Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Laman Blanchard Sheridan (afterwards Lady Wyatt), Lady Stepney, Lady Blessington, Mrs. S. C. Hall, Mrs. Hofiand, and Mrs. Thomson, whose many popular novels have passed already out of. The public mind. All the gentle hands that filled this mass of letter paper are cold. The literary company of Laman Blanchard's time is a memory of a happy and delightful past. Many of the names that were musical in the world's ear some thirty Years ago slumber unpronounced and unremembered in the sharp conflict of our present railroad pace of life; but they will be revived when the time shall have come to write the history Of literary England dur ing the first half of the nineteenth century, and among the first will stand the poet, essayist, and journalist, the dz'qjecm memem of whose busy career I now submit to the reader. 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.