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MR. GEORGE MORLAND.
Drawn from the tolerably authentic source of more than twenty years' intimate
acquaintance with him, his family, and connections.
TO WHICH IS ADDED,
A COPIOUS APPENDIX,
Embracing every interesting subject relative to our justly admired English Painter, and his most valuable works.
BY WILLIAM COLLINS,
Author of the Slave Trade, a Poem; an Ode to Sir Jeffery Dunstan, an Heroic
Effusion; with several detached Pieces in Prose and Verse; several of which have
appeared in most of the public Papers, ander various signatures, since the Yeur
1788, to the present Period.
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together; our virtues
would be proud, if our faults whipp'd them not; and our crines would despair,
if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Shakespeare's All's Well that Ends Well, Act iv. Scene 3.
VOL. II.
London:
PRINTED BY C. STOWER, PÅTER NÖSTER ROH";
For H. D. Symonds, Pater Noster Row; Carpenter, Old Bond
Street; Bell, Oxford Street; Ginger, Piccadilly; and sold
by Lloyd, 23, Harley Street, Cavendish Square ; *
Manson, Gerrard Street, Soho; and by the
Author, 118, Great Fortland Street.
15 NOV 1960
CONTENTS.
VOLUME II.
CHAPTER I.
A GENUINE sketch of the life of the late original, ec-
centric, and justly celebrated genius, G. Morland, the
painter; with a brief account of several of his most
capital productions not generally known clearly evin-
cing him to have been a man of much superior intellect
to what the envy of cotemporary ignorance has falsely
described him
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CHAPTER II,
Further progress of Morland in the arts-His marriage
A brief description of some of his early productions,
which brought him first into public notice
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CHAPTER III.
Morland continues to improve-Trifling disputes arise
between the newly married ladies-A serious fracas
prevented, and the parties separate-Morland and his
bride remove to Great Portland Street, where the author
frequently visits them-Their removal from hence-Mrs.
Morland lies in of her first and only child-Consequences
of that event
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CHAPTER IV.
Morland resolves to leave his house behind Black Cap's,
and removes to a more clegant new-built dwelling, the
corner house of Warren Place, Camden Town-His
great reputation, and opportunity of doing well-
Launches into extravagant habits, &c. .
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CHAPTER V.
The fame of our painter still continues to increase---
Liberal offers from many gentlemen anxious to patronise,
and liberate him from all his difficulties-His own obsti".
nacy defeats their plan-His strange and whimsical
propensities, &c.
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CHAPTER VI.
The painter's liberation from durance- His friends
conceive a hope of his reformation-Schemes of musical
recreation frustrated-Introduction of a stranger to his
brother and sister-Reflections upon the cruel par-
tiality of parents to one child in prejudice to another-
Obliged to remove from town for the sake of study-
What he studied at Paddington-More instances of
extravagance-The loss of his horse, and other whim-
sicalities.
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CHAPTER VII.
Our painter approaches fast to the summit of his ex-
travagance-Becomes tired of Winchester Row-Anec-
dote in proof of the wonderful rapidity of his pencil-
Removes to an elegant house in Upper Charlotte Street,
Fitzroy Square-Invitation to the author to visit him
there What had liked to have been the conse-
quence
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