 IN anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the perusal, our mind filled with the busiest, kaleidoscopic dance of...  The South Atlantic Quarterly - Page 189edited by - 1906Full view - About this book
 | 1883 - 708 pages
...the process J_ itself should be absorbing and voluptuous ; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the perusal, our mind...thenceforward in our ears like the noise of breakers, or the story, if it be a story, repeat itself in a thousand coloured pictures to the eye. It was for... | |
 | 1883 - 736 pages
...reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the perusal, our mind...thenceforward in our ears like the noise of breakers, or the story, if it be a story, repeat itself in a thousand coloured pictures to the eye. It was for... | |
 | Arlo Bates - English language - 1896 - 342 pages
...; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the perusal, our minds filled with the busiest, kaleidoscopic dance of images, incapable of sleep or continuous thought. The intoxication of the ideal which this gives us is so full of suggestion, it... | |
 | Arlo Bates - English language - 1896 - 342 pages
...; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the perusal, our minds filled with the busiest, kaleidoscopic dance of images, incapable of sleep or continuous thought. The intoxication of the ideal which this gives us is so full of suggestion, it... | |
 | Arlo Bates - English language - 1896 - 354 pages
...; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the perusal, our minds filled with the busiest, kaleidoscopic dance of images, incapable of sleep or continuous thought. The intoxication of the ideal which this gives us is so full of suggestion, it... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1906 - 238 pages
...the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous ; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the perusal, our mind...continuous thought. The words, if the book be eloquent, sliould run thenceforward in our ears like the noise ol breakers, and the story, if it be a stury,... | |
 | Book collecting - 1906 - 728 pages
...authority, "the process should be absorbing and voluptuous ; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the perusal, our mind...images, incapable of sleep or of continuous thought." That is a very exact description of a mental state that many will probably experience on reading The... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Absence and presumption of death - 1913 - 328 pages
...that faith in the moving power of fiction. "We should gloat over a book," he says, "be wrapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the perusal, our mind...images, incapable of sleep or of continuous thought." In the same essay, entitled "A Gossip on Romance," he exclaims passionately, " Give me a highwayman... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1911 - 324 pages
...the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous ; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the perusal, our mind filled with the busiest, kaleidoscopic dance-of 1m?Tges7TncapaBTe~of sleep or oTcohtinuous thought. The words, if the book be eloquent, should... | |
 | John Henry Grafton Grattan - English language - 1925 - 354 pages
...might condemn it as a patent disloyalty." Times Literary Supplement, 1915, cii. Kruisinga EAS. 34. " The words, if the book be eloquent, should run thenceforward in our ears like the noise of breakers." RL STEVENSON, Memories and Portraits. 35. " If the attitude of the French Government were known to... | |
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