Books and Reading: Or, What Books Shall I Read and how Shall I Read Them?C. Scribner & Company, 1871 - 394 páginas |
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... single page . The savage watches the 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 ...
... single page . The savage watches the 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 ...
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... single individuals might startle and surprise him . A few pages in a single volume fall as it were by chance under the eye of a boy in his leisure hours . They fascinate and fix his attention ; they charm and hold his mind ; and the ...
... single individuals might startle and surprise him . A few pages in a single volume fall as it were by chance under the eye of a boy in his leisure hours . They fascinate and fix his attention ; they charm and hold his mind ; and the ...
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... single books make an im- pression less marked and decisive than formerly , so that a bad or inferior book may do less harm than it once did , it is also true that bad books and inferior books are far more common than they once were ...
... single books make an im- pression less marked and decisive than formerly , so that a bad or inferior book may do less harm than it once did , it is also true that bad books and inferior books are far more common than they once were ...
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... single mind . A partial catalogue with a critique upon each author , would be little better . All that can be accomplished is to furnish thoughts and principles which may awaken the mind to wise activity , and illustrate them by ...
... single mind . A partial catalogue with a critique upon each author , would be little better . All that can be accomplished is to furnish thoughts and principles which may awaken the mind to wise activity , and illustrate them by ...
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... single generation . The writer who gives himself to any of the untruths which are known as superficial , sensual , Satanic , godless , or unchristian , ordi- narily gains for himself either a brief notoriety or an unen- viable ...
... single generation . The writer who gives himself to any of the untruths which are known as superficial , sensual , Satanic , godless , or unchristian , ordi- narily gains for himself either a brief notoriety or an unen- viable ...
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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 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn 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 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 82 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out...
Página 51 - To mind the inside of a book is to entertain one's self with the forced product of another man's brain. Now I think a man of quality and breeding may be much amused with the natural sprouts of his own.
Página 52 - Wise men have said, are wearisome ; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what needs he elsewhere seek?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge ; As children gathering pebbles on the shore.
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 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. There's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
Página 247 - If the time should ever come when what is now called Science, thus familiarized to men, shall be ready to put on, as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the Poet .will lend his divine spirit to aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the Being thus produced, as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man.
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.
Página 378 - 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 bedew'd With tears of thoughtful gratitude.