Excerpt from Folly for the Wise Lesso? IN household pets, A w'limericks lion, the little biscuitten, A lollipopossum, the loneliness love ML OF manners for young animals maxioms meringue-utang, the merry game, A merry moses mince-python, the. 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.
Excerpt from Folly There she hung, like any Juliet from her balcony, but did not perceive her husband at the foot of the stairs until he tossed a tiny bunch of celandines against her cheek. She caught the posy and glanced down upon him calmly and critically. She might well have been think ing that, burly and ruddy as he was, he made no bad figure of a country squire; but he grew uncomfortably aware that he was hot and mud-splashed and entirely out of harmony with her daintiness. She tossed back his flowers with the comment: They don't match my gown - see? In silence he returned the despised blossoms to his buttonhole, as she asked indifferently: Roads bad? 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.
In Praise of Folly is an essay written in Latin in 1509 by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam and first printed in 1511. Inspired by Italian humanist Faustino Perisauli's De Triumpho Stultitiae, it is a satirical attack on superstitions and other traditions of European society as well as on the western Church. Erasmus revised and extended the work, which he originally wrote in the space of a week while sojourning with Sir Thomas More at More's estate in Bucklersbury. In Praise of Folly is considered one of the most notable works of the Renaissance and played an important role in the beginnings of the Protestant Reformation.
Excerpt from A Book of Cambridge Verse Nevertheless, after all deductions have been made, how much true poetry is yet left! He must be hard to please who cannot find intense enjoyment in the Eclogues of Phineas Fletcher, in Cowley's epitaph on Harvey, in the Miltonic stanzas of Gray's Installation Ode, in a score of other pieces, grave, quaint, or classical in their allusive ness of phrasing. Especially grateful must we be to the number of poets, of exquisite feeling and easy mastery of form, who during the last fifty or sixty years have enriched the language with delicate and elegant verse, from which it has been only too difficult to choose because its quantity is so great and its merit so even. Of this we trust we have given a tolerably adequate selection but it would have been easy to multiply it fourfold. 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.
Excerpt from The Fool: Five Forks His folly first dawned upon Five Forks through the Post Office windows. He was for a long time the only man who wrote home by every mail, his letters being always directed to the same person - a woman. Now it SO happened that the bulk of the Five Forks' correspondence was usually the other way; there were many letters received - the majority being in the female hand - but very few answered. 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.
Excerpt from Wise Men and a Fool But it seems to him that in these days of the multiplication of books, and con sequently of titles, it is to the convenience of every one concerned - be he publisher, bookseller, or reader - that a new work be called by a name which is easily remembered, and is not likely to be confounded with any work already in existence. 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.
Excerpt from The Art of Love If ignorance were bliss it might be folly to be wise; but where ignorance leads to prostitution, divorce, ill health, neurosis, unhappiness, it were better to be wise, even at the price or some shocks to the sensibilities of those reared under and adhering to the old traditions. 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.
Excerpt from Sir Goodwin's Folly, Vol. 2 of 3: A Story of the Year 1795 Tradespeople took down their shutters, and business began. The landlord of the Light Horseman stood at his door in his shirtsleeves, with one eye on his potman, who was cleaning out the bar, and the other on the columns of the Public Advertiser, which he held in his hand. Occasionally he raised both his visual organs for the purpose of surveying mankind, as mankind appeared over the way. Either something he saw, or something he did not see, seemed to surprise him; he raised his shaggy grey eyebrows with an air of astonishment, and addressed his potman in these words: "Why, Peter, they've still got their shutters up over at the barber's shop. What's the reason of that?" "I can't say, master," replied Peter, leaning on his broom, as he looked out of the door. "They're mostly as regular as clockwork. Their 'prentice sweeps out his hair jest as I'm a sweeping out my sand and sawdust. But I ain't a seen nobody this morning." "'Tis strange," observed the landlord. "Whatever his other faults may be, Chigwood's usually an early bird in the morning." "Sarah Jane says she dreamt about wild beastesses," remarked Peter. "She woke up in a flight, and heard the barber's bears growling as plain as if they was out on the pavement. She says she heard wheels and woices a whispering." 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.
Excerpt from The Hour Glass Give me a penny. Third pupil (taking up book) How heavy it is. Fourth PU pil Spread it on Teigne's back, and then we can all stand round and see the choice. 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.
Excerpt from My Dreams Which can but hear the folly of her words, is only too wise a nursling -as the infant who scoffs at the fairy tale, which delights and enchains the attention of its companions, but boasts its precocious genius, at the ex pense of an enjoyment which no knowledge can repay. 'tis sweet to be deceived; 'tis sweet to deceive ourselves to fancy a Heaven, tho' we must at last wake to Earth; 'tis sweet to lull ourselves to sleep by Fancy's whispered bushings. 'tis sweet to dream. Sleeping or waking, 'tis sweet to forget the world and ourselves, in airy visions, which are not, which cannot be; which even as we dream, we know them false. But we love them, tho' 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.
