Books and Reading: Or, What Books Shall I Read and how Shall I Read Them?C. Scribner & Company, 1871 - 378 pages |
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... express more or less of the personality of their authors ; and in reading them , we come in contact with living men . Good books , besides the value of what they contain and impart , have a positive worth in their effect on the ...
... express more or less of the personality of their authors ; and in reading them , we come in contact with living men . Good books , besides the value of what they contain and impart , have a positive worth in their effect on the ...
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... express emotion , and to set off these hues by varying contrasts of beauty and shading ; but when style is characterized by mere pomp and glitter , by artificial nicety or studied effect , it deserves the contempt of every person of ...
... express emotion , and to set off these hues by varying contrasts of beauty and shading ; but when style is characterized by mere pomp and glitter , by artificial nicety or studied effect , it deserves the contempt of every person of ...
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... express some individuality in their authors . We have also learned that that reading is ordinarily the most useful and invigorating which brings us most closely and con- sciously into contact with writers of marked and carnest ...
... express some individuality in their authors . We have also learned that that reading is ordinarily the most useful and invigorating which brings us most closely and con- sciously into contact with writers of marked and carnest ...
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... express more , of both æsthetic effect and moral truth , than scores of lines of Manfred's ambitious self - flagella- tions . No reader would care to change places with the one ; but there are many who sympathize with Manfred to the end ...
... express more , of both æsthetic effect and moral truth , than scores of lines of Manfred's ambitious self - flagella- tions . No reader would care to change places with the one ; but there are many who sympathize with Manfred to the end ...
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... express ; still the capacity of truly and adequately rendering the emo- tions of a Christian soul can scarcely be reached by him , if they do not awaken his believing sympathy . Goethe's delineation of the Confessions of a Beautiful ...
... express ; still the capacity of truly and adequately rendering the emo- tions of a Christian soul can scarcely be reached by him , if they do not awaken his believing sympathy . Goethe's delineation of the Confessions of a Beautiful ...
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Page 84 - Ye have the account Of my performance; what remains, ye Gods, But up and enter now into full bliss ? " So having said, a while he stood, expecting Their universal shout and high applause To fill his ear; when, contrary, he hears, On all sides, from innumerable tongues A dismal universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn.
Page 82 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out...
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 120 - There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Page 245 - He is the rock of defence for human nature; an upholder and preserver, carrying everywhere with him relationship and love. In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs: in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed; the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time.
Page 278 - 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 244 - Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.
Page 378 - My thoughts are with the Dead ; with them I live in long-past years, Their virtues love, their faults condemn, Partake their hopes and fears, And from their lessons seek and find Instruction with an humble mind.
Page 247 - 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.