Excerpt from The Journal of Education for Ontario: For the Year 1876 Why, on the other hand, do epithets and illustrations that to Dr. Johnson's ear debase a noble passage, accommodate themselves so easily to our modern taste l The dunnest smoke of hell, The keen knife, The blanket of the dark, expressions which alter nately wake his contempt, change his terror into aversion, and excite his risibility. Some words, indeed, are so obviously made for a state or tem er of the national mind, that when the temper changes the wor must go out of fashion or fall into contempt. 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.