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1814 in literatureSee also: 1813 in literature, other events of 1814, 1815 in literature, list of years in literature.
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I believe it was Hazlitt whom I read.html">read.html">read first, and he helped me to clarify
Lamb helped me too, and with all the dramatists, and on every hand I was
the authors I knew and loved.
I fancy it was well.html">well for me at this period to have got at the four great
and the North British, which I read regularly, as well as Blackwood's
the publisher's prospectus, and their arrival was an excitement, a joy,
to accuse myself of exaggeration. The love of literature.html">literature, and the hope
other interests, or it was at least the great reality, and all other
and I certainly cared very much for the question of slavery.html">slavery which was
Fugitive Slave Law; I was stirred by the news from Kansas, where the
beginning in bloodshed; but I cannot pretend that any of these things
in literature. If I was not to live.html">live by it, I was somehow to live for it.
If I thought of taking up some other calling it was as a means only;
I did not see.html">see how it was to yield me a living, for I knew that almost all
lawyers, or had public or private employments; or they were men of
fiction, or drama, or history, or poetry, or criticism, in a day when
But I kept blindly at my studies, and yet not altogether blindly, for,
was beginning to see authors in their proportion to one another, and to
reading each one of them quite through. To be sure I often broke this
for a boy to wade through heavy articles relating to English politics and
unread, and I did read enough politics, especially in Blackwood's, to be
exact of me any change in regard to the slavery question.
literary passions, but it was of very short lease, not beyond a year or
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