Excerpt from Liber Amoris, or the New Pygmalion Been less characteristic of his morose and unsympathetic nature. De Quincey tells us that the book greatly raised Hazlitt in his opinion, for this very reason by shewing him to be capable of stronger and more agitating passions than he believed to be within the range of his nature. All the same, though erotic passion may have seemed foreign to Hazlitt, he had passions vehement enough in other directions. The vehemence of his political passions was notorious, his letter to Gifford was as fine a burst of anger as can be imagined, and he had a gift for misunderstanding his friends, of taking petty slights, which was continually hurrying him into ungovernable rage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.