Excerpt from Tales by Leigh Hunt: Now First Collected He left Christ's Hospital with keen regret, and thereafter spent some time in visiting his school friends, hunting book-stalls, and writing verses. These boyish verses his father collected and pub lished in the year 1802, under the title of Jiwenilia. Hunt afterwards saw that the booklet was all but absolutely worthless, and that he had been wasting his powers in mere imitation for several years, while he might have been studying Nature and the true art of Poetry. ...
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Excerpt from Tales by Leigh Hunt: Now First Collected He left Christ's Hospital with keen regret, and thereafter spent some time in visiting his school friends, hunting book-stalls, and writing verses. These boyish verses his father collected and pub lished in the year 1802, under the title of Jiwenilia. Hunt afterwards saw that the booklet was all but absolutely worthless, and that he had been wasting his powers in mere imitation for several years, while he might have been studying Nature and the true art of Poetry. Visiting some school friends, who had gone to Oxford and Cambridge, he instinctively caught the charm of these seats of learning, and his subsequent descriptions of the Universities in his Autobiography is noteworthy. 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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