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Excerpt from Some Unsetting Lights of English Literature The riches Of scholarship, the benignities of liter ature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach Of thief or moth or rust. As they can not be inherited, so they cannot be alienated. But they may be shared. Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? 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.