The book-lover's enchiridion, thoughts, selected and arranged by Philobiblos. by A. Ireland1884 |
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... happy if after a ten years voyage , after a thousand dangers , he at length improves his fortune ; and shall we , like poor- spirited creatures , give up all hopes after the first onset ? No ! let us rather adopt this as our maxim ...
... happy if after a ten years voyage , after a thousand dangers , he at length improves his fortune ; and shall we , like poor- spirited creatures , give up all hopes after the first onset ? No ! let us rather adopt this as our maxim ...
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... happy then , yea by much more happy than any king , if not nearer to a divine felicitie , is that person who lives and dwels in the country upon the rents and profits of his own grounds . There without danger he may act and speake as it ...
... happy then , yea by much more happy than any king , if not nearer to a divine felicitie , is that person who lives and dwels in the country upon the rents and profits of his own grounds . There without danger he may act and speake as it ...
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... happy hours than I employ'd Upon my books . The Lady of Pleasure , Act ii . Scene 1 . SIR WILLIAM WALLER . 1597-1668 . Here is the best solitary company in the world , and in this particular chiefly excelling any other , that in my ...
... happy hours than I employ'd Upon my books . The Lady of Pleasure , Act ii . Scene 1 . SIR WILLIAM WALLER . 1597-1668 . Here is the best solitary company in the world , and in this particular chiefly excelling any other , that in my ...
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... happy state , I would not fear , nor wish , my fate ; But boldly say each night ; To - morrow let my sun his beams display , Or in clouds hide them ; I have lived to - day . With these affections of mind , and my heart wholly set upon ...
... happy state , I would not fear , nor wish , my fate ; But boldly say each night ; To - morrow let my sun his beams display , Or in clouds hide them ; I have lived to - day . With these affections of mind , and my heart wholly set upon ...
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... happy restoration , but the getting into some moderately convenient retreat in the country ; which I thought , in that case , I might easily have compassed , as well as some others , who , with no greater probabilities or pretences ...
... happy restoration , but the getting into some moderately convenient retreat in the country ; which I thought , in that case , I might easily have compassed , as well as some others , who , with no greater probabilities or pretences ...
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Page 229 - But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think...
Page 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.
Page 165 - I must confess that I dedicate no inconsiderable portion of my time to other people's thoughts. I dream away my life in others' speculations. I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading ; I cannot sit and think. Books think for me.
Page 193 - 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.
Page 164 - I own that I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner. I want a form for setting out upon a pleasant walk, for a moonlight ramble, for a friendly meeting, or a solved problem. Why have we none for books, those spiritual repasts - a grace before Milton - a grace before Shakspeare a devotional exercise proper to be said before reading the Fairy Queen?
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 153 - 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.
Page 79 - t depends Not on the number, but the choice of friends. Books should, not business, entertain the light, And sleep, as undisturbed as death, the night. My house a cottage, more Than palace, and should fitting be For all my use, no luxury. My garden painted o'er With Nature's hand, not Art's ; and pleasures yield, Horace might envy in his Sabine field.
Page 310 - 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.