| 单词 | commonplace book |
| 例句 | Samuel Adams’s master’s thesis was “delivered in flawless Latin,” Alexander Hamilton copied Demosthenes into his commonplace book, and Thomas Jefferson modeled his oratory on the prose of Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z It's essentially a commonplace book, composed in the form of a book of days, which seeks to affront and arrest the reader with reminders of man's inhumanity to man. Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History by Eduardo Galeano – review 2013-05-17T10:46:43Z I could fill a jukebox, or a commonplace book, with selections. Review: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle: Book Four’ 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z This isn’t scripture, but rather a compendium of cuttings and jottings, an idiosyncratic commonplace book. ‘The Image Book’ Review: Godard Looks at Violence, and Movies 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z An earnest primer on values that takes the whimsical form of a letter from an imaginary medieval knight to his children, it falls somewhere between celebrity vanity project and quirky philosophical commonplace book. Ethan Hawke: Actor, novelist — spiritual guide? 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z I love Garner’s notion of a “commonplace book,” a gathering of noteworthy excerpts from one’s reading. Walt Whitman, Parenting Books and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z It is a “blog” in the proper sense — a “web log,” part commonplace book and part ledger of a life. Maria Popova: By the Book 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z The books of quotations that rarely let you down are commonplace books, those intellectual scrapbooks made for personal use and compiled by a single avid reader. Review: J. D. McClatchy’s Secret Autobiography, in Quotations 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z The manuscript diary and personal, commonplace book flourished. We Are What We Read 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z But mostly his account is an endlessly fascinating commonplace book of other people’s drawings from all over the world. 5 Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z As it happens, I’ve kept my own commonplace book since I was in college. Review | These ‘Christmas crackers’ offer surprises for lovers of language 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z But there is one notebook I’ve kept up regularly for a decade: my commonplace book. Commonplace Books Are Like a Diary Without the Risk of Annoying Yourself 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z If you’ve never made a commonplace book before, first learn how others have used them. Create a Digital Commonplace Book 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z Steinke partakes in the current trend of cross-genre memoir—stories that are heavily decorated with quotations, part autobiography and part commonplace book. Where Are All the Books About Menopause? 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z And he took copious notes, organized by topic, in his commonplace book — the database of the era. The forgotten founder of ornithology 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z Perhaps they’ll inspire some readers to start keeping their own commonplace books. Review | These ‘Christmas crackers’ offer surprises for lovers of language 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z Or Nicholson Baker on commonplace books: “My own bristling brain-urchins of worry melt in the strong solvent of other people’s grammar.” Commonplace Books Are Like a Diary Without the Risk of Annoying Yourself 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z Academic libraries, along with museums, are home to many commonplace books, and you can see them without leaving the couch. Create a Digital Commonplace Book 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z And filtering is the whole point: a commonplace book that contains everything would be as useless as one that didn’t exist. Want to read this article later? Maybe you should just print it out | Oliver Burkeman 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z From Montaigne I also learned the importance of keeping a commonplace book. 28 Secrets of Exceptionally Productive People 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Besides keeping my own commonplace book, I enjoy reading similar compilations by others. Review | These ‘Christmas crackers’ offer surprises for lovers of language 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z After his wife left him in 1642, John Milton processed it in his commonplace book, chronicling a reading binge about bad marriages. Commonplace Books Are Like a Diary Without the Risk of Annoying Yourself 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z And the Internet Archive has hundreds of digitized commonplace books for browsing or borrowing, including one from Sir Alec Guinness. Create a Digital Commonplace Book 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z Come to think of it, maybe what I really need is … an actual commonplace book? Want to read this article later? Maybe you should just print it out | Oliver Burkeman 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z My own first purchase from the Carnegie Book Shop was a 57-volume collection of the works of Maurice Baring, the author of a once famous commonplace book titled “Have You Anything to Declare?” Opinion: Lost Booksellers of New York 2014-05-10T18:30:01Z Or what we in archaic English English call a “commonplace book”. The Global Differences Between Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn And Pinterest 2013-12-30T17:41:00Z Arthur Conan Doyle transcribed criminology theories in his, and then gave Sherlock Holmes his own commonplace book, filled with intel on up-and-coming forgers. Commonplace Books Are Like a Diary Without the Risk of Annoying Yourself 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z As for Kindle readers who have been marking passages in their e-books for years: You can see all your highlights at https://read.amazon.com/notebook and decide which lines you’d like to add to your commonplace book. Create a Digital Commonplace Book 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z In other words, I’ve constructed a nearly seamless yet rather elaborate digital system for ending up very close to where the pre-digital keepers of commonplace books began. Want to read this article later? Maybe you should just print it out | Oliver Burkeman 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z He talks about how books are passed down through generations, like his 1923 copy of Ben Jonson's commonplace book, acquiring marginalia and emotional resonance. Bits Blog: A Champion of the Book Takes to the iPad 2012-08-17T12:00:02Z We see more Pinterest activity in the US as a result of the continued popularity of scrapbooking, or as I would call it, creating a commonplace book. The Global Differences Between Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn And Pinterest 2013-12-30T17:41:00Z I started keeping a commonplace book in college for an English assignment. Commonplace Books Are Like a Diary Without the Risk of Annoying Yourself 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z What if you’re someone who has been keeping a physical commonplace book for years but would like to digitize the whole thing without retyping it all? Create a Digital Commonplace Book 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z I had full access to his records and commonplace books, and through these means was enabled to verify much that had come to me in an imperfect condition. The Story of the Great Fire in St. John, N.B., June 20th, 1877 2012-03-27T02:00:21.067Z A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z The two commonplace books I have recently published, written by Jefferson during his student days and consulted by him throughout his life, could rightly be called "Jefferson self-revealed." Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism 2011-11-23T03:00:55.563Z Keeping a commonplace book feels like a kinder way to grow, by wrestling with the articulations of others in the open as I hopefully adjust myself within. Commonplace Books Are Like a Diary Without the Risk of Annoying Yourself 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z Here’s how to get started making a digital commonplace book — or how to convert that battered notebook of thoughts and quotes you’ve been keeping all along. Create a Digital Commonplace Book 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z She had copied them into her commonplace book, doubtless without guile. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z The Fiori and Giardini are little better than commonplace books, in which the author's personality is lost beneath a mass of extracts and citations. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z And if he used a poetical commonplace book, he used either Bysshe or one of the five other works which were produced in imitation of Bysshe. The Art of English Poetry (1708) 2011-01-29T03:00:20.010Z Burn them; or take them to America, to your North, and deposit them in a museum, as the commonplace books of Montezuma. Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico It was in all probability a mere commonplace book, in which certain circumstances of daily life got mixed up with the written details of his station in the Duke's household. Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume II (of II) It is a good plan, in order to fix on your mind what you read and wish to remember, to keep a commonplace book. Harper's Round Table, August 27, 1895 The narrative of my tragic experience may be completed by the transcription of two newspaper accounts, which I preserve pasted in a commonplace book. International Short Stories English Thus much of the form into which, as the only one which, however imperfectly, suited my liking, I have worked these notes, taken from out of the confusion of my commonplace books. Belcaro Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions The notes of research for 'Harold' fill several thick commonplace books.... Methods of Authors Another practise is that of keeping a commonplace book, and transcribing into it what is striking and interesting and suggestive. The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 In turning over my late friend Ferrier’s commonplace book, I find three poems from Viol and Flute copied out in his hand: “When Flower-time,” “Love in Winter,” and “Mistrust.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) Next came the moots, after which he slammed his chamber-door, and set to work with his commonplace book to index all the law he had amassed during the day. Old and New London Volume I It is a work without the least value, except as a convenient commonplace book or vade mecum, for tyro politicians and young divines, to smooth their progress in the Church or the State. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Hazlitt had used them as a commonplace book, writing on them in pencil scraps of brilliant thoughts, half-lines of poetry, and references. Methods of Authors In these Pope's verse is as perfect as it is anywhere; and his subject is borrowed, not from his commonplace book, but from his own experiences. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History It is, in fact, a commonplace book, and the arrangement of the contents is merely casual, following the course of his reading of Greek and Latin authors. Helps to Latin Translation at Sight It would be hard to name a better commonplace book for summer lawns. . . . The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare As we have said already, it looks very like the contents of a commonplace book, in which materials for other works—notably for the Commedia—were collected. Dante: His Times and His Work It is not a commonplace book, nor is anything else of its author's; but the price paid for the absence of commonplaceness is excessive. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century A MS. copy, in a commonplace book found at Hamburg, is signed “W. S.” Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age I send the note as I have it in my commonplace book; but I should think that the periodical from which the above is extracted, contains much that would suit A. A.'s purpose. Notes and Queries, Number 76, April 12, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc I shall put that down in my commonplace book when I go home. Vixen, Volume III. The third is a note of reprobation, levelled at those sentences in which you have adopted that worst sort of vulgar language, commonplace book language. Studies in Literature and History The great presses of the country go on year after year grinding out commonplace books, just as each generation goes on busily reproducing its own mediocrity. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Mr. Brewer describes it as in Sir Henry Yelverton's Collection, for no other apparent reason than that the document is in a commonplace book, which includes three speeches by Yelverton. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography What was that little poem about the Greek mountains that you told me the other day?" asked Rose, as they drove along,—"the one you have copied in your commonplace book. Hildegarde's Holiday a story for girls That might give the impression of a most methodic worker and thinker, who had before him a carefully-indexed commonplace book, into which he posted at the proper place his rough notes and suggestions. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 Show them up, please; and—here, wait a moment—on your way you can take Makins an armful of my commonplace books—eighteen sixty-three to seven; that will do. Shining Ferry Perhaps the most innocuous way in which we may digress is by compiling one of those delectable literary hotch-potches known as 'commonplace books.' The Book-Hunter at Home I suppose because nothing really worth noting has occurred, and it is not for nothing that a diary is called a commonplace book. Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes And yet it appears to have been deliberately copied with some amplification from an entry in his last year's commonplace book. Robert Burns A search through his commonplace book brought no balm. Love Among the Chickens A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm He advises all young men and young women to keep commonplace books. How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune In brief, it is an example of the commonplace books which abounded in the seventeenth century. Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series The little volume of 'Miscellanies,' including his commonplace book and his notes for his books, which was published by his daughter, exhibits with great clearness the character of his mind. Historical and Political Essays The manuscripts seen by Mallet may probably have been a commonplace book in which Bolingbroke had set down some of these fragments, by way of instructing Pope, and preparing for his own more systematic work. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series A commonplace book is the author's rag bag. Love Among the Chickens A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm I remember copying in a commonplace book some of Carlyle's sonorous passages that stir the blood of the young like a bugle call to arms. Modern English Books of Power He entered it in his commonplace book within thirty years of Shakespeare's death. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays However, the simple commonplace book of a traveller in a totally new country can never be without its interest. Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government To one who has labored in preparing sermons, each chapter looks like the cullings of the preacher's commonplace book set in order for memorizing; and very many sentences are rhetorically faulty. Life of Father Hecker This supposition is further borne out as follows: The particular commonplace book in which this poem occurs has been written by various hands. The Choise of Valentines Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo My memory is well stored, but unfortunately I have never kept a diary or commonplace book of any kind. Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland A commonplace book contains copious extracts from historians, and he tells Diodati that he has read Greek history to the fall of Constantinople. Life of John Milton It was cold-looking without, but cosy within, "like a north-country heart," said Miss Kitty, who was a woman of sentiment, and kept a commonplace book. Tales from Many Sources Vol. V The last sentence in The Brothers recalls the last entry in Mrs. Ewing's commonplace book, which is quoted in her Life—"If we still love those we lose, can we altogether lose those we love?" Miscellanea He was calm in the conviction that he could measure and calculate the universe, and draw its plan in his commonplace book. Idolatry A Romance Each girl brought a commonplace book to the recitation room to take notes as I talked. Memories and Anecdotes "But I shall have so much writing to do if I am to make a commonplace book on each subject." Stray Thoughts for Girls The sentences which seem at first sight copied from a commonplace book, are found to be appropriate. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series In the little room was a writing-desk, covered with manuscripts and commonplace books. The End of the World A Love Story If irregular and commonplace people have the right to exist, surely irregular and commonplace books have a right to exist by their side. The Art of Letters His commonplace books abound in ingenious queries and minute observations regarding physical facts, conceived in the very spirit of our modern school:--"What is the use of dew-claws in dogs?" Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Indeed, the difficulty is to understand why some of these men should have written at all; harder still, why others should have wanted to read their poems and orations and commonplace books. The Jesus of History From boyhood onward he kept journals and commonplace books, and in the course of his reading and meditation he collected innumerable notes and quotations which he indexed for ready use. Emerson and Other Essays This collection," he says, "was the result of his habit, pursued for many years, of copying into his commonplace book any poem which specially pleased him. Ralph Waldo Emerson Barely a third of them could be attributed to their reputed author, the work being compiled mainly from various commonplace books. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and Letters It is the kind of book that grows out of a romantic disposition and an assiduously stuffed commonplace book. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 146, January 14, 1914 To others they might appear quite commonplace books, without much value from any point of view. The Soul of a Child The mention of quotations puts me in mind of commonplace books, which have been long in use by industrious young divines, and I hear do still continue so. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 My various reading I now digested, according to the precept and model of Mr. Locke, into a large commonplace book--a practice, however, which I do not strenuously recommend. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters Another practice is that of keeping a commonplace book, and transcribing into it what is striking and interesting and suggestive. Studies in Literature They have nearly all seen her commonplace book, I judge. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 146, January 14, 1914 Fancy a man of fifty having his commonplace book of poetry! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 He kept a commonplace book in which most of his business letters of the period under consideration were recorded. James Otis, the pre-revolutionist I have no "vast magazine of a commonplace book." The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 Several volumes of Mrs. Leigh's commonplace books are in existence, filled with extracts mostly on religious topics. The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 The story which he tells, with obvious self-satisfaction, of how he spent the awful night of the eruption of Vesuvius in making extracts from Livy for his commonplace book, sets the whole man before us. Latin Literature Most of the material collected in the commonplace book is used in his prose pamphlets. Milton The work itself is a commonplace book of agriculture and domestic economy; its object is utility, not science: it serves the purpose of a farmer's and gardener's manual, a domestic medicine, herbal, and cookery book. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities We give him all the sesterces we have about us, along with a few sustaining aphorisms from our commonplace book upon the folly, if not the wickedness, of suicide, and see him safely home. Horace One's first thought, of course, is of the commonplace book. The Guide to Reading — the Pocket University Volume XXIII Washington, at thirteen, copied into his commonplace book one hundred and ten maxims of civility and good behavior, and was most careful in the formation of all his habits. The True Citizen, How to Become One On my brother’s death I came into possession of several of his early commonplace books filled with sketches for articles; some of these are more developed than others, but they are all of them fragmentary. The Fair Haven From one point of view the novel is a huge, commonplace book, into which Dostoevski put all sorts of whimsies, queries, and vagaries. Essays on Russian Novelists It might turn out to be a very commonplace book after all. Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood Personally, I believe in the commonplace book so long as we don't expect too much from it. The Guide to Reading — the Pocket University Volume XXIII I have always kept a diary and commonplace books and for many years I wrote criticisms of everything I read. Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One My mother had a commonplace book into which she had copied the cleverest of these skits, and Landseer illustrated it charmingly in pen-and-ink for her. The Days Before Yesterday He half remembered some of his sporting stories, and supplemented these by gleanings from his own commonplace book. The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen No; for commonplace books are generally new, or at least in fine bindings. Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood A commonplace book kept with moderation is really useful, and may be delightful. The Guide to Reading — the Pocket University Volume XXIII The donor was greatly amused, and noted down the incident and some of the remarks in his commonplace book, under the general head of "Bestiarium;" and the particular head of "Homo." White Lies While most orators are relying upon their libraries and their commonplace book, and their friends for material, he apparently found more in every twenty-four hours than he could use. My Memories of Eighty Years Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he placed his cuttings. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes I had already written down in my commonplace book a resolution to give at least twenty-five copies of this book each year to noble young people of my acquaintance. Twenty Years at Hull House; with autobiographical notes They went down; and this patient sufferer, and high minded conqueror, of her own accord took up a commonplace book, and read aloud for two mortal hours to her mother and Aubertin. White Lies |
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