Download or read book Old Canterbury Classic Reprint written by Walter Cozens and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-17 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Old Canterbury Here is a time in the lives of most men and more women when the veriest trivialities are not only pleasing but act upon the system as healing balm. To enjoy life, work is a necessity, and there is nothing much truer than the state ment that he is most miserable who has nothing to do. I well remember a gentleman, who having retired in Canterbury from a successful London business, on more than one occasion begging me to find him some work in my office, which he would gladly do without payment for a few hours every day. (to thoroughly understand a builder's business is the business of a life-time, and those who have not been apprenticed to it are not likely to find much in it but trouble and vexation.) My private opinion is that this good man died for want of employment at least thirty years before he need have done. Some men have to kill time, which is indeed a strange expres sion to those who lead a life of happiness simply through finding so much to do for other people while doing what is necessary for themselves. 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.
Download or read book Rambles Round Old Canterbury Classic Reprint written by Francis W. Cross and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Rambles Round Old Canterbury Canterbury Cathedral is too vast, too rich in art history, and tradition to be included in this little book. But around that matchless pile, and overshadowed by it, there are monuments which - more venerable than Christ Church itself - are memorials of the earliest English Christianity. Few, however, of the many thousands who, year by year, come to Canterbury from all parts of the world, take more than a passing glance, or bestow more than a passing thought, on these hallowed sites. This partly arises from the fact that, while the Cathedral has been repeatedly described and illustrated, there is no book which the visitor can take as an intelligent guide to the city and the surrounding parishes. He must seek for information in various works which are costly and difficult to obtain, or be satisfied with the few pages of meagre and inaccurate description contained in the local guide books. The authors of this volume have endeavoured to give a popular account of St. Martin's, St. Pancras, St. Augustine's, and the other principal remains of antiquity in and around the city. 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.
Download or read book CANTERBURY TALES CLASSIC REPRINT written by GEOFFREY. CHAUCER and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canterbury Tales Vol 1 Classic Reprint written by Harriet Lee and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Canterbury Tales, Vol. 1 I think I fball ever be able to afford that fullen alfeetation of fuperiority. 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."
Download or read book CANTERBURY TALES written by CALVIN DILL. WILSON and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canterbury Tales Vol 1 of 2 Classic Reprint written by Harriet Lee and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Canterbury Tales, Vol. 1 of 2 Rough, dear heart, sir - and half suppressing a smile, she again looked towards the sea. The tide came roll ing in with a full wave, the force of which was increased, as well by the season of the year, as by a most refresh ing breeze: while the sun played over a vast expanse of green, dazzling the eye with its luster, and brightening the spray, which dashed high as it approached the shore': the whole scene conveying to those that were accustomed to sea-views the most lively sensation of Spirit and gayety. 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.
Download or read book New Canterbury Tales Classic Reprint written by Maurice Hewlett and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from New Canterbury Tales Medway chose that they must. So doing, tend ing from old English burgh to old Roman, they followed a road incredibly older than that from London; for long before their day or Saint Thomas's, English feet, Latin feet, British and (if the tale be true) Trojan feet had trudged ir, bringing mine up from the West to be smithied in the forests of Sussex, then loaded into galleys whose helmsmen knew all the shoals at the Nore. You may well doubt whether there had been any other path for slave or legionary or wild adven turer of the North through those impenetrable wealden woods. My pilgrims, then, took this ancient road, assembling for the purpose at W'in Chester, as nearly as possible upon the Feast of Saints Philip and Jacob, which was in the year of Christ's reign fourteen-hundred and fifty, and in the twenty-eighth year of that of King Henry VI., a pious, unhappy, and nearly imbecile monarch, quite damned in a magnanimous wife. 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.
Download or read book Canterbury Old and New 1850 1900 written by New Zealand Natives' Associatio Branch and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Canterbury Old and New, 1850-1900: A Souvenir of the Jubilee It was with the object of helping to make these sons worthy of the task before them that the Canterbury Branch of the New Zealand Natives' Association was founded. Our Society concerns itself with everything that is native to New Zealand. Most of its work is necessarily hidden from the public gaze, but from time to time it has come out of its seclusion, and in several ways has given some small idea of the manner in which it endeavours to assist its members. It now appears in a new role. One of its chief aims is to give its members and New Zealanders generally a better knowledge of their native land, and thus to encourage them to take a keener interest in its welfare and advancement. At the present time there seems to be a real desire among all classes of people in Canterbury to learn something more about the lives that men lived immediately before and immediately after the arrival of the first four ships. During the winter our Society has endeavoured to satisfy this desire, to some extent, by arranging lectures on this subject, and it takes the present opportunity of issuing this little book in order that it may appeal to a wider audience than could be contained by the (cur walls of a room. 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.
Download or read book A Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury Classic Reprint written by Henry Phillpotts and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury In your preface to this new edition of your old work, you speak of it as if it were still substantially the same as when it first came from your pen. It will be my painful duty to remark on some most important changes, which, had your Grace been conscious of it, you could not but yourself have pointed to your reader's notice. 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.
Download or read book Canterbury Tales Vol 5 Classic Reprint written by Harriet Lee and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Canterbury Tales, Vol. 5 What lbera, do you mean? Replied the Peranger drily, and pointing to the fea, on which, indeed, he had been molt in tently gazing at the moment {he addrefi'cd him. 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.
Download or read book Canterbury Tales Vol 2 Classic Reprint written by Sophia Lee and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Canterbury Tales, Vol. 2 Mifa Arden was fo -naturally beautiful and elegant, and fo anxious ever to appear to advantage, that the Governor, having trifled in fecret with two or three pretty light coquettes, who..laughed at his ugly face and his fuperannuated gallantry, now refolved to devote himfelf to this lofty charmer. He already knew lhehad no other aim than the other miffes; to make her fortune and that {he would value him but as {he thought that might be afcertain ed: yet ftill he devoted himfelf to. Her. He was certain {he was ignorant of the change in his circumfiances; and he had cheated his own fex fo often, that it ap peared a mere amufement to cheat a woman. 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.
Download or read book Chaucer s Canterbury Tales written by Arthur Burrell and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: For the Modern Reader Was never eye did see that face, Was never ear did hear that tongue, Was never mind did mind his grace, That ever thought the travail long; But eyes and ears and every thought Were with his sweet perfections caught. (From Lowell's Essay.) This preface and this book are not meant for the scholar who reads his Middle English with ease, nor again for the student who wishes to delve into the grammar and the syntax of fourteenth-century English. Rather are they meant for those many people who have not read, who say they cannot read, Chaucer. For, let writers deny it as they will, to the modern Englishman, and still more to the modern Englishwoman, Chaucer is a sealed book. A few lines here and there are clear enough - but then the reader is pulled up sharp and has to refer to notes and glossary; and the man who sets out for enjoyment, will not for long turn aside to notes and glossary, however well they may be supplied. If it were not so, if this contention were not true, Professor Skeat would not have thought it necessary to publish a modern version of the beautiful Knightes Tale. The understanding of Chaucer and the love of him (the two go together) are not very old. Neither Addison nor Pope could appreciate him, and it is well known into what Dryden turned the tales. But attempts have been made to bring Chaucer nearer to the people. Charles Cowden Clarke "purified" him; others modernised his spelling; others again so altered him in modernising him that the poet was unrecognisable. Not one of these versions has succeeded. It is a bold thing to hope to prosper where so many have failed; but the present editor is bound to explain - and to defend - his method. To begin with, certain tales, seven out of the twenty-four, have been left untouched. 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.
Download or read book Augustine of Canterbury Classic Reprint written by Edward Lewes Cutts and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Augustine of Canterbury In drawing up a Chronological Table for the reader's convenience, it is necessary to say that only some of the dates are certainly fixed, but these occur at intervals which form a skeleton table into which the other dates can be intercalated without fear of any considerable error. The History of St. Augustine's Monastery by William Thorn, a monk of that house in 1397, gives the following dates: - Augustine sent to England, 596; Baptism of Ethelbert, Pentecost, 597; Augustine consecrated, 16th November 597; Received the Pall, 601; Augustine died, 26th May 605; Ethelbert and Bertha kept Christmas at St. Augustine's, 605; Abbot Peter died, 607; Laurentius consecrated the Abbey Church, 613; and died, 614; Ethelbert died, 616; Justus died, 635; Honorius died, 643; Deusdedit died, 664; Theodore appointed to the bishopric, 670. 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.
Download or read book The Story of the Canterbury Pilgrims Classic Reprint written by F. J. Harvey Darton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Story of the Canterbury Pilgrims The chief season for pilgrimages was Spring, when the sweet showers of April had put to flight the dryness and cold weather of March. At that time of the year the west wind with his sweet breath is giving new life to all the plants and flowers. The young sun has just left the sign of the Ram in the heavenly Zodiac, and the little birds are beginning to sing again, and to sleep all night with one eye open. Men, too, like the flowers and birds, feel new strength in their veins, and early spring in those far-off days, five centuries and more ago, seemed to bid them leave their homes and use their fresh vigor in a journey to some distant place, to renew their vows and repent of their sins. 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.
Download or read book Beautiful Britain written by Gordon Home and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Beautiful Britain: Canterbury Now, I do not disguise the fact that many of the twentieth-century pilgrims are not pos sessed of the true spirit of the devotee, and instead of approaching the object of their journey by the old-time way, along the beautiful hills of Surrey and Kent, they use the iron road which rushes them all unprepared into the City of the saint-martyr. But who will maintain that all those who formed the motley throng of the medieval pilgrimages came with their minds properly attuned, and who is prepared to say that because the majority of modern pilgrims consummate their aim by using the convenience of the railway they are less devout than Chaucer's merchant, serjeant-at-law, doctor of physic, and the rest who rode on horseback - the most con venient, rapid, and comfortable method of travel then available? 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.
Download or read book New Wheels in Old Ruts written by Henry Parr and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from New Wheels in Old Ruts: A Pilgrimage to Canterbury Via the Ancient Pilgrim's Way In case anybody doesn't like this book, I may as well explain that I intended to have written something very different. The work was to have teemed with profound archaeological research and solid learning. But I got into bad company and was led astray. The little frailties of my fellow pilgrims proved more attractive matter for my purpose than more serious subjects. After all, neither Chaucer nor Erasmus were quite able to resist the same temptation. My chief regret, however, is that the photographs taken en route by my friend, Mr. J. W. Church, have had to be omitted from this edition. Not only are they of exceptional technical excellence, but both author and artist had relied upon them to supply the defects of pen and pencil with regard to the scenery in the valleys of the Medway and Stour. 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.
Download or read book Canterbury Rhymes Classic Reprint written by William Pember Reeves and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Canterbury Rhymes AN American author, in introducing, the other day, a new book to the Public, commenced his Preface with the remark, that his volume had not been published in deference to the urgent and repeated requests of the writer's enthusiastic friends, who must therefore be responsible, - and so forth. He had written it, he went on to explain, to please himself, and he published it with the hope of making a little money out of it. The publishers of the present edition of the Cantcrtury Rhymes wish they could imitate the candour and share the hopes of that author. Unfortunately they can do neither the one nor the other. To say nothing of the latter, it happens to be true that during the fifteen years in which the original edition has been out of print, suggestions have often been made to them to print another. Indeed, it is to the persuasions of a genial old identity that this volume owes its existence; and to the same gentleman's courtesy the Editor is indebted for the copy of the original Rhymes used in preparing the present edition. On going through the old contributions, it seemed advisable not to reproduce a few of them, and nine were therefore excised. The others are reprinted unaltered, and the orginal Notes, written by the late Mr. Crosbie Ward, have also been left untouched. 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.
