 We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits . . so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty and...  The Iowa Normal Monthly - Page 1041881Full view - About this book
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1857 - 388 pages
...being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits . . so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge...truth — 'Tis then we get the right good from a book. I read much. What my father taught before From many a volume, Love re-emphasised Upon the self-same... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - English poetry - 1857 - 404 pages
...being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits . . so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge...truth — 'Tis then we get the right good from a book. I read much. What my father taught before From many a volume, Love re-emphasised Upon the self-same... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Epic poetry, English - 1857 - 420 pages
...being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits . . so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge...profound, Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth — "Pis then we get the right good from a book. I read much. What my father taught before From many... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1858 - 924 pages
...being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits — so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge...truth — Tis then we get the right good from a book." —P. 26. " Many tender souls Have strung their losses on a rhyming thread As children cowslips : the... | |
 | 1858 - 456 pages
...Mark there. We get no good By being ungenerous even to a book, And calculating profits. . . . It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge...— 'Tis then we get the right good from a book." That is to say, our reading should not be professional, as Bentley would have it, who rebuked his son... | |
 | John Nichol - Criticism - 1860 - 258 pages
...gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassion'd for its beauty and salt of truth — 'Tis then we get the right good from a book." — (P. 26.) " Many tender souls Have strung their losses on a rhyming thread As children cowslips... | |
 | John Nichol - Criticism - 1860 - 256 pages
...being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits — so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassion'd for its beauty and salt of truth — "Pis then we get the right good from a book." —... | |
 | John Alfred Langford - Authors, English - 1861 - 400 pages
...ourfelves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impaflioned for its beauty and falt of truth — 'Tis then we get the right good from a book."* And thus "plunging" into "Don Quixote," what a right royal good we get ! Every adventure is a fource... | |
 | Lydia M. Millard - Women - 1864 - 330 pages
...being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits— so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge...profound, Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth, — 'Tin then we get the right good from a book." BROWNING. >JV, PUBLISHER, 413 BROADWAY. M DCCC LXIV.... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1864 - 418 pages
...being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits . . so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, knpassioned for its beauty and salt of truth — K^-^Z'Tis then we get the right good from a book.... | |
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