Author: Thomas Dermody

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Published: 2015-07-14

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9781331374008

Excerpt from The Harp of Erin, Vol. 2 of 2: Containing the Poetical Works of the Late Thomas Dermody Courteous Reader, That laborious and learned commentator, Fabritius Flatbottombergius, in the 2479th page of his Hypercritical Treatise on the Diet of Wild Asses, printed at Amsterdam, in fifteen volumes folio, proveth, in a most concise and perspicuous manner, that every great and momentous work (such as an epic poem of this species certainly is), should, as to its origin and tendency, be made as intelligible to every faculty as circumstances will admit; and that the author is unavoidably bounden by every rule of right reason to elucidate its subject, or theme, as far as in him lieth. At this epoch of ignorance, when all her children may exclaim, "Redeunt Saturnia Regna!" that is "The leaden reign returns," indeed it is much to the poet's own interest, especially in any more grave or lofty composition, to explain such sublime (or, as the vulgar call them, obscure) passages as may occasionally present a stumbling-block to the less vivid imagination. 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.