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Excerpt from The Literary Character, or the History of Men of Genius, Drawn From Their Own Feelings and Confessions
Literary characters of the age, I am experiencing a peculiar gratification, in which few, perhaps none, of my contempo raries can participate; for I am addressing him, Whose earliest effusions attracted my regard, near half a century past and during that awful interval of time, for fifty years It is a trial of life of whatever may be good in us, you have. 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.
