Books and Reading: Or, What Books Shall I Read and how Shall I Read Them?C. Scribner's sons, 1881 - 434 pages |
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... INTEREST AND EFFECT , 37 CHAPTER V. THE RELATIONS OF THE READER TO HIS AUTHOR , 48 CHAPTER VI . THE INFLUENCE OF BOOKS AND READING ON THE OPINIONS AND PRINCIPLES , CHAPTER VII . THE MORAL INFLUENCE OF BOOKS AND READING - THE READ- ING ...
... INTEREST AND EFFECT , 37 CHAPTER V. THE RELATIONS OF THE READER TO HIS AUTHOR , 48 CHAPTER VI . THE INFLUENCE OF BOOKS AND READING ON THE OPINIONS AND PRINCIPLES , CHAPTER VII . THE MORAL INFLUENCE OF BOOKS AND READING - THE READ- ING ...
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... interest and authority ; for no man , on such a subject , would blindly yield himself to the direction of any single mind . A partial catalogue with a critique upon each author , would be little better . All that can be accomplished is ...
... interest and authority ; for no man , on such a subject , would blindly yield himself to the direction of any single mind . A partial catalogue with a critique upon each author , would be little better . All that can be accomplished is ...
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... given with a clear understanding of the character of what we propose to offer him , and with no extravagant expectations con- cerning its interest or its worth . 2 CHAPTER II . WHAT IS A BOOK ? AND WHAT CHAP . I. ] 17 Introductory .
... given with a clear understanding of the character of what we propose to offer him , and with no extravagant expectations con- cerning its interest or its worth . 2 CHAPTER II . WHAT IS A BOOK ? AND WHAT CHAP . I. ] 17 Introductory .
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... interest or require an interest , either direct or indirect , in the subject - matter which is read . Whatever awakens the interest will be certain to fix and hold the attention . The hired lad in the country who steals an hour from ...
... interest or require an interest , either direct or indirect , in the subject - matter which is read . Whatever awakens the interest will be certain to fix and hold the attention . The hired lad in the country who steals an hour from ...
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... and applying the acquisitions he has made , making them accompany his musings , feed his memory , animate his principles , and guide his life . CHAPTER IV . HOW TO READ WITH INTEREST AND EFFECT 36 [ CHAP . III . Books and Reading .
... and applying the acquisitions he has made , making them accompany his musings , feed his memory , animate his principles , and guide his life . CHAPTER IV . HOW TO READ WITH INTEREST AND EFFECT 36 [ CHAP . III . Books and Reading .
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Page 82 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out...
Page 360 - MY days among the Dead are past; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old: My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day.
Page 102 - There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Page 83 - So spake the cherub, and his grave rebuke Severe in youthful beauty, added grace Invincible: abashed the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely, saw, and pined His loss; but chiefly to find here observed His lustre visibly impaired; yet seemed 850 Undaunted. If I must contend...
Page 260 - Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances.
Page 86 - To die, to sleep; To sleep? perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
Page 229 - If the time should ever come when what is now called Science, thus familiarized to men, shall be ready to put on, as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the Poet .will lend his divine spirit to aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the Being thus produced, as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man.
Page 52 - Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge ; As children gathering pebbles on the shore.
Page 86 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die, to sleep...
Page 75 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.