 | 1849 - 604 pages
...whatever we may think of the application of them : — ' Superficial it must be, but I do not care for the charge. ' Better a superficial book, which brings...acknowledged facts, than a dull boring narrative, « pausing to see farther into a mill-stone every moment than the * nature of the mill-stone admits. Nothing is... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 430 pages
...itself, that there is no fear of the book answering.* Superficial it must be, but I do not care for the charge. Better a superficial book which brings...acknowledged facts, than a dull boring narrative, pausing to see farther into a mill-stone at every moment than the nature of the mill-stone admits. Nothing... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 416 pages
...itself, that there is no fear of the book answering.* Superficial it must be, but I do not care for the charge. Better a superficial book which brings well and strikingly together the known and acr knowledged facts, than a dull boring narrative, pausing to see farther into a mill-stone at every... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 434 pages
...itself, that there is no fear of the book answering.* Superficial it must be, but I do not care for the charge. Better a superficial book which brings...acknowledged facts, than a dull boring narrative, pausing to see farther into a mill-stone at every moment than the nature of the mill-stone admits. Nothing... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 430 pages
...itself, that there is no fear of the book answering.* Superficial it must be, but I do not care for the charge. Better a superficial book which brings...acknowledged facts, than a dull boring narrative, pausing to see farther into a mill-stone at every moment than the nature of the mill-stone admits. Nothing... | |
 | 1849 - 608 pages
...principle, whatever we may think of the application of them: "Superficial it must be, but I do not care for the charge. Better a superficial book, which brings...acknowledged facts, than a dull, boring narrative, pausing to see farther into a millstone every moment than the Large as may be the waste of time, and still... | |
 | 1849 - 742 pages
...whatever we may think of the application of them :— " Superficial it must be, hut I do not care for the charge. Better a superficial book, which brings...acknowledged facts, than a dull boring narrative, pausing to see further into a mill-stone every moment than the nature of the mill-stone admits. Nothing is... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1849 - 608 pages
...principle, whatever we may think of the application of them: "Superficial it must be, but I do not care for ye, he can rebuild the temple or the theatre, half...grateful impression upon the senses than the ruins to see farther into a millstone every moment than the 154 THE VANITY AND THE GLORY OF LITERATURE. 155... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1850 - 542 pages
...whatever we may think of the application of them : — ' Superficial it must be, but I do not care for the charge. Better a superficial book, which brings...acknowledged facts, than a dull, boring narrative, pausing to see farther into a mill-stone every moment than the nature of the mill-stone admits. Nothing is... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1853 - 470 pages
...volumes of his letters and journals are thrust upon the world.* But of all this it would be as unreater a superficial book, which brings well and strikingly...acknowledged facts, than a dull, boring narrative, pausing to see farther into a millstone every moment than the nature of the millstone admits. Nothing is so... | |
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The story is so very interesting in itself, that there is no fear of the book answering.2 Superficial it must be, but I do not disown the charge. Better a superficial book, which brings well and strikingly together the known and acknowledged facts, than... 
