Excerpt from The Temper of the Seventeenth Century in English Literature: Clark Lectures Given at Trinity College, Cambridge in the Year 1902-1903Having done so, I thought for a good while that, before venturing to print any of this material, I had best rewrite it, restoring the proportions of the orig inal plan. Various circumstances have prevented such rewriting, until it has become evident that the lectures must either appear as they were given or not appear at all. For several reasons, the former course has seemed on the whole preferable.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.