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
appetite for Greek, 49; buys Little Grange, 57; sends his translation of
the Mighty Magician to Trench, 62; and of Vida es Sueno to Archdeacon
Allen, 63; proposes a Selection from Crabbe, 67; carries Sophocles to sea
with him, 78, 79, 82, 83, 85; makes his will, 80; does not care for
Horace, 82, 83; reads Euripides, 86, 87; The Woman in White, 90, 95; his
Herring-lugger, 90, 94, 101, 103, 109; reads Don Quixote, 94, 95, 97,
170; and Boccaccio, 95, 97; his Lugger Captain, 94, 101, 103, 106, 107,
110, 113-116, 213; his Sea Words and Phrases, 116; proposes to adapt the
music of Fidelio to Tennyson's King Arthur, 119; his acquaintance with
Spanish, 121; gives up his yacht, The Scandal, 126; reads Scott, 128;
cannot read George Eliot, 159, 190; goes to Naseby about the monument,
160; reports his failure to Carlyle, 165; goes to Abbotsford, 172, 194;
makes the acquaintance of Madame de Sevigne, 184, 185; begins to 'smell
the ground,' 185; sends the Agamemnon and two Calderon plays to Professor
Norton, 186, 187; death of his old boatman, 217; reads Munro's Lucretius,
_ib._; Carlyle's Cromwell, 229, 230; at Dunwich, 255; his Readings from
Crabbe, 264, 266; his Half Hours with the Worst Authors, 280; sends his
Readings from Crabbe to Trench, 284; does not care for modern poetry,
288; his Quarter-deck, 293; is troubled with pains about the heart, 296;
sends Professor Norton Part II. of OEdipus, 301; has Carlyle's Meerschaum
as a relic, 303; spends two days at Cambridge, 316; receives the Calderon
medal, 319; reads the Fortunes of Nigel, 321; at Aldeburgh, 332; reads
Carlyle's Biography, 332, 334, 339; meets Professor Fawcett, 333, 336;
his last letter, 346; dies at Merton, 348; and is buried at Boulge, _ib._
FitzGerald (Isabella), FitzGerald's sister, i. 73, 161
--(John Purcell), FitzGerald's eldest brother, his wife's illness, i. 35,
48; mentioned, 50; his death, ii. 263, 267
--(Lusia or Andalusia), Mrs. De Soyres, FitzGerald's sister, i. 95; her
marriage, 174; her home in Somersetshire, 222
--(Mary Frances), FitzGerald's mother, i. I; her portrait by Sir Thomas
Lawrence, ii. 297
--(Peter), brother of Edward, ii. 66; his wife, 68; her illness, 77; and
death, 82, 85, 86
Fletcher, quoted, i. 16, 17
Ford (Richard), Gatherings in Spain, ii. 320
Forster's Life of Dickens, ii. 153, 277
Foscolo, ii. 197
Franco-German War (the), ii. 117
Freestone, the Allens' house at, i. 69-71, 337; ii. 10
French character, change in, ii. 118 _note_
French Revolution, i. 235
Frere (Mrs.), i. 58
GAINSBOROUGH Fight, i. 161, 162
--(T.), the Watering Place, i. 78, 95; picture attributed to, 94, 95;
'the Goldsmith of Painters,' 95; his method, 147; copy by Laurence of his
portrait of Dupont, ii. 56; his saying on his deathbed, _ib._
Gasker (Athanasius), Library of Useless Knowledge, i. 114
Gay (Sophie), Salons de Paris, ii. 148
Geldart (Joseph), i. 173, 243
Geldestone Hall, the residence of Fitz-Gerald's sister, Mrs. Kerrich, i.
3, etc.
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