Excerpt from Watts<br><br>Although indeed Watts' life must be taken as a unity, yet one cannot refrain from the thought that there were in him three lives linked in one three lives corresponding to the three portraits he has left of himself; the youth of seventeen years, with flowing locks and Shelley-like attire (painted in 1834) the bearded man of forty-seven, in dark coat and sombrero hat; and the familiar octogenarian of the snow-white hair and purple skull cap. Even Watts' work lends itself to three such epochs, representing first the man who seeks his place; secondly, him who finds and becomes established in it; and finally, him who, from the vantage ground of attainment, strikes out with vigorous independence and freedom.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.