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Scott, the great Unknown: two anecdotes in proof. Scott’s prose fatal to his poetry: his versatility. ‘Halidon Hill.’ Charlatanism in writing incognito. Junius: Sir Philip Francis. His conjugal felicity and marital affection. Warren Hastings. ‘Pursuits of Literature.’ Monk Lewis and Walter Scott. ‘The Fire-King’ and ‘Will Jones.’ Walter Scott’s obligation to Coleridge. His freedom from jealousy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
197–202 | |
Rogers ycleped a Nestor and an Argonaut. Rogers and the Catacombs. Lady Morgan’s ‘Italy.’ Immortality of ‘The Pleasures of Memory.’ ‘Jacqueline’ versus ‘Lara.’ Rogers too fastidious as to his fame. Grand end of all poetry. Lord Byron’s ‘Corsair.’ Love and poets: Mrs. and Shelley; Miss Stafford and Crebillon. Rogers’s dinners and Lady Holland. Elegant orientalisms. Poetical oscillation. Rogers’s sensitiveness. Spots in the sun. Rogers’s epigrammatic talent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
202–208 | |
Parson N*tt, the would-be Bishop. Warburton’s ‘Legation of Moses’ no authority. Poets and penknives. Lord Byron’s return from Greece in 1812; attachment to the Morea; Second Canto of ‘Childe Harold.’ Lady Jersey. Brummell. A hot-pressed darling. ‘The Corsair.’ Polidori. The four trials. An adventure. Love in high life. A rupture. Female espionage: the disguise: a scene. Stanzas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
208–215 | |
Imputed ingratitude towards a certain personage; defence. Presentation. Unmeaning compliments from the politest man in the world. The Irish Avatara. Lord Edward Fitzgerald; his adventures; Ça-ira. The O’Connors. Fate of Lord Edward Fitzgerald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
215–222 | |
| Query on a line in ‘Beppo:’ answer. A novel. Florence and Fiorabella’s flowers. ‘The Giaour’ and the sage reviewer. Shelley and the bookseller. Sotheby, Edgeworth, Galignani, and Moore. Intended mystification. Baron Lutzerode; his heroic action. Lord Byron’s distaste for princes and their satellites. De la Martine’s comparison; his ‘Méditations Poétiques.’ Harrow the nursery for politicians. Lord Byron’s indifference to politics; his detestation of Castlereagh. Lord Byron’s two speeches in the House; | ||
