Leigh Hunt Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the impression of its liveliest wit or most passionate impulses, a thousand times adorning or feeling all as it goes; and you must read it, as the healthy instinct of audiences almost always does, if the critics will let them alone, with a grain of allowance, and a tendency to go away with as much of it for use as is necessary, and the rest for the luxury of laughter, pity, or poetical admiration.

  Leigh Hunt

  Running, Laughter, Drama

• It is a delicious moment, certainly, that of being well nestled in bed, and feeling that you shall drop gently to sleep. The good is to come, not past; the limbs have just been tired enough to render the remaining in one posture delightful; the labour of the day is gone

  Leigh Hunt

  Tired, Sleep, Past

  Leigh Hunt (1820). “The Indicator”, p.105

• The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave.

  Leigh Hunt

  Feelings, Delight, Lasts

  Leigh Hunt (1870). “Table-talk: To which are Added Imaginary Conversations of Pope and Swift”, p.28

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