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Intended Auto da fé. Priestly charity. Duchess of Lucca. Lord Guilford. Grand Duke of Tuscany. Intended rescue; escape of the victim. Madame de Staël and the opposition leaders in England: her ultraisms. Brummell. Reported double marriage; Baron Auguste and Miss Millbank; Lord B. and the Duchess of Broglie. Madame de Staël’s conversational powers. ‘Glenarvon.’ Madame de Staël’s amiable heart. Women, and Opera figurantes: pirouetting common to both. Napoleon and Madame de Staël. Lord B.’s opinion of Napoleon and of his exit. Madame de Staël’s historical omission. Rocca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
176–183 | |
Complaint against the East India Company. Lord B.’s liberality. Balloons and Horace. Steam. Philosophical systems. Romances. Lewis’s ‘Monk:’ its groundwork. Secret of Walter Scott’s inspiration. ‘The Bleeding Nun.’ Ghost stories: the haunted room at Manheim; Mina and the passing-bell. Lewis and Matthias. ‘Abellino.’ ‘Pizarro’ and Sheridan. ‘The Castle Spectre’ in Drury Lane. Lord B.’s sketch of Sheridan. The age of companiability. Monk Lewis and his brother’s ghost. Madame de Staël, Lewis, and the Slave Trade. A fatal emetic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
183–192 | |
Imputed plagiarisms. A dose of Wordsworth physic. Shelley’s admiration of Wordsworth. Peter Bell’s ass, and the family circle. The Republican trio. Comparisons. The Botany Bay Eclogue, the Panegyric of Martin the Regicide, and ‘Wat Tyler,’ versus the Laureate odes and the Waterloo eulogium. The par nobile mortally wounded. Hogg the Ettrick Shepherd’s ‘Poetic Mirror.’ The ‘Rejected Addresses.’ Bowles: Coleridge’s praise of him inexplicable. Bowles’s good fellowship: his Madeira woods. Pope’s Letters to Martha Blount. The evil attending a punnable name. Lord B.’s partiality to Johnson’s Lives of the Poets. No monument to Pope in Poet’s Corner: the reason. Milton’s name in jeopardy. Voltaire’s tomb blocked up. Identity of a great poet and a religious man maintained . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
192–197 | |
| Walter Scott’s Novels. Rarity of novelty. Plagiarisms. Claims of Shakspeare and Sheridan. A good memory sometimes a misfortune. Lord Byron’s partiality to W. Scott’s novels. | ||
