. The essays of Leigh Hunt. e ; and if our bookscannot wing our flight much higher (for they never pre-tended to be anything greater than birds singing among thetrees), we have other merits, thank Heaven, than our ownto go upon ; and shall endeavour to piece out our frail andmost imperfect ladder with all the good things we can loveand admire in Gods creation. 1 Young trees from nursery-grounds are very cheap, and costless than flowers. TURNBULL AND SPEARS, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH. Deacidified using the Bookkeeper agent: Magnesium OxideTreatment Date: April 2009 PreservationTe
. The essays of Leigh Hunt. e ; and if our bookscannot wing our flight much higher (for they never pre-tended to be anything greater than birds singing among thetrees), we have other merits, thank Heaven, than our ownto go upon ; and shall endeavour to piece out our frail andmost imperfect ladder with all the good things we can loveand admire in Gods creation. 1 Young trees from nursery-grounds are very cheap, and costless than flowers. TURNBULL AND SPEARS, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH. Deacidified using the Bookkeeper agent: Magnesium OxideTreatment Date: April 2009 PreservationTechnologies A WORLD LEADER IN COLLECTIONS PRESERVATION 111 Thomson Park DriveCranberry Township, PA 16066(724)779-2111. 4 OS PREFACE In making this selection from the essays of Leigh Hunt,my aim has partly been to provide a companion volume tothe volume of essays which I edited in 1887 for the ScottLibrary. I have therefore avoided using more than a veryfew of the essays which I had previously chosen, and I haveused these because they seemed specially suitable for a bookwhich is to be illustrated. Here, the illustrator will be seencollaborating with Leigh Hunt in his endeavour to bringvividly before us those aspects of streets, and shops, andtheatres, and manners, which change from generation togeneration, gaining, from generation to generation, somethingof the additional interest of things which already belong tothe past. The triviality of yesterday becomes, to the readerof to-day, a part of history. In my selection of 1887 I permitted myself to editLeigh Hunt with a severity which seems to me now tohave been a little excessive. Most of Leigh Hunts workwas written hastily, for publication week by week
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