Beacon Lights Of History Vol 6

Author : John Lord
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528247641
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book Beacon Lights of History, Vol. 6 written by John Lord and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Beacon Lights of History, Vol. 6: Renaissance and Reformation The critics assign to Dante a pre-eminence over most of those we call immortal. Only two or three other poets in the whole realm of literature, ancient or mod ern, dispute his throne. We compare him with Homer and Shakspeare, and perhaps Goethe, alone. Civili zation glories in Virgil, Milton, Tasso, Racine, Pope, and Byron, all immortal artists; but it points to only four men concerning whose transcendent crea tive power there is unanimity of judgment, - prodigies of genius, to whose influence and fame we can assign no limits; stars of such surpassing brilliancy that we can only gaze and wonder, - growing brighter and brighter, too, with the progress of ages; so remarkable that no barbarism will ever obscure their brightness, so original that all imitation of them becomes impossi ble and absurd. So great is original genius, directed by art and consecrated to lofty sentiments. 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.