 | 1906 - Liczba stron: 730
...been written by right-minded and strong-minded men, real thinkers." — William Ellery Channing. " I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books, than a king who did not love reading." — Macaulay. " The light of the sun, the day, and life itself, would be joyless and bitter if I had... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - Liczba stron: 652
...clothes, and hundreds of servents, on condition that I would not read books, I would not be a king. I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading — Five years later on he writes : — " I must begin sooner or later to call you ' Margaret ; ' and... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - Liczba stron: 422
...and hnndreds of servants, on condition that I wonld not read books, I wonld not be a king. I wonld rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books, than a king who did not love reading — Five years later on he writes: "I mnst begin sooner or * Baba was a pet name for his niece Margaret,... | |
 | Addison Peale Russell - 1883 - Liczba stron: 378
...clothes, and hundreds of servants, on condition that I would not read books, I would not be a king. I would rather be a poor man in a garret, with plenty of books, than a king who did not love reading." When he was a little past fifty, he wrote to his old friend Ellis : " I do not think that I ever, at... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1883 - Liczba stron: 876
...clothes, and hundreds of servants, on condition that I would not read books, I would not be a king. I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading.' Macaulay ought to have belonged to a day which would have realised Plato's conception, when kings should... | |
 | 1886 - Liczba stron: 520
...clothes, and hundreds of 'servants, on condition that I would not read books, I would not be a king. I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading." Who can doubt him I Now, Mr. Harrison's theory is that every time one reads a bad book — a book,... | |
 | 1886 - Liczba stron: 860
...clothes, and hundreds ot servants, on condition that I would not read books, I would not be a king. I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading." Who can doubt him? Now, Mr. Harrison's theory is that every time one reads a bad book — a book, that... | |
 | Frederick Arnold, Author of Robertson of Brighton - 1888 - Liczba stron: 334
...clothes, and hundreds of servants, on condition that I would not read books, I would not be a king. I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading.' Macaulay ought to have belonged to a day which would have realized Plato's conception, when kings should... | |
 | 1892 - Liczba stron: 648
...the glory of the Indies." Fenlon would not accept all the crowns of the world in its place. Macaulay "would rather be a poor man in a garret, with plenty of books, than a king who did not love reading." When one sees the power of books, he feels like repeating with Charlee Lamb, "Grace before reading,"... | |
 | John Lubbock - 1894 - Liczba stron: 336
...clothes, and hundreds of servants, on condition that I should not read books, I would not be a king. I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading." Books, indeed, endow us with a whole enchanted palace of thoughts. There is a wider prospect, says... | |
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I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading. 
