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- Tycho Brahe's Nose
- Gibbon's House At Lausanne
- Captain Morris's Songs
- Lord Byron's Vanity
- Sheridan's Wit
- Poetry Of The Sea
- Dr Chalmers's Industry
- Dangerous Fools
- Leigh Hunt And Thomas Carlyle
- Lord Elibank And Dr Johnson
- Origin Of Bottled Ale
- The Blue-stocking Club
- Chances For The Drama
- Miss Burney's Evelina
- Praise Of Ale
- Ireland's Shakspeare Forgeries
- Families Of Literary Men

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- Chatterton's Profit And Loss Reckoning
- Relics Of The Boar's Head Tavern Eastcheap
- Ludicrous Estimate Of Mr Canning
- Sale The Translator Of The Koran
- Jerrold's Rebuke To A Rude Intruder
- Literary Coffee-houses In The Last Century
- Washington Irving And Wilkie In The Alhambra
- Origin Of The Beggar's Opera
- A Composition With Conscience
- Origin Of Cowper's John Gilpin
- Lord Byron And My Grandmother's Review
- Writing Up The Times Newspaper
- Voltaire And Ferney
- Coleridge An Unitarian Preacher
- Every-day Life Of James Smith
- An Odd Present To Shenstone
- Thomson's Recitations

Curran's Imagination

"Curran!" (says Lord Byron) "Curran's the man who struck me most. Such
imagination!--there never was anything like it that I ever heard of.
His published life--his published speeches, give you no idea of the
man--none at all. He was a machine of imagination, as some one said
that Prior was an epigrammatic machine." Upon another occasion, Byron
said, "the riches of Curran's Irish imagination were exhaustless. I have
heard that man speak more poetry than I have ever seen written--though I
saw him seldom, and but occasionally. I saw him presented to Madame de
Stael, at Mackintosh's--it was the grand confluence between the Rhone
and the Saone; they were both so d----d ugly, that I could not help
wondering how the best intellects of France and Ireland could have taken
up respectively such residences."

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