garret-shelf

Updated: May 17, 2025

To read in such a hampered and limited way is not to read at all; and I go back, after the first fret and worry are over, to the little collection upon my garret-shelf, to greet again the old familiar pages. I leave the main army behind, "the lordly band of mighty folios," "the well-ordered ranks of the quartos," "the light octavos," and "humbler duodecimos," for

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859