Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.... You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. Y...ou bring your history and you read it in your own terms.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index,... and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own ... there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am told that Duclos' book is not in vogue in Paris, and that it is being violently criticized, apparently because readers unders...tand it; and being intelligible is no longer the fashion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To fair Fidele's grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring... Each opening sweet of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing spring.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Foolish prater, What dost thou So early at my window do?... Cruel bird, thou'st ta'en away A dream out of my arms to-day; A dream that ne'er must equall'd be By all that waking eyes may see. Thou this damage to repair Nothing half so sweet and fair, Nothing half so good, canst bring, Tho' men say thou bring'st the Spring.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here may we prove the pow'r of pray'r, To strengthen faith, and sweeten care;... To teach our faint desires to rise, And bring all heav'n before our eyes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »