CALAMITIES AND QUARRELS
OF
AUTHORS.
BY
ISAAC DISRAELI.
A NEW EDITION
EDITED BY HIS SON
THE EARL OF BEACONSFIELD.
LONDON:
FREDERICK WARNE AND CO.
BEDFORD STREET, STRAND.
LONDON:
BRADBURY, AGNEW & CO., PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.
CONTENTS.
CALAMITIES OF AUTHORS. | |
| PREFACE | [3] |
| AUTHORS BY PROFESSION:—GUTHRIE AND AMHURST—DRAKE—SMOLLETT | [7] |
| THE CASE OF AUTHORS STATED, INCLUDING THE HISTORY OF LITERARY PROPERTY | [15] |
| THE SUFFERINGS OF AUTHORS | [22] |
| A MENDICANT AUTHOR, AND THE PATRONS OF FORMER TIMES | [25] |
| COWLEY—OF HIS MELANCHOLY | [35] |
| THE PAINS OF FASTIDIOUS EGOTISM | [42] |
| INFLUENCE OF A BAD TEMPER IN CRITICISM | [51] |
| DISAPPOINTED GENIUS TAKES A FATAL DIRECTION BY ITS ABUSE | [59] |
| THE MALADIES OF AUTHORS | [70] |
| LITERARY SCOTCHMEN | [75] |
| LABORIOUS AUTHORS | [83] |
| THE DESPAIR OF YOUNG POETS | [98] |
| THE MISERIES OF THE FIRST ENGLISH COMMENTATOR | [104] |
| THE LIFE OF AN AUTHORESS | [106] |
| THE INDISCRETION OF AN HISTORIAN—CARTE | [110] |
| LITERARY RIDICULE, ILLUSTRATED BY SOME ACCOUNT OF A LITERARY SATIRE | [114] |
| LITERARY HATRED, EXHIBITING A CONSPIRACY AGAINST AN AUTHOR | [130] |
| UNDUE SEVERITY OF CRITICISM | [139] |
| A VOLUMINOUS AUTHOR WITHOUT JUDGMENT | [146] |
| GENIUS AND ERUDITION THE VICTIMS OF IMMODERATE VANITY | [155] |
| GENIUS, THE DUPE OF ITS PASSIONS | [168] |
| LITERARY DISAPPOINTMENTS DISORDERING THE INTELLECT | [172] |
| THE REWARDS OF ORIENTAL STUDENTS | [186] |
| DANGER INCURRED BY GIVING THE RESULT OF LITERARY INQUIRIES | [193] |
| A NATIONAL WORK WHICH COULD FIND NO PATRONAGE | [200] |
| THE MISERIES OF SUCCESSFUL AUTHORS | [202] |
| THE ILLUSIONS OF WRITERS IN VERSE | [212] |
QUARRELS OF AUTHORS. | |
| PREFACE | [229] |
| WARBURTON, AND HIS QUARRELS; INCLUDING AN ILLUSTRATION OF HIS LITERARY CHARACTER | [233] |
| POPE AND HIS MISCELLANEOUS QUARRELS | [278] |
| POPE AND CURLL; OR A NARRATIVE OF THE EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTIONS RESPECTING THE PUBLICATION OF POPE’S LETTERS | [292] |
| POPE AND CIBBER; CONTAINING A VINDICATION OF THE COMIC WRITER | [301] |
| POPE AND ADDISON | [313] |
| BOLINGBROKE AND MALLET’S POSTHUMOUS QUARREL WITH POPE | [321] |
| LINTOT’S ACCOUNT-BOOK | [328] |
| POPE’S EARLIEST SATIRE | [333] |
| THE ROYAL SOCIETY | [336] |
| SIR JOHN HILL, WITH THE ROYAL SOCIETY, FIELDING, SMART, ETC. | [362] |
| BOYLE AND BENTLEY | [377] |
| PARKER AND MARVELL | [391] |
| D’AVENANT AND A CLUB OF WITS | [403] |
| THE PAPER-WARS OF THE CIVIL WARS | [415] |
| POLITICAL CRITICISM ON LITERARY COMPOSITIONS | [423] |
| HOBBES, AND HIS QUARRELS; INCLUDING AN ILLUSTRATION OF HIS CHARACTER | [436] |
| HOBBES’S QUARRELS WITH DR. WALLIS, THE MATHEMATICIAN. | [463] |
| JONSON AND DECKER | [474] |
| CAMDEN AND BROOKE | [490] |
| MARTIN MAR-PRELATE | [501] |
| SUPPLEMENT TO MARTIN MAR-PRELATE | [523] |
| LITERARY QUARRELS FROM PERSONAL MOTIVES | [529] |
| FOOTNOTES | [539] |
| INDEX | [541] |