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Excerpt from EssaysAfter seven or eight frail years of early childhood, Leigh Hunt went to school at Christ Hospital, not many months after Coleridge had left it for Cambridge and Lamb for the South Sea House. Hunt's account of his school-days is the most charming episode in that delightful book, his Autoéiqgmplzy, Notwithstanding the fastidiousness which his mother's delicate training had fostered, and which, at first, brought him into some natural trouble with his comrades, he seems on the whole to have passed seven pleasant enough years in the Cloisters. It is true that the boys had not always quite enough to eat, and no holidays to speak of; true also that the headmaster, Boyer, a tyrannical pedant, drove learning into the heads of his scholars by Sheer force of muscle. But Leigh Hunt had resources of his own and though he came to regard Homer with horror, disliked Cicero, and cared for neither Horace nor Ovid, he devoured Tooke's Pan/item, text and plates, and doted on certain sixpenny numbers of Spenser, Gray and Collins. 'he wrote verses, in imitation or emulation of his favourite poets: one on Winter, inspired by Thomson, and a Fairy King, and odes after Gray. Prose essays, or themes, he wrote in common with the other boys; but with great reluctance, and to the special contempt of the master. He formed friendships, three in number, bordering on adoration; and at thirteen he fell in love with a lively cousin, two years older than himself, who called him pelz'tgargon. He visited the house and studio of West the painter, thus becoming at an early age familiar with art and still Oftener, and with yet greater delight, a large old-fashioned house, with a garden, in Austin Friars,-a Garden of Eden to the boy, and a House Beautiful. Best of all was the one holiday of three weeks spent in a country-house in Surrey, one divine August, among fields and books. I read, walked, had a garden and orchaid to run in and fields that I could have rolled in, to have my will of them.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

Excerpt from EssaysAfter seven or eight frail years of early childhood, Leigh Hunt went to school at Christ Hospital, not many months after Coleridge had left it for Cambridge and Lamb for the South Sea House. Hunt's account of his school-days is the most charming episode in that delightful book, his Autoéiqgmplzy, Notwithstanding the fastidiousness which his mother's delicate training had fostered, and which, at first, brought him into some natural trouble with his comrades, he seems on the whole to have passed seven pleasant enough years in the Cloisters. It is true that the boys had not always quite enough to eat, and no holidays to speak of; true also that the headmaster, Boyer, a tyrannical pedant, drove learning into the heads of his scholars by Sheer force of muscle. But Leigh Hunt had resources of his own and though he came to regard Homer with horror, disliked Cicero, and cared for neither Horace nor Ovid, he devoured Tooke's Pan/item, text and plates, and doted on certain sixpenny numbers of Spenser, Gray and Collins. 'he wrote verses, in imitation or emulation of his favourite poets: one on Winter, inspired by Thomson, and a Fairy King, and odes after Gray. Prose essays, or themes, he wrote in common with the other boys; but with great reluctance, and to the special contempt of the master. He formed friendships, three in number, bordering on adoration; and at thirteen he fell in love with a lively cousin, two years older than himself, who called him pelz'tgargon. He visited the house and studio of West the painter, thus becoming at an early age familiar with art and still Oftener, and with yet greater delight, a large old-fashioned house, with a garden, in Austin Friars,-a Garden of Eden to the boy, and a House Beautiful. Best of all was the one holiday of three weeks spent in a country-house in Surrey, one divine August, among fields and books. I read, walked, had a garden and orchaid to run in and fields that I could have rolled in, to have my will of them.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

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Excerpt from Essays: The Indicator, the SeerAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

Excerpt from Essays: The Indicator, the SeerAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.