Virtue, effect of, on features, ii. 117; set forth by plants, iii. 228; of the Swiss, v. [84], [85].
Vulgarity of mind, v. [261]-276; consists in insensibility, v. [274]-275; examples of, v. [269], [270]; seen in love of mere physical beauty, iii. 67; in concealment of truth and affectation, iii. 82, 83; inconceivable by the greatest minds, iii. 82; of Renaissance builders, v. [176]; “deathful selfishness,” v. [277]; among Dutch painters, v. [277]-285; how produced by vicious habits, v. [262]. See Gentlemen.
War, a consequence of injustice, iii. 328; lessons to be gathered from the Crimean, iii. 329; at the present day of what productive, iii. 326; modern fear of, iii. 256.
Water, influence of, on soil, i. 273; faithful representation of, impossible, i. 325-326; effect produced by mountains on, iv. 93; functions of, i. 325; laws of reflection in, i. 329, 336; clear, takes no shadow, i. 331; most wonderful of inorganic substances, i. 325; difference in the action of continuous and interrupted, i. 369; in shade most reflective, i. 330; painting of, optical laws necessary to, i. 336; smooth, difficulty of giving service to, i. 355, 356; distant, effect of ripple on, i. 335; swift execution necessary to drawing of, i. 350; reflections in, i. 326; motion in, elongates reflections, i. 335-336; execrable painting of, by elder landscape masters, i. 328; as painted by the modern, i. 348-354; as painted by Turner, i. 355-383; as represented by mediæval art, iii. 209; truth of, i. 325-383. See Sea, Torrents, Foam.
Waves, as described by Homer and Keats, iii. 168; exaggeration of size in, ii. 209; grander than any torrent, iv. 347; breakers in, i. 377; curves of, i. 375.
Wordsworth, his insight into nature (illustration of Turner), i. 177; love of plants, ii. 91; good foreground described by, i. 83-84; skies of, i, 207; description of a cloud by, ii 67; on effect of custom, iii 293; fancy and imagination of, ii. 196-200; description of the rays of the sun, i. 220.
Work, the noblest done only for love, v. [346].