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Page 311 - The edition deserves well of the public ; it is carefully printed, and the annotations, although neither numerous nor extensive, supply ample explanations upon a variety of interesting points. If Mr. Halliwell had done no more than collect these plays, he would have conferred a boon upon all lovers of our old dramatic poetry.
Page 312 - Nothing can be more interesting than this little book, containing a lively picture of the opinions and conversations of one of the most eminent scholars and most distinguished patriots England has produced. There are few volumes of its size so pregnant with sense, combined with the most profound learning; it is impossible to open it without finding some important fact of discussion, something practically useful and applicable to the business of life.
Page 311 - Ploughman' is one of the most precious and interesting monuments of the English Language and Literature, and also of the social and political condition of the country during the fourteenth century. . . . Its author is not certainly known, but its time of composition can, by internal evidence, be fixed at about tbe year 1362.
Page 311 - Its author is not certainly known, but its time of composition can, by internal evidence, be fixed at about the year 1362. On this and on all matters bearing upon the origin and object of the Poem, Mr. Wright's historical introduction gives ample information In the thirteen years that have passed since the first edition of the present text was published by the late Mr. Pickering, our old literature and history have been more studied, and we trust that a large circle of readers will be prepared to...
Page 312 - There is more weighty bullion sense in this book than I ever found in the same number of pages in any uninspired writer.' Its merits had not escaped the notice of Dr. Johnson, though in politics opposed to much it inculcates, for in reply to an observation of Boswell, in praise of the French Ana, he said, ' A few of them are good, but we have one book of the kind better than any of them — Selden's Table Talk.
Page 312 - England, &c. , &c. A very amusing volume, conveying a faithful portrait of the state of society, when the doctrine of a peculiar providence and personal intercourse between this world and that which is unseen was fully believed.
Page 312 - Had this little book been written at Athens or Rome, its author would have been classed with the wise men of his country."— Headley.
Page 314 - For Chapman writes and feels as a poet, - as Homer might have written had he lived in England in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
Page 314 - The History of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Compiled by Sir THOMAS MALORY, Knight. Edited from the Edition of 1634, with Introduction and Notes, by THOMAS WRIGHT, MA, FSA 3 vols, SECOND AND REVISED EDITION.
Page 312 - ENCHIRIDION. Containing Institutions — Divine, Contemplative, Practical, Moral, Ethical, (Economical, and Political. Portrait. 3s. " Had this little book been written at Athens or Rome, its author would have been classed with the wise men of his country.