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Excerpt from The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table: Abridged From Malory's Morte D'arthurThe literary fashion or convention which imposed itself in this way on the romancers was thoroughly bad, but the saving merit in this respect of the Arthurian romances is that, though they insist on this situation in order to show the hero daring all sorts of dangers, they make it perfectly clear that the situation was wrong and cou...

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Excerpt from Old Picture Books: With Other Essays on Bookish SubjectsThe paper on 'england and the Bookish Arts originally appeared as an introduction to 'the English Bookman's Library' (kegan Paul and The other Essays are reprinted from 'bibliographica, ' 'the Connoisseur, 'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an importan...

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Excerpt from Odes From the Greek Dramatists: Translated Into Lyric Metres by English Poets and SholarsTo the average school-boy the Chorus of a Greek Tragedy is an Object of mingled hatred and derision - of derision, because at any call for action the attitude of the Chorus is generally characterized by helpless indecision - Of hatred, because it was its wont to sing particularly hard Greek. Of the two feelings the hatred arising from the incr...

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Excerpt from An Essay on Colophons: With Specimens and TranslationsThe idea especially implied in the Greek proverbial phrase to put on the colophon is that of putting the finishing stroke to anything, as when a building is com pleted by the addition of the coping-stone, or a discourse is summed up by a recapitulation of its general gist. Is the word simply used in the sense of a crowning peak? Or has it a special connection with the city of C...

Excerpt from Books in the House: An Essay on Private Libraries and Collections for Young and OldHaps, those sturdy republicans Milton and Landor, to whose style the epithet royal seems at all fitting. My quarrel with the metaphor is that to talk with kings and queens implies, at least to the imagination, some sense of aloofness and constraint, even of embarrassment, and that to conjure up this picture before the eyes of a timid reader is no go...

Excerpt from An Essay on Colophons: With Specimens and TranslationsThe idea especially implied in the Greek proverbial phrase to put on the colophon is that of putting the finishing stroke to anything, as when a building is com pleted by the addition of the coping-stone, or a discourse is summed up by a recapitulation of its general gist. Is the word simply used in the sense of a crowning peak? Or has it a special connection with the city of C...

Excerpt from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: The PrologueCenturies ago, and from Chaucer's Prologue they may start their studies not only of modern English literature but of English social history.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally re...

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