Books and Reading: Or, What Books Shall I Read and how Shall I Read Them?C. Scribner & Company, 1871 - 378 Seiten |
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... clear understanding of the character of what we propose to offer him , and with no extravagant expectations con- cerning its interest or its worth . 2 CHAPTER II . WHAT IS A BOOK ? AND WHAT CHAP . I. ] 17 Introductory .
... clear understanding of the character of what we propose to offer him , and with no extravagant expectations con- cerning its interest or its worth . 2 CHAPTER II . WHAT IS A BOOK ? AND WHAT CHAP . I. ] 17 Introductory .
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... concerning some prominent personage whom they have seen or of whom they have heard , as some great lawyer , physician ... cerning what great interest , as of trade or commerce , tariff or business , of shipbuilding , or invention in art ...
... concerning some prominent personage whom they have seen or of whom they have heard , as some great lawyer , physician ... cerning what great interest , as of trade or commerce , tariff or business , of shipbuilding , or invention in art ...
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... cerning the external life of the tribes that once made these deserts blossom as the rose . But in these records we can neither find the people as they were , nor can we imagine how they felt and lived . We must go to Job to find the ...
... cerning the external life of the tribes that once made these deserts blossom as the rose . But in these records we can neither find the people as they were , nor can we imagine how they felt and lived . We must go to Job to find the ...
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admiration ancient attractive biography books and reading called cerning character Christ Christian Coleridge conscience criticism culture delight diction earnest elevated eloquence eminent emotions English language English literature Essays ethical evil exciting F. W. Newman facts faith favorite French Revolution furnish genius George Eliot George Grote give Goethe habits History of England History of Greece human illustrate imagery imagination impressions individual influence inspiration instructive intellectual intelligent interest J. J. Thomas judge judgment language less litera literary lives Matthew Arnold ment Milton mind modern moral nature newspaper novels opinions passions person personages Philosophy poem poet poetic poetry political principles reader reason refined respect Robert Southey rule Scott sense sentiments Shakspeare soul spirit story style sympathy taste Thomas Fowell Buxton thought and feeling tion tory treatises true truth ture verse volumes worth writer written
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Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 82 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out...
Seite 23 - OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 244 - Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.