The Record of an Adventurous Life (Classic Reprint)
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from The Record of an Adventurous Life I always find a preface a very difficult matter to indite. There is something, in my opinion, more formal in this sort of writing than in any other. That is how I felt, at any rate, about the preface to the English edition which, now I have done it, looks to me stiff and clumsy enough. I don´t know why, but sending this foreword to folks at a distance I am not so much hampered by my own desire to be spick-and-span. Distance lends ease. An American audience and atmosphere encourage a lighter form of address and a less punctilious literary apparel: A cuff neglectful, and thereby Ribbands to flow confusedly, - A winning wave, deserving note, In the tempestuous petticoat, - A careless shoe-string in whose tie I see a wild civility, - Do more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part. Ruban perdu, boucle défaite Elle était bien la voilà mieux. C´est de vos soeurs la plus parfaite, Sylphes lagers soyez mes dieux! Sylphes légers soyez mes dieux! Far be it from me to compare my halting prose to the graceful movements of these light-limbed fairy goddesses, at whose shrine I worship. I but imitate and stumble from a long way off. 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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