. 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 . theirwit and fine writing, which, in my youthful confidence,I proposed to myself to emulate ; and I could find noprevious political journal equally qualified to be itsgodfather. Even Addison had called his oppositionpaper the Whig Examiner. Some years afterwards I had an editorial successor,Mr. Fonblanque, who had all the wit for which I toiled,without making any pretensions to it. He was,indeed, th
. 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 . theirwit and fine writing, which, in my youthful confidence,I proposed to myself to emulate ; and I could find noprevious political journal equally qualified to be itsgodfather. Even Addison had called his oppositionpaper the Whig Examiner. Some years afterwards I had an editorial successor,Mr. Fonblanque, who had all the wit for which I toiled,without making any pretensions to it. He was,indeed, the genuine successor, not of me, but of theSwifts and Addisons themselves; profuse of wit evenbeyond them, and superior in political knowledge. I1 Written nearly ten years before the present edition was pub-lished : the reader had gone before the author revised his ownwriting, which he left unaltered. T. H.] [See Thornton Hunts noteto page 230.] [2 See Appendix for Hunts prospectus. The first number waspublished on January 3, by John Hunt. Leigh Hunt edited, andcontributed to the paper for 13 years; in 1830 it changed a run of over seventy years, it was discontinued in 1881.] 192. o? sTUttflfr THE EXAMINER Yet, if I laboured hard for what was so easy to , I will not pretend to think that I did notsometimes find it; and the study of Addison and Steele,of Goldsmith and Voltaire, enabled me, when I waspleased with my subject, to give it the appearance ofease. At other times, especially on serious occasions, Itoo often got into a declamatory vein, full of what Ithought fine turns and Johnsonian antitheses. Thenew office of editor conspired with my success as acritic to turn my head. I wrote, though anony-mously, in the first person, as if, in addition to mytheatrical pretensions, I had suddenly become an oraclein politics; the words philosophy, poetry, criticism,statesmanship, nay, even ethics and theology, all tooka final tone in my lips. When I remember th
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