The Choice of BooksHarper, 1886 - 120 pagina's |
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Pagina 10
... speak a word or two , as the Pil- grim did to Neighbor Pliable , upon the glories that await those who will pass through the narrow wicket - gate . On this , if one can find anything useful to say , it may be chiefly from the memory of ...
... speak a word or two , as the Pil- grim did to Neighbor Pliable , upon the glories that await those who will pass through the narrow wicket - gate . On this , if one can find anything useful to say , it may be chiefly from the memory of ...
Pagina 27
... speak and saw Aristotle and Archimedes pon- dering over a few worn rolls of crabbed manu- script . Until some new Gutemberg or Watt can invent a machine for magnifying the human mind , every fresh apparatus for multiplying its work is a ...
... speak and saw Aristotle and Archimedes pon- dering over a few worn rolls of crabbed manu- script . Until some new Gutemberg or Watt can invent a machine for magnifying the human mind , every fresh apparatus for multiplying its work is a ...
Pagina 29
... speak about books , let us avoid the extravagance of expecting too much from books , the pedant's habit of extolling books as synonymous with education . Books are no more education than laws are virtue ; and just as profligacy is easy ...
... speak about books , let us avoid the extravagance of expecting too much from books , the pedant's habit of extolling books as synonymous with education . Books are no more education than laws are virtue ; and just as profligacy is easy ...
Pagina 41
... speak of Homer , but fifty other great poets and creators of eternal beauty would serve my argument . What Homer is to epic , that is Eschy- lus to the tragic art - the first immortal type . In majesty and mass of pathos the Agamemnon ...
... speak of Homer , but fifty other great poets and creators of eternal beauty would serve my argument . What Homer is to epic , that is Eschy- lus to the tragic art - the first immortal type . In majesty and mass of pathos the Agamemnon ...
Pagina 80
... speak . All serious readers are sufficiently agreed . That Burns , Byron , Shelley , Keats , and Words- worth belong , each in his way and each in his degree , to the perpetual glories of our literature , is no longer open to doubt . No ...
... speak . All serious readers are sufficiently agreed . That Burns , Byron , Shelley , Keats , and Words- worth belong , each in his way and each in his degree , to the perpetual glories of our literature , is no longer open to doubt . No ...
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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.