EBOOK, THE HISTORY OF THOMAS ELLWOOD ***
Transcribed from the 1885 George Routledge and Sons edition by David
Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
THE HISTORY OF THOMAS ELLWOOD WRITTEN BY HIMSELF
INTRODUCTION BY HENRY MORLEY
The life of the simple Quaker, Thomas Ellwood, to whom the pomps and
shows of earth were nowhere so vain as in association with the
spiritual life of man, may serve as companion to another volume in
this Library, the "Life of Wolsey" by George Cavendish, who, as a
gentleman of the great prelate's household, made part of his pomp,
but had heart to love him in his pride and in his fall. "The
History of Thomas Ellwood, written by Himself," is interesting for
the frankness with which it makes Thomas Ellwood himself known to
us; and again, for the same frank simplicity that brings us nearer
than books usually bring us to a living knowledge of some features
of a bygone time; and yet again, because it helps us a little to
come near to Milton in his daily life. He would be a good novelist
who could invent as pleasant a book as this unaffected record of a
quiet life touched by great influences in eventful times.
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