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COMMENTS, OCCASIONAL PASSAGES VERSIFIED, AND CRITICAL NOTICES OF THI
LIVES AND GENIUS OF THE AUTHORS.

BY

LEIGH HUNT.

NEW YORK;

DERBY & JACKSON, 119 NASSAU STREET

MY DEAR SIR PERCY.

As I know no man who surpasses yourself in combining a love of the most romantic fiction with the coolest good sense, and, in passing from the dryest metaphysical questions to the heartiest enjoyment of humor,—I trust that even a modesty so true as yours will not grudge me the satisfaction of inscribing these volumes with your name.

That you should possess such varieties of taste is no wonder, considering what an abundance of intellectual honours you inherit; nor might the world have been the better for it, had they been tastes, and nothing more. But that you should inherit also that zeal for justice to mankind, which has become so Christian a feature in the character of the age, and that you should include in that zeal a special regard for the welfare of your Father's Friend, is a subject of constant pleasurable reflection to

Your obliged and affectionate

LEIGII IIUNT.

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