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The General Repository (Volume 3) by Andrews Norton

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Author: Andrews Norton
Number of Pages: 152 pages
Published Date: 03 Feb 2012
Publisher: General Books
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781235641466
File size: 48 Mb
Download Link: The General Repository (Volume 3)
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1813. Excerpt: ... Ingenuity of discussion and novelty of matter are united with so much clearness and elegance of style, and so much pleasing expression of moral sentiment, and there are few works which have given us a better opinion at once of the heart and of the mind of their author.-i ... . ARTICLES. l( Calamities of authors; including some inquiries respecting their moral and literary characters. By J.-D'Israeli, Esq. aU' thor of '-'-Curiosities of Literature.-" New Yoi k, James Eastburn. 1812. This is a new work of D'Israeli, which, having just appeared in England, is immediately published here. It gives accounts of the sufferings of authors from various causes--from neglect, poverty, disappointed hopes of reputation, and dispositions of mind unfortunate, ridiculous, or criminal. Some parts of it are sufficiently melancholy, from the view given of the distresses of men of genms and learning; which are rendered more acute by the peculiar sensibility of the sufferers. It is however by no means all of this characte r--it is full of literary anecdote, lively, brilliant, and abounding in light satire, and amusing observations. It is a work however which will not be very entertaining except to one somewhat versed in literary history; such a one will find much that is new about some of his old acquaintance, and other authors introduced to his knowledge, whose stories are sufficiently remarkable. Of this latter class is Myles Davies, mentioned in the first volume, as a mendicant author, a very learned man, of great simplicity, and half crazy, who near the beginning of the last century went about making presents of the volumes of his miscellaneous vork, entitled Athena; Britannicae, and soliciting something in return. The poor author's senses were at last quite disordered by...

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