The book-lover's enchiridion, thoughts, selected and arranged by Philobiblos. by A. Ireland1884 |
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admirable amusement ANTONIO DE GUEVARA beauty BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE better Charles Lamb charming Cicero companions conversation dead delight discourse divine doth enjoy enjoyment Essays eyes fancy feel FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERTSON friends genius give habit happy hath heart heaven honour hope human imagination intellectual J. G. VON HERDER JOHN kind knowledge labour learning Leigh Hunt literary literature living look LORD man's matter memory Milton mind Molière nature never noble once ourselves passion person Petrarch PHILIP GILBERT HAMERTON philosopher Plato pleasant pleasure Plutarch poetry poets possess reader reason RICHARD DE BURY scholar Shakspeare shelves society solitude sorrow soul spirit sweet taste thee things Thomas à Kempis thou thought tion true truth volume wealth weary WILLIAM WILLIAM HAZLITT wisdom wise words worth writing
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229 페이지 - But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think...
121 페이지 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
165 페이지 - I must confess that I dedicate no inconsiderable portion of my time to other people's thoughts. I dream away my life in others' speculations. I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading ; I cannot sit and think. Books think for me.
193 페이지 - It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
164 페이지 - I own that I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner. I want a form for setting out upon a pleasant walk, for a moonlight ramble, for a friendly meeting, or a solved problem. Why have we none for books, those spiritual repasts - a grace before Milton - a grace before Shakspeare a devotional exercise proper to be said before reading the Fairy Queen?
28 페이지 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
122 페이지 - At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. *Tis pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
153 페이지 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Bound these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
79 페이지 - t depends Not on the number, but the choice of friends. Books should, not business, entertain the light, And sleep, as undisturbed as death, the night. My house a cottage, more Than palace, and should fitting be For all my use, no luxury. My garden painted o'er With Nature's hand, not Art's ; and pleasures yield, Horace might envy in his Sabine field.
310 페이지 - Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.