reading (n.)
- address
- allocution
- application
- barometer
- beam
- bibliolatry
- bibliomania
- bookishness
- canon
- check
- classicism
- construction
- contemplation
- criterion
- culture
- debate
- declamation
- definition
- degree
- description
- diagnosis
- diatribe
- display
- drill
- echo
- edition
- engrossment
- eruditeness
- erudition
- eulogy
- exercise
- exhortation
- filibuster
- gauge
- grind
- grinding
- harangue
- humanism
- inaugural
- inspection
- interpretation
- invective
- jeremiad
- learnedness
- lection
- letters
- literacy
- lucubration
- meaning
- measure
- model
- norm
- oration
- parameter
- pattern
- pedantry
- peroration
- perusal
- philippic
- picture
- pitch
- practice
- quantity
- readout
- recital
- recitation
- reflection
- rendering
- rendition
- return
- review
- rule
- salutatory
- say
- scale
- scholarship
- screed
- signal
- speech
- spot
- standard
- study
- studying
- subject
- talk
- test
- text
- tirade
- touchstone
- trace
- type
- valediction
- valedictory
- value
- variant
- version
- yardstick
Stuff the head
With all such reading as was never read:
For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it,
And write about it, goddess, and about it.
The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception.
You write with ease to show your breeding,
But easy writing's curst hard reading.
He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
Stuff the head
With all such reading as was never read:
For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it,
And write about it, goddess, and about it.
Reading what they never wrote,
Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work,
And with a well-bred whisper close the scene.
