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Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
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Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
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LITERARY REMINISCENCES

AND

MEMOIRS

OF

THOMAS CAMPBELL

AUTHOR OF “THE PLEASURES OF HOPE,”
&c. &c.




BY

CYRUS REDDING,

AUTHOR OF “FIFTY YEARS’ RECOLLECTIONS, LITERARY
AND PERSONAL,” &c.



IN TWO VOLUMES
VOL. II.





LONDON:
CHARLES J. SKEET, PUBLISHER,
10 KING WILLIAM STREET.
CHARING CROSS.
1860.

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.


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CHAPTER I.
Campbell's conduct respecting Byron's biography.—Suggestions regarding a University in London.—Letter to Mr. Brougham.—Meeting at the London Tavern.—Visit to Berlin
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CHAPTER II.
Campbell's views respecting the system of education to be adopted at the London University.—Madame de Stael.—Letter from Charles Nodier.—The poet on horseback.—Anonymous epistle
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CHAPTER III.
Pope's poetry.—Remark of Wolcot about Pope.—Poetical schoolmaster.—Thomas Pringle and the Cape government.—Valedictory stanzas to J. P. Kemble.—The word Sepulchre in Hohenlinden.—Poetical imagery.—The Poet's notice of Godwin.—Verse of Raleigh.—Mrs. Hemans.—Anecdotes of the poet
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CHAPTER IV.
The Chevalier Pecchio.—Greece and its hopes.—Field flowers and note.—Remarks on Bowles's
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letter to Roscoe.—Mrs. Baillie's “Martyr.”—Lord Holland and Fox.—State of Ireland in 1826.—The poet's politics.—Economical ideas regarding Ireland.—His sensitiveness on paying visits.—The Celtic and Gothic races.—The Lord Rectorship of Glasgow.—Inaugural address and anecdote.—Second election
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CHAPTER V.
Duties of the Lord Rector.—Detention of the poet at Glasgow.—Letters to the students.— Complaint of Northcote against Hazlitt—Real nature of the dispute.—Vanity of the painter.—Correspondence on the subject.—Death of the poet's friends.—Visit of Pringle to the poet.—Piron's Epigram.—The Rev. Edward Irving and Banim

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CHAPTER VI.
The poet indisposed.—Commencement of the illness of Mrs. Campbell.—First appearance of the poet's collected works.—Portraits of the author.—The increasing illness and death of Mrs. Campbell.—The poet's bearing on that occasion.—Presents of his poems to friends.—His rejected works.—The “Dirge of Wallace” and his “Evening Hymn.” Doubtful production
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CHAPTER VII.
Remarks respecting Hazlitt and Scott.—Later contributors to the magazine.—Effect of his domestic bereavement on the poet's mode of living.—University prizes.—Third election of Campbell to the Lord Rectorship.—Sir Walter Scott's good feeling.
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CHAPTER VIII.
Inaugural address.—Political feelings of the poet.—Death of the poet's friend, Dugald Stewart.—Banim's verses.—Lord Dillon and the symposium.—Characteristic abstractions.—Dinner parties.—Cavaliers and Roundheads.—Prizes distributed at Glasgow.—A breakfast in Seymour Street.—The Bishop of Toronto.—Sir Robert Peel
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CHAPTER IX.
Contributions of the poet, 1829.—Catholic emancipation.—Deaths of old friends.—Barry St. Leger.—Remarks on Flaxman's lectures.—Dulwich project and disappointment.—Mackintosh and Lawrence.—Appearance of Moore's Byron.—Letter to Moore regarding Byron.—Defence of Lord Byron.—Remarks on the defence.—Removal to Scotland Yard.—Rooted dislike of the poet to honorary titles.—Madame Roland's philosophy
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CHAPTER X.
Remarks on Shakspeare's Sonnets.—Observations on the French poets.—The poet abandons his editorship.—Conduct on his retirement.—Defence of the classics.—Personal appearance.—List of his contributions.—Character of reviews.—The poet's critique on Byron's “Werner.”—Polish Society
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CHAPTER XI.
Literary Union Club.—Letter of “Omnipresence Montgomery” to Campbell.—Memoir of Mackintosh.—“Metropolitan” undertaken.—Leaves his house in Scotland Yard.—Visits Hastings.—Anecdote of his kind-heartedness.—Campbell's con-
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tributions to the “Metropolitan.”—The Magazine purchased by Captain Marryat.—Life of Mrs. Siddons.—The Association of the Friends of Poland
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CHAPTER XII.
The poet visits Algiers.—Publishes his “Letters from the South.”—His despondency.—Requests the author to write his Life.—Letter to the author.—Departure for Boulogne.—Death, and burial in Westminster Abbey
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CHAPTER XIII.
Retrospect of the poet's later days.—Horner on his marriage.—Convivial manners.—His earlier and later poetry.—Corrections in “Hohenlinden.”—His Odes.—Despair of human progress.—Anecdotes.—Remarks
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