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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... live and die with a similar impression , and never cease to esteem a book as in some way endowed with a mysterious authority by the very fact that it is a book . This opinion is well expressed in the lines " " Tis pleasant , sure , to ...
... live and die with a similar impression , and never cease to esteem a book as in some way endowed with a mysterious authority by the very fact that it is a book . This opinion is well expressed in the lines " " Tis pleasant , sure , to ...
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... live and move about him - the men and women , or the spirits of heaven and hell , to which he gave being in his mind then , and which he re - creates in our minds now . The theme may be God and man's concerns with God : and we ...
... live and move about him - the men and women , or the spirits of heaven and hell , to which he gave being in his mind then , and which he re - creates in our minds now . The theme may be God and man's concerns with God : and we ...
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... live for amusement and play . Always have at least one iron in the fire , and kindle the fire at least once every day . 5. It is implied in the preceding , that we should read upon definite subjects , and with a certain method and ...
... live for amusement and play . Always have at least one iron in the fire , and kindle the fire at least once every day . 5. It is implied in the preceding , that we should read upon definite subjects , and with a certain method and ...
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... live at a distance from large public libraries , or because we would advise every one who may have access to such libraries , to read all these books and classes of books as a matter of course , but because we would illustrate how great ...
... live at a distance from large public libraries , or because we would advise every one who may have access to such libraries , to read all these books and classes of books as a matter of course , but because we would illustrate how great ...
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... lives . The more real genius he has , the more provoking is the effrontery of the author who believes in and practises any kind of philo- sophical or poetical trickery , and so much the more con- spicuous becomes the ridiculous plight ...
... lives . The more real genius he has , the more provoking is the effrontery of the author who believes in and practises any kind of philo- sophical or poetical trickery , and so much the more con- spicuous becomes the ridiculous plight ...
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Page 86 - No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Page 75 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
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.
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 86 - To die, to sleep : To sleep : perchance to dream : ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause...
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 83 - So spake the cherub, and his grave rebuke Severe in youthful beauty, added grace Invincible: abashed the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely, saw, and pined His loss; but chiefly to find here observed His lustre visibly impaired; yet seemed 850 Undaunted. If I must contend...
Page 378 - Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old: My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day. 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 bedewed With tears of thoughtful gratitude.
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.