 | Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - 1899 - Liczba stron: 768
...cunning, to seeai to know that he doth not. SIR FRANCIS BACON. BOOKS. (From "The Essays of Ella.") •f* DEDICATE no inconsiderable portion of my time to other people's thoughts. I dream •w* away my life in others' speculations. I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When •*•... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1902 - Liczba stron: 302
...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...Books think for me. I have no repugnances. Shaftesbury 1 is not too i The third earl of Shaftesbury was the autljor pf " Characteristics of MUM and Manners,"... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1903 - Liczba stron: 380
...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...genteel for me, nor Jonathan Wild too low. I can \\ read any thing which I call a book. There are things i in that shape which I cannot allow for such. In this... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1903 - Liczba stron: 536
...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...genteel for me, nor Jonathan Wild too low. I can read any thing which I call a book. There are things in that shape which I cannot allow for such. In this... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903 - Liczba stron: 542
...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...genteel for me, nor Jonathan Wild too low. I can read any thing which I call a book. There are things in that shape which I cannot allow for such. In this... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1913 - Liczba stron: 484
...altogether, to the great improvement of his originality. At the hazard of losing some credit on this head, 1 must confess that I dedicate no inconsiderable portion...genteel for me, nor Jonathan Wild too low. I can read any thing which I call a book. There are things in that shape which I cannot allow for such. * In this... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903 - Liczba stron: 380
...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. 42 I have no repugnances. Shaftesbury is not too genteel for me, nor Jonathan Wild too low. I can read... | |
 | John Rogers - 1903 - Liczba stron: 116
...live in them." And if ever man lived in his books, Lamb did. " I dream away my life," he confessed, " in others' speculations. I love to lose myself in...reading ; I cannot sit and think. Books think for me." II. AN IZAAK WALTON CHAPTER. A " FINE Izaak Walton morning" greeted me on rising ; and soon I was away... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1904 - Liczba stron: 460
...improvement of his originality. At the hazard of losing some credit on this head, I must confess 5 that I dedicate no inconsiderable portion of my time...reading ; I cannot sit and think. Books think for me. 10 I have no repugnances. Shaftesbury is not too genteel for me, nor Jonathan Wild too low. I can read... | |
 | Walter Jerrold - 1905 - Liczba stron: 148
...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...men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading; 1 cannot sit and think. Books think for me. I have no repugnances. Shaftesbury is not too genteel for... | |
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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... 
