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According to the high authority of Charles Lamb, it has sometimes happened 'that from no inferior merit in the rest, but from some superior good fortune in the choice 'of a subject, some single work' (of a particular author) shall have been suffered to eclipse, and cast into the shade, the deserts of its less fortunate brethren.' And after quoting the case of Bunyan's 'holy War,' as compared with the Pilgrim's Progress,' he adds that, 'in no instance has this excluding partiality been exerted with more unfairness than against What may be termed the secondary novels or romances of De Foe.' He proceeds to declare that there are at least four other fictitious narratives by the same.
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According to the high authority of Charles Lamb, it has sometimes happened 'that from no inferior merit in the rest, but from some superior good fortune in the choice 'of a subject, some single work' (of a particular author) shall have been suffered to eclipse, and cast into the shade, the deserts of its less fortunate brethren.' And after quoting the case of Bunyan's 'holy War,' as compared with the Pilgrim's Progress,' he adds that, 'in no instance has this excluding partiality been exerted with more unfairness than against What may be termed the secondary novels or romances of De Foe.' He proceeds to declare that there are at least four other fictitious narratives by the same.
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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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Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed. - Bacon, Advancement of Learning.
We visit at the shrine, drink in some measure of the inspiration, and cannot easily breathe in the other air less pure, accustomed to immortal fruits. - Hazlitt, Plain Speaker.
What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labours to the Bodleian were reposing here as in some dormitory or middle state. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odour of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of the sciential apples which grew around the happy orchard. - Charles Lamb, Oxford in the Long Vacation.
My neighbours think me often alone, and yet at such times I am in company with more than five hundred mutes, each of whom communicates his ideas to me by dumb signs quite as intelligibly as any person living can do by uttering of words; and with a motion of my hand I can bring them as near to me as I please; I handle them as I like; they never complain of ill-usage; and when dismissed from my presence, though ever so abruptly, take no offence. - Sterne, Letters.
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes. - Emerson, Books, Society, and Solitude.
Nothing is pleasanter than exploring in a library. - LanDor, Pericles and Aspasia.
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