Theodore Shurt
Published: 2015-07-05
Total Pages: 244
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Excerpt from Lindsey: And Other Poems In the following pages, an attempt is made to treat the subject somewhat in a poetical way, and yet with regard to common sense. It may justly be doubted if the taste of the present age be not unhealthy, not to say depraved. The best poems in the English language were written many years ago by poets who, not only with genius, but with judgment, adorned their subjects with the finest figures of imagination, but, true to nature, kept clear of absurdities. In more recent times, one party have found satisfaction ill rubbing up again the old, worn-out themes of heathen mythology - wasting much precious time and talent over the land where "beauteous error trod." Another party, treading 011 forbidden ground, have been fond of dwelling upon subjects upon which, for the wisest reasons, nothing has been revealed to them or others. In speaking of heaven and spirits, they have rashly introduced a quantity of materialism and worldly furniture, and thus travelled into contradictions without any useful object. The tendency, of course, has been to encourage a craving after forbidden knowledge, and a desire for what is fanciful and absurd. 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.