The Best Of The World S Classics Vol 3 Of 10
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The Best Of The World S Classics Vol 3 Of 10
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Author : Henry Cabot Lodge
language : en
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Release Date : 2015-07-14
The Best Of The World S Classics Vol 3 Of 10 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 2015-07-14 with Literary Collections categories.
Excerpt from The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. 3 of 10: Restricted to Prose; With an Introduction, Biographical and Explanatory Notes, Etc; Great Britain and Ireland Born in 1281, died in 1345; the son of Sir Richard Ann gerville, his own name being taken from his birthplace, Bury St. Edmonds; educated at Oxford, and became a Benedictine monk; tutor to Edward III; dean of Wells Cathedral in 1333; bishop of Durham the same year; high chan cellor of England in 1334; founded a library at Oxford; his "Philobiblon" first printed at Cologne in 1473. IN PRAISE OF BOOKS The desirable treasure of wisdom and knowledge, which all men covet from the impulse of nature, infinitely surpasses all the riches of the world; in comparison with which, precious stones are vile, silver is clay, and purified gold grains of sand; in the splendor of which, the sun and moon grow dim to the sight; in the admirable sweetness of which, honey and manna are bitter to the taste. The value of wisdom decreaseth not with time; it hath an ever-flourishing virtue that cleanseth its possession from every venom. 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 Vol 1 10
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Author : Henry Cabot Lodge
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2023-11-12
The Best Of The World S Classics Vol 1 10 written by Henry Cabot Lodge and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
DigiCat presents this meticoulusly edited and formatted sellection of the greatest works of world literature, from ancient Greece and Rome to Modern American literature: Volume I – Greece Volume II – Rome Volume III – Great Britain and Ireland I Volume IV – Great Britain and Ireland II Volume V – Great Britain and Ireland III Volume VI – Great Britain and Ireland IV Volume VII – Continental Europe I Volume VIII – Continental Europe II Volume IX – America I Volume X – America II
The Best Of The World S Classics Restricted To Prose Volume 3
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Author : HardPress
language : en
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Release Date : 2013-01
The Best Of The World S Classics Restricted To Prose Volume 3 written by HardPress and has been published by Hardpress Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01 with categories.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
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 Volume 3
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Author : Henry Cabot Lodge
language : en
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Release Date : 2013-09
The Best Of The World S Classics Volume 3 written by Henry Cabot Lodge and has been published by Rarebooksclub.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with categories.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...retire themselves, knowing no better, to the enjoyments of ease and luxury, living out their days in feasts and jollity; which, indeed, is the wisest and the safest course of all these, unless they were with more integrity undertaken. And these are the errors, and these are the fruits of misspending our prime youth at schools and universities as we do, either in learning mere words, or such things chiefly as were better unlearned. I shall detain you now no longer in the demonstration of what we should do, but straight conduct you to a hillside, while I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious, indeed, at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming. I doubt not but ye shall have more ado to drive our dullest and laziest youth, our stocks and stubs, from the infinite desire of such a happy nurture, than we have now to hale and drag our choicest and hopefulest wits to that asinine feast of sow thistles and brambles which is commonly set before them, as all the food and entertainment of their tenderest and most docile age. I call, therefore, a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war. m ON READING IN HIS YOUTH" He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem, that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practise of all that which is praiseworthy. These...
The Best Of The World S Classics Prose Volume 10
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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 10 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 X (of X) - America 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 Vol V Of X Great Britain And Ireland Iii
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Author : Henry Cabot Lodge Francis W. Halsey
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-05-31
The Best Of The World S Classics Vol V Of X Great Britain And Ireland Iii written by Henry Cabot Lodge Francis W. Halsey and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-31 with categories.
Title: The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III Author: Various Editor: Henry Cabot Lodge Francis W. Halsey
Best Of The World S Classics Vol V Of X
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The Best Of The World S Classics Restricted To Prose
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Author : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-07-27
The Best Of The World S Classics Restricted To Prose written by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-27 with categories.
Edited by Henry Cabot Lodge.