Irish Melodies (Classic Reprint)LULU Press, 2018年8月3日 - 400 頁 Excerpt from Irish Melodies The recollections connected, in my mind, with that early period of my life, when I first thought Of Interpreting in verse the touching language of my country's music, tempt me again to advert to those long past days and, even at the risk of being thought to indulge overmuch in what Colley Cibber calls the great pleasure of writing about one's self all day, to notice briefly some of those impressions and' influences under which the attempt to adapt words to our ancient Melodies was for some time medi tated by me, and, at last, undertaken. 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. |
