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Martin Farquhar Tupper. My Life as an Author
My Life as an Author
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
PRELIMINARY
CHAPTER II
INFANCY AND SCHOOLDAYS
CHAPTER III
YOUNG AUTHORSHIP IN VERSE AND PROSE
CHAPTER IV
COLLEGE DAYS
CHAPTER V
ORDERS: AND LINCOLN'S INN
CHAPTER VI
STAMMERING AND CHESS
CHAPTER VII
PRIZE POEMS, ETC
CHAPTER VIII
SUNDRY PROVIDENCES
CHAPTER IX
YET MORE ESCAPES
CHAPTER X
FADS AND FANCIES
CHAPTER XI
"SACRA POESIS" AND "GERALDINE."
CHAPTER XII
PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY
CHAPTER XIII
A MODERN PYRAMID
CHAPTER XIV
AN AUTHOR'S MIND: PROBABILITIES
Probabilities
CHAPTER XV
THE CROCK OF GOLD, ETC
CHAPTER XVI
ÆSOP SMITH
CHAPTER XVII
STEPHAN LANGTON—ALFRED
King Alfred's own Poems
CHAPTER XVIII
SHAKESPEARE COMMEMORATION
CHAPTER XIX
TRANSLATIONS AND PAMPHLETS
Sundry Pamphlets
CHAPTER XX
PATERFAMILIAS, GUERNSEY, MONA
Guernsey
Isle of Man
CHAPTER XXI
NEVER GIVE UP, AND SOME OTHER BALLADS
CHAPTER XXII
PROTESTANT BALLADS
CHAPTER XXIII
PLAYS
CHAPTER XXIV
ANTIQUARIANA
CHAPTER XXV
HONOURS—INVENTIONS
Inventions
CHAPTER XXVI
COURTLY AND MUSICAL
CHAPTER XXVII
F.R.S
CHAPTER XXVIII
PERSONATION
CHAPTER XXIX
HOSPITALITIES—FARNHAM, ETC
Parham
Other Visits
CHAPTER XXX
SOCIAL AND RURAL
CHAPTER XXXI
AMERICAN BALLADS
CHAPTER XXXII
AMERICAN VISITS
CHAPTER XXXIII
SECOND AMERICAN VISIT
CHAPTER XXXIV
ENGLISH AND SCOTCH READINGS
Miscellaneous Poems
CHAPTER XXXV
ELECTRICS
CHAPTER XXXVI
THE RIFLE: A PATRIOTIC PROPHECY
CHAPTER XXXVII
AUTOGRAPHS AND ADVERTISEMENTS
As to Advertising
CHAPTER XXXVIII
KINDNESS TO ANIMALS
CHAPTER XXXIX
ORKNEY AND SHETLAND
CHAPTER XL
LITERARY FRIENDS
A Dining-out Anecdote
A Mormon Guest
CHAPTER XLI
A FEW OLDER FRIENDSHIPS
CHAPTER XLII
POLITICAL
CHAPTER XLIII
A CURE FOR IRELAND
CHAPTER XLIV
SOME SPIRITUALISTIC REMINISCENCES
CHAPTER XLV
FICKLE FORTUNE
CHAPTER XLVI
DE BEAUVOIR CHANCERY SUIT: AND BELGRAVIA
A Lost Chance in Belgravia
CHAPTER XLVII
FLYING
Extract from Proverbial Philosophy (Series iv. p. 375)
CHAPTER XLVIII
LUTHER
CHAPTER XLIX
FINAL
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Martin Farquhar Tupper
Published by Good Press, 2019
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The poor little schoolboy's muse was perhaps quite of the pedestrian order: but so also, the critics said, had been stern old Dr. Johnson's in his "London."
Mere school-exercises (whereof I have some antique copybooks before me), cannot be held to count for much as early literature; though I know not why some of my Greek Iambic translations of the Psalms and Shakespeare, as also sundry very respectable versions of English poems into Latin Sapphics and Alcaics still among my archives, should not have been shrined—as they were offered at the time—in Dr. Haig Brown's Carthusian Anthology. However somehow these have escaped printer's ink—the only true elixir vitæ—and we must therefore suppose them not quite worthy to be bracketed with the classical versification of Buchanan or even of Mr. John Milton—albeit actually superior to sundry of the aforesaid Anthologia Carthusiana; so of these we will say nothing.
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