Books and ReadingBaker & Taylor Company, 1908 - 381 páginas |
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Æschylus Anatomy of Melancholy ancient antiquity authors beautiful better called character CHARLES LAMB confess delight edition English Essays fancy feel folio friends genius give Greek hand hear heart Homer human imagination intellectual kind knowledge Lady learned leaves light literary literature living look matter ment Milton mind modern Montaigne moral nature ness never night noble novel old books OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES once paper pass perhaps persons perusal PHILIP GILBERT HAMERTON Pillow Book Plato pleasure Plutarch poet poetry printed reader romance Samuel Pepys scene scholar selection Shakespeare shelves sight soul speak spirit story talk taste things Thomas Bodley THOMAS CARLYLE thou thought Tibullus tion Tom Jones true truth turn volumes walk whole WILLIAM HAZLITT wisdom wise words writing written young
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Página 376 - The Body Of Benjamin Franklin, Printer, (Like the cover of an old book, Its contents torn out, And stript of its lettering and gilding,) Lies here, food for worms. But the work shall not be lost, For it will, as he believed, appear once more, In a new and more elegant edition, Revised and corrected By THE AUTHOR.
Página 273 - The mathematics and the metaphysics, Fall to them as you find your stomach serves you ; No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en : In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
Página 100 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors...
Página 68 - He is bound to say it, clearly and melodiously if he may; clearly, at all events. In the sum of his life he finds this to be the thing, or group of things, manifest to him; — this the piece of true knowledge, or sight, which his share of sunshine and earth has permitted him to seize. He would fain set it down...
Página 352 - Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.
Página 308 - How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones.
Página 347 - ... by indulging some peculiar habits of thought was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens.
Página 254 - I dream away my life in others' speculations. I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking I am reading ; I cannot sit and think. Books think for me.
Página 149 - All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been : it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books.
Página 33 - I wish the good old times would come again," said she, "when we were not quite so rich. I do not mean, that I want to be poor; but there was a middle state;" — so she was pleased to ramble on, — "in which I am sure we were a great deal happier. A purchase is but a purchase, now that you have money enough and to spare. Formerly it used to be a triumph. When we coveted a cheap luxury (and, O!