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.

ROMNEY, his anxiety over his picture of the Tempest, 81-82.

ROUSSEAU’S expedient to endure society, 73;
  his domestic infelicity, 175.

ROYAL SOCIETY, attacks on, n. 14.

RUBENS’ transcripts of the poets, 21.

SANDWICH, Lord, his first idea of a stratagem at sea, 132.

SCUDERY, Mademoiselle, 316.

SENSITIVENESS of genius, 72, 78, 78; 139-140.

SELF-IMMOLATION of genius to labour, 152.

SELF-PRAISE of genius, 162-170.

SERVANTS, a dissertation on, 364-374.

SHEE, Sir M.A., relations of poetry and painting, n., 21.

SHENSTONE, his early love, 199.

SIDDONS, Mrs., anecdote of, 137.

SINGLENESS of genius, 245-247.

SOCIETY, artificial, an injury to genius, 90.

SOLITUDE loved by men of genius, 35-40; 109-115.

STEAM first discovered, 133.

STUDIES of advanced life, 241-243.

STERNE, anecdotes of, 332-340.

STYLE and its peculiarities, 291-294.

SUSCEPTIBILITY of men of genius, 170-172.

SUGGESTIONS of one mind perfected by another, 275-276.

TASSO uneasy in his labours, 84.

TAYLOR, Dr. Brooke, his torpid melancholy, 175.

TEMPLE, Sir W., his love of gardens, 283.

THEORETICAL history, 342.

THOMSON, his sensitiveness to grand poetry, 142;
  irritability over false criticisms, 65.

TOBACCO, its introduction to England, 362.

TOOTHPICKS, origin of, 358.

TOWNLEY Gallery of Sculpture, n., 13.

TROUBADOURS, their influence, 285.

UMBRELLAS, their history, 358.

UTILITARIANISM and its narrow view of literature, 15.

UNIVERSALITY Of genius, 244.

VAN PRAUN refuses to part with his collection to an emperor, 229.

VERNET sketches in a storm, 144.

VERS DE SOCIETE, 308-310.

VINDICTIVENESS of genius, 170-173.

VISIONARIES of genius, 148.

VISITORS disliked by literary men, 112-113.

VOLTAIRE, anecdote of his visit to a country house, 95;
  his universal genius, 245.

WALPOLE’s, Horace, opinion of Gray, 91;
  of Burke, ib.

WATSON neglects research in his professorship, 17.

WERNER’S discoveries in science, 145.

WILKES desirous of literary glory, 17.

WIT sometimes mechanical, 126.

WIVES of literary men, 202-208.

WORKS intended, but not executed, 123.

WOOD, Anthony, sacrifices all to study, 152.

YOUNG the poet, his want of sympathy, 185.

YOUTH of great men, 34-54.

THE END.

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