Prize Essays
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Excerpt from Prize Essays: Chiefly Shaksperean Studies It is very difficult to write an Introduction - such a thing is generally looked upon as a superfluity, stale, flat, and unprofitable. It has been likened to "a pilaster put upon the face of a building for look´s sake," and to a "Caryatid holding upon her head a structure which she did not build, and which could stand just as well without her support." But if one will persist in blotting and spoiling good paper, and in sending out to the world some sort of a book, I suppose one must either justify the presumption, or make some apology for it. Perhaps I may do both. Somebody has said that it is a very laudable ambition, the wish to bring into the world a new book - a thing that can speak as soon as it is born (that is, if the world will only let it!). Unfortunately, a man cannot do that. No doubt it is a praiseworthy desire, but at the same time it is a very serious matter, this bringing forth of intellectual offspring. Witness to the pangs and throes with which it has been produced, the parental partiality with which it has been welcomed when born in secret, and the fond affection which follows it still! Who can understand (save members of the craft) the tremulous anxiety of this young intellectual father? - the hopes and fears, the thoughts and dreams that hover around his child; the yearnings, and the heartfelt wishes that accompany its sending out into the world; the palpitating apprehensions, the strange mixture of fear and impatience with which the decision and sentence of its readers are anticipated - the decree of those who will either return it with scorn and ridicule, or send it on to other friends with the dignity and honour of a reasonable production. 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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