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Adventures in Criticism (Classic Reprint)

Author : A. Thomas Quiller-Couch
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781440096495
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (964 download)

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Download or read book Adventures in Criticism (Classic Reprint) written by A. Thomas Quiller-Couch and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Adventures in Criticism The short papers which follow have been reprinted, with a few alterations, from T be Speaker. Possibly you knew this without my telling you. Possibly, too, you have sat in a theatre before now and seen the curtain rise on two characters exchanging information which must have been their common property for years. So this dedication is partly designed to save me the trouble of writing a formal preface. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Principles and Methods of Literary Criticism (Classic Reprint)

Author : Lorenzo Sears
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331586982
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book Principles and Methods of Literary Criticism (Classic Reprint) written by Lorenzo Sears and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Principles and Methods of Literary Criticism "In every work regard the writer's end." - Pope. An attempt to guide a class in literature in making critical estimates of their reading resulted in the following chapters. Reference was also had to the possible needs of some who intended to serve an apprenticeship in journalism, with its incidental book-reviewing; but beyond both these purposes was kept in mind the advantage of intelligent appreciation by educated readers of such literature as should appeal to mature tastes. Accordingly sundry methods and principles of criticism have been mentioned with the intention of showing that there is a choice among them, and that the best criticism promotes good literature, of which it is itself one of the highest forms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Literature and Criticism (Classic Reprint)

Author : H. Coombes
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331401646
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Literature and Criticism (Classic Reprint) written by H. Coombes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Literature and Criticism The validity of this little book depends upon the belief that the character of a writer's whole achievement can only be felt and assessed by responding sensitively to the way in which he uses words, and that the capacity to make such a response can be formed or greatly enhanced by a training in literary criticism. D. H. Lawrence says some excellent things about critics and criticism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Adventures in Criticism

Author : Arthur Thomas Quiller Couch
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781725180314
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Adventures in Criticism written by Arthur Thomas Quiller Couch and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-13 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventures in Criticism by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch After twenty-five years of close toil, Professor Skeat has completed his great edition of Chaucer. It is obviously easier to be dithyrambic than critical in chronicling this event; to which indeed dithyrambs are more appropriate than criticism. For when a man writes Opus vitæ meæ at the conclusion of such a task as this, and so lays down his pen, he must be a churl (even if he be also a competent critic) who will allow no pause for admiration. And where, churl or no churl, is the competent critic to be found? The Professor has here compiled an entirely new text of Chaucer, founded solely on the manuscripts and the earliest printed editions that are accessible. Where Chaucer has translated, the originals have been carefully studied: "the requirements of metre and grammar have been carefully considered throughout" and "the phonology and spelling of every word have received particular attention." We may add that all the materials for a Life of Chaucer have been sought out, examined, and pieced together with exemplary care. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Some Principles of Literary Criticism (Classic Reprint)

Author : C. T. Winchester
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331053989
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book Some Principles of Literary Criticism (Classic Reprint) written by C. T. Winchester and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Some Principles of Literary Criticism The following chapters were first prepared for the college lecture room, and, although since rewritten, they doubtless still betray by a certain dull, didactic manner the place of their origin. While directing the work of college classes, I had often looked about for a book that should give a compendious statement of the essentials of literature and the grounds of critical estimate. Finding no such book, I essayed to make one. Two or three books on the subject - born, I judge, of the same want that produced this one - have indeed appeared since these lectures were first written; but their purpose and method are quite different from those I have had in mind. I have attempted neither to expound a philosophy of criticism nor to elaborate a critical method; but simply to state, as plainly as I might, some qualities that by common consent are to be found in all writing deserving to be called literature, and to lay down some fundamental principles that must be assumed in all sound critical judgments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism (Classic Reprint)

Author : F. V. N. Painter
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781451008197
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism (Classic Reprint) written by F. V. N. Painter and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism A glance at the table of contents will clearly reveal the plan. The work is divided into three parts, the first of which treats of fundamental principles. In three chapters the nature of criticism, the relation of the author to his work, and the aesthetic principles underlying literary art are brieﬂy discussed. The facts and principles here presented are designed to give a clearer and deeper insight into the nature and processes of criticism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Adventures in the Arts

Author : Marsden Hartley
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365463870
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (638 download)

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Download or read book Adventures in the Arts written by Marsden Hartley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Adventures in the Arts: Informal Chapters on Painters Vaudeville and Poets Perhaps the most important part of Criticism is the fact that it presents to the creator a prob lem which is never solved. Criticism is to him a perpetual Presence: or perhaps a ghost which he will not succeed in laying. If he could satisfy his mind that Criticism was a certain thing: a good thing or a bad, a proper presence or an irrelevant, he could psychologically dispose of it. But he can not. For Criticism is a configuration of responses and reactions so intricate, so kaleidoscopic, that it would be as simple to category Life itself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Reputations

Author : Douglas Goldring
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781330683880
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (838 download)

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Download or read book Reputations written by Douglas Goldring and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reputations: Essays in Criticism Of the many young poets who died or were killed during the European War, none perhaps has proved a greater loss to English letters than James Elroy Flecker. By his death in Switzerland of consumption at the age of thirty England was deprived of a poet who loved her passionately whose work will endure long into the days of peace, whose reputation is likely to go on increasing, rather than to wane. At present his poetry is still, I think, not as familiar as it deserves to be, though the number of his admirers is. steadily growing both in England and in America. Flecker was never the idol of any particular set during his lifetime, and since his death very little has been written about his personality as it appeared to those who knew him well. The memories of one who valued his friendship and was closely associated with him during his literary life may thus be not unworthy of record. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Adventures Among Books (Classic Reprint)

Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365169000
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Adventures Among Books (Classic Reprint) written by Andrew Lang and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Adventures Among Books OF the Essays in this volume Adventures among Books, and Rab's Friend, appeared in Scribner's Magazine; and Recollections of Robert Louis Stevenson (to the best of the author's memory) in The North American Review. The Essay on Smollett was in the anglo-saxon, which has ceased to appear; and the shorter papers, such as The Confessions of Saint Augustine, in a periodical styled Wit and Wisdom. For The Poems of William Morris the author has to thank the Editor of Longman's Magazine; for The Boy, and Mrs. Radcliffe's Novels, the Proprietors of The Cornhill Magazine for Enchanted Cigarettes, and possibly for The Supernatural in Fiction, the Proprietors of The Idler. The portrait, after Sir William Richmond, r.a., was done about the time when most of the Essays were written - and that. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

English Literary Criticism

Author : John William Hey Atkins
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780282969363
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (693 download)

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Download or read book English Literary Criticism written by John William Hey Atkins and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-22 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from English Literary Criticism: The Medieval Phase T is generally taken for granted that literary criticism in England really began at the sixteenth-century Renascence. This assumption, it must be allowed, has at least this amount of justification, that then for the first time there ap peared in English a considerable body of works definitely devoted to literary problems, and represented by the Artes, the Discourses, and the Apologies of Elizabethan writers. Yet it does not follow that with these works critical activities in England had their actual beginnings, or that then for the first time Englishmen concerned themselves with problems of literature. The Middle Ages, we have learnt, were less dark than was once supposed. They reveal to-day much eager search after knowledge, besides considerable creative activity in art, litera ture and institutions. It is therefore worth inquiring, in View of the unbroken efforts at literary criticism from the Elizabethan age oaards, whether. Such critical. Activities were a product solely of modern times, or whether any evidence exists of earlier attempts to engage in those many-sided activities now known as literary criticism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Literary Critics

Author : George Watson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265565902
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (659 download)

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Download or read book The Literary Critics written by George Watson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Literary Critics: A Study of English Descriptive Criticism S ome things are most readily defined by their contraries, but the ultimate condition of a literature without criticism is one that modern England has happily never known, and we must leave a stranger to speak. These are the words of the Hungarian poet Miklos Gimes, later hanged by the Kadar Government, describing intellectual life in the Socialist countries before the rising of 1956. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Green Avenue

Author : Brian Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521228018
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (212 download)

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Download or read book The Green Avenue written by Brian Taylor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1980-10-30 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1980, this was the first study of author Forrest Reid (1875-1947) for over twenty-five years.

A Modern Book of Criticism (Classic Reprint)

Author : Ludwig Lewisohn
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780259418603
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book A Modern Book of Criticism (Classic Reprint) written by Ludwig Lewisohn and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Modern Book of Criticism Criticism is no isolated thing; it is not an amusement of elegant triﬂers; it is not - as many people think - a sport of aloof academicians. It is as present as the air, as concrete as bread, and far more necessary to human civilization than steam or petrol. The proverbial Philistine who refuses to see a play that will not make him laugh practices criticism of the most formidable kind and reveals in that practice all he is. For consider the implications of his critical reaction: the utter lack of humane sympathies, the stum of all gentler inﬂuences, the hard determination to give no part of his earnings for anything that neither stirs his senses nor ﬂatters his consciousness of superiority. Consider, fur thermore, the forces in his civilization that have made him what he is: the insistence on mechanical values, the steely ferocities of business competition, the militant subordination of all the elements of life to one coarse and impoverishing kind of success. I could go further and point out how this Philistine's lack of a subtle shame in his attitude, indeed his brazen pride in it, demonstrates the failure on the part of the intellectuals of his age and country to create a cultural atmosphere in which he would be forced, despite himself, into an uneasy awareness of the poverty of his own soul. And I could proceed to an analysis of the impotence of these intellectuals. Or else, I could select another critical reaction of our average business man: his moral indignation over a literary or dramatic treatment of sex, and I could readily derive that from his own furtive grossness or em bittered self-repression. But it is already clear that the humblest critical remark made by a random man or woman in any crowd you please has implications that can sear the soul or cry to heaven. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

New Adventures (Classic Reprint)

Author : Michael Monahan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781330876954
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (769 download)

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Download or read book New Adventures (Classic Reprint) written by Michael Monahan and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from New Adventures He that has once felt the spell of Mannahatta will, if the fates permit, return to her again and still again. In other and lesser cities, on the waste of ocean, in rural solitudes or desert places, the call of the mighty Mother will reach him, and perforce he will gird up his loins and obey. This may he put forth as a more or less poetical statement of a fact both simple and psychological, He that has drunk will drink, says the French proverb; and he that has known Mannahatta - literally drunk her, for she is herself a mighty intoxication, - will always go back athirst for the cordials she alone can supply. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Fragments of Criticism (Classic Reprint)

Author : John Nichol
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483712591
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Fragments of Criticism (Classic Reprint) written by John Nichol and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fragments of Criticism Let us give our young men five years to study dialectic, and resign all other pursuits. This will test their power and steadfast ness of thought. Then, to test their character, let us send them again into the Cave, to assume commands and public offices, to acquire sagacity and address, and shew themselves proof against. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature

Author : David Hopkins
Publisher : Oxford History of Classical Re
ISBN 13 : 0199594600
Total Pages : 761 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature written by David Hopkins and published by Oxford History of Classical Re. This book was released on 2012 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title offers an investigation of the many diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have been responded to and refashioned by English writers. Covering English literature from the early Middle Ages to the present, it both synthesizes existing scholarship and presents new research.

Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha (Classic Reprint)

Author : Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780259205739
Total Pages : 642 pages
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Download or read book Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha (Classic Reprint) written by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Adventures of Don Quixote De La Mancha Loving reader, thou wilt believe me, I trust, without an oath, when I tell thee it was my earnest desire that this off spring of my brain should be as beautiful, ingenious, and sprightly as it is possible to imagine but, alas! I have not been able to control that order in nature's works whereby all things produce their like and, therefore, what could be ex pected from a mind sterile and uncultivated like mine, but a dry, meagre, fantastical thing, full of strange conceits, and that might well be engendered in a prison - the dreadful abode of care, where nothing is heard but sounds of wretchednessl Leisure, an agreeable residence, pleasant fields, serene skies, murmuring streams, and tranquillity of mind - by these the most barren muse may become fruitful, and produce that which will delight and astonish the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.