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CELEBRATED FRIENDSHIPS

BY

MRS. THOMSON

AUTHOR OF "MEMOIRS OF THE DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH"

CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY AND SIR FULKE GREVIL.

Warwick Castle saved by the Prudence of Turchilo.

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George Plantagenet,
Duke of Clarence. Story of true Love. - Sir Philip Sidney. - Penshurst
not so grand as Warwick. — Sir Henry Sidney the Model of a Gentleman.——
Lady Mary Sidney. -Infancy of her son Philip. - Oxford Career of the
two Friends. — Passion of young Men for Travelling. - Sidney present at
the Massacre of St. Bartholomew.- His Friendship with Languet.- Arrives
Home, and is the Delight of the Court. - Character of the French. - Philip
Sidney's Letter to the Queen. His great Influence with Elizabeth.- Blest
Eliza. - Her Fondness for Shows. The French Ambassadors come over.-
Fulke Greville. His Prowess and that of Philip. - Dispute with the Earl
of Oxford. — Difficulties of Mr. Henry Sidney. — Letter from Sir Philip to
his Father. He retires to Wilton. The Production of the "Arcadia."
It has its Enemies. Philip's Advice to his Brother. His Letters to
Molyneux. His Dress in the famous Tournament. Languet's Advice to
him to Marry. - Frances Walsingham. - Her Merits.
Sir H. Sidney
writes to Sir F. Walsingham. - Describes the Change in his Wife.-
Petition of John Wickerston. Betrothals and Marriage Contracts.
Sidney refuses to leave England. - Career of Sir Fulke Grevil.Sidney's
foreign Services.-Death of Sir Henry Sidney. - Battle of Zutphen costs
Sir Philip his Life. Hope supports him. He is Calm. He makes his
Will. His Death. - Grief felt for his Loss.-Sir Fulke Grevil's Loyalty.

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-Instance of Oppression in King James I.-Sir Fulke a Patron of

Learning. Quarrels with Sir Hatton Fermor. Sir Fulke murdered by

Heywood. His Death, Funeral, and Epitaph. - Died in Celibacy.

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SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE AND CHARLES LAMB.

Charles Lamb and Samuel Taylor Coleridge considered as Friends. -

Joseph Cottle. The Colonisation Scheme. - Southey in Cottle's Shop. -

Coleridge's Parentage. Lovell and Burnet. Coleridge's Schemes.

Advised to publish his Poems. The Friends give up Susquehanna.

Captain Blake's Sword. The Poets fall in Love. - Lamb's desolate State.

- He writes a Volume of Poems. - Superiority of Lamb to Coleridge in

moral Tone. Lamb's Lines on his lost Mistress. Coleridge's Indifference

to his Promises. - His wonderful Eloquence. - The Author of "Thalaba."

- Seeing the Iron Foundry.- Letter from Coleridge to Cottle.- Coleridge's

Helplessness in every-day Concerns. — Coleridge's Marriage. The Results

of "Marrying on Poetry." — Dedication of his Poems to his Brother George.

-Tragic Events in the Family of Charles Lamb. - His Despair. - His

Devotion to his Sister. - Friends, and their Kindness. - Description by

Charles Lamb of the fatal Evening. — Mary in an Asylum. — Her Brothers.

Coleridge's Sorrow for his Friend. — Experience “like the Stern-lamps

of a Ship." - Lamb's Friend Lloyd becomes Insane. Coleridge at Stowey

in Somersetshire. Lamb's "Recollections of Christ's Hospital." Inten-

tions of Edward VI. the Founder.-Looks back to Jesus College, Cambridge.

-- Delightful Visit to Stowey. Coleridge goes to Keswick. Assisted by

Wedgwood. Lamb's Trials. — Literary Society at his House. — Holland

House. The Dinners there.- Charles Lamb's Coterie. — Hazlitt.

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- Miss Stephens.— Liston.— Dibdin's Description of Coleridge's Conversa-

tion. Basil Montagu. His humane Efforts. - London, before his Time,

"The City of the Gallows." Coleridge placed under the Care of Mr.

Gillman. — Horrors suffered from taking Laudanum. - Charles Lamb and

Miss Isola. Charles Lamb and his sister Mary. - The Lime Tree Bower.

— Mary survives him. — His Death. —Lines on the Brother and Sister. 51

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