...book,' says Elia, and then ho prescribes a winter evening as being npproprinte to Shakespeare ; while Milton ' almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him.' No time, no pince comes unseasonably to White's Selborne. It intensifies our pleasure in the country...

...book,' says Elia, and then ho proscribes a winter evening as being appropriate to Shakespeare ; while Milton ' almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him.' No time, no place comes un_ Seasonably to White's Selborne. It intensifies our pleasure in the country...

...Again, he speaks of " Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, — great Nature's stereotypes." "Milton," he says, "almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him." Of Shenstone he speaks as " the dear author of the School-mistress ;" and so on from time to time,...

...mention, are Kit Marlowe, Drayton, Drummond of Hawthornden, and Cowley. Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes...Fairy Queen " for a stop-gap, or a volume of Bishop Andrewes's sermons ? •Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter...

...other men's minds." He thought a grace should be said before reading the " Faerie Queene," and that Milton " almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him." This tender reverence for the " ragged veterans" marshalled on his book-shelves is surely one of the...

...other men's minds." He thought a grace should be said before reading the " Faerie Queene, " and that Milton " almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him." This tender reverence for the " ragged veterans" marshalled on his book-shelves is surely one of the...

...I see them at their work— these sapient trouble-tombs. . . . Much depends upon when and where yon read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes,...requires a solemn service of music to be played before yon enter upon him. But ho brings his music, to which, who listens, had need bring docile thoughts,...

...Mueh depends upon wfan and where yon read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes, before tho dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up...Fairy Queen for a stop-gap, or a volume of Bishop Andrewos' sermons ? Milton almost requires a solemu serviee of musie to be played before you enter...

...Detached thoughts on books and reading", which are noteworthy. It is here that he makes the remark that " Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him." ("Works", Am. ed., v. 2, p. 191-92.) William Godwin, in "The enquirer", (1797) has an essay on "Reading."...

...which book Elia, in his mild wisdom, would have recommended as the fitting one for such an afternoon. " Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him ; " ere long Nature's grandest diapason will be rolling overhead, while the lightning plays in and...