Our Recent Actors
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Marston, Westland) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Our Recent Actors: Being Recollections, Critical, and in Many Cases, Personal, of Late Distinguished Performers, of Both Sexes; With Some Incidental Notices of Living Actors My Dear Friend, It may probably have occurred to you, as it has done to myself, to glance in leisure moments at the dedications which were published a century or two ago. I confess to having read them with considerable amusement, and, perhaps, with a slight feeling of contempt; for the poet´s praise of the patron was usually in such superlatives, that he often evinced more imagination in his dedication than in his poem. Were the patron a warrior, he was, at least, an Achilles; were he a poet, one would think that Homer and Shakspere ought to hold up his train; were he a legislator, Solon or Lycurgus would be eclipsed; while, in the event of the book being inscribed to a lady, the three Goddesses who contended for the golden apple were at once superseded in their respective attributes by the modern divinity. One naturally reproaches such clients, to use the old phrase, with insincerity and servility. And yet I have at length learned, from experience, some toleration for them, for you have taught me that seeming hyperbole may well consist with 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.
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