The Friendship of BooksMacmillan, 1911 - 246 strán (strany) |
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Æschylus ages ANDREW LANG beauty better blessed CHARLES LAMB charm companions converse dead dear delight divine doth dreams E. V. LUCAS earth enjoy Essays evil book eyes fancy feel forget friends genius George Wharton Edwards GERALD STANLEY LEE give gold hand happy hath heart heaven Homer honor human imagination immortal ISAAC D'ISRAELI kings learning leaves literature live look LORD lover man's Milton mind Molière moral muse nature never night noble o'er once ourselves pass past perhaps person Plato pleasure poem poetry poets R. L. STEVENSON ROBERT SOUTHEY round Shakespeare shelves silent solitude songs sorrow soul speak spirit sweet taste tell thee things thou thought Tom Jones treasures true truth turn virtue voice volume weary WILLIAM HAZLITT wisdom wise words worthy write
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Strana xiv - Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear, Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come." "Men must endure Their going hence, even as their
Strana 90 - Nor to Finde Talke and Discourse; But to weigh and Consider. Some BOOKES are to be Tasted, Others to be Swallowed, and Some Few to be Chewed and Digested: That is, some BOOKES are to be read onely in Parts; Others to be read but not Curiously; And some Few to be read wholly, and
Strana 91 - with Diligence and Attention. Some BOOKES also may be read by Deputy, and Extracts made of them by Others: But that would be, onely in the lesse important Arguments, and the Meaner Sort of BOOKES: else distilled BOOKES, are like Common distilled Waters, Flashy Things. Reading maketh a Full Man; Conference a
Strana 90 - Crafty Men Contemne STUDIES; Simple Men Admire them; And Wise Men Use them: For they teach not their owne Use; But that is a Wisdome without them, and above them, won by Observation. Reade not to Contradict, and Confute; Nor to Beleeve and Take for granted;
Strana 175 - FOR a Booke and a shadie nooke, ^^ eyther in-a-doore or out; With the grene leaves whisp'ring overhede, or the Streete cryes all about. Where I maie Reade all at my ease, both of the Newe and Olde; For a jollie goode Booke whereon to looke, is better to me than Golde. Old English Song
Strana 140 - hardly fail of making a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society in every period of history, — with the wisest, the wittiest, —with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who
Strana 10 - ARMED her against the censure of the world, showed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that, if they could not bring us to enjoy life, they would at least teach us to endure it. Oliver Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield, Ch. XXII
Strana 148 - Now, books of this kind have been written in all ages by their greatest men, — by great readers, great statesmen, and great thinkers. These are all at your choice; and Life is short. You have heard as much before; — yet, have you measured and mapped out this short life and its possibilities ? Do you know, if you read this,
Strana xiv - once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear, Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
Strana 88 - T^HE first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend; when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one. Oliver Goldsmith Citizen of the World