Excerpt from Fanny I AM certain that if Sir Walter Scott and De Balzac had taken it into their heads to write their memoirs, and especially if they'had faithfully recorded in them everything of interest that they could tell the public with respect to the composition of their admirable novels, we should be far less exposed than we have been for twenty years past to the reading of a large number of badly written books; while the young pe0p1e who look forward to a literary career would, instead of dissipating their energies ...
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Excerpt from Fanny I AM certain that if Sir Walter Scott and De Balzac had taken it into their heads to write their memoirs, and especially if they'had faithfully recorded in them everything of interest that they could tell the public with respect to the composition of their admirable novels, we should be far less exposed than we have been for twenty years past to the reading of a large number of badly written books; while the young pe0p1e who look forward to a literary career would, instead of dissipating their energies and talent as they do, emaciating and emasculating themselves by hasty productions having only the remotest affinity with literature, at last be in possession of such a grammar as would teach them the elements of art, and spare them painful gropings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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