Excerpt from The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington Strange as the statement may seem, it is not less true that no luminous biography of Lady Blessington has been written: strange, because her life presents in itself a romance such as facts seldom contain or combine; such as Fate denies to ordinary mortals. Virtue and happiness, beauti ful and enviable as they are, afford meagre material for memoirs. It is they whose swift-stirred sym pathies, and longings for happiness carry them be yond the pale of the commonplace, and the bonds of conventionality, whose loves are ill-starred and whose lives are shadowed they who strive and suf fer, who aspire and falter, who possess and pre sent studies that move and fascinate us. Their heart histories appeal from out the past for green places in our memories. Of such was the gifted and beautiful Irishwoman the most gorgeous Lady Blessington, as she was styled by Doctor Parr, and as she was known to her intimates whose biography is here written with an admi ration that borders on affection, and with that sympathy which sorrow solicits. 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.