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 - 1886 - 642 Seiten
...without 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-emphasized Upon this selfsame... | |
| 1886 - 712 Seiten
...a good dose of literature every year or two to these rebellious subjects, quite forgetting that "We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And...profits ; so much help, By so much reading. It is when We gloriously forget ourselves and plunge headlong soul-forward into a book's profound, Impassioned... | |
| 1889 - 934 Seiten
...because the time was ripe, I chanced upon the poets. r. EB BBOWNINO —Aurora Leigh. Bk. L Line 830. We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And...truth— "Tis then we get the right good from a book. s. EB BBOWJONO— Aurora Leigh. Bk. I. Line 700. Some said, "John, print it," others said, "Not so,"... | |
| 1895 - 642 Seiten
...parts, what gems, what colors shine, — Ah, but I miss the grand design." — Ralph Waldo Emerson. " When We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward,...— 'Tis then we get the right good from a book." — Elizabeth Barrett Browning. H i The Right Reading for Children in the Library But the best literature... | |
| 1889 - 660 Seiten
...only when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul forward, headlong, into a book's profound, K Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth — Tis then we get the right good from a book." The old injunction in the folios, " Reade him, therefore, and againe, and againe," applies as well... | |
| Arthur Herbert Dyke Acland - 1891 - 168 Seiten
...case a new edition of the book should be required. CLYNNOG, CARNARVON, January 1891. 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. MRS. BROWNING. NOTES AND EXPLANATIONS The Index must be habitually used by those who have any difficulty... | |
| Sir Arthur Herbert Dyke Acland - 1891 - 162 Seiten
...case a new edition of the book should be required. CLYNNOG, CARNARVON, January 1891. 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. MRS. BROWNING. NOTES AND EXPLANATIONS The Index must... | |
| Harriet Eliza Paine - 1892 - 228 Seiten
...they will be a blessing to everybody around us. VIII. HOW SHALL WE READ? A URORA LEIGH says : — " We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And...profound, Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth, — 'T is then we get the right good from a book." Those of us who feel that reading has been the delight... | |
| Cornelia A. H. Crosse - 1892 - 370 Seiten
...world of books, and read, not calculating profits of so much help by so much reading, but plunged " Soul-forward, headlong into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth." Then there came to Aurora, as to every one of us who seeks for the peace which passeth all understanding,... | |
| Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin - 1892 - 262 Seiten
...himself in a printed page, quite unable to forget his childish griefs, " And plunge, Soul forward, headlong into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth," — such a child is to be pitied as missing one of the chief joys of life. Such a child has no dear... | |
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