Life of Agnes Strickland (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from Life of Agnes Strickland Pope's 'homer' succeeded Shakespeare in the esti mation of Agnes, who learned many of the books of the 'iliad' by heart.1 She was passionately fond of poetry, and readily committed to memory what she admired; but from her father she derived her preference for history and biography. She read and re-read the two mighty folios of Rapin's History of England, ' translated by Tindal, and improved by his learned notes and, strange to say, from that dull source she derived her historic inspiration, and was perhaps the first young girl who ever perused it without compulsion. 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.