Personal Memoirs and Recollections of Editorial Life, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Personal Memoirs and Recollections of Editorial Life, Vol. 1 of 2 It is a hard and a nice subject for a man to write of himself. It pains his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader´s ears to hear any thing of praise from him. There is no danger from me of my offending him in that kind; neither my mind nor my body, nor my fortune, allow me any materials for that vanity. Cowley. Grateful, as I am, to the Gracious Being, without whom I and my faculties are nothing, I feel no disposition to affront his bounty by assuming the language of hypocritical humility. Venerating truth above all earthly things, I can think and speak of myself as well as of other men, without malice and without extenuation. I will never incur a real imputation of dissimulation and ingratitude, by adopting a silly affectation to avoid the mere appearance of conceit. Gilbert Wakefield. Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call. She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all: But if the purchase cost so dear a price As soothing Folly, or exalting Vice, - If pen and press must flatter lawless Sway, And follow still where Fortune leads the way, - Or, if no basis bear my rising name But the fallen ruins of another´s fame, - Then, teach me, Heaven, to scorn the guilty bays; Drive from my breast that wretched lust of praise; Unblemished let me live, or die unknown; O grant me honest Fame, or grant me none! Pope. 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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