Essays; Including Essays in Criticism, 1865; - Couverture souple

Newman, Francis William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1171825501 ISBN 13 : 9781171825500

Editeur : Nabu Press, 2010

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Several of theE ssays which are here collected and reprinted had the good or the bad fortune to be much criticised at the time of their first appearance. I am not now going to inflict upon the reader a reply to those criticisms ;for one or two explanations which are desirable, I shall elsewhere, perhaps, be able some day to find an opportunity; but, indeed, it is not in my nature, some of my critics would rather say, not in my power, to dispute on behalf of any opinion, even my own, very obstinately. To try and approach truth on one side after another, not to strive or cry, nor to persist in pressing forward, on any one side, with violence and self-will, it is only thus, it seems to me, that mortals may hope to gain any vision of the mysterious Goddess, whom we shall never see except in outline, but only thus even in outline. He who wiU do nothing but fight impetuously towards her on his own, one, favourite, particular line, is inevitably destined to run his head into the folds of the black robe in which she is wrapped. So it is not to reply to my critics that I write this preface, but to prevent a misunderstanding, of which certain phrases that some of them use make me apprehensive. Mr. Wright, one of the many translators of Homer, has published a Letter to theD ean of Canterbury, complaining of some remarks of mine, uttered now a long whU eago, on his version of the I liad.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Nabu Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1171825501
• ISBN 13: 9781171825500
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 496
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