Excerpt from The Romance of Biography, or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, From the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age, Vol. 1 of 2: A Series of Anecdotes Intended to Illustrate the Influence Which Female Beauty and Virtue Have Exercised Over the Characters and Writings of Men of Genius These little sketches (they can pretend to no higher title, ) are submitted to the public with a feeling of timidity almost painful. 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.