Classical English Reader
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Hudson, Henry N.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Classical English Reader: Selections From Standard Authors; With Explanatory and Critical Foot-Notes Of the pieces contained in this volume, much the larger number, as may readily be seen, are from standard English authors, - books that have already lived so long as to afford some fair guaranty that they will not soon die. Not one of the pieces has been taken for the author´s sake: the selection has proceeded on the twofold ground of intrinsic merit and of fitness to the purposes of the volume; due care being had, withal, for a reasonable variety both in matter, style, and authorship. It is not unlikely that some of the selections may be thought rather too severe in style, too weighty in matter, and of too high a pitch, for the use here intended. So it may be, for instance, with some of the pieces from Hooker, from Jeremy Taylor, from Milton´s prose, from Sir Thomas Browne, from Dr. South, and several others. And such an objection may press, with something of special force, against Shelley´s Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, and a few other pieces of poetry. These are not indeed exactly "milk for babes." The Hymn, especially, is very severe, - of a severity decidedly sculpturesque: the thought, the imagery, the diction feel, to the touch, as if chiselled out of the finest and hardest marble; so that the piece stands a markworthy specimen of what Cicero calls "austere and solid sweetness." Such workmanship is no doubt something beyond the reach and capacity of the average pupil in grammar-schools and academies. 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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