Classical and Foreign Quotations, Vol. 9

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Excerpt from Classical and Foreign Quotations, Vol. 9: A Polyglot Manual of Historical and Literary Sayings, Noted Passages in Poetry and Prose, Phrases, Proverbs, and Bons Mots, Compiled, Edited, and Told, Wit Great as are the difficulties and responsibility attaching to the task, in the way of selection or rejection, of correctness of text, translation, and comment, they are slight compared with the labour that the chapter and verse principle imposes upon the compiler. It will necessitate not only a long, long haunting of the bookshelves of the British Museum, but perhaps a search through the catalogues and contents of other great collections in the kingdom. It may even involve visits to Continental Libraries, in the hepe of finding what is not to be found at home, and, after all, much of the time and toil may be thrown away! In short, the searcher must be content with a moderate success. He is rewarded not so much by putting the finger on some phrase or passage that had evaded all previous investigation, as by discovering the original wording of some com mouly misquoted line, and reinstating it in the shape in which the author left it on record. As revised and rewritten, the Dictionary contains far fewer quotations than its predecessor, a result which may perhaps be a fresh illustration of the old saying, that the half is often more than the whole. Yet, in spite of this heavy reduction in quantity, the amount of new matter introduced is very considerable. Citations from the French are much more numerous than heretofore, preference being given to instances illustrating the lighter side of that witty nation. The German passages have been more than doubled, and there is now no German author of note that is not represented, and in some cases largely represented, in the contents. Additions have also been made to the Greek selections, from all quarters - tragedy, philosophy, history, lyric poetry, am of many kinds - and, for the first time, the Greek Comics contribute an appreciable proportion to the whole. 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.