My Life as an Author by Martin Farquhar Tupper
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CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Page 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 |
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