Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin, Chiefly During His Residence in Lichfield: With Anecdotes of His Friends, and Criticisms on His Writings (Classic Reprint) by Anna Seward (Paperback / softback, 2017)
Excerpt from Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin, Chiefly During His Residence in Lichfield: With Anecdotes of His Friends, and Criticisms on His Writings Memoirs. Possessing few Of them myself, and those perfectly inconsequential, effort has here been made to Obtain them from others. He lived t, like Pope and Swift, Gray and Johnson, in exclusive devotion to abstract literature. During such hours of repose, compared to his busy and hurried life, he might have found leisure to pour his imagination and his kwledge on the epistolary page; but his ep'istles, though professionally nume rous, were short from necessity, and by choice compressed. [he has Often said that he had t the talent Of elegant letter-writing. Like all other dis tinguished acquirements, it can only Obtain excel lence from frequent and diffuse practice, unrestrain ed by the interfering pressure Of extrinsic consider ations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy 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.