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11Devil's Acre — The Devil s Acre with the Palace of Westminster in the background, in an 1872 illustration by Gustave Doré. The illustration shows the Devil s Acre some years into the slum clearance, with the courtyard of small low lying houses surrounded by… …
12BOSWELL, JAMES — the biographer of Johnson, born at Edinburgh, showed early a penchant for writing and an admiration for literary men; fell in with Johnson on a visit to London in 1763, and conceived for him the most devoted regard; made a tour with him to the …
13COOKE, GEORGE FREDERICK — an actor, famous for his representation of Richard III.; stood in his day next to Kemble in spite of his intemperate habits (1756 1811) …
14PORSON, RICHARD — eminent Greek scholar, born in Norfolk; was a prodigy of learning and critical acumen; edited the plays of Æschylus and four of Euripides, but achieved little in certification to posterity of his ability and attainments; was a man of slovenly… …
15Boswell — , BOSWELLIZE James Boswell (1740 1795) has been regarded as the foremost biographer in English literature. His great masterpiece was The Life of Samuel Johnson, the great compiler of the English dictionary. Thomas Macaulay ranked the… …
16drinking — n. Tippling, toping, intemperate habits …
17Maginn, William — (1793 1842) Journalist and miscellaneous writer, b. at Cork, became a contributor to Blackwood s Magazine, and afterwards foreign correspondent to The Representative, a paper started by J. Murray, the publisher, and when its short career was… …
18Mangan, James Clarence — (1803 1849) Poet, b. at Dublin, s. of a small grocer, was brought up in poverty, and received most of his education from a priest who instructed him in several modern languages. He then became a lawyer s clerk, and was later an assistant in… …
19Parnell, Thomas — (1679 1718) Poet, b. and ed. in Dublin, took orders in 1700, and was Vicar of Finglas and Archdeacon of Clogher. The death of his young wife in 1706 drove him into intemperate habits. He was a friend of Swift and Pope, a contributor to the… …
20Porson, Richard — (1759 1808) Scholar, s. of the parish clerk of E. Ruston, Norfolk, was distinguished from childhood by a marvellous tenacity of memory which attracted the attention of the curate of the parish, who ed. him, after which he was sent by a… …
