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Excerpt from The Literary Reader: Prose Authors; With Biographical Notices, Critical and Explanatory Notes, &C
The accompanying series of Extracts will, it is hoped, supply a want in this direction. The authors selected may be regarded as representative writers. They include the leading names connected with each epoch of our National Literature. Many of our great masters of English Prose are indeed passed over, but it is neverthe less believed that almost every variety of style worthily represented. It has been the Editor's aim to make the Extracts sufficiently long at once to exhibit an adequate sample of the author's language and a com plete and connected description or argument. In com piling the Notes, he has, to the best of his ability, sought fairly to illustrate the text, to avoid trivialities, and to explain what really needed explanation. 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.
