"Annotation" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... large packet—all our letters of this year sent back again, directed in a strange hand, to "John Halifax, Esquire, Beechwood," with the annotation, "By ...
— John Halifax, Gentleman • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
... something like a consecutive story. Mr. Douglas speaks modestly of his editorial work. "I have done," he says, "little more than arrange the correspondence in chronological order, supplying where necessary a slight thread of continuity by annotation and illustration." It must be said that Mr. Douglas has done this exceedingly well. There is always a note where a note is wanted, and never where information would be superfluous. On the taste and judgment of his selection ...
— Adventures in Criticism • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... billet; memorandum, minute, record; remark, comment, annotation, commentary, scholium, gloss; mark, token, sign, feature, peculiarity; observation, notice; distinction, repute, celebrity, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming
... that conservative of conservatives, the music copyist, a patronizing annotation, "Quinten!" to which Gleason added "Gewiss!" A series of augmented triads, smoothly manipulated, was another curiosity ...
— Contemporary American Composers • Rupert Hughes
... whole of Dr. Field's learned annotation deserves to be carefully read and pondered. I speak of it especially in the shape in which it ...
— The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels • John Burgon
... to be pointed against the recent victories of Pompey, and to have provoked him to use his influence to get rid of the author. But this annotation of Cicero's poetry had not been Piso's only offence. He had been consul at the time of the exile, and had given vent, it may be remembered, to the witticism that the "saviour of Rome" might save the city a second time by his absence. Cicero ...
— Cicero - Ancient Classics for English Readers • Rev. W. Lucas Collins
... in question. In Mr. Jenkins's Life he will find that out of a solid volume of 496 pages exactly 212 are occupied with Borrow's association with the Peninsula and his work therein. To the enthusiast who desires to supplement The Bible in Spain with valuable annotation I cordially commend ...
— George Borrow and His Circle - Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of - Borrow And His Friends • Clement King Shorter
... electric light and, taking a bundle of papers from his inside pocket, began to pencil swift annotation. ...
— Out of the Ashes • Ethel Watts Mumford
... engraved by T. Cockson. Collation: A-K^8, unpaged. A 1 and 2 and K 8 blank. Epistle dedicatory to Charles I, signed Tho. May. Commendatory verses from Iohannes Sulpitius Verulanus. (Lat.) 'The Complaint of Calliope' in verse. Annotation at the end of each of the seven books. First edition. A later edition bears the date 1567 ...
— Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge • W. W. Greg
... to have the appearance of being occupied solely with his interests." The letter, like all the rest, being submitted to "the man" in question before being sent, was underlined by him at this paragraph and furnished with the following annotation: "but you must enlarge upon the passage which I have marked—say more, even if you are obliged to copy the letter, in order that we may see the nature of ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... An annotation concerning the trauailes of the sayd Baldwirie, taken out of Giraldus Cambrensis, in his Itinerarium Cambrise, lib, a. ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries - of the English Nation. v. 8 - Asia, Part I. • Richard Hakluyt
... on such occasions for my observation. On the whole, however, the assembly was pretty unanimous; and though it never assumed the dimensions of a "monster meeting," the fact that even so many people could be got together for such a purpose seemed to me sufficiently a sign of the times to deserve annotation in passing. ...
— Mystic London: - or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis • Charles Maurice Davies |
