Excerpt from The Partiall Law: A Tragi-Comedy If it is desirable that the whole of the printed works of the old dramatists should be made accessible to modern readers, it is surely even more desirable that those which exist only in mm (providing, of course, that they are not alto gether worthless) should be put beyond the reach' of acci dental destruction. Even ii we admit - which we certainly need not do - that no old play of much merit now remains unprinted, it is yet to be desired that even those of third-rate merit ...
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Excerpt from The Partiall Law: A Tragi-Comedy If it is desirable that the whole of the printed works of the old dramatists should be made accessible to modern readers, it is surely even more desirable that those which exist only in mm (providing, of course, that they are not alto gether worthless) should be put beyond the reach' of acci dental destruction. Even ii we admit - which we certainly need not do - that no old play of much merit now remains unprinted, it is yet to be desired that even those of third-rate merit should be placed within the student's reach.. The worst of them, as Charles Lamb found out long ago, have some points of interest about them and usually repay the reader for the time spent in their perusal by the display of some unexpected gleam of fancy, or sudden ash of insight into the complexities of human nature. But I do not think I need labour this point since I am here, I suppose, address ing those only who are likely to be in agreement with me. 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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