 The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.  The Medical World - Page 371892Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - 1502 pages
...sometimes unavoidably produces. " There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student. , "but I think I one. We ought to lay hold of every incident in life forimprovement, the trifling as well as the important.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - 404 pages
...of luxury, but produces. " There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student. The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if 1 had gained a new friend. When I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting... | |
 | Public school series - 1874 - 408 pages
...sometimes unavoidably produces. There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student. The first time I read an excellent book, it is to...perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one. We ought to lay hold of every incident in life for improvement, the trifling as well as the important.... | |
 | Literature - 1906 - 730 pages
...minds; and these invaluable communications are within the reach of all." — Countess de Genlis. " The first time I read an excellent book, it is to...perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one." — Goldsmith. " By reading, we acquaint ourselves with the affairs, actions and thoughts of... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1879 - 428 pages
...running water, suddenly burst like a glimpse of Paradise upon their hungering eyes." — Mrs. Olifhant. " The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me as if I had gained a new friend." — Goldsmith. " But because you cannot be Handel and Mozart. is... | |
 | American literature - 1881 - 408 pages
...Poll — Goldsmith was a decided lover of books, as he tells us in " The Citizen of the World ": " The first time I read an excellent book, it is to...perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.' There is not much in English poetry in direct praise of literature, although it is not entirely... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1882 - 926 pages
...instruction from the press than the pulpit. IH. GOLDSMITH — The Citizen of tlie World. Letter LXXV. The first time I read an excellent book, it is to...perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one. 7i. GOLDSMITH— The Citizen nf the World. Letter LXXXIII. With spots of sunny openings, and with... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - English literature - 1883 - 932 pages
...to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. (Bacon. The first time I read an excellent book, it is to...perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one. (Ooldemitii. Learn to read slow ; all other graces Will follow in their proper places. ( Wm. Walter.... | |
 | Alexander Ireland - Books and reading - 1883 - 320 pages
...Oliver Goldsmith. 1728 — 1774. There is improbable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student. The first time I read an excellent book, it is to...perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one. — Citizen of the World. " In England, where there are as many new books published as in all... | |
 | Book-lover - 1883 - 262 pages
...is imprehable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student. The first time I read an exeellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend...perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one. —"Citizen of the Werld." HEV. DR. WILLIAM DODD. 1729— 1777. [Exeeuted for Forgery.] Books,... | |
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