Autobiographical Notes Of The Life Of William Bell Scott And Notices Of His Artistic And Poetic Circle Of Friends 1830 To 1882 1 PDF Download

Excerpt from Autobiographical Notes of the Life of William Bell Scott, Vol. 2: And Notices of His Artistic and Poetic Circle of Friends, 1830 to 1882 De Quincey was the last left of the illustrious literati of the previous generation, and he had become more and more erratic in his habits. I have always found original genius of a concentrated and peculiar kind the most dangerous endowment; it is only the Shakespeare or the Goethe who can carry out unalloyed the specific energy, and retain manhood and rational common sense in all the affairs of life; poets like Byron or Shelley could not do so. 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.