Personal Traits of British Authors (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Personal Traits of British Authors His volume presents a company of friends. These men were bound together by strong sympathies, yet differed enough in temperament and character to give zest and variety to their inti macy. That intimacy was unmarred by dissension or misunderstanding, and was only broken by death. There was one exception - Hazlitt quarrelled with Wordsworth and Coleridge on account of their con servatism. He had known them in youth as ardent enthusiasts, advocates of the French revolution, and could not forgive a change of political convio tions which, to him, seemed mere apostacy. His fiery intolerance made him regard his old friends as time-servers and renegades. This, however, was the only break in the harmony of these comrades. Suppose that some lucky man were enabled to wander back into the past, and to place himself at will in the scenes and among the companions of his choice. After due deliberation, he decides to spend. 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 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.