A First Gallery of Literary Portraits (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from A First Gallery of Literary Portraits The Author of the following Sketches is aware that lie may be accused of exaggeration and extravagance, particularly in his panegyrics of the various characters he has attempted to pourtray. He has only to plead, in mitigation of sentence, that his praise is perfectly sincere; that the men he has selected are, in his judgment, the leading lights - the decora et tutamina - of their age; that some of them are less known and less appreciated than they deserve; and that he is not afraid, once for all, to avow himself, even in this late age, a "Hero-worshipper," and to avow his conviction that, even now, there are many heroes. Perhaps the life of every thinking man may be divided into three eras - the era of admiration, the era of action, and the era of repose. Should this division be esteemed correct, the Author would beg leave, as an additional apology, to suggest that, in the following work, he has garnered up the results of his young love and wonder for the masterpieces of his country´s genius; that, with it, one mental period of his history is closing, and that it is for the public to decide whether he be encouraged to gird up his loins for some other more manlike, more solid, and strenuous achievement. 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.
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