Download or read book Life and Art of Richard Mansfield, Vol. 1 written by Winter William and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Life and Art of Richard Mansfield, Vol. 1: With Selections From His Letters Richard mansfield earnestly requested me to write his life, I promised to do so, and this book is the fulfilment of my promise. My acquaintance with him extended over a period of about twenty-five years, and during the greater part of that time my association with him was that of intimate friendship, only once seriously disturbed, and then only for a little while, although more than once he became incensed with me, and freely and even rudely expressed his dissatisfaction. He was a man of unquiet, undisciplined, impulsive, imperious mind, intent on personal aggrandizement, the acquisition of wealth and fame, and he was so impatient of delay in the fulfilment of his purposes that he scarcely ever allowed a moment of peace either to himself or any person near him; but, while he was some times a trial to patience, he was, essentially, a practical exemplar of devotion to high ideals, an active instrument of virtuous intellectual force, and therefore a potent, influential character, worthy of respect and sympathy in life, and of thoughtful commemoration, now that he has passed away. Such commemoration it is the design of this memoir to provide. 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.