In Praise of Books: A Vade Mecum for Book-loversPerkins book Company, 1901 - 117 páginas |
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... charm- ing portraiture of ancient manners and discourse , and is as clear as the voice of a fife , and entertaining as a French novel . Xenophon's delineation of Athenian manners is an accessory to Plato , and supplies traits of ...
... charm- ing portraiture of ancient manners and discourse , and is as clear as the voice of a fife , and entertaining as a French novel . Xenophon's delineation of Athenian manners is an accessory to Plato , and supplies traits of ...
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... charming biography , says that " of the feelings which Macaulay entertained towards the great minds of bygone ages it is not for any one except himself to speak . He has told us how his debt to them was in- calculable ; how they guided ...
... charming biography , says that " of the feelings which Macaulay entertained towards the great minds of bygone ages it is not for any one except himself to speak . He has told us how his debt to them was in- calculable ; how they guided ...
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... charming little Book Lover's Enchiridion , in common with every lover of reading , I am greatly indebted , tells us that when a boy he was so delighted with White's 1 Macaulay . 2 Address , Liverpool College , 1873 . Natural History of ...
... charming little Book Lover's Enchiridion , in common with every lover of reading , I am greatly indebted , tells us that when a boy he was so delighted with White's 1 Macaulay . 2 Address , Liverpool College , 1873 . Natural History of ...
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... charm . This is , I believe , partly due to the very fact of their being brief . Many readers miss much of the pleasure of reading by forcing themselves to dwell too long continuously on one subject . In a long railway journey , for ...
... charm . This is , I believe , partly due to the very fact of their being brief . Many readers miss much of the pleasure of reading by forcing themselves to dwell too long continuously on one subject . In a long railway journey , for ...
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... charming language of their natal day , and by others in the modernizations of Dryden , of Pope , and Wordsworth . At this hour , one thousand eight hundred years since their creation , the Pagan tales of Ovid , never equaled on this ...
... charming language of their natal day , and by others in the modernizations of Dryden , of Pope , and Wordsworth . At this hour , one thousand eight hundred years since their creation , the Pagan tales of Ovid , never equaled on this ...
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amusement Analects of Confucius Aristophanes Aristotle Bacon beauty blessed BOOK-LOVERS bring century charming cheerful choicest comfort converse dæmons Dante dear delight Earl EMERSON English enjoy enjoyment entertainment feel FREDERIC HARRISON friends genius give greatest Greek habit happiness heart Homer Horace human hundred imagination intellectual ISAAC BARROW JEREMY COLLIER knowledge learning literature living Lord lover of books Macaulay master Milton mind Molière Montaigne nature never novel ourselves passion perhaps philosopher Plato pleasure Plutarch poem poetry poets Pope possess PRAISE OF BOOKS RALPH WALDO EMERSON reader rich RICHARD DE BURY sacred scholar Shakespeare shelves SIR JOHN LUBBOCK society Socrates solitude sorrow soul Spenser spirits sweet Synesius taste things THOMAS Thomas à Kempis thought thousand tion truth weary well-furnished library WILLIAM wisdom wise wisest wonder words Wordsworth worth writing
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Página 67 - 1770-1850. Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. Blessings be with them—and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves and nobler cares— The poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and
Página 62 - we have to do, is to know what books have treated of it. DAVID HUME, 1712-1776. I passed through the ordinary course of education with success, and was seized very early with a passion for literature, which has been the ruling passion of my life, and the great source of my enjoyments. OLIVER GOLDSMITH,
Página 96 - go and gossip with your house-maid, or your stableboy, when you may talk with queens and kings ; all the while this eternal court is open to you, with its society wide as the world, multitudinous as its days, the chosen, and the mighty, of every place and time ? Into that
Página 62 - the best after all. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. When we inquire into any subject, the first
Página 52 - 0 for a Booke and a shadie nooke, eyther in-a-doore or out; With the grene leaves whisp'ring overhede, or the Streete cryes all about. Where I maie Reade all at my ease, both of the Newe and Olde ; For a jollie goode Booke whereon to looke, is better to me than Golde. A SIXTEENTH
Página 90 - Tis then we get the right good from a book. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, B. 1809, D. 1894. I like books, I was born and bred among them, and have the easy feeling, when I get into their presence, that a stable-boy has among horses. When
Página 96 - may enter always ; in that you may take fellowship and rank according to your wish ; from that, once entered into it, you can never be outcast but by your own fault. If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. No book is worth anything which is not worth
Página 86 - Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west. When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor
Página 61 - viz., Three Hundred Pounds. JOSEPH ADDISON, 1672-1719. Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation. Knowledge of books in a man of business is a torch in the hands of one who is willing and able to show
Página 91 - The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading. But a great book that comes from a great thinker,—it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth, with beauty too. JOHN BRIGHT, B. 1811, D.