The Choice of BooksHarper, 1886 - 120 pagina's |
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Pagina 10
... meaning , let us trust , no harm , and which at least found them in daily bread , -printed stuff which I and the rest of us , to our infinitely small profit , have consumed with our eyes , not even making an honest living of it , but ...
... meaning , let us trust , no harm , and which at least found them in daily bread , -printed stuff which I and the rest of us , to our infinitely small profit , have consumed with our eyes , not even making an honest living of it , but ...
Pagina 12
... mean , in the gross , which includes about equal parts of what is useful and what is useless ? Why are books as books , writers as writers , readers as readers , meri- torious , apart from any good in them , or anything that we can get ...
... mean , in the gross , which includes about equal parts of what is useful and what is useless ? Why are books as books , writers as writers , readers as readers , meri- torious , apart from any good in them , or anything that we can get ...
Pagina 18
... and drawbacks . In almost everything vast opportuni- ties and gigantic means of multiplying our prod- ucts bring with them new perils and troubles which are often at first neglected . Our huge cities 18 THE CHOICE OF BOOKS .
... and drawbacks . In almost everything vast opportuni- ties and gigantic means of multiplying our prod- ucts bring with them new perils and troubles which are often at first neglected . Our huge cities 18 THE CHOICE OF BOOKS .
Pagina 21
... mean , or what he saw or did not see , who married his great - aunt , and why Adam or Satan is like that or unlike the other . We read a perfect library about the Paradise Lost , but the Paradise Lost itself we do not read . I am not ...
... mean , or what he saw or did not see , who married his great - aunt , and why Adam or Satan is like that or unlike the other . We read a perfect library about the Paradise Lost , but the Paradise Lost itself we do not read . I am not ...
Pagina 24
... means of making money , rather than as a social duty , had multiplied books for the sake of the writers rather than for the sake of the readers ; that the reliance on books as a cheap and common resource had done much to weaken the ...
... means of making money , rather than as a social duty , had multiplied books for the sake of the writers rather than for the sake of the readers ; that the reliance on books as a cheap and common resource had done much to weaken the ...
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Pagina 60 - Christian knights; and now I dare say," said Sir Ector, "that Sir Launcelot, there thou liest, thou were never matched of none earthly knight's hands; and thou were the courtliest knight that ever bare shield; and thou were the truest friend to thy lover that ever bestrode horse; and thou were the truest lover, of a sinful man, that ever loved woman; and thou were the kindest man that ever...
Pagina 35 - Vita Nuova,' the 'Canterbury Tales,' Shakespeare's 'Sonnets,' and 'Lycidas' pall on a man; if he care not for Malory's ' Morte d'Arthur' and the ' Red Cross Knight'; if he thinks 'Crusoe' and the 'Vicar* books for the young; if he thrill not with the ' Ode to the West Wind' and the ' Ode to a Grecian Urn'; if he have no stomach for ' Christabel' or the lines written on 'The Wye above Tintern Abbey...
Pagina 29 - ... magic-lantern, — not for what they are in themselves, but solely to amuse and excite the world by showing how it can be done, — all this is to me so amazing, so heart-breaking, that I forbear now to treat it, as I cannot say all that I would. The Choice of Books is really the choice of our education, of a moral and intellectual ideal, of the whole duty of man.
Pagina 7 - What are the subjects, what are the class of books we are to read, in what order, with what connection, to what ultimate use or object? Even those who are resolved to read the better books are embarrassed by a field of choice practically boundless. The longest life, the greatest industry, joined to the most powerful memory, would not suffice to make us profit from a hundredth part of the world of books before us. If the great Newton said that he seemed to have been all his life gathering a few shells...
Pagina 116 - The great number of books and papers of amusement, which, of one kind or another, daily come in one's way, have in part occasioned, and most perfectly fall in with and humour, this idle way of reading and considering things. By this means, time, even in solitude, is happily got rid of, without the pain of attention: Neither is any part of it more put to the account of idleness, one can scarce forbear saying, is spent with less thought, than great part of...
Pagina 17 - But the very familiarity which their mighty fame has bred in us makes us indifferent ; we grow weary of what every one is supposed to have read ; and we take down something which looks a little eccentric, or some author on the mere ground that we never heard of him before.
Pagina 17 - ... products of human industry. In the shelves of those libraries which are our pride, libraries public or private, circulating or very stationary, are to be found those great books of the world rari nantes in gurgite vasto,1 those books which are truly " the precious life-blood of a masterspirit.