CALAMITIES OF AUTHORS.
PREFACE 3
AUTHORS BY PROFESSION:--GUTHRIE AND AMHURST--DRAKE--SMOLLETT 7
THE CASE OF AUTHORS STATED, INCLUDING THE HISTORY OF LITERARY
PROPERTY 15
THE SUFFERINGS OF AUTHORS 22
A MENDICANT AUTHOR, AND THE PATRONS OF FORMER TIMES 25
COWLEY--OF HIS MELANCHOLY 35
THE PAINS OF FASTIDIOUS EGOTISM 42
INFLUENCE OF A BAD TEMPER IN CRITICISM 51
DISAPPOINTED GENIUS TAKES A FATAL DIRECTION BY ITS ABUSE 59
THE MALADIES OF AUTHORS 70
LITERARY SCOTCHMEN 75
LABORIOUS AUTHORS 83
THE DESPAIR OF YOUNG POETS 98
THE MISERIES OF THE FIRST ENGLISH COMMENTATOR 104
THE LIFE OF AN AUTHORESS 106
THE INDISCRETION OF AN HISTORIAN--CARTE 110
LITERARY RIDICULE, ILLUSTRATED BY SOME ACCOUNT OF A LITERARY
SATIRE 114
LITERARY HATRED, EXHIBITING A CONSPIRACY AGAINST AN AUTHOR 130
UNDUE SEVERITY OF CRITICISM 139
A VOLUMINOUS AUTHOR WITHOUT JUDGMENT 146
GENIUS AND ERUDITION THE VICTIMS OF IMMODERATE VANITY 155
GENIUS, THE DUPE OF ITS PASSIONS 168
LITERARY DISAPPOINTMENTS DISORDERING THE INTELLECT 172
THE REWARDS OF ORIENTAL STUDENTS 186
DANGER INCURRED BY GIVING THE RESULT OF LITERARY INQUIRIES 193
A NATIONAL WORK WHICH COULD FIND NO PATRONAGE 200
THE MISERIES OF SUCCESSFUL AUTHORS 202
THE ILLUSIONS OF WRITERS IN VERSE 212
QUARRELS OF AUTHORS.
PREFACE 229
WARBURTON, AND HIS QUARRELS; INCLUDING AN ILLUSTRATION OF HIS
LITERARY CHARACTER 233
POPE AND HIS MISCELLANEOUS QUARRELS 278
POPE AND CURLL; OR A NARRATIVE OF THE EXTRAORDINARY
TRANSACTIONS RESPECTING THE PUBLICATION OF POPE'S LETTERS 292
POPE AND CIBBER; CONTAINING A VINDICATION OF THE COMIC WRITER 301
POPE AND ADDISON 313
BOLINGBROKE AND MALLET'S POSTHUMOUS QUARREL WITH POPE 321
LINTOT'S ACCOUNT-BOOK 328
POPE'S EARLIEST SATIRE 333
THE ROYAL SOCIETY 336
SIR JOHN HILL, WITH THE ROYAL SOCIETY, FIELDING, SMART, ETC. 362
BOYLE AND BENTLEY 377
PARKER AND MARVELL 391
D'AVENANT AND A CLUB OF WITS 403
THE PAPER-WARS OF THE CIVIL WARS 415
POLITICAL CRITICISM ON LITERARY COMPOSITIONS 423
HOBBES, AND HIS QUARRELS; INCLUDING AN ILLUSTRATION OF HIS
CHARACTER 436
HOBBES'S QUARRELS WITH DR. WALLIS, THE MATHEMATICIAN. 463
JONSON AND DECKER 474
CAMDEN AND BROOKE 490
MARTIN MAR-PRELATE 501
SUPPLEMENT TO MARTIN MAR-PRELATE 523
LITERARY QUARRELS FROM PERSONAL MOTIVES 529