For a Song´s Sake and Other Stories (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Marston, Philip Bourke) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from For a Song´s Sake and Other Stories "In this life calamity follows calamity by no apparent law of cause and effect. In the web that destiny spins there is a terrible and a cruel symmetry, which no theory of ´circumstance´ can explain. When once the pattern of their tapestry is sombre, the Fates never leave it incomplete." To no one could these words by the author of "Aylwin" be more applicable than to Philip Bourke Marston, whose death in the early part of the present year enfranchised him from suffering, brought him that surcease for which he had long yearned with an intensity which had in it no shadow of affectation or superficial emotion. He dwelt continually in the shadow of a great gloom, for in addition to the physical affliction which in the most literal sense darkened his whole life, the evil mischances of Fate sorely wrought against him. "If one were not too insignificant for the metaphor," he once remarked, "I could with bitter truth assert that the stars in their courses have ever fought against me." It is not given to many men, especially to men so mentally dowered and in some ways so advantageously circumstanced as was the subject of this memoir, to experience so much sorrow with such little alloy of the common pleasures of life. 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.
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