Author: Samuel Butler

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Published: 2015-07-26

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9781331987352

Excerpt from The Life and Letters of Dr. Samuel Butler, Vol. 1: Head-Master of Shrewsbury School 1798-1836, and Afterwards Bishop of Lichfield; In So Far as They Illustrate the Scholastic, Religious, and Social Life of England, 1790 1840; Jan; 30, 1774 March 1, 1831 The following work was begun in 1889, and was completed in its original form by the summer of 1849. I was then so generally advised that it was too long that in the summer and autumn of 1895 I reduced it by about a third, and left it with in Mr. Murray in November 1895. The length of time during which the work has been in process must be accounted for firstly by the great bulk of the correspondence that came into my hands, and the difficulty of finding the due dates of many undated letters. Moreover I was deflected from it by the pressure put upon me to write my book Ex Voto, on the Sacro Monte of Varallo, and by some researches into the topography and authorship of the Odyssey the fascination of which I found it impossible to resist. To these delightful studies - hardly, however, to myself more delightful than those which I am now leaving - I hope immediately to return. 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.