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Title: Stories from the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers, Volume 1
Author: Leigh Hunt
Release Date: January 31, 2004 [EBook #10885]
Language: English
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STORIES FROM THE ITALIAN POETS: WITH LIVES OF THE WRITERS.
BY LEIGH HUNT.
IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I.
MDCCCXLVI.
TO SIR PERCY SHELLEY, BART.
MY DEAR SIR PERCY,
As I know no man who surpasses yourself either in combining a love of the most romantic fiction with the coolest good sense, or in passing from the driest metaphysical questions to the heartiest enjoyment of humour,--I trust that even a modesty so true as yours will not grudge me the satisfaction of inscribing these volumes with your name.
That you should possess such varieties of taste is no wonder, considering what an abundance of intellectual honours you inherit; nor might the world have been the better for it, had they been tastes, and nothing more. But that you should inherit also that zeal for ju
Stories from the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers, Volume 1
by Leigh Hunt