Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Tin Trumpet, or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish, Vol. 2 of 2: To Which Are Added, Poetical Selections
Lamps - When these were brought in at night, the ancient Greeks used to salute them with the words, Xazpe, aou [mc - Salve amica [awl - The human owls of modern times, when the intellectual light is spreading around them, are so far from hailing it with a blessing, that they retire to their cells and lurking places, and hoot at it as a pestilent innovation. While stabbing at the liberties and happiness of man kind, they would rather cry out, with Macbeth. 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.
