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Of literary characters, and the lovers of literature and art

CHAPTER II.

Of the adversaries of literary men among themselves.-Matter-

of-fact men, and men of wit.-The political economists.—

Of those who abandon their studies.-Men in office.-The

Arbiters of public opinion.-Those who treat the pursuits

literature with levity

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CHAPTER III.

Of artists, in the history of men of literary genius.-Their

habits and pursuits analogous.-The nature of their genius

is similar in their distinct works. Shown by their parallel

eras, and by a common end pursued by both

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CHAPTER IV.

Of Natural Genius.-Minds constitutionally different cannot

have an equal aptitude.-Genius not the result of habit and

education. Originates in peculiar qualities of the mind.—

The predisposition of genius.-A substitution for the white

paper of Locke

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CHAPTER V.

Youth of genius.-Its first impulses may be illustrated by its sub-

sequent actions.-Parents have another association of the

man of genius than we.-Of genius, its first habits.-Its me-

lancholy. Its reveries.-Its' love of solitude.-Its disposi-

tion to repose. Of a youth distinguished by his equals.—

Feebleness of its first attempts.—Of genius not discoverable

even in manhood.-The education of the youth may not be

that of his genius.-An unsettled impulse, querulous till it

finds its true occupation.-With some, curiosity as intense a

faculty as invention.-What the youth first applies to is com-

monly his delight afterwards.-Facts of the decisive charac-

ter of genius

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CHAPTER VI.

The first studies.-The self-educated are marked by stubborn

peculiarities. Their errors.—Their improvement from the

neglect or contempt they incur.-The history of self-educa-

tion in Moses Mendelssohn.-Friends usually prejudicial in

the youth of genius.-A remarkable interview between Pe-

trarch in his first studies, and his literary adviser.-Exhor-

tation

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CHAPTER VII.

Of the irritability of genius.-Genius in society often in a state of

suffering.-Equality of temper more prevalent among men

of letters-Of the occupation of making a great name.-

Anxieties of the most successful.-Of the inventors.-Wri-

ters of learning.-Writers of taste.-Artists

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CHAPTER VIII.

The spirit of literature and the spirit of society.-The inventors.

-Society offers seduction and not reward to men of genius.

-The notions of persons of fashion of men of genius.—The

habitudes of the man of genius distinct from those of the

man of society.-Study, meditation, and enthusiasm, the

progress of genius.-The disagreement between the men of

the world and the literary character

CHAPTER IX.

Conversations of men of genius.-Their deficient agreeableness

may result from qualities which conduce to their greatness.

-Slow-minded men not the dullest.-The conversationists

not the ablest writers.-Their true excellence in conversa-

tion consists of associations with their pursuits

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CHAPTER X.

Literary solitude.-Its necessity.-Its pleasures.-Of visiters by

profession. Its inconveniences

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CHAPTER XI.

The meditations of genius.-A work on the art of meditation

not yet produced.-Predisposing the mind.-Imagination

awakens imagination. - Generating feelings by music.-

Slight habits. Darkness and Silence, by suspending the

exercise of our senses, increase the vivacity of our concep

tions. The arts of memory.-Memory the foundation of