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Title: Liber Amoris, or, The New Pygmalion

Author: William Hazlitt

Posting Date: January 29, 2009 [EBook #2049]
Release Date: January, 2000

Language: English

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LIBER AMORIS, OR, THE NEW PYGMALION

by

WILLIAM HAZLITT

ADVERTISEMENT

The circumstances, an outline of which is given in these pages, happened
a very short time ago to a native of North Britain, who left his own
country early in life, in consequence of political animosities and an
ill-advised connection in marriage. It was some years after that he
formed the fatal attachment which is the subject of the following
narrative. The whole was transcribed very carefully with his own hand,
a little before he set out for the Continent in hopes of benefiting by a
change of scene, but he died soon after in the Netherlands--it is
supposed, of disappointment preying on a sickly frame and morbid state
of mind. It was his wish that what bad been his strongest feeling while
living, should be preserved in this shape when he was no more.--It has
been suggested to the friend, into whose hands the manuscript was
entrusted, that many things (particularly in the Conversations in the
First Part) either childish or redundant, might have been omitted; but a
promise was given that not a word should be altered, and the pledge was
held sacred. The names and circumstances are so far disguised, it is
presumed, as to prevent any consequences resulting from the publication,
farther than the amusement or sympathy of the reader.

CONTENTS

PART I

THE PICTURE
THE INVITATION
THE MESSAGE
THE FLAGEOLET
THE CONFESSION
THE QUARREL
THE RECONCILIATION

LETTERS TO THE SAME
TO THE SAME
WRITTEN IN A BLANK LEAF OF ENDYMION
A PROPOSAL OF LOVE

PART II

LETTERS TO C. P.----, ESQ.
LETTER II
LETTER III
LETTER IV
LETTER V
LETTER VI
LETTER VII
LETTER VIII
TO EDINBURGH
A THOUGHT
ANOTHER
ANOTHER
LETTER IX
LETTER X
LETTER XI
TO S. L.