 | 1906 - 730 ページ
...Langford. " No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting." — Lady Mary Wortiey Montagu. " At the head of all pleasures which offer...by books." — Voltaire. (Your own among the very worst.) " Books are the first and last, the most home-felt, the most heart-felt of all our enjoyments."... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - 652 ページ
...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 - 422 ページ
...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,... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1883 - 876 ページ
...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...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 be... | |
 | Addison Peale Russell - 1883 - 378 ページ
...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... | |
 | 1884 - 532 ページ
...the most worthy thing that all our industry and indulgence should be expended on them. To me, indeed, the light of the sun, the day, and life itself, would be joyless and bitter, if I had not something to read : if I lacked the works of the most illustrious men ; for, in comparison with their... | |
 | Book-lover - 1884 - 530 ページ
...the most worthy thing that all our industry and indulgence should be expended on them. To me, indeed, the light of the sun, the day, and life itself, would be joyless and bitter, if I had not something to read : if I lacked the works of the most illustrious men ; for, in comparison with their... | |
 | 1886 - 860 ページ
...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... | |
 | 1886 - 520 ページ
...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,... | |
 | Frederick Arnold, Author of Robertson of Brighton - 1888 - 334 ページ
...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...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 be... | |
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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. 
