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Notes On Literature, Science, And Art.
his workmanship , but also for its accuracy ; an example ivhich printers of the present day would do well to imitate . " I am well aware that many illustrious men have flourished as printers , " Avrote Scribanius ; " I have known the Alduses from Italy—the Frobens from Germany—and the Stephenses from France ; but these are all eclipsed in the single name of PLANTIN ! If they were the stars of their own hemispheresyonPlantinare the sun—not of Antwerp
, , , , nor of Belgium only—but of the world . " High praise this , and like all true praise , well deserved . I 11 early life he was stabbed by mistake one night by some masqueraders at the Carnival , ancl after his recovering , on going one Friday to the market , he recognised in a shop the very costumes ivorn by the masqueraders ; found out who had hired them on the day he ivas stabbed , and wisely compounded with them for money Avith which to buy his first
printingpress . Afterwards , like Robert Stephens , he had some of his type cast in solid silver , to secure line impressions . In 1576—when our Shakspere was a boy of ten years—the celebrated De Thou paid him a visit , when he found that the wages of his workmen amounted to one hundred golden crowns ( £ 17 Is . 8 d . sterling ) a day . Besides the famous establishment at Antwerp , Christopher Plantin had also printing offices at Leyden and at Paris . He
died in 1589 , just after the birth of Hobbes , the philosopher ; of George Wither , the poet ; and of Spagnoletfco , the painter ; when the Marprelate controversy was at its height , ancl Shakspere ancl his fellows were protesting that their stage-plays had never brought in " matters of State and reli gion , unfit to be handled by them , or to be presented before lewd spectators . " Bose Cottage , Stokesley .
Two Pictures.
TWO PICTURES .
A N old farmhouse with meadows ivide , - £ * - Ancl sweet Avith clover on each side : A bright-eyed boy , who looks from out The door ivith Avoodbine wreathed about , And wishes this one thought all day t " Oh ! if I could but fly aAvay From this dull spot the world to see ,
How happy , happy , happy , HOAV happy should I be !" Amid the city ' s constant din , A man AVIIO round the world has been , Who ' mid the tumult and the throng-Is thinking , thinking all day long :
" Oh ! could I only tread once more The field-path to the farm-house door , The old green meadow could I see , How happy , happy , happy , HOAV happy should I be ! "
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Notes On Literature, Science, And Art.
his workmanship , but also for its accuracy ; an example ivhich printers of the present day would do well to imitate . " I am well aware that many illustrious men have flourished as printers , " Avrote Scribanius ; " I have known the Alduses from Italy—the Frobens from Germany—and the Stephenses from France ; but these are all eclipsed in the single name of PLANTIN ! If they were the stars of their own hemispheresyonPlantinare the sun—not of Antwerp
, , , , nor of Belgium only—but of the world . " High praise this , and like all true praise , well deserved . I 11 early life he was stabbed by mistake one night by some masqueraders at the Carnival , ancl after his recovering , on going one Friday to the market , he recognised in a shop the very costumes ivorn by the masqueraders ; found out who had hired them on the day he ivas stabbed , and wisely compounded with them for money Avith which to buy his first
printingpress . Afterwards , like Robert Stephens , he had some of his type cast in solid silver , to secure line impressions . In 1576—when our Shakspere was a boy of ten years—the celebrated De Thou paid him a visit , when he found that the wages of his workmen amounted to one hundred golden crowns ( £ 17 Is . 8 d . sterling ) a day . Besides the famous establishment at Antwerp , Christopher Plantin had also printing offices at Leyden and at Paris . He
died in 1589 , just after the birth of Hobbes , the philosopher ; of George Wither , the poet ; and of Spagnoletfco , the painter ; when the Marprelate controversy was at its height , ancl Shakspere ancl his fellows were protesting that their stage-plays had never brought in " matters of State and reli gion , unfit to be handled by them , or to be presented before lewd spectators . " Bose Cottage , Stokesley .
Two Pictures.
TWO PICTURES .
A N old farmhouse with meadows ivide , - £ * - Ancl sweet Avith clover on each side : A bright-eyed boy , who looks from out The door ivith Avoodbine wreathed about , And wishes this one thought all day t " Oh ! if I could but fly aAvay From this dull spot the world to see ,
How happy , happy , happy , HOAV happy should I be !" Amid the city ' s constant din , A man AVIIO round the world has been , Who ' mid the tumult and the throng-Is thinking , thinking all day long :
" Oh ! could I only tread once more The field-path to the farm-house door , The old green meadow could I see , How happy , happy , happy , HOAV happy should I be ! "