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Excerpt from A Manual of English Literature
In general, I _may say that the substance Of this Manual is Professor Morley's, and that the construction Of it is mine. Even with reference to the substance Of the book, however, I Ought to explain that it differs in many, respects from the First Sketch. I have retained from that work the essential part Of'every thing bearing directly upon English literature; but I have tried to leave out every thing whose relation to English literature was either indirect, or, for American readers, bewildering: such as, on the one hand, extended references to Italian, French, and Spanish literatures; or, on the other hand, a multitude Of. Incidental allusions - genealogical, domestic, local, and titular - that would perplex no student in England, but are sure to perplex most students in America. But my changes in the substance Of the First Sketch have not been confined to those Of omission. Wherever I. Thought it desirable, I have freely added materials not in the original work: for example, all Of the Introduction excepting the first section several pages Of the chapters on the fifteenth century; the larger part of the account Of the nineteenth century; besides many Of the paragraphs Of introduction and transition scattered through the book. But the most Of my work upon the substance Of this Manual cannot be here Specified; it consists Of innumerable small bits Of alteration and addition, fitted in and mixed up with the original materials, and no longer distinguishable from them except by a careful collation 'of the two books-item by item. 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 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.
