When he had stretched himself on the sofa, he looked at the
title-page of the book.
Higher up, in the utter clarity of the western slope, the evening star hung like a lamp suspended by silver chains--like the lamp engraved upon the
title-page of old Latin texts, which is always appearing in new heavens, and waking new desires in men.
I looked down again at the
title-page, and read the next lines--
Nowadays a poet makes a poem, and it is printed with his name upon the
title-page. The poem belongs to him, and is known by his name.
To be sure, no definite record of the order of his plays has come down to us, and it can scarcely be said that we certainly know the exact date of a single one of them; but the evidence of the
title-page dates of such of them as were hastily published during his lifetime, of allusions to them in other writings of the time, and other scattering facts of one sort or another, joined with the more important internal evidence of comparative maturity of mind and art which shows
But you've only seen the
title-page of my happiness; you don't know the tale that follows; you cannot conceive the interest and sweet variety and thrilling excitement of the narrative."
'This, sir,' replied Silas, adjusting his spectacles, and referring to the
title-page, 'is Merryweather's Lives and Anecdotes of Misers.
Just turn that into English, and put your name on the
title-page. Damn me,' said Mr Crummles, angrily, 'if I haven't often said that I wouldn't have a man or woman in my company that wasn't master of the language, so that they might learn it from the original, and play it in English, and save all this trouble and expense.'
Now, it is clear that the book with the most mysterious, startling, or suggestive title, will always stand the best chance of being purchased by those who have no other criteria to guide them in their choice than the aspect of a
title-page; and this explains why "Thus Spake Zarathustra" is almost always the first and often the only one of Nietzsche's books that falls into the hands of the uninitiated.
The
title-page -- Professor Some- body's ANATOMY -- carried no information to her mind; so she began to turn the leaves.
Our antiquaries abandon time for distance; our very fops glance from the binding to the bottom of the
title-page, where the mystic characters which spell London, Paris, or Genoa, are precisely so many letters of recommendation.
As this work professes, in its
title-page, to be a descriptive tale, they who will take the trouble to read it may be glad to know how much of its contents is literal fact, and how much is intended to represent a general picture.