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    Stevenson's Perfect Virtues As Exemplified by Leigh Hunt
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    Stevenson's Perfect Virtues As Exemplified by Leigh Hunt

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Title: Stevenson's Perfect Virtues

      As Exemplified by Leigh Hunt

      Author: Luther Albertus Brewer

      Release Date: July 4, 2010 [EBook #33072]

      Language: English

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      STEVENSON’S PERFECT VIRTUES

      STEVENSON’S PERFECT VIRTUES

      AS EXEMPLIFIED BY LEIGH HUNT

      BY

      LUTHER A. BREWER

      Copyrighted 1922 by

      Luther A. Brewer

      STEVENSON’S PERFECT VIRTUES

      Gentleness and cheerfulness are the perfect virtues.

      — Robert Louis Stevenson

      Stevenson was right. There is not a more admirable trait in one’s character than that of cheerfulness. Combined with that other virtue named by Stevenson, gentleness, and what more is needed to make a companionable and a beloved man.

      These two attributes were possessed in an emphatic way both by Stevenson and by Leigh Hunt. That’s why some of us are so fond of Hunt. That’s why he is growing in esteem as he is becoming better known to lovers and students of the literature produced in England during the first half of the nineteenth century.

      For it is certain that Hunt is coming into his own. First editions of his writings year by year are advancing in price. They are becoming scarce and in some instances exceedingly difficult to obtain. Catalogues of rare book dealers are listing fewer of his works, and when quotations are made they invariably are in advance of those of a year or two ago.

      The cultivation of cheerfulness frequently is enjoined throughout his writings. He had many visitors in his home, attracted there by his personal qualities and by his gentleness of heart. He was fond of music, which formed a staple in the entertainment and the conversation.

      Barry Cornwall (B. W. Procter), a long time intimate friend, in his Recollections of Men of Letters, mentions the evenings at Hunt’s house: "Hunt never gave dinners, but his suppers of cold meat and salad were cheerful and pleasant; sometimes the cheerfulness (after a ‘wassail bowl’) soared into noisy merriment. I remember one

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