The Life of Sir Thomas More

ISBN: 9781331425649 出版年：2018 页码：442 Cresacre More Forgotten Books

It is not, however, the grander features of his character and history which occasion so many pleasurable associations to be connected with his name, as circumstances of a lighter or adventitious character. We see him in the midst of his family, as that happy group are transmitted in the living and speaking picture, by the great artist of the age; we are delighted with his ingenious political romance; we repeat sayings of his,1n which is apparent that agree able turn of humour by which he was distin guished; and we read the story of his life, told in a lively and popular manner, by two members of his *own family, Roper his son-in-law, and More his great grandson.