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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... delight , becomes the cheap and vapid representative of their empty minds , their heartless affections , and their frivolous characters . Besides the classes already named , there are heads of families who wish to form libraries ...
... delight , becomes the cheap and vapid representative of their empty minds , their heartless affections , and their frivolous characters . Besides the classes already named , there are heads of families who wish to form libraries ...
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... delight , to add power to the intellect , and to impart a grace and finish to the char- acter and life . We are not insensible to the perils which are incident to our attempt . Not a few have undertaken to answer the questions which we ...
... delight , to add power to the intellect , and to impart a grace and finish to the char- acter and life . We are not insensible to the perils which are incident to our attempt . Not a few have undertaken to answer the questions which we ...
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... delight . " There is truth and force in this position , we grant . No man can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure . If I do not myself find in a book something which I my- self am looking for , or am ready ...
... delight . " There is truth and force in this position , we grant . No man can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure . If I do not myself find in a book something which I my- self am looking for , or am ready ...
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... delightful . Let it be observed and remembered , that a book is al- ways written by a man , and that it is never by any magic or mystery any better than its author makes it to be . This author may be a wise man or a fool . He may be an ...
... delightful . Let it be observed and remembered , that a book is al- ways written by a man , and that it is never by any magic or mystery any better than its author makes it to be . This author may be a wise man or a fool . He may be an ...
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... delight- ful amusement , and perhaps his sweetest solace and com- fort in dark and bitter hours . 3. In reading , we do well to propose to ourselves defi- nite ends and purposes . The more distinctly we are aware of our own wants and ...
... delight- ful amusement , and perhaps his sweetest solace and com- fort in dark and bitter hours . 3. In reading , we do well to propose to ourselves defi- nite ends and purposes . The more distinctly we are aware of our own wants and ...
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Page 376 - With them I take delight in weal, And seek relief in woe; And while I understand and feel How much to them I owe, My cheeks have often been bedew'd With tears of thoughtful gratitude.
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 23 - OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker.
Page 52 - Wise men have said, are wearisome ; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what needs he elsewhere seek?) 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 22 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth : and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book : who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself — kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Page 276 - 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 242 - Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.
Page 75 - Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.
Page 83 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.