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Author: Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780243003792 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 666
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Excerpt from The Quarterly Review, Vol. 46: November 1831, and January 1832 We cannot persuade ourselves to think quite so highly of Mr Boswell as his editor appears to do; but we have already, per haps, su iciently intimated our notions on this head, and shall merely take the liberty to add one or two're ections more that have occurred to us, while re-perusing the most readable of books, in regard to Boswell's peculiar qualifications for his task. We have alluded above to his country as a favourable circumstance; and Mr Croker elegantly and judiciously runs over certain ad vantages derived from the social position of the man, and the easy good-natured assurance of his manners. Perhaps, however, he owed most of all to his comparatively juvenile standing at the time when the acquaintance began to the childlike and altogeth er unrivalled humility, in the midst of a world of froth and petu lance; of his personal veneration for the doctor; and, last not least, to his never being, during the doctor's life, an habitual resi dent in London. The man who, by his own talents, raises him self ih any signal and splendid degree above his original position, must in general, if he is to have intimate friends at all, seek them in his new Sphere. To say nothing of his being, in most cases, removed from his earlier circles by physical obstacles, or at least by many intervening barriers of adopted manners, altered and enlarged views, opinions, tastes, and objects, and almost inextri cable involvement in the thousand perp exities of a different sys tem of social arrangements, he is apt, however strength of under standing, generosity of temper, and the tenderness of old recel lections might lift him above attaching serious importance to any external changes, and dispose him to cling on as many points as possible to the connexions of his undistinguished years how ever safe in the true inborn nobility of his intellect from all risk, either of imbibing an unmanly admiration for mere wordly great ness, or shrinking from the consciousness of having, in former times, contemplated its sphere from a hopeless distance he is apt to find his inclinations on this score thwarted by the workings. 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."
Author: Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780331057522 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 626
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Excerpt from The Quarterly Review, 1832, Vol. 46 It was a strange and fortunate concurrence, that one so prone to talk, and who talked so well, should be brought into such close contact and confidence with one so zealous and so able to record. Dr. John son was a man of extraordinary powers, but Mr. Boswell had qualities, in their own way, almost as rare. He united lively manners with in defatigable diligence, and the volatile curiosity of a man about town with the drudging patience of a chronicler. Ivith a very good opinion of himself, he was quick in discerning, and frank in applauding. The excellence of others. Though proud of his own name and line e, and ambitions of the countenance of the great, he was yet so cor ial an admirer of merit, wherever found, that much public ridicule, and something like contempt, were excited by the modest assurance with which he pressed his acquaintance on all the nolm-ieties of his time, and by the ostentatious (but, in the main, laudable) assiduity with which he attended the exile Paoli and the low-born Johnson! These were amiable, and, for us, fortunate inconsistencies. His contempo raries indeed, not without some colour of reason, occasionally complain of him as vain, inquisitive, troublesome, and giddy; but his vanity was inofl'ensive - his curiosity was commonly directed towards laud able objects - when he meddled, he did ao, generally, from good natured motives - and his giddiness was only an exuberant gaiety, which never failed in the respect and reverence due to literature, morals, and religion: and posterity gratefully acknowledges the taste, temper, and talents with which be selected, enjoyed, and described that polished and intellectual society which still lives in his work, and without his work had perished! 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.
Author: Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780243003792 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 666
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Excerpt from The Quarterly Review, Vol. 46: November 1831, and January 1832 We cannot persuade ourselves to think quite so highly of Mr Boswell as his editor appears to do; but we have already, per haps, su iciently intimated our notions on this head, and shall merely take the liberty to add one or two're ections more that have occurred to us, while re-perusing the most readable of books, in regard to Boswell's peculiar qualifications for his task. We have alluded above to his country as a favourable circumstance; and Mr Croker elegantly and judiciously runs over certain ad vantages derived from the social position of the man, and the easy good-natured assurance of his manners. Perhaps, however, he owed most of all to his comparatively juvenile standing at the time when the acquaintance began to the childlike and altogeth er unrivalled humility, in the midst of a world of froth and petu lance; of his personal veneration for the doctor; and, last not least, to his never being, during the doctor's life, an habitual resi dent in London. The man who, by his own talents, raises him self ih any signal and splendid degree above his original position, must in general, if he is to have intimate friends at all, seek them in his new Sphere. To say nothing of his being, in most cases, removed from his earlier circles by physical obstacles, or at least by many intervening barriers of adopted manners, altered and enlarged views, opinions, tastes, and objects, and almost inextri cable involvement in the thousand perp exities of a different sys tem of social arrangements, he is apt, however strength of under standing, generosity of temper, and the tenderness of old recel lections might lift him above attaching serious importance to any external changes, and dispose him to cling on as many points as possible to the connexions of his undistinguished years how ever safe in the true inborn nobility of his intellect from all risk, either of imbibing an unmanly admiration for mere wordly great ness, or shrinking from the consciousness of having, in former times, contemplated its sphere from a hopeless distance he is apt to find his inclinations on this score thwarted by the workings. 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."
Author: John Taylor Coleridge Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781396327278 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 638
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Excerpt from The Quarterly Review, Vol. 46: Published in November 1831, and January 1832 I never thought mankind capable of anything very generous; but the stateliness of these patricians, and the servility of my ple beian brethren, (who, perhaps, formerly eyed me askance, ) have nearly put me out of conceit with my species. I have formed many intimacies and friendships, but I am afraid they are all of too tender a construction to bear carriage a hundred and fifty miles. 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.
Author: John Gibson Lockhart Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780366279777 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 604
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Excerpt from The Quarterly Review, Vol. 47: March and July, 1832 More lovely than Pandora, whom the gods Endow'd with all their too like In and event, when to Of J aphet, brought by Hermes, she insnared Mankind with her ftirloolts, to be avenged Of him who had stole Jove's authentic lire.' 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.
Author: William Gifford Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780243883257 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 606
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Excerpt from The Quarterly Review, Vol. 48: October December, 1832 IIL - l. Francku Callinus, sive Quaestionis de Origine Carminis Elegiaci tractatio critica. 2. Poetaram Graecorum Sylloge, curante Io. Fr. Bois sonade. Tom. III. 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.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: 9781331308294 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 596
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Excerpt from The Quarterly Review, Vol. 116: Published in July October, 1864 We are glad to welcome this book on a subject which is attractive for every one; for every one is interested in knowing why his own village or town is called by the name which it now bears. The want of such a work had been long felt in this country; and upon the whole Mr. Isaac Taylor has done justice to his matter, and to the many great questions connected with it. He is certainly a scholar, and is conversant with the works of foreign scholars and philologists, without which qualifications a very scanty profit can now be expected from the labours of any man in such a field; but we are the less able on this account to excuse the blunders which he occasionally makes. Mr. Taylor, in his preface, observes that since Verstegan's 'Restitution of Decayed Intelligence' was published two centuries ago, no work of the same kind as his own has appeared. We wish that he had noticed, however, an able essay printed in the year 1860 in a contemporary Review, which, although necessarily brief, shows a strong sense of the interest and importance of its subject, and contains a great deal of information upon it. All that can be attempted in a review of such a book is to show the value of the study to which it relates, and illustrate in some degree the principles on which researches of this kind should be conducted. For minute facts and the application of those principles to particular cases the reader must, for the most part, be referred to the work itself. In his last chapter our author justly observes that the fundamental truth to be adhered to in all such investigations is the fact, that there is no such thing as a name consisting of mere arbitrary sounds. Names of persons and names of places were once alike significant or intended to be so; hence the great value of them as memorials of language and of historical facts. 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.
Author: Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780243551231 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 588
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Excerpt from The Foreign Quarterly Review, Vol. 10: Published in August and October, 1832 To enlighten this principle of reverence for the great, to teach us reverence, and whom we are to revere and admire, should ever be a chief aim of Education (indeed it is herein that instruction properly both begins and ends); and in these late ages, perhaps more than ever, so indispensable is now our need of clear rever ence, so inexpressibly poor our supply. Clear reverence! It was once responded to a seeker of light: all want it, perhaps thou thyself. What wretched idols, of Leeds cloth, stuffed out with bran of one kind or other, do men either worship, or being tired of worshipping (so expensively without fruit), rend in pieces and kick out of doors, amid loud shouting and crowing, what they call tremendous cheers, as if the feat were miraculous! In private life, as in public, delusion in this sort does its work. 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.
Author: John Taylor Coleridge Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780484627443 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 602
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Excerpt from The Quarterly Review, Vol. 48: October and December, 1832 IN all nations poets have been the first historians. The annals of every race are lost in the mists of a mythic or fabulous penod, in which the dimly-humanised forms of the gods, or men magnified by the uncertain haze to preter-human stature, people the long-receding and shadowy realm. Even where that Is no} the case, over every event, and eveiy character, is thrown a poetic and imaginative colouring; the bard-chronicler never abandons the privilege, the attribute of his art; and until history has condescended to the sober march of prose, it does not restrain itself from the licence of fiction, or assume the authority of truth. And when at length this division of labour takes place, when the poet recedes into his own province, and leaves the domain of real life to a colder hand, the legends of former times, under his magic influence, have either assumed a sacred character, or become so completely incorporated with the popular belief, that the earliest prose historian, who of course could more easily have disengaged the latent truth from its fictitious or allegoric veil, is restrained by religious awe, or labours iri vain to disenchant the fond and willing credulity of his countrymen. The mythic narrative therefore te mains undisturbed the reverential historian allows the gods to stand at the head of the genealogical tree he relates, with grave fidelity, the established wonders of the olden time.' Sometimes (ao Niebuhr would persuade us has been the case as to the Roman kings) the epic of the hard becomes the groundwork, or rather the actual substance of the national history, and retains its primeval authority - to be first called in question by the severer ace ticism of a more intellectual age. 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.
Author: William Gifford Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780266724957 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 560
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Excerpt from The Quarterly Review, Vol. 5: February and May 1811 Our present concern, however, is not with the decisions of M. Clavier, but with his history of which yet we are constrained to observe that, in the qualities of gaiety and liveliness, a considerable portion of it nearly resembles what we might expect to fall from the learned judge in his professional capacity. Let it be noted, at the same time, that this misfortuhe was unavoidable, or, at least, avoidable no otherwise than by an avoidance of the subject. 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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