Merits of actors.

Dowton and Kean. Kean's

Richard the Third and Sir Giles Over-

reach. Garrick's dressing of Othello.

Kemble's costume; his Coriolanus and

Cato his colloquial blank verse. Impro-

visatori: Theodore Hook : Sgricci; his

Iphigenia.' Mrs. Siddons and Miss

O'Neill. The elephant's legs. Stage court-

ship. Lamb's Specimens.

'Faust'.

6

Plagiarisms.

Lord Byron's 'Hours of Idleness.' The

ineffectual potation. Severity of review-

ers. English Bards and Scotch Re-

viewers.' Jeffrey and Moore. Moore's

challenge to Lord Byron; miscarriage of

the letter; subsequent friendship. Charac-

ter of Southey

Mr. Southey's letter in The Literary

Gazette.' Lord Byron's anxiety and an-

ger. Vision of Judgment.' Southey's

critique on Foliage.' Shelley's Aeos.

The Deformed Transformed:' Shelley's

opinion thereon. Southey's epitaph. Hea-

ven and Earth :' Murray's refusal to print.

6 Cain,' and the Lord Chancellor. 'Loves

of the Angels' and 'Lalla Rookh.' Pro-

jected completion of Heaven and Earth.'

The Prophecy of Dante.' Italian enthu

siasm in favour of Dante

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Shelley's opinion that the study of Dante

is unfavourable to writing: the difficulty

of translating him: Taaffe and Cary.

Lord Byron and The Prophecy of Dante.'

Swedenborg's disciples. Translations of

Lord Byron's works. The greatest compli-

ment ever paid him. Milton and the cat's

back. Milton and Shakspeare redivivi.

Lord Byron's opinion of Childe Harold,'

and the inequality of his writings. Epics.

Southey's Joan of Arc;' Curse of Keha-

ma,' &c.

'Don Juan' and

Johnson's censorship defied.

the Iliad. Dr.

Intended plan

of Don Juan:' adventures and death of

the hero

Murray's plea: the Cookery-book his sheet-

anchor: real cause of his anxiety for Lord

Byron's fame. Douglas Kinnaird's friend-

ship. Murray's offer for 'Don Juan,' per

Canto. Piracy of Don Juan,' and its

cause. The bishops. Murray's dislike to

Shelley. Price given for Third Canto of

'Childe Harold,' 'Manfred,' and 'The

Prisoner of Chillon'

The Quarterly Review' and its bullies. A

literary set-to. Murray and Galignani.

Murray's purchase of 'Cain,'

Foscari,' and Sardanapalus.'

Reconciliation with Murray.

The Two

The deed.

Cain,' and

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b

the Anti-constitutional Society.

Murray,

Lord Byron, and the Navy List.' Last

book of Lord Byron's published by Mur-

ray. Opening fire of The Quarterly.'

'The Wanderer.' Coleridge's Christa-
bel,' and Scott's Metrical Tales.' Sir

W. Scott's talents at recitation. An Eng-

lish October day. Unconscious plagiarism.

'Kubla Khan.' Madame de Staël. Cole-

ridge's Memoirs. Grammont. Alfieri's

Life, and Lord B.'s Confessions. Cole-

ridge's want of identity.

Intended Auto da fé.

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Priestly charity.
Duchess of Lucca. Lord Guilford.
Grand Duke of Tuscany. Intended

rescue; escape of the victim. Madame
de Staël and the opposition leaders in
England: her ultraisms. Brummell. Re-

ported double marriage; Baron Auguste
and Miss Millbank; Lord B. and the
Duchess of Broglie. Madame de Staël's
conversational powers. Glenarvon.' Ma-
dame de Staël's amiable heart. Women,
and Opera figurantes: pirouetting common
to both. Napoleon and Madame de Staël.
Lord B.'s opinion of Napoleon and of his
exit. Madame de Staël's historical omis-

sion. Rocca

267-279

Complaint against the East India Company.

Lord B.'s liberality. Balloons and Horace.

Steam. Philosophical systems. Romances.

Lewis's 'Monk:' its groundwork. Secret

of Walter Scott's inspiration. "The Bleed-

ing Nun.' Ghost stories: the haunted room

at Manheim; Mina and the passing-bell..

Lewis and Matthias. Abellino.' Pizarro'

and Sheridan. The Castle Spectre' in

Drury Lane. Lord B.'s sketch of Sheridan.

The age of companiability. Monk Lewis

and his brother's ghost. Madame de Staël,

Lewis, and the Slave Trade. A fatal

emetic

Imputed plagiarisms. A dose of Words-

worth physic. Shelley's admiration of

Wordsworth. Peter Bell's ass, and the

family circle. The Republican trio. Com-

parisons. The Botany Bay Eclogue, the

Panegyric of Martin the Regicide, and 'Wat

Tyler,' versus the Laureate odes and the

Waterloo eulogium. The par nobile mor-

tally wounded. Hogg the Ettrick Shep-

herd's Poetic Mirror.'

·

The Rejected

Addresses.' Bowles: Coleridge's praise of

him inexplicable. Bowles's good fellow-

ship: his Madeira woods. Pope's Letters

to Martha Blount. The evil attending a

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punnable name. Lord B.'s partiality to
Johnson's Lives of the Poets. No monu-
ment to Pope in Poet's Corner: the rea-
son. Milton's name in jeopardy. Voltaire's
tomb blocked up. Identity of a great poet
and a religious man maintained
Walter Scott's Novels. Rarity of novelty.
Plagiarisms. Claims of Shakspeare and
Sheridan. A good memory sometimes a
misfortune. Lord Byron's partiality to
W. Scott's novels. Scott, the great Un-
known: 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
Rogers ycleped a Nestor and an Argonaut.
Rogers and the Catacombs. Lady Mor-
gan's Italy.' Immortality of The Plea-
sures 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 Cre-

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