Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays Selected by the Department of Rhetoric and Journalism of the University of MichiganHarcourt, Brace, 1924 - 428 páginas |
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... become the creature of the moment , clear of all ties , to hold to the universe only by a dish of sweetbreads , and to owe nothing but the score of the evening , and , no longer seeking for applause and meeting with contempt , to be ...
... become the creature of the moment , clear of all ties , to hold to the universe only by a dish of sweetbreads , and to owe nothing but the score of the evening , and , no longer seeking for applause and meeting with contempt , to be ...
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... become old and incorrigible . Yet will I turn to thee in thought , O sylvan Dee , in joy , in youth and gladness as thou then wert ; and thou shalt always be to me the river of Paradise , where I will drink of the waters of life freely ...
... become old and incorrigible . Yet will I turn to thee in thought , O sylvan Dee , in joy , in youth and gladness as thou then wert ; and thou shalt always be to me the river of Paradise , where I will drink of the waters of life freely ...
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... becomes a passion and an appetite . A person would almost feel stifled to find himself in the deserts of Arabia without friends and countrymen ; there must be allowed to be something in the view of Athens or old Rome that claims the ...
... becomes a passion and an appetite . A person would almost feel stifled to find himself in the deserts of Arabia without friends and countrymen ; there must be allowed to be something in the view of Athens or old Rome that claims the ...
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... become a clerk for the East India Company , in whose employ he remained for thirty - three years . At the end of that time he was retired on pension . Lamb's first real success in literature was achieved in 1807 , when he brought out ...
... become a clerk for the East India Company , in whose employ he remained for thirty - three years . At the end of that time he was retired on pension . Lamb's first real success in literature was achieved in 1807 , when he brought out ...
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... become familiar with from the ballad of the Children in the Wood . Certain it is that the whole story of the children and their cruel uncle was to be seen fairly carved out in wood upon the chimney - piece of the great hall , the whole ...
... become familiar with from the ballad of the Children in the Wood . Certain it is that the whole story of the children and their cruel uncle was to be seen fairly carved out in wood upon the chimney - piece of the great hall , the whole ...
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Página 2 - Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Página 72 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
Página 123 - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived...
Página 124 - ... because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise Designation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life...
Página 89 - Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.
Página 64 - Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Página 140 - And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.
Página 67 - They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.
Página 65 - Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine Providence has found for you; the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
Página 130 - Let us settle ourselves and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion and prejudice and tradition and delusion and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris and London, through New York and Boston and Concord, through church and state, through poetry and philosophy and religion, till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call reality, and say, This is, and no mistake...