Under the Evening Lamp (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Under the Evening Lamp

There are among these papers studies of some of these unfortunates, and, I dare say, there is a lesson in these studies, though I have not sought to find it. It is enough for me to tell the tale; others may point the moral. I have been more interested in their lives than in their writings, my object being biographical rather than criti cal, and if I have succeeded in interesting the reader in these outlines of biography, I have done what I tried to do. He will find some things here, I think, which he will not readily find elsewhere, and others, I hope, which, new or old, will help him to pass a quiet hour under the evening lamp.

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Excerpt from Under the Evening Lamp

The papers in this volume were written in pursuance of an idea which was suggested to me some years since as a variation of a kind of writing I was then engaged upon, and which, when they were once begun, gradually shaped itself into a plan, what at first was inclination becoming at last determination. For reasons which do not concern the reader of this page my sympathies were more strongly drawn toward those who had been worsted by misfortune than toward those who, favored by fortune, had marched on gayly and triumphantly. The story of happy lives is soon read. There have been happy lives, even among poets, but they are not many; for it is true of poets above all other men, that many are called, but few are chosen.

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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.