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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
etallic types till the year 1462. Faust gave his daughter in marriage to Schoeffer, the former servant of Guttenberg and himself, and the inventor of cast metallic type. The most ample testimony in favor of Schoeffer is given by Jo. Frid. Faustus, of Aschaffenburg, from papers preserved in his family:— Peter Schoeffer of Gernsheim, perceiving his master Faust's design, and being himself ardently desirous to improve the art, found out (by the good providence of God) the method of cutti Aldus introduced italics, 1476. The Pentateuch in Hebrew, 1482. Homer in folio, by Demetrius of Florence, 1488. The Complutensian Polyglot of Cardinal Ximenes, in 1517. The exact conformity of different copies of the book taken by Faustus for sale in Paris gave rise to the report of his being in league with Satan, and was the origin of the popular story of his attendant demon. The Mentz printers, in order that the art might not be divulged, administered an oath of secrecy to a
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 14: first weeks in London.—June and July, 1838.—Age, 27. (search)
. Norton. of the Law Magazine, I know very well. Last evening I met at dinner, at his chambers in King's Bench Walk, some fashionable ladies and authors, and M. P.'s. There we stayed till long after midnight, and— shall I say with Sir John?—heard the chimes of midnight in this same inn,—though it was Clifford's Inn and not the Temple, which was the scene of Falstaff's and Shallow's mysteries. Hayward is a fellow of a good deal of talent and variety. He is well known as the translator of Faustus, and as one of the constant contributors to the Quarterly Review, in which he wrote the articles on Gastronomy and Etiquette. I have talked with him very freely about his journal, and hope before I leave England to do something in a quiet way that shall secure a place in it for American law. He has acknowledged to me that the Americans are ahead of the English in the science of the law. He speaks well of you, but evidently has only glanced at your works. It seems that his friend Lewis, w<
James Russell Lowell, Among my books, Dante. (search)
al swine. Its mouth yawns not only under Florence, but before the feet of every man everywhere who goeth about to do evil. His hell is a condition of the soul, and he could not find images loathsome enough to express the moral deformity which is wrought by sin on its victims, or his own abhorrence of it. Its inmates meet you in the street every day. Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place; for where we are is hell, And where hell is there we must ever be. Marlowe's Faustus. Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell. （Paradise Lost, IV. 75.) In the same way, ogni dove in cielo ZZZe Paradiso. (Paradiso, III. 88, 89.) It is our own sensual eye that gives evil the appearance of good, and out of a crooked hag makes a bewitching siren. The reason enlightened by the grace of God sees it as it truly is, full of stench and corruption. Purgatorio, XIX. 7-33. It is this office of reason which Dante undertakes to perform, by divine commission, in the Infern
James Russell Lowell, Among my books, Spenser (search)
408. In the Epithalamion there is an epithet which has been much admired for its felicitous tenderness:— Behold, whiles she before the altar stands, Hearing the holy priest that to her speakes And blesseth her with his two happy hands. But the purely impersonal passion of the artist had already guided him to this lucky phrase. It is addressed by Holiness—a dame surely as far abstracted from the enthusiasms of love as we can readily conceive of—to Una, who, like the visionary Helen of Dr. Faustus, has every charm of womanhood, except that of being alive as Juliet and Beatrice are. O happy earth, Whereon thy innocent feet do ever tread! Faery Queen, B. I. c. x. 9. Can we conceive of Una, the fall of whose foot would be as soft as that of a rose-leaf upon its mates already fallen,—can we conceive of her treading anything so sordid? No; it is only on some unsubstantial floor of dream that she walks securely, herself a dream. And it is only when Spenser has escaped thither, onl
James Russell Lowell, Among my books, Milton. (search)
t is really solemn trifling to lay any stress on the spelling of the original editions, after having admitted, as Mr. Masson has honestly done, that in all likelihood Milton had nothing to do with it. And yet he cannot refrain. On the word voutsafe he hangs nearly a page of dissertation on the nicety of Milton's ear. Mr. Masson thinks that Milton must have had a reason for it, He thinks the same of the variation strook and struck,though they were probably pronounced alike. In Marlowe's Faustus two consecutive sentences (in prose) begin with the words Cursed be he that struck. In a note on the passage Mr. Dyce tells us that the old editions (there were three) have stroke and strooke in the first instance, and all agree on strucke in the second. No inference can be drawn from such casualties. and finds that reason in his dislike to [of] the sound ch, or to [of] that sound combined with s. . . . . . His fine ear taught him not only to seek for musical effects and cadences at larg
The Daily Dispatch: January 28, 1865., [Electronic resource], The Army of Tennessee. (search)
ion of Confederate armies. Such accounts, and all others, from Yankee sources, when transferred to Confederate columns, should be read as so many Gulliver's Travels and adventures of Munchausen. But a lie when put in type seems to have a stronger fascination. We are prone to believe a thing when in print, that we would have no faith in, in manuscript or by word of mouth. We should be careful how we put confidence in all we read. The Devil may, after all, have had something to do with Dr. Faustus. The Army of Tennessee, under proper leadership, will yet vindicate its claims to the gratitude and admiration of the country. Its patient endurance of years of toil, peril and adversity, entitles it to as profound respect as the most brilliant successes in the field. To be a soldier under generals whose banners are always bathed in the sunshine of victory is a happy fortune; but it affords no such test of constancy and fortitude as the steady and persistent struggle against advers