Lanterna Rally

Author: Walter Savage Landor

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-07

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9781440096310

Excerpt from Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare: Treen Joseph Part The Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, Pericles and Aspasia, and The Pentameron were written. There is nothing in English which surpasses these three masterpieces in the quality of pure literature. If there is any prose which can be applied as a test of perfect form, as Mr. Arnold proposed to ap ply certain pieces of verse, it is to be found in these beautiful creations. In the Imaginary Conversations Landor often nods, and the reader does not escape the contagion of his prosiness; in dealing with abstractions, with thought detached from persons, he lacked the faculty of co-ordination, and sometimes strayed into dreary and arid places. But in these three works Landor was complete master of his materials; his imagination shaped and colored them with a subtile sense of the quality of each group of ideas and sentiments, and With a fault less perception of the symmetry of the whole. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.