Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Washington Irving — John Shaqi
Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Washington IrvingIrving, Washington
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Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Washington Irving
Irving, Washington
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CHAPTER SIX -- VI. Landing In England�Shifts of a Man without Money�The
Pestle and Mortar�Theatricals in a Barn�Launch upon London�A City Night
Scene�Struggles with Penury�Miseries of a Tutor�A Doctor in the
Suburb�Poor Practice and Second-hand Finery�A Tragedy in Embryo�Project
of the Written Mountains
CHAPTER SEVEN -- VII. Life as a Pedagogue�Kindness to
Schoolboys�Pertness In Return�Expensive Charities�The Griffiths and the
�Monthly Review��Toils of a Literary Hack�Rupture with the Griffiths
CHAPTER EIGHT -- VIII. Newbery, of Picture-book Memory�How to keep up
Appearances�Miseries of Authorship�A Poor Relation�Letter to Hodson
CHAPTER NINE -- IX. Hackney Authorship�Thoughts of Literary
Suicide�Return to Peckham� Oriental Projects�Literary Enterprise to
raise Funds�Letter to Edward Wells�To Robert Bryanton�Death of Uncle
Contarine�Letter to Cousin Jane
CHAPTER TEN -- X. Oriental Appointment, and Disappointment�Examination
at the College of Surgeons�How to procure a Suit of Clothes�Fresh
Disappointment�A Tale of Distress�The Suit of Clothes in Pawn�Punishment
for doing an act of Charity�Gayeties of Green-Arbor Court�Letter to his
Brother�Life of Voltaire�Scroggins, an attempt at Hock Heroic Poetry
CHAPTER ELEVEN -- XI. Publication of �The Inquiry��Attacked by
Griffith�s �Review��Kenrick, the Literary Ishmaelite�Periodical
Literature�Goldsmith�s Essays�Garrick as a Manager�Smollett and his
Schemes�Change of Lodgings�The Robin Hood Club
CHAPTER TWELVE -- XII. New Lodgings�Visits of Ceremony�Hangers-
on�Pilkington and the White Mouse�Introduction to Dr. Johnson�Davies and
his Bookshop�Pretty Mrs. Davies�Foote and his Projects�Criticism of the
Cudgel
CHAPTER THIRTEEN -- XIII. Oriental Projects�Literary Jobs�The Cherokee
Chiefs�Merry Islington and the White Conduit House�Letters on the
History of England�James Boswell�Dinner of Davies�Anecdotes of Johnson
and Goldsmith
CHAPTER FOURTEEN -- XIV. Hogarth a Visitor at Islington�His
Character�Street Studies�Sympathies between Authors and Painters�Sir
Joshua Reynolds�His Character�His Dinners�The Literary Club�Its
Members�Johnson�s Revels with Lanky and Beau�Goldsmith at the Club
CHAPTER -- XV. Johnson a Monitor to Goldsmith�Finds him in Distress with
his Landlady�Relieved by the Vicar of Wakefield�The Oratorio�Poem of The
Traveler�The Poet and his Dog�Success of the Poem�Astonishment of the
Club�Observations on the PoemFIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN -- XVI. New Lodgings�Johnson�s Compliment�A Titled
Patron�The Poet at Northumberland House�His Independence of the
Great�The Countess of Northumberland�Edwin and Angelina�Gosford and Lord
Clare�Publication of Essays�Evils of a rising Reputation�Hangers-on�Job
Writing�Goody Two-shoes�A Medical Campaign�Mrs. Sidebotham
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN -- XVII. Publication of the Vicar of
Wakefield�Opinions concerning it�Of Dr. Johnson�Of Rogers the Poet�Of
Goethe�Its Merits�Exquisite Extract�Attack by Kenrick�Reply�Book-
building�Project of a Comedy
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