One Thousand Best Books: The Household Guide to a Lifetime's Reading; a Variorum ListDoubleday, Page, 1924 - 416 pàgines |
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... says that this whole collection can be pur- chased for about $ 125 . But in America it is probable that the book buyer determined to obtain these books for this sum would be compelled to buy at second hand and to resort to the editions ...
... says that this whole collection can be pur- chased for about $ 125 . But in America it is probable that the book buyer determined to obtain these books for this sum would be compelled to buy at second hand and to resort to the editions ...
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... says Justin McCarthy , " until men forget Parson Adams , and Robinson Crusoe , and Gil Blas , and for that matter Sir John Falstaff and Don Quixote . " Many successful authors - Franklin and Stevenson among them - have " played the ...
... says Justin McCarthy , " until men forget Parson Adams , and Robinson Crusoe , and Gil Blas , and for that matter Sir John Falstaff and Don Quixote . " Many successful authors - Franklin and Stevenson among them - have " played the ...
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... says , " He is an academical poet , re- flecting the mental attitude of the cultured minds of his time , and also their obligations to antiquity and such mod- erns as Wordsworth and Goethe . " W. C. Brownell very sensibly explains ...
... says , " He is an academical poet , re- flecting the mental attitude of the cultured minds of his time , and also their obligations to antiquity and such mod- erns as Wordsworth and Goethe . " W. C. Brownell very sensibly explains ...
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... say nothing of the supreme ex- cellence of the dialogue , there is scarcely a page but has its little gem of exact and ... says Macaulay , " that the mind of Bacon is brought into immediate contact with the minds of ordinary readers ...
... say nothing of the supreme ex- cellence of the dialogue , there is scarcely a page but has its little gem of exact and ... says Macaulay , " that the mind of Bacon is brought into immediate contact with the minds of ordinary readers ...
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... Says Hallam , " Few books are more quoted ; and . . . few are more gen- erally read ” ; and Raffety , " Certainly no other prose work of its size is so often used in quotation . " The " Novum Organum " is an attempt to interpret na ...
... Says Hallam , " Few books are more quoted ; and . . . few are more gen- erally read ” ; and Raffety , " Certainly no other prose work of its size is so often used in quotation . " The " Novum Organum " is an attempt to interpret na ...
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Pàgina 15 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Pàgina 126 - Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose : but still persist to read. And Homer will be all the books you need.
Pàgina 25 - That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements and feelings and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me.
Pàgina 177 - The want of human interest is always felt. Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and overburdened, and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert our master, and seek for companions.
Pàgina 110 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour — The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Pàgina 246 - He reads much; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing.
Pàgina 117 - When Nature was shaping him, clay was not granted For making so full-sized a man as she wanted, So, to fill out her model, a little she spared From some finer-grained stuff for a woman prepared, And she could not have hit a more excellent plan For making him fully and perfectly man.
Pàgina 158 - There is Lowell, who's striving Parnassus to climb With a whole bale of isms tied together with rhyme, He might get on alone, spite of brambles and boulders, But he can't with that bundle he has on his shoulders, The top of the hill he will ne'er come nigh reaching...
Pàgina 108 - ... style, all seem to bespeak his moral as well as his intellectual qualities, and make us love the man at the same time that we admire the author. While the productions of writers of loftier pretension and more sounding names are suffered to moulder on our shelves, those of Goldsmith are cherished and laid in our bosoms. We do not quote them with ostentation, but they mingle with our minds, sweeten our tempers, and harmonize our thoughts ; they put us in good humor with ourselves and with the world,...
Pàgina 173 - Ah! Meredith! Who can define him? His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language: as a novelist he can do everything, except tell a story: as an artist he is everything except articulate.