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In his preface to the printed edition, Dryden explained he had had to adapt the libretto to the changed political circumstances of 1691: " But not to offend the present Times, nor a Government which has hitherto protected me, I have been oblig'd so much to alter the first Design, and take away so many Beauties from the Writing, that it is now no more what it was formerly ..." He also made alterations to suit Purcell's musical needs: " the Numbers of Poetry and Vocal Musick, are sometimes so contrary, that in many places I have been oblig'd to cramp my Verses, and make them rugged to the Reader, that they may be harmonious to the Hearer: Of which I have no Reason to repent me, because these sorts of Entertainments are principally design'd for the Ear and the Eye ; and therefore in Reason my Art on this occasion, ought to be subservient to his.
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The original text is found on the preface Blake printed for inclusion with Milton, a Poem, following the lines beginning " The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid: of Plato & Cicero, which all Men ought to contemn: ..."
In the Spanish preface, Fra Marino records his wish that the Gospel of Barnabas should be printed, and the only place in Europe where that would have been possible in the late 16th century would have been Istanbul.
" Furthermore, the preface indicates that the book was first printed in 1602.
in Quantity for the Price of Seven " Richardson later made it up to the public with " deferred Restorations " of the fourth edition of the novel being printed in larger print with eight volumes and a preface that reads: " It is proper to observe with regard to the present Edition that it has been thought fit to restore many Passages, and several Letters which were omitted in the former merely for shortening-sake.
In the preface to his first printed work, The recuyell of the historyes of Troye, he claims to have been born and educated in the Weald of Kent.
Most of people were required to recite the quotation of Mao and printed material at that time usually quote Mao's words in bold in preface.
Although there remains doubt about whether the 1552 " edition " in Naples was ever truly printed, the study of Joseph Dan professor of Kabbalah at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the preface to his 1986 critical edition of the 1625 text concludes, from the Hebrew used and other indications, that the work was in fact written in Naples in the early sixteenth century.
After 1550, it was not printed again until 1813 except for Owen Rogers ' 1561 edition — a cheap knock-off of Crowley's text that omits the preface naming the author while adding — in some cases — Pierce the Ploughman's Crede.
Abraham Fraunce mentions Piers Plowman, but he merely repeats the identifying features printed in Crowley's preface and Bale's indices.
The edition of Leers was a reproduction of the work as first printed, with a new preface, notes, and those other writings which had appeared for and against the work up to that date ; it included Simon's answers to criticisms of Charles de Veil and Friedrich Spanheim the Younger.
In 1795 there appeared from Foulis's press at Glasgow an edition of Aeschylus in folio, printed with the same type as the Glasgow Homer, without a word of preface or anything to give a clue to the editor.
The short play is often printed with a preface that includes a long examination of the Gospels by Shaw, in which Shaw analyzes the Bible and proclaims his findings.
In the very first sentences of his preface, Alexandre Dumas indicated as his source Mémoires de Monsieur d ' Artagnan, printed by Pierre Rouge in Amsterdam.
The play was printed with a preface to the Earl of Norwich, in which Settle described with scorn the effusive dedications of other dramatic poets.
As Cowley later wrote in her preface to the printed edition of Albina, hers and More ’ s plays do indeed have “ wonderful resemblances .” Fatal Falsehood ’ s opening on 6 May 1779, was followed by charges ( perhaps written by Thomas Cowley ) in the press that More stole her ideas from Cowley.
Bishop Percy was next subjected to a furious onslaught in the preface to a collection of Ancient Songs ( printed 1787, dated 1790, published 1792 ).
Thus in 1651, when he published the first printed edition of the works of George Acropolites, the 13th century emissary of the Byzantine Emperor who acknowledged the supremacy of the Roman pontiff and thus had become something of a celebrity, at least in the West, the Latin essay that formed the preface to this volume, De Georgiis eorumque Scriptis gained fame itself as a learned plea for the commonalities between the two churches.
It was printed ( with the title and preface of the Invariata ) in Corpus Doctrinae Philippicum in 1559 ; it was expressly approved by the Lutheran princes at the Convention of Naumburg in 1561,
His first and longest booklet, a treatise on moral education, is printed on only the left-hand pages, and begins with the following preface:
The preface and the beginning of the text have been printed by Filipowski ( c. 1860 ) as a specimen.
The next year, she wrote The Platonick Lady, with a preface to the printed play which denounced the prejudice that led to any work by a woman being judged as inherently inferior to a work by a man.
From the preface it appears that the oration was printed in refutation of certain slanders as to its character which had been circulated.
) printed in front of Copernicus ' preface which was a dedicatory letter to Pope Paul III and which kept the title " Praefatio authoris " ( to acknowledge that the unsigned letter was not by the book's author ).
His Grotto, a poem on Queen Caroline's grotto at Richmond was printed in 1732 ; and his chief poem, The Spleen, in 1737 with a preface by his friend Richard Glover.
Eight volumes consisting of 1824 printed columns, a bibliography and a detailed preface were finally published on 13 April 1854.
preface and edition
As the preface to the 2nd edition ( 1976 ) notes, the first edition ( 1955 ) appears to have received relatively little attention from the literary establishment because of its then-unfashionable Marxist viewpoint.
* The Making of the English Working Class London: Victor Gollancz ( 1963 ); 2nd edition with new postscript, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968, third edition with new preface 1980.
In the preface to the first edition of his book, Butler specified:
Many dismissed this as a joke ; but, in his preface to the second edition, Butler wrote:
The first edition of the book was published, without Kant or Fichte's knowledge, without Fichte's name and signed preface ; it was thus mistakenly thought to be a new work by Kant himself.
Wells also wrote the preface for the first edition of W. N. P. Barbellion's diaries, The Journal of a Disappointed Man, published in 1919.
In his preface to the 1941 edition of The War in the Air, Wells had stated that his epitaph should be: " I told you so.
In 1822 this volume appeared in a second edition ( really a new work, for, as Grimm himself says in the preface, it cost him little reflection to mow down the first crop to the ground ).
As Grimm in the preface to his first edition expressly mentioned this essay of Rask, there is every probability that it inspired his own investigations.
However others, pointing to Marx's encounter with late 19th-century Russian populism and Marx and Engels's preface to the second Russian edition of the Manifesto of the Communist Party ( 1882 ), have argued that Marx evinced a growing conviction in his late writings that revolution could in fact emerge first in Russia.
Donald Keene explained in a preface to the Nihon Gakujutsu Shinkō Kai edition of the Man ' yōshū:
But whereas Newton vehemently denied gravity was an inherent power of matter, his collaborator Roger Cotes made gravity also an inherent power of matter, as set out in his famous preface to the Principia's 1713 second edition which he edited, and contra Newton himself.
In the preface to the fourth edition he stated his belief that proportional representation would '... end the evils of corruption, violent discontent and restricted power of selection or voter choice '.
Moreover, he noted in the preface to his third edition a point that was to become a feature of Tasmanian politics:
The preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray was added, along with other amendments, after the edition published in Lippincott's was criticised.
The second edition, published in 1800, had only Wordsworth listed as the author, and included a preface to the poems, which was augmented significantly in the 1802 edition.
Much of the biographical information about Plotinus comes from Porphyry's preface to his edition of Plotinus ' Enneads.
His first publications were an edition of Terence ( 1516 ) and his Greek grammar ( 1518 ), but he had written previously the preface to the Epistolae clarorum virorum of Reuchlin ( 1514 ).
In the preface to the first edition of Scènes de la Vie privée, he writes: " The author firmly believes that details alone will henceforth determine the merit of works ….
The new edition added a second preface, a chapter about his life up to 1846, a chapter concerning the post-war period ( ending with his 1884 retirement from the army ), several appendices, portraits, improved maps, and an index ( 1886 edition:
A second edition of Pope's Shakespeare appeared in 1728, but aside from making some minor revisions to the preface, it seems that Pope had little to do with it.
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