| CALAMITIES OF AUTHORS. |
| PREFACE | 3 |
| AUTHORS BY PROFESSION:—GUTHRIE AND AMHURST—DRAKE—SMOLLETT | 7 |
| THE CASE OF AUTHORS STATED, INCLUDING THE HISTORY OF LITERARY PROPERTY | 15 |
| THE SUFFERINGS OF AUTHORS | 22 |
| A MENDICANT AUTHOR, AND THE PATRONS OF FORMER TIMES | 25 |
| COWLEY—OF HIS MELANCHOLY | 35 |
| THE PAINS OF FASTIDIOUS EGOTISM | 42 |
| INFLUENCE OF A BAD TEMPER IN CRITICISM | 51 |
| DISAPPOINTED GENIUS TAKES A FATAL DIRECTION BY ITS ABUSE | 59 |
| THE MALADIES OF AUTHORS | 70 |
| LITERARY SCOTCHMEN | 75 |
| LABORIOUS AUTHORS | 83 |
| THE DESPAIR OF YOUNG POETS | 98 |
| THE MISERIES OF THE FIRST ENGLISH COMMENTATOR | 104 |
| THE LIFE OF AN AUTHORESS | 106 |
| THE INDISCRETION OF AN HISTORIAN—CARTE | 110 |
| LITERARY RIDICULE, ILLUSTRATED BY SOME ACCOUNT OF A LITERARY SATIRE | 114 |
| LITERARY HATRED, EXHIBITING A CONSPIRACY AGAINST AN AUTHOR | 130 |
| UNDUE SEVERITY OF CRITICISM | 139 |
| A VOLUMINOUS AUTHOR WITHOUT JUDGMENT | 146 |
| GENIUS AND ERUDITION THE VICTIMS OF IMMODERATE VANITY | 155 |
| GENIUS, THE DUPE OF ITS PASSIONS | 168 |
| LITERARY DISAPPOINTMENTS DISORDERING THE INTELLECT | 172 |
| THE REWARDS OF ORIENTAL STUDENTS | 186 |
| DANGER INCURRED BY GIVING THE RESULT OF LITERARY INQUIRIES | 193 |
| A NATIONAL WORK WHICH COULD FIND NO PATRONAGE | 200 |
| THE MISERIES OF SUCCESSFUL AUTHORS | 202 |
| THE ILLUSIONS OF WRITERS IN VERSE | 212 |
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| QUARRELS OF AUTHORS. |
| PREFACE | 229 |
| WARBURTON, AND HIS QUARRELS; INCLUDING AN ILLUSTRATION OF HIS LITERARY CHARACTER | 233 |
| POPE AND HIS MISCELLANEOUS QUARRELS | 278 |
| POPE AND CURLL; OR A NARRATIVE OF THE EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTIONS RESPECTING THE PUBLICATION OF POPE’S LETTERS | 292 |
| POPE AND CIBBER; CONTAINING A VINDICATION OF THE COMIC WRITER | 301 |
| POPE AND ADDISON | 313 |
| BOLINGBROKE AND MALLET’S POSTHUMOUS QUARREL WITH POPE | 321 |
| LINTOT’S ACCOUNT-BOOK | 328 |
| POPE’S EARLIEST SATIRE | 333 |
| THE ROYAL SOCIETY | 336 |
| SIR JOHN HILL, WITH THE ROYAL SOCIETY, FIELDING, SMART, ETC. | 362 |
| BOYLE AND BENTLEY | 377 |
| PARKER AND MARVELL | 391 |
| D’AVENANT AND A CLUB OF WITS | 403 |
| THE PAPER-WARS OF THE CIVIL WARS | 415 |
| POLITICAL CRITICISM ON LITERARY COMPOSITIONS | 423 |
| HOBBES, AND HIS QUARRELS; INCLUDING AN ILLUSTRATION OF HIS CHARACTER | 436 |
| HOBBES’S QUARRELS WITH DR. WALLIS, THE MATHEMATICIAN. | 463 |
| JONSON AND DECKER | 474 |
| CAMDEN AND BROOKE | 490 |
| MARTIN MAR-PRELATE | 501 |
| SUPPLEMENT TO MARTIN MAR-PRELATE | 523 |
| LITERARY QUARRELS FROM PERSONAL MOTIVES | 529 |
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| FOOTNOTES | 539 |
| INDEX | 541 |
