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
| Charles Frederick Wingate - 1898 - 312 pagine
...wholesome fruit to be eaten with relish as a dessert after the day's work is over. " We get no good of being ungenerous, even to a book And calculating profits;...much help by so much reading. It is rather when we plunge soul-forward, headlong, into a book profound, Impassioned by its beauty and pure salt of truth;... | |
| Esther Phoebe Defries - 1898 - 180 pagine
...who is seldom mystical. His wife well describes the spirit in which such works should be read :— " 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... | |
| Howard Shaw Ruddy - 1899 - 252 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,...truth— 'Tis then we get the right good from a book. ELIZABETH BARRETT BHOWNINO. MY LIBRARY AS one who pauses on a rock, The bastion of some sea nymph's... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1899 - 408 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,...truth — "Tis then we get the right good from a book. I read much. What my father taught before From many a volume, Love reemphasized Upon the self-same... | |
| Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 pagine
...in it." Recalling the omnivorous reading of those days, she wrote in " Aurora Leigh " many years " We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book....truth,— 'Tis then we get the right good from a book." Her thirst for Greek literature was first awakened by Pope's translations. After acquiring the elements... | |
| Howard Shaw Ruddy - 1899 - 264 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 ... BO much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward,... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1900 - 584 pagine
...and prayed books, 700 To do me good. Mark, there. We get no Without considering whether they were fit By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating...rather when We gloriously forget ourselves and plunge Semi-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty and salt of good truth —... | |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1901 - 566 pagine
...them. Aurora reads her books, " Without considering whether they were fit To do me good. Mark, there. We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book,...— 'Tis then we get the right good from a book." Much of this reading was of that grave character to which court-maidens of Roger Ascham's time were... | |
| West Virginia. State Dept. of Education - 1901 - 578 pagine
...cares. 24. We get no good —Bailey. By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits—so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We...truth— Tis then we get the right good from a book. —EB Browning. 25. Books should to one of these four ends conduce, For wisdom, piety, delight, or... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1901 - 294 pagine
...the vicar ; read my book» 700 Without considering whether they were fit To do me good. Mark, there. We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book,...rather when We gloriously forget ourselves and plunge Sod-forward, headlong, into a book's profound. Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth — 'Tis... | |
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