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  • All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

    Book   Reading   Practice  
  • Have you an unexpurgated copy of Hannah More's 'Letters to a Village Maiden'?

  • Let my temptation be a book.

    Eugene Field (2012). “A Little Book of Western Verse”, p.47, tredition
  • Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod, one night sailed off in a wooden shoe; Sailed off on a river of crystal light into a sea of dew. "Where are you going and what do you wish?" the old moon asked the three. "We've come to fish for the herring fish that live in this beautiful sea. Nets of silver and gold have we," said Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod.

    Beautiful   Moon   Night  
    Eugene Field (2012). “The Works of Eugene Field Vol. IV: Poems of Childhood”, p.44, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Books do actually consume air and exhale perfumes.

    Book   Air   Perfume  
    Eugene Field (2012). “The Works of Eugene Field Vol. VII: The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac”, p.164, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.

    Ideas   Birth   Pendulums  
    "As One Mad with Wine and Other Similes" by Elyse Sommer, p. 207, 1991.
  • A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.

    Men   Poetry   Sausage  
    Eugene Field (1901). “The Complete Tribune Primer”
  • Here we have a baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs.

    Girl   Baby   Pairs  
    Eugene Field, Peter Pauper Press (1966). “A comic primer”
  • But he who truly loves books loves all books alike, and not only this, but it grieves him that all other men do not share with him this noble passion. Verily, this is the most unselfish of loves!

    Book   Passion   Men  
    Eugene Field (2012). “The Works of Eugene Field Vol. VII: The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac”, p.122, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.

    Kings   Fear   Play  
  • All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it

    Wings   Joy   Heaven  
    Eugene Field, Charles Walter Brown (1905). “John Smith, U.S.A.”
  • Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all.

    Eugene Field (1967). “The complete Tribune primer”
  • I never lost a little fish - Yes, I'm free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got away.

    Rivers   Lakes   Sea  
    Eugene Field, “Our Biggest Fish”
  • But I, when I undress me Each night, upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me With apple-pie and cheese.

    Food   Blessed   Night  
    'Apple Pie and Cheese'
  • The best of all physiciansIs apple pie and cheese!

    Apples   Pie   Apple Pie  
    Eugene Field, “Apple-Pie And Cheese”
  • The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.

    Fishing   Caught   Fishes  
    Eugene Field (2012). “A Little Book of Western Verse”, p.142, tredition
  • Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, Mother calls me Willie, but the fellows call me Bill!.

    Mother   Father   Names  
    Eugene Field, “Jest 'Fore Christmas”
  • Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe, - Sailed on a river of crystal light Into a sea of dew.

    Night   Light   Sea  
    "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" l. 1 (1889)
  • When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"

    Wine   Bird   Hot  
    Eugene Field (2012). “The Works of Eugene Field: Second Book of Verse”, p.77, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Not so, however, with books, for books cannot change. A thousand years hence they are what you find them to-day, speaking the same words, holding forth the same cheer, the same promise, the same comfort; always constant, laughing with those who laugh and weeping with those who weep.

    Cheer   Book   Years  
    Eugene Field (2012). “The Works of Eugene Field Vol. VII: The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.
  • I'd like a stocking made for a giant, And a meeting house full of toys, Then I'd go out in a happy hunt For the poor little girls and boys; Up the street and down the street, And across and over the town, I'd search and find them everyone, Before the sun went down.

    Christmas   Girl   Boys  
    Eugene Field (1901). “A Little Book of Tribune Verse: A Number of Hitherto Uncollected Poems, Grave and Gay”
  • How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the hall.

    Fall   Drinking   Boys  
    Eugene Field (2012). “The Works of Eugene Field: Second Book of Verse”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.
  • No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

    Eugene Field (2012). “The Works of Eugene Field Vol. VII: The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.
  • He is so mean, he won't let his little baby have more than one measle at a time.

    Sarcastic   Baby   Mean  
    Eugene Field, Peter Pauper Press (1966). “A comic primer”
  • What smells so? Has somebody been burning a Rag, or is there a Dead Mule in the Back yard? No, the Man is Smoking a Five-Cent Cigar.

    Men   Smell   Smoking  
    Eugene Field (1900). “The Tribune Primer”
  • Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.

    Eugene Field (2012). “A Little Book of Western Verse”, p.47, tredition
  • Used to think that luck wuz luck and nuthin' else but luck-- It made no diff'rence how or when or where or why it struck; But sev'ral years ago I changt my mind, an' now proclaim That luck's a kind uv science--same as any other game.

    Thinking   Years   Games  
    Eugene Field (2012). “Songs and Other Verse”, p.148, tredition
  • There is a glorious candor in an honest quart of wine, A certain inspitation which I cannot well define.

    Wine   Honest   Candor  
    Eugene Field, “The Bottle And The Bird”
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