The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors, Vol. 1 A man will turn half a library to make one book. - Johnson, Samuel, 1775, Life by Boswell. Adam scriveyn, if ever it thee bifalle Boece or Troilus to wryten newe, Under thy lokkes thou most have the scale But after my making thou wryte trewe. So ofte a daye I mot thy werk renewe, Hit to correcte and eek to rubbe and scrape; And al is through thy negligence and rape. - Chaucer, Geoffrey, c 1390, Wordes unto Adam, his Owne Scriveyn, Chaucer´s Works, ed. Skeat, vol. I, p. 379. Say worthy doctors and Clerkes curious: What moves you of Bokes to have such a number, Syn divers doctrines through way contrarious Doth mans minde distract and sore encomber; Alas, blind men awake, out of your slomber, And if ye will needs your books multiply With diligence endeavour you some to occupy. - Barclay, Alexander, 1509, The Shyp of Folys. Give me leave To enjoy myself; that place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me A glorious court, where hourly I converse With the old sages and philosophers; And sometimes, for variety, I confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their ounsels; Calling their victories, if unjustly got, Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy, Deface their ill-placed statues. Can I then Part with such constant pleasures, to embrace Uncertain vanities? No, be it your care To augment your heap of wealth; it shall be mine To increase in knowledge. - Lights there, for my study! - Fletcher, John, c 1625, The Elder Brother, Act I., Sc. 2. As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God´s ℑ but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. - Milton, John, 1644, Areopagitica, Works, Bohn ed., vol. II, p. 55. Books are the depositary of every thing that is most honourable to man. Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms. He that loves reading, has every thing within his reach. He has but to desire; and he may possess himself of every species of wisdom to judge, and power to perform. - Godwin, William, 1797, Of an Early Taste for Reading, The Enquirer, p. 31. At no hour of your life will the love of letters ever oppress you as a burden, or fail you as resource. In the vain and foolish exultation of the heart, which the brighter prospects of life will sometimes excite, the pensive portress of science shall call you to the sober pleasures of her holy cell. In the mortifications of disappointment, her soothing voice shall whisper serenity and peace. In social converse with the mighty dead of ancient days, you will never smart under the galling sensation of dependence upon the mighty living of the present age; and in your struggles with the world, should a crisis ever occur, when even friendship may deem it prudent to desert you; when even your country may seem ready to abandon herself and you; when, even priest and levite shall come and look on you, and pass by on the other side; seek refuge, my unfailing friends, and be assured you will find it, in the friendships of Laelius and Scipio; in the patriotism of Cicero, Demosthenes, and Burke; as well as in the precepts and example of Him, whose law is love, and who taught us to remember injuries only to forgive them. - Adams, John Quincy, 1809, Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory, vol
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