 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...thy worth : Go, little Book ! in faith I send thee forth. Southcy. 345. BOOKS: cannot always please. — I see it yet ! What thronging memories come ! Again that little group is met \Vit Crabbc. 346. BOOKS : embodied thoughts. BOOKS are part of man's prerogative ; In formal ink they thought... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...The gem of truth from his unguarded soul. COWPER. Books are not seldom talismans and spells. heart. Books cannot always please, however good ; Minds are not ever craving for their food. CRAHHE. Books should to one of these four ends conduce : For wisdom, piely, delight, or use. SIR J.... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 pages
...business, entertain the light, And sleep, as undistnrb'd as death, the night. k. COWLEY— Of Myself . Books cannot always please; however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food. ¡. CRABBE— The Bourough. Letter XXTV. Schools. The monument of vanished mindes, m. Sir WM. D AVENANT... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...conveyed. Part ii. Jfarriagit. Jn this fool's paradise he drank delight.2 The Borough. Letter xii. Players. Books cannot always please, however good ; Minds are not ever craving for their food. Letter xxiv. Schvoli. In idle wishes fools supinely stay ; Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 pages
...thee, take care, that tak'st my book in hand, To read it well ; that is to understand. (Ben. Jonton. Books cannot always please, however good ; Minds are not ever craving for their food. (Orabbt LIVING THOUGHTS OF GREAT THINKERS. 785 I love to lose myself iu other men's minds. When I am... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 pages
...on his art, who stole The gem of truth from his unguarded soul. 455 Cowper : Tirocinium. Line 147. Books cannot always please, however good ; Minds are not ever craving for their food. 456 Crabbe : The Borough. Letter xxiv. Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial... | |
 | Harriet B. Swineford - 1883 - 302 pages
...He was a graphic, matter-of-fact poet. Author of The Library, The Village, The Parish Register, etc. Books cannot always please, however good : Minds are not ever craving for their food. The Bnroug\. In idle wishes fools supinely stay ; Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way. The Birth... | |
 | 1887 - 1332 pages
...and counsellors. Writer of the Sixteenth Century. 12. Books can never teach the use of books. 93 13. Books cannot always please, however good, Minds are not ever craving for their food. Crabbe. 14. Books don't tell when de bee-martin an de chicken-hawk fell out. American Negro. 15. Books... | |
 | 1891 - 556 pages
...ghosts, And kept the pale, unbodied shades to warn us From fleshless lips. Jiulwer. CANNOT ALWAYS PLEASE. Books cannot always please, however good, Minds are not ever craving for their food. Crabbe. COLLECTORS OP SCARCE. He that will have no books but those that are scarce, evinces about as... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 pages
...the books of all time. Kuskin. Books are embalmed minds. Bovte. Books are made from books. I'oltairc. Books cannot always please, however good ; / Minds are not ever craving for their food. С rabee. \, BOOKS BUSY Books generally do little else than give our errors names. Goethe* Books, like... | |
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Books cannot always please, however good ; Minds are not ever craving for their food ; But sleep will soon the weary soul prepare For cares to-morrow that were this day's care : For forms, for feasts, that sundry times have past, And formal feasts that... 
