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.