Excerpt from The Mermaid: And Other Pieces Zoilus presented to Apollo a very caustic criticism upon a work of many admirable parts. The god asked what were the beauties of the book, whereupon Zoilus made answer that he only busied himself about the errors. Thereupon Apollo handed him back a big measure of un winnowed wheat and bade him pick out all the chaff for his reward. I trust that the reader into whose hands this volume falls will not busy himself over-much With the errors, but will rather seek for the beauties of ...
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Excerpt from The Mermaid: And Other Pieces Zoilus presented to Apollo a very caustic criticism upon a work of many admirable parts. The god asked what were the beauties of the book, whereupon Zoilus made answer that he only busied himself about the errors. Thereupon Apollo handed him back a big measure of un winnowed wheat and bade him pick out all the chaff for his reward. I trust that the reader into whose hands this volume falls will not busy himself over-much With the errors, but will rather seek for the beauties of thought and the music of the language in which the author has cast his musings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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