This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 edition. Excerpt: ...by a few striking circumstances, in which the Poet's office of rather ex-citing and directing, than satisfying the reader's imagination, is perfectly observed. Such abrupt hints, resembling the several fragments of a vast ruin, suffer not the mind to be raised to the utmost pitch by one image of honor, but ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 edition. Excerpt: ...by a few striking circumstances, in which the Poet's office of rather ex-citing and directing, than satisfying the reader's imagination, is perfectly observed. Such abrupt hints, resembling the several fragments of a vast ruin, suffer not the mind to be raised to the utmost pitch by one image of honor, but that instantaneously a second and a third are presented to it, and the affection is still uniformly supported.--Anon. Critic. Ver. 51. Give ample room, and verge enough. " I have a soul that like an ample shield Can take in all, and verge erwugh for more." Dryden's Sebast. act i. sc. 1. Ver. 55. The shrieks of death, through Berkley's roof that ring. Edward the Second, cruelly butchered in Berkley Castle.--Gray. Mr. Mitford quotes the following lines from Drayton's Barons' Wars, v. 67. " Berkley, whose fair, seat hath been famous long. Let thy sad echoes shriek a deadly sound To the vast air; complain his grievous wrong, And keep the blood that issued from his wound." She-wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs, That tear'st the bowels of thy mangled mate, From thee be born, who o'er thy country hangs The scourge of heav'n! What terrors round him wait! 60 Ver. 57. She-wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs. Isabel of France, Edward the Second's adulterous Queen.--Gray. Mr. Mitford has here taken unnecessary pains to shew that In pa in Latin means a bad woman; but surely not bad in the sense in which the corresponding word is used in the above line. For though it is true that the Queen is spoken of in the note as an adulteress, yet in the text, as well as in Shakspeare's Henry VI. pt. iii. the " she-wolf of France" is only spoken of in connection with relentless cruelty. Ver. 59. From thee be born, who o'er thy country hangs. Triumphs of Edward...
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Near Fine. Two volumes in slipcase, rebound by Root in handsome full-calf with gilt tooling, 1825, octavo, 228pp. and 365pp., frontispiece to volume one, otherwise not illustrated. Books near fine with hint of wear to outside spine hinges, handsome spines with five raised bands, bindings tight, pages 15-22 show mild wear to foredge, otherwise texts clean and unmarked with gilt to edges of text block. In protective mylar wraps and brown buckram slipcase also in near fine condition.
