The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the impression of its liveliest wit or most passionate impulses, a thousand times adorning or feeling all as it goes; and you must read it, as the healthy instinct of audiences almost always does, if the critics will let them alone, with a grain of allowance, and a tendency to go away with as much of it for use as is necessary, and the rest for the luxury of laughter, pity, or poetical admiration.
Music is the medicine of the breaking heart. - Leigh Hunt
Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.
- Leigh Hunt
Poetry is the breath of beauty. - Leigh Hunt
Poetry is the breath of beauty.
Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion. - Leigh Hunt
Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.
The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing. - Leigh Hunt
The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
Happy opinions are the wine of the heart. - Leigh Hunt
Happy opinions are the wine of the heart.
Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses. - Leigh Hunt
Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.
There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense. - Leigh Hunt
There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.
There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations. - Leigh Hunt
There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations.
Patience and gentleness is power. - Leigh Hunt
Patience and gentleness is power.
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