The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III
Lodge
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He increased my impatience more and more to see the extraordinary man whose works I highly valued, and whose conversation was reported to be so peculiarly excellent.
I was highly pleased with the extraordinary vigor of his conversation, and regretted that I was drawn away from it by an engagement at another place.
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- JAMES BOSWELLSample
- I BOSWELL'S INTRODUCTION TO DR. JOHNSON[1]
- II JOHNSON'S AUDIENCE WITH GEORGE III[3]
- III THE MEETING OF DR. JOHNSON AND JOHN WILKES[4]
- IV JOHNSON'S WEDDING-DAY[5]
- FOOTNOTES:
- WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
- A POET DEFINED[6]
- SIR WALTER SCOTT
- I THE ARRIVAL OF THE MASTER OF RAVENSWOOD[7]
- II THE DEATH OF MEG MERRILES[8]
- III A VISION OF ROB ROY[9]
- IV QUEEN ELIZABETH AND AMY ROBSART AT KENILWORTH[10]
- (1826)
- FOOTNOTES:
- SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
- I DOES FORTUNE FAVOR FOOLS?[15]
- II THE DESTINY OF THE UNITED STATES[16]
- ROBERT SOUTHEY
- (1805)
- FOOTNOTES:
- WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
- (1810)
- II NAPOLEON AND PERICLES
- CHARLES LAMB
- I DREAM-CHILDREN—A REVERIE[21]
- II POOR RELATIONS[22]
- III THE ORIGIN OF ROAST PIG[23]
- IV THAT WE SHOULD RISE WITH THE LARK[24]
- WILLIAM HAZLITT
- HAMLET[25]
- THOMAS DE QUINCEY
- I DREAMS OF AN OPIUM-EATER[26]
- II JOAN OF ARC[27]
- III CHARLES LAMB[28]
- LORD BYRON
- I OF HIS MOTHER'S TREATMENT OF HIM[29]
- II TO HIS WIFE AFTER THE SEPARATION[31]
- III TO SIR WALTER SCOTT[32]
- IV OF ART AND NATURE AS POETICAL SUBJECTS[34]
- FOOTNOTES:
- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
- I IN DEFENSE OF POETRY[37]
- II THE BATHS OF CARACALLA[38]
- III THE RUINS OF POMPEII[39]
- GEORGE GROTE
- I THE MUTILATION OF THE HERMÆ[40]
- II IF ALEXANDER HAD LIVED[43]
- FOOTNOTES:
- THOMAS CARLYLE
- I CHARLOTTE CORDAY[46]
- II THE BLESSEDNESS OF WORK[48]
- III CROMWELL[49]
- IV IN PRAISE OF THOSE WHO TOIL[50]
- V THE CERTAINTY OF JUSTICE[51]
- VI THE GREATNESS OF SCOTT[52]
- VII BOSWELL AND HIS BOOK[54]
- VIII MIGHT BURNS HAVE BEEN SAVED[55]
- FOOTNOTES:
- LORD MACAULAY
- I PURITANS AND ROYALISTS[56]
- II CROMWELL'S ARMY[57]
- III THE OPENING OF THE TRIAL OF WARREN HASTINGS[58]
- IV THE GIFT OF ATHENS TO MAN[59]
- V THE PATHOS OF BYRON'S LIFE[61]
- FOOTNOTES: