 My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting ; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is, me judice, no book — it is a plaything.  Crotchet Castle - 第 172 頁Thomas Love Peacock 著 - 1831 - 300 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1875 - 488 頁
...puzzled all philosophers. If the enchanter has represented the twelfth eentury too brightly for one, and too darkly for the other of you, I should say, as...but if he who amuses us most, is to be our enchanter x«r' i%o/fiv, then my enchanter is the enchanter of Covent Garden. CHAPTER X. THE VOYAGE, CONTINUED.... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1875 - 488 頁
...puzzled all philosophers. If the enchanter has represented the twelfth eentury too brightly for one, and too darkly for the other of you, I should say, as...multitudes ; but if he who amuses us most, is to be our ennhanter xy,r ^o^riv, then my enchanter is the enchanter of Covent Garden. CHAPTEE X. THE VOYAGE,... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1895 - 380 頁
...puzzled all philosophers. If the enchanter has represented the twelfth century too brightly for one, and too darkly for the other of you, I should say, as...quoting ; and a book that furnishes no quotations is, mejudice, no book,—it is a plaything. There is no question about the amusement,— amusement of multitudes... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1895 - 368 頁
...puzzled all philosophers. If the enchanter has represented the twelfth century too brightly for one, and too darkly for the other of you, I should say, as...quoting ; and a book that furnishes no quotations is, mejudtce, no book, — it is a plaything. There is no question about the amusement, — amusement of... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1895 - 368 頁
...that his works contain nothing worth quoting ; and a book that furnishes no quotations is, mejudtce, no book, — it is a plaything. There is no question...but if he who amuses us most is to be our enchanter KO.T «£GXIJV, then my enchanter is the enchanter of Covent Garden. CHAPTER X THE VOYAGE (continued)... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1924 - 408 頁
...puzzled all philosophers. If the enchanter has represented the twelfth century too brightly for one, and too darkly for the other of you, I should say, as...no quotations, is, me judice, no book — it is a 121 plaything. There is no question about the amusement — amusement of multitudes ; but if he who... | |
 | Robert M. Polhemus - 1982 - 412 頁
...Folliot denounce Sir Walter Scott for never having written "any sentence worth remembering" (CC, 711): "his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book...quotations, is, me judice, no book — it is a plaything" (CC, 713). That criticism implies that prose style should be able to locate and fix what we have in... | |
 | Robert M. Polhemus - 1982 - 408 頁
...Folliot denounce Sir Walter Scott for never having written "any sentence worth remembering" (CC, 711): "his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is, me judice, no book—it is a plaything" (CC, 713). That criticism implies that prose style should be able to locate... | |
 | Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - 1992 - 552 頁
...conversation. — George Bernard Shaw The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. — William Shakespeare A book that furnishes no quotations is, me judice, no book — it is a plaything. — Thomas Love Peacock It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. — Winston... | |
 | Leah Price - 2003 - 236 頁
...6.21-80 (33). Compare the pedantic Dr Folliott in Crotchet Castle. "My quarrel with [the Enchanter] is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations is, mejudice, no book" (Thomas Love Peacock, Crotchet Castle, ed. Raymond Wright [Harmondsworth: Penguin,... | |
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