A Course of English Reading: Adapted to Every Taste and Capacity: with Anecdotes of Men of GeniusWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 243 páginas |
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Página 37 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it : Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents, by flood, and field ; Of hair-breadth scapes i...
Página 37 - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Página 7 - Idleness is a disease which must be combated ; but I would not advise a rigid adherence to a particular plan of study '. I myself have never persisted in any plan for two days together. A man ought to read just as inclination leads him : for what he reads as a task will do him little good. A young man should read five hours in a day, and so may acquire a great deal of knowledge.
Página 34 - He had a peculiar facility in seizing at once what was valuable in any book, without submitting to the labour of perusing it from beginning to end.
Página 217 - if the ancient discipline of the Church were lost, it might be found in all its purity in the Isle of Man.
Página 7 - He told us, he read Fielding's " Amelia" through without stopping. ' He said, " if a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it, to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination.
Página 143 - When questioned respecting the mental process which he employed the first time he performed this part, he says, that he lost sight entirely of the audience, and seemed to have nothing before him but the pages of the book from which he had learned it ; and that if any thing had occurred to interrupt this illusion, he should have stopped instantly.
Página 102 - See this is new" let him look in the writings of such men as Burke, and he will find the case foreseen, the rule provided, and his wisdom forestalled, and that " it hath been of old time which was before us.
Página 24 - Hudibras in prose. He has in his possession the common-place book, in which Butler reposited, not such events or precepts as are gathered by reading; but such remarks, similitudes, allusions, assemblages, or inferences, as occasion prompted, or meditation produced; those thoughts that were generated in his own mind, and might be usefully applied to some future purpose. Such is the labour of those who write for immortality.
Página 23 - East tell us. that when the ignorant inhabitants of those countries are asked concerning the ruins of stately edifices yet remaining amongst them, the melancholy monuments of their former grandeur and long-lost science, they always answer, that they were built by magicians. The untaught mind finds a vast...