Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books: With Introductions, Notes and IllustrationsP.F. Collier & Son, 1910 - 462 páginas Each of the prefaces and prologues in this volume is a complete work of literature unto itself, offering a unique insight to the thoughts of its author. |
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... hope many more to receive of her Highness ) , but forthwith went and laboured in the said translation after my simple and poor cunning , also nigh as I can follow- ing my author , meekly beseeching the bounteous Highness of my said Lady ...
... hope many more to receive of her Highness ) , but forthwith went and laboured in the said translation after my simple and poor cunning , also nigh as I can follow- ing my author , meekly beseeching the bounteous Highness of my said Lady ...
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... hope of eternal salvation , and before men nothing but our weakness , the slightest confession of which is esteemed by them as the greatest disgrace . But our doctrine must stand , exalted above all the glory , and invincible by all the ...
... hope of eternal salvation , and before men nothing but our weakness , the slightest confession of which is esteemed by them as the greatest disgrace . But our doctrine must stand , exalted above all the glory , and invincible by all the ...
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... hope some of us are bound in chains , others are lashed with scourges , others are carried about as laughing - stocks , others are out- lawed , others are cruelly tortured , others escape by flight ; but we are all reduced to extreme ...
... hope some of us are bound in chains , others are lashed with scourges , others are carried about as laughing - stocks , others are out- lawed , others are cruelly tortured , others escape by flight ; but we are all reduced to extreme ...
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... proofs . So , influenced by these advisors and this hope , I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work , as they had long besought me to do . But perhaps Your Edliness will not so much wonder that 56 COPERNICUS.
... proofs . So , influenced by these advisors and this hope , I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work , as they had long besought me to do . But perhaps Your Edliness will not so much wonder that 56 COPERNICUS.
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... hope , seeing it is not truth , but opinion , that can travel the world without a passport . For were it other- wise ; and were there not as many internal forms of the mind , as there are external figures of men ; there were then some ...
... hope , seeing it is not truth , but opinion , that can travel the world without a passport . For were it other- wise ; and were there not as many internal forms of the mind , as there are external figures of men ; there were then some ...
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ancient Aristotle beauty book treateth Carloman cause character Charles the Bald Charles the Simple Chaucer Christ Christian Church containeth death divers divine doctrine doth drama earth effect English epic eternal Faery Queene faith father feelings follow French genius Geoffrey Chaucer give glory hand hath Holy honor hope human ignorance imagination infinite JOHN CALVIN judgment King King Arthur kingdom knowledge labour Lactantius language laws Le Cid learned less living Lord Lothair matter ment metre mind modern Molière nation nature never noble observation opinion Ovid passions persons philosophy pleasure poem poet poetry preface present princes prose Queen reader reason religion saith sciences sense Shakespeare Sir Kay sometimes soul spirit therein things thought tion tragedy translated true truth unto verse Virgil virtue whole William Caxton wise words write
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Página 258 - I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him; no man can say he ever had a fit subject for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of poets *Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi.
Página 258 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there.
Página 213 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
Página 224 - ... he carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate; for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place.
Página 217 - It was observed of the ancient schools of declamation, that the more diligently they were frequented, the more was the student disqualified for the world, because he found nothing there which he should ever meet in any other place. The same remark may be applied to every stage but that of Shakespeare.
Página 174 - But enough of this : there is such a variety of game springing up before me, that I am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.
Página 286 - It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition.
Página 318 - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Página 279 - It was published, as an experiment, which, I hoped, might be of some use to ascertain, how far, by fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation, that sort of pleasure and that quantity of pleasure may be imparted, which a Poet may rationally endeavour to impart.
Página 216 - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest ; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.