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" IN anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the perusal, our mind filled with the busiest, kaleidoscopic dance of... "
The South Atlantic Quarterly - Page 189
edited by - 1906
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Longman's Magazine, Volume 1

1883 - 708 pages
...the process J_ itself should be absorbing and voluptuous ; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the perusal, our mind...thenceforward in our ears like the noise of breakers, or the story, if it be a story, repeat itself in a thousand coloured pictures to the eye. It was for...
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Longman's Magazine, Volume 1

1883 - 736 pages
...reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the perusal, our mind...thenceforward in our ears like the noise of breakers, or the story, if it be a story, repeat itself in a thousand coloured pictures to the eye. It was for...
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Choice Literature: A Monthly Magazine, Volumes 1-2

1883 - 856 pages
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Talks on Writing English

Arlo Bates - 1896 - 342 pages
...; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the perusal, our minds filled with the busiest, kaleidoscopic dance of images, incapable of sleep or continuous thought. The intoxication of the ideal which this gives us is so full of suggestion, it...
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Talks on Writing English

Arlo Bates - 1896 - 342 pages
...; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the perusal, our minds filled with the busiest, kaleidoscopic dance of images, incapable of sleep or continuous thought. The intoxication of the ideal which this gives us is so full of suggestion, it...
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Talks on Writing English, Volume 1

Arlo Bates - 1896 - 354 pages
...; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the perusal, our minds filled with the busiest, kaleidoscopic dance of images, incapable of sleep or continuous thought. The intoxication of the ideal which this gives us is so full of suggestion, it...
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The Pocket R.L.S.: Being Favourite Passages from the Works of Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1906 - 238 pages
...the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous ; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the perusal, our mind...continuous thought. The words, if the book be eloquent, sliould run thenceforward in our ears like the noise ol breakers, and the story, if it be a stury,...
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The Bookman, Volume 22

1906 - 728 pages
...authority, "the process should be absorbing and voluptuous ; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the perusal, our mind...images, incapable of sleep or of continuous thought." That is a very exact description of a mental state that many will probably experience on reading The...
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The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 6

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1906 - 502 pages
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The Master of Ballantrae

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1913 - 328 pages
...that faith in the moving power of fiction. "We should gloat over a book," he says, "be wrapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the perusal, our mind...images, incapable of sleep or of continuous thought." In the same essay, entitled "A Gossip on Romance," he exclaims passionately, " Give me a highwayman...
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