Excerpt from Some Leisure Hours of a Long Life: Translations Into Greek, Latin, and English Verse, From 1850 to 1914 If they have an ambition, it is of a very different and a much humbler kind. It is to throw a little light on the leisure hours of a long and busy life, which for more than sixty years found again and again one of its happiest relaxations in the composing of verses partly original and mostly translations. 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.