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A series of essays offers close readings of nineteenth- and eighteenth-century writers and literary topics, treating figures such as Charlotte Brontë, Charles Kingsley, Godwin and Shelley, Gray, Sterne, George Eliot, and Coleridge alongside pieces on country books, autobiography, Carlyle's ethics, and notable state trials. The writer reflects on methods of criticism, advocating a measured, quasi-scientific approach while distinguishing poetic genius from analytic intellect, and explores how intensity, philosophical breadth, and personal temperament shape literary power and public reception. Each essay combines biographical context, thematic analysis, and judgments on artistic scope and influence.
[9] In the trial of Horne Tooke in 1794 it was decided by the judges that an adjournment might take place in case of 'physical necessity,' but the only previous case of an adjournment cited was that of Canning (in 1753).
[10] This case was in 1665. It is curious that in the case of Hathaway, in 1702, a precisely similar experiment convinced everybody that the accuser was an impostor; and got him a whipping and a place in the pillory.