Instruction in the Use of Books and LibrariesBoston book Company, 1915 - 449 頁 |
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第 253 頁 - What were virtue, love, patriotism, friendship— what were the scenery of this beautiful universe which we inhabit; what were our consolations on this side of the grave— and what were our aspirations beyond it, if poetry did not ascend to bring light and fire from those eternal regions where the owl-winged faculty of calculation dare not ever soar? Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, "I will compose poetry.
第 217 頁 - This I happened to fall upon, and was infinitely delighted with the stories of the knights, and giants, and monsters, and brave houses which I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all this) ; and by degrees with the tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers ; so that I think I had read him all over before I was twelve years old...
第 217 頁 - I believe I can tell the particular little chance that filled my head first with such chimes of verse as have never since left ringing there.
第 233 頁 - is almost out of print. Mrs. Barbauld's stuff has banished all the old classics of the nursery...
第 144 頁 - The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They do not pin the reader to a dogma, which he must afterwards discover to be inexact; they do not teach him a lesson, which he must afterwards unlearn.
第 196 頁 - The frog by nature is both damp and cold, Her mouth is large, her belly much will hold ; She sits somewhat ascending, loves to be Croaking in gardens, though unpleasantly.
第 370 頁 - And now I set on foot my first project of a public nature, that for a subscription library. I drew up the proposals, got them put into form by our great scrivener, Brockden, and, by the help of my friends in the Junto...
第 123 頁 - The best books: a reader's guide to the choice of the best available books (about 100,000) in every department of science, art and literature, with the dates of the first and last editions, and the price, size and publisher's name (both English and American) of each book; a contribution towards systematic bibliography; with complete authors and subjects indexes.
第 233 頁 - ... and Billy is better than a horse, and such like : instead of that beautiful interest in wild tales which made the child a man, while all the time he suspected himself to be no bigger than a child.
第 145 頁 - They do not pin the reader to a dogma, which he must afterwards discover to be inexact ; they do not teach him a lesson, which he must afterwards unlearn. They repeat, they rearrange, they clarify the lessons of life ; they disengage us from ourselves, they constrain us to the acquaintance of others ; and they show us the web of experience, not as we can see it for ourselves, but with a singular change — that monstrous, consuming ego of ours being, for the nonce, struck out.