Excerpt from National Rifle-Shooting Match: The Royal Rifle Match on Wimbledon CommonIf men, godlike almost in power themselves, felt it thus well to seek celestial aid, how much more needing the kind offices of gods, goddesses, and muses, am I? So far as history records, it does not seem that Homer was any way hurried in his work, and I never could learn that a legion of printer's devils were ever let loose to worry the hard of Mantua. Virgil had ample time to write his copy, and write it deliberately he did, in fair Italian hand. As for Milton, though blind, he had the luxury of a fair amanuensis. No eyes had he to dim, his hand could never tire.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 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.