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Image by Internet Archive Book Images Identifier: cu31924083689319 Title: Literary Celebrities : biographies of Wordsworth, Campbell, Moore, Jeffrey Year: 1887 (1880s) Authors: Macfie, Arch. sgn Craigie, John A. sgn Goban Parish School Board. fmo McLintock, Ina. fmo Wordsworth Collection Subjects: Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 Biography Publisher: London Edinburgh : Chambers Contributing Library: Cornell University Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ublic men as wellas poets. In 1795 he received a legacy of £900from Raisley Calvert, a young friend whom he hadattended in his last illness. Upon the interestof the £900/ he says, £400 being laid out in anannuity, with £200 deducted from the principal,and £100, a legacy to my sister, and £100 morewhich the Lyrical Ballads brought me, my sisterand I contrived to live seven years, nearly eight. In 1794 the step was taken by which thoseremarkable men, afterwards known in popular par-lance as the Lake Poets, were brought into con-tiguity. In that year Coleridge, Southey, RobertLovell, and George Burnet came down to Bristol, asthe most convenient port from which they couldembark for the wild banks of the Susquehanna. On William Wordsworth. 25 that remote river they were to found a PlatonicRepublic, where everything was to be in common,and from which vice and selfishness were to be forever excluded. These ardent and intellectual adven-turers had made elaborate calculations how long it Text Appearing After Image: .Robert Southby. would take them to procure the necessaries of lifeand to build their barns, and how they should spendtheir leisure in what Coleridge sang as Freedoms undivided dell,Where toil and health with mellowed love shall dwell;Far from folly, far from men,In the rude romantic glen. Yet, it is supposed, they knew nothing of theSusquehanna more than of any other Americanriver, except that its name was musical and sonorous;and far from having anything wherewith to conveythemselves and their movables across the Atlantic, 26 LITERARY CELEBRITIES. they had to borrow five pounds to make up theirlodging bill. This sum was advanced them withunalloyed pleasure by Mr Cottle, a bookseller in thetown, a benevolent and worthy man, who seemsalmost to have been located there for no otherpurpose than to introduce the three chief Lake Poetsto the world. The bubble of the Susquehanna, or, as it wascalled, Pantisocracy, was exploded by Southey,Coleridge, and Lovell all getting into the bonds ofma Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
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Image by Internet Archive Book Images Identifier: cu31924083689319 Title: Literary Celebrities : biographies of Wordsworth, Campbell, Moore, Jeffrey Year: 1887 (1880s) Authors: Macfie, Arch. sgn Craigie, John A. sgn Goban Parish School Board. fmo McLintock, Ina. fmo Wordsworth Collection Subjects: Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 Biography Publisher: London Edinburgh : Chambers Contributing Library: Cornell University Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: trank. He also took part in public meetings, con-demning the system of intimidation which was thenadopted to repress the evils of discontent; he spokeat the Fox anniversaries; he wrote for the in-struction of the discontented mechanics; and onall occasions, when oppression or slavery was to bestigmatised, or toleration and liberty promoted, hewas ready with his displays of high eloquence,intermingled with effusions of wit or fancy. We need not dwell on those party conflicts; onthe meetings in the Pantheon or county-halls; onthe dinners to Hume or Brougham (in the lattercase he disappointed his auditory, as if paralysedby the fierce invectives and tremendous power ofBrougham); or attempt to depict the glowingscenes of rivalry and contention that have hap-pily passed away. In 1816 the institution ofthe court for the trial of civil cases by jury inScotland threw a vast accession of business intothe hands of Jeffrey. He was engaged in almostevery case; his knowledge, acuteness, and subtle Text Appearing After Image: ifiiy FRANCIS JEFFREY. 259 argumentation having there an appropriate field forexertion. In the intervals of his busy toils he madeoccasional excursions to the Highlands or to theEnglish lakes. In 1811 he made a pilgrimage onfoot through the wilds of Inverness-shire, and bythe parallel roads of Glenroy. In 1815 we findhim in France, noting in his journal that Cambraiwas famed for its cambric, its league, and itsFenelon/ He had about this time taken acountry-houseâ€"his residence of Craigcrookâ€"anold turreted mansion, much patched in the wholemass of its structure, beautifully situated at thefoot of Corstorphine Hill, near Edinburgh. Hiswindows looked out upon a wooded hill: hehad a good garden, and some fields for ruraloccupation and pleasure. The charms of this oldchateau and summer retreat were enhanced bythe presence of a lady who added much to hishappiness, and who lived to mourn his loss. In1811 M. Simond, a French author, his wife, andniece, visited Edinburgh. Jeffrey saw much o Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
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Image by Internet Archive Book Images Identifier: cu31924083689319 Title: Literary Celebrities : biographies of Wordsworth, Campbell, Moore, Jeffrey Year: 1887 (1880s) Authors: Macfie, Arch. sgn Craigie, John A. sgn Goban Parish School Board. fmo McLintock, Ina. fmo Wordsworth Collection Subjects: Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 Biography Publisher: London Edinburgh : Chambers Contributing Library: Cornell University Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: Text Appearing After Image: THOMAS CAMPBELL. Ill upon inserting lives which the booksellers opposed;and this interference put a stop to a most valuablecollection of the poets by two distinguished poetsâ€"a loss never to be repaired. The men of trade inconsequence applied to a hack to bring out anedition for £300, which gave rise to the publicationof the Specimens of the British Poets thirteen yearsafterwards by Campbell alone. In 1805 a collec-tion of Irish melodies was projected by him, whichwent no further in his hands, but was afterwardsnobly carried out by Moore. In the meantimehis Annals were still unfinished, when, in October1805, it was announced that a pension of £200 perannum had been granted to him, as was generallysupposed through the interest of Lord Minto. Heimagined it was through Fox and Lord Holland;but Pitt was then in office, and Campbell was anavowed disciple of the Whigs. The minister, onthe other hand, only three weeks before his decease,put his name down as a subscriber for the poetsworks Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.