Excerpt from Shapes in the Fire: Being a Mid-Winter-Night's Entertainment in Two Parts and an Interlude MV dear beatrice, - The pieces of this ink ling of a Book, which, with much longing, I dedicate to you, were not all written in the same night, but separated in their execution by intervals for eating and sleeping; and as you know me to be of at least not less nervous vigour than your sweet self (for in Thee is not vigour gobbled up in sweetness so you, too, red ruddes, should read them (in spite of the sub-title), with ...
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Excerpt from Shapes in the Fire: Being a Mid-Winter-Night's Entertainment in Two Parts and an Interlude MV dear beatrice, - The pieces of this ink ling of a Book, which, with much longing, I dedicate to you, were not all written in the same night, but separated in their execution by intervals for eating and sleeping; and as you know me to be of at least not less nervous vigour than your sweet self (for in Thee is not vigour gobbled up in sweetness so you, too, red ruddes, should read them (in spite of the sub-title), with like intervals, one by one, not gulp them like porridge or a nove1, - which, you know, are homogeneous, these being designedly heterogene ous - or you will hardly, I think, get at what one meant to imply (easily, you know, in the crash of the orchestra, do the light ute-notes lose themselves on the tired ear: a fact which seems to indicate that works of art, especially such as pretend to be more or less musical, should be not only pretty short, but separately imbibed so that t/ze Concert, for one thing, is wrong; and with it, the book, such as this, of short detached pieces. 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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