His quotations, which abound in every page, are pertinent; but if he had made more use of his invention and less of his commonplace-book, his work would perhaps have been more valuable than it is. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Whatever he read, with the assistance of a commonplace-book, he accurately remembered, and could readily turn to account; and, though his library was contained in a closet of five feet square, he was abundantly well informed on every ordinary topic of conversation. ❋ Various (N/A)
Men who are kept by a commonplace-book go about raking everywhere for glittering scraps, which they carry home to be sorted in their æsthetic junk-shop. ❋ Various (N/A)
One evening, the last, I think, but one, I had occasion to go to my daughter's room, and found her writing in her commonplace-book. ❋ Sara Jeannette Duncan (N/A)
He never has a conventional image, and never resorts to the second-hand frippery of a poetical commonplace-book to tag his verses with. ❋ Various (N/A)
_ The simplest form of commonplace-book is a plain quarto MS. book ruled in an ordinary way, and in this entries may be made without being alphabeted. ❋ Arthur Lee Humphreys (1905)
The recipe for keeping a commonplace-book may, however, it is to be hoped, be repeated without giving offence to any one. ❋ Arthur Lee Humphreys (1905)
A commonplace-book contains many notions in garrison, whence an owner may draw out an army into the field on competent warning. ' ❋ Arthur Lee Humphreys (1905)
When in the course of your reading you come on a passage which strikes you as worthy of being common-placed, copy it legibly in your commonplace-book. ❋ Arthur Lee Humphreys (1905)
Every one has his and her own way of keeping a commonplace-book. ❋ Arthur Lee Humphreys (1905)
There is no doubt that note-books are very useful, but no note-book or commonplace-book should take the place of the natural memory -- and every one has a good memory for something. ❋ Arthur Lee Humphreys (1905)
The utmost he could do to avert the threatened mischief he did, and this was to make an entry in a commonplace-book which he kept for such uses, explaining the origin and history of the poem, and expressing a conviction that it seemed to him to be remarkable only from its entire paucity of even ordinary poetic promise. ❋ Hall Caine (1892)
Some, it is true, are set down in a shorthand fashion as if (which doubtless they were) they were commonplace-book notes for working up in due season. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)
He very neatly fitted into his mosaic word-pictures the titbits he had culled in his commonplace-book out of many poets, and so utilised them. ❋ Tupper, Martin F (1886)
She read and studied the Irish problem, and one day copied this passage from Henry George into her commonplace-book: ❋ Elbert Hubbard (1885)
"I have my trade, a lame leg and the marks of smallpox -- and I never was good-looking, anyway," he wrote in his commonplace-book. ❋ Elbert Hubbard (1885)
My correspondent received it himself from Alexander, fourth Duke of Gordon, and he had entered it in a commonplace-book when he heard it, in 1826. ❋ Ramsay, Edward B (1874)
I did this in thirty pages of closely written matter, of which a pressed copy remains in my commonplace-book. ❋ Samuel Butler (1868)
Laura handed him her commonplace-book and called his attention to the fact that the handwriting there and the handwriting of this speech were the same. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)
