Calamities and Quarrels of Authors
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Hardcover reprint of the original 1881 edition; hardbound in brown cloth with gold stamped lettering, 8vo - 6x9''. This item is printed on demand as a collector quality facsimile, crafted to hold its own in a library of first editions.BookDisraeli, Isaac. The Calamities and Quarrels of Authors; With Some Inquiries Respecting Their Moral and Literary Characters, and Memoirs For Our Literary History. Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012.OriginalDisraeli, Isaac. The Calamities and Quarrels of Authors; With Some Inquiries Respecting Their Moral and Literary Characters, and Memoirs For Our Literary Histo...
Chapters (85)
- CALAMITIES AND QUARRELS OF AUTHORS.
- CONTENTS.
- CALAMITIES OF AUTHORS:
- INCLUDING SOME INQUIRIES RESPECTING THEIR MORAL AND LITERARY CHARACTERS.
- PREFACE.
- AUTHORS BY PROFESSION.
- GUTHRIE AND AMHURST—DRAKE—SMOLLETT.
- THE CASE OF AUTHORS STATED,
- INCLUDING THE HISTORY OF LITERARY PROPERTY.
- THE SUFFERINGS OF AUTHORS.
- A MENDICANT AUTHOR,
- AND THE PATRONS OF FORMER TIMES.
- COWLEY.
- OF HIS MELANCHOLY.
- THE PAINS OF FASTIDIOUS EGOTISM.
- INFLUENCE OF A BAD TEMPER IN CRITICISM.
- DISAPPOINTED GENIUS
- TAKES A FATAL DIRECTION BY ITS ABUSE.
- THE MALADIES OF AUTHORS.
- LITERARY SCOTCHMEN.
- “The Case of a Man of Letters, of regular education, living by honest literary industry.
- LABORIOUS AUTHORS.
- THE DESPAIR OF YOUNG POETS.
- THE MISERIES OF THE FIRST ENGLISH COMMENTATOR.
- THE LIFE OF AN AUTHORESS.
- THE INDISCRETION OF AN HISTORIAN.
- THOMAS CARTE.
- LITERARY RIDICULE.
- ILLUSTRATED BY SOME ACCOUNT OF A LITERARY SATIRE.
- LITERARY HATRED.
- EXHIBITING A CONSPIRACY AGAINST AN AUTHOR.
- UNDUE SEVERITY OF CRITICISM.
- DR. KENRICK.—SCOTT OF AMWELL.
- A VOLUMINOUS AUTHOR WITHOUT JUDGMENT.
- GENIUS AND ERUDITION THE VICTIMS OF IMMODERATE VANITY.
- GENIUS THE DUPE OF ITS PASSIONS.
- LITERARY DISAPPOINTMENTS DISORDERING THE INTELLECT.
- LELAND AND COLLINS.
- THE REWARDS OF ORIENTAL STUDENTS.
- DANGER INCURRED BY GIVING THE RESULT OF LITERARY INQUIRIES.
- A NATIONAL WORK WHICH COULD FIND NO PATRONAGE.
- THE MISERIES OF SUCCESSFUL AUTHORS.
- THE ILLUSIONS OF WRITERS IN VERSE.
- QUARRELS OF AUTHORS;
- OR, SOME MEMOIRS FOR OUR LITERARY HISTORY.
- PREFACE.
- WARBURTON, AND HIS QUARRELS;
- INCLUDING AN ILLUSTRATION OF HIS LITERARY CHARACTER
- POPE,
- AND HIS MISCELLANEOUS QUARRELS.
- A NARRATIVE
- OF THE EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTIONS RESPECTING THE PUBLICATION OF POPE’S LETTERS.
- POPE AND CIBBER;
- CONTAINING A VINDICATION OF THE COMIC WRITER.
- POPE AND ADDISON.
- BOLINGBROKE AND MALLET’S POSTHUMOUS QUARREL WITH POPE.
- THE APOLLO VISION.
- LINTOT’S ACCOUNT-BOOK.
- MR. POPE.
- MR. GAY.
- MR. DENNIS.
- MR. THEOBALD.
- POPE’S EARLIEST SATIRE.
- THE ROYAL SOCIETY.
- SIR JOHN HILL,
- WITH THE ROYAL SOCIETY, FIELDING, SMART, &c.
- BOYLE AND BENTLEY.
- PARKER AND MARVELL.
- D’AVENANT
- AND A CLUB OF WITS.
- THE PAPER-WARS OF THE CIVIL WARS.
- POLITICAL CRITICISM
- ON LITERARY COMPOSITIONS.
- HOBBES, AND HIS QUARRELS;
- INCLUDING AN ILLUSTRATION OF HIS CHARACTER.
- HOBBES’S QUARRELS
- WITH DR. WALLIS THE MATHEMATICIAN.
- JONSON AND DECKER.
- CAMDEN AND BROOKE.
- MARTIN MAR-PRELATE.
- SUPPLEMENT TO MARTIN MAR-PRELATE.
- LITERARY QUARRELS
- FROM PERSONAL MOTIVES
- FOOTNOTES:
- INDEX.
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