Excerpt from Some Ancient Melodies, and Other Experiments
We get no good,
By being ungenerous, even to a book,
And calculating profits... so much help
By so much reading. It is rather when
We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge
Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound.
Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth -
'T is then we get the right good from a book. - Mrs. Browning.
The author of this little volume hopes his public will heed the authoritative opinion just quoted; and, accordingly, be generous, and plunge, one and all, into his pages with an abandon near to the breaking of their souls and heads.
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