Excerpt from In the Republic of Letters The king is dead: the great peers of the realm poetic had passed away before him, and there is no head found worthy of the consecrating oil.1 The critical search-parties that went forth throughout all the land have returned, and report that they have failed to meet with a Saul who stands head and Shoulders above his brethren. Meanwhile dis affected persons murmur, and hint at the abolition of the monarchy. Kingship is out of date, and we must set up a poetic republic as we have set ...
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Excerpt from In the Republic of Letters The king is dead: the great peers of the realm poetic had passed away before him, and there is no head found worthy of the consecrating oil.1 The critical search-parties that went forth throughout all the land have returned, and report that they have failed to meet with a Saul who stands head and Shoulders above his brethren. Meanwhile dis affected persons murmur, and hint at the abolition of the monarchy. Kingship is out of date, and we must set up a poetic republic as we have set up a republic of polite letters. To which it is replied by others, that Nature, to whom we have still to look for our supply of poets, goes about her work in a way that renders futile a revolution with such an end in view. It is said that she produces a poet in the most unlikely spot, in the midst of what. 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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