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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... suggest a counterpart in the inclosure which from his childhood onward he had known and feared as a place of worship . Its clustered pillars and lofty arches would bring to mind a well - remembered grove of old and stately trees ...
... suggest a counterpart in the inclosure which from his childhood onward he had known and feared as a place of worship . Its clustered pillars and lofty arches would bring to mind a well - remembered grove of old and stately trees ...
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... suggest its importance . BOOKS AND READING are the theme or rather the themes - on which it is proposed to offer a series of free and familiar thoughts , principally of a practical nature . The importance of the subject is not only ...
... suggest its importance . BOOKS AND READING are the theme or rather the themes - on which it is proposed to offer a series of free and familiar thoughts , principally of a practical nature . The importance of the subject is not only ...
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... suggest themselves as we proceed . But enough of this premising . We promise nothing , and yet we would attempt something . What we propose , if accomplished , will make these papers useful rather than exciting . They will be the ...
... suggest themselves as we proceed . But enough of this premising . We promise nothing , and yet we would attempt something . What we propose , if accomplished , will make these papers useful rather than exciting . They will be the ...
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... suggest the principles which we need to guide us as we judge of books and read them— and may help us distinguish the books which are books , from those which are only " things in books ' clothing , " as well as teach us how to make the ...
... suggest the principles which we need to guide us as we judge of books and read them— and may help us distinguish the books which are books , from those which are only " things in books ' clothing , " as well as teach us how to make the ...
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... suggests another rule , viz .: 6. We should be contented to read that which is suita- ble to our present development of thought and feeling , or in plainer language , to our age and progress . Everything is appropriate and beautiful in ...
... suggests another rule , viz .: 6. We should be contented to read that which is suita- ble to our present development of thought and feeling , or in plainer language , to our age and progress . Everything is appropriate and beautiful in ...
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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.