In short, which our looks devour, which we leave off and take upĪgain, which allures us by the very reason that it does not engage ,us,Īn almost ideal short treatise, divided in as many chapters as theīudget of enjoyments of this life, an elegant book, partly a keep To serve as an entr'acte between two leisure hours, and not longĮnough to pin down the butterfly futtering in our brain a book, Some visitors one of those smart essays, irradiated by gay colours,Įxpelling from our eyes the monotonous black, just short enough They are more bored than usual, or when they are waiting for One of those repositories people open when they have the gout, when The Mirror of the World thinks he has produced one of thoseĪgreeable and unpretending works which Horace Walpole mentions, Unless he suffers from " false vision ” the aforesaid tinker of Road, and finally losing itself amidst sleepy depths, neath melan Over the pebbly soil, again rushing down at every winding of the Allowing himself to be smoothlyĭrifted along by his sensations, the unfortunate type-fancier, theĬompanion of Paul Avril, has meandered amidst the picturesqueĭrawings of the artist, as a gurgling and babbling brook - whatįénelonesque imagery !-forces its way through large bosky sitesĪnd dingles of infinite variety, now rattling in the merry sunlight Rivarol in these new perspectives of a work essentially created for Ing impressions, without thinking to speak like Vauvenargues or Slight character, but thickly tinged by the black or blue of his fleet Heavily laden with ornaments, certain thoughts of perhaps a rather He has, therefore, done his best to set in a sumptuous frame, Nacreous work ,as inconsistent and fugitive as all the soap bubbles The outbursts of an independent mind, a shadowy, irridescent, Logy, light and sparkling as paradoxical zigzags, or startling as The author's only inclination was to complete a work of poly Sourid of Oriental tales, and its shape does not affect the spherical pretensions of the universal omniscience that might be ascribed to it. Very modern make, facet cut, coquettishly polished as the Ainé- y It is a mere little looking -glass to hold in the hand, of Nor its reflection from the phengite of the catholic redeemers ofĪntiquity. With the eccentric catoptrics of your rigmarole of old books, andīorrows its splendour neither from the obsidian of bibliognosy, Visual rays of the public of Heliopolis, has nothing in common Mirror of the World, which is presented here to the admiring Prithee, gentlemen, calm your erudite ardour, and cease toĭrone over this book the litanies of your reflective memory. Printed in Westminster Abbey, by William Caxton, somewhere Without forgetting the most illustrious Myrrour of the World, theįirst beautiful work with engravings published in England, and Ulrich, and finally the Speculum triplex of Vincent of Beauvais, To light by the learned brother Johann, of the monastery of Saint Zamorensis, also the Speculum humanæ salvationis, brought again Tainly, we possess already the Speculum vitæ humanæ of Rodericus Our head a complete and brilliant " middle-agey ” bibliography,Īnd uselessly disturb the dust of the rarest incunabulas ? - Yes, cer Make your confession !-At the mere sight or mention of this title, The Mirror of the World, will you not pour on POLYMATHIC and particular readers, come hither. It, for the same reason that cockchafers do not know natural history. “ Most people living in this world do not know With One hundred and Sixty Fllustrations by paul Avril AUTHOR OF “ THE FAN, " “ SUNSHADE,” ETC.
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