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قراءة كتاب My Life as an Author
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Martin Tupper's Autobiography
MY LIFE
AS AN AUTHOR
BY
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER
D.C.L. F.R.S.
Viri, vivo, vivam.
LONDON:
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON
CROWN BUILDINGS, 188 FLEET STREET, E.C.
1886
[All rights reserved]
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I. | |
| Preliminary—Sonnet—Public Life, not Private—Benjamin Franklin—Samples from Books—Self-judgment | 1-6 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| Infancy and Schooldays—Parentage—Germany and Guernsey, America and Canada—Winsor's Patent Gaslights—King George III.'s Blessing—My Father's Dream—Second Sight—Heredity—First School at Brentford—Next at Brook Green—Third Charterhouse—Dr. Russell—Parson Schoolmasters—Coins and Hoops—Andrew Irvine—Cockshies—Harpies at the Feast—Dr. Stocker—Holt's—M'Neile—Harold Browne | 7-25 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| Young Authorship in Verse and Prose—Melite—Rough Rhymes—Carthage—Umbrella Sapphics—Height of Honesty—Holkar Hall—Melrose Abbey—Heidelberg—Pterodactyles—The Buckstone—Scotch Journal—Vitrified Forts—Ireland—Kingston Caverns—Cornish Letter and Sketches—Penzance—The Logan—Land's End—St. Michael's Mount—Rapid Travel | 26-51 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| College Days—Voice from the Cloister—Gladstone—Aristotle Class—Giants in those Days—Studentship—A Reading-Man—College Larks—D.C.L.—Dr. Bliss | 52-61 |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| Failure as to Orders—Stammering—Blewbury Vicarage—Lincoln's Inn—Lewin's Critique—Brodie's Cacography—Inkpen's Entomology—Duke of Wellington—Walters'—Letter as to India—Barrister and Benedict—A Hoax—Theodore Hook—Old Lady Cork | 62-71 |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| Stammering—Man's Privilege of Speech—Chess Playing—Anecdotes—Angling—Fishing Sonnets | 72-78 |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| Oxford Prize Poems—Verses in the Schools—Parodies—Rhyme and Rhythm—Scriptural Science—Classic Parallels | 79-85 |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| Sundry Providences—The Small Semisuicide—A Concussion—Horse Accidents—Perils by Land and Sea—Lydstep Cavern | 86-89 |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| Yet more Escapes—White Cross Guild—Evils and Temptations—Potipheras—Heresies—Creeds | 90-94 |
| CHAPTER X. | |
| Fads and Fancies—Vegetarian—Teetotalism—The Anglo-Saxon—Opera Colonnade—Moderation—America Revisited—Poem on Temperance and Total Abstinence—Gough—Dr. Hodgkin—A Martyr—Clerical Letter on Pharisaism | 95-104 |
| CHAPTER XI. | |
| Sacra Poesis—Geraldine—Critiques—John and Tom Hughes—Donnington Priory—Little Providences | 105-110 |
| CHAPTER XII. | |
| Origin of "Proverbial Philosophy"—M'Neile and Stebbing—N. P. Willis—Harrison Ainsworth—Hatchard's—Moxon's—Cassell's—A Prophecy—My Father's Letter and Gift—Sixty Times—Politeuphuia—Parallels—Mr. Orton's Volume—American Laudations, and English—As to per contra—Copyright Question—Wedding Gifts—An Elizabethan Author—Seldom Seen, and Few Adventures | 111-133 |
| CHAPTER XIII. | |
| A Modern Pyramid—The Vision—A Fearful Flight—Imagination—The Crystal Cubes and Mud Bricks—Sonnets and Sonneteering—Mackay and Shakespeare's | 134-144 |
| CHAPTER XIV. | |
| An Author's Mind—Prefatory Ramble—Addled Eggs—The Mental Cathedral—Probabilities—Job's Trials | 145-152 |
| CHAPTER XV. | |
| The Crock of Gold—Dramatised in Boston and London—Origin of the Story—The Twins—Heart: drawn from Living Models—Critiques from Ollier and St. John | 153-158 |
| CHAPTER XVI. | |
| Æsop Smith—Mudie's—Rabelaisian Hints—The Early Gallop—Alfred, or Albert Order—Fables | 159-162 |