Merrie England in the Olden Time (eBook)

Complete Edition (Vol. 1&2)

George Daniel (Autor)

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2020
376 Seiten
e-artnow (Verlag)
406-406638966-6 (EAN)

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"Merrie England in the Olden Time" in 2 volumes is one of the best-known works by the English author George Daniel that features a long series of gossipy papers on old books and customs. This carefully crafted e-artnow ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Excerpt:
"Youth is the season of ingenuousness and enjoyment, when we desire to please, and blush not to own ourselves pleased. At that happy period there is no affectation of wisdom; we look only to the bright and beautiful: we inquire not whether it be an illusion; it is sufficient that fairy land, with its flowers of every hue, is the path on which we tread. To youth succeeds manhood, with its worldly prudence: then we are taught to take nothing, not even happiness, upon trust; to investigate until we are lost in the intricacies of detail; and to credit our judgment for what is due only to our coldness and apathy. We lose all sympathy for the past; the future is the subject of our anxious speculation; caution and reserve are our guardian angels; and if the heart still throb with a fond emotion, we stifle it with what speed we may, as detrimental to our interests, and unworthy our new-born intelligence and philosophy. A short acquaintance with the world will convince the most sanguine that this stage is not the happiest; that ambition and mercenary cares make up the tumultuous scene; and though necessity compel a temporary submission, it is good to escape from the toils, and breathe a purer air. This brings us to another period, when reflection has taught us self-knowledge, and we are no longer overwise in our own esteem. Then returns something of the simplicity that characterized our early days. We welcome old friends; have recourse to old amusements, and the fictions that enchained our youthful fancy resume their wonted spell."

Autor

George Daniel (1789-1864) was an English author of miscellaneous works and book collector.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.9.2020
• Verlagsort: Prague
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Schlagworte: A Woman of No Importance • cultural customs • Elizabethan England • English literature • gossip columns • Gossipy papers • historical essays • Literary criticism • Regency era • Social History • The Art of War • The Cambridge Modern History Collection • The Color of Compromise • The Great Influenza • The Grim Sleeper • The Splendid and the Vile • Travels with Myself and Another • Tudor period • Walking Home • White Robe Black Robe