INDEX.
ABERNETHY'S opinion of enthusiasm, 145.
ABSTRACTION of mind in great men, 133-136.
ACTORS, traits of character in great, 137.
ADRIAN VI., Pope, persecutes literary men, 18.
ÆSTHETIC Critics, 282.
AKENSIDE on the nature of genius, 30.
ALFIERI, childhood of, 32; loneliness of his character, 96; excited by Plutarch's works, 141.
ANGELO, Michael, illustrates Dante, 21; his ideas of intellectual labour, 85; his reason for a solitary life, 111; his picture of battle of Pisa destroyed by Bandinelli, 158; his elevated character, 252; his letter to Vasari describing the death of his servant, 373.
ANTIPATHIES of men of genius, 160-163.
ANXIETY of genius, 74; of authors and artists over their labours, 80-88.
ARISTOPHANES, popularised by a false preface, 287.
ART FRIENDSHIPS, 209-210.
ARTISTS, "Studies," or first thoughts, 131; their mutual jealousies, 156-158.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY, its interest, 295.
BARRY the painter, his love of ancient literature, 23; his general enthusiasm, 60; his rude eloquence, 107.
BAILLET and his catalogue, 352.
BEATTIE describes the powerful effect on himself of metaphysical study, 147.
BIRCH, Dr., and Robertson the Historian, 342-350.
BOCCACCIO'S friendship for Petrarch, 212-214.
BOOK COLLECTORS, 227-231.
BOOKSELLERS, the test of public opinion, 194.
BOSIUS, his researches in the Roman catacombs, 144.
BOYLE on the disposition of childhood, 31; his advertisement against visitors, n, 113; his idea of a literary retreat, 188.
BRUCE the traveller disbelieved, 78.
BUFFON gives a reason for his fame, 92.
BUONAPARTE revives old military tactics, 266.
BURNS'S diary of the heart, 71.
BURTON, his constitutional melancholy, 220.
BUNYAN a self-taught genius, 60.
BYRON'S loneliness of feeling, n., 96.
CALUMNY frequently attacks genius, 185.
CANTENAC and his autobiography, 296.
CARACCI, the, their unfortunate jealousies, 157.
CASTAGNO murders a rival artist, 157.
CHARLES V., friendship for Titian, 253;
Robertson's life of, 343.
CHATELET, Madame de, a female philosopher and friend of Voltaire, 95.
CHATHAM, Earl of, his constancy of study, 96.
CHENIER a literary fratricide, 173.
CICERO on youthful influence, 32.
CLARENDON, his love of retirement, 111.
COACHES, their first invention, 359.
COAL, its first use as fuel, 362.
COMA VIGIL, a disease produced by study, 147.
COMPOSITION, its toils, 80-81.
CONTEMPORARY criticism, frequently unjust, 75.
CONVERSATIONS of men of genius, 99-109; those who converse well seldom write well, 104.
COTIN, Abbé, troubled by wealth, 188.
CRACHERODE, Rev. C.M., his collections of art and literature, n., 13.
CRITICISM not always just, 65-75.
CURRIE, his idea of the power of genius, 26.
CUVIER'S discoveries in natural history, 145.
DANTE, his great abstraction of mind, 134.
DEATHS of literary men, 243.
DEPRECIATION, theory of, 160.
DIARIES, their value, 122.
DISEASE induced by severe study, 147.
DOMENICHINO poisoned by rivals, 158.
DOMESTIC Novelties at first condemned, 355-364.
DOMESTIC life of literary men, 173-186.
DREAMS of eminent men, 127-128.
DROUAIS an enthusiastic painter, 153.
ENGLAND and its tastes, 264.
FAMILY affection an incentive to genius, 179-182.
FENELON'S early enthusiasm for Greece, 151.
FIRST STUDIES of great men, 55-59; first thoughts for great works, 129-133.
FORKS, when first used, 356.
FRANKLIN, Dr., notes the calming of the sea, 133; his influence on American manners, 272.
FUSELI'S imaginative power, 151.
GALILEO invents the pendulum, 132.
GALVANISM first discovered, 133.
GESNER recommends a study of literature to artists, 22; on enthusiasm, 154; his wife a model for those of literary men, 206-208.
GLEIM and his portrait gallery, 211.
GOLDSMITH contrasted with Johnson, 294.
GOLDONI overworks his mind, 147.
GOVERNMENT of the thoughts, 117.
GRAY'S excitement in composing verse, 141;
GUIBERT, his great work on military tactics, 265.
HABITUAL PURSUITS, their power over the mind, 302-304.
HALLUCINATIONS of genius, 148; realities with some minds, 150.
HAYDN, his regulation of his time, 92.
HELMONT'S (Van) love of study, 152.
HERBERT of Cherbury, Lord, questions the Deity as to the publication of his book, 148.
HOBBES, theory to explain his terror, 150.
HOGARTH, attacks on, n. 87.
HOLLIS, his miserable celibacy, 201.
HONOURS awarded literary men, 249-258.
HORNE (Bishop), his love of literary labour, 135.
HUME the historian, his irritability, 86; unfitted for gay life, 99; gives his reason for literary labour, n. 177; endeavours to correct Robertson, 342.
HUNTER, Dr., fraternal jealousy, 156.
HYPOCHONDRIA, its cause and effect, 150.
IDEALITY defined, 137; its power, 138-154.
INCOMPLETED books, 350-355.
INDUSTRY of great writers, 125.
INFLUENCE of authors, 267-270; 273-277.
INTELLECTUAL nobility, 250.
IMITATION in literature, 305-307.
IRRITABILITY of genius, 70, 86-88.
ISOCRATES' belief in native character, 32.
JAMES I., a critical disquisition on the character of, 385-455.
JULIAN, Emperor, anecdotes of, 97.
JEALOUSY in art and literature, 154-159; of honours paid to literary men, 251.
JOHNSON, Dr., defines the literary character, 12; his moral dignity, 192; his metaphysical loves, 200; anecdotes of him and Goldsmith, 294.
JUVENILE WORKS, their value, 67.
LABOUR endured by great authors, 75; a pleasure to some minds, 176-177.
LETTERS in the vernacular idiom, 375-379.
LINNÆUS sensitive to ridicule, 75; honours awarded to, 191.
LITERARY FRIENDSHIP, 209-217.
LITERATURE an avenue to glory, 248.
LOCKE'S simile of the human mind, 25.
MANNERISTS in literature, 293.
MARCO Polo ridiculed unjustly, n. 79.
MATRIMONIAL STATE in literature and art, 198-208.
MAZZUCHELLI a great literary historian, 352.
MEDITATION, value of, 129.
MEMORY, as an art, 120, 122.
MENDELSSOHN, Moses, his remarkable history, 61-64.
MEN of LETTERS, their definition, 226-238.
METASTASIO a bad sportsman, 38; his susceptibility, 140.
MILTON, his high idea of the literary character, 12; his theory of genius, 25; his love of study, 135; sacrifices sight to poetry, 152.
MISCELLANISTS and their works, 282-286.
MODES OF STUDY used by great men, 125.
MOLIERE, his dramatic career, 310-325.
MONTAIGNE, his personal traits, 223.
MORE, Dr., on enthusiasm of genius, 149.
MORERI devotes a life to literature, 152.
MORTIMER the artist, his athletic exercises, 39.
MURATORI, his literary industry, 351.
NATIONAL tastes in literature, 260.
NECESSITY, its influence on literature, 193-194.
OBSCURE BIRTHS of great men, 248-249.
OLD AGE of literary men, 238-244.
PECULIAR habits of authors, 119-120.
PEIRESC, his early bias toward literature, 234; his studious career, 235.
PERSONAL CHARACTER differs from the literary one, 217-226.
PETRARCH'S remarkable conversation on his melancholy, 68;
his mode of life, 114.
POPE, his anxiety over his Homer, 81;
severity of his early studies, 147.
POUSSIN fears trading in art, 193.
POVERTY of literary men, 186; sometimes a choice, 188-190.
PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE of life wanting in studious men, 183-185.
PRAYERS of great men, 146.
PRECIEUSES, 315-318.
PREDISPOSITION of the mind, 118.
PREFACES, their interest, 286; their occasional falsehood, 287; vanity of authors in, 288; idle apologies in, 289; Dryden's interesting, 290.
PREJUDICES, literary, 160-163.
PUBLIC TASTE formed by public writers, 268.
RACINE, sensibility of, 83; 325-332.
RAMBOUILLET, Hotel de, 315-317.
READING analyzed, 298-302.
RECLUSE manners in great authors, 98-99.
RELICS of men of genius, 255-258.
REMUNERATION of literature, 194-195.
RESIDENCES of literary men, 255-257.
REYNOLDS, Sir J., his "automatic system," 26; discovers its inconsistencies, 27.
RIDICULE the terror of genius, 94
ROBERTSON the historian, 341-350.
ROLAND, Madame, anecdote of the power of poetry on, 141.
ROMNEY, his anxiety over his picture of the Tempest, 81-82.
ROUSSEAU'S expedient to endure society, 73; his domestic infelicity, 175.
ROYAL SOCIETY, attacks on, n. 14.
RUBENS' transcripts of the poets, 21.
SANDWICH, Lord, his first idea of a stratagem at sea, 132.
SCUDERY, Mademoiselle, 316.
SENSITIVENESS of genius, 72, 78, 78; 139-140.
SELF-IMMOLATION of genius to labour, 152.
SELF-PRAISE of genius, 162-170.
SERVANTS, a dissertation on, 364-374.
SHEE, Sir M.A., relations of poetry and painting, n., 21.
SHENSTONE, his early love, 199.
SIDDONS, Mrs., anecdote of, 137.
SINGLENESS of genius, 245-247.
SOCIETY, artificial, an injury to genius, 90.
SOLITUDE loved by men of genius, 35-40; 109-115.
STEAM first discovered, 133.
STUDIES of advanced life, 241-243.
STERNE, anecdotes of, 332-340.
STYLE and its peculiarities, 291-294.
SUSCEPTIBILITY of men of genius, 170-172.
SUGGESTIONS of one mind perfected by another, 275-276.
TASSO uneasy in his labours, 84.
TAYLOR, Dr. Brooke, his torpid melancholy, 175.
TEMPLE, Sir W., his love of gardens, 283.
THEORETICAL history, 342.
THOMSON, his sensitiveness to grand poetry, 142; irritability over false criticisms, 65.
TOBACCO, its introduction to England, 362.
TOOTHPICKS, origin of, 358.
TOWNLEY Gallery of Sculpture, n., 13.
TROUBADOURS, their influence, 285.
UMBRELLAS, their history, 358.
UTILITARIANISM and its narrow view of literature, 15.
UNIVERSALITY Of genius, 244.
VAN PRAUN refuses to part with his collection to an emperor, 229.
VERNET sketches in a storm, 144.
VERS DE SOCIETE, 308-310.
VINDICTIVENESS of genius, 170-173.
VISIONARIES of genius, 148.
VISITORS disliked by literary men, 112-113.
VOLTAIRE, anecdote of his visit to a country house, 95;
his universal genius, 245.
WALPOLE's, Horace, opinion of Gray, 91;
of Burke, ib.
WATSON neglects research in his professorship, 17.
WERNER'S discoveries in science, 145.
WILKES desirous of literary glory, 17.
WIT sometimes mechanical, 126.
WIVES of literary men, 202-208.
WORKS intended, but not executed, 123.
WOOD, Anthony, sacrifices all to study, 152.
YOUNG the poet, his want of sympathy, 185.
YOUTH of great men, 34-54.
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