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Excerpt from Poetry of the Magyars: Preceded by a Sketch of the Language and Literature of Hungary and Transylvania Distance, too, has made the mission of books, and even the communication of ideas. 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 ...

Excerpt from A Memorial Volume of Sacred Poetry, by the Late Sir John Bowring: To Which Is Prefixed a Memoir of the Author, by Lady Bowring With respect to the brief Memoir prefixed to the hymns I may observe, that the difficulty of compressing within so small a compass the events of the long, busy, and active life of my late revered husband has proved consider able. I need hardly remark, that his intel lectual energy and varied abilities ver...

Excerpt from The Kingdom and People of Siam, Vol. 1: With a Narrative of the Mission to That Country in 1855 IN submitting these volumes to the indulgent con sideration of the public, the Author feels assured that the peculiar circumstances under which they are necessarily published (he being many thousand miles away from England, and therefore unable himself to correct the press) will not be forgotten by the reader, and that he will not appe...

Excerpt from Minor Morals for Young People, Vol. 3: Illustrated by Tales and Travels, Particularly in the East My Dear Lady Ponsonby, Was it in joke or in earnest that you said to me at Constantinople, "Will you not dedicate your next book to me?" 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. F...

Excerpt from Ancient Poetry and Romances of Spain My estimation of the Spanish character, my hopes of Spanish regeneration, have not been shaken by the disasters which have filled some minds with dis. 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 t...

Excerpt from Matins and Vespers: With Hymns and Occasional Devotional Pieces So much of serene and so much of joyful feeling, so much of calm and grateful recollection, so much of present peace and comfort, and so much of holy and transporting hope, are connected with the cultivation of the devotional spirit, that to assist its exercises, to administer to its wants, and to aecom pany its heavenly aspirations, are objects worthy of the noblest...

Excerpt from The Flowery Scroll: A Chinese Novel Schlegel, who has printed, in the transactions of the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences, 1865, an excellent translation, under the title of Geschiedenis van het gebloemde Brief Pa pier, has also avoided the metrical form of the original, which necessarily gives a certain stiff ness to the style. He has adopted the com mon narrative form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundr...

Excerpt from Specimens of the Russian Poets: With Preliminary Remarks and Biographical Notices When the subject of this volume occupied my attention, my plan was an extensive one. I designed to write a general history of Rus sian literature. It seemed a most interesting object to trace the progress of letters in a country which had emerged, as it were in stantaneously, from a night of barbarism, to occupy a situation in the World of intellect...

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Excerpt from Batavian Anthology, or Specimens of the Dutch Poets: With Remarks on the Poetical Literature and Language of the Netherlands, to the End of the Seventeenth Century YE know us not-and yet we seem to hold 7 Hallow'd communion with your spirits, - even E g 3 As though ye had thrown off earth's mantle cold. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks...

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