Calamities and
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- CONTENTS.
- INDEX 541
- CALAMITIES OF AUTHORS:
- INCLUDING
- SOME INQUIRIES RESPECTING THEIR MORAL AND LITERARY CHARACTERS.
- PREFACE.
- FOOTNOTES:
- AUTHORS BY PROFESSION.
- GUTHRIE AND AMHURST--DRAKE--SMOLLETT.
- The _Coma Vigil_ may be described by a verse of Shakspeare:--
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE CASE OF AUTHORS STATED,
- INCLUDING THE HISTORY OF LITERARY PROPERTY.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE SUFFERINGS OF AUTHORS.
- A DESPAIRING AUTHOR!
- FOOTNOTES:
- A MENDICANT AUTHOR,
- AND THE PATRONS OF FORMER TIMES.
- Our author has given the names of several of his unwilling customers:--
- FOOTNOTES:
- POET.
- I beg your pardon, Sir, for that!
- PATRON.
- COWLEY.
- OF HIS MELANCHOLY.
- He describes his feelings at the court:--
- IMITATED.
- FOOTNOTES:
- MR. ABRAHAM COWLEY TO JOHN EVELYN, ESQ.
- THE PAINS OF FASTIDIOUS EGOTISM.
- The following literary confessions illustrate this character:--
- In another letter:--
- HORACE WALPOLE TO --------
- FOOTNOTES:
- INFLUENCE OF A BAD TEMPER IN CRITICISM.
- FOOTNOTES:
- DISAPPOINTED GENIUS
- TAKES A FATAL DIRECTION BY ITS ABUSE.
- And then sublimely exclaims--
- In this narrative we are told, that when at college--
- There is one remarkable entry:--
- In a Lecture on the History of Bookcraft, an account was given
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE MALADIES OF AUTHORS.
- FOOTNOTES:
- LITERARY SCOTCHMEN.
- FOOTNOTES:
- LABORIOUS AUTHORS.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE DESPAIR OF YOUNG POETS.
- CAREY'S WISH.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE MISERIES OF THE FIRST ENGLISH COMMENTATOR.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE LIFE OF AN AUTHORESS.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE INDISCRETION OF AN HISTORIAN.
- THOMAS CARTE.
- FOOTNOTES:
- LITERARY RIDICULE.
- ILLUSTRATED BY SOME ACCOUNT OF A LITERARY SATIRE.
- And with great humour says--
- In his Venetian velvet and pantofles of pride, we are told--
- And in the same ludicrous style he writes--
- Of Harvey's list of friends he observes:--
- FOOTNOTES:
- LITERARY HATRED.
- EXHIBITING A CONSPIRACY AGAINST AN AUTHOR.
- He designed to ornament his first number with--
- In September this ardour did not abate:--
- FOOTNOTES:
- UNDUE SEVERITY OF CRITICISM.
- DR. KENRICK.--SCOTT OF AMWELL.
- We are here involuntarily reminded of Sir Fretful, in _The Critic_:--
- FOOTNOTES:
- A VOLUMINOUS AUTHOR WITHOUT JUDGMENT.
- Another licenser, Dr. Harris, deposed, that about seven years ago--
- FOOTNOTES:
- GENIUS AND ERUDITION THE VICTIMS OF IMMODERATE VANITY.
- FOOTNOTES:
- GENIUS THE DUPE OF ITS PASSIONS.
- FOOTNOTES:
- Yours, ever."
- R. STEELE.
- LITERARY DISAPPOINTMENTS DISORDERING THE INTELLECT.
- LELAND AND COLLINS.
- And he pathetically concludes--
- POSTERITATIS AMOR DUBIUS.
- IMITATED.
- AD THOMAM CRANMERUM, CANT. ARCHIEPISCOP.
- IMITATED.
- IMITATED.
- IMITATED.
- This interesting circumstance is thus alluded to on his monument:--
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE REWARDS OF ORIENTAL STUDENTS.
- FOOTNOTES:
- DANGER INCURRED BY GIVING THE RESULT OF LITERARY INQUIRIES.
- FOOTNOTES:
- A NATIONAL WORK WHICH COULD FIND NO PATRONAGE.
- And further he adds--
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE MISERIES OF SUCCESSFUL AUTHORS.
- One poet tells us that
- And a contemporary records the utter neglect of this great poet:--
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE ILLUSIONS OF WRITERS IN VERSE.
- But he fervently entreats not to be banished again:--
- FOOTNOTES:
- QUARRELS OF AUTHORS;
- OR,
- SOME MEMOIRS FOR OUR LITERARY HISTORY.
- PREFACE.
- WARBURTON, AND HIS QUARRELS;
- FOOTNOTES:
- Yet this man
- POPE,
- AND HIS MISCELLANEOUS QUARRELS.
- FOOTNOTES:
- Cartwright's lines are:--
- TO THE AUTHOR OF THE DUNCIAD.
- A NARRATIVE
- FOOTNOTES:
- POPE AND CIBBER;
- FOOTNOTES:
- POPE AND ADDISON.
- FOOTNOTES:
- BOLINGBROKE AND MALLET'S POSTHUMOUS QUARREL WITH POPE.
- THE APOLLO VISION.
- FOOTNOTES:
- LINTOT'S ACCOUNT-BOOK.
- MR. POPE.
- MR. GAY.
- MR. DENNIS.
- MR. THEOBALD.
- Paid in hand, 2_l._ 10_s._
- DR. KING.
- FOOTNOTES:
- POPE'S EARLIEST SATIRE.
- TO THE AUTHOR OF A POEM ENTITLED "SUCCESSIO."
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE ROYAL SOCIETY.
- FOOTNOTES:
- SIR JOHN HILL,
- On earth, "a tawny sibyl," with "an old striped curtain--"
- Pallas hits off the style of Hill, as
- FOOTNOTES:
- To which Smart, in the "Hilliad," alludes--
- Dulness speaks of him thus rapturously:--
- Garrick's happy lines are well known on his farces:--
- Another said--
- The rejoinder would reverse the wish--
- BOYLE AND BENTLEY.
- Garth, catching the feeling of the time, sung--
- FOOTNOTES:
- PARKER AND MARVELL.
- FOOTNOTES:
- The satire ends with the question:--
- Which is thus answered:--
- D'AVENANT
- AND A CLUB OF WITS.
- Besides, he was now doomed--
- UPON THE PREFACE.
- One of the club inquires about the situation of _Avenant_--
- UPON FIGHTING WILL.
- A LETTER SENT TO THE GOOD KNIGHT.
- FOOTNOTES:
- Such news as the following was sometimes very agreeable:--
- FOOTNOTES:
- Aulicus is well characterized:--
- POLITICAL CRITICISM
- ON LITERARY COMPOSITIONS.
- FOOTNOTES:
- HOBBES, AND HIS QUARRELS;
- FOOTNOTES:
- HOBBES'S QUARRELS
- He closes with a very odd image of the most cynical contempt:--
- FOOTNOTES:
- JONSON AND DECKER.
- One of the dramatic personages in this epilogue inquires
- But instead of their "sitting down and blushing," we find--
- The scene is here conducted not without skill. Horace complains that
- The king observes, that
- He is angry that their
- And then exclaims with admirable enthusiasm--
- And again, alluding to these mimics--
- FOOTNOTES:
- CAMDEN AND BROOKE.
- A TALE (NOT OF A ROASTED) BUT OF A PAINTED HORSE.
- FOOTNOTES:
- MARTIN MAR-PRELATE.
- FOOTNOTES:
- SUPPLEMENT TO MARTIN MAR-PRELATE.
- RYTHMES AGAINST MARTIN MARRE-PRELATE.[424]
- FOOTNOTES:
- LITERARY QUARRELS
- FOOTNOTES:
- INDEX.
- AMHURST, a political author, his history, 11
- ARNALL, a great political scribe, 10
- ASCHAM, Roger, the founder of English Prose, 19
- ATHENAE BRITANNICAE, one of the rarest works, account of, _n._ 31
- ATHENAE OXONIENSES, an apology for, 89
- AYRE'S Memoirs of Pope, _n._ 318, 319
- BALGUY, Dr. Thos., _n._ 273
- BAYNE, Alexander, died of intense application, 72
- BIOGRAPHIA BRITANNICA in danger of being left unfinished, 84
- BIRKENHEAD, Sir J., a newspaper-writer, 416
- BLACKSTONE investigates the quarrel between Pope and Addison, 314
- BOHUN, his unjustifiable attack on William of Wykeham, 537
- BRAMHALL opposes Hobbes' philosophy, 449
- BROWN, Robt., founder of a sect of Puritans, _n._ 518
- BURNET, Bp., his character attacked, 426
- CALVIN'S opinions on government, _n._ 447
- CALVIN, his narrowed sectarianism, 502
- CAMPANELLA and his political works, 351-352
- CARYLL'S voluminous commentary on Job, _n._ 392
- CHATTERTON, his balance-sheet on the Lord Mayor's death, _n._ 25
- CHURCHILL'S satire on Warburton, 240, 242, 243, 246
- CLERGY fight in the great civil wars, _n._ 422
- CLELAND, biographical note on, 282
- CLEVELAND'S character of a journal-maker, 416
- COLLINS, Arthur, historian of the Peerage, 85
- CONTEMPORARIES, how they seek to level genius, 206
- COOPER, Bishop, attacked by Mar-Prelates, _n._ 513, 514
- COPYRIGHTS, Lintot's payments for, 328-333
- CORBET, his humorous introduction to Ben Jonson, _n._ 475
- CRITICISMS, illiberal, some of its consequences stated, 140
- CROSS attacks the Royal Society, 344-346
- CROUSAZ dissects Pope's "Essay on Man", 256
- CURLL, and his publication of Pope's letters, 292
- DAVIES, Myles, a mendicant author, his life, 30
- DEDICATION, composed by a patron to himself, _n._ 30
- DEDICATIONS, used in an extraordinary way, _n._ 30
- DENHAM falsely satirized, _n._ 429
- DRAKE, Dr. John, a political writer, his miserable life, 11
- DUNTON the bookseller satirized by Swift, 430
- DYSON defends Akenside, 265
- EACHARD'S satire on Hobbes and his sect, _n._ 439
- EVELYN defends the Royal Society, 340
- FALSE rumours in the great Civil War, 421
- FARNEWORTH'S Translation of Machiavel, 84
- FIELDING attacks Sir John Hill, 368-369
- FILMER, Sir R., writes to establish despotism, _n._ 449
- FULLER'S "Medicina Gymnastica," _n._ 71
- GARTH, Dr., and his Dispensary, 429
- GIBBON, Ed., price of his copyright, 87
- GLANVILL a defender of the Royal Society, 244
- GUTHRIE offers his services as a hackney-writer to a minister, 8
- HACKETT executed for attacks on the church, _n._ 518
- HANMER, Sir T., his edition of Shakespeare, _n._ 242, _n._ 258
- HARRINGTON and his "Oceana", 449
- HENRY, Dr., caustic review of his history, _n._ _ib._
- HERRICK, Robert, petulant invective against Devonshire, 215
- HILL, Aaron, and his quarrel with Pope, 290
- HOME and his tragedy of "Douglas", 79
- HOWEL, nearly lost his life by excessive study, 74
- JOHNSON, Dr., his aversion to Milton's politics, 425
- JONES, Inigo, ridiculed by Ben Jonson, _n._ 477
- KENNET'S, Bishop, Register and Chronicle, 87
- LAWSON, Dame, a noted female Puritan, _n._ 519, 525
- LEE, Nat., his love of praise, 213
- LIBELS abounded in the age of Elizabeth, 503
- LIGHTFOOT could not procure the printing of his work, 192
- LINTOT'S account-book, 328-333
- LITERARY quarrels from personal motives, 529-539
- LLOYD'S, Bishop, collections and their fate, 93
- MACDIARMID, John, died of over-study and exhaustion, 74
- M'MAHON and his anti-social philosophy, _n._ 456
- MARSTON, John, satirised by Ben Jonson, _n._ 477
- MOTTEUX, Peter, and his patron, 30
- MUGHOUSE, political clubs, _n._ 32
- NEWSPAPERS of the great Civil War, 415, 422
- NEWTON, of a fearful temper in criticism, _n._ 140
- NEWTON'S "Optics" first favourably noticed in France, 84
- PALERMO, Prince of; and his Palace of Monsters, _n._ 243
- PAPER-WARS of the Civil Wars, 415, 422
- PATIN, Guy, his account of Hobbes, _n._ 445
- PHALARIS, Epistles of, 378
- PHILLIPS asperses Pope, 316
- PIERCE, Dr. T., his controversies, 537
- PRIDEAUX'S "Connection of Old and New Testament", 84
- PRINCE'S "Worthies of Devon", _ib._
- PURITANS, origin of their name, _n._ 504
- RALEIGH, Sir W., an opposer of Puritanism, _n._ 508
- REFORMATION, the, under Elizabeth, 501
- RUFFHEAD'S Life of Pope, 290
- RYMER'S distress in forming his "Historical Collections", 85
- SCOT, Reginald, persecuted for his work against Witchcraft, 198
- SHUCKFORD, "Sacred and Profane History Connected", 85
- SLOANE, Sir Hans, his peculiarities of style, 358-360
- SMART and his satire, "The Hilliad", 371-372
- SOCRATES ridiculed by Aristophanes, 266
- SOUTH'S poignant reflection on the Royal Society, 342
- STEEVENS, G., satirizes Sir John Hawkins, 535
- STOWE, the chronicler, petitions to be a licensed beggar, 29
- SYSTEMS of Opinions, often fallacies in practice, 461
- TEMPLE, Sir W., Essay on Learning, 378
- TICKELL'S Homer, 316
- WARD, Dr. Seth, his double opinion of Hobbes' Works, _n._ 465
- WARD, Dr., his quarrel with Dr. Pierce, 536
- WHARTON, Henry, sunk under his historical studies, 74
- WILLIAM of WYKEHAM attacked by Bohun, 537
- WOODWARD the actor attacked by Hill, 372, and note
- WORKS, valuable, not completed from deficient encouragement, 84
- WOTTON'S reflections on learning, 378
- THE END.
- Transcriber Notes
- Transcriber Changes
- Page 62: Was smudged 'brothe' (envied their Ciceronian =brothers.=)
- Page 63: Added period (he then requested the Bishop of =London.=)
- Page 434: Added quote (From age to age, =&c."=)
- Page 436: Was 'montrous' (his =monstrous= egotism)
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- Footnote 20: Extra comma removed (his _Bibliographia =Poetica=_.)
- Footnote 150: Changed period to comma (by =Indignatio,"= 1772)
- Footnote 186: Added quote (="Letter= to Warburton," p. 4.)