English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers: A Satire (Classic Reprint)Fb&c Limited, 2 ene 2019 - 94 páginas Excerpt from English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers: A Satire All my' friends, iearned and; unlearned, hage urged me net to publish this Satire With, my merge. Aif I were to be turned from the career bi' my humour byr quibbles quick, and paper; bullets of the [should have complied With their counsel. But 1 am not to Be terrified by abuse, or bullied by Reviewers, with or without arms. I can safely say, that I have attacked none personafly who did not commence 011 the offensive An Author' 5 Works are public property he Who purchases may judge, and publish his opinion if he pleases and the 'authors' I have endeavoured to commemorate may do by me as l have done by dare'say they Will succeed better 'in ceiidemning' im'y' Serib blings, than in uiendiirg' their own. Is 'not 'to prove that I can write w'fell, ' but, if possible, to triake othets write better. 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. |