Bible Truths With Shakspearian Parallels Classic Reprint

Author : G. Q. Colton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780260718693
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Bible written by G. Q. Colton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-03 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Shakespeare and the Bible: Parallel Passages and Passages Suggested by the Bible With the Religious Sentiments of Shakespeare The author of this book told me once that he was nineteen years of age when he first found Shakspeare and began to read his plays. How the first he read was Macbeth, and he was then but poorly able or fitted to appreciate the power and beauty of it, for he had re ceived only a limited common-school education. Blank-verse was new to him also, for his ear had only been trained to the sing-song of long, short, and common metre, and so he read the first three acts without finding much in them to admire, but became interested, at length, in the story, and then began to find something rich and pregnant he had never found before in any book. This was an incentive, of course, to read on, and so in no long time he read the whole thirty-seven plays, as we all did when we durst, in those days, who had been raised in the shadows of the old meeting-house and taught to believe that to read Shakspeare was a peril to the soul's health. He was soon and ea sily set free from this bondage to fear, and ever since then these works of the mighty master have been his most in timate companions and friends, holding his heart captive, entranced by their beauty and salt of truth. 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.