The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick, Vol. 2 of 2
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Excerpt from The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick, Vol. 2 of 2: Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds Saying of Gargantua and His Sonne Pantagruel To turn from Urquhart to Motteux is to travel at a page from the old world to the new, to exchange the fastness of Cromarty for the tobacco and the spilt wine of the tavern. A pert flippancy replaces Sir Thomas´s majestic eccentricity; the slang of the coffee-house makes what poor substitute it can for the curious slang of the study; the facile familiarity of the journal comes forth a bitter contrast with the balanced gravity of scholarship. The sense of Rabelais is followed yet more closely in the books Motteux´s translating, but the full humour of the original is attenuated to the taste of a feebler epoch; and while Sir Thomas Urquhart was in spirit earlier than his time, was, in fact, an over-ripe Elizabethan, Motteux appears a modern of the moderns, and, being a contemporary of Pepys, writes a lingo that would not have surprised his great-great-grandchildren. 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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