Reminiscences of a Literary Life
CONTENTS
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
1
II. JOHN KEATS—THOMAS CAMPBELL
13
III. GEORGE DOUGLAS SIR WALTER SCOTT
22
IV. WILLIAM STEWART ROSE
29
V. SAMUEL ROGERS—SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
45
VII. THOMAS MOORE—WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES
67
VIII. THOMAS DE QUINCEY—JAMES T. MATHIAS
78
IX. HARRIET MARTINEAU—WILLIAM GODWIN
93
X. LEIGH HUNT—THOMAS HOOD—HORACE SMITH
101
XI. SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH—MRS. JAMESON—THE MISSES
PORTER
109
XIII. VISCOUNT DILLON—SIR LUMLEY ST. GEORGE SKEFFINGTON, BART.—THE RIGHT HON.
JOHN HOOKHAM FRERE
136
XIV. LORD DUDLEY AND WARD—LORD DOVER
I37
XV. SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, F.R.A.—WILLIAM BROCKEDON—JAMES NORTHCOTE, R.A.
146
XVI. SIR ROBERT PEEL—THE HON. SPENCER PERCEVAL
155
XVII. THE HON. MOUNTSTUART ELPHINSTONE—JUDGE DAVIS
162
XVIII. ELIJAH BARWELL IMPEY
176
XIX. ALEXANDER I. OF RUSSIA—GEORGE CANNING—NAPOLEON—QUEEN HORTENSE—ROSSINI
185
XX. COUNT PECCHIO—GUISEPPE MAZZINI—COUNT NIEMCEWITZ
190
XXII. CAROLINE, PRINCESS OF WALES—LA BARONNE DE FEUCHÈRES
214
XXIII. SIR SIDNEY SMITH
221
XXTV. SIR GEORGE MURRAY
231
XXV. FIELD-MARSHAL VISCOUNT HARDINGE
238
XXVI. REV. CHARLES TOWNSEND
257
XXVIII. AN ENGLISH MERCHANT—THE BRUNELS, ENGINEERS
277