Gentle Reader
The Gentle Reader
作者：Crothers, Samuel McChord, 1857-1927
体例：题 章数：56
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共 56 题- THE GENTLE READER
- The Gentle Reader
- BY
- SAMUEL McCHORD CROTHERS
- BOSTON AND NEW YORK
- HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
- The Riverside Press, Cambridge
- By Samuel McChord Crothers
- All rights reserved
- Published October, 1903_
- Preface
- CONTENTS
- PAGE
- THE GENTLE READER 1
- THE ENJOYMENT OF POETRY 35
- THE MISSION OF HUMOR 64
- CASES OF CONSCIENCE CONCERNING WITCHCRAFTS 101
- THE HONORABLE POINTS OF IGNORANCE 135
- THAT HISTORY SHOULD BE READABLE 167
- THE EVOLUTION OF THE GENTLEMAN 201
- THE HINTER-LAND OF SCIENCE 227
- THE GENTLE READER'S FRIENDS AMONG THE CLERGY 243
- QUIXOTISM 271
- INTIMATE KNOWLEDGE AND DELIGHT 303
- The Gentle Reader
- In all good faith he invokes the goddess of the Dunciad:--
- The Gentle Reader nods placidly and joins in the ascription:--
- The Enjoyment of Poetry
- Into this land our daily cares cannot follow us. It is an
- We look over the mystic ramparts and are dimly conscious that
- Shelley describes a mood such as Keats brings to us:--
- It is good to be there, in that far-off time, good to come to Camelot:--
- Away with the old romance! Make room for the modern bard, who is
- Tennyson's apology to a utilitarian age was not needed:--
- The Mission of Humor
- In "The Last Tournament" we are told how
- Tennyson tells how
- Take the character sketch of Mr. Fearing:--
- Cases of Conscience Concerning Witchcrafts
- A CONFESSION
- In the "Proverbial Philosophy" we are told that
- The Honorable Points of Ignorance
- That History should be Readable
- Peter Bell could recognize a fact when he saw it:--
- The Evolution of the Gentleman
- The Hinter-land of Science
- The Gentle Reader's Friends among the Clergy
- Dull,--"Nor understood none neither, sir!"
- Leather-Head, the hobby-horse seller, asks very imprudently,--
- Quixotism
- Intimate Knowledge and Delight
- The answer is a description of his personal perfections:--
- We come upon a sublime spirit--
- That is Milton; but it is Milton also who can sing of--
- What would such an adventurous spirit make
- End of Project Gutenberg's The Gentle Reader, by Samuel McChord Crothers