Racine.--Sir Thomas Brown.--Shakespeare's final period.--The lives of the poets.--Madame du Deffand.--Voltaire and England.--A dialogue.--Voltaire's tragedies.--Voltaire and Frederick the Great.--The Rousseau affair.--The poetry of Blake.--The last Elizabethan [T.L. Beddoes]--Henri Beyle.--Lady Hester Stanhope.--Mr. Creevey