Dramatic Scenes From Real Life, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Dramatic Scenes From Real Life, Vol. 1 of 2 It is no easy matter to write up, or down, to the present state of British literature. It may seem "affectatious, look you," (as parson Hugh has it,) to say that literature is leisure; but its existence, in its most palmy state, indicates an epoch in society, when the public have time to read, what authors have time to write. Such were the great ages, when nations, after a long and fevish struggle, subsided into some new and settled order: - the ages of Augustus, of Lewis the Fourteenth, and of Queen Anne. The civil wars of Rome, terminating in Imperial tyranny, the League and Fronde, fatal to the French aristocracy, - and the more glorious civil wars of England, achieving liberty and prosperity for an emancipated nation, each left the public mind leisure to stoop from its high quarry of political change, to sport in regions of purer intellect, and play with interests less mundane and positive. Such, however, is not the present epoch. We are living in an era of transition. Changes moral and political are in progress. The frame of the constitution, the frame of society itself, are sustaining a shock, which occupies all minds, to avert, or to modify; and the public refuses its attention to literary claimants, whose pretensions are not either founded on utility, or backed by the brilliancy or brevity of their appeals. Publishers and theatrical lessees, who complain of the times, overlook this fact. Deceived by the stale philosophy of the little back-parlour behind the shop, or the old jargon of the green-room behind the scenes, they talk of bringing back the public taste; instead of following its changes. There is no legitimate literature, as there is no legitimate drama. Those who would live by the world, must live in it, and with it; and adapt themselves to its form and pressure; for it is in vain that they attempt to force society to be amused what has ceased to be amusing. 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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