Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . , Colloquies on Society(1829), Naval History (1833-40), and The Doctor(1834-47). In all, his works number nearly fifty,and fill more than a hundred volumes ; and tothem must be added his contributions to the. ROBERT SOUTHEY. From the Drawing (1804) by Henry Edridge, , in theNational Portrait Gallery. periodicals—to the Quarterly alone ninety-threearticles (1808-38). These paid him handsomely,so
Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . , Colloquies on Society(1829), Naval History (1833-40), and The Doctor(1834-47). In all, his works number nearly fifty,and fill more than a hundred volumes ; and tothem must be added his contributions to the. ROBERT SOUTHEY. From the Drawing (1804) by Henry Edridge, , in theNational Portrait Gallery. periodicals—to the Quarterly alone ninety-threearticles (1808-38). These paid him handsomely,so that he died worth ^12,000; but the Historyof Brazil brought him in eight years only theprice of one article, and Madoc in a twelvemonthonly ^3, 17s. id. His life was a busy and happyone : at forty-six he could say, I have lived inthe sunshine, and am still looking forward withhope. It flowed quietly on, the chief events in ithis visit to Scott and Scotland (1805), his firstmeeting with Landor (1808), the visits from Shelleyand Ticknor (1811, 1819), his appointment to thelaureateship (1813), the death of his first boyHerbert (1806-16), the surreptitious publication ofhis revolutionary drama Wat Tyler {\2,\j ; written1794), little tours in Belgium (1815), Switzerland(1817), Holland (1825, 1826), and France (1838),an honorary of Oxford (1820), his return for Downton (unsolicited
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