Letters of Edward FitzGerald, in Two Volumes. Vol. 2FitzGerald, Edward
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Letters of Edward FitzGerald, in Two Volumes. Vol. 2
FitzGerald, Edward
Authors, English -- 19th century -- Correspondence; FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883 -- Correspondence
FitzGerald, Edward, born at Bredfield, i. 1; goes to Paris, _ib._; to
school at Bury St. Edmunds, 2; to Trinity College, Cambridge, _ib._; took
his degree, 3; at Southampton, 5; at Naseby, _ib._; earliest attempt at
verse, 5-9; visits Salisbury, 10; and Bemerton, _ib._; at Tenby, 11, 46,
69, 70; his Paradise, a collection of English verse, 12; reads
Shakespeare's Sonnets, 14; adopts a vegetable diet, 22; living in London,
24; sees Shakespeare's Hamlet, 24, 28; Henry VIII., 24; Macbeth, 25, 31;
with Spedding at Cambridge, 28; living at Wherstead Lodge, _ib._; his
friendships like loves, 30; reading The Merry Wives of Windsor, _ib._;
and the Spectator, _ib._; with Spedding and Tennyson at Mirehouse, 33;
ii. 305, 310, 315; at Ambleside, i. 33; his father removes to Boulge, 38,
39; reading Aristophanes, 44, 47; his cottage at Boulge, 47, 48; reading
Plutarch's Lives, _ib._, and Lyell's Geology, _ib._; his marriage with
Miss Barton, 50 _note_; stays in Bedfordshire, 52, 61, 67; at Lowestoft
with W. Browne, 55; reading Pindar, 56; Tacitus, 60; Homer, 64; at his
uncle Peter Purcell's at Halverstown, 62; reads Burnet, 68; Herodotus,
71; regrets his want of scholarship, _ib._; grows bald, _ib._; makes Tar
water, 72; reads Newman's sermons, 73; buys a picture by Constable, 76;
stays at Edgeworthstown, 88; at Naseby, 90; reads Livy, 97; invited to
lecture at Ipswich, 97, 99; his opinion of his own verses, 105; first
meets Carlyle, 125; his excavations at Naseby, and correspondence with
Carlyle, 126, etc.; reads Virgil's Georgics, 134; in Ireland, 141-143;
his cottage at Boulge, 150; visits Carlyle, 159, 169; his life at Boulge,
164, 176, 180; visits W. B. Donne, 173; makes an abstract of the Old
Curiosity Shop for children, 174; at Leamington, 175; at Cambridge, 210;
reads Thucydides, 214, 228, 233, 248; his interview with William Squire,
216-220; at Exeter, 220; reads Homer, 228; contributes notes to Selden's
Table Talk, 231; his father's death, 278; translations from Calderon,
281; studies Persian, 282, 285, 286; at Farlingay, 287, 294; at Bath,
287; at Oxford, 290; Carlyle stays with him at Farlingay, 295; translates
Jami's Salaman and Absal, 304, 306; reading Hafiz, 311; and Attar's
Mantic uttair, i. 311; which he translates, 312, 313, etc.; ii. 44, 100;
reading AEschylus, i. 324, 325; thinks of translating the Trilogy, 330;
at Gorlestone, 331; reading Omar Khayyam, 332, 335; his epitome of
Attar's Mantic uttair, 342, 348; his translations from Omar Khayyam
offered to Fraser's Magazine, 345, 348; ii. 2, 29; translates Calderon's
Mighty Magician, i. 346; ii. 60; and Vida es Sueno, i. 347; ii. 5, 61,
62; collects a Vocabulary of rustic English, i. 347; prints his
translation of Omar, ii. 2, 4, 29; stays at Aldeburgh, 16; gives a
fragment of Tennyson's MS. to Thompson, 25; who returns it, 28; his new
boat, 37, 40, 45; at Merton with George Crabbe, 39; at Ely, _ib._; goes
to Holland, 42; reads Dante and Homer, 45, 48; the sea brings up his
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