Excerpt from The Book of Love From the beginning of time, Love has ever been the inspiration of poetry. According to Dryden, Love first invented verse, and formed the rhyme, The motion measured, harmonized the chime. A modern writer declares Love to be the despair of philosophers and sages, the rapture of poets, the confusion of cynics, and the warrior's defeat. Furthermore, it has, become the pre vailing theme of the novelist. Almost every story, nowadays, is a love story, and the little blind god hovers between the pages. Verily, verily. 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.