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CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER V. | |
| 1781–1783. | |
| Horace Walpole—Literary Club—Dr. Johnson—Lord Charlemont—Shakspeare—Steevens—Rev. Mr. Whalley—Henry Flood | 83 |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| 1783–1786. | |
| Correspondence with Flood—Second Appendix to Shakspeare—Prepares to become Editor—Horace Walpole—Bishop Percy—Goldsmith—Steevens—Elevation of his Brother to the Peerage—Boswell—John Kemble—Walpole and Rousseau—Lord Charlemont | 108 |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| 1786–1789. | |
| Jephson’s Julia, or the Italian Lover—Prologue by Malone—Lord Charlemont—Horace Walpole—Correspondence with Rev. Mr. Davenport of Stratford—John Kemble—Pope and Warburton—Lady M. Wortley Montague—Visit to Burke | 132 |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| 1789–1791. | |
| Revision of Boswell’s Johnson—Baretti—Visit to Waller’s former mansion—John Kemble—Publication of Shakspeare—Burke—Reynolds—Mrs. Piozzi—Relique of Elizabethan Poetry—Visit to Burke—Abbé Raynal—Burke, in allusion to Hastings’ Trial | 157 |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| 1792–1793. | |
| Joseph Warton—Ritson’s Criticisms on Malone—Malone’s Letter to Dr. Farmer—Editors of Shakspeare—Death of Reynolds—Letter of the Poet Mason—Lord Edward Fitzgerald and Pamela—Jephson’s Roman Portraits—Bishop Douglas’s Anecdotes—Davenport, Steevens, Lord Charlemont—Prospectus of a new Edition of Shakspeare | 184 |
| CHAPTER X. | |
| 1794–1797. | |
| Jephson’s Poem and Letters—Another tender Attachment—Death of Boswell—Aubrey’s Papers—The Irelands Shakspeare Forgeries—Letter of Burke—Lord Charlemont—New Tragedy by Jephson—Lord Orford—Reynolds’ Memoir and Works—Death of Burke | 209 |
