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... American Education - Pagina 3271906Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1860 - 410 pagine
...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 calculating profits,—so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves and plunge... | |
| John Nichol - 1860 - 258 pagine
...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 calculating profits—so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge... | |
| 1860 - 686 pagine
...forget our.selvcK, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its bcunty and salt of truth— 'Tis then we get the right good from n book." Now, let us leave general reflections, boys and toys' schools, and make a running visit to... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1862 - 422 pagine
...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,...book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth‘Tis then we get the right good from a book. I read much. What my father taught before From... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1864 - 418 pagine
...without the vicar; read my books, Without considering whether they were fit I'o do me good. Mark, there. We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book,...plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, knpassioned for its beauty and salt of truth— \tt-t'Tis then we get the right good from a book, j... | |
| Hiram Corson - 1867 - 54 pagine
...passively under the influence of our author. "We get no good/' says Mrs. Browning, in her " Aurora Leigh," "By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits ... so much help By so rauch reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong,... | |
| Noah Porter - 1871 - 406 pagine
...elevate and kindle their aspirations. Mrs. Browning has said, and doubtless from her own experience, " We get no good By being ungenerous even to a book...truth— ' Tis then we get the right good from a book." 3. We add another rule, to correct any excess or abuse in the application of the foregoing, viz.: We... | |
| Noah Porter - 1871 - 392 pagine
...elevate and kindle their aspirations. Mrs. Browning has said, and doubtless from her own experience, " We get no good By being ungenerous even to a book...truth— ' Tis then we get the right good from a book." 3. We add another rule, to correct any excess or abuse in the application of the foregoing, viz. :... | |
| Noah Porter - 1871 - 404 pagine
...elevate and kindle their aspirations. Mrs. Browning has said, and doubtless from her own experience, "We get no good By being ungenerous even to a book...truth— ' Tis then we get the right good from a book." 3. We add another rule, to correct any excess or abuse in the application of the foregoing, viz.: We... | |
| Noah Porter - 1871 - 408 pagine
...elevate and kindle their aspirations. Mrs. Browning has said, and doubtless from her own experience, " We get no good By being ungenerous even to a book...Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth— ' Tis then wo got the right good from a book." 3. We add another rule, to correct any excess or abuse in the application... | |
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