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THE GEORGIAN 



- IF it be peculiar to genius to exalt its country's fame to strengthen 

 the untiring ardour of co -existent ambition to form an immortal 

 epoch in the annals of unwithering time, and leave a solemn and 

 scented halo around the "undying magnificence" of a name ; no 

 writers of the present, and scarcely of the past ages (Shakspeare ex- 

 cepted), present such indisputable claims to the first places in the 

 ranks of original genius, as Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron. 



The age in which these illustrious spirits were permitted to irradiate 

 by their sublime talents, not only our own, but every other nation, 

 has been called, the " golden age." Such a one the impartial spirit 

 of history has never recorded, in the volume of the book ; and the 

 nearest resemblance to its mental brilliance appears to be that of Eliza- 

 beth ; when Lord Bacon, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Philip Sidney, 

 Shakspeare, Beaumont and Fletcher, Ben Jonson, and other great 

 dramatists, all nourished during the first golden age of literature. 



In the Georgian ^Era, however, the numerical strength of the 

 " intellectual illustrissimi " was far greater than that of the first. 



Literary. Sir Walter Scott, Lord Byron, Wordsworth, Shelley, 

 Coleridge, Wilson, Campbell, Thomas Moore, Rogers, Lord Mahon, 

 Southey, Beckford, Napier, Lord F. Egerton, Lord Mulgrave, Sir 

 Egerton Brydges, Colton, Crabbe, Bowles, Professor Milman, Pollok, 

 Croly, Leigh Hunt, A. Cunningham, Keats, Gait, Tennyson, Sheridan 

 Knowles, Bulwer, Hogg, Inglis, James Montgomery, T. K. Hervey, 

 A. A. Watts, Godwin, Pringle, Mackenzie, Laman Blanchard, Elliot, 

 Author of Corn Law Rhymes, Charles Lamb, Charles Lloyd, De Quincy, 

 the opium eater,lRev. Sydney Smith, Maturin, Jeffery, Lockhardt, 

 Gifford, Heber, Robert Hall, Edward Irving, Rev. Thomas Dale, W. P. 

 Scargill, Hazlitt, W. Savage Landor, Dr. Bowring, Gillies, William 

 Taylor, Heraud, Maginn, the Smiths, Horace and James, Praed, Theo- 

 dore Hook, Rev. Mr. Fox, Charles, Charles Whitehead, &c. &c. 



Eloquent.- Lord Brougham, Canning, Mr. Huskisson, Lord John 

 Russell, Sir Robert Peel, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Plunkett, Lord Grey, 

 Mr. Tierney, Sir James Mackintosh, Lord Durham, Romilly, Macaulay, 

 Lord Stanley, Spring Rice, Sir J. C. Hobhouse, D. O'Connell, Shiel, 

 Charles Grant, D. W. Harvey, Abercromby, &c. &c. &c. 



Women. Miss Edgeworth, Mrs. Opie, Mrs. Barbauld, Mrs. 

 Hemans, Mrs. Cornwell Baron Wilson, Mrs. Johnstone, Mrs. 

 Jameson, Mrs. Watts, Mrs. Abdy, Mrs. Rolfe, Lady Morgan, Mrs. 

 C. Gore, Hon. Mrs. Norton, Mrs. Trollope, MisslLandon, Miss 

 Jewsbury, Miss Stoddart, Mrs. Perkins, Miss M. A. Browne, Mary 

 Howitt, Miss E. Snowden, Joanna Baillie, Miss Montague, Mrs. 

 Somerville, Mrs. Austin, Miss Bowles, Miss Godwin, Lady Blesslngton, 

 Mrs. Perring, Mrs. Hofland, &c. &c. &c. Ed. 



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