One Thousand Best Books: The Household Guide to a Lifetime's Reading; a Variorum ListDoubleday, Page, 1924 - 416 Seiten |
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... Writers , Like to the Wordes in Some Gloffaries , Lexicons , and Dictionaries ; Accompanied by Digits Shewing the Degree of Popularitie and Efteem Attained by Each Author and Each Worke , among the Confraternitie of the Men of Bookes ...
... Writers , Like to the Wordes in Some Gloffaries , Lexicons , and Dictionaries ; Accompanied by Digits Shewing the Degree of Popularitie and Efteem Attained by Each Author and Each Worke , among the Confraternitie of the Men of Bookes ...
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... writer to be- lieve that still one more device is needed - a reading guide based on a consensus of expert opinion . That is just what will be found in the pages which follow . Making lists of best books has been a favourite indoor sport ...
... writer to be- lieve that still one more device is needed - a reading guide based on a consensus of expert opinion . That is just what will be found in the pages which follow . Making lists of best books has been a favourite indoor sport ...
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... writer's library experience . Every book- broken person is first fascinated and then stimulated by a displayed list of best books . He can never agree with such a list in toto , and he is irresistibly impelled xii THIS BOOK AND HOW TO USE ...
... writer's library experience . Every book- broken person is first fascinated and then stimulated by a displayed list of best books . He can never agree with such a list in toto , and he is irresistibly impelled xii THIS BOOK AND HOW TO USE ...
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... writers are sought , one turns to the list of authors arranged by date . If one wishes to know what Italians have written great books , it is a simple matter to consult the author list ar- ranged by nationality . The form and subject ...
... writers are sought , one turns to the list of authors arranged by date . If one wishes to know what Italians have written great books , it is a simple matter to consult the author list ar- ranged by nationality . The form and subject ...
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... writer in 1922. Repeated efforts to re - locate it , and to establish beyond question the identity of the compiler , have been always unsuccessful . He is prob- ably John Brown , the learned and genial author of " Rab , " who cites a ...
... writer in 1922. Repeated efforts to re - locate it , and to establish beyond question the identity of the compiler , have been always unsuccessful . He is prob- ably John Brown , the learned and genial author of " Rab , " who cites a ...
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Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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,...
Seite 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.