 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...  Nepenthe: A Novel - Page 3by Lydia M. Millard - 1864 - 323 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - English poetry - 1857 - 404 pages
...read my books, Without considering whether they were fit To do me good. Mark, there. We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating...profound, Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth — 'Tis then we get the right good from a book. I read much. What my father taught before From many... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Epic poetry, English - 1857 - 420 pages
...read my books, Without considering whether they were fit To do me good. Mark, there. We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating...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... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1857 - 388 pages
...read my books, Without considering whether they were fit To do me good. Mark, there. We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating...profound, Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth — 'Tis 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
...their language. We shall select one or two of those wise sentences at a venture : " We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating...profound, Impassioned 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... | |
 | 1858 - 456 pages
...good. Mark there. We get no good By being ungenerous even to a book, And calculating profits. . . . It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves,...profound, Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth, — 'Tis then we get the right good from a book." That is to say, our reading should not be professional,... | |
 | John Nichol - Criticism - 1860 - 256 pages
...their language. We shall select one or two of those wise sentences at a venture : — " We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating...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." —... | |
 | Science - 1881 - 824 pages
...ourselves, and plunce Soal-forward, lit-ad-long, into a book's profonnd, Impassioned for its beaut/ and salt of truth — ' Tin then we get the right good from a book." Snch was the "soul-forward, head-long plunge" which the boyish Henry now first took in the waters of... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1864 - 418 pages
...read my books, WitlBsirTcohsidering whether they were fit To do me good. Mark, there. Wo get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating...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.... | |
 | Congregationalism - 1865 - 652 pages
...we are sure to miss the greatest good of it. Mrs. Browning well states the case : " We get no good By being ungenerous even to a book And calculating...forget ourselves and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, in a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty or salt of truth, 'Tis then we get the right good... | |
 | Hiram Corson - Elocution - 1867 - 54 pages
...passively under the influence of our author. "We get no good/' says Mrs. Browning, in her " Aurora Leigh," "By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating...profound, Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth — ; Tis then we get the right good from a book." The sensibilities are the peculiar domain of the... | |
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