Category: Biographies
In a paper which I was privileged to read before this honourable Society three years ago as to “New Lights on Chatterton,” I mentioned incidentally that the researches of which that paper was the outcome had arisen out of the examination by me of a large bundle of papers that...
Bishop Percy prints the whole of this letter, except that he delicately bowdlerised one or two phrases in it, and from the Percy version it has reappeared in every one of the su...
1. Part 1In a paper which I was privileged to read before this honourable Society three years ago as to “New Lights on Chatterton,” I mentioned incidentally that the researches of which...
3. Part 3Sir James Prior was ignorant of the existence of this Memorandum, when preparing his _Life of Goldsmith_ (Murray, 1837): but with his praiseworthy carefulness, he set about whil...
4. Part 4Henry, the son, Prior describes as “distinguished for spirit, intelligence and personal beauty.... A commission being obtained for him in the army, he quitted Ireland for North...
5. Part 5The original design of Bishop Percy in undertaking the _Memoir_ of his friend Goldsmith was to benefit Maurice. Then Catherine, daughter of Henry, was added as a participant in...