Reading and the Mind: With Something to Read ...Benziger Bros., 1885 - 55 Seiten |
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Reading and the Mind: With Something to Read John Francis Xavier O'conor Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2008 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Addison admiration agery Agnosticism amid authors beauty Bryant Burke Byrant Cardinal Newman choose course of reading Dante dark divine Dublin Review English Literature Essays Eternal Faith Father feel GEORGETOWN COLLEGE give glory Greek thought happy Hefele heroes Hiawatha higher History Homer human immortal influence intellect Irving J. F. X. O'CONOR John Henry Newman John Ruskin judgment Keats language Library of Poetry literary lives Longfellow Lord Macaulay master Memoriam Minnehaha nature nearly an axiom noble thought Nokomis Novel reading Oriana Pantheism passive reading picture Plato Plutarch poems poet poet's poetic thought Poetry and Song Pope principles prose reader Religion Richard Grant White Shairp Shakespeare Sophocles sorrow soul spirit style sweet taste teaching Tennyson thee things Thou treasure true truth verse Virgil Wahonowin waste William Cullen Bryant words Wordsworth writer young mind
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 34 - Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Seite 26 - Up with me ! up with me into the clouds ! For thy song, Lark, is strong; Up with me, up with me into the clouds ! . . ..:. Singing, singing, With clouds and sky about thee ringing, Lift me, guide me till I find That spot which seems so to thy mind...
Seite 30 - I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.
Seite 27 - There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Seite 54 - Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee ; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men...
Seite 31 - She is not dead, the child of our affection, — But gone unto that school Where she no longer needs our poor protection, And Christ himself doth rule. In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion, By guardian angels led, Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives, whom we call dead.
Seite 31 - THERE is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there ! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair ! The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted...
Seite 26 - Joyous as morning, Thou art laughing and scorning ; Thou hast a nest for thy love and thy rest, And, though little troubled with sloth, Drunken Lark ! thou would'st be loth To be such a traveller as I. Happy, happy Liver, With a soul as strong as a mountain River Pouring out praise to the Almighty Giver...
Seite 18 - Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.
Seite 42 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.