Calamities and Quarrels of Authors
by Isaac Disraeli
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About this eBook
- Author
- Disraeli, Isaac, 1766-1848
- Credits
- Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Katherine Ward, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections
- Subject
- Literary quarrels
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 30745
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30745
- Release Date
- December 23, 2009
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.CALAMITIES AND QUARRELS OF AUTHORS.
- 2.CONTENTS.
- 3.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.
- 4.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
- 5.FOOTNOTES:
- 6.INDEX.
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