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    In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers
    In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers
    In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers
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    In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers

    By Agnes Repplier

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    In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers is a collection of essays by Agnes Repplier. Repplier was a discursive essayist from Philadelphia. Excerpt: "Nations, like individuals, stand self-betrayed in their pastimes and their jests. The ancient historians recognized this truth, and thought it well worth their while to gossip pleasantly into the ears of attentive and grateful generations. Cleopatra playfully outwitting Anthony by fastening a salted fish to the boastful angler's hook is no less clear to us than Cleopatra sternly outwitting Cæsar with the poison of the asp, and we honor Plutarch for confiding both these details to the world. Their verity has nothing to do with their value or our satisfaction. The mediæval chroniclers listened rapturously to the clamor of battle, and found all else but war too trivial for their pens. The modern scholar produces that pitiless array of facts known as constitutional history; and labors under the strange delusion that acts of Parliament, or acts of Congress, reform bills, and political pamphlets represent his country's life. If this sordid{95} devotion to the concrete suffers no abatement, the intelligent reader of the future will be compelled to reconstruct the nineteenth century from the pages of "Punch" and "Life," from faded play-bills, the records of the race-track, and the inextinguishable echo of dead laughter."
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    Release dateNov 22, 2022
    ISBN8596547420194
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