Philomorus Notes on the Latin Poems of Sir Thomas More (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Philomorus: Notes on the Latin Poems of Sir Thomas More <p>Pace, the King's secretary, described him as a man of unrivalled genius, of universal knowledge, and of incomparable eloquence. He seems to be the earliest instance in our history of a man raising himself to political importance in some degree by his public speaking; and as a scholar he was one of the very few persons in England who had any pretensions to classical scholarship at all. It is very forcibly re marked by Mr. Brewer. That round no man in this great reign do our sympathies gather so strongly, in no man is humanity in its varlous modes, its sun and shadow, its gentleness and kindliness, its sorrows and misgivings, presented so attractively, as in Sir Thomas More. And with no less truth another writer has summed up his remarks, by stating the fact that in the next generation it was deemed an honour to an Englishman throughout Europe to be the countryman of Sir Thomas More. <p>Those readers who have learned thus to appreciate the character of Sir Thomas More, following him from his early domicile, when a lively-witted boy in the house of Cardinal Morton the Archbishop of Canter bury, down to the bloody scene on the scaffold on Tower Hill, will admit that in dealing with the say ings and doings of such a man, the veriest gleanings are too precious to be thrown aside or lost. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>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.