In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers

In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers

AND OTHER PAPERS BY AGNES REPPLIER BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1894 Copyright, 1894, By AGNES REPPLIER. All rights reserved. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass. U. S. A. Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co. TO ANNIS LEE WISTER Montaigne and Howells letters, says Thackeray, are my bedside books. If I wake at night, I have one or other of them to prattle me to sleep again. They talk about themselves forever, and dont weary me. I like to hear them tell their old stories over and over again. I read them in the dozy hours, and only half remember them. In the frank veracity of this last confession there lies a pleasant truth which it is wholesome to hear from such excellent and undisputed authority. Many people have told us about the advantage of remembering what we read, and have imparted severe counsels as to ways and means. Thackeray and Charles Lamb alone have ventured to hint at the equal delight of forgetting, and of returning to some well-loved volume with recollections softened{2} into an agreeable haze. Lamb, indeed, with characteristic impatience, sighed for the waters of Lethe that he might have more than his due; that he might grasp a double portion of those serene pleasures of which his was no niggardly share. I feel as if I had read all the books I want to read, he wrote disconsolately to Bernard Barton. Oh! to forget Fielding, Steele, etc., and read em new! ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 58942
Author: Repplier, Agnes
Release Date: Feb 23, 2019
Format: eBook
Language: English