[51] Thomas Moore, b. 1779; d. 1852. _Lalla Rookh_, 1817. _Life of Byron_, 1830. _Alciphron_, 1839.
[52] Sloperton was near the centre of Wiltshire, a little way northward from the old market-town of Devizes. Mr. William Winter, in his _Gray Days and Gold_, has given a very charming account of this home of Moore’s and of its neighborhood--so full of English atmosphere, and of the graces and benignities of the Irish poet, as to make me think regretfully of my tamer mention.
[53] William Hazlitt, b. 1778; d. 1830. _Characters of Shakespeare_, 1817; _Table Talk_, 1821; _Liber Amoris_, 1823; _Life of Napoleon_, 1828; _Life_ (by Grandson), 1867; a later book of memoirs, _Four Generations of a Literary Family_, appeared 1897. (It gave nothing essentially new, and was quickly withdrawn from sale.)
[54] Henry Hallam, b. 1777; d. 1859. _Middle Ages_, 1818. _Literature of Europe_, 1837-39. Sketch of _Life_, by Dean Milman in _Transactions of Royal Society_, vol. x.
[55] Marguerite Power (Countess of Blessington), b. 1789; d. 1849; m. Captain Farmer, 1804; m. Earl of Blessington, 1817. 1822-1829, travelling on Continent. _Idler in Italy_, 1839-40 (first novel, about 1833). _Conversations with Lord Byron_, 1834. Her special _reign_ in London, 1831 to 1848.
[56] There is a very interesting, but by no means flattered, account of Lady Blessington and of her dinners and receptions in Greville’s _Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria_, chapter iv., p. 167, vol. i.
[57] Edward L. Bulwer (Lord Lytton), b. 1803; d. 1873; _Pelham_, 1828; _Rienzi_, 1835; _Caxton Novels_, 1849-53; _Richelieu_, 1839; his _Biography_ (never fully completed) has been written by his son, the second Lord Lytton. It is doubtful, however, if its developments, and inevitable counter-developments, have brought any access of honor to the elder Bulwer.
[58] Benjamin Disraeli (Lord Beaconsfield), b. 1804; d. 1881. _Vivian Grey_, 1826-27; _Contarini Fleming_, 1832; _Coningsby_, 1844; _Lothair_, 1870. Was Premier, 1867, 1874-80. Created Earl of Beaconsfield, 1876.
[59] _Vaurien_, 1797; _Flim-Flams_, 1805; _Despotism_, or _Fall of the Jesuits_, 1811.
[60] A. E. Chalon, an artist much in vogue in the days of “Tokens,”--who also painted Lady Blessington,--but of no lasting reputation.