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Términos y frases comunes
A. R. Wallace American beauty beginning BEST BOOKS better century character Charles Charles Reade course criticism delight E. A. Freeman EDWARD EVERETT HALE England English essay feeling fiction French George Eliot girl give Goethe Greek habit HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE human ideas intellectual interest Jane Eyre John knowledge language LISTS OF BEST literary literature living look Matthew Arnold means Milton mind modern Molière nature never newspapers novel one's period person pleasure poem poet poetry prose R. A. Proctor reader reading aloud remember Roman Scott selection sense Shakespeare spirit story student style suggested taste teach tell Tennyson Thackeray things thought tion translation true verse vols volume Walter Scott Waverley novels whole William wise words worth writing young
Pasajes populares
Página 301 - the fold ! Of other care they little reckoning make Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest; Blind mouths! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learned aught else, the least
Página 208 - Never read any book that is not a year old. (2) Never read any but famed books. (3) Never read any but what you like; or, in Shakespeare's phrase— " No profit goes where is no pleasure ta'en ; In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
Página 29 - We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a hook, And calculating profits, — so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth,— "Tis then we get the right good from a book.
Página 297 - if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter—that is to say, with real accuracy— you are forevermore in some measure an educated person. The entire difference between education and non-education (as regards the merely intellectual part of it) consists in this accuracy. A well-educated gentleman may not know many
Página 298 - languages, may not be able to speak any but his own, may have read very few books. But whatever language he knows, he knows precisely; whatever word he pronounces, he pronounces rightly. Above all, he is learned in the peerage of words, knows the words of true descent and ancient blood, at a glance, from words of modern
Página 298 - Let the accent of words be watched, and closely; let their meaning be watched more closely still, and fewer will do the work. A few words, well chosen and distinguished, will do work that a thousand cannot, when every one is acting, equivocally, in the function of another.
Página 350 - requireth time in the writer and leisure in the reader, which is the cause that hath made me choose to write certain brief notes, set down rather significantly than curiously, which I have called essays; the word is late, but the thing is ancient.
Página 301 - How well could I have spared for thee, young swain, Enow of such as for their bellies' sake Creep and intrude and climb
Página 303 - Of other care they little reckoning make Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast. Blind mouths—" I pause again, for this is a strange
Página 321 - mind by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind, whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things '; whether, in more