its expenditure... | |
 | William Wilkie Collins - 1879 - 318 oldal
...bibliomaniac. But you never call one a horse-maniac, th&ugA men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people ruining themselves by their books. Or, to go lower still, how much Jo you think the contents of t/ie book-shelves of the United Kingdom, pudlic and private, would fetch,... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - 1879 - 336 oldal
...bibliomaniac. But you never call anyone a horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people ruining themselves by their books." It is to be regretted that neither Ruskin nor Carlyle have given lists of the works which they recommend... | |
 | William Edward Armytage Axon - 1879 - 32 oldal
...bibliomaniac. But you never call anyone a horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people ruining themselves by their books." It is to be regretted that neither Ruskin nor Carlyle have given lists of the works which they recommend... | |
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If a man spends lavishly on his library, you call him mad - a bibliomaniac. But you never call any one a horsemaniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people ruining themselves by their books. 
