Books and Reading: Or, What Books Shall I Read and how Shall I Read Them?C. Scribner & Company, 1871 - 378 páginas |
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... POETS . 240 CHAPTER XVII . THE CRITICISM AND HISTORY OF LITERATURE . 265 CHAPTER XVIII . THE CRITICISM OF ENGLISH LITERATURE . 285 CHAPTER XIX . BOOKS OF SCIENCE AND DUTY . 303 CHAPTER XX . RELIGIOUS BOOKS AND SUNDAY READING . 322 ...
... POETS . 240 CHAPTER XVII . THE CRITICISM AND HISTORY OF LITERATURE . 265 CHAPTER XVIII . THE CRITICISM OF ENGLISH LITERATURE . 285 CHAPTER XIX . BOOKS OF SCIENCE AND DUTY . 303 CHAPTER XX . RELIGIOUS BOOKS AND SUNDAY READING . 322 ...
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... poet reading a favorite author , and marvels at the mysterious influence that dilates his eye and kindles his cheek , and sends madness through his frame . He is astonished at the reader of fiction , looking upon what seems to him a ...
... poet reading a favorite author , and marvels at the mysterious influence that dilates his eye and kindles his cheek , and sends madness through his frame . He is astonished at the reader of fiction , looking upon what seems to him a ...
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... poet and the novelist their materials and their power . Ethical truth is but another name for imagination holding " the mirror up to nature , " i . e . , to nature in man , or human nature . Nature in man invariably prescribes ethical ...
... poet and the novelist their materials and their power . Ethical truth is but another name for imagination holding " the mirror up to nature , " i . e . , to nature in man , or human nature . Nature in man invariably prescribes ethical ...
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... poet , the dramatist , and the novelist may personate as many characters as they will , and put into the mouths of their fictitious personages the words most appropriate to the character of each - words seemingly very far removed from ...
... poet , the dramatist , and the novelist may personate as many characters as they will , and put into the mouths of their fictitious personages the words most appropriate to the character of each - words seemingly very far removed from ...
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... poet's own sorrow . Herein is seen the man , and hereby does the individual man assert his right over the impersonal genius . Scott and Shakspeare are the least personal and subjective , the most completely objective and dramatic of all ...
... poet's own sorrow . Herein is seen the man , and hereby does the individual man assert his right over the impersonal genius . Scott and Shakspeare are the least personal and subjective , the most completely objective and dramatic of all ...
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Books and Reading: Or, What Books Shall I Read and how Shall I Read Them? Noah Porter Visualização completa - 1881 |
Books and Reading: Or, What Books Shall I Read and how Shall I Read Them? Noah Porter Visualização completa - 1871 |
Books and Reading: Or, What Books Shall I Read and how Shall I Read Them? Noah Porter Visualização completa - 1881 |
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Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 82 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out...
Página 23 - OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 244 - Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.