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    tamed some marks of gold and rich workmanship . This proved to be a . manuscript of \ the EthiopifcsucfflIJilt ?) dfelu 8 j from which in the year 1534 , Obsopaeus printed at Basil the first edition of that elegant Greek romance . " *

    Methinks we see this tower , —doubtless in a garden , —the wi n dows looking upon it , and upon tfee vineyards which produced the Tokay that his

    majesty drank while reading , agreeably to the notions of his brother book-worm , the King of Arragon . The transcribers , and binders are at work in

    various apartments below ; midway is a bath , with an orangery ;—and up aloft , but not too high to be above the tops of the ti ^ ees , through which he looks over the vineyards towards his beloved Greece and

    Italy , / in a room tapestried with some i fair story of Atalanta or the Golden Fleece , sits the king in a chair-couch , his legs thrpwty ; up , and his face shaded

    fr < wj the $ un , reading one of tj \ # jp ^ ss&ges we are about to ext ^ pt fro m the romance of He } iQ 49 r il ?> "TrSome illumination W which casts up a light on Msiptianly beard , tinging

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    ing , and illuminating , and every day sending you up a fresh one to look at S

    f \ ; fVf & 10 & U * %$£ l : SS ^ y * ^ Dr l 5 il ? din s ^ ouM nave preexisted in those days , and been his chaplain , or his confessor . But we doubt whether he could have borne the bliss , i ^ Vide

    his ecstasies , passim , on the charms of vellums , and tall copies , and blind toolihg . ) Yet as confessor and patron , they would capitally have suited . The doctor should

    have continually absolved the king from the sin of thinking of his next box of books during sermon-time , or " looking ^ at the pictures" in his missal

    instead of reading it ; and the king should have been always bestowing benefices on thjB doctor , till the latter began to think he needed absolution himself .

    Not being aking of Hungary , nor rich , nor having a confessor to absolve us from sins of expenditure , how lucky is it that we can lake delight in books whose outsides are of

    the hoioelie ^ t description ^ How willing are we to ^ iijv ^ the grandeur of , outlay't $ 0 ^ contented to pay for some precious volume a shilunginst ^ ad , of two pounds ten ! jBJiiii we would , it we could : there is no doubt of tpat ; we should MVf ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦

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    Retrospective Review . ' 285

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1837, page 285, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1836/page/60/