Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century: Consisting of Authentic Memoirs and Original Letters of Eminent Persons; and Intended as a Sequel to the Literary Anecdotes, المجلد 7

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SAME Dec 15 Corrections continued preferment of the Bishops nephew
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SAME Dec 16 Death of Dr Farmer the Bishops supposed debt to
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SAME Jan 29 1802 Todds edition of Milton note Miltons copy
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SAME Aug Charles Goldsmith see note Isaac Reed and G Steevens
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MEMOIR OF ROBERT ANDERSON M D
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PERCY TO ANDERSON July 1 Sends a copy of the Reliques corrects
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SAME Sept 13 Graingers books and inquiry for his portrait see p 295
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SAME June 15 Invitation to Dromore progress of Graingers Works
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ANDERSON to PERCY July 5 Proposed visit to Dromore
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ANDERSON to PERCY Dec 16 Extract from Lady Dalrymples and Lord
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SAME Aug 16 Letters relating to the Grainger family Bishop Percys ill
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SAME Jan 24 1804 Death of Mr Alex Thomson Miss Bannerman see
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PERCY TO ANDERSON Aug 16 Bishop Percys Runic Poetry and Northern
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ANDERSON to PERCY Sept 15 Bishop Percys Runic Poetry Mr Herberts
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PERCY TO ANDERSON Oct 17 Mr T Armstrong Bishop Percys liberality
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ANDERSON to PERCY April 3 Dr Grainger Col Johnes Mr Laings
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ANDERSON to PERCY June 13 Mr Laing and Macpherson the Northern
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ANDERSON to PERCY Dec 14 Mr Boyle the banker and Mr John Lays
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SAME March 25 1806 Northern Antiquities Dr Andersons Life
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SAME Aug 14 Bishop Percys subscription to Miss Bannermans poems
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SAME Dec 8 Key to New Testament and Northern Antiquities
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Authors and Wartons History of English Poetry see note Scotts
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PERCY to ANDERSON Jan 4 1808 The Bishops strictures on Mr J C
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ANDERSON to PERCY July 14 Death of Dr T Percy the Bishops nephew
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SAME May 12 Short notice of Dr Andersons tour
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DR W H DRUMMOND to PERCY Feb 1 See note Account of the Irish
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SAME June 22 Works sent to Bishop Percy Cromeks Relics
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Macphersons publications and Bishop Percys Reliques Halls Select
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MEMOIR OF JAMES GRAINGER M D
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List of his Works Percys contributions to the Grand Magazine
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GRAINGER TO PERCY Oct 22 1756 Inquiries about Camoens the state of
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SAME March 30 Medical advice Tibullus inquiries after friends
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SAME April 14 Dr Griffiths Miss Anne Guthridge afterwards
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ANDERSON to PERCY May 18 Ill health the cause of silence summer tour
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SAME Oct 18 Account of Dr Graingers Tour in Scotland Dr Stewart
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SAME March 31 Dr Graingers intended departure from England sends
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SAME May 21 Dr Farmers marriage with Miss Hatton broken off
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GRAINGER to PERCY Jan 16 1761 Robert Lloyds Odes see note
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SAME April 18 1763 The Sugar Cane private affairs public news
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SAME May 25 1765 Disapproves of Mr Percys design to write
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MRS GRAINGER to PERCY Jan 27 1771 Dr Graingers picture
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BOSWELL to PERCY March 8 1784 Mr Boswells pamphlet on
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BOSWELL to PERCY Feb 9 1788 Progress of the Life of Johnson
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SAME April 9 Debate on the Corporation and Test Acts Life
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SAME Dec 26 His continental tour Rev W Johnson Temple see note
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SAME March 25 Character of the Tour to the Hebrides Boswells
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MISS SEWARD to GENT MAG April 12 On the character of Dr Johnson
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to GENT MAG July 7 1787 A defence of Dr Johnson in Olla
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BOSWELL to GENT MAG Nov 16 On the above communication of Miss
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MR BOSWELL to GENT MAG Jan 20 1794 In his own vindication with
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SAME Oct 21 On the character of Mr Seward as drawn by Dr Johnson
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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF REV GEORGE ASHBY
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SAME May 22 Oly Prancing see note Mr Lambes Flodden Field
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SAME March 1 1776 On the same subject
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SAME April 10 Mr Bryant on the Apamean Medal see note
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SAME Dec 11 Thetford see note Satirical Medal of Lion and Lambs
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SAME to GOUGH March 12 1788 Death of Mrs Nichols Lady Tir
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SAME to HERBERT June 4 1790 The Gold Book David Clements
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HERBERT to GENT MAG Sep 10 On the same subject
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SAME May 13 Journey to Cambridge and Ely with Bishop Barrington
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PERCY to LORT March 2 1788 Mr Brownes pamphlet vindicating
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SAME Aug 1 Mr Cottingham and his marriage pamphlets on Ireland
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SAME March 12 1790 Dr Lorts account of his tour in the North
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SAME May 14 Proposed oath of the Catholics English newspaper to
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SAME Sept 4 Mrs Hill Mrs Percys illhealth Mr Steevens on
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BIRCH to LORT May 91761 Mr Lorts proposed Life and Correspondence
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LORT to RICHARD CUMBERLAND Esq see note Dec 22 1759 Dr Bent
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SAME July 27 Mr Lorts sermon before the University
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SAME June 20 1778 Mr Lorts paper on Celts c Viscount Shannons
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SAME Sept 8 Mr Walpoles criticisms on Hirschfelds Theory of Gar
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SAME July 16 1788 Rev G Ashby and his MS book of prayers of Queen
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On Chattertons knowledge of Heraldry in a letter to Mr Bigland Somerset
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SAME Jan 15 1764 The Duke of Buckingham and the Countess
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SAME Feb 2 Presents Dr Birch with the Reliques of Ancient Poetry
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Character of Archdeacon Nares by the Rev W Beloe
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SAME Jan 19 1801 The review of Nicholss Leicestershire meeting
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SAME April 28 Sir Richard Musgraves reply to Dr Caulfield Dr Caul
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SAME Sept 9 Mr Ritson and Bishop Percy Bishop Percy on Fall of Stones
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PERCY to NARES Dec 28 Bishop Percys note on Ritsons attack intended
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NARES to GENT MAG July 3 1811 Sir Samuel Morland the inventor
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NARES to POLWHELE Nov 10 1813 Galts Life of Wolsey Mr Pol
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SAME May 2 1827 The subject continued
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NARES to GENT MAG Sept 25 1815 On Bocardo at Oxford
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SAME Sept 4 Memoir of Rev Samuel Partridge by Archdeacon Nares
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NARES to POLWHELE Feb 12 Mr Naress efforts for Mr Polwheles pre
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tiarii Poemata see note NARES to GENT MAG Nov 6 Mr John Chalkhill the real author of
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NARES to NICHOLS Dec 11 Review of Rev G Sackville Cotters Transla
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SAME The same subject continued
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Memoir of Rev John Hellins by Archdeacon Nares
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NARES to NICHOLS Dec 7 Memoir of Joseph Planta Esq by Mr Arch
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his Essay on Irish Dress
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WALKER to PERCY Oct 30 Duke of Rutlands successor the Dukes
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WALKER to PERCY Sept 16 Recollections of the Life of Shenstone
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WALKER to GENT MAG Aug 20 1790 Remarks on several articles
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PERCY to WALKER Sept 24 Gives a letter of introduction to Mr Byres
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See note on the conduct of Mr Ritson towards
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WALKER to PERCY March 20 Observations on blank verse among
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SAME May 20 Authenticity of Percys Han Kiou Chouan Mr Catcott
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WALKER to PINKERTON June 27 Observations on Italian poets and his
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WALKER to PINKERTON May 12 Pinkertons History of Scotland com
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WALKER to PINKERTON Jan 22 Observations on the execution of
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Conversation between Dr Johnson and Dr Campbell on the right of Conquest
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SAME Aug 27 Sends Mr Pinkertons work particulars of the repairs
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SAME Dec 15 Mr Grattan and the History of the Revolution of Ire
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SAME May 20 Dr Goldsmiths Present State of Learning in Europe
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SAME Sept 16 Dr Campbells brothers trouble respecting his tithes sends
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SAME Feb 28 Further account of his uncles death
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GOUGH to CAMPBELL Feb Thanks for his corrections his correspondents
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SAME April 28 Thanks for introduction to Mr Walker various errors
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LEDWICH to PERCY 1795 Anthologia arguments against Scrutator
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SAME Aug 28 Mr Beaufords MS notes on Macphersons Ossian com
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SAME Feb 3 Mr Brownlows MS Pelagius the various opinions respect
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SAME Dec 5 Ritsons scurrility Sir Richard Musgraves works Baron
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SAME Dec 15 Improved state of his health dissertation on the word
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SAME Feb 14 1807 Death of Mrs Percy death of Counsellor W Preston
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SAME July 14 Character of Dr Campbell Archdalls Monasticon list
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GOUGH to LEDWICH Dec 27 The Antiquarian Society and Dr Ledwichs
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الصفحة 358 - This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords.
الصفحة 755 - Specimens of the Early English Poets, to which is prefixed An Historical Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the English Poetry and Language.
الصفحة 561 - ... to prostitute his muse to so many unworthy functions. But nothing in Chatterton can be separated from Chatterton. His noblest flights, his sweetest strains, his grossest ribaldry, and his most common-place imitations of the productions of magazines, were all the effervescences of the same ungovernable impulse, which, cameleon-like, imbibed the colours of all it looked on. It was Ossian, or a Saxon monk, or Gray, or Smollet, or Junius — and if it failed most in what it most affected to be, a...
الصفحة 354 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
الصفحة 362 - You are at liberty to make what use you please of this letter. 'My best wishes ever attend you and your family. Believe me to be, with the utmost regard and esteem, dear Sir, 'Your obliged and affectionate humble servant, J. BEATTIE.
الصفحة 334 - ... invent. There are many who think it an act of piety to hide the faults or failings of their friends, even when they can no longer suffer by their detection; we therefore see whole ranks of characters adorned with uniform panegyric, and not to be known from one another, but by extrinsic and casual circumstances.
الصفحة 761 - What! Sir, don't you call it Disturbance to oppose legal government with arms in your hands, and compel it to make laws in your favour ? Sir, I call it rebellion, as much as the rebellions in Scotland. Doctor, said I, I am exceedingly sorry...
الصفحة 307 - I have heard from some of his contemporaries that he was generally seen lounging at the College gate, with a circle of young students round him, whom he was entertaining with wit, and keeping from their studies, if not spiriting them up to rebellion against the College discipline, which in his maturer years he so much extolled.
الصفحة 648 - And, I have also this truth to say of the author, that he was in his time a man generally known, and as well beloved; for he was humble, and obliging in his behaviour, a gentleman, a scholar, very innocent and prudent: and indeed his whole life was useful, quiet, and virtuous. God send the Story may meet with, or make all readers like him.
الصفحة 347 - Consign'd by Venus to Melissa's hand ; Not less capricious than a reigning fair, Now grants, and now rejects a lover's prayer. In myrtle shades oft sings the happy swain ; In...

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