We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits . . so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty and... Scribners Monthly - Seite 1091874Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1857 - 404 Seiten
...the vicar ; read my books, Without considering whether they were fit To do me good. Mark, there. We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And...truth — 'Tis then we get the right good from a book. I read much. What my father taught before From many a volume, Love re-emphasised Upon the self-same... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1857 - 388 Seiten
...the vicar ; read my books, Without considering whether they were fit To do me good. Mark, there. We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And...truth — 'Tis then we get the right good from a book. I read much. What my father taught before From many a volume, Love re-emphasised Upon the self-same... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1857 - 420 Seiten
...the vicar ; read my books, Without considering whether they were fit To do me good. Mark, there. We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And...profound, Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth — "Pis then we get the right good from a book. I read much. What my father taught before From many... | |
| 1857 - 662 Seiten
...read by stealth old books, "Without considering whether the» were nt To do me good. Mark, these. We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profit»." There is the utterance of a largo soul, speaking thus ; and yet we opine the " doctors,... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1858 - 924 Seiten
...the beauty of their language. We shall select one or two of those wise sentences at a venture : " We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And...truth — Tis then we get the right good from a book." —P. 26. " Many tender souls Have strung their losses on a rhyming thread As children cowslips : the... | |
| 1858 - 456 Seiten
...says, "... I read my books Without considering whether they were fit To do me good. Mark there. We get no good By being ungenerous even to a book, And calculating profits. . . . It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong into a book's... | |
| John Nichol - 1860 - 256 Seiten
...beauty of their language. We shall select one or two of those wise sentences at a venture : — " We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And...plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassion'd for its beauty and salt of truth — "Pis then we get the right good from a book." —... | |
| John Nichol - 1860 - 258 Seiten
...gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassion'd for its beauty and salt of truth — 'Tis then we get the right good from a book." — (P. 26.) " Many tender souls Have strung their losses on a rhyming thread As children cowslips... | |
| John Alfred Langford - 1861 - 400 Seiten
...incomparable Sancho, and they will afluredly get the moft good out of the book. Let all remember that " We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits . . . fo much help By fo much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourfelves, and plunge... | |
| Lydia M. Millard - 1864 - 330 Seiten
...It . rNTITLED ) <e TOGETHER" Price $1.25 NEPENTHE. i 1Nond. BY THE AUTHOR OF " OLIE." " We get no _ By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating...profound, Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth, — 'Tin then we get the right good from a book." BROWNING. >JV, PUBLISHER, 413 BROADWAY. M DCCC LXIV.... | |
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