Lyra Apostolica

John Henry Newman, John Keble, and Richard Hurrell Froude

182 chapters · about 2 h

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The opening

i. FAMILY AFFECTION

FAMILY AFFECTION

HERE’ER I roam in this fair English land, The vision of a temple meets my eyes: Modest without; within, all glorious rise Its love-enclustered columns, and expand Their slender arms. Like olive plants they stand, Each answering each in home’s soft sympathies, Sisters and brothers. At the altar sighs Parental fondness, and with anxious hand Tenders its offering of young vows and prayers. The same and not the same, go where I will, The vision beams! ten thousand shrines, all one. Dear fertile soil! what foreign culture bears Such fruit? And I through distant climes may run My weary round, yet miss thy likeness still.

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  • Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 5 places
  • Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 17 places
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  • The printed table of contents (the app makes its own)
  • A preface, foreword or afterword
  • The index
  • The printer's imprint (“TURNBULL AND SPEARS, PRINTERS,”)
  • The library's label (“PR 1191 .L8 1901 SMC / Lyra apostol lea”) (2 blocks)
  • Scan speck (“•”) (2 blocks)
  • Scan speck (“c”)
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  • Scan speck (“i”) (2 blocks)
  • Scan speck (“H”)