Excerpt from Drunken Barnaby's: Four Journeys to the North of England Various motives, good and bad, induce au thors to conceal themselves from the public. Out of a capricious haughtiness, Swift rarely avowed any of his productions: and Vol taire, from regard to his personal repose, disavowed many of his, with an earnestness not very consistent with the principles of truth. But the motives to concealment, whatever they may be, have force only for a time; the pride and fascination of author ship, usually prevail in the end ...
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Excerpt from Drunken Barnaby's: Four Journeys to the North of England Various motives, good and bad, induce au thors to conceal themselves from the public. Out of a capricious haughtiness, Swift rarely avowed any of his productions: and Vol taire, from regard to his personal repose, disavowed many of his, with an earnestness not very consistent with the principles of truth. But the motives to concealment, whatever they may be, have force only for a time; the pride and fascination of author ship, usually prevail in the end with every attractive writer, to lay claim to the laurels of literature. This however is not invariably the case; whether from fortuitous circum stances, or peculiarity of disposition, there are several celebrated productions of which the authors remain inscrutable to curiosity. The famous Barnaby Harrington's Travels is perhaps to be one instance of the kind. On the perusal of a performance possess ing so much merit, as well as eccentricity, a strong desire is excited to know what the author was, when he lived, and when he wrote. Some notices are contained in his own pages; they give us to understand, that his name was Harrington; that he was born at Appleby; that he married at Darlington and at last settled in the North, as a dealer in horses and cattle. But who can say, whether these particulars are real or imagin ary? Upon a reference to many sources of information, no proof of them can be found. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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