The Writings In Prose And Verse Of Eugene Field Vol 5

Author : Eugene Field
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230041469
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (414 download)

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Download or read book The Writings in Prose and Verse of Eugene Field Volume 5 written by Eugene Field and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...from what they used to be. When Methuselah was a boy, --ah, he remembered it well, --people went hither and thither clad only in simple fig-leaf garb, and they were content therewith. When Methuselah was a boy, people spoke a plain, direct language, strong in its truth, its simplicity, and its honest vigor. When Methuselah was a boy, manners were open and unaffected, and morals were pure and healthy. But now all these things were changed. An evil called fashion had filled the minds of men and women with vanity. From the sinful land of Nod and from other pagan countries came divers tradesmen with purples and linens and fine feathers, whereby a wicked pride was engendered, and from these sinful countries, too, came frivolous manners that supplanted the guileless etiquette of the past. Moreover, traffic and intercourse with the subtle heathen had corrupted and perverted the speech of Adam's time: crafty phrases and false rhetorics had crept in, and the grand old Edenic idioms either were fast being debased or had become wholly obsolete. Such new-fangled words as' eftsoon," "albeit," "wench," "soothly," "zounds," "whenas,"and "sithence" had stolen into common usage, making more direct and simpler speech a jest and a byword. Likewise had prudence given way to extravagance, abstemiousness to intemperance, dignity to frivolity, and continence to lust; so that by these evils was Methuselah grievously tormented, and it repented him full sore that he had lived to see such exceeding wickedness upon earth. But in the midst of all these follies did Methuselah maintain an upright and godly life, and continually did he bless God for that he had held him in the path of rectitude. Now when...