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English authors John Alfred Langford. ΤΟ RICHARD TANGYE , Esq . , IN GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF MANY KINDNESSES , This Book is Inscribed BY HIS OBLIGED FRIEND , J. A. LANGFORD . PREFACE . THIS volume is not offered as an exhaustive.
English authors John Alfred Langford. ΤΟ RICHARD TANGYE , Esq . , IN GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF MANY KINDNESSES , This Book is Inscribed BY HIS OBLIGED FRIEND , J. A. LANGFORD . PREFACE . THIS volume is not offered as an exhaustive.
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English authors John Alfred Langford. PREFACE . THIS volume is not offered as an exhaustive selection of all that our great writers have said or sung in praise of books . Such a selection would have exceeded the limits I set myself , and ...
English authors John Alfred Langford. PREFACE . THIS volume is not offered as an exhaustive selection of all that our great writers have said or sung in praise of books . Such a selection would have exceeded the limits I set myself , and ...
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... atmosphere can by no means contain in soundness ; we dis- tinguish the peculiarities of rivers and springs , and different countries , in volumes . We dig up the various kinds of metals , gems , and minerals 34 THE PRAISE OF BOOKS .
... atmosphere can by no means contain in soundness ; we dis- tinguish the peculiarities of rivers and springs , and different countries , in volumes . We dig up the various kinds of metals , gems , and minerals 34 THE PRAISE OF BOOKS .
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... volumes that I prize above my dukedom . ( Tempest , i . 2. ) TEACHINGS IN NATURE . And this our life , exempt from public haunt , Finds tongues in trees , books in the running brooks . Sermons in stones , and good in everything . ( As ...
... volumes that I prize above my dukedom . ( Tempest , i . 2. ) TEACHINGS IN NATURE . And this our life , exempt from public haunt , Finds tongues in trees , books in the running brooks . Sermons in stones , and good in everything . ( As ...
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... . Educated at Westminster School , under William Camden . Produced his first comedy , Every Man in His Humour , 1596 ; his first tragedy , Sejanus , 1603. Published the first volume of his Works , in- 72 THE PRAISE OF BOOKS . BEN JONSON.
... . Educated at Westminster School , under William Camden . Produced his first comedy , Every Man in His Humour , 1596 ; his first tragedy , Sejanus , 1603. Published the first volume of his Works , in- 72 THE PRAISE OF BOOKS . BEN JONSON.
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Seite 106 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Seite 70 - 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 148 - 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 64 - 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 94 - 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 81 - 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 69 - 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 72 - 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 140 - 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 130 - 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.