Excerpt from Mythical Bards and the Life of William Wallace, Vol. 5 For several years I have wished to satisfy my conscience with regard to a volume, long promised, on English Literature from Chaucer to Elizabeth, but have been held back for this among other rea sons, that there were many doughty questions con fronting me which could only be solved, if ever, by long research, and which needed more time and courage than I could muster. I did not feel, further more, that many thousands of people were waiting to be delivered ...
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Excerpt from Mythical Bards and the Life of William Wallace, Vol. 5 For several years I have wished to satisfy my conscience with regard to a volume, long promised, on English Literature from Chaucer to Elizabeth, but have been held back for this among other rea sons, that there were many doughty questions con fronting me which could only be solved, if ever, by long research, and which needed more time and courage than I could muster. I did not feel, further more, that many thousands of people were waiting to be delivered from embarrassment with respect to them, and when I contemplated conquest, the man in the moon declined his aid There was no way I could discover except by prayer and fasting, to which there is not sufficient incentive in our hurried days. Yet I began, and made fair progress until I reached the mountain fastness of Conjee ture, where ugly faces stared at me from every side, and I could not go round about, as Peer Gynt tried to do when confronted by the trolls. One of these faces, that of a tragic blind bard, viewed me so quizzically that I got angry and determined to take him by the beard (every blind bard has been envisaged with a beard) and make him at least yield, whatever happened for the time being to the rest. He seemed, in truth, this my Great Boig, as the air, invulnerable but I stuck to him grimly, and suddenly he disappeared out of the way. The church-bells that helped Peer in dismay here symbols of the above-mentioned prayer and fast ing conquered him. He went back to faery, where he belonged. 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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