Clio: No; 1 (Classic Reprint)Excerpt from Clio: No; 1 If I mistake not, we are indebted to our distinguished fellow. Citizen, Irving, (a man, whom his country shouldbe proud to ho nour, and who so becoming] y discharges the functions of minister plenipotentiary of American taste and genius in the literary. Republics of Europe, ) for the plan of com bining elegant essays, and pleasing narratives, in numbers, which do not issue from the overdrawn fountains of monthly and quar terly literature, but roll 011 in vigorous ful ness, when the burdened spirit lets loose its overflowings. In his own native land, he has found his i111iiators.5pringing Up around him, like meadow flowers around our proud est lily and although we have seen none on whom his entire mantle has fallen, yet the Idle. Man has added one i111provement, by n'inding'up his numbers with the sweet: touches of the gentle harp of Green River. 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. |
