"Not as ours the books of old -……" — Henry Austin Dobson
"Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore - Rows of type, and nothing more."
—
Henry Austin Dobson
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
12 Quotes by Henry Austin Dobson
Henry Austin Dobson has 12 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Love comes unseen; we only see it go.
-
All the seasons run their race In this quiet resting-place; Peach, and apricot, and fig Here will ripen, and grow…
-
All passes, Art alone Enduring stays to us; The Bust out-lasts the throne,-- The coin, Tiberius.
-
The ladies of St. James's! They're painted to the eyes; Their white is stays for ever, Their red it never…
-
In the School of Coquettes Madam Rose is a scholar,-O, they fish with all nets In the School of Coquettes!…
-
He is a Patron who looks down, / With careless eyes on men who drown; / But if they chance…
-
Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.
-
I intended an Ode, And it turned to a Sonnet.
-
Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till…
-
What ye have been ye still shall be, When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers!
-
Alas, time stays, we go.
See all 12 quotes by Henry Austin Dobson »
More Books Quotes
This quote is filed under Books Quotes,
one of 7,412 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
— Aristophanes
-
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to…
— Paul Auster
-
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is…
— Isaac Asimov
-
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,…
— Sean Astin
-
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.
— Margaret Atwood
-
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the…
— Margaret Atwood
-
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But…
— Margaret Atwood
-
I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed…
— Margaret Atwood
-
I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody…
— Margaret Atwood
-
If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a…
— Margaret Atwood
-
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
-
Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of…
— Norman Ralph Augustine
See all 7,412 Books Quotes »