Download or read book Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 1890, Vol. 5 written by Modern Language Association Of America and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 1890, Vol. 5: January-March It was not long before the living languages justified their right to exist by producing a living literature, but as the knowledge of Greek and Latin was the exclusive privilege of a class, that class naturally made an obstinate defence of its vested rights. Nor was it less natural that men like bacon, who felt that he was speaking to the civilized world, and lesser men who fancied themselves charged with a pressing message to it, should choose to utter themselves in the only tongue that was cosmopolitan. But already such books as had more than a provincial meaning though written in what the learned still looked on as palot's, were beginning to be translated into the other European lan guages. The invention of printing had insensibly but surely enlarged the audience which genius addresses. That there were persons in England who had learned something of F rench, Italian, Spanish, and of High and Low Dutch three centuries ago is shown by the dramatists of the day, but the speech of the foreigner was still generally regarded as something noxious. 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.