 | Ellen Thompson - 1909 - Liczba stron: 238
...reading table is daily fed with assiduously fresh supplies. . . . I can read anything that is a book. I have no repugnances. Shaftesbury is not too genteel for me, nor Jonathan Wild too low. There are things in that shape which I cannot allow for such: Court Calendars, Directories, Pocketbooks,... | |
 | Temple Scott - 1909 - Liczba stron: 348
...inconsiderable portion of his time to other people's thoughts. "I dream [12] away my life," he said, " in others' speculations. I love to lose myself in other men's minds." He meant by this that books aroused in him the creative activity of the imagination. "Books think for... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1911 - Liczba stron: 452
...altogether, to the great improvement of his originality. At the hazard of losing some credit on this head, I must confess that I dedicate no inconsiderable portion...reading ; I cannot sit and think. Books think for me. In this catalogue of books winch are no books — biblia a-biblia — I reckon Court Calendars, Directories,... | |
 | Henry Eduard Legler - 1912 - Liczba stron: 78
...given him. In his whimsical fashion he tells in the essay "Detached thoughts on books and reading:" "I must confess that I dedicate no inconsiderable portion of my time 43 to other people's thoughts. I dream away my life in others' speculations. I love to lose myself... | |
 | 1914 - Liczba stron: 200
...altogether, to thegreat i mprovement of his originality. At the hazard of losing some credit on this head, I must confess that I dedicate no inconsiderable portion...others' speculations. I love to lose myself in other mens" minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think. Books think for me. I have... | |
 | William Alfred Quayle - 1916 - Liczba stron: 320
...(He out-Lowells Lowell who said, "I am a bookman.") At the hazard of losing some credit on this head, I must confess that I dedicate no inconsiderable portion...think. Books think for me. I have no repugnances. Shaftsbury is not too genteel for me, nor Jonathan Wild too low. I can read anything which I call a... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1917 - Liczba stron: 362
...altogether, to the great improvement of his originality. At the hazard of losing some credit on this head, I must confess that I dedicate no inconsiderable portion...Shaftesbury is not too genteel for me, nor Jonathan Wild l too slow. I can read anything which I call a book. There are things in that shape which I cannot... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1917 - Liczba stron: 716
...altogether, to the great improvement of his originality. At the hazard of losing some credit on this head, I must confess that I dedicate no inconsiderable portion of my time to other 1 From Shakespeare's dirge in Cymbeline. people's thoughts. I dream away my life in others' speculations.... | |
 | 1920 - Liczba stron: 838
...later books. Well, I found it impossible. But in general there are few novels which I am above reading. "Shaftesbury is not too genteel for me, nor 'Jonathan Wild' too low." I do not say I like them; but only that I am not a literary snob. And this is a very singular subject,... | |
 | 1921 - Liczba stron: 688
...trials, and sometimes in our perplexity they do our thinking, and point to right conclusions, for us. I love to lose myself In other men's minds. When I...reading : I cannot sit and think. Books think for me, says Lamb, who in his own sufferings found in books forgetfulness of pain, and who in his own books... | |
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I must confess that I dedicate no inconsiderable portion of my time to other people's thoughts. I dream away my life in others' speculations. I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading ; I cannot sit and think. Books... 
