James Henry Leigh Hunt aged 44
George Dyer
Charles Lamb aged 23, Penname Elia
James Henry Leigh Hunt
Charles Lamb in his thirtieth year,in the dress of a Venetian Senator. Penname Elia
Joseph Addison
Matthew Arnold
Samuel Johnson
James Henry Leigh Hunt.
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
William Hazlitt
Bonnell Thornton
Walt Whitman
William Gifford
George William Curtis
Noah Webster
Dr Samuel Johnson.
Edward Everett
Fisher Ames
James Boswell
Thomas Carlyle
Oliver Goldsmith
James Beattie (1735-1803)
Charles Lamb, (Penname Elia)
John Wilson ("Christopher North")
Sir Richard Francis Burton
William Wordsworth
Robert Southey
Charles Baudelaire.
Wilhelm Richard Wagner
Edgar Allan Poe
George Colman The Elder
Henry VIII
William Godwin, aged 48
George Dawe aged 50
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, 1854 1900
Sir William Temple 1st Baronet
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Francis Bacon
Eric Arthur Blair who used the pen name George Orwell.
John Eliot
Charles Lamb
Herman Melville
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 1882
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Washington Irving 1783 - 1859
Sir Thomas Browne
Sir Richard Steele
LEIGH HUNT (1784-1859).
John Rickman
James Otis
Sir William Temple
Jonathan Swift
Vicesimus Knox
Jean De La Bruyere
JAMES HUNT (1784-1859).
Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd
Geoffrey Chaucer
Lucien-Anatole Prevost-Paradol, 1829 - 1870
James Hogg.
John Nichols, British antiquarian
William Gifford, British poet and editor
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
FRANCIS THOMPSON
ALDOUS HUXLEY (1894-1963).
WILLIAM COBBETT (1762-1835).
JOSEPH ADDISON (1672-1719).
Thomas Campbell
Thomas Moore
John Milton
Andrew Marvell
Samuel Butler
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
Robert Herrick
Jorge Agustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana y Borras, aka George Santayana, 1863 1952
James Ewell Brown Stuart
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, 1800 1859
Henry Cuyler Bunner
Homer
Washington Irving
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo.
Ben Jonson aka Benjamin Jonson
John Dryden
Adam Bernard Mickiewicz.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), English Romantic Poet, Engraving, 1876
James Russell Lowell.
Benjamin Gould, US astronomer
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
ANDR BRETON (1896-1966).
Leonardo Da Vinci
George Washington
Benjamin Franklin
John Hancock
Horatio Gates
Joshua Barney
Stephen Girard
Thomas Carlyle, Scottish writer
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYAN
James Cattell, US psychologist
Marie Antoinette
Marie Louise, Empress of the French, Duchess of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla
Francois Chabot
Hernan Cortes, Fernando Cortes Monroy Pizarro Altamirano, Marques del Valle de Oaxaca
Lady Jane Grey, aka Lady Jane Dudley
John Clark Ridpath (1840-1900), American Educator, Historical and Editor, Portrait, Illustration, Cyclopaedia of Universal History, Volume 1, The Ancient World, by John Clark Ridpath, the Jones Brothers Publishing Company, 1885
Lord Francis Jeffrey
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Born February 27, 1807; Died March 24, 1882
Author Robert Graves
Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
Richard Bentley, English scholar
MAX BEERBOHM (1872-1956).
WALTER HORATIO PATER
Robert Burns
Armand Silvestre
Ruben Dario, pseudonym of Felix Ruben Garcia-Sarmento
Matt Ridley, caricature
Daniel Defoe
JOSEPH ADDSION (1672-1719).
KATE O'FLAHERTY CHOPIN
Thomas Stearns Eliot.
Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894). Scottish man of letters; photographed in 1888.
EMMA LAZARUS (1849-1887).
NIKKI GIOVANNI (1943- ).
PROSPER MERIMEE (1803-1870).
James Perry.
Richard Burton as Haji Abdullah en route to Mecca. Sir Richard Francis Burton
Washington Allston
Christen Berg.
Marjorie Bowen
Richard Harding Davis
William Henry Seward
Robert Browning
Camille Flammarion, French astronomer
Joseph Story
Sir Walter Scott
Sir Philip Sidney
Walter Bagehot.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Thomas Moore (1779-1852), Irish Poet, Songwriter and Entertainer, Portrait Sitting in Chair, Illustration from the Original Painting by Chappel, 1873
Friedrich Schiller (1759-1809), German Poet, Philosopher, Historian, and Playwright, Engraving, 1873
General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard
William Joseph Hardee
Sir Henry Wotton
The Late Leigh Hunt
WILLIAM COBBETT (1763-1835).
CHARLES LAMB (1775-1834).
Facsimile of a letter from Charlotte Bront.
Francesco Petrarca