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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... things that he never said ne made , and leaving out many things that he made which be requisite to be set in it . And thus we fell at accord , and he full gently got of his father the said book , and delivered it to me , by which I have ...
... things that he never said ne made , and leaving out many things that he made which be requisite to be set in it . And thus we fell at accord , and he full gently got of his father the said book , and delivered it to me , by which I have ...
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... in the castle of Dover ye may see Gawain's skull and Caradoc's mantle ; at Winchester the round table ; in other places Lancelot's sword , and many other things . Then all these things considered , there 22 WILLIAM CAXTON 22.
... in the castle of Dover ye may see Gawain's skull and Caradoc's mantle ; at Winchester the round table ; in other places Lancelot's sword , and many other things . Then all these things considered , there 22 WILLIAM CAXTON 22.
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With Introductions, Notes and Illustrations. other things . Then all these things considered , there can no man reasonably gainsay but here was a king of this land named Arthur ; for in all places , Christian and heathen , he is reputed ...
With Introductions, Notes and Illustrations. other things . Then all these things considered , there can no man reasonably gainsay but here was a king of this land named Arthur ; for in all places , Christian and heathen , he is reputed ...
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... thing in total confusion . And yet you hear the smallest portion of what is alleged against it ; for such horrible things are circulated amongst the vulgar , that , if they were true , the whole world would justly pronounce it and its ...
... thing in total confusion . And yet you hear the smallest portion of what is alleged against it ; for such horrible things are circulated amongst the vulgar , that , if they were true , the whole world would justly pronounce it and its ...
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With Introductions, Notes and Illustrations. ourselves , so we should presume every thing of God ; nor are we divested ... things ; whereas they prove none of them from the word of God ? Why , but because their belly is their God , their ...
With Introductions, Notes and Illustrations. ourselves , so we should presume every thing of God ; nor are we divested ... things ; whereas they prove none of them from the word of God ? Why , but because their belly is their God , their ...
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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.