Anecdotes about Authors, and Artists. John Timbs

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066153687

Table of Contents

       NOTE.

       BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

       THE FINDING OF JOHN EVELYN’S MS. DIARY AT WOTTON.

       FAMILIES OF LITERARY MEN.

       THE BLUE-STOCKING CLUB.

       DR. JOHNSON AND HANNAH MORE.

       MISS MITFORD’S FAREWELL TO THREE MILE CROSS.

       SMOLLETT’S “HUGH STRAP.”

       COLLINS’S POEMS.

       CAPTAIN MORRIS’S SONGS.

       LITERARY DINNERS.

       POPULARITY OF THE PICKWICK PAPERS.

       SWIFT’S DISAPPOINTMENT

       LEIGH HUNT AND THOMAS CARLYLE.

       COWPER’S POEMS.

       HEARNE’S LOVE OF ALE.

       SHERIDAN’S WIT.

       SMOLLETT’S HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

       MAGNA CHARTA RECOVERED.

       FOX AND GIBBON.

       DR. JOHNSON’S PRIDE.

       LORD BYRON’S “CORSAIR.”

       BOOKSELLERS IN LITTLE BRITAIN.

       RECONCILING THE FATHERS.

       DR. PARR AND SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH.

       SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH’S HUMOUR.

       WRITINGS OF LOPE DE VEGA.

       POPULARITY OF LOPE DE VEGA.

       SWIFT’S LOVES.

       COLERIDGE’S “WATCHMAN.”

       IRELAND’S SHAKSPEARE FORGERIES.

       HOOLE, THE TRANSLATOR OF TASSO. THE GHOST PUZZLED.

       LORD BYRON’S VANITY.

       LORD BYRON’S APOLOGY.

       FINE FLOURISHES.

       MATHEMATICAL SAILORS.

       LEWIS’S “MONK.”

       THOMSON’S RECITATIONS.

       GOLDSMITH’S “SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER.”

       SILENCE NOT ALWAYS WISDOM.

       DR. CHALMERS IN LONDON.

       ROMILLY AND BROUGHAM.

       PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTIONISTS.

       DEATH OF SIR CHARLES BELL.

       CLASSIC PUN.

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