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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... POETS . 240 CHAPTER XVII . THE CRITICISM AND HISTORY OF LITERATURE . 265 CHAPTER XVIII . THE CRITICISM OF ENGLISH LITERATURE . 285 CHAPTER XIX . BOOKS OF SCIENCE AND DUTY . 303 CHAPTER XX . RELIGIOUS BOOKS AND SUNDAY READING . 322 ...
... POETS . 240 CHAPTER XVII . THE CRITICISM AND HISTORY OF LITERATURE . 265 CHAPTER XVIII . THE CRITICISM OF ENGLISH LITERATURE . 285 CHAPTER XIX . BOOKS OF SCIENCE AND DUTY . 303 CHAPTER XX . RELIGIOUS BOOKS AND SUNDAY READING . 322 ...
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... poem before dinner . All the known books for children , two generations ago , were some half a score ; whereas , at present , new " juveniles " are prepared by the hundred a year , and the library of a child ten years old is very often ...
... poem before dinner . All the known books for children , two generations ago , were some half a score ; whereas , at present , new " juveniles " are prepared by the hundred a year , and the library of a child ten years old is very often ...
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... poem , or one novel , well , if it takes a year to despatch it at stolen inter- vals of time , than lazily to consume twelve hours of the day in a process which wastes the time , and , what is worse , wastes the intellect , the fancy ...
... poem , or one novel , well , if it takes a year to despatch it at stolen inter- vals of time , than lazily to consume twelve hours of the day in a process which wastes the time , and , what is worse , wastes the intellect , the fancy ...
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... poets and essay- ists and orators of the English tongue are still remembered and quoted by those who were present to ... poem from Cowper . How he came to be so successful and so intelligent a reader is ex- plained in his autobiography ...
... poets and essay- ists and orators of the English tongue are still remembered and quoted by those who were present to ... poem from Cowper . How he came to be so successful and so intelligent a reader is ex- plained in his autobiography ...
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... poetic melody , and that grows by what it feeds on . And the man must master , and not be mastered by , his in- creasing stock of knowledge and his treasured products of the imagination . He must exercise great and still greater energy ...
... poetic melody , and that grows by what it feeds on . And the man must master , and not be mastered by , his in- creasing stock of knowledge and his treasured products of the imagination . He must exercise great and still greater energy ...
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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.