Historical and Biographical Essays: Biographical: Daniel De Foe. Sir Richard Steele. Charles Churchill. Samuel Foote

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J. Murray, 1858

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De Foes Appeal against his AssailantsCharge of hankering after
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Strictures on London LifeAdvocates a Metropolitan University
92
Sir Richard Steele
107
The Facts statedConclusive evidence from the papers themselves
120
Will DactyleSenecioWill CourtlySophroniusJack Dimple
126
Steeles distinction from other wits and humouristsA something Inde
127
Steeles affection for AddisonTributes to his GeniusThe Respect
136
Verdict of GuiltySentenced to Newgate and the PilloryWhat
139
An unfading PortraitAn Insignificant Fellow but exceeding Gracious
145
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The Ungrateful undertakers manThe more he gets the gladder
163
The TriumvirateAddisons Rosamund and its failureSteeles Lying
169
Drawbacks to BeautyA first year of Wedded LifePenalty of not con
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A Hymn to the Hieroglyphic State MachineDe Foes sentence
190
Entertainment in York BuildingsAddison Secretary of StateSteele
199
Last letters to PrueHer deathHis Later public lifeComedy of
206
From the Quarterly Review 1855 With Additions 105207
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Charles Churchill
209
Mistakes and ContradictionsGarth and his friend CodringtonThe
211
The Town startledExample of Churchills powerA Character without
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His Schooldays and SchoolfellowsStands by Cowper now and Cowper
217
Character consistent with ItselfMonsters not in NatureChurchills
223
The Chair given to GarrickSatire a lookingglass for reflection of
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Attacks on the SatiristAntiRosciads Triumvirates Examiners
238
Churchills claims to RespectMorality of his SatireContrast with
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Tributes to the New PoemIts witty and masterly exaggerations
254
Student at Worcester College in OxfordActing PunchOther extrava
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Samuel Foote PAGE
309
Garricks sudden successRaging of Theatrical FactionsActive part
315
GarrickClub Dramatic PortraitsNineveh of a Lost ArtReynoldss
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Actors complaints jested offFoote no longer opposedChanges
326
Sir Penurious Trifle and Sir Gregory GazetteWealthy Miser
332
Fieldings laugh at Tickells Depreciation of Steele for AddisonGhosts
343
The little black boy and Footes small beerHis Third Fortune spent
344
Garrick and Foote in FranceStrange reports as to FooteReproduced
350
Samuel Foote PAGE
354
Absurdity of comparison with AristophanesBut some qualities shared
360
VOL II
361
The Irish EngagementTate Wilkinson picked up by ShuterFoote
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Samuel Foote PAGE
369
Anachronisms in his pamphletNo disproof of his scholarshipRecollec
375
Footes increase of reputation from The MinorJointManager of Drury
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The Damned Play and its AuthorHints for Sir Fretful PlagiaryFoote
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Wit and entertainment of the Mayor of GarrettMajor Sturgeon Jerry
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Illustrations from Walpoles LettersCharles Foxs actual Mrs Mechlin
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Production of the NabobBorough of BribemThe Christian ClubA
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Footes public compliment to Mrs Garrick Writing Candidates
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Charles Foxs Adventure with WestIndian Heiress introducedPainting
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A cry of painOffer to withdraw Scenes if Libels are withdrawnThe
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Unnameable slandersFoote prosecutes the SlandererReopens the Hay
433
From the Quarterly Review September 1854 With Additions 293437
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第 125 頁 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven to inhabit among Men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee-houses.
第 134 頁 - like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid. I was undone by my auxiliary. When I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him.
第 340 頁 - I was resolved not to be pleased, and it is very difficult to please a man against his will. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him. But the dog was so very comical, that I was obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back upon my chair, and fairly laugh it out. No, Sir, he was irresistible.* He upon one occasion experienced, in an extraordinary degree, the efficacy of his powers of entertaining.
第 340 頁 - The first time I was in company with Foote was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved not to be pleased — and it is very difficult to please a man against his will. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him. But the dog was so very comical, that I was obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back upon my chair, and fairly laugh it out. No, sir, he was irresistible.
第 353 頁 - So he died, and .she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Joblillies, and the Garyulies, and the grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top; and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.
第 341 頁 - He expressed himself to the same purpose conce.rning another law-Lord, who, it seems, once took a fancy to associate with the wits of London ; but with so little success, that Foote said, 'What can. he mean by coming among us ? He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
第 153 頁 - ... papa could not hear me, and would play with me no more, for they were going to put him under ground, whence he could never come to us again. She was a very beautiful woman, of a noble spirit, and there was a dignity in her grief amidst all the wildness of her transport, which, methought, struck me with an instinct of sorrow, which, before I was sensible of what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart ever since.
第 121 頁 - In this accomplished lady love is the constant effect, though it is never the design ; yet though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour, and to love her is a liberal education.
第 66 頁 - A True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal, the next Day after her Death, to one Mrs Bargrave, at Canterbury, the 8th of September 1705...
第 164 頁 - I told him there was nothing I so ardently wished as that we might some time or other publish a work written by us both, which should bear the name of 'The Monument,

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