Leigh Hunt

Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), full name James Henry Leigh Hunt, was an English essayist and poet. He was of the Cockney school, a friend of Keats and Shelley. He edited the Examiner, a Radical organ. He was a busy man but a thriftless, and always in financial embarrassment, though latterly he had a fair pension. Hunt lived near Carlyle, who at one time saw a good deal of him, his household, and its disorderliness, an eyesore to Carlyle, a "poetical tinkerdom" he called it, in which, however, he received his visitors "in the spirit of a king, apologising for nothing". Carlyle soon tired of him, though he was always ready to help him when in need.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!)

Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace,
And saw, within the moonlight of the room,
Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom,
An Angel writing in a book of gold.
- Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel

• Write me as one that loves his fellow men.

- Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel

• The Angel wrote, and vanished. The next night

It came again with a great wakening light,
And showed the names whom love of God had blessed
And lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest.
- Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel

Oliver Hazard Perry