Essays And Sketches Of Edmund J Armstrong Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Essays and Sketches of Edmund J. Armstrong Few of these prose-pieces were ever meant thus to see the light. One only - that on Essayzkts and Essay Wn'tz'ng - was printed during the Author's lifetime; two or three had been circulated in ms. 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.

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ... EDITOR'S PREFACE. THE greater number of the poems in this volume were written before my brother had reached his twenty-third birthday. 1 Seven months from that date his brief life of joyous activity was brought to an untimely. close. Then the best intellects and best hearts of his University, desiring to perpetuate his works and do honour to his memory, asked permission to publish a selection from his manuscripts, and, with a generous sympathy, named me--then but a boy--as the person to c_l whom the duty of selecting and editing them? should be entrusted. Circumstances rendered it inexpedient to swell the wished-for volume 1 with many untried poems; and a few only were chosen from his multitudinous papers. These 1 were introduced to the world with a short j$ biographical preface by one of his chief friends, darkened, at the time, and troubled by his loss; and the minor pieces were arranged in such order as seemed best to illustrate that sketch. The poems were greeted with a welcome warmer and more general than the most sanguine of us, his companions and kinsfolk, could have hoped for the posthumous works of a writer known only to a few. Yet it was felt that in that volume but little of the young Poet's life, character, and achievement had been revealed. I now bind up a larger swathe, for the occasion for doing so seems to have arrived. The reader to whom the First Edition is a familiar book, will distinguish as new to him very many pieces which are printed here. Most of these I have transcribed from his various note-books; a few of them, of which he had destroyed all traces, I have written down from memory. Of the former, some had been already in part revised by himself. But in one or two short ones I have ventured, within the narrow...