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. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... I--SEPARATE WORKS. 1851. Euphranor I A Dialogue on Youth Line London William Pickering 1851. Collation: --Small octavo: pp. ii + 82 (last page unnumbered), consisting of: Title-page as above, with imprint on verso, "John Childs and Son, Bungay," pp. i, ii; Text, pp. I-81; Errata, and imprint as before, p. 82. ...
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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. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... I--SEPARATE WORKS. 1851. Euphranor I A Dialogue on Youth Line London William Pickering 1851. Collation: --Small octavo: pp. ii + 82 (last page unnumbered), consisting of: Title-page as above, with imprint on verso, "John Childs and Son, Bungay," pp. i, ii; Text, pp. I-81; Errata, and imprint as before, p. 82. The title is given as a headline throughout. Issued in green cloth boards, with stamped sides, and lettered upwards along the back "Euphranor," within a gilt ornamental border. This little book, the first-fruits of his genius, seems to have had a special attraction for FitzGerald, and his coy deprecation of the "confoundedly smart writing" in it reminds one of an Eastern mother who draws attention to a blemish in order to avert the evil eye from her favourite child. FitzGerald's idiosyncrasy is reflected at its highest in "Euphranor." One can perceive that his imaginative power was not great, and it betrays the sign of a slow and fastidious worker. But in its form we see the neatness of touch that characterizes the Greek of Sophocles or the French of Sevigne, while in the thought which underlies it we recognise the sanity of a man who lived much in the open air, and whose hand was equally at home with the tiller and the pruning-knife. Though not published till 1851, "Euphranor" had occupied FitzGerald's thoughts several years previously. In a letter to Professor Cowell, written at the end of 1846, he says: "I have been doing some of the dialogue, which seems the easiest thing in the world to do, but is not" (" Letters," i. 212). In February, 1851, he sent to the Rev. G. Crabbe a copy of " Euphranor " and of The Examiner, in which Spedding had reviewed the book (" Letters," i. 266, 267). In a letter to the same correspondent, written a...
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