The Book-lover's Enchiridion: Thoughts on the Solace and Companionship of Books, and Topics Incidental Thereto; Gathered from the Best Writers of Every Age, and Arranged in Chronological OrderSimpkin, Marshall, & Company, 1884 - 492 من الصفحات |
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Æschylus amusement ANTONIO DE GUEVARA beauty BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE better Charles Lamb cheerful 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 JOHN LYLYE kind knowledge labour learning LEIGH HUNT literary literature living look LORD man's matter memory Milton mind Molière nature never noble once ourselves passion persons Petrarch philosopher Plato pleasant pleasure Plutarch poetry poets possess reader reason RICHARD DE BURY ROBERT COLLYER scholar Shakspeare shelves society solitude sorrow soul spirit sweet taste thee things thou thought tion treasures true truth volume wealth weary WILLIAM WILLIAM HAZLITT wisdom wise words worth writing
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الصفحة 121 - 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.
الصفحة 227 - But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think...
الصفحة 191 - 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.
الصفحة 28 - 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.
الصفحة 151 - 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.
الصفحة 122 - 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.
الصفحة 107 - READING is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and; invigorated; by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
الصفحة 308 - 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.
الصفحة 116 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
الصفحة 64 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.