Philip Ii A Dramatic Romance Author:R. John Elford General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1880 Original Publisher: C.S. Palmer 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 General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can sel... more »ect from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In scepter'd pall come sweeping by. Miltoh : II Penaeroio. Quapropter, cum res gestae et eventus, qui verae Historiae subjiciuntur non sint ejus amplitudinis, in qua anima humana sibi satisfaciat, praesto ost Poesis, quae facta magis heroica coufingat : dim Historia vera successus rerum minime pro meritis virtutum et scelerum narret, corrigit eam Poesis, et exitus et fortunas secundum merita et ex lege Nemeseos exhibet : cilm Historia vera, obvia rerum satietate et eimilitudine, animae humanae fastidio sit, reficit eam Poesis, inexpec- tata, et varia, et vicissitudinum plena canens. Adeo ut Poesis ista, non solum ad delectationem sed etiam ad animi magnitudinem et ad mores conferat. Quare et merito etiam divinitatis cujuspiam particeps videri possit, quia animum erigit et in sublime rapit; rerum simulacra ad animi desideria accomodando non animum rebus (quod Eatio facit, et Historia) submittendo. -- Bacon : De Augmcntis Scientiarum. jt There are a hundred faults in this thing and a hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. But it is needless. A hook may be amusing with numerous errors and dull without a single absurdity. -- Pref. to Vicar of Wakefield. PREFACE. I come no more to make you laugh; things now, That bear a weighty and a serious brow, Sad, high, and working,' full of state and woe, Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present. Those that can pity, hero May if they think it well let fall a tear, The subject will deserve it. Such as give Their money out of hope they may believe May here find t...« less