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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537518" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Manual, More Ancient Than The Art Of Printing, And Not To Be Found In Any Catalogue</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is a book, which we may call<br>(Its excellence is such)<br>Alone a library, though small;<br>The ladies thumb it much.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Words none, things numerous it contains:<br>And thing with words compared,<br>Who needs be told, that has his brains,<br>Which merits most regard?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ofttimes its leaves of scarlet hue<br>A golden edging boast;<br>And open’d, it displays to view<br>Twelve pages at the most.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nor name, nor title, stamp’d behind,<br>Adorns its outer part;<br>But all within ‘tis richly lined,<br>A magazine of art.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The whitest hands that secret hoard<br>Oft visit: and the fair<br>Preserve it in their bosoms stored,<br>As with a miser’s care.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thence implements of every size,<br>And form’d for various use<br>(They need but to consult their eyes),<br>They readily produce.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The largest and the longest kind<br>Possess the foremost page;<br>A sort most needed by the blind,<br>Or nearly such, from age.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The full charged leaf which next ensues,<br>Presents in bright array<br>The smaller sort, which matrons use,<br>Not quite so blind as they.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The third, the fourth, the fifth supply<br>What their occasions ask,<br>Who with a more discerning eye<br>Perform a nicer task.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But still with regular decrease,<br>From size to size they fall,<br>In every leaf grow less and less;<br>The last are least of all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! what a fund of genius, pent<br>In narrow space is here!<br>This volume’s method and intent<br>How luminous and clear!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It leaves no reader at a loss<br>Or posed, whoever reads:<br>No commentator’s tedious gloss,<br>Nor even index needs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Search Bodley’s many thousands o’er!<br>No book is treasured there,<br>Nor yet in Granta’s numerous store,<br>That may with this compare.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No!—rival none in either host<br>Of this was ever seen,<br>Or, that contents could justly boast,<br>So brilliant and so keen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Cowper">William Cowper</a><div class=q>
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Alone a library, though small;
The ladies thumb it much.

Words none, things numerous it contains:
And thing with words compared,
Who needs be told, that has his brains,
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