| Virginia Thomas, Betty Davis Miller - 1986 - 120 páginas
...suggests that in reading we are seeking an "enlargement of our being" (1961, 137). He continues, But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. ... I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action,... | |
| Clive Staples Lewis - 1989 - 678 páginas
...destroy the privilege. In them our separate selves are pooled and we sink back into subindividuality. But in reading great literature I become a thousand men...myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing,... | |
| A. N. Wilson - 2002 - 370 páginas
...the privilege. In them our separate selves are pooled and we sink back into sub-individuality. But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like a night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship,... | |
| Nicholas Tucker - 1990 - 276 páginas
...one of the most valuable potential gifts available from books. In the words of CS Lewis, once again, 'In reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself ... I see with myriad eyes, but it is still I that see ... I transcend myself; and am never more myself... | |
| Kath Filmer-Davies - 1992 - 180 páginas
...reading is not a mundane activity for Lewis, but rather a transcendental and quasi-religious one: But in reading great literature I become a thousand men...moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do. (Lewis, Experiment 141) Of course, it is easy enough to argue... | |
| C. S. Lewis - 1992 - 166 páginas
...the -privilege. In them our separate selves are pooled and we sink back into sub-individuality. But in reading great literature I become a thousand men...myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing,... | |
| Charles Martindale - 1993 - 156 páginas
...words: 'Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality ... in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself ... I see with myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action,... | |
| William Kilpatrick, Gregory Wolfe, Suzanne M. Wolfe - 1994 - 340 páginas
...that book traveling not only gives us perspective on others but also on ourselves. CS Lewis wrote: But in reading great literature I become a thousand men...moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do. At one and the same time reading carries us out to others and... | |
| Frederick Houk Borsch - 1996 - 284 páginas
...the privilege. In them our separate selves are pooled and we sink back into sub-individuality. But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like a night sky in the Greek poem, I see with myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship,... | |
| Confucius - 1997 - 260 páginas
...brutes cannot write books. Very gladly would I learn what face things present to a mouse or a bee . . . In reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in a Greek poem, I see with a thousand eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love,... | |
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