Essays of Leigh Hunt (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Leigh Hunt

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0260061751 ISBN 13: 9780260061751

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Essays of Leigh Hunt

Hunt, was more polite than prudent. His firm loyalty made it impossible for him to remain in the West Indies, while the width of his sympathies hindered his preferment at home. As his family increased, and he was not in a position to turn his powers of oratory to financial account, he became acquainted with debtors' prisons, and was 'con slantly in dread of arrest. Yet so capable was he of settling himself to the most tranquil plea sures, that he could always forget his troubles in reading aloud to his wife with the same fine voice that had first won her heart when he spoke the farewell oration on leaving college. We thus struggled on between quiet and disturbance, between placid readings and frightful knocks at the door, and sickness, and calamity, and hopes, Which hardly ever forsook us.

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