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JOSEPH WARTON.-P. 17. When born? In whose reign chiefly flourished? Where educated? Profession? First publication? Character of his odes? What Latin classic translate? What is said of it? What periodical did he assist in? To what post chosen in 1755? What next did he publish? What is its character? What edit in 1797 ? For what is he in general distinguished? When did he die ?

HESTER CHAPONE.-P. 25. Maiden name? With whom did she early correspond? With what literary characters become acquainted? What first publish? When married? Result? What did she publish in 1773? What is said of it? What in 1775? When did she die?

ELIZABETH MONTAGU.-P. 31. Whose daughter? When born? Whose society enjoy in early life? Whom marry, and when? What publish in 17697 Who have praised it? What club met at her house? Why so called? What annual entertainment did she give? When die? What are her works? Their character ?

HUGH BLAIR.-P. 36. When and where born? Where educated? What good intellectual habit did he early form? What profession enter? What lectures deliver in 1759? What dissertation publish in 1763? What else did he publish? When die? What of his sermons?

For what most now known? What is said of them?

JAMES BEATTIE.-P. 43. Where born and educated? What profession did he enter? His first publication? What publish in 1770 ? Its aim? What is his celebrated poem? When published? How received? What else did he publish? On what does his fame chiefly rest? His character ?

WILLIAM PALEY.-P. 54.

How characterized? Where born? Where educated? What college anecdote told of him? What did he publish in 1785? What works subsequently? When did he die? What is said of his character? What as a writer? What of his works? Which the most ingenious and original of them? What is its object? What the most exceptionable of his works? Why? What anecdotes told of him when at the university?

ELIZABETH CARTER.-P. 63. When born? What of her early years? What attainments did she make before her twenty-first year? What higher attainments? Her first appearance in print? What good early habit? (note.) What did Dr. Johnson say of her? Repeat the complimentary lines in the "Gentleman's Magazine." What write in 1746? What Greek author translate? How did Johnson praise her scholarship? What of her poems? What

rule did she make in her social intercourse ? What do you think of it? Her chief prose compositions? When did she die?

HENRY KIRKE WHITE.-P. 71. Repeat the lines of Byron. When born His early propensities? His early tasks? How did he commence his studies? What prize gain? When appeared a volume of his poems? How treated by the critics? Who encouraged him? What change took place in his character ? How effected? Consequence of his severe application to study? How aided What honors gain? At what exWhat of his Opinion of

pense? When die ? character? His poems? Sir Egerton Brydges ?

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he chiefly known? How published? For what profession did he prepare ? What else did he publish? Health? Whither go? Result? When die ? Character of his poetry? Opinion of the "Quarterly Review ?"

GRANVILLE SHARP.-P. 112. His early life? Controversies? What attainments in consequence ? What office hold? What circumstance gave a new direction to his life? To what decision of the courts did this finally lead? With whom correspond? What instance of great conscientiousness? What works did he publish? What kindred object of philanthropy now engaged him? What incident aroused the nation to a sense of the wickedness of the slavetrade? What other good work did chairman? When did he die? What he originate? Of what society first of his character? Works? Inscrip

tion on his monument in Westminster Abbey ?

HERBERT KNOWLES.-P. 122. Where born? What of his charac

ter? Repeat the "Lines written in the Churchyard."

THOMAS BROWN.-P. 124.

educated? How distinguished? What For what distinguished? Where first publish? What profession study? What next publish? What new field enter ? Poems ? His great work, what? When die? Character ?

ANNE HUNTER.-P. 134. Whose daughter? Wife? In what excel? What of her poetry?

VICESIMUS KNOX.-P. 136.

When born? Where educated? What write? What profession enter ? How long hold the post? By whom succeeded? His next publication ? What in 1788? What next? When die ? Character ?

CHARLES WOLFE.-P. 144. When born? Youth? Where educated? What prize obtain Profession? Where settled? At what age die ?

ROBERT BLOOMFIELD.-P. 152.

By what work known? Early life? How and where apprenticed? Occupation ? What led to his earliest attempts at poetry? Where retire? Business? Who aided him? What publish? How received? When die ? Best poems? Who has praised them ? "Farmer's Boy," how divided?

THOMAS ERSKINE.-P. 159. Whose son ? Where educated? Influence of his mother? When called to the bar? First cause? Success? How appear in 1781? In what great cause did he exert his talents? Anecdote (note.) In what engage in 1789 ? What is said of it? Most arduous effort? How opposed? Result? On what side in politics? What pamphlet publish? To what post elevated Influence upon him? Where and when die ? What of his eloquence ?

GEORGE GORDON BYRON.-P. 167. What of his character? Where educated? How apply himself? His first published work? Where reviewed? How ? Influence of it? What publish in 1812? How received? What followed ? Whom marry? Result? On whom did society lay the blame? How did he bear it? What works compose? Conduct abroad? In what cause engage? Where and when die? racter of his poetry?

What work published after his death?
What of his poetry? Hymns ?

ROBERT POLLOK.-P. 200.

What publish in 18277 What was thought of it? What of his early age? Where educated? Profession? Health? When die ?. With whom compared? How? What of "The Course of Time ?"

JONATHAN DYMOND.-P. 207. When born? To what society belong? How employed in early life? Early disposition? Whom marry? What first publish? What of it? His next work? Its character ? His health? How did he bear his illness? When die? What of his character ? What of his "Essays on Morality ""

WILLIAM HAZLITT.-P. 217.

For what distinguished? First employment? First publications? What subsequently? His most elaborate work? When die? What of his writings?

ROBERT HALL.-P. 226.

Whose son? Early propensities? Where educated? What friendships form? His eloquence? Where settled? How afflicted? Effects? Where settled when restored? To what periodical contribute? What did he advocate in his church? Where remove in 1826 ? Habits of study? Cha- When die? Character as a preacher ? Style? Per

ANNA LÆTITIA BARBAULD.-P. 178. Whose daughter? What of her childhood? Who conducted her education? Where reside? What first publish? How received? Whom marry? In what did her husband engage? What did she next publish? Where go? Subsequent publications? What trials experience? When die ? Character of her writings?

Mental endowments ?
sonal character ?

HENRY MACKENZIE.-P. 238. Where and when born? Where educated? First work? Of what periodicals the editor? What poet was he the first to bring into notice? Of his private life? Character of his writings? When die ?

WALTER SCOTT.-P. 250. Where and when born? Youthful employments ? Where educated ? What of his early reading? profession did he study? marry? First publication? quit his profession ?

REGINALD HEBER.-P. 192. Whose son? Youth? Where educated? What prize gain? What publish? What post of honor and usefulness receive in 1822 ↑ When What publish in 1808 ?

What Whom

When Remarks ? Success?

go? How qualified? When die? What publications followed? What

His

in 1814? Its popularity? What suc- | Whither travel, and with whom? Inceeded? What object did he ac- fluence? In what great cause engage complish? What partnership form? in 1787? His first speech? What Consequences? What did he under- publish in 1797? Success ? What take? Result? Compared with witness in 1807? When die ? Lord whom, and how? (note.) Sickness? Brougham's opinion of him? Efforts to regain his health? When eloquence? return home?. When die ? What of his poetry? Moral tone? Its general subjects? Remark of Dr. Arnold? His prose works? Character of them?

CHARLES BUTLER.-P. 267. When born? Family? Where educated? His publications? General subject of his writings? By what most known?

GEORGE CRABBE.-P. 272. When born? Early life? First publications? What distinguished statesman aided him? First published poems after? His profession? Last publication? When die ? What of his writings? Characteristics?

JAMES MACKINTOSH.-P. 284.

How distinguished? When born? Early habits and education? Early friend? Profession? To what did he chiefly give his attention? When go to London? What great political event at this time? What distinguished work appeared then? Who replied to it? Title of Mackintosh's work ? When called to the bar? Course of lectures? In what great cause engaged? What office receive Benefits from it? What write? General character ?

HANNAH MORE.-P. 295. Whose daughter? Where born? Where settle? What enterprise engage in Her first literary efforts? Succeeding publications? Change of opinions? Whither retire? Publications? Traits? Success? What publish in 17997 What afterwards? Her last publications? When die Influence of her writings? Poetry? Prose ?

WILLIAM WILBERFORCE.-P. 317. When born? Early training? Remarkable indication? Where educated? When enter Parliament ?

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE.-P. 323. How styled? When born? Where educated? His attainments? With whom become intimate? What Utopian project? To whom married Where settle? In what engage? How long last? Where travel and study? Where settle on his return ? His bad habit? Its effects? Where go for his health? When return ? After life? Defect in his character ? Under whose care placed? His chief prose works and poetry? When die? His influence ? What of his prose? Of his poetry? Conversation? Question to Lamb and reply?

EDWARD IRVING.-P. 337. Where born? Where educated? Where settled? Power as a preacher ? Appearance? Popularity? Of what accused? When die? Testimony of Dr. Chalmers ? His publications?

CHARLES LAMB.-P. 342.

For what distinguished? When and where born? Where educated? How employed? To whom did he devote his attention almost exclusively? First appearance as an author? What else publish? Most celebrated work? What is said of it? What else publish What in conjunction with his sister? When die? Rank as a poet? Prose? Style?

FELICIA HEMANS.-P. 356. Maiden name? When born? Early life? First publication? What in 1812? To whom married? Result ? Whither retreat? How there employed? What prize obtain in 1819 ? What in 1821? What publish in 1823 What subsequently? Whom visit in 1829? What publish in 1830 ? Where afterwards reside? Health ? When die? Jeffrey's opinion of her poetry? (note.) General character of her writings ?

NATHAN DRAKE.-P. 367. Where and when born? Where educated? Where settled as a physician? How long? When die? What of him as a physician? What are his publications? Influence on the mind? What of his general cha

racter ?

and influence? As a scholar? As a historian? As a schoolmaster? As a theologian? As a man? Give the account from his journal on his last day.

ROBERT SOUTHEY.-P. 429. Where born? Where educated? To what opinions inclined? DescripSIR EGERTON BRYDGES.-P. 381. tion by Cottle? In what scheme How distinguished? When born? interested? To whom married? Where educated? To what devote Whither journey? What publish ? his time? What profession enter? Where settle on his return? What Where reside? How embarrassed? publish in 1805? Subsequent pubWhat claim prefer? Influence? lications? To what review largely When enter Parliament ? Where contribute? What of his latter years? afterwards reside? When die? For When die? Opinion of Coleridge? what are we indebted to him? To Of Professor Wilson ? what did he chiefly devote his attention? His first publications? What commence in 1805? His subsequent publications? What has been remarked of him as a writer? What of his "Autobiography ?" (note.)

ARCHIBALD ALISON.-P. 396. Whose son? Where educated? Profession? What publish in 17907 What in 1814? When and where die ?

LÆTITIA ELIZABETH MACLEAN.-P. 402.

Where and when born? State of her family in her early life? Her first productions? Their multiplicity? To whom married, and when? Her death? What of her genius ?

LANT CARPENTER.-P. 410. Where educated ? Profession? When die? For what distinguished What did he publish? For what most known?

JOHN IRELAND.-P. 415. When born? Station? For what review write? For what work most known? What of it? What of his life? Of his benevolence? When die ?

JOHN FOSTER.-P. 443.
When born? Where educated?
First publication? Its character?
To what review contribute?
general character ?

His

THOMAS CAMPBELL.-P. 449. When born? Where educated? First publication? Its reception ? Whither travel? To whom married? What receive in 1805? Subsequent publications? What of his "Specimens of British Poets ?" (note.) What magazine edit? To what post elected in 1827? With what other magazine connected? Subsequent publications? Whither go for his health? When die? What of him as a poet?

THOMAS MITCHELL.-P. 458. Whose son? Where educated? For what eminently distinguished? What articles contribute to the "Quarterly ?" What of his scholarship?

THOMAS HOOD.-P. 462.

What of his writings? Early employment? What post occupy tin 1821 ? For what magazine write? What of his life? When die? What of his works?

THOMAS ARNOLD.-P. 420. SYDNEY SMITH.-P. 473. Where and when born? Where When and where born? Where educated? How early distinguished? educated? With what did he early What profession enter? To what become connected? Give the subdistinguished post elected? When stance of his account of it. How die? What of his general character occupied after his removal to Lon

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