Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Discourse Delivered Before the Maine Historical Society at Its Annual Meeting, September 6th, 1846
Advancing improvement strengthens the desire to converse with departed excellence, and national pride leads to the erection of lasting monuments to perpet uate its fame. Memorials are sought on every hand, but, alas! It too often happens that inattention or neglect, on the part of contemporaries, occasions the loss of what a subsequent age would be sure to prize as the precious reliques of genius or distinguished merit. How little is known, for instance, of the private his tory of England's great dramatist, and with what eagerness are the faintest traces of his every-day life sought and treasured tip! Yet with a little care ex ercised either in his own day, or by those of the next succeeding generation, enough might have been pre served to enable his admirers, in all ages, to form a correct conception of the life and personal character of the man whose genius is the proudest boast of English literature. 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.
