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Y- Book. The Book and the Ring. L. 842. There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.— filed under Art
Golden volumes! richest treasures, Objects of delicious pleasures ! You my eyes rejoicing please, You my hands in rapture seize! Brilliant wits and musing sages, Lights who beam'd through many ages! Left to your conscious leaves their story, And dared to trust you with their glory; And now their hope of fame achiev'd, Dear volumes! you have not deceived !— filed under Books
Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners.— filed under Borrowing
A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumny, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principle has taken full effect on this state favorite.— filed under Butchering
The act of contemplation then creates the thing contemplated.— filed under Contemplation
The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.— filed under Criticism
Literature. Literary Journals. Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised. S.— filed under Criticism
The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.— filed under Education
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a statue, into the very ideal presence whence these works have really originated. A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.— filed under Envy
Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.— filed under Friendship
Manners of the Present Age. Opinions. Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.— filed under Genius
Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.— filed under Genius
ture. Poverty of the Learned. Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.— filed under Genius
Men of Genius. Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.— filed under Genius
To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius-the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.— filed under Genius
The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.— filed under Greatness
The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves -the creature of habits and infirmities.— filed under Invention
Literature. Pamphlets. Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.— filed under Literature
Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.— filed under Literature
Astronomy. It does at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite delight than a farmer who is conducting his team.— filed under Occupations-Alchemy
And, after all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style. น.— filed under Occupations-Alchemy
Democritus to the Reader. The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all sorts of other authors, for their pleasure, or their utility; in such a manner that it becomes impossible even for the author himself to recognise his own work, his own genius, and his own style, so skilfully shall the whole be disguised.— filed under Plagiarism
The poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste; one to whom labour is negligence, refinement a science, and art a nature.— filed under Poets
The greater part of our writers, *** have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote in return are seldom quoted.— filed under Quotation
Literature. Quotation. The wisdom of the wise and the experience of ages may be preserved by QUOTATION. aa.— filed under Quotation
Birmingham Free Library. Oct. 26, 1866. The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.— filed under Reading
Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.— filed under Self-Love
Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, and enthusiasm is the true parent of genius. In all ages solitude has been called for-has been flown to.— filed under Solitude
There is a society in the deepest solitude.— filed under Solitude