Reuben Medlicott, Vol. 1 of 3
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Excerpt from Reuben Medlicott, Vol. 1 of 3: Or, the Coming Man If the world is a stage, and human life a drama, a prefatory chapter to a biography must be as proper as a prologue to a play. The object in both cases is much the same; to establish a fair understanding between the author and his audience; in other words, by a little art and gentle preparation, to bring the spectator, or the reader, into a state of mind akin to what professors of mesmerism mean by being en rapport with their patients. In the opera, this is accomplished by the device of the overture, which gives a sort of musical abstract of the sentiments and passions of the coming performance; now melting in harmony with the amorous scenes of the story, again swelling into unison with its sterner passages; then, with a full orchestral crash, vaguely foreboding a certain catastrophe, either of a tragic or a comic nature. Upon the same Principe of composition, the overture or preface to a human life ought to aim at representing, in some allusive, slight, rapid, and sketchy way, its leading vicissitudes and characteristics. Adopting the idea of an overture, we should request the reader of the following pages to imagine the orchestra thronged with a greater variety of instruments, of all sorts, than Nebuchadnezzar had in his band: - harps, dulcimers, flutes, sackbuts, psalteries, and all kinds of music, ancient and modern, which must farther be conceived to play to the minds ear as miscellaneous a concerto as was ever composed, consisting of snatches of very many tunes, with a profusion of variations. Should this illustration not be sufficiently illustrative, let a pantomime be supposed to follow and harlequin perform his series of Christmas tricks and transformations. The motley necromancer himself typifies perpetual motion and endless variety; let the freaks of character and the changes of fortune be ever so numerous, he is knight of the shure, and represents them all. 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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