The bundle of traits somewhat marking human nature, here gathered together, was originally privately printed and distributed, possibly for the reason that when we have found a story pointedly illustrating any historic or notable character, it often seems worth relating; and we are loath to bury forever even a twice-told tale, but rather venture to give it out where it may offer, to our friends at least, that transient amusement we have already tasted. It may be true that in the exposures here occasionally made of the illustrious dead, something of the reproach will have been incurred which Hamlet cast upon the jolly grave-digger : “ Has this fellow no feeling of his business ? he sings at grave-making!” It will be seen, however, that no graves have been made, nor aught set down in malice; but may we not smile when only self-made records are upturned and merely brought to light? The most fastidious among the greatest names here recorded, if they could speak, would blush, and admit that they have only been placed in a “goodlie companie ” of some of the world's noted celebrities. CONTENTS. . ADAMS, JOAN 64 53 Anacreon. 8 Churchill, John (Duke of Marl- Augustus, Caius Octavius Cæsar 19 Cicero . BACON, FRANCIS 81 40 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 138 Beaufort, Cardinal 60 56 117 154 20 Brougham, Henry (Lord) 145 Danton, George Jacques . 52 Browne, Sir Thomas 3 Bulwer-Lytton, Edward 171 Dickens, Charles 177 114 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield). 172 Burns, Robert 94 62 Butler, Frances Ann Kemble 175 Byron, Lord (George Gordon ELIZABETH, QUEEN Noel) 37 151 124 155 103 71 Francis, Sir Philip (Jupius) 123 . . PAGE George IV. 131 Mirabeau, Gabriel Honoré 118 Montaigne, Michel Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 73 Goldsmith, Oliver . 111 NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. 64 Napoleon, Louis Nelson, Lord. 38 Ney, Marshal 150 136 Houghton, Lord 173 Petrarch 61 Phædrus Hunt, James Henry Leigh Pinkney, William 157 JEFFERSON, THOMAS 24 Pliny the Younger . 170 Pope, Alexander 104 Porson, Richard 87 Junius (Sir Philip Francis). 123 Richelieu Lamartine, Alphonse de 60 Rousseau, Jean Jacques 93 Ruskin, John 51 SALLUST 41 Savage, Richard 44 Saxe, John G. MACAULAY, THOMAS BABING Shakspeare, William 164 Shaw, Henry W.(Josh Billings) . . . |
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