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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: mirror to (how tl writer. dies; jEfchylus lives. We have loft Phidias; but Homer gives us a Jupiter in gold. Ill?Great Authors Reflected In Their Writings. One of the Spanifh Romancers de- fcribes Cydippe contemplating herfelf in a glafs, and the power of Venus making the reflexion permanent. The fable is realifed in the hiftory of A book a Literature. A book becomes a glafs (howthe with the author's face upon it. In the productions of mere talent, the image is imperfect, ?the broken glimmer of a countenance. But the features of Genius, once caft upon the mirror of language, remain unruffled. Time guards the fhadow. Beauty, the fpiritual Venus, whofe children are the Spenfers, the Taflbs, the Ba- cons, breathes the magic of her love, and fixes the face for ever. Thefe glafles of fancy, eloquence, influence of or wifdom, poflefs a ftranger power, thofe who Illuminated by the fun of fame, they Ptontempiate throw rays over bending and reverent admirers: the beholder carries away fome of the gilding luftre. The light of Genius never fets; it fpreads from countenance to countenance. Homer glows in the foftened beauty of Virgil, and Spenfer revives in the decorated learning of Gray. Lord Bacon touches this reproductivenefs of mind with his accuftomed felicity: ? The images of men's wits and Advance- knowledges remain in books, exempted LeTrning, from the wrong of time, and capable p. '' of perpetual renovation. So that, if the invention of the fhip was thought fo noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and confociateth the moft remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which, as mips, pafs through the vaft feas of time, and make ages fo diftant to partake of the wifdom, illuminations, a...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780217844581
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 48
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217844588
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 104 gr


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