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. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...set some hours too late, vainly striving with much industry to redress what a little providence might have prevented. Now when this unready king met with the Danes, his ever ready enemies, no wonder if lamentable was the event thereof." It is to Fuller that we owe the picture of the "wit combats" ...
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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. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...set some hours too late, vainly striving with much industry to redress what a little providence might have prevented. Now when this unready king met with the Danes, his ever ready enemies, no wonder if lamentable was the event thereof." It is to Fuller that we owe the picture of the "wit combats" between Shakespeare and Ben Jonson compared to a battle between a Spanish galleon and an English man-of-war. "Master Jonson like the former was built far higher in learning, solid but slow in performance. Shakespeare, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk but lighter in starting, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds." What delights us in "The Worthies of England" is to find that Shakespeare and the great men whose names are familiar are not set apart but take their places with the multitude of men of the same breed. We are made to feel that men of strong character and fine gifts were too common in England to be made much of. Fame seems almost a vulgarity. Sometimes Fuller comes across a worthy for whom he can do nothing but snatch his name from oblivion. He says of Robert Vanite: "This put me to blushing that one so eminent in himself should be obscure to me. But all my industry could not retrieve the valiant knight, so that he seems to me akin to those spirits who appear but once and then vanish away." There are more heroic figures in the seventeenth century than the Royalist parson whom his contemporaries called "Tom Fuller," and whom those who came after quoted as "Old Thomas Fuller." "Old" was an adjective never appropriate to him save as a term of affectionate familiarity. But if heroism consists in being faithful to one's own...
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