INDEX.
Adams, John, [187].
Addison, Joseph, [4].
Aikin, Dr., [273-276].
Allston, Washington, [316].
Anne, Queen, the times of, [1-3].
Austen, Jane, her life and personality, [265-267]; opinions of Walter Scott, Macaulay, and Miss Mitford concerning, [266], [267]; her Pride and Prejudice, [268]; Persuasion and Northanger Abbey, [268], [269]; her qualities, [270], [271]; burial-place, [270].
Austen, Lady, and William Cowper, [246], [247].
Barbauld, Mrs., [273-276].
Beauclerk, Topham, [114-116].
Beckford, William, and his Vathek, [285-291].
Bentley, Richard, his Siris: A chain of Philosophical Reflections and Inquiries concerning the Virtues of Tarwater, [9]; writes on the Epistles of Phalaris, [9-11]; his family, [10]; portrait of, [10], [11]; as a writer and as a man, [11], [12].
Berkeley, George, his Theory of Vision, [4]; his career, [4-9]; his verse, [5]; his sermons, [6]; The Minute Philosopher, [7]; his family, [7]; his philosophy, [9].
Blair, Hugh, [230].
Blounts, Alexander Pope and the, [34].
Boswell, James, and his Life of Dr. Johnson, [118-122].
Boufflers, Madame de, and David Hume, [150].
Burke, Edmund, [112], [113]; his words concerning Beauclerk's widow, [115]; his burial-place, [145].
Burney, Frances, and Dr. Johnson, [138], [142], [164], [165]; her stories, [165]; Evelina, [165-168]; Camilla, [168]; her Diary, [168-169]; last years, [170], [171].
Burns, Robert, his poetry, [291]; his career, [292-297]; his death, [298], [301]; compared with Samuel Rogers, [302], [303].
Camilla, Miss Burney's, [170].
Carlyle, Thomas, his words concerning Coleridge, [318].
Castle of Otranto, The, Walpole's, [84].
Chatterton, Thomas, the young poet, [202-205]; his end, [205], [206], [209]; and Horace Walpole, [206-209]; the Rowley Poems, [207], [208]; compared with Poe, [210].
Chesterfield, Lord, and Dr. Johnson, [97], [98].
Children of the Abbey, Miss Roche's, [282], [283].
Christabel, Coleridge's, [317], [318].
Coach, the Venetian, [3].
Cœlebs, Hannah More's, [175], [176].
Coleridge, S. T., [298], [299]; his life, [309-317]; Lamb's apostrophe to, [310]; and Southey, [311], [312]; and Wordsworth, [313]; his Ancient Mariner, [314], and Washington Allston, [316]; his opium habit, [316], [317]; his Christabel, [317]; Carlyle's words concerning, [318]; his death, [318].
Collins, William, [100-163]; his Ode to Evening, [163], [180].
Coverley, Sir Roger de, [2].
Cowper, William, his family and education, [239], [240]; his love affair, [240]; mental trouble, [241], [242]; and Mrs. Unwin, [243-245], and Rev. John Newton, [245]; John Gilpin's Ride, [245], [246], and Lady Austen, [246]; The Task, [240], [247]; on American affairs, [248]; later life, [249-253]; his Homer, [250], [251]; his place as a poet, [254-256].
Crabbe, George, compared with Pope, [232], [233]; his birth and early work, [233-235]; private chaplain to the Duke of Rutland, [235], [236]; his life and character, [237], [238].
Curchod, Mademoiselle, afterward Madame Necker, [123].
Day, Thomas, and Sandford and Merton, [271-273].
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Gibbons's History of, [125], [127], [130].
Edgeworth, Maria, [277-281].
Ernest, Augustus, Duke of Brunswick, [57].
Evelina, Miss Burney's, [165-168].
Evenings at Home, by Dr. Aikin and Mrs. Barbauld, [273-276].
Ferguson, Robert, [229].
Fielding, Henry, his coarseness, [67], [68]; his character and ancestry, [68]; his schooling, [69]; his dramatic work, [69], [70]; his Joseph Andrews, Amelia, and Tom Jones, [71], [72]; his marriage, [70], [71]; his death, [72].
Fox, Charles James, [188-192].
Franklin, Benjamin, and Miss Burney, [166]; his words concerning George III., [184].
Freeman, Edward, his words concerning Gibbon, [128].
Garrick, David, at Dr. Johnson's school, [91], [92]; as a boy, [116]; a member of the "Literary Club, " [116]; as an actor, [117], [118]; his death, [138]; Hannah More and, [173], [174].
George I., ancestry, [57]; comes to England, [58]; his character, [58]; his wife, [58], [59].
George II., [59-61]; his reign, [61].
George III., character and personality of, [181-187].
Gibbon, Edward, birth, parentage, and education, [122]; his love for Mlle. Curchod, afterward Madame Necker, [133], [124]; a member of the "Literary Club, " [124], [127]; as an author, [124], [125]; his Decline and fall of the Roman Empire, [125], [127-130]; as a man, [125], [126]; in Paris, [126]; his burial-place, [145].
Goldsmith, Oliver, a member of the "Literary Club, " [130], [131]; as a writer, [132], [133]; his death, [133], [134]; his burial-place, [144], [145].
Gray, Thomas, birth, parentage, and education, [79], [80]; opinions of his work, [80]; his fastidious refinement, [80-82]; the Elegy churchyard, [82]; and the Rowley Poems, [208].
Halket, George, [229].
Hayley, William, a friend of Cowper's, [249].
Hesketh, Lady, her interest in Cowper, [250], [252].
Homer, Pope's translation of, [43-45]; Cowper's translation, [250], [251].
Honeycomb, Will, [2].
Hume, David, compared with Gibbon, [145], [146]; his birth and early years, [146-148]; his Political Discourses, [148]; his History of England, [146], [149], [150], [156], [157]; and Madame de Boufflers, [150]; in Paris, [151-154]; ambassador to the Court of France, [152]; did not love England, [152], [153]; his home in Edinboro', [154], [155]; his death, [155], [156], [179]; his words concerning James Macpherson, [226].
John Gilpin's Ride, Cowper's, [245], [246].
Johnson, Samuel, his birth, parentage, and early career, [88-90]; his marriage, [90], [91]; his boarding-school, [91]; his personal appearance, [91]; goes to London, [91], [92]; his Irene, [90], [92], [96], [97]; and Richard Savage, [92-94]; his London, [94], [95]; his Vanity of Human Wishes, [95], [96]; his Prologue spoken at Drury Lane, [96]; his Dictionary, [97], [98]; his letter to Lord Chesterfield, [98]; in poverty, [102]; death of his wife, [104]; and Miss Williams, [104], [105]; his power felt, [105]; his Rasselas, [105-108]; his friendship with Sir Joshua Reynolds, [108], [109]; Boswell's Life of, [118-122]; and the Thrales, [135-137], [139], [140]; his journey to the Hebrides, [137], [138]; his last years, [137-143]; his burial-place, [145]; Hannah More and, [173]; his reply to James Macpherson, [225], [226].
Joseph Andrews, Fielding's, [177].
Kames, Lord, [230].
Lamb, Charles, his words on Burns, [299]; his apostrophe to Coleridge, [310]; his writings, [319], [320], [323-326]; his personality, [320], [321]; his family afflictions, [321-323]; his death, [326].
"Literary Club, " the, [111].
London Bridge, [103].
Macaulay, T. B., on Boswell, [119]; his opinion of Jane Austen, [266].
Mackenzie, Henry, [230].
Macpherson, James, and the Ossian poems, [221-227]; his life, [224], [225]; his habits and disposition, [226], [227].
Mitford, Miss, her words concerning Jane Austen, [266], [267].
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, her birth, parentage, and early life, [21], [22]; her marriage, [22]; her letters, [21], [23], [28]; has her son inoculated for smallpox, [23], [24]; Pope's admiration for, [23-25]; quarrels with Pope, [25], [26]; a favorite of George I., [26]; her later life, [27-30]; Horace Walpole's words concerning, [30], [52], [53].
More, Hannah, her words concerning Dr. Edward Young, [20]; her youth, [171], [172]; her pension, [172]; acquaintance with Garrick and Johnson, [173], [174]; her tragedy of Percy, [174]; as a worker, [175]; her Cœlebs, [175], [176]; her goodness, [175-178]; Thackeray's reference to, in The Newcomes, [177], [178]; her age, [180].
Mysteries of Udolpho, Radcliffe's, [284], [285].
Newton, Rev. John, of Olney, and William Cowper, [245].
Night Thoughts, Young's, [15], [16], [18-30].
Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen's, [269].
Nugent, Dr., [114].
Ode to Evening, Collins's, [163].
Ossian's Poems, [221-227]; the Ossianic Hermitage, [257], [258].
Percy, Hannah More's tragedy, [174].
Persuasion, Jane Austen's, [268], [269].
Pitt, William, [192-195].
Pope, Alexander, his admiration for Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, [23-25]; familiar couplets of, [31]; his infirmity and personal appearance, [31], [32]; his birth and early years, [33], [34]; and the Blounts, [34]; his poetic methods, [35-39:] his Essay on Criticism, [36]; his Windsor Forest, [36]; his Rape of the Lock, [36], [39-42]; writes for the Spectator, [38], [39]; his translation of Homer, [43-45]; his house and friends at Twickenham, [45-50]; his last days, [48-51], [53].
Porter, Jane, her Thaddeus of Warsaw, [283], [284]; her Scottish Chiefs, [284].
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's, [268].
Radcliffe, Ann Ward, her Mysteries of Udolpho, [284], [285].
Rambler, The, [98].
Ramsay, Allan, [228].
Rape of the Lock, Pope's, [36], [39-42].
Rasselas, Dr. Johnson's, [105-108].
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, [108-111].
Richardson, Samuel, a printer and book-seller, [62]; his friends, [63], [64]; as a writer of letters, [63-66]; the father of the novel, [66], [67]; assists Dr. Johnson, [102].
Robertson, Dr., [230].
Roche, Maria Regina, her Children of the Abbey, [282], [283].
Rogers, Samuel, his Pleasures of Memory, [301], [302], [307-309]; compared with Burns, [302], [303]; his career and character, [303-307].
Rousseau, J. J., [154].
Rowley Poems, The, [208].
Ruskin, John, on Gibbon's style, [128].
Sandford and Merton, Day's, [271-273].
Savage, Richard, and Dr. Johnson, [92], [94].
Scott, Walter, his opinion of Jane Austen, [266]; his translation of Leonora, [298].
Scottish Chiefs, Jane Porter's, [284].
Selborne, Natural History of, White's, [260-262].
Shenstone, William, [158-160], [180].
Sheridan, Thomas Brinsley, [195-202]; as an orator, [199], [200]; his end, [201], [202], [219].
Smibert, John, his painting of Berkeley and family, [7].
Smith, Adam, [230].
Sophia, grand-daughter of James I. and mother of George I., [57].
Southey, Robert, and Coleridge, [311], [312].
Sterne, Laurence, his death, [211], [212]; his style, [212-214]; his burial-place, [215]; his character and habit, [215], [216]; his literary pilferings, [216], [217]; pathos of his life, [217], [218], [220].
Stoke-Pogis Churchyard and Gray's Elegy, [82].
Stuart, Charles Edward, the Young Pretender, [55], [56].
Stuart, Elizabeth, daughter of James I., [57].
Stuart, Henry, [56].
Stuart, James Edward, the Pretender, [53-55].
Swift, Dean, and Pope's Homer, [44].
Thackeray, W. M., and Hannah More, [177], [178].
Thaddeus of Warsaw, Jane Porter's, [283], [284].
Thomson, James, his boyhood, [73]; brings his poetry to London, [73], [74]; his Winter, [74], [75]; befriended by Pope, [76]; his Liberty and Castle of Indolence, [77], [78]; his burial-place, [101].
Thrales, The, and Dr. Johnson, [135-137], [139], [140].
Turk's Head Club, The, [111] et seq.
Unwin, Mrs., and William Cowper, [243-245], [252], [253].
Vathek, Beckford's, [285-288].
Walpole, Horace, his words concerning Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, [30]; his parentage and life at Twickenham, [83], [84], [87], [88]; his Castle of Otranto, [84]; his letters, [85-87]; his words concerning Gibbon, [125]; and the poet Chatterton, [206-209].
Watts, Isaac, associations of the name, [12], [13]; birth, parentage, and education, [13], [14]; Bryant's admiration for, [14]; his hymns, [14], [15]; endowed with a home, [15].
Westminster Bridge, [103].
White, Gilbert, and the Natural History of Selborne, [259-264]; his house, [264].
Williams, Miss, and Dr. Johnson, [104], [105].
Wordsworth, William, [298]; and Coleridge, [313]; the author's personal reminiscence of, [327-330]; his poetry, [330-337]; his parentage and early years, [337-340]; his marriage, [340]; his love of Nature, [340], [341]; personal traits, [341-343]; his home at Rydal Mount, [343], [344]; his pension, [344]; made Poet Laureate, [344]; opposed to railways and manufactures, [345], [346]; his burial-place, [347].
Young, Dr. Edward, his Night Thoughts, [15], [16], [18-20]; his birth, parentage, and early work, [16]; his Last Day, [17]; his marriage, [18]; back at court, [19], [20]; Hannah More's words concerning, [20].
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