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Title: Calamities and Quarrels of Authors

Author: Isaac Disraeli

Release Date: December 23, 2009 [EBook #30745]

Language: English

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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 O