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The Best Of The World S Classics Restricted To Prose Vol 4 Of 10 Classic Reprint
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Author : Henry Cabot Lodge
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2018-01-19
The Best Of The World S Classics Restricted To Prose Vol 4 Of 10 Classic Reprint written by Henry Cabot Lodge and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-19 with Literary Collections categories.
Excerpt from The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. 4 of 10 IV On the Advantages of Living in a Garret. (from The Rambler) david hume - (born in 1711, died in I The Character of Queen Elizabeth. (from the History of England) II The Defeat of the Armada. (from the History of England III The First Principles of Government laurence sterne - (born in 1713, died in I The Starling in Captivity. (from The Sentimental Journey) II To Moulines with Maria. (from The Sentimental Journey III The Death of lefevre. (from Tris tram Shandy) IV Passages from the Romance of My Uncle Toby and the Widow. (from Tristram Shandy) thomas gray - (born m 1716, died in 1771) I Warwick Castle. (a Letter to Thomas Wharton) II To His Friend Mason on the Death of Mason's Mother III On His Own Writings. (a Letter to Horace Walpole). IV His Friendship for Bonstetten. (from a Letter to Bonstetten) horace walpole - (born in 1717, died in I Hogarth. (from the Anecdotes of Painting 1n II The War 1n America. (from a Letter written at Strawberry Hill) 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.
The Best Of The World S Classics Vol 5 Of 10
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Author : Henry Cabot Lodge
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2018-01-22
The Best Of The World S Classics Vol 5 Of 10 written by Henry Cabot Lodge and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-22 with Literary Collections categories.
Excerpt from The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. 5 of 10: Restricted to Prose Mr. Thomas davies the actor, who then kept a bookseller 's shop in Russell street, Covent Gar den, told me that Johnson was very much his friend, and came frequently to his house, where he more than once invited me to meet him; but by some unlucky accident or other he was pre vented from coming to us. 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.
The Best Of The World S Classics Vol 8 Of 10
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Author : Henry Cabot Lodge
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2019-02-13
The Best Of The World S Classics Vol 8 Of 10 written by Henry Cabot Lodge and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Excerpt from The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. 8 of 10: Restricted to Prose; With an Introduction, Biographical and Explanatory Notes, Etc.; Continental Europe An Essay on Man. (from his 'gen eral Review of Natural Phenomena in Volume I of Cosmos. Trans lated by E. C. Otto and W. S. Dallas) 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.
The Best Of The World S Classics Restricted To Prose Vol 6 Classic Reprint
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Author : Henry Cabot Lodge
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2018-01-31
The Best Of The World S Classics Restricted To Prose Vol 6 Classic Reprint written by Henry Cabot Lodge and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-31 with Literary Collections categories.
Excerpt from The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. 6 Jerusalem by Moonlight. (from Tancred) charles merivale-(born. In 1808, died in The Personality of Augustus Caesar. (from the History of the Romans Under the Empire) alexander W. Kinglake - (born in 1809 died in 1891. I On Mocking at the Sphinx. (from Eothen) 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.
The Best Of The World S Classics Restricted To Prose Vol 9 Classic Reprint
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Author : Henry Cabot Lodge
language : en
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Release Date : 2015-07-11
The Best Of The World S Classics Restricted To Prose Vol 9 Classic Reprint written by Henry Cabot Lodge and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-11 with Poetry categories.
Excerpt from The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. 9 Born in England in 1579, died in 1631; served against the Turks, captured, but escaped and returned to England in 1605; sailed for Virginia in 1606, and helped to found Jamestown; captured by Indians and his life saved by Pocahontas the same year; explored the Chesapeake to its head; president of the Colony in 1608; returned to London in 1609; in 1614 explored the coast of New England; captured by the French in 1615 and escaped the same year; received the title of Admiral of New England in 1617; published his "True Relation" in 1608, "Map of Virginia" in 1612, "A Description of New England" in 1616, "New England's Trials" in 1620, and his General History in 1624. His Story Of Pocahontas Here more than two hundred of those grim Courtiers stood wondering at him (John Smith), as he had beene a monster; till Powhatan and his train had put themselves in their greatest braveries. Before a fire upon a seat like a bedsted, he sat covered with a great robe, made of Raroweun skinnes, and all the tayles hanging by. 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.
The Best Of The World S Classics Restricted To Prose Volume Iv Great Britain And Ireland Ii
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Author : Various
language : en
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Release Date : 2021-07-21
The Best Of The World S Classics Restricted To Prose Volume Iv Great Britain And Ireland Ii written by Various and has been published by Alpha Edition this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-21 with History categories.
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The Best Of The World S Classics Prose Volume 4
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Author : Henry Cabot Lodge
language : en
Publisher: 谷月社
Release Date : 2015-11-20
The Best Of The World S Classics Prose Volume 4 written by Henry Cabot Lodge and has been published by 谷月社 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-20 with Literary Collections categories.
Volume IV (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland Ever since civilized man has had a literature he has apparently sought to make selections from it and thus put his favorite passages together in a compact and convenient form. Certain it is, at least, that to the Greeks, masters in all great arts, we owe this habit. They made such collections and named them, after their pleasant imaginative fashion, a gathering of flowers, or what we, borrowing their word, call an anthology. So to those austere souls who regard anthologies as a labor-saving contrivance for the benefit of persons who like a smattering of knowledge and are never really learned, we can at least plead in mitigation that we have high and ancient authority for the practise. In any event no amount of scholarly deprecation has been able to turn mankind or that portion of mankind which reads books from the agreeable habit of making volumes of selections and finding in them much pleasure, as well as improvement in taste and knowledge. With the spread of education and with the great increase of literature among all civilized nations, more especially since the invention of printing and its vast multiplication of books, the making of volumes of selections comprizing what is best in one's own or in many literatures is no longer a mere matter of taste or convenience as with the Greeks, but has become something little short of a necessity in this world of many workers, comparatively few scholars, and still fewer intelligent men of leisure. Anthologies have been multiplied like all other books, and in the main they have done much good and no harm. The man who thinks he is a scholar or highly educated because he is familiar with what is collected in a well-chosen anthology, of course, errs grievously. Such familiarity no more makes one a master of literature than a perusal of a dictionary makes the reader a master of style. But as the latter pursuit can hardly fail to enlarge a man's vocabulary, so the former adds to his knowledge, increases his stock of ideas, liberalizes his mind and opens to him new sources of enjoyment. The Greek habit was to bring together selections of verse, passages of especial merit, epigrams and short poems. In the main their example has been followed. From their days down to the "Elegant Extracts in Verse" of our grandmothers and grandfathers, and thence on to our own time with its admirable "Golden Treasury" and "Oxford Handbook of Verse," there has been no end to the making of poetical anthologies and apparently no diminution in the public appetite for them. Poetry indeed lends itself to selection. Much of the best poetry of the world is contained in short poems, complete in themselves, and capable of transference bodily to a volume of selections. There are very few poets of whose quality and genius a fair idea can not be given by a few judicious selections. A large body of noble and beautiful poetry, of verse which is "a joy forever," can also be given in a very small compass. And the mechanical attribute of size, it must be remembered, is very important in making a successful anthology, for an essential quality of a volume of selections is that it should be easily portable, that it should be a book which can be slipt into the pocket and readily carried about in any wanderings whether near or remote. An anthology which is stored in one or more huge and heavy volumes is practically valueless except to those who have neither books nor access to a public library, or who think that a stately tome printed on calendered paper and "profusely illustrated" is an ornament to a center-table in a parlor rarely used except on solemn or official occasions. I have mentioned these advantages of verse for the purposes of an anthology in order to show the difficulties which must be encountered in making a prose selection. Very little prose is in small parcels which can be transferred entire, and therefore with the very important attribute of completeness, to a volume of selections. From most of the great prose writers it is necessary to take extracts, and the chosen passage is broken off from what comes before and after. The fame of a great prose writer as a rule rests on a book, and really to know him the book must be read and not merely passages from it. Extracts give no very satisfactory idea of "Paradise Lost" or "The Divine Comedy," and the same is true of extracts from a history or a novel. It is possible by spreading prose selections through a series of small volumes to overcome the mechanical difficulty and thus make the selections in form what they ought above all things to be—companions and not books of reference or table decorations. But the spiritual or literary problem is not so easily overcome. What prose to take and where to take it are by no means easy questions to solve. Yet they are well worth solving, so far as patient effort can do it, for in this period of easy printing it is desirable to put in convenient form before those who read examples of the masters which will draw us back from the perishing chatter of the moment to the literature which is the highest work of civilization and which is at once noble and lasting. Upon that theory this collection has been formed. It is an attempt to give examples from all periods and languages of Western civilization of what is best and most memorable in their prose literature. That the result is not a complete exhibition of the time and the literatures covered by the selections no one is better aware than the editors. Inexorable conditions of space make a certain degree of incompleteness inevitable when he who is gathering flowers traverses so vast a garden, and is obliged to confine the results of his labors within such narrow bounds. The editors are also fully conscious that, like all other similar collections, this one too will give rise to the familiar criticism and questionings as to why such a passage was omitted and such another inserted; why this writer was chosen and that other passed by. In literature we all have our favorites, and even the most catholic of us has also his dislikes if not his pet aversions. I will frankly confess that there are authors represented in these volumes whose writings I should avoid, just as there are certain towns and cities of the world to which, having once visited them, I would never willingly return, for the simple reason that I would not voluntarily subject myself to seeing or reading what I dislike or, which is worse, what bores and fatigues me. But no editor of an anthology must seek to impose upon others his own tastes and opinions. He must at the outset remember and never afterward forget that so far as possible his work must be free from the personal equation. He must recognize that some authors who may be mute or dull to him have a place in literature, past or present, sufficiently assured to entitle them to a place among selections which are intended above all things else to be representative. To those who wonder why some favorite bit of their own was omitted while something else for which they do not care at all has found a place I can only say that the editors, having supprest their own personal preferences, have proceeded on certain general principles which seem to be essential in making any selection either of verse or prose which shall possess broader and more enduring qualities than that of being a mere exhibition of the editor's personal taste. To illustrate my meaning: Emerson's "Parnassus" is extremely interesting as an exposition of the tastes and preferences of a remarkable man of great and original genius. As an anthology it is a failure, for it is of awkward size, is ill arranged and contains selections made without system, and which in many cases baffle all attempts to explain their appearance. On the other hand, Mr. Palgrave, neither a very remarkable man nor a great and original genius, gave us in the first "Golden Treasury" a collection which has no interest whatever as reflecting the tastes of the editor, but which is quite perfect in its kind. Barring the disproportionate amount of Wordsworth which includes some of his worst things—and which, be it said in passing, was due to Mr. Palgrave's giving way at that point to his personal enthusiasm—the "Golden Treasury" in form, in scope, and in arrangement, as well as in almost unerring taste, is the best model of what an anthology should be which is to be found in any language.
The Best Of The World S Classics Restricted To Prose Volume Ii Rome
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Author : Various
language : en
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Release Date : 2021-07-21
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The Best Of The World S Classics Restricted To Prose Vol Iv Of X Great Britain And Ireland Ii
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Author : Hardpress
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Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Release Date : 2016-06-23
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Author : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-06-28
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The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose Various Authors There is no need for me to speak about myself, and yet that is the privilege of old age, and conceded to my time of life. Do you see how, in Homer, Nestor very often proclaims his own virtues? for he was now living in the third generation of men; nor had he occasion to fear lest, when stating the truth about himself, he should appear either too arrogant or too talkative; for, as Homer says, from his tongue speech flowed sweeter than honey; for which charm he stood in need of no strength of body; and yet the famous chief of Greece nowhere wishes to have ten men like Ajax, but like Nestor; and he does not doubt if that should happen, Troy would in a short time perish. But I return to myself. I am in my eighty-fourth year. In truth I should like to be able to make the same boast that Cyrus did; but one thing I can say, that altho I have not, to be sure, that strength which I had either as a soldier in the Punic war or as questor in the same war, or as Consul in Spain, or, four years afterward, wh We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.