 The importance of reading, not slight stuff to get through the time, but the best that has been written, forces itself upon me more and more every year I live ; it is living in good company, the best company, and people are generally quite keen enough,...  The Sewanee Review - Page 1881896Full view - About this book
 | American essays - 1905 - 880 pages
...time [he writes], but the best that has been written, forces itself upon me more and more every year I live; it is living in good company, the best company;" and in Essays in Criticism, he tried to show us how to get at the best. These Essays, and the Discourses... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Critics - 1895 - 396 pages
...through the time, but the best that has been written, forces itself upon me more and more every year I live ; it is living in good company, the best company,...anything but newspapers and scientific publications. We have Nelly at home again ; she enjoyed herself greatly at the Goschens', and they were very kind... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Authors, English - 1895 - 464 pages
...Century, January 1882. 2 That the abbey church of Westminster was miraculously consecrated by St. Peter. best company, and people are generally quite keen...simplest and most innocent manner by reading. However, if 1 live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Poets, English - 1895 - 466 pages
...Century, January 1882. 2 That the abbey church of Westminster was miraculously consecrated by St. Peter. best company, and people are generally quite keen...simplest and most innocent manner by reading. However, if 1 live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers... | |
 | American fiction - 1899 - 544 pages
...through the time, but the best that has been written — forces itself upon me more and more every year I live ; it is living in good company, the best company,...anything but newspapers and scientific publications." He advises his sister, Mrs. Forster,3 "to read something of Burke's every year," because Burke " treats... | |
 | Edward Judson - Religion - 1899 - 224 pages
...get through time, but the best that has been written, forces itself upon me more and more every year I live; it is living in good company, the best company, and people generally are quite keen enough, or too keen about doing that, yet they will not do it in the simplest... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Critics - 1901 - 454 pages
...Stanley), Nineteenth Century, January 1882. 2 That the Abbey was miraculously consecrated by St. Peter. best company, and people are generally quite keen...anything but newspapers and scientific publications. We have Nelly at home again ; she enjoyed herself greatly at the Goschens', and they were very kind... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Quotations - 1903 - 160 pages
...through the time, but the best that has been written, forces itself upon me more and more every year I live ; it is living in good company, the best company,...that, yet they will not do it in the simplest and best manner by reading. However, if I live to be „ eighty I shall probably be the only person left... | |
 | English poetry - 1903 - 60 pages
...through the time, but the best that has been written, forces itself upon me more and more every year I live ; it is living in good company, the best company,...that, yet they will not do it in the simplest and best manner, by reading. MATTHEW ARNOLD. Sure, He that made uiwith such large discourse, Looking before... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1904 - 420 pages
...through the time, but the best that has been written, forces itself upon me more and more every year I live ; it is living in good company, the best company,...anything but newspapers and scientific publications. We have Nelly at home again ; she enjoyed herself greatly at the Goschens', and they were very kind... | |
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