The Works of Lord Macaulay - 9 Author:Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Volume: 9 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1898 Original Publisher: Longmans, Green Subjects: Great Britain Criminal law History / Europe / Great Britain Law / Criminal Law / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / General ... more » Poetry / American / General Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Reference / Quotations Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 335 LEIGH HUNT. (JANUARY, 1841.) The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Van- Brugh, and Farquhar, with Biographical and Critical Notices. By Leigh Hunt. 8vo. London: 1840. We have a kindness for Mr. Leigh Hunt. We form our judgment of him, indeed, only from events of universal notoriety, from his own works, and from the works of other writers, who have generally abused him in the most rancorous manner. But, unless we are greatly mistaken, he is a very clever, a very honest, and a very good-natured man. We can clearly discern, together with many merits, many faults both in his writings and in his conduct. But we really think that there is hardly a man living whose merits have been so grudgingly allowed, and whose faults have been so cruelly expiated. In some respects Mr. Leigh Hunt is excellently qualified for the task which he has now undertaken. His style, in spite of its mannerism, nay, partly by reason of its mannerism, is well suited for light, garrulous, desultory ana, half critical, half biographical. We do not always agree with IiisTitera'ry"juagments ; but we find in him what is very rare in our time, the power of justly appreciating and heartily enjoying good things of very different kinds. He can adore Shakspeare and Spenser without den...« less