Prefaces and prologues to famous books
作者：Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926 [Editor]; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626 [Contributor]; Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564 [Contributor]; Caxton, William, 1422?-1492? [Contributor]; Condell, Henry, -1627 [Contributor]; Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543 [Contributor]; Dryden, John, 1631-1700 [Contributor]; Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754 [Contributor]; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 [Contributor]; Heminge, John, 1556?-1630 [Contributor]; Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885 [Contributor]; Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 [Contributor]; Knox, John, 1514?-1572 [Contributor]; Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 [Contributor]; Raleigh, Walter, 1552?-1618 [Contributor]; Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 [Contributor]; Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893 [Contributor]; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 [Contributor]; Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 [Contributor]
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字数：823,828 来源：Project Gutenberg
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共 41 段- The Holy and blessed doctor Saint Jerome saith this authorit
- After divers work made, translated, and achieved, having no
- Their requiring miracles of us is altogether unreasonable; f
- Finally, they betray great want of candour, by invidiously r
- Taking this as a starting point, I began to consider the mob
- For myself, if I have in anything served my Country, and pri
- Now for King Henry the Eighth; if all the pictures and patte
- His son again King Philip the Second, not satisfied to hold
- The examples of divine providence, everywhere found (the fir
- But the will and science of Nature, are in these words truly
- Your Majesty may perhaps accuse me of larceny, having stolen
- In laying out the divisions of the sciences however, I take
- Therefore do thou, O Father, who gavest the visible light as
- From translating the first of Homer's _Iliads_ (which I inte
- Chaucer follow'd Nature everywhere, but was never so bold to
- [Footnote 20: A law term for slander of a man of high rank,
- This recommendation of steadiness and uniformity does not pr
- So far have I been from any care to grace my pages with mode
- When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your L
- _Shakespeare_ with his excellencies has likewise faults, and
- _Voltaire_ expresses his wonder, that our authour's extravag
- Our authour fell then into the hands of Sir _Thomas Hanmer,_
- Yet conjectural criticism has been of great use in the learn
- While we hope to be useful to the artist in this way, and ea
- Several of my Friends are anxious for the success of these P
- Nor let this necessity of producing immediate pleasure be co
- Nothing would, I know, have so effectually contributed to fu
- Is not this as if a man should undertake to supply an accoun
- As Poetry is most just to its own divine origin when it admi
- This case appears to bear strongly against us--but we must d
- Away, then, with the senseless iteration of the word _popula
- At the same time was born the spirit of scrutiny and curiosi
- The drama, then, is the goal to which everything in modern p
- Let us then speak boldly. The time for it has come, and it w
- Meanwhile, the first, the indispensable merit of a dramatic
- Taste is the common sense of genius. This is what will soon
- The fruition of beauty is no chance of hit or miss ... it is
- Extreme caution or prudence, the soundest organic health, la
- On observing the visible man with your own eyes what do you
- There is, nevertheless, a third order of causes, for, with t
- I have undertaken to write a history of a literature and to