The Retrospective Review (Volume 9) - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824. Excerpt: ... doth appere. Cum privilegio ad imprimendiim solum. Printed by Wyllyam Bonham, dwellyng at the syne of the Kynges Amies, in Paufs Church Yarde, 1542. Fol.b. 1. The Workes of our Atitient and Learned English Poet, Geffray Chaucer, newly printed. In this Impression yoji shall find these Additions. 1. His Portraiture and Progenie shewed. 2. His Life collected. 3. Arguments to every Book gathered. 4. Old and obscure words explained. 5. Authors by him cited, declared. 6. Difficulties opened. 7. Two Books of his, never be/ore Printed. London, Printed by Adam Islip, at the charges of Thomas Wight, Anno 1598. Ovid.--Seris venit usus ah annis. Folio, blk let. The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer. To which are added, An Essay on his Language and Versification, and an Introductory Discourse, together with a Glossury. By the late Thomas Tyrwhitt, Esq. F.R.S. The second edition: Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, 1798. 2 vols. 4to. There are few circumstances connected with the present taste for literature, more creditable than the frequent recurrence that is made to the works of those elder wits, with whom the frame and energies of our language may be said to have originated: who conduct us to the well-head and fountains of our composite dialect, and by shewing the sources and primal usages of our speech, give us an accurate and distinctive perception of the significance of its terms and idioms. Researches of this kind in every language, and particularly in languages which have passed through such mutations as ours, appear to be indispensable, not only to the attainment of that pregnant conciseness, imaginative at once and definite, which is the highest accomplishment of literary composition, but to the preservation of that standard purity of phrase and idiom, which the arbit...