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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... individuals might startle and surprise him . A few pages in a single volume fall as it were by chance under the eye of a boy in his leisure hours . They fascinate and fix his attention ; they charm and hold his mind ; and the result is ...
... individuals might startle and surprise him . A few pages in a single volume fall as it were by chance under the eye of a boy in his leisure hours . They fascinate and fix his attention ; they charm and hold his mind ; and the result is ...
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... individual wants . Students also , who are in a course of education at school or college , or who , having finished their course , would mark out for themselves a generous plan of private reading , are often greatly at a loss for the ...
... individual wants . Students also , who are in a course of education at school or college , or who , having finished their course , would mark out for themselves a generous plan of private reading , are often greatly at a loss for the ...
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... individual taste and the spontaneity of individual genius . Their motto in general is : " of all the sorts of VICE that prevail ADVICE is the most vexatious . " So far as read ng is concerned , it is , " In brief , sir , study what you ...
... individual taste and the spontaneity of individual genius . Their motto in general is : " of all the sorts of VICE that prevail ADVICE is the most vexatious . " So far as read ng is concerned , it is , " In brief , sir , study what you ...
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... individual tastes , elective affinities , do not necessarily exclude self - knowledge , self- criticism , or self - control . If the genius of a man lies in the development of the individual person that he is , his manhood lies in ...
... individual tastes , elective affinities , do not necessarily exclude self - knowledge , self- criticism , or self - control . If the genius of a man lies in the development of the individual person that he is , his manhood lies in ...
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... individual prejudices as well as of universal principles ? The pithy Tacitus , by a pungent epithet and antithetic phrase , does not more effectually damn some hero in crime to everlasting fame , than he im- presses you with a distinct ...
... individual prejudices as well as of universal principles ? The pithy Tacitus , by a pungent epithet and antithetic phrase , does not more effectually damn some hero in crime to everlasting fame , than he im- presses you with a distinct ...
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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.