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John Timbs. Anecdotes about Authors, and Artists
Anecdotes about Authors, and Artists
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BOOKS AND AUTHORS
THE FINDING OF JOHN EVELYN’S MS. DIARY AT WOTTON
FAMILIES OF LITERARY MEN
THE BLUE-STOCKING CLUB
DR. JOHNSON AND HANNAH MORE
MISS MITFORD’S FAREWELL TO THREE MILE CROSS
SMOLLETT’S “HUGH STRAP.”
COLLINS’S POEMS
CAPTAIN MORRIS’S SONGS
LITERARY DINNERS
POPULARITY OF THE PICKWICK PAPERS
SWIFT’S DISAPPOINTMENT
LEIGH HUNT AND THOMAS CARLYLE
COWPER’S POEMS
HEARNE’S LOVE OF ALE
SHERIDAN’S WIT
SMOLLETT’S HISTORY OF ENGLAND
MAGNA CHARTA RECOVERED
FOX AND GIBBON
DR. JOHNSON’S PRIDE
LORD BYRON’S “CORSAIR.”
BOOKSELLERS IN LITTLE BRITAIN
RECONCILING THE FATHERS
DR. PARR AND SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH
SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH’S HUMOUR
WRITINGS OF LOPE DE VEGA
POPULARITY OF LOPE DE VEGA
SWIFT’S LOVES
COLERIDGE’S “WATCHMAN.”
IRELAND’S SHAKSPEARE FORGERIES
HOOLE, THE TRANSLATOR OF TASSO. THE GHOST PUZZLED
LORD BYRON’S VANITY
LORD BYRON’S APOLOGY
FINE FLOURISHES
MATHEMATICAL SAILORS
LEWIS’S “MONK.”
THOMSON’S RECITATIONS
GOLDSMITH’S “SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER.”
SILENCE NOT ALWAYS WISDOM
DR. CHALMERS IN LONDON
ROMILLY AND BROUGHAM
PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTIONISTS
DEATH OF SIR CHARLES BELL
CLASSIC PUN
POETRY OF THE SEA
“FELON LITERATURE.”
“THE LITERARY GENTLEMAN
DEATH BED REVELATIONS
STAMMERING WIT
ORIGIN OF BOTTLED ALE
BAD’S THE BEST
LUDICROUS ESTIMATE OF MR. CANNING
THE AUTHORSHIP OF “WAVERLEY.”
QUID PRO QUO
HOPE’S “ANASTASIUS.”
SMART REPARTEE
COLTON’S “LACON.”
BUNYAN’S COPY OF “THE BOOK OF MARTYRS.”
LITERARY LOCALITIES
CREED OF LORD BOLINGBROKE
BUNYAN’S PREACHING
HONE’S “EVERY-DAY BOOK.”
BUNYAN’S ESCAPES
DROLLERY SPONTANEOUS
ORIGIN OF COWPER’S “JOHN GILPIN.”
HARD FATE OF AUTHORS
JAMES SMITH, ONE OF THE AUTHORS OF “REJECTED ADDRESSES.”
CONTEMPORARY COPYRIGHTS
MISS BURNEY’S “EVELINA.”
EPITAPH ON CHARLES LAMB
“TOM CRINGLE’S LOG.”
CHANCES FOR THE DRAMA
FULLER’S MEMORY
LORD HERVEY’S WIT
ANACREONTIC INVITATION, BY MOORE
THE POETS IN A PUZZLE
SALE OF MAGAZINES
MRS. SOUTHEY
DEVOTION TO SCIENCE
DISADVANTAGEOUS CORRECTION
PATRONAGE OF LITERATURE
DR. JOHNSON’S WIGS
SHERIDAN’S “PIZARRO.”
DR. JOHNSON IN LONDON
REGALITY OF GENIUS
FIELDING’S “TOM JONES.”
VOLTAIRE AND FERNEY
CLEAN HANDS
MODERATE FLATTERY
EVERY-DAY LIFE OF JAMES SMITH
FRENCH-ENGLISH JEU-DE-MOT
RELICS OF IZAAK WALTON
PRAISE OF ALE
DANGEROUS FOOLS
BULWER’S POMPEIAN DRAWING-ROOM
STERNE’S SERMONS
“TOM HILL.”
TYCHO BRAHE’S NOSE
FOOTE’S WOODEN LEG
RIVAL REMEMBRANCE
WHO WROTE “JUNIUS’S LETTERS”?
LITERARY COFFEE-HOUSES IN THE LAST CENTURY
LORD BYRON AND “MY GRANDMOTHER’S REVIEW.”
WALPOLE’S WAY TO WIN THEM
DR. JOHNSON’S CRITICISMS
GIBBON’S HOUSE, AT LAUSANNE
ORIGIN OF “BOZ.” (DICKENS.)
BOSWELL’S “LIFE OF JOHNSON.”
PATRONAGE OF AUTHORS
LEARNING FRENCH
JOHNSON’S CLUB-ROOM
DR. CHALMERS’S INDUSTRY
LATEST OF DR. JOHNSON’S CONTEMPORARIES.[5]
A SNAIL DINNER
CURRAN’S IMAGINATION
COWLEY AT CHERTSEY
A PRETTY COMPLIMENT
THOMAS DAY, AND HIS MODEL WIFE
WASHINGTON IRVING AND WILKIE, IN THE ALHAMBRA
BOLINGBROKE AT BATTERSEA
RELICS OF MILTON
WRITING UP THE “TIMES” NEWSPAPER
RELICS OF THE BOAR’S HEAD TAVERN, EASTCHEAP
ORIGIN OF “THE EDINBURGH REVIEW.”
CLEVER STATESMEN
THE FIRST MAGAZINE
MRS. TRIMMER
BOSWELL’S BEAR-LEADING
LORD ELIBANK AND DR. JOHNSON
RELICS OF DR. JOHNSON AT LICHFIELD
COLERIDGE A SOLDIER
COBBETT’S BOYHOOD
COLERIDGE AN UNITARIAN PREACHER
FONTENELLE’S INSENSIBILITY
PAINS AND TOILS OF AUTHORSHIP
JOE MILLER AT COURT
COLLINS’ INSANITY
MOORE’S EPIGRAM ON ABBOTT
NEGROES AT HOME
A STRING OF JERROLD’S JOKES
CONCEITED ALARMS OF DENNIS
A COMPOSITION WITH CONSCIENCE
SALE, THE TRANSLATOR OF THE KORAN
THE LATTER DAYS OF LOVELACE
PAYMENT IN KIND
CHATTERTON’S PROFIT AND LOSS RECKONING
LOCKE’S REBUKE OF THE CARD-PLAYING LORDS
HAYDN AND THE SHIP CAPTAIN
HAYDN’S DIPLOMA PIECE AT OXFORD
ORIGIN OF THE BEGGAR’S OPERA
THE TWO SHERIDANS
KILLING NO MURDER
SENSITIVENESS TO CRITICISM
BUTLER AND BUCKINGHAM
THE MERMAID CLUB
PORSON’S MEMORY
WYCHERLEY’S WOOING
A CAROUSE AT BOILEAU’S
THOMSON’S INDOLENCE
A LEARNED YOUNG LADY
A HARD HIT AT POPE
DRYDEN DRUBBED
ROGERS AND “JUNIUS.”
ALFIERI’S HAIR
SMOLLETT’S HARD FORTUNES
JERROLD’S REBUKE TO A RUDE INTRUDER
AN ODD PRESENT TO SHENSTONE
WALLER, THE COURTIER-POET
NOTE
ART AND ARTISTS
TITIAN AND CHARLES V
CHILDHOOD OF BENJAMIN WEST
GUIDO’S TIME
CHARACTER OF GAINSBOROUGH
BENEFIT OF RIVALRY
BACKHUYSEN
GEORGE MORLAND
DISINTERESTEDNESS OF ENGLISH PAINTERS
THE DOUBLE CHIN
SYMPATHY AND CALCULATION
RUSKIN’S “MODERN PAINTERS.”
RUBENS’S “CHAPEAU DE PAILLE.”
A PROMPT REMEDY
WILKIE’S SIMPLICITY
THE GRAVE OF LAWRENCE
“IT WILL NEVER DO.”
LOST CHANCE OF A NATIONAL GALLERY
REYNOLDS’S PORTRAIT OF LORD HEATHFIELD
THE ELGIN MARBLES
HENRY HOWARD, R.A
ORIGINALS OF HOGARTH’S MARRIAGE A-LA-MODE
HOMAGE TO ART
“COLUMBUS AND THE EGG” ANTICIPATED
THE RIVAL OF RAPHAEL
TURNER’S MASTERPIECE
INTENSE EFFECT
REYNOLDS AND HAYDN
HAYDON’S FIRST SIGHT OF THE ELGIN MARBLES
PAINTERS IN SOCIETY
ANACHRONISMS IN PAINTING
MOVING EARS
RUSSELL, THE CRAYON PAINTER
WILKIE’S MISTAKEN ANALOGY
DEATH OF GAINSBOROUGH
FANATICISM THE DESTROYER OF ART
THE THORNHILL MIRACLE
THE PICTURES AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE
FOUNDATION OF THE HISTORICAL SCHOOL OF PAINTING IN ENGLAND
THE CAT RAPHAEL
SMALL CONVERSATION
CHANGING HATS
SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE’S BOYHOOD
HARLOW’S TRIAL OF QUEEN KATHERINE
DEATH OF CORREGGIO
A LUCKY PURCHASE
COPLEY’S “DEATH OF LORD CHATHAM”
THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON’S CORREGGIO
GIOTTO AND THE PIGS
HOW WILKIE BECAME A PAINTER
CIMABUE AND GIOTTO
MICHAEL ANGELO IN BOYHOOD AND OLD AGE
HOGARTH’S “MARCH TO FINCHLEY.”
STORY OF A MINIATURE
SITTING FOR A HUSBAND
ARTISTIC TEXT
GENEROSITY OF CANOVA
HOGARTH’S VANITY
THE FOUNDLING HOSPITAL AND THE ROYAL ACADEMY
M‘ARDELL’S PRINTS
UNFORTUNATE ACCURACY
IMMORTALITY OF PAINTING
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS’S “PUCK.”
RAPHAEL’S CARTOON OF THE MURDER OF THE INNOCENTS
JARVIS SPENCER
A DRAPERY PAINTER
“STRANGE” ADVENTURE
ORIGIN OF THE BEEF-STEAK CLUB
WILKIE’S EARLY LIFE
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS’S DINNERS
FINDING A PAINTER
REYNOLDS’S AND LAWRENCE’S PORTRAITS
ZOFFANI’S GRATITUDE
PATRONAGE OF ART
DANGEROUS RETORT
THE VENETIAN SCHOOL
REYNOLDS’S “NATIVITY.”
HOLLOWAY AND “THE CARTOONS.”
TITIAN’S PAINTING
CATLIN’S PICTURES
MARTIN’S “DELUGE.”
SIR JOSHUA’S GOODNATURE
THOMAS SYDNEY COOPER “THE ENGLISH PAUL POTTER.”
VERRIO AND CHARLES II
HOGARTH’S PICTURES AT VAUXHALL GARDENS
RUBENS AND THE LION
NARROW ESCAPE
GAINSBOROUGH
HAYDON AT SCHOOL
RUBENS’S DAY
DILIGENCE OF RUBENS
HAYDON’S “JUDGMENT OF SOLOMON.”
VAN DE VELDE AND BACKHUYSEN
A PAINTER’S HAIR-DRESSING
A MIS-MATCHED PORTRAIT
VAST PAINTED WINDOW
CLAUDE’S “LIBRO DI VERITA.”
THE OLDEST PICTURE IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY
EXPERIMENTAL COLOURING
STOTHARD’S FRIEZE
JOHN MARTIN ON GLASS PAINTING
“SITTING FOR THE HAND.”
HAYDON AND FUSELI
RICHARD WILSON
THE BRIDGEWATER GALLERY
THE LOST PORTRAIT OF PRINCE CHARLES, BY VELASQUEZ
HAYDON’S “MOCK ELECTION.”
PORTRAITS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM
A PAINTER OF THE DEAD
COPLEY’S PORTRAITS
“BONAPARTE REVIEWING THE CONSULAR GUARD.”
LAWRENCE’S PORTRAIT OF CURRAN
OPIE AND NORTHCOTE
ORIGIN OF KIT-KAT PICTURES
COPLEY’S LARGE PICTURE
SIR ROBERT KERR PORTER’S PANORAMA
ZOFFANI AND GEORGE III
THE TRUE FORNARINA
HOGARTH AND BISHOP HOADLY
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS’S PALETTE
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS’ BENEVOLENCE
A TRIUMPH OF PAINTING
MORLAND AT KENSAL-GREEN
ORIGIN OF THE TAPESTRY IN THE OLD HOUSE OF LORDS
MELANCHOLY OF PAINTERS
THE CHANDOS PORTRAIT OF SHAKSPEARE
COSTUME OF REYNOLDS’S PORTRAITS
SIGN PAINTERS IN THEIR PRIME
A BRIBE REPENTED
PRACTICAL JOKES OF SWARTZ
AN ENCOURAGEMENT TO FRANKNESS
