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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... PREFACE TO THE HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION IN SCOTLAND JOHN KNOX 61 PREFATORY LETTER TO SIR Walter RaleigH ON THE FAERIE QUEENE . EDMUND SPENSER 64 PREFACE TO THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD SIR WALTER RALEIGH 69 PROOEMIUM , EPISTLE DEDICATORY ...
... PREFACE TO THE HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION IN SCOTLAND JOHN KNOX 61 PREFATORY LETTER TO SIR Walter RaleigH ON THE FAERIE QUEENE . EDMUND SPENSER 64 PREFACE TO THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD SIR WALTER RALEIGH 69 PROOEMIUM , EPISTLE DEDICATORY ...
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... PREFACE TO THE FIRST FOLIO EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS .... .HEMINGE AND CONDELL 15 PREFACE TO THE PHILOSOPHIAE NATURALIS PRINCIPIA MATHE- MATICA ..SIR ISAAC NEWTON 15 TRANSLATED BY ANDREW MOTTE PREFACE TO FABLES , ANCIENT AND MODERN ...
... PREFACE TO THE FIRST FOLIO EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS .... .HEMINGE AND CONDELL 15 PREFACE TO THE PHILOSOPHIAE NATURALIS PRINCIPIA MATHE- MATICA ..SIR ISAAC NEWTON 15 TRANSLATED BY ANDREW MOTTE PREFACE TO FABLES , ANCIENT AND MODERN ...
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... Preface ; and this alone , if there were no other reason , would justify a volume of Prefaces . But there are other reasons why a Preface may be presented apart from its parent work , and may , indeed , be expected some- times to ...
... Preface ; and this alone , if there were no other reason , would justify a volume of Prefaces . But there are other reasons why a Preface may be presented apart from its parent work , and may , indeed , be expected some- times to ...
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... be come to their perfect years of discretion and ripeness of age , how well that their fathers have left to them great quantity of goods yet scarcely among ten two thrive , 16 WILLIAM CAXTON PREFACE TO FABLES, ANCIENT AND MODERN JOHN ...
... be come to their perfect years of discretion and ripeness of age , how well that their fathers have left to them great quantity of goods yet scarcely among ten two thrive , 16 WILLIAM CAXTON PREFACE TO FABLES, ANCIENT AND MODERN JOHN ...
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... , and do my part longing to my cure , I shall have heaven therefore ; and if their souls be lost , or 66 66 66 66 66 " And any of them by my default , I shall be 18 WILLIAM CAXTON WILLIAM CAXTON PREFACE TO JOSEPH ANDREWS HENRY FIELDING.
... , and do my part longing to my cure , I shall have heaven therefore ; and if their souls be lost , or 66 66 66 66 66 " And any of them by my default , I shall be 18 WILLIAM CAXTON WILLIAM CAXTON PREFACE TO JOSEPH ANDREWS HENRY FIELDING.
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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.