Library Notes

by A. P. Russell

INDEX

Abernethy, a timid lecturer, [255].
Abd-el-Lateef, anecdote of, [383].
Addison, on living and dressing according to the rules of common sense, [64];
his care in composition, [127];
reputed portrait of, [189];
his belief in ghosts, [243];
his marriage, [246];
enlarges on a thought of Socrates, [374].
Advice, on asking and giving, [104].
Æschines, of Pericles and Aspasia, [41].
Æsop, fable of the travelers and the chameleon, [379].
Agassiz, had no time to make money, [139].
Aikenhead, hanged for free religious opinions, [362].
Alfieri, how he composed, [126].
Alfred, King of Denmark, story of, [165].
Alger, public opinion the atmosphere of society, [7];
most men live blindly, [23];
ruins, and what they symbolize, [216];
on the blindness or Homer, Milton, Galileo, and Händel, [228];
on the happiness of solitude, [342];
his account of the hermit of Grub Street, [343];
the forest of statues on the roof of Milan cathedral, [354];
the scholar's pantheon at the top of his mind, [354].
Amyot, his poverty and success, [125].
Anaxagoras, a request made by, [216];
whom he believed to be most happy, [346].
Andersen, advice to, [148].
Anecdote of a singer and his wife in Leipsic, [316];
of a hypochondriacal comedian, [323].
Angelo, Michel, confesses his ignorance, [29];
on reforming mankind, [93];
anecdote of, [168];
and Raphael, [171];
a gem once worn on the finger of, [178];
and the Reformation, [252];
the statues of, [303];
and Bramante, [303];
of Donatello's statue, [325];
a saying of his commending moderation, [348].
Annals of the Parish, why rejected, [148].
Anson, Lord, different opinions of, [189].
Appleseed, Johnny, character and career of, [112].
Apelles and Protogenes, [171].
Apuleius, a curious fact relating to, [249].
Arago, his claim for ancient Egypt, [181].
Arbuthnot, Pope, and Gay, fate of a joint play of, [255].
Archimedes, the tomb of, [215].
Arctic morality, [102].
Arctic region, small proportion of fuel used in the, [241];
effect of frost in the, [301].
Arethusa, Fountain of, [302].
Aristotle, on proverbs, [159];
logic known before, [182];
fate of, [223].
Arnold, Matthew, moral rules for the sage only, [369].
Artist, an, in serpents, [300].
Aspasia and Pericles, [41].
Atterbury, Bishop, what he said of Newton, [107].
Augereau, at the coronation of Napoleon, [110].
Augustine, St., and the idea of Fourierism, [182];
subtleties on the question, What then is time? [339];
on a happy life, [340];
a passage from his Confessions, [354].
Auld Lang Syne, [204].
Auld Robin Gray, its authorship a secret for fifty years, [254].
Aurelius, Marcus, tolerant and good to all but Christians, [33];
his idea of free government, [185];
his doubtful wife and bad son, [247];
what he learnt from his tutor, [347];
a lofty thought of, on the sacredness of life, [355].
Babinet, his opinion of a submarine telegraph, [267].
Bacon, on nature reviving—Æsop's damsel, [48];
of policy and craft, [65].
Bailly, story told of, [167].
Balzac, his care in composition, [128].
Barbauld, Mrs., passage from, [296];
lines by, [356].
Barère, views and conduct early and late in life, [104].
Barry, Michael J., some lines by, [120].
Barton, Bernard, his surprise at a funeral, [156].
Bathurst, Lord, and the Essay on Man, [249].
Baxter, a believer in witchcraft, [250];
his views at the end of life, [268];
the result, after a trial of worldly things, [326].
Bayle, on Pericles and Aspasia, [41];
on the spirit of party, [61];
on Machiavelli's Prince, [233];
the purity of, [245].
Beattie, Dr., of a witty parson, [43].
Beaumarchais, adaptations of Tarare, [221].
Becket, Thomas à, story of the mother of, [212].
Beckford, and his romance, Vathek, [252].
Bentivoglio, misfortunes of, [262].
Béranger, refuses a legacy, [141].
Berkeley, Bishop, on being master of one's time, [136].
Bernis, Cardinal, and Madame de Pompadour, [268].
Betterton, a borrower from Steele, [169].
Beyle, Henri, a laborious writer, [125].
Beza, one of his invectives, [45];
his coarse, amorous poems, [268].
Bible, the, in literature, [161];
a reference to, [241].
Billingsgate, fish-woman of, [28].
Blackwood's Magazine on diversity, [5];
on the inevitable and irremediable, [91];
on public opinion, [361];
on the adoring principle in human nature, [368].
Blake, William, artist, genius, mystic, madman, [281].
Blessington, Lady, relating to Moore, [140].
Boileau, an unwearied corrector, [126];
relating to Molière, [149].
Bolingbroke to Swift, [214].
Books never published, [194].
Boots with pointed toes believed to be the cause of the plague, [203].
Borghese, Paulo, poverty of, [261].
Borghese, Princess, anecdote of, [311].
Bossuet, confesses his insignificance, [30];
appearance of his manuscript, [129].
Boswell, and intellectual chemistry, [42];
on being reckoned wise, [168];
the bulwark of Johnson's fame, [190];
Johnson's pretended contempt of, [243].
Boyle, effect of falling water upon, [244].
Brackenridge, distrust of moderation natural, [296].
Brahe, Tycho, and the idiot Lep, [228];
his terror of a hare or fox, [244].
Brain, insensibility of the, [242].
Bramah, origin of the idea of his lock, [181].
Brewster, Sir David, and the story of the falling apple, [175];
on Galileo's abjuration, [223].
Brontë, Charlotte, a painstaking writer, [126];
life and genius of, [276], [277], [278].
Brougham, how he composed one of his speeches, [132];
a curious fact of, [254].
Brown, John, utterances and incidents of, [113];
and the old engine-house, [264];
and the governor of Virginia, [264];
a daughter of, [265];
one of his trusted men, [265].
Brown, Tom, a remark of, [121].
Browne, Sir Thomas, on self-love, [14];
confesses his ignorance, [31];
on a neglect of the great, [151];
on maxims that will never be out of date, [159];
his faith in witchcraft, [224];
a lofty thought of, on the immortality of life, [355];
on usurping the gates of heaven, [366];
his distrust of his own judgment, [381].
Bruce, and the story of the spider, [165];
death of, [260].
Brunel, a remark of, relating to Pompey's Pillar, [181].
Brunelleschi, and the story of the egg, [166].
Buffon, his manner of composing, [128].
Bülow, effects of his stopping practice, [130].
Bulwer, on truth, [4];
anecdote of Kean, [13];
relating to Calvin and Torquemada, [46];
his description of a superior man, [68];
on the English language, [158];
on the language of Spain, [158];
on La Rochefoucauld, [234];
of Descartes, [238];
looking from the window of his club, [338];
paraphrase from Phædrus, [374].
Bunsen, dying exclamation of, [387].
Bunyan, wrote Pilgrim's Progress in prison, [135].
Burke, no great fire without great heat, [46];
a remark of on idleness, [122];
how he worried his printer, [132];
at Beaconsfield, [154];
his tribute to John Howard, [231];
his great care as a writer, [249];
his style in youth and old age, [254].
Burnet, Bishop, his estimate of Newton, [107];
on Lord Rochester, [236].
Burns, characterizes woman, [3];
remarks of and by, [123];
his poverty and pride, [137];
advised to imitate Mrs. John Hunter, [145];
confidence in his own powers, [150];
tribute of Hawthorne to, [153];
the Scotsman's religion, [174];
a complaint of himself, [244];
pronounced incapable of music, [263];
on sensibility, [314];
his constitutional melancholy, [315];
lines by, [344];
his gospel of charity, [376].
Burton, naught so sweet as melancholy, naught so damned as melancholy, [314];
on content and true happiness, [325].
Butler, misery of, [315].
Byron, some lines by, [150];
criticises mythology, [187];
a peculiarity of, [244].
Cæsar, Augustus, his fear of thunder, [244].
Cæsar, Julius, the corpse of, [222];
ambition of, criticised by Pascal, [353].
Cagliostro, Lavater duped by, [258].
Calamities sometimes blessings, [226].
Caligula and his horse, [99].
Caliph, memorial of an illustrious, [333].
Callcott, his picture of Milton and his daughter, [175].
Calvin, occasional violence of, [45].
Camoëns, poverty of, [134], [261].
Campbell, his difficulty in finding a bookseller, [133];
Scott and Hohenlinden, [150];
and Prof. Wilson, [268].
Candide's supper at Venice with the six kings, [333].
Canova exhibiting his paintings, [261].
Canute, the story of, [166].
Captain of Virginia militia, exclamation of, [119].
Carlyle, legend of Moses and the Dead Sea people, [49];
on the effects of custom, [64];
fastidiousness as a writer, [130];
his opinion of a hero, [232];
compares men to sheep, [295].
Cashmere shawls, [180].
Castelar, a republican's opinion of Rome, [307];
on the unhappiness of life, [337];
pleads for universal toleration, [361].
Cato, how he was estimated by contemporaries, [144];
learned Greek after he was seventy, [267].
Cecil, sorrowed in the bright lustre of a court, [334].
Cervantes, poverty of, [134];
planned and commenced Don Quixote in prison, [135];
a curious fact of, [191];
his wretchedness and melancholy, [315].
Chalmers, as to certain of his compositions, [254];
and the views of Malthus, [263].
Change, anecdotes and facts illustrating, [9], [10], [11].
Channing, on establishing a new society, [386].
Chapman, Jonathan, known as Johnny Appleseed, [112].
Charlemagne, a story of the daughter of, [165].
Charles I., a story told of, [167].
Charles II., his criticism of Sir Matthew Hale, [3];
touching for the evil, [224];
and Cromwell, [304];
and Wycherley, [304];
the name given him by one who knew him, [304];
manner of his death, [304];
character of, drawn by Macaulay, [306].
Charles XII., of Sweden, anecdote of, [167].
Charity, Christian, a story illustrating, [357].
Chaulnes, Duke de, and Johnson, [370].
Chaumette, devoted to an aviary, [99].
Cheops, ring of, [178].
Chesterfield, a remark on, [190];
speeches of, written by Johnson, [248].
Chillingworth, at last confident of nothing, [258].
China, scarcity of labor in, [240].
Chinese rebuke of Christians, [101].
Chrysippus, of misers, [72].
Cicero, of the man and his eggs, [6];
his experience at a watering-place, [16];
how laboriously he prepared his speeches, [131];
the diminutive copy of the Iliad he saw, [178];
on universal brotherhood, [185];
hunting the tomb of Archimedes, [215];
timidity of, [262].
Clairvoyance, very old, [183].
Coal, a man executed for burning it, [202].
Cobbe, Frances Power, on the Christian movement, [370].
Cobbett, revisits the scenes of his boyhood, [220].
Cockburn, Lord, anecdote of Dr. Henry, [80].
Coleridge, one just flogging he received, [21];
horrified by the exclamation of a boy, [22];
some devil and some god in man, [42];
anecdote of a dignified man, [69];
on doing good, [93];
of traders in philanthropy, [97];
project of pantisocracy, [102];
fears he has caught the itch, [103];
gained little by his writings, [133];
what he thought a sufficient income, [138];
of Goethe, [147];
intellect of, [151];
comparison of Shakespeare with Milton, [152];
on Shakespeare and Homer, [152];
at York minster, [196];
a remark of, in one of his lectures, [200];
and John Chester, [211];
curious facts relating to, [250];
and the House that Jack built, [268];
on certain smells, [302];
his summing up of life, [336];
remark on Horne Tooke, [378];
remark on toleration, [383].
Columbus, and the egg, [166];
fact relating to, [259].
Commodus, tolerant to Christians, [247].
Common sense defined, [7].
Communist, a, defined, [105].
Conciergerie, flirting and love-making in the, [35].
Confucius, describes the conduct of the superior man, [23];
his joy in frugality, [136];
and the Golden Rule, [185];
anecdote of, [373].
Congreve, what the one wise man knew, [32].
Conscience, [22].
Corey, Giles, pressed to death, [60].
Corneille, his poverty, [134];
what Napoleon said of him, [153];
tiresome in conversation, [260].
Cornwall, Barry, his fear of the sea, [251].
Correggio, no portrait of, [262].
Corwin, Thomas, anecdote of, [168].
Cottle, Joseph, relating to Coleridge, [22];
of Coleridge at York minster, [196];
lines by, admired by Coleridge, [378].
Couthon, devoted to a spaniel, [99].
Cowley, a curious fact of, [245].
Cowper, his poems and their publisher, [192];
his mental malady, [226];
the ballad of John Gilpin, [227];
the poor school-master, Teedon, [228];
his attempt at suicide, [246];
his giggling with Thurlow, [246];
the sanest of English poets, [254];
fancied himself hated by his Creator, [259];
a melancholy confession of, [317].
Crabbe, wrote and burned three novels, [259].
Credulity, [20], [224].
Creed, in the biliary duct, [8];
referred to in the rebuke of a clergyman, [20].
Crichton, curious achievement of, [264].
Cromwell, his distrust of popular applause, [298];
and Charles II., [304];
and Milton, [304];
how estimated when flattery was mute, [304];
manner of his death, [304].
Crowne, John, reading by lightning, [46].
Cumberland, and Sheridan, [9];
describes Soame Jenyns, [236];
Goldsmith and his comedy, [270];
the dinner at the Shakespeare tavern, [271];
predicament of an artist in serpents, [300];
a reflection on old age, [332];
on a man gifted with worldly qualities, [350];
remark on Bubb Doddington, [378].
Curing public evils, [25].
Curiosity, [17], [32].
Curran, contest with the fish-woman, [28];
remark to Phillips about his speeches, [249];
melancholy nature of, [314].
Curtis, George William, castles in Spain, [327].
Cushman, Charlotte, anecdote related by, [35].
Custom, doth make cowards of us all, [64].
Daguerre, his discovery anticipated, [181].
Damascus blades of the Crusades, [180].
Dante, a story told of, [170];
the prodigal and the avaricious together, [302].
D'Arblay, Madame, and Mrs. Barbauld's stanza on Life, [356].
Darwin, cattle in East Falkland Island, [10];
earthquake at Talcahuano, [17];
a curious fox on the island of San Pedro, [18];
conduct of the Fuegians, [27];
petrified trees on the Andes, [108];
conduct of the New Zealand chief, [211];
the three years' drought in Buenos Ayres, [222];
sound and silence in the forest of Brazil, [301].
D'Alembert, declines the favors of royalty, [141].
De Coverley, Sir Roger, cause of the death of, [373].
De Foe, rules from the Complete English Tradesman, [86].
De l'Isle and the Marseillaise, [205], [248].
Della Valle, conduct of the women at Goa, [34];
his own strange conduct, [35].
Demetrius, and his father, [166];
a story told of, [167].
Democritus, thought to be a madman, [144].
Demosthenes, gloried in the smell of the lamp, [131];
timidity of, [262].
Denham, curious facts relating to, [235];
anecdote of, [235].
De Quincey, no thought without blemish, [90];
his estimate of Goethe, [146];

of Milton, [152].
Descartes, modesty of, [238].
De Retz, statement of, [234].
Desert, painful silence of the, [301].
De Staël, Madame, criticism of Godwin, [98];
and Madame Récamier, [172];
Talleyrand's reply to, [187];
Napoleon's hatred of, [253];
mourns the solitude of life, [335].
De Tocqueville, character of the French, [40];
remark of an old lady to, [75];
story told to by Rulhière, [77];
on old age, [333];
some wise observations on life, [341].
Devil, the Reformation and the, [204];
the priest and the, [204].
Dickens, his care in composition, [128].
Digby, an illustration from, [11].
Dignity, assumed, described, and satirized, [67], [68], [69], [70].
Diminutive writing and printing, [178].
Diogenes, banished for counterfeiting, [260].
Dionysius, story of, [166].
Disraeli, Isaac, his sketch of Audley, [73];
anecdote of, [138];
on proverbs, [159];
on men of genius, [232].
Disraeli, Benjamin, on the limits of human reason, [62].
Diversity, [4], [5].
Doddington, Bubb, characterized by Cumberland, [378].
Doing good, Lamb on, [89];
difficulty of, [93];
remark of Coleridge, [93];
passages from Thoreau, [93].
Domitian, amused himself catching flies, [263].
Drake, and the origin of the Culprit Fay, [193].
Drummond, the sonorous laugher, [271].
Dryden, criticises the judges of his day, [3];
anecdote relating to, [154];
a curious fact of, [255].
Duchâtel, his poverty and renown, [125].
Dunbar, neglect of the poems of, [199].
Dutch Ambassador and the King of Siam, [101].
Dyer, George, his experience while usher, [88];
an associate of Lamb's, [284];
his biography of Robinson, [284];
his absent-mindedness, [284];
anecdotes of, [285], [286].
Eckermann, describes a scene on the Simplon, [350].
Edwards, Jonathan, effect of his work on Original Sin, [56];
curious fact relating to, [266].
Egypt, hospitals for cats in, [99];
ventilation in the pyramids of, [181];
the railroad dates back to, [181];
social questions discussed to rags in, [181].
Eldon, Lord, an anecdote he was fond of relating, [76];
a remark in old age, [104];
and Bessy Surtees, [246];
his daughter's elopement, [246];
a curious experience of, at Oxford, [246].
Elizabeth, Queen, a curious fact of, [245].
Elliot, Sir Gilbert, passion necessary to revolution, [46].
Elliott, the Corn-Law Rhymer, defines a communist, [105].
Eloquence, a rude specimen of, [313].
Emerson, a man like a bit of Labrador spar, [3];
the soul not twin-born, [5];
life a series of surprises, [24];
confesses his ignorance, [32];
on the good of evil, [40];
few spontaneous actions, [64];
on reforming, [90];
is virtue piecemeal? 93;
of one that would help himself and others, [105];
the martyrdom of John Brown, [119];
advantages of riches not with the heir, [121];
personal independence, [138];
of Shakespeare, [153];
of the theory and practice of life, [240];
the plant papyrus, [241];
relating to Columbus, [259];
the difference between the wise and the unwise, [354];
effects of an acceptance of the sentiment of love, [359].
Epictetus, on forgiving injuries, [185].
Epicurus, his name a synonym for sensuality, [261];
his moderation, [349].
Erasmus, on self-love, [12];
two natures in Luther, [47];
of the Colloquies of, [193];
effect of the smell of fish upon, [244];
and Luther, [308];
what he said of Luther, [309].
Erskine, a severe corrector, [132].
Essay on Man, curious statement relating to, [249].
Esquirol, effects of occupation, [378].
Euclid, stereoscope known to, [181].
Evelyn, observation on Jeffreys, [189];
his argument against solitude, [244].
Evil, ceremony of touching for the, [224].
Extremes, law of, [295];
meeting of in morals and legislation, [304].
Fairy's funeral, description of a, [293].
Falstaff, dress to represent, [69].
Faraday, curious fact relating to, [253].
Farrar, legend of St. Brendan and Judas Iscariot, [387];
of the purification of souls, [388].
Faustina, wife of Marcus Aurelius, [247].
Fénelon, and the publication of Telemachus, [193];
on a violent zeal that we must correct, [363];
anecdotes of, [373].
Fielding, a curious fact relating to, [191];
and Richardson, [199];
on our faults, and the difficulty of amending them, [338].
Fittleworth, rector of, how he lost his living, [37].
Fitzherbert and Townshend, [211].
Flaxman, of the Graces and the Furies, [10];
determines the sex of a statue, [187];
strange fact of the wife of, [226].
Foote, how he took off the Dublin printer, [78];
a story of, [164];
a remark on the death of, [265].
Forster, relating to Goldsmith, [156].
Foster, record of a reflective aged man, [7];
analysis of an atheist, [19];
story of the devil turned preacher, [43];
on self-idolizing dreamers, [91];
care in composition, [129];
tribute to John Howard, [229];
on a violation of the laws of goodness, [240];
origin of his essays, [246].
Fournier, devoted to a squirrel, [99].
Fox, fastidious in composition, [126].
Francis, Sir Philip, and Junius, [257].
Franklin, Dr., his advice to the three sages, [367];
doubted his own judgment as he grew older, [381].
Frederick the Great, a story told of, [167];
and Robespierre, [238].
Frederick William, canes a Jew in a street of Berlin, [51].
Froissart, of a reverend monk, [48].
Froude, terrible story related by, [57];
human things and icebergs, [109];
a reflection of, applied to John Brown, [119];
of fortune and rank, [121];
prosperity consistent with worldliness, [349];
the Scots a happy people, [350];
on putting to death for a speculative theological opinion, [363];
how the laity should treat the controversial divines, [367].
Fuller, Margaret, on Goethe, [105];
few great, few able to appreciate greatness, [143].
Fuller, Thomas, statement relating to Rabelais, [190];
curious fact relating to Wolsey, [224];
the Holy Ghost came down not in the shape of a vulture, [359];
he shall be immortal who liveth till he be stoned by one without fault, [388].
Fuseli, a habit of in sketching, [2].
Gainsborough, a remark on painting and engraving, [198].
Galileo, ceremony of abjuration, [223];
blindness of, [228].
Galt, an observation by, [110];
Annals of the Parish, [148].
Garrick, variety of his countenance, [10];
a story of his acting, [78];
the public grew tired of admiring him, [297].
Gaskell, account of the death of a cock-fighting squire, [38];
anecdote of Grimshaw, [55].
Gay, Pope, and Arbuthnot, fate of a joint play of, [255].
Gems, imitations of, [177];
cabinet of in Italy, [178].
Genius, our obligations to, [161].
Geoffrin, Madame, and Rulhière, [170].
Gertrud bird, [79].
Giardini, of playing the violin, [130].
Gibbon, his fastidiousness as a writer, [125];
review of the series of Byzantine emperors, [219].
Gladstone, interesting reply of, [263].
Glass in Pompeii, [177].
Godwin, Madame de Staël's criticism of, [98];
a good husband and kind father, [255];
and Rough, [311].
Goethe, confesses his ignorance, [29];
reason can never be popular, [62];
anecdote of Merck and the grand duke, [89];
to know how cherries and strawberries taste, [90];
a fortunate mistake of, [92];
nature, [103];
giving advice, [104];
aristocracy and democracy, [104];
the world cannot keep quiet, [109];
his works commercially, [133];
objections to luxurious furniture, [137];
of Dante's great poem, [147];
advised against writing Faust, [148];
genius of Shakespeare, [152];
influence of Voltaire, [153];
a staff officer's opinion of, [155];
first impression of Switzerland, [195];
critical remark of, [198];
on a peculiarity of Schiller, [244];
disparaged himself as a poet, [261];
pleasant dreams after falling asleep in tears, [318];
compares life to a residence at a watering-place, [332];
the simplicity of the world, [347];
arrogance natural to youth, [352];
remark of at the age of seventy-five, [355];
truth and error, [361];
of a Christianity of feeling and action, [366].
Goldsmith, of the vanity of human judgment, [24];
ten years composing the Traveller, [129];
to Bob Bryanton, [135];
proud reply to Hawkins, [139];
reply to Dr. Scott, [139];
criticises Waller, Pope, and Milton, [145];
opinion of Tristram Shandy, [147];
his street ballads, [156];
a saying of credited to Talleyrand, [172];
relations with Bott, the barrister, [200];
friendship and jealousy, [240];
as a talker and as a writer, [244];
Goody Two Shoes, [268];
at the British Coffee House, [270];
first acting of She Stoops to Conquer, [270];
conduct during, [271].
Goodness tainted, [94].
Gordianus, epitaph of, [263].
Grammont, Count, on Sir John Denham, [235].
Gray, twenty years touching up his Elegy, [126];
criticises Thomson and Akenside, [145];
diffidence and fastidiousness of, [238];
his Elegy not intended for the public, [258].
Greene, Peele, and Marlowe, [249].
Grimaldi, devouring melancholy of, [315].
Groenvelt, Dr., persecution of, [201].
Guérin, Eugénie de, her story of the poor shepherdess, [345].
Guérin, Maurice de, on a solitary life, [342].
Guido, and the portrait of Beatrice Cenci, [313].
Guizot, declines a title, [141].
Hadrian's villa, [217].
Hale, Sir Matthew, criticised by Charles II., [3];
unpublished writings of, [194];
trials before for witchcraft, [224];
influenced by Jeffreys, [247].
Hall, Robert, sought relief in Dante, [267].
Hallam, his opinion of Hooker, [225].
Hammond, Elton, [278].
Händel, blindness of, [228];
his hallelujahs open the heavens, [229].
Harrington, imprisonment of, [135];
man a religious creature, [368].
Harvey, effects of his discovery, [147], [301].
Hawthorne, on men who surrender themselves to an overruling power, [97];
on special reformers, [98];
distinction between a philanthropic man and a philanthropist, [113];
Byron and Burns, [153];
of the Scarlet Letter, [188];
statement relating to the Mayflower, [241];
of artists who have painted their own portraits, [377].
Haydn, a story told of, [175].
Hayward, passages from, [164], [165], [174].
Hazlitt, his violence at times, [36];
legend of a Brahman turned into a monkey, [48];
of two pictures by Northcote, [190];
of Coleridge and John Chester, [211];
the poet Gray, [238];
every man an exception, [240];
strange facts about, [263];
opinion of Mary Lamb, [267];
of Garrick, [297];
wanting one thing, he wanted everything, [325];
on aiming at too much, [337];
on keeping in our own walk in life, [347];
life, at the beginning and the end, [352].
Heart, insensibility of the, [242].
Heine, pleads for the negro king, [27];
of Luther, [47];
when he would forgive his enemies, [53];
tribute to Goethe, [153];
ignorance of doctors, [208];
of the leper-poet, [318];
a paralytic, [320];
fame nauseous to, [331].
Helps, Arthur, the nature of man, [33];
you never know enough about a man to condemn him, [39];
the art of life, [341];
dialogue on toleration and charity, [383].
Helvetius, of the passions, [46];
advice to Montesquieu, [148].
Henderson, faculty of getting words by heart, [125].
Henry VI. of France, a story of, [171].
Henry, Patrick, his last speech, [264].
Hercules, a diminutive figure of, [178].
Herder, advice to Goethe, [148].
Herrick, a painstaking elaborator, [129].
Hiero, questions Simonides, [31], [348].
Hildebrand, Pope, fate of, [223].
Hill, Dr., and Hannah Glass, [268].
Hillard, on Hadrian's villa, [217].
History and fiction, [164].
Hogarth, relating to the sale of certain pictures, [192];
his estimate of Reynolds, [198];
impressions as to his true vocation, [258].
Hogg, his neighbors thought him no poet, [145].
Holbein, German engraving in the manner of, [326].
Hood, origin of the Song of the Shirt, [149];
what delighted him, [155];
a victim of distress and melancholy, [321];
anecdotes of, [321];
lines on his dead child, [322];
passages from letters to little children, [322], [323].
Hook, attempt of Southey to hoax, [200].
Hooker, circumstances of his marriage, [224];
character of, by Izaak Walton, [225].
Home, Sweet Home, [205].
Homer, called a plagiarist, [144];
effect of his character and genius, [162].
Horace, a laborious writer, [125];
passage from, [302].
Howard, John, humanity of, [229];
and solitary confinement, [260].
Howe, John, his method of conducting public fasts, [37].
Huber, François, blindness of, [259].
Human things compared to icebergs, [109].
Humboldt, credits the Chinese with magnetic carriages, [181].
Hume, his care in composition, [126];
his history slow of sale at first, [133];
advice to Robertson, [148].
Humility illustrated by the rain-drop, [344].
Hunt, Leigh, tribute to Händel, [228];
on pseudo-Christianity, [364];
remark on Lamb, [383].
Hyacinthe, the church of the future, [366].
Hypocrite, profession of, [71].
Ice, curious facts relating to, [210].
Iceland, the best building in, [241].
Icicles, formation of, [209].
Ideas, the few great, remain about the same, [157].
Ignorance, [17], [18], [19], [20], [27], [28], [29], [30], [31], [32], [240], [352].
Incledon, stories of Garrick and Foote, [77].
Indian cazique, story of, [101].
Intellectual chemistry, [42].
Invective, a primitive Quaker's, [44].
Ireland, baptisms in, [37].
Irving, on the habit of criticising government, [25];
small returns from his writings, [133];
an observation on Goldsmith, [187];
modesty and diffidence of, [239];
called a vagabond by a neighbor, [239];
stealing his own apples, [239];
of elaborating humor, [316];
circumstances under which he composed the History of New York, [319].
Isocrates, timidity of, [262].
Jameson, Mrs., a story related by, [172].
Java, flowers, fruits, and trees of, [301].
Jeffreys, portrait and conduct of, [189];
influence over Sir Matthew Hale, [247].
Jenner, persecution of, [202].
Jenyns, described by Cumberland, [236].
Jerome, St., legend of St. John recorded by, [359].
Jerrold, Douglas, his dislike of the theatre behind the scenes, [1];
of the practical benevolence of a London tradesman, [81];
ambitious to write a treatise on philosophy, [261];
the Caudle Lectures, [316].
Jews, curious persecution of the, [203].
Joan of Arc, Shakespeare's and Schiller's, [174].
Johnson, reply to Boswell as to the indecency of a statue, [1];
his opinion of remarks by Orrery and Delany on Swift, [2];
his hatred of baby-talk, [50];
a remark on marriage, [62];
opinion of feeling people, [98];
opinion of levelers, [105];
Life of, at first slow of sale, [133];
Cumberland on, [142];

how he was once made happy, [143];
opinion of Milton's sonnets, [146];
criticises Swift, Gray, and Sterne, [146];
opinion of Lycidas, [147];
a neglect of the great, [151];
of Shakespeare, [152];
Dr. Campbell's estimate of, [153];
remark to Mrs. Macaulay, [168];
version of Pope's Messiah, [176];
reviewer's remark on, [190];
painter's confession to, [199];
of Demosthenes Taylor, [212];
tribute to Savage, [236];
poverty and companionships of, [243];
belief in ghosts, [243];
a peculiarity of, [244];
a famous speech of Pitt, [248];
speeches of Chesterfield, [248];
collected sermons, [248];
a number of the Rambler, [248];
Ramblers written rapidly, [248];
confidence in Psalmanazar, [250];
bigotry of, [257];
learned Dutch after he was seventy, [267];
first acting of Goldsmith's comedy, [270];
melancholy of, [316];
of Pope and his writings, [317];
of Young and his writings, [317];
of the Christian religion, [370].
Jones, Paul, and Thomson's Seasons, [261].
Joubert, a thought of, [1];
his habit as a writer, [127].
Journalism, impersonal, [241].
Judkins, Juke, reminiscences of, [81].
Junius, warns the king, [298].
Jupiter and Cupid, [296];
imaginary proclamation by, [374].
Kane, Dr., curious experience with the Esquimaux, [102];
of frost in the Arctic region, [301].
Kant, a curious fact of, [251].
Kean, Edmund, wretchedness of his early life, [124];
how he studied and slaved, [131].
Kemble, John, reply to Northcote, [15];
as to his new readings of Hamlet, [131].
Kempis, Thomas à, of simplicity and purity, [345];
of charity and humility, [372];
of amending our own faults, [374].
King, Dr., on toleration, [383].
Kinglake, care in the composition of Eothen, [128].
Kingsley, Charles, of his father, [151].
Kneller, Sir Godfrey, remark to a sitter, [13].
Knives and forks, ridiculed by Ben Jonson and Beaumont and Fletcher, [202].
Knowledge reserved, [240].
Kotzebue, relating to, [257].
Labor, life's blessing, [121].
La Bruyère, of judging men, [2];
of diversity, [6];
some thoughts of, [24];
on the mixture of good and evil, [73];
eloquent passage of, [219].
La Fontaine, always copying and recopying, [126];
dull and stupid in conversation, [260].
Lais, the courtezan, saying of, [41].
Lamartine, a strange statement relating to, [256].
Lamb, remark on covetousness, [73];
dissection of meanness, [81];
anecdote of George Dyer, [88];
doing good by stealth, [89];
story of an India-house clerk, [100];
care in composition, [127];
anecdote of, [134];
criticises Faust, [146];
tribute to Manning, [150];
essay on the Origin of Roast Pig, [169];
could spit upon Howard's statue, [260];
first acting of Mr. H., [272];
hopeful letter to Manning, [273];
hisses his own bantling, [274];
another letter to Manning, not so hopeful, [275];
poor Elia, [275];
constitutional melancholy of, [316].
Lamb, Mary, Hazlitt's estimate of, [267].
Landor, eyes of critics on one side, [4];
of Shakespeare and Milton, [152];
of Cromwell and Milton, [152];
of the estimation of the great by their contemporaries, [153];
of Swift, Addison, Rabelais, La Fontaine and Pascal, [315];
of Aspasia and Pericles, [347];
the falsehood of life, [364];
of looking down on ourselves, [372].
Lansdowne, phrenologist's judgment of, [188].
Lardner, curious facts of, [266].
La Rochefoucauld, his Maxims criticised by Sterling, [2];
reference to his Maxims, [12];
care in composition, [129];
an unselfish, brave, humane man, [234].
Last Rose of Summer, [204].
Latimer, Tenterden-Steeple and Goodwin Sands, [18].
Laud, cruelty of, [363].
Lavater, judgment of Lord Anson, [189];
duped by Cagliostro, [258].
Lay, Benjamin, an enthusiast, anecdote of, [367].
Layard, nature breaking out in a party of Arabs, [48];
engravings on Nineveh, [178];
lens found in Nineveh, [181];
tradition of Nimrod and the gnat, [302].
Lecky, witchcraft in England, [56];
opinion of Hooker, [225];
great and multiform influences of Christian philanthropy, [372].
Legends and parables:
a Brahman turned into a monkey, [49];
Moses and the dwellers by the Dead Sea, [49];
the redbreast, and how it was singed, [55];
the man in the moon, [79];
man and woman in the moon, [79];
Gertrud bird, the woodpecker, [79];
the Wandering Jew, [80];
the Brahman and the three rogues, [296];
Og, a king of Bashan, [298];
Nimrod and the gnat, [302];
Gabriel and the idol-worshiper, [346];
St. John in the arms of his disciples, [359];
blind men and the elephant, [379];
St. Brendan and Judas Iscariot, [387];
Abraham and the old man who worshiped the fire only, [388].
Leighton, a clergyman, persecution of, [363].
Le Notre and Louis XIV., [167].
Le Sage, poverty of, [134].
Leslie, anecdote of Owen and Wilberforce, [92].
Lessing, the restless instinct for truth, [32].
Levelers, remark of Johnson on, [105].
Life, every year of a wise man's, [8];
a series of surprises, [24];
knowledge of, [353];
beginning and end of, [353];
stanza on, [356].
Lilli Burlero, ballad of, [204].
Lilliput, the mighty emperor of, [28].
Lincoln, his dislike of being preached to, [94];
how he earned his first dollar, [122];
idea the slaves had of him, [314];
the reason he gave for not uniting himself to any church, [386].
Linnæus, curious facts relating to, [235].
Liston, a confirmed hypochondriac, [315].
Livingstone, exclamation of Sekwebu at seeing the sea, [19];
tribe of good Africans, [102].
Livy, on curing public evils, [26].
Llandaff, Bishop of, anecdote of, [121].
Lloyd, his remedy for madness, [267].
Locke, of the king of Siam, [101].
Lockhart, wrote the first of the Noctes papers, [255].
Longfellow, lines from Hiawatha, [299].
Lovelace and Suckling, [266].
Lowell, definition of common sense, [7];
Montaigne and Shakespeare, [12];
witchcraft, [61].
Lucian, a pretty passage in one of his dialogues, [296].
Lucretius, his one poem, [125].
Luther, a violent saint sometimes, [45];
what Heine said of him, [47];
what he said of himself, [47];
and the devil, [204];
believed in ghosts, [243];
relations with Erasmus, [308];
opinion of Erasmus, [309];
with Melancthon in the pulpit, [310].
Mabillon, a genius by an accident, [226].
Macaulay, conduct of a nephew of, [25];
a laborious writer, [129];
Machiavelli, [233];
Byron, [298];
times of Cromwell and Charles II., [304], [305], [306];
ethics of Charles II.;
hanging of Aikenhead, [362].
Machiavelli, of judging by appearances, [71];
a zealous republican, [233];
curious facts relating to, [233].
Mackenzie, Henry, his advice to Burns, [145];
a hard-headed, practical man, [255].
Mackenzie, Sir George, an advocate of solitude, [244].
Mahagam, ruins of, [222].
Mahomet, turns a misfortune to advantage, [66].
Maintenon, Madame de, to her niece, [336].
Maistre, Xavier de, on self-love, [12];
of people fancying themselves ill, [76].
Malherbe, how he composed 126;
anecdotes of, [126].
Mallet, a curious fact relating to, [256].
Man, like a certain statue, [2];
like a bit of Labrador spar, [3];
a noble animal, [3];
his own chiefest flatterer, [13];
most apt to believe what he least understands, [17];
lives blindly, [23];
tries to pass for more than he is, [27];
a terrible Voltaic pile, [33];
some devil and some God in him, [42];
who succeeds, [46];
a curious object for microscopic study, [63];
a natural reformer, [90];
persuadability of, [103];
when he is powerful, [105];
the fittest place where he can die, [120];
when he becomes conscious of a higher self, [355];
naturally religious, [368].
Mandeville, an observation by, [346].
Man-mending, mania of, [103].
Marat, kept doves, [99].
Marlborough, avarice of, [264];
meanness of, [264].
Marlowe, Peele, and Greene, [249].
Marseillaise, origin of the, [205].
Marvell, pride and independence of, [139].
Mather, Cotton, epithets he applied to the Quakers, [44];
account of the trial of Mary Johnson for witchcraft, [58];
the panic he created in New England, [60].
Mathews, curious anecdote by, [207].
Mayflower, a slave-ship, [241].
Meanness, a study and an analysis of, [81].
Medhurst, Chinese opinions of Christians reported by, [101].
Melancthon, approved of the burning of Servetus, [258];
with Luther in the pulpit, [310].
Melmoth, on thinking authors, [158].
Menander, proverb from, quoted by St. Paul, [160].
Mencius, on the disease of men, [95].
Merck, and the Grand Duke, [89].
Mercury and Jove, [92].
Mesmerism, very old, [183].
Meyer, curious fact related by, [302].
Michelet, his horror of the sea, [252].
Middleton, stories of Cicero, [16], [215].
Migne, Abbé, curious cruelties referred to by, [99].
Milan cathedral, [196].
Mill, curious omission of, [266].
Miller, strange fact relating to, [267].
Mills of God, [107].
Milton, his care in composition, [126];
and Paradise Lost, [147];
De Quincey's estimate of, [152];
of lyric and epic poets, [348].
Mirabeau, ugliness and attractiveness of, [259];
his distrust of popular applause, [297].
Miser, characterized by Colton, [72];
a saying of Foote, [72];
effect of his hoarding habits illustrated, [73];
an observation of Lamb, [73].
Misfortunes never come singly, [299].
Molière, on the profession of hypocrite, [71];
his slowness as a writer, [127];
used one of his servants as critic, [149];
a grave and silent man, [316].
Money-getter analyzed, [71], [72].
Monod, of the conduct of certain missionaries, [56].
Montagu, Basil, prejudice, the spider of the mind, [376].
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, of the Duchess of Marlborough, [34];
her criticism of women, [34];
obloquy she endured, [201].
Montaigne, difference in opinions, [5];
of laws and events, [6];
action of seeing outward, [12];
a pattern within ourselves, [22];
the virtue of the soul, [23];
curing public evils, [25];
conduct of lecturers in the courts of philosophy, [41];
nature starting up, [47];
how estimated by his neighbors, [154];
faith in physicians, [208];
the fairest lives, in his opinion, [346];
the thoughts and actions of man, [375];
on distrusting our own judgments, [382].
Montespan, Madame de, to Madame de Maintenon, [34];
rigorous devotion of, [268].
Montesquieu, a laborious writer, [125].
Moore, the lady and the second volume of the Life of Byron, by, [54];
seventy lines a week's work for, [128];
pride and independence of, [140];
story of the jeweled lady, [165];
trick of Father Prout at the expense of, [176];
of Scott and Waverley, [191];
and the opera of Tarare, [221];
and Lalla Rookh, [251];
of the authorship of the Junius letters, [257];
statement relating to Sheridan, [267].
More, Hannah, her opinion of Milton's sonnets, [146].
More, Sir Thomas, a fierce persecutor, [245];
Morris, Robert, imprisoned for debt, [256].
Mosheim, a sentence from an old album, [347].
Mother Goose's Melodies, [206].
Motley, effects of the gout of Charles V., [8];
Luther when angry, [47];
Radbod and Bishop Wolfran, [100];
the Netherlands, [107];
long live the beggars! 110;
Erasmus and Luther, [308].
Mozart, declaration of, [30];
his estimate of Händel, [228].
Müller, Max, of children's fables, [160];
when a man becomes conscious of a higher self, [355];
of Christianity, [370].
Nanac, the holy, and the Moslem priest, [368].
Napoleon, what he said of Corneille, [153];
a thing that puzzled him, [170];
and Madame de Staël, [253];
his fondness for Ossian, [261];
remark to Bourienne, [297].
Nature, goes her own way, [103].
Neander, and Plutarch's Pedagogue, [265].
Nero, sensitive to poetry and music, [33].
Netherlands, the, Motley's description of, [107].
Newton, Sir Isaac, confesses his ignorance, [30];
his character illustrated, [105], [106], [107];
neglected as a lecturer, [133];
the story of the falling apple, [176];
a poor accountant, [263];
as a poet, [264].
Newton, John, to the woman in prison, [55].
Nicholls, a sensual clergyman, [43].
Nimrod and the gnat, [302].
Nollekens and the widow, [9].
Norris, John, self-love, [13];
our passions, [47].
Northcote, and the pedantic coxcomb, [1];
blaming himself to Kemble, [15];
of two of his pictures, [190];
of the conceited painter in the Sistine Chapel, [197].
Olaf's mode of converting Eyvind, [52].
Old Hundred, [204].
Old Oaken Bucket, [248].
Opinions, no two alike, [5];
human, the history of, [7];
bundles of contradictions, [8];
of the same men at different times, [8].
Orrery, Lord, story of Swift, [170].
Owen, Robert, reply to Wilberforce,
on putting off the happiness of mankind, [92].
Oyster-eating, first act of, [169].
Paley, what he thought of Tristram Shandy, [147].
Palgrave, anecdotes of Abd-el-Lateef, [383].
Panis, devoted to pheasants, [99].
Pantisocracy, Coleridge's Utopia, [102].
Paracelsus, persecution of, [201].
Paradise and Paris, [308].
Paradise Lost, slow sale of, [133].
Park, Mungo, and the sable chief, [27].
Pascal, of vanity, [13];
on our love of wearing disguises, [66];
maxims of conduct, [159];
twenty days perfecting one letter, [126];
vanity of the world, [240];
Solomon and Job on human misery, [337];
the present never the mark of our designs, [339];
a great advantage of rank, [353];
remark on the ambition of Cæsar, [353];
the two extremities of knowledge, [354];
maxims and first principles subject to revolution, [360];
the choice of a profession, [377].
Paul, St., effects of his preaching at Ephesus, [362].
Paul, Jean, a curious fact about sheep, [296];
his comic romance, Nicholas Margraf, [318].
Paul and Virginia, pronounced a failure, [148];
origin of an English translation of, [248].
Payne, and Home, Sweet Home, [205].
Peele, Greene, and Marlowe, [249].
Penn, a curious statement relating to, [257].
Pepys, his opinion of Hudibras, [146];
the poor widow in Holland, [325].
Pericles and Aspasia, [41].
Persian, passage from the, [344].
Persius, chastity and modesty of, [261].
Peruvian bark, an invention of the devil, [201].
Peterborough, of Fénelon, [373].
Petrarch, his sonnets, [190];
despised Dante, [199];
a curious fact of, [253];
an exclamation of, [355].
Petrified trees in the Andes, [108].
Phædrus, apologue of the two sacks, [374].
Phidias, his reported service to Pericles, [41];
his sitting statue of Jupiter, [261].
Philanthropic man, a, not a philanthropist, [113].
Philanthropists, malicious, anecdotes of, [96], [97].

Philanthropy, traders in, wrong in head or heart, [97].
Philip III. and Don Quixote, [314].
Phillips, Wendell, on borrowing in literature, [162];
on the lost arts, [177];
curious statements relating to, [237].
Philosophy, molecular, [6].
Pitt, authorship of a famous speech of, [248].
Plague, curious superstitions as to the cause of the, [203].
Plato, evidence of great care in the composition of his Republic, [125];
accused of envy, lying, etc., [144];
timidity of, [262].
Playfair, a strange fact of, [258].
Plays of the stage and of literature, [207].
Pliny, opinion of the Christian religion, [266];
questions nature, [337];
a custom of the Thracians, [339].
Plutarch, of self-love, [13];
without a biography, [262];
strange omission of, [265];
learned Latin after he was seventy, [267];
on the universality of religion, [368].
Poe, of God and the soul, [32];
and the Swedenborgians, [188];
the grand duke of Weimar's criticism of the Raven, [317];
lines by, [329];
what he thought a strong argument for the religion of Christ, [359].
Pompadour, Madame de, and Cardinal Bernis, [268];
her life an improbable romance, [336].
Pompey, career and end of, [222].
Pontifical army, soldiers of the, [241].
Pope, of every year of a wise man's life, [8];
opinion of Newton, [107];
an unwearied corrector, [126];
tradition of at Twickenham, [154];
anecdote of, [168];
Johnson's Latin version of his Messiah, [176];
and Gay and Arbuthnot, fate of a joint play of, [255];
timidity of, [262].
Poussin, reply to a person of rank, [121];
story told of, [175];
reply to Cardinal Mancini, [349].
Poverty, fine horror of, [73];
and parts, [121];
necessary to success 121;
amusing evidence of, [124].
Prayer, the, said to have been in use by the Jews
for four thousand years, [185].
Preaching, remarks of Thoreau on, [94];
Lincoln's horror of being preached to, [94];
virtue takes no pupils, [95].
Presbyterian Holdenough and Episcopalian Rochecliffe, [366].
Prescott, of the Aztec priests, [33];
a statement of, [240].
Procter, of Lamb's tragedy, [272].
Protogenes, and Apelles, [171].
Prout, Father, and Moore, [176].
Psalmanazar and Johnson, [250].
Public opinion, [71], [361].
Publius Syrus, sayings of, [48], [158], [226].
Puritanism in New England, [36].
Pyramids, story of the erection of one of them, [253].
Pythagoras, a curious statement relating to, [250].
Rabelais, a strange fact relating to, [190];
knew Rome, [308].
Racine and Louis XIV., [134].
Radbod, at the baptismal font, [100];
declines the Christian's heaven, [100].
Radcliffe, Mrs., an interesting fact of, [255].
Railroads and rain, [209].
Raleigh, Sir Walter, [135].
Randolph, John, his first public speech, [264].
Raphael, story of and Michel Angelo, [171];
his Transfiguration, [197].
Rawlinson, the stone he brought from Nineveh, [179].
Récamier, Madame, and Madame de Staël, [172];
sits and muses on the shore of the ocean, [336].
Reformers, stories of, [96], [97].
Reign of Terror, incident during the, [40].
Religion, a subject proscribed in general society, [242];
if charity were made the principle of it instead of faith, [357];
two religions, the religion of amity and the religion of enmity, [365].
Renous and his caterpillars, [267].
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, story related of, [174];
his colors fading, [179];
inquires in the Vatican for the works of Raphael, [197];
critical remark of, [197];
and Hogarth, [197];
his portrait of Bott, alongside of Goldsmith, [200].
Richard Cœur de Lion and Saladin, [180].
Richardson, man's resemblance to a statue made to stand against a wall, [2].
Right, too rigid, hardens into wrong, [96].
Robertson, F. W., from his sermon on the Tongue, [365].
Robertson, advised against writing his history of Charles V., [148].
Robespierre, defends Franklin's lightning-rods, [203];
and Frederick, [238];
what was found in his desk, [256];
Madame Roland to, [298].
Robinson, Henry Crabb, his partiality for the Book of Revelation, [20];
how he reconciled himself to his ignorance, [29];
rebuke of spiritual pride, [52];
the Mahometan's heaven and the Christian's hell, [55];
his opinion of Edwards' Original Sin, [56];
Jeffrey's portrait, [189];
at the Fountain of Arethusa, [302].
Robinson, Robert, remark of relating to the Trinity, [20];
Dyer's biography of, [284].
Rochester, Lord, the last year of the life of, [236].
Rodgers, Judge, the dying Scotsman's tribute to Burns, [174].
Rogers, his care in composition, [129];
his proposition to Wordsworth, [137];
remark on Sydney Smith, [151];
anecdote of relating to Dryden, [154];
amusing incident of, [155];
pretty story of a little girl, [359].
Roland, Madame, to Robespierre, [298].
Rollo, Duke of Normandy, story told of, [165].
Roman emperor, curious use of the marble head of a, [302].
Romanianus, with only a name, [262].
Rome, a bitter republican's opinion of, [307].
Rösch, on effects of occupation on the mind, [378].
Rough and Godwin, [311].
Rousseau, a saying of, [103];
and Voltaire, [198];
cause of his cynicism, [245];
a painstaking writer, [248];
fancied himself the object of all men's hatred, [259];
his preaching and his practice, [268].
Rubens, a complaint of, [30].
Rulhière, story of a Russian friend of, [77];
and Madame Geoffrin, [170];
guilty of only one wickedness, [375].
Ruskin to his students, [179].
Russell, Lord John, his definition of a proverb, [159].
Rutherford, Samuel, and Archbishop Usher, [357].
Saadi, the traveler and the bag of pearls, [122];
description of a drink, [184];
verse of the elephant-driver, [372];
reply of the piece of scented clay, [373];
Abraham and the old man who worshiped the fire only, [387].
Sachs, of earth and heaven, [325].
Sainte-Beuve, fastidiousness as a writer, [126].
Saint Simon, story of two sisters, [34];
of the dying duchess, [75].
Saladin and Richard Cœur de Lion, [180].
Sanson, the hereditary executioner, [259].
Saurin, advice to Montesquieu, [148].
Savage, corrects a lady's judgment of Thomson, [188];
tribute of Johnson to, [236];
with Johnson all night in London streets, [243].
Saxe, Marshal, his terror of a cat, [244].
Scaliger, his opinion of Montaigne, [147];
a peculiarity of, [244];
difficulty in communicating his knowledge, [258].
Scaramouche, snuff of a thousand flowers, [300].
Scargill, of the English, Scotch and Irish, [302].
Scarron, wretchedness of, [320].
Schedone, of a painting by, [326].
Schiller, Indian Death Song, [147];
Joan of Arc, Don Carlos, and Tell, [174];
the scent of rotten apples a necessity to, [244];
a curious fact relating to, [251].
Scott, story of a placid minister near Dundee, [50];
how estimated by his neighbors, [144];
failure of Waverley predicted, [148];
Campbell and Hohenlinden, [150];
Burns and the mouse, [150];
meeting of Richard and Saladin, [180];
how he discovered his talents, [191];
the authorship of Old Mortality, [201];
never saw Melrose Abbey by moonlight, [251];
remarkable industry of, [266];
a sad bit of self-portraiture, [317];
a strange fact relating to the Bride of Lammermoor, [318].
Scott, General, a sculptor's story of, [173].
Seeing, limits to, [12];
action of seeing outward, [12].
Selden, a remark on marriage, [240].
Selwyn, his reply on being charged with a want of feeling, [53];
of vices becoming necessities, [65].
Seneca, an usurer with seven millions, [245];
a maxim of, [349].
Shakespeare, Johnson's tribute to, [152].
Sharp, on the difficulty of doing good, [22].
Shelley, sighs to Leigh Hunt, [357].
Shenstone, splendid misery of, [246].
Sheridan, sarcasm upon Cumberland, [8];
fastidiousness as a writer, [127];
how he elaborated his wit, [129];
a curious fact of, [267].
Sherlock, consolation for the shortness of life, [332].
Siddons, Mrs., confesses her ignorance, [30].
Sidney, Algernon, remark of Evelyn relating to, [189].
Silenus, of Jove and Mercury, [92].
Simonides, replies to Hiero, [31], [348];
fable of the crab and the snake, [364].
Small-pox, goddess of, worshiped and burned in China, [36].
Smith, Adam, a laborious writer, [129].
Smith, Sydney, how he was cured of shyness, [15];
his objection to Scotch philosophers, [93];
advice to the Bishop of New Zealand, [99];
the Suckling Act, [103];
remark to his brother, [169];
a phrenologist pronounces him a great naturalist, [188];
authorship of the Plymley Letters, [201];
resorted to Dante for solace, [267];
on getting human beings together who ought to be together, [341].
Smollett and his dependents, [199];
private character of, [245].
Socrates, reply to Menon, [6];
the hardest of all trades, [25];
called illiterate, [144];
to his judges, [174];
idolatry of, [243];
timidity of, [262];
a poor accountant, [263];
learned music after he was seventy, [267];
enlargement of a thought of, [374].
Solomon, there is no new thing, [186];
his wicked son, [247];
what he said of laughter, [314].
Somerset, duke of, [69].
Sophocles, considered a lunatic, [144].
Soul, purification of the, illustrated by the old coin, [388].
Southey, story of Vergara and the seventh commandment, [17];
to Cottle of the meanness of an Englishman at Lisbon, [88];
not ashamed of his radicalism, [104];
declines the editorship of the Times, [141];
unknown to his neighbors, [145];
on certain famous literary works, [199];
attempt to hoax Hook, [200].
Souvestre, virtue takes no pupils, [95];
philosophizes on the carnival, [299];
the small dwelling joy can live in, [348];
awards the palm to moderation, [348];
rest in an eternal childhood, [353].
Spencer, the religion of amity and the religion of enmity, [365].
Spenser, poverty of, [134];
story told of, [166].
Spinoza, declines a present, [142];
persecuted by the Jews, [254].
Spiritualism, very old, [182].
Stanley, Dean, story of Rutherford and Usher, [357].
Statue, doubtful sex of a, [187].
St. Bartholomew, conduct of ladies at the massacre of, [35].
Steele, one of his Tatlers referred to, [169];
Miss Prue, [246];
castle-builders, [330];
on Christianity, [372];
epitaph by, [382].
Sterling, criticises Rochefoucauld's Maxims, [2];
on seeking perfect virtue, [90];
there will always be errors to mourn over, [91].
Sterne, conscience not a law, [22];
on the affectation of gravity, [70];
an incessant corrector, [129];
the sermon in Tristram Shandy, [192];
the charge of plagiarism against, [259].
Story of the lady and her three lovers, [173].
St. Peter's, first view of, [196].
St. Pierre, and Paul and Virginia, [148].
Stewart, Dugald, remark of, on Bacon's Essays, [30].
Suckling and Lovelace, [266].
Sue, Eugene, a Jesuitess more to be dreaded than a Jesuit, [3].
Suetonius, of Caligula's horse, [99];
how he regarded Christians, [266].
Sully, story told of, and the veiled lady, [166].
Surrey, Earl of, lines by, [326].
Swift, on men's opinions, [8];
story of and four clergymen in canonicals, [172];
Bolingbroke to, [214];
some thoughts of, [214];
anticipates his death, [214];
to Bolingbroke, [246];
irony and seriousness of, [312];
never known to smile, [315];
just religion enough to make us hate, [364].
Sydenham, poverty of, [135].
Tacitus, his opinion of the Christian religion, [266].
Taine, defines a character, [40];
of Puritanism, [307].
Talfourd, and Lamb's farce of Mr. H., [273];
anecdotes of Dyer, [285], [286].
Talleyrand, his reply to Madame de Staël, [172];
trembled when the word death was pronounced, [244];
his reply to Rulhière, [375].
Tamerlane and the spider, [166].
Tasso, an unwearied corrector, [126];
poverty of, [134];
a curious fact relating to, [247];
cause of his insanity, [247].
Taylor, Demosthenes, Johnson's story of, [212].
Taylor, Jeremy, arguments for humility, [14];
earthen vessels better than golden chalices, [347];
our trouble from within, [349];
the religion of Christ, [371];
those that need pity and those that refuse to pity, [376];
of Abraham and the old man who worshiped the fire only, [387].
Tell, William, relating to, [175].
Temple, Sir William, of the old earl of Norwich, [297];
compares life to wine, [332].
Tennyson, his care in composition, [127].
Tertullian, his mode of dissuading Christians
from frequenting public spectacles, [54];
ideas of justice and mercy in his day, [55].
Thackeray, the world can pry us out, but it don't care, [15];
credulity of the sexes, [20];
our paltry little rods to measure heaven immeasurable, [53];
a reflection on marriage, [62];
of the dying French duchess, [75];
a reflection of, applied to Madame de Pompadour, [336];
toil, the condition of life, [337].
Themistocles, Thucydides' remark on, [379].
Theophrastus, a lament of, [30];
timidity of, [262].
Thompson, George, what he saw in Calcutta, [180].
Thomson, a lady's opinion of, gathered from his writings, [188];
luxurious indolence of, [247].
Thoreau, on doing good, [93];
goodness tainted, [94];
hacking at the branches of evil, [95];
personal independence of, [136].
Threshing-machines, first effect of, [203].
Thucydides, how he toiled on his history, [125];
ignorance bold and knowledge reserved, [240];
a remark on Themistocles, [379].
Thurlow, and his daughter, [247].
Tiberius, life of, with two title-pages, [2].
Tillotson, two wonders in heaven, [382].
Titian, how he painted, [130];
colors of, compared with Reynolds', [179].
Tomochichi, would be taught before he was baptized, [101];
what he thought of the colonists, [101].
Tooke, Horne, how to be powerful, [67];
Beckford's speech, [252];
a remark on, by Coleridge, [378].
Torquemada, and the Inquisition, [46].
Townshend, Charles, and Fitzherbert, [211].
Trench, of the fraud played off on Voltaire, [176].
Truth, as humanity knows it, [4];
the difficulty of finding it, [360];
it must be repeated over and over again, [361];
the infinite number who persecute it, [362].
Tyndall, of the formation of icicles, [209].
Tyrian purple, [179].
Tytler, a remark by, on Raleigh's History, [135].
Value of an epithet, [110].
Vandyck, portrait of a celebrated widow by, [189].
Vanity of human judgment, [24];
of the world, [240].
Vanvenargues, on curing the vices of nature, [91].
Vere, Sir Horace, what caused his death, [121].
Vespasian, a story told of, [167].
Vicar of Wakefield and the peasant, [312].
Vinci, Leonardo da, his conscientiousness as a painter, [130];
anecdote of, [377].
Virgil, his care in composition, [125];
what Pliny and Seneca thought of him, [144].
Virtue, of the soul, [23];
takes no pupils, [95].
Voltaire, the history of human opinions, [7];
upon what the fate of a nation has often depended, [8];
anecdote of, [8];
compares us to a river, [11];
we on this globe like insects in a garden, [18];
confesses his ignorance, [31];
of the story of Newton and the apple, [176];
the forged Veda, [176];
invention of scissors, shirts, and socks, [203];
Candide's supper at Venice with the six kings, [333].
Vondel, poverty of, [134].
Wallenstein, faculties of, improved by a fall, [226].
Waller, a laborious writer, [126];
his opinion of Paradise Lost, [147];
lines by, [355].
Walpole, Horace, compares man to a butterfly, [19];

man a ridiculous animal, [20];
opinion of the Divina Commedia, [145];
contempt of Johnson and Goldsmith, [145];
criticises Sterne, Sheridan, Spenser, Chaucer, Dante,
Montaigne, Boswell, and Johnson, [146];
and Strawberry Hill, [154];
opinion of Lord Anson, [189];
a curious fact of, [258].
Walton, Izaak, quaint passages from, relating to Hooker, [225];
reply to the discontented man, [344].
Warren, Samuel, how the critics misjudged his first work, [148].
Washington, a story related by, [163];
his remarkable gravity, [246].
Webster, Daniel, wrote and re-wrote his fine passages, [132];
the best talker he ever heard, [246].
Weighing souls in a literal balance, [55].
Wesley, Charles, his son a papist, [254].
Wesley, John, on witchcraft, [59];
and Tomochichi, [101];
his belief in ghosts, [243];
his quiescent turbulence, [261];
his story of a parishioner who lived on boiled parsnips, [382].
White, Gilbert, effect of certain food on a bullfinch, [10];
differences in flocks of sheep, [11];
a strange propensity of cats, [210];
peculiarity of the tortoise, [211].
Whitefield, always improving his discourses, [132];
an exclamation of, [376].
Whipple, on an affectation of dignity, [67];
of the mother of Thomas à Becket, [212].
Wilberforce, and Owen's scheme of reform, [92];
and Wendell Phillips, [237].
Willemson, Richard, martyrdom of, [51].
Wilson, Prof., to the Ettrick Shepherd, [10];
thought to be a madman in Glasgow, [145];
the idea of the Noctes not his, [255];
tête-à-tête with the poet Campbell, [267];
contest for the professorship, [287];
first lecture in the university, [288];
achievements in running, leaping, etc., [289];
encounter with a pugilist, [289];
pedestrian feats, [290];
scene in an Edinburgh street, [291];
interferes at a prize-fight, [292];
describes a fairy's funeral, [293];
his relations with Dr. Blair, [310].
Witchcraft, Sir Matthew Hale's belief in, [57];
Sir Thomas Browne's opinion of, [57];
terrible punishment of, [57];
John Wesley's belief in, [59];
Richard Baxter a believer in, [59];
a passage from Lowell on, [61].
Wither, George, wrote his Shepherd's Hunting in prison, [136].
Wolsey, credulity of, [224].
Woman, characterized by Burns, [3];
reply of a good, [377].
Woodworth and his famous song, [248].
Woolman, John, eulogium upon, and passage from, [370].
Wordsworth, his care in composition, [128];
his reply to Rogers, [137];
Tobin's advice to, [148];
origin of the Ancient Mariner, [149];
thought to be a fool by some of his neighbors, [155];
his defense of the church, and his opinion of the clergy, [257];
his man-servant James, [351];
lines by, [352];
what he said of Mrs. Barbauld's stanza on Life, [356].
World, the, [19];
on reforming it, [90];
it cannot keep quiet, [109].
Wotton, Sir Henry, his reply to a bigot, [372].
Wycherley, on reproving faults, [364].
Ximenes, Cardinal, a story told of, [167].
York minster, not appreciated by Coleridge, [196].
Youatt, differences in flocks of sheep, [11].
Young, Mr., the prototype of Parson Adams, [285].
Young, an incident of Swift, related by, [214];
gayety of, [245].
Young, Dean, passages from his sermons, [366], [372].
Zeal, a violent, that we must correct, [363].
Zenobia, temple of, idealized by La Bruyère, [219]