Literary Character of Men of Genius eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 674 pages of information about Literary Character of Men of Genius.

Literary Character of Men of Genius eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 674 pages of information about Literary Character of Men of Genius.

Miscellanists 281

Prefaces 286

Style 291

Goldsmith and Johnson 294

Self-characters 295

On reading 298

On habituating ourselves to an individual pursuit 302

On novelty in literature 305

Vers de Societe 308

The genius of Moliere 310

The sensibility of Racine 325

Of Sterne 332

Hume, Robertson, and Birch 340

Of voluminous works incomplete by the deaths of the authors 350

Of domestic novelties at first condemned 355

Domesticity; or a dissertation on servants 364

Printed letters in the vernacular idiom 375

CHARACTER OF JAMES THE FIRST.

Advertisement 383

Of the first modern assailants of the character of James I., Burnet, Bolingbroke and Pope, Harris, Macaulay, and Walpole 386

His pedantry 388

His polemical studies 389

—­how these were political 392

The Hampton Court conference 393

Of some of his writings 398

Popular superstitions of the age 400

The King’s habits of life those of a man of letters 402

Of the facility and copiousness of his composition 404

Of his eloquence 405

Of his wit 406

Specimens of his humour, and observations on human life 407

Some evidences of his sagacity in the discovery of truth 410

Of his “Basilicon Doron” 413

Of his idea of a tyrant and a king 414

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