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... necessity of thinking . At such periods of sweet relaxation the lighter kind of
books are the best of companions , for they give of their PRELIMINARY ESSAY .
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... necessity of thinking . At such periods of sweet relaxation the lighter kind of
books are the best of companions , for they give of their PRELIMINARY ESSAY .
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They are always ready , always patient , always kind , generous , forbearing ,
sympathetic , and encouraging , whatever the subject , or whatever the branch of
knowledge and learning on which you ask for instruction . Books are universal ...
They are always ready , always patient , always kind , generous , forbearing ,
sympathetic , and encouraging , whatever the subject , or whatever the branch of
knowledge and learning on which you ask for instruction . Books are universal ...
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We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise against the living labours
of publick men , how we spill that season ' d Life of Man preserv ' d and stor ' d up
in Books ; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed ...
We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise against the living labours
of publick men , how we spill that season ' d Life of Man preserv ' d and stor ' d up
in Books ; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed ...
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To her kind lessons ( that excellent woman , Mrs . Catherine Porten , the true
mother of my mind as well as of my health ] , I ascribe my early and invincible
love of reading , which I would not exchange for the treasures of India . ( Memoirs
, p .
To her kind lessons ( that excellent woman , Mrs . Catherine Porten , the true
mother of my mind as well as of my health ] , I ascribe my early and invincible
love of reading , which I would not exchange for the treasures of India . ( Memoirs
, p .
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Seite 98 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Seite 62 - SINCE brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'er-sways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea Whose action is no stronger than a flower?
Seite 142 - Homer ruled as his demesne : Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He...
Seite 56 - Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep, moral grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Seite 86 - WHAT needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Seite 73 - THOU, whose sweet youth and early hopes enhance Thy rate and price, and mark thee for a treasure, Hearken unto a Verser, who may chance Rhyme thee to good, and make a bait of pleasure : A verse may find him, who a Sermon flies, And turn delight into a Sacrifice.
Seite 61 - Not marble nor the gilded monuments Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn. And broils root out the work of masonry.
Seite 64 - Or I shall live your epitaph to make, Or you survive when I in earth am rotten; From hence your memory death cannot take, Although in me each part will be forgotten. Your name from hence immortal life shall have, Though I, once gone, to all the world must die : The earth can yield me but a common grave, When you entomb'd in men's eyes shall lie.
Seite 132 - In Santa Croce's holy precincts lie (*) Ashes which make it holier, dust which is Even in itself an immortality, Though there were nothing save the past, and this The particle of those sublimities Which have relapsed to chaos : — here repose Angelo's, Alfieri's bones, and his, (*) The starry Galileo, with his woes ; Here Machiavelli's earth return'd to whence it rose.
Seite 122 - There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is — to teach; the function of the second is — to move: the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.
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| Titel | The praise of books, as said and sung by English authors, selected by J. A. Langford |
| Autor/in | English authors |
| Herausgeber | John Alfred Langford |
| Veröffentlicht | 1880 |
| Original von | Oxford University |
| Digitalisiert | 31. Juli 2006 |
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