The Choice of BooksBlackwell's Book Services, 1896 - 34 pàgines |
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Pàgina 7 - Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books.
Pàgina 5 - But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think...
Pàgina 26 - It is a pretty long-winded book— but their patience was fully a match for the author's prolixity, and they fairly listened to it all. At length, when the happy turn of fortune arrived, which brings the hero and heroine together, and sets them living long and happily according to the most approved rules— the congregation were so delighted as to raise a great shout, and procuring the church keys, actually set the parish bells ringing.
Pàgina 31 - I saw a boy with eager eye Open a book upon a stall, And read, as he'd devour it all ; Which when the stall-man did espy, Soon to the boy I heard him call, " You Sir, you never buy a book, Therefore in one you shall not look.
Pàgina 9 - ... because the subject is so progressive. I feel that the attempt is over bold, and I must beg for indulgence, while hoping for criticism ; indeed one object which I have had in view is to stimulate others more competent far than I am to give us the advantage of their opinions. Moreover, I must repeat...
Pàgina 6 - Our ancestors had a difficulty in procuring them. Our difficulty now is what to select. We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure — not only lest we should even now fall into the error of the Greeks, and suppose that language and definitions can be instruments of investigation as well as of thought, but lest, as too often happens, we should waste time over trash.
Pàgina 23 - These are the masters who instruct us without rods and ferules, without hard words and anger, without clothes or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep ; if investigating you interrogate them, they conceal nothing ; if you mistake them, they never grumble ; if you are ignorant, they cannot laugh at you.
Pàgina 7 - If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its Ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
Pàgina 5 - From the old world's divine and distant date, From the sublimer few, Down to the poet who but yester-eve Sang sweet and made us grieve, All come, assembling here in order due. And here I dwell with Poesy, my mate, With Erato and all her vernal sighs, Great Clio with her victories elate, Or pale Urania's...
Pàgina 13 - which Lord Brougham pronounced the greatest oration of the greatest of orators; Lucretius; Plutarch's 'Lives'; Horace; and at least the «De Officiis,' ' De Amicitia,' and ' De Senectute,' of Cicero. The great epics of the world have always constituted one of the most popular branches of literature. Yet how few, comparatively, ever read Homer or Virgil after leaving school.