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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... true , as it may be , that single books make an im- pression less marked and decisive than formerly , so that a bad or inferior book may do less harm than it once did , it is also true that bad books and inferior books are far more ...
... true , as it may be , that single books make an im- pression less marked and decisive than formerly , so that a bad or inferior book may do less harm than it once did , it is also true that bad books and inferior books are far more ...
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... true character . " If anything would discourage us from prosecuting the plan of writing upon Books and Reading , it would be the perusal of this paper of well - meant truisms and well - worn commonplaces . It does not follow , however ...
... true character . " If anything would discourage us from prosecuting the plan of writing upon Books and Reading , it would be the perusal of this paper of well - meant truisms and well - worn commonplaces . It does not follow , however ...
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... true , but much more than this can be shown most satisfactorily . If the lessons of these facts teach anything , they teach that literature must respect ethical truth if it is to reach its highest achievements , or attain that place in ...
... true , but much more than this can be shown most satisfactorily . If the lessons of these facts teach anything , they teach that literature must respect ethical truth if it is to reach its highest achievements , or attain that place in ...
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... true , though they cannot see how . Very grave and Christian citizens -the stiff asserters of law and order - will read arguments that tend to the destruction of the family , with its sacred confidence and endearments — which would ...
... true , though they cannot see how . Very grave and Christian citizens -the stiff asserters of law and order - will read arguments that tend to the destruction of the family , with its sacred confidence and endearments — which would ...
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... true of no book what- ever , that its character and value are not greatly de- termined by the intellect and culture , the honor and honesty , of the man who made it . The traces of person- ality are also oftener to be discerned than we ...
... true of no book what- ever , that its character and value are not greatly de- termined by the intellect and culture , the honor and honesty , of the man who made it . The traces of person- ality are also oftener to be discerned than we ...
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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.