The Choice of BooksHarper, 1886 - 120 pagina's |
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Pagina 8
... once looked at or heard of . Alas ! the most of our reading leaves as little mark even in our own education as the foam that gathers round the keel of a passing boat ! For myself , I am inclined to think the most useful help to reading ...
... once looked at or heard of . Alas ! the most of our reading leaves as little mark even in our own education as the foam that gathers round the keel of a passing boat ! For myself , I am inclined to think the most useful help to reading ...
Pagina 11
... once said : " From a habit of reading , do not mind what you read , the reading of better books will come when you have a habit of reading the inferior . " We need not accept this obiter dictum of Lord Sher- brooke . A habit of reading ...
... once said : " From a habit of reading , do not mind what you read , the reading of better books will come when you have a habit of reading the inferior . " We need not accept this obiter dictum of Lord Sher- brooke . A habit of reading ...
Pagina 25
... once done , could never be repeated . And no doubt the things which our ardent friend regarded as so fatal a disturbance of society were all inevitable and necessary , part of the great revolution of mind through which men grew out of ...
... once done , could never be repeated . And no doubt the things which our ardent friend regarded as so fatal a disturbance of society were all inevitable and necessary , part of the great revolution of mind through which men grew out of ...
Pagina 62
... once of poetry , of reflection , of manners , the nature of the race flinging itself forth into ex- pression in its own artless way before the canons of poetry were invented , or the race of critics * We have now in 6 vols , the new ...
... once of poetry , of reflection , of manners , the nature of the race flinging itself forth into ex- pression in its own artless way before the canons of poetry were invented , or the race of critics * We have now in 6 vols , the new ...
Pagina 66
... once hazarded the glorious paradox that Cary's Dante was better reading than Milton's Paradise Lost . Cary is useful for Dante , just as Conington is useful for Virgil ; but it can hardly be called poetry . The other verse translations ...
... once hazarded the glorious paradox that Cary's Dante was better reading than Milton's Paradise Lost . Cary is useful for Dante , just as Conington is useful for Virgil ; but it can hardly be called poetry . The other verse translations ...
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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.