An essay by this author recounts a frustrated backgammon player throwing the board out the window and hitting a passerby, who understands the player’s frustration when he sees the reconstructed board position. This author called Shakespeare the “Proteus of human intellect” in an essay that argues that genius and taste are not reducible to rules. This author of “On Great and Little Things” and “On Genius and Common Sense” wrote that “greatness is great power, producing great effects” in an essay that expresses awe at rope-dancers and other mechanical performers, titled “The Indian Jugglers.” This author wrote a collection of 25 “contemporary portraits” of major figures (10[1])from his time, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Charles Lamb. For 10 points, name this early 19th-century English essayist who wrote Table-Talk and The Spirit of the Age. ■END■