Lanterna Rally

Author: Isaac Disraeli

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-26

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 9780265757932

Excerpt from Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 of 3 The Curiosities of Literature, commenced fifty years since, have been composed at various periods, and necessarily partake of those successive charac ters which mark the eras of the intellectual habits of the writer. In my youth, the taste for modern literary history was only of recent date. The first elegant scholar who opened a richer vein in the mine of modern literature was joseph warton - he had a frag mentary mind, and he was a rambler in discursive criticism. Dr. Johnson was a famished man for anecdotical literature, and sorely complained of the penury of our literary history. 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.