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CONTENTS OF VOL. II.
CHAPTER IX.
THE EXAMINER.
Establishment of the Examiner.—Albany Fonblanque.— Author's
mistakes in setting out in his editorial career.-Objects of the
Examiner, and misrepresentations of them by the Tories.-Jeu-
d'esprit of "Napoleon in his Cabinet."-" Breakfast Sympathies
with the Miseries of War."-War dispassionately considered.-
Anti-Republicanism of the Examiner, and its views in theology.
-The Author for some time a clerk in the War Office.-His
patron, Mr. Addington, afterwards Lord Sidmouth.—Poetry and
Accounts..
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CHAPTER X.
LITERARY ACQUAINTANCE.
Du Bois.-Campbell.-Theodore Hook.-Matthews.―James and
Horace Smith.-Fuseli.-Bonnycastle.-Kinnaird, &c.
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CHAPTER XI.
POLITICAL CHARACTERS.
Ministry of the Pittites. Time-serving conduct of the Allies.
Height and downfall of Napoleon.-Character of George the Third.
-Mistakes and sincerity of the Examiner.-Indictment against it
respecting the case of Major Hogan.-Affair of Mrs. Clarke.—
Indictment respecting the reign of George the Third.-Perry, pro-
prietor of the Morning Chronicle.-Characters of Lord Canning,
Liverpool, and Lord Castlereagh.-Whigs and Whig-Radicals.—
Queen Victoria.-Royalty and Republics.-Indictment respecting
military flogging.-The Attorney-General, Sir Vicary Gibbs
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CHAPTER XII.
LITERARY WARFARE.
The Reflector and the writers in it.-Feast of the Poets.-Its attack
on Gifford for his attack on Mrs. Robinson.-Character of Gifford
and his Writings.-Specimens of the Baviad and Mœviad.-His
appearance at the Roxburgh Sale of Books.-Attack on Walter
Scott, occasioned by a passage in his edition of Dryden.-Tory
Calumny.-Quarrels and recriminations of authors.-The writer's
present opinion of Sir Walter.-General offence caused by the
Feast of the Poets.-Its inconsiderate treatment of Hayley.-
Dinner of the Prince Regent.-Holland House and Lord Holland.
-Neutralization of Whig advocacy.-Recollections of Blanco
White
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CHAPTER XIII.
THE REGENT AND THE EXAMINER.
"The Prince on St. Patrick's Day."-Indictment for an attack on
the Regent in that article.- Present feelings of the writer on the
subject.-Real sting of the offence in the article.-Sentence of the
proprietors of the Examiner to an imprisonment for two years.—
Their rejection of two proposals of compromise.-Lord Ellen-
borough, Mr. Garrow, and Mr. Justice Grose
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CHAPTER XIV.
IMPRISONMENT.
Author's imprisonment.-Curious specimen of a jailer, and under-
jailer, and an under-jailer's wife.-Mr. Holme Sumner.-Con-
version of a room in a prison into a fairy bower. - Author's
A heart-rending spectacle.. Felons and debtors.-
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visitors.
Restoration to Freedom
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CHAPTER XV.
FREE AGAIN.-SHELLEY IN ENGLAND.
Visits from Lord Byron and
Dignified neighbour and landlord. -
Mr. Wordsworth.-Infernal conduct of the angels in Paradise
Lost.-Return of hypochondria.-Descent of liberty.-Story of
Rimini. - United States.-Visits to Lord Byron. - History of
Shelley while in England...
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CHAPTER XVI.
KEATS, LAMB, AND COLERIDGE.
Charles Cowden Clarke. Keats and Shelley. - Mr. Monckton
Milnes's Letters and Remains of Keats.-" Other-worldliness."
Armitage Brown.-Keats and Lamb.-Wordsworth on Shakspeare.
-Milton dining.-Keats and Byron,-Keats in Italy. -His death
and personal appearance.-"Foliage."-The Indicator.-Tasso's
Aminta.-Foolish ignorance of business.-Mr. Lockhart.-Per-
sonal appearance of Lamb.-Character of his genius.-His bon-
mots and imaginary notices of his friends.-Person of Coleridge.—
Character of his genius.-Coleridge and Hazlitt. - Coleridge's
conversation and daily habits
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vessels.
CHAPTER XVII.
VOYAGE TO ITALY.
Reasons of the Author's voyage to Italy.-Desiderata in accounts of
voyagers.-Gunpowder.-Setting off.-Noisy navigation of small
- Cabin and berths. - Sea-captains. - Deal pilots and
boatmen.-Putting in at Ramsgate.-Condorcet's "Progress of
Society."-A French vessel and its occupants.-Setting off again.
-Memorable stormy season.-Character of the captain and mate.
-Luigi Rivarola.-Notices of the sailors.-Watching at night.—
Discomforts of sea in winter.-A drunken cook.-A goat and
ducks.-Hypochondria.-Dullness and superstition of sailors.-A
gale of fifty-six hours
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CHAPTER XVIII.
RETURN TO FIRST ACQUAINTANCE WITH LORD BYRON
AND THOMAS MOORE.
First sight of Lord Byron.-Jackson the prize-fighter.-Bathing at
Westminster.-Sympathy with early poems.-More prison recol-
lections.-Lord Byron and the House of Peers.-Thomas Moore
and the Liberal.-Mistaken conclusions of his.-His appearance,
manners, and opinions.-Letters of Lord Byron
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