Anecdotes about Authors, and Artists. John Timbs

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SERMONS.

       “TOM HILL.”

       TYCHO BRAHE’S NOSE.

       FOOTE’S WOODEN LEG.

       RIVAL REMEMBRANCE.

       WHO WROTE “JUNIUS’S LETTERS”?

       LITERARY COFFEE-HOUSES IN THE LAST CENTURY.

       LORD BYRON AND “MY GRANDMOTHER’S REVIEW.”

       WALPOLE’S WAY TO WIN THEM.

       DR. JOHNSON’S CRITICISMS.

       GIBBON’S HOUSE, AT LAUSANNE.

       ORIGIN OF “BOZ.” (DICKENS.)

       BOSWELL’S “LIFE OF JOHNSON.”

       PATRONAGE OF AUTHORS.

       LEARNING FRENCH.

       JOHNSON’S CLUB-ROOM.

       DR. CHALMERS’S INDUSTRY.

       LATEST OF DR. JOHNSON’S CONTEMPORARIES. [5]

       A SNAIL DINNER.

       CURRAN’S IMAGINATION.

       COWLEY AT CHERTSEY.

       A PRETTY COMPLIMENT.

       THOMAS DAY, AND HIS MODEL WIFE.

       WASHINGTON IRVING AND WILKIE, IN THE ALHAMBRA.

       BOLINGBROKE AT BATTERSEA.

       RELICS OF MILTON.

       WRITING UP THE “TIMES” NEWSPAPER.

       RELICS OF THE BOAR’S HEAD TAVERN, EASTCHEAP.

       ORIGIN OF “THE EDINBURGH REVIEW.”

       CLEVER STATESMEN.

       THE FIRST MAGAZINE.

       MRS. TRIMMER.

       BOSWELL’S BEAR-LEADING.

       LORD ELIBANK AND DR. JOHNSON

       RELICS OF DR. JOHNSON AT LICHFIELD.

       COLERIDGE A SOLDIER.

       COBBETT’S BOYHOOD.

       COLERIDGE AN UNITARIAN PREACHER.

       FONTENELLE’S INSENSIBILITY.

       PAINS AND TOILS OF AUTHORSHIP.

       JOE MILLER AT COURT.

       COLLINS’ INSANITY.

       MOORE’S EPIGRAM ON ABBOTT.

       NEGROES AT HOME.

       A STRING OF JERROLD’S JOKES.

       CONCEITED ALARMS OF DENNIS.

       A COMPOSITION WITH CONSCIENCE.

       SALE, THE TRANSLATOR OF THE KORAN.

       THE LATTER DAYS OF LOVELACE.

       PAYMENT IN KIND.

      

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