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Dedications; An Anthology of the Forms Used From the Earliest Days of Book-Making to the Present Time
Dedications An Anthology of the Forms Used From the Earliest Days of BookMaking to the Present Time Author:Mary Elizabeth Brown General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1913 Original Publisher: G.P. Putnam Subjects: Dedications (in books) Dedications Dedications (in books) Reference / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the G... more »eneral Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: " Had I known a person more highly endowed than yourself with all that it becomes a man to possess, I had solicited for this work the ornament of his name. One more gentle, honourable, innocent and brave; one of more exalted toleration for all who do and think evil, and yet, himself more free from evil; who knows better how to receive and how to confer a benefit, though he must ever confer far more than he can receive; one of simpler, and, ifi the highest sense of the word, of purer life and manners, I never knew; and I had already been fortunate in friendships when your name was added to the list. " In that patient and irreconcilable enmity with domestic and political tyranny and imposture which the tenor of your life has illustrated, and which, had I health and talents, should illustrate mine, let us, comforting each other in our task, live and die. "All happiness attend you! "Your affectionate friend, "Percy B. Shelley. "Rome, May 29, 1819." In offering this dedication to Hunt, Shelley wrote: "I have written something and finished it, different from anything else, and a new attempt for me; and I mean to dedicate it to you. I should not have done so without your approbation, but I asked your picture last night, and it smiled assent. If I did not think it in some degree worthy of you, I would not make you a public offering of it." Sardanapalus: A Tragedy. By Lord Byron. 1821. "To the illustrious Goethe a stranger presumes to offer the homage of a literary vassal to his l...« less