Excerpt from Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections From the Prose Works of Eminent Writers From the Time of Pericles to the Present Day I. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Part of the Nineteenth Century, containing over Forty - six Thousand Articles (authors); with Forty Indexes of Subjects. Royal 8vo, 3 vols, pp. 3139. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott co., 1858 - 70 - 7 1. 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.