...The Magic of Books: Anthology for Book Week...Anne Putnam Sanford, Robert Haven Schauffler Dodd, Mead, 1929 - 424 стор. |
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The Magic of Books: An Anthology for Book Week Anne Putnam Sanford,Robert Haven Schauffler Перегляд фрагмента - 1938 |
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ALADDIN Alfred Tennyson Dickens ALICE American American Library Association ARROW-MAKER Book Revue Book-Fairies boys and girls century characters child Children's Book Week children's reading Christmas Christopher Cinderella club County Library Dakota dance Daniel Defoe delight Dickens dream Enter Episode Extension Division eyes FAIRY father favorite fiddler friends give Haarlem hands hath Hiawatha JIMMY JOAN John King L'on y danse librarian Library Commission literature live look Lord MAGICIAN March Hare MARIAN MCGREGOR mind Minnehaha MOTHER GOOSE never newspaper Oberon Ojibway paper papyrus parent-teacher association Peter play pleasure poetry Prince printing programs Public Library Puck Queen ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Robin Hood RUGGLES SAMPSON slippers smile song story talk teacher tell thee things thou thought Titania WILLIS DUFF wonderful writing young Воттом
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Сторінка 158 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Сторінка 282 - You are old, Father William,' the young man said, 'And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on your head - Do you think, at your age, it is right?' 'In my youth,' Father William replied to his son, 'I feared it might injure the brain; But, now that I'm perfectly sure I have none, Why, I do it again and again.
Сторінка 17 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
Сторінка 336 - I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, — past the wit of man to say what dream it was : man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream.
Сторінка 17 - Blessings be with them — and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares—- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays ! Oh ! might my name be numbered among theirs, Then gladly would I end my mortal days.
Сторінка 160 - The mathematics and the metaphysics, Fall to them as you find your stomach serves you ; No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en : In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
Сторінка 74 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book : who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself — kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Сторінка 157 - Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book ; he hath not eat paper, as it were ; he hath not drunk ink : his intellect is not replenished ; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts...
Сторінка 24 - Homer ruled as his demesne ; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold : Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Сторінка 60 - Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played, before you enter upon him. But he brings his music— to which, who listens, had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears.