ISBN: 9781153826495

Excerpt: ...whole of the rest of his life. He had certainly in some senses borne the burden and heat of the day for Liberalism. But he was one of those reckless people who, without meanin… Plus…

Excerpt: ...whole of the rest of his life. He had certainly in some senses borne the burden and heat of the day for Liberalism. But he was one of those reckless people who, without meaning to offend anybody in particular, offend friends as well as foes; the days of sinecures were even then passing or passed; and it is very difficult to conceive any office, even with the lightest duties, in which Leigh Hunt would not have come to grief. As for his writing, his son''s earnest plea as to his not being an idle man is no doubt true enough, but he never seems to have reconciled himself to the regular 213 drudgery of miscellaneous article writing for newspapers which is almost the only kind of journalism that really pays, and his books did not sell very largely. In his latter days, however, things became easier for him. The unfailing kindness of the Shelley family gave him (in 1844 when Sir Percy Shelley came into his property) a regular annuity of PS120; two royal gifts of PS200 each and in 1847 a pension of the same amount were added; and two benefit nights of Dickens''s famous amateur company brought him in something like a cool thousand, as Dickens himself would have said. Of his last years Mr. Kent, who was intimate with him, gives much the pleasantest account known to me. He died on 28th August 1859, surviving his wife only two years. I can imagine some one, at the name of Dickens in the preceding paragraph, thinking or saying, that if the author of Bleak House raised a thousand pounds for his old friend, he took the value of it and infinitely more out of him. It is impossible to shirk the Skimpole affair in any really critical notice of Leigh Hunt. To put unpleasant things briefly, that famous character was at once recognised by every one as a caricature, perhaps ill-natured but certainly brilliant, of what an enemy might have said of the author of Rimini. Thornton Hunt, the eldest of Leigh Hunt''s children, and a writer of no small power, took the matter up and... George Saintsbury, Books, Fiction and Literature, Fiction, Essays In English Literature, 1780-1860 Books>Fiction and Literature>Fiction, General Books LLC<

1780, ISBN: 1153826496

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1780, ISBN: 1153826496

Paperback, [EAN: 9781153826495], Unknown, English, English, English, Unknown, Book, Unknown, Unknown, 772198, General, 65, History, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books, 125147031, General AA… Plus…

Paperback, [EAN: 9781153826495], Unknown, English, English, English, Unknown, Book, Unknown, Unknown, 772198, General, 65, History, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books, 125147031, General AAS, 275117, Poetry, 275389, Poetry, Drama & Criticism, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books, 400530011, English, 400529011, Language (feature_browse-bin), 365481011, Refinements, 266239, Books, 492564011, Paperback, 492562011, Format (binding_browse-bin), 365481011, Refinements, 266239, Books, 182018031, Regular Size, 182016031, Font Size (format_browse-bin), 365481011, Refinements, 266239, Books<

1780, ISBN: 1153826496

Paperback, [EAN: 9781153826495], Unknown, English, English, English, Unknown, Book, Unknown, Unknown, 772198, General, 65, History, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books, 125147031, General AA… Plus…

Paperback, [EAN: 9781153826495], Unknown, English, English, English, Unknown, Book, Unknown, Unknown, 772198, General, 65, History, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books, 125147031, General AAS, 275117, Poetry, 275389, Poetry, Drama & Criticism, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books, 400530011, English, 400529011, Language (feature_browse-bin), 365481011, Refinements, 266239, Books, 492564011, Paperback, 492562011, Format (binding_browse-bin), 365481011, Refinements, 266239, Books, 182018031, Regular Size, 182016031, Font Size (format_browse-bin), 365481011, Refinements, 266239, Books<