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" He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was dust. He danced along the dingy days, And this bequest of wings Was but a book. What liberty A loosened spirit brings! "
The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture - Page 3631
edited by - 1917
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Bulletin of Bibliography and Dramatic Index, Volume 9

Bibliography - 1917 - 254 pages
...209p. Dickinson, Emily. Poems; ed. by Mabel Loomis Todd and TW Higginson. Boston. Little, 1908. 152p. "He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew...but a book. What liberty A loosened spirit brings!" 168 July, 1917 169 — The single hound; with introd. by her niece, Martha Dickinson Bianchi. Boston....
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The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit

Ralph Waldo Trine - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1917 - 256 pages
...ages. That splendid verse by Emily Dickinson means as much to him as it would to a dumb stolid ox: He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew...but a book! What liberty A loosened spirit brings! Yes, life and its manifold possibilities of unfoldment and avenues of enjoyment—life, and the things...
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War-time "over Here,"

William Allen Knight - World War, 1914-1918 - 1918 - 160 pages
...wrote the words which seem to us perhaps the choicest we know to be sounded just now. Here they are: " He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew...a book. — What liberty A loosened spirit brings! " " THEY ALSO SERVE WHO ONLY STAND AND WAIT " A certain well-known hotel has hit upon a way of meeting...
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The Home and Country Readers: Book one-[four], Book 2

Mary Augusta Laselle - Readers - 1918 - 366 pages
...mysteriously, you were in touch with the things that transcend time and space. — Grace Coolidge. A BOOK He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew...but a book. What liberty A loosened spirit brings. — Emily Dickinson. THE TREE IN THE CITY In a narrow space between two buildings, in a crowded city,...
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Connecticut Public Library Document

Connecticut. Public Library Committee - 1893 - 1486 pages
...is of little value to anyone. The right book in the hands of the right man may be of untold value. He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew...but a book. What liberty A loosened spirit brings! Emily Dickinson How much pleasure and profit alas do we take from good books, and how slight the return...
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School Education, Volume 17

Education - 1898 - 634 pages
...not soon be removed by the hand of a "Britisher." "One touch of Nature makes the whole world kin." He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew...but a book. What liberty A loosened spirit brings! • — Emily Dickinson. Syntax or Literature— Which ? EMMA I.. TREVETTE At a Latin conference a...
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Addresses and Proceedings - National Education Association of the ..., Volume 59

National Education Association of the United States - Education - 1921 - 912 pages
...that holds them back from the fulfilment of their higher destiny. 494 NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION "He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew...but a book ! What liberty a loosened spirit brings 1" What is it that we are trying to, do in our schools today? Are we going to be satisfied if we insure...
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HOYT'S NEW CYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL QUOTATIONS

KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...one of these four ends conduce, For wisdom, piety, delight, or use. Sm JOHN DENHAM— Of Prudence. 10 . Macbeth. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 43. 21 Amici vitium ni feras, facis tuum. If EMILY DICKINSON — A Book. 11 There is no frigate like a book To take us lands away, Nor any coursers...
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The Ohio Bulletin of Charities and Correction, Volumes 22-23

Charities - 1916 - 666 pages
...EFFICIENCY. FORMER CHIEF CHILDREN'S LIBRARIAN PUBLIC LIBRARY OF CINCINNATI A CHILDREN'S HOME LIBRARY "He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Xor that his frame was dust. He danced along the dingy days, And this bequest of wings Was but a book....
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Christmastide with the Poets

Lilian Whiting - Poetry - 1923 - 62 pages
...chanced!" The magic of a book to liberate the spirit is thus touched by Emily Dickinson : ***** ' ' He danced along the dingy days, And this bequest of...but a book. What liberty A loosened spirit brings!" Robert Browning's work offers comparatively little of the purely lyrical ; but, as a single instance,...
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