Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ...when My Jeffrey held him up as an example To me;--of which these morals are a sample. XVII. Well, if I don't succeed, 1 have succeeded, And that's enough; succeeded in my youth, The only time when much success is needed: CANTO XII. B And my success produced what I in sooth Cared most about; it need not now be pleaded--Whate'er was, 'twas mine; I've paid, in truth, Of late the penalty of such success, But have not learned to wish it any less. XVIII. That suit in Chancery, --which some persons plead In an appeal to the unborn, whom they, In the faith of their procreative creed, Baptize Posterity, or future clay, --To me seems but a duhious kind of reed To lean on for support in any way; Since odds are that Posterity will know No more of them, than they of her, I trow. XIX. Why, I'm Posterity--and so are you; And whom do we remember? Not a hundred. Were every memory written down all true, The tenth or twentieth name would be but blundered; Even Plutarch's Lives have but picked out a few, And 'gainst those few your annalists have thundered; And Milford in the nineteenth century Gives, with Greek truth, the good old Greek the lie.. XX. Good People all, of every degree, Ye gentle readers and ungentle writers, In this twelfth Canto 'tis my wish to be As serious as if I had four inditers See Alitford's Greece. "Gracae Ferajr.n His great pleasure consists in praising tyrants, abusing Plutarch, spelling oddly and writing quaintly; and u hat is strange afte r all, Am is the best modern history of Greece in any language, and tit is perhaps the best of all modem historians whatsoever. Having named his sins, it is but fair to state his virtues--learning, labour, research, wrath, and partiality. I call the latter virtues in a writer, becaasc they make...
