Excerpt from A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings Whether in the penny-a-line department of a newspaper - the compilation of a preface or index - the getting up of a pamphlet for the nonce - a review - or the redaction of goodly quarto volumes of voyages and travels originally written by others - the licking into harmony and grace the confusion of language and ideas in manuscripts on any given subject - Ralph was a ready and universal penman. And perhaps no man of this age has written so much, and so well ...
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Excerpt from A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings Whether in the penny-a-line department of a newspaper - the compilation of a preface or index - the getting up of a pamphlet for the nonce - a review - or the redaction of goodly quarto volumes of voyages and travels originally written by others - the licking into harmony and grace the confusion of language and ideas in manuscripts on any given subject - Ralph was a ready and universal penman. And perhaps no man of this age has written so much, and so well, with so slender a memorial for posthumous fame for his rich fund of intellect may be said to have been expended, in sixpenny-worths, upon the tempora lities of the passing hour, while others wore the laurels which he planted and nourished. Mr' Bylanes owes his chance for immortality in this collection to the follow in g circumstances - Under the auspices of one of his patrons and employers, (mr, now Lord Brougham, ) he became engaged in the compilation of the gen eral index to the first twenty volumes of the Edinburgh Review. This led to his first and only visit to Scotland, during the summer of 1813. Under the charge of his publishers, Messrs Constable 89: Cc., he remained some months in Edinburgh, superintending the progress of that index through the press. The varied extent of his literary acquirem ents-the modest, good-natured simpli city of his character, mixed with a deal of eccentricity - his unaffected and gentle demeanour - his convivial powers, and his love of fun, were qualities certain of attracting the attention and securing the hospitality of Mr Con stable, whose keen appreciation of literary merit always kept pace with his well-known character of a humourist and hence Mr Rylance became a frequent guest at the table of that eminent publisher. 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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