. The autobiography of Leigh Hunt, with reminiscences of friends and contemporaries, and with Thornton Hunt's introduction and postscript, newly edited by Roger Ingpen. Illustrated with portraits . ll his piety; or rather he could doit because his piety was of the true sort, and relishedof everything that was sweet and affectionate. Afiner nature than Horace Smiths, except in the singleinstance of Shelley, I never met with in man ; noreven in that instance, all circumstances considered,have I a right to say that those who knew him asintimately as I did the other, would not have had thesame rea
. The autobiography of Leigh Hunt, with reminiscences of friends and contemporaries, and with Thornton Hunt's introduction and postscript, newly edited by Roger Ingpen. Illustrated with portraits . ll his piety; or rather he could doit because his piety was of the true sort, and relishedof everything that was sweet and affectionate. Afiner nature than Horace Smiths, except in the singleinstance of Shelley, I never met with in man ; noreven in that instance, all circumstances considered,have I a right to say that those who knew him asintimately as I did the other, would not have had thesame reasons to love Shelley himself had thehighest regard for Horace Smith, as may be seen bythe following verses, the initials in which the readerhas here the pleasure of filling up :— Wit and sense,Virtue and human knowledge, all that mightMake this dark world a business of delight,Are all combined in H. [l In writing to Horace Smith in 1847, Hunt says, You were thefriend of all others whom I loved best next to Shelley, and, sincethe death of Shelley, has occupied the first living place in myheart.] [2 From Letter to Maria Gisborne, published in Shelleys Posthum-ous Poems, 1824.] 210. i/e????? e%* &U» }..? . LITERARY ACQUAINTANCE Horace Smith differed with Shelley on some pointsbut on others, which all the world agree to praise highlyand to practise very little, he agreed so entirely, andshowed unequivocally that he did agree, that with theexception of one person (Vincent Novello), too diffidentto gain such an honour from his friends, they were theonly two men I had then met with, from whom I couldhave received and did receive advice or remonstrancewith perfect comfort, because I could be sure of the un-mixed motives and entire absence of self-reflection,with which it would come from Shelley said tome once, I know not what Horace Smith must takeme for sometimes: I am afraid he must think me astrange fellow : but is it not odd, that the only trulygenerous person I
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