Fable for Critics
Format: Hardcover
ISBN13: 9780836972443
Hardcover|9780836972443
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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. 1890 Excerpt: ...Shakespeare, Paul, Toots, Monsieur Ton-son, Aldebaran, Alcander, Ben Khorat, Ben Jonson, Thoth, Richter, Joe Smith, Father Paul, Judah Monis, Musaeus, Muretus, hem, --p. Scorpionis, Maccabee, Maccaboy, Mac--Mac--ah! Machiavelli, Condorcet, Count d'Orsay, Conder, Say, Ganganelli, Orion, O'Connell, the Chevalier D'O, (See the Memoirs of Sully, ) To Tov, the great toe Of the statue of Jupiter, now made to pass For that of Jew Peter by good Romish brass, (You may add for yourselves, for I find it a bore, All the names you have ever, or not, heard before, And when you've done that--why, invent a few more.) His hearers can't tell you on Sunday beforehand, If in that day's discourse they '11 be Bibled or Koraned, For he's seized the idea (by his martyrdom fired) That all men (not orthodox) may be inspired; Yet though wisdom profane with his creed he may weave in, He makes it quite clear what he does n't believe in, While some, who decry him, think all Kingdom Come Is a sort of a, kind of a, species of Hum, Of which, as it were, so to speak, not a crumb Would be left, if we did n't keep carefully mum, And, to make a clean breast, that't is perfectly plain That all kinds of wisdom are somewhat profane; Now P.'s creed than this may be lighter or darker, But in one thing, 't is clear, he has faith, namely--Parker, And this is what makes him the crowd-drawing preacher, There's a background of god to each hard-working feature, Every word that he speaks has been fierily furnaced In the blast of a life that has struggled in earnest: There he stands, looking more like a ploughman than priest, If not dreadfully awkward, not graceful at least, His gestures all downwright and same, if you will, As of brown-fisted Hobnail in hoeing a drill; But his periods fall on you, stroke af...
| ISBN-13 | 9780836972443 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0836972449 |
| Weight | 0.60 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.50 x 0.50 x 8.75 In |
| List Price | $18.95 |
| Format | Hardcover |
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| Publisher | Ayer Co Pub |
| Published On | 1977-06-01 |
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