* * * As pointed out in the places, the 'Contents' of Vol. III. give the details of topics in the 'Notes and Illustrations of the Poems' and of 'Letters and Extracts of Letters' so minutely, as to obviate their record here; thus lightening the Index. G.
A.
Abuses, [i. 284.]
Acquiescence, not choice, [i. 19.]
Action, springs of, [i. 160.]
Addresses, Two, to the Freeholders of Westmoreland, [i. 211.][ 270;]
occasion of writing, [i. 214.]
Addison, [i. 357.][iii. 508.]
Adventurers, [i. 241.]
Advice to the Young, [i. 295.][326.]
Admiration, unqualified, [i. 312.]
Advancement and preferment of youth, [i. 352.]
'Age, present,' supposed moral inferiority of, [i. 310.]
Agitators, [i. 249.]
Alban's, St., [ii. 46.]
Alfoxden, [iii. 16.][277]
Alpedrinha, [i. 56.]
Allies, to be supported, [i. 138.]
how, [i. 138-9.]et seqq.
Alston, [ii. 193.]
'Altering' of poems, [ii. 207.]
Ambleside, [ii. 224-6;]
road from, to Keswick, [ii. 227-8.]
'Amends,' how to make, [i. 130-1,]et seqq.
American war, [i. 135.]6.
American edition of poems, [iii. 483-4.]
Anxiety, moderate, [i. 324.]
Appendix
to Bishop Watson's Sermon, [i. 24-30;]
to Contention of Cintra, [i. 175-79.]
(See preface, I.[ xiv.-xix.])
Apology for the French Revolution, [i. 1-23.]
(See preface, I.[ x.-xix.])
Arbitrary,
distinctions, [i. 16-17;]
power, [i. 158-9.]
Aristocracy, [i. 19.]
Aristarchus, [ii. 17.]
Armistice, [i. 84.]
preamble of, [i. 86.]
articles of, [i. 88-94.]
Armstrong, Dr., [iii. 506.]
Army,
British, departure of, [i. 38.]
Spanish, the people, [i. 47.]
French, and the French government, [i. 95.]
'Arrow,' [i. 21.]
Artevelde, van, Philip, [iii. 492.]
Art and nature, [ii. 157-61.]
Arts and science, [i. 154.]
fine, [i. 323.]
Ashe, [i. 360.]
Ashley, [iii. 507.]
Assembly, [i. 147.]
Asturias, [i. 52-3.]
B.
' Bad people,' [ii. 41.]
'Babes in the wood,' [ii. 98.]
Bacon,
quotation from, [i. 357.]
and Shakespeare, [iii. 457.]
Beia, [i. 55.]
Benevolence, [i. 171.]
'Beck.' [i. 336.]
Beaumont, Sir George H. and Lady,
letters to, [ii. 146-201;]
drawings by Sir George, [ii. 151.]
Beaumont, Sir John, [i. 346.][iii. 505.]
Bell, Peter, [ii. 182.]
Bell, Dr., [iii. 507.]
Bede, [iii. 506.]
Biscayans, [i. 60.]
Biography, of authors, [ii. 11-12.]
Birthday, [iii. 443-4.]
Bonaparte, [i. 37.]
acknowledgment of titles, [i. 84-5;]
influence of concession on, [i. 93-4;]
ravager of Europe, [i. 115.]
formidable yet weak, [i. 163-4;]
to decrease, [i. 200.][ii. 18.] et alibi frequenter.
Books, religious, [i. 335.]
'Bolton, Mr.,' [i. 350.]
Boswell's Johnson, [ii. 9.]
Bran [misprinted Braw], [iii. 69.]
Bleeding, good, [i. 86.]
Britain, history of a noble one, [i. 101-2.]
Brougham,
public life of, [i. 225.] et seqq., [i. 242-8,] et seqq.
later opinion of, [iii. 504.]
Bruce, Michael, [ii. 21.][i. 343.]
Bruce, P.H..[iii. 507.]
Browne, Sir Thomas, [ii. 23.]
Browning, Robert,
letter to the Editor, i. xxxiv.;
quotation from poem of, [iii. 508.]
Brun, Frederica, [iii. 505.]
Brooke, Lord, [iii. 506.]
Burke, [i. 21.] [i. 357.]
Burns, Robert, Cottar's Saturday-night, [i. 356-60;]
letter to a friend of, [ii. 1.][ii. 19;]
Gilbert, [ii. 5.] [ii. 19.][ii. 343;]
fitted to tell the whole truth of, [ii. 6-7;]
quotations from, [ii. 7.] [ii. 13-14,][ 331,][ 343 (bis),] [ii. 347,][iii. 436.] [iii. 506.]
Building and gardening, [ii. 184.] [ii. 191.]
Buttermere and Crummock, [ii. 230.]
Burnet, Thomas, [ii. 327.] [ii. 507.]
Burnet, Bishop, [iii. 506.]
Buchanan, [iii. 459.]
Byron, [iii. 462-3,] [ii. 503.]
C.
Calamity, how to be regarded, [i. 52.]
Castile, council of, [i. 59.]
Cadiz, governor of, [i. 92.]
Catholic Relief Bill, [i. 259.] [i. 70.]
Camden, [ii. 27.] 343-4.
Carter, Miss, 'Spring,' [iii. 426.]
Campbell, odd forgetfulness of, [ii. 445.]
Celandine, small, [iii. 505.]
Chamber, personal character of and its chief, [ii. 140-1.]
Child and man, [i. 170.]
Charles I., tyranny of, [i. 310.]
epitaph of, [ii. 49.]
Sydney and, [ii. 50.]
Chatterton, [ii. 21.] [ii. 343.]
Chiabiera, [ii. 58.] [ii. 68,] et seqq.
Christabelle, [iii. 427.]
Chronological classification of poems, [iii. 474.]
Church of England, servility of its clergy, [i. 3-4;]
notices of, [i. 262-4,] [i. 283,] et seqq.
Churchyard, village, [ii. 33-4;]
country, [ii. 41.] et seqq.;
on sea-coast, [iii. 434.]
Clark, Mrs., [ii. 66-7,] [iii. 344-5.]
Classical study, [iii. 479.]
Clergyman, the, [i. 286-7,]et seqq.
Cleveland, history of, [iii. 508.]
Cockburn, Mrs., [iii. 509.]
Coleridge, [ii. 155-6,][ 163,][ 164,][ 166,][ 167,]
[168,] [170,] [174-5,] [184-4,] [193,] [iii. 427.]
[441,] [442,] [444,] [469-70,] [492,] [507,]
et alibi frequenter.
Coleridge, Hartley, [iii. 482.] et alibi.
Coleridge, the Lord, [i. xxxiii.]
Collins, [ii. 120.][iii. 419.]
Commissioners, report of, [i. 274.]
'Common life,' [ii. 81-2,] et seqq.
Companions, [i. 229.]
'Compulsory' relief, [i. 278.]
Conciliation and concession, [i. 265.]
Condemnation, inevitable, [i. 82-3.]
Coniston, [ii. 226-7.]
Constancy, [i. 51.]
Contempt, [ii. 18.]
Contention of Cintra, [i. 31.][172;]
occasion of writing, [i. 35.][129;]
importance of, [i. 37.][143;]
impression produced by the, [i. 37.]
condemned, [i. 65.]
reception by the people, [i. 69.]
results of, as a military act, [i. 70-1;]
critical examination of its terms, [i. 71.] et seqq.;
not necessary, [i. 82.]
military results, [i. 84.] et seqq.;
conditions of, thus far examined, [i. 99.]
injury done to British character, [i. 99-100,][101-102;]
sorrow of the nation over, [i. 103-4;]
punishment demanded, [i. 104-5;]
to be repudiated, [i. 105-6;]
disgrace of, [i. 121.]
Vindication of the Opinions on, [i. 195.] [209.]
(See preface. Vol. I.[ xiv.-xix.]
Continuous education, [i. 355-6.]
Contradictions, [i. 237.]
Conversations and personal reminiscences of Wordsworth, [iii. 403.] [504.]
Coöperation of working people, [i. 282.]
Copyright, international, [iii. 483.]
Corruption, [i. 20.]
Cortes, [i. 147.]
Cotton, Charles, and Walton, [ii. 89.] [345.]
Cotton, Dr., [ii. 142-4.]
Counters and stakes, [i. 81.]
County elections, entire charge of, [i. 251-2.]
Courage, [i. 50.]
intellectual, lacking, [i. 74-5.]
Cowley, [iii. 465.]
Courts, corruption of, [i. 14.]
Cowper, [ii. 104.] [211,] [346.]
Crabbe, [iii. 503.] et alibi.
Crashaw, [ii. 344.]
Criticism, false, [ii. 175.][181;]
result of in Edinburgh Review and Quarterly, [iii. 437.]
a low ability for, [iii. 438.] [9;]
verbal, [iii. 474.] [5.]
Critic, decision of, [ii. 110.]
Cromwell, [i. 166.] [359.]
Crowe, [iii. 506.]
Cuckoo, [ii. 136-7.]
Cumberland's Calvary, [iii. 415.]
Curates, [i. 285-6.]
Currie, Dr., [ii. 5.]
indignation with, [ii. 7-8,] [i12]
D.
Dalrymple, Sir Hew, [i. 72.] et frequenter.
Daughter, education of a, [i. 329-33.]
Dante, [i. 359.] et alibi.
Da Vinci, Leonardo, [iii. 506.]
Darwin, Dr., [iii. 507.]
D'Abrantes, title of, wrongly acknowledged, [i. 68.] [357.]
Delusions, [i. 19.]
Debt, national, [i. 20.]
'Declarations,' [i. 43-4.]
Defeats and disasters, [i. 44-5.]
Delicacy, no, [i. 98.]
Defence of fellow-countrymen, [i. 113.]
Despotism[i. 139.] [40] [229.]
Despond, those who, [i. 171-2.]
Detraction, no, [ii. 42.]
Dedication, to the Queen, [i. v.;]
of 1815, [ii. 144.]
De Vere, Sir Aubrey, [iii. 495.] [509-510.]
De Quincey, i. xxxiii.-iv., [iii. 507.]
Diction, of poetic, [ii. 101.] [5.]
'Difficulties,' [i. 72.]
Diogenes, [i. 238.]
Disabilities, civil, [i. 269.]
Dissenters, [i. 262.]
'Dignity,' individual, [i. 292.]
Discrimination in epitaphs, [ii. 37-8.]
Doe, White, the, [iii. 430.] et alibi.
Double sense, [ii. 45-6.]
Drummond, Miss.[ii. 65-6.]
Dryden, [ii. 118.] [iii. 416.] [419.]
Duty, [i. 40.][1,] [129,] [326,] [349.]
Dupont, [i. 358.]
Duppa, [ii. 162.] [346,] [iii. 506.]
Dubartas, [ii. 111-12.]
Dyer, John, [ii. 196.] [7,] [ii. 196.] [iii. 216.] [405,] [506,] et alibi.
E.
Economists, unfortunate, [i. 233.]
Education, of, [i. 327.] [56;]
what it is, [i. 343-4,] et seqq.,
moral, [i. 346-7;]
of Scotland, [i. 348.]
continuous, [i. 355-6.]
Edinburgh Review, censured, [ii. 16.] et alibi.
Edwards, John, [ii. 33.] [344.]
Edgeworth, Francis, [iii. 508.]
Egle, bank of, [iii. 508.]
Election, free, [i. 234.]
Elizabeth, [i. 310.]
Elliot, Jane, [iii. 509.]
Emerson, [i. xxxiv,] et alibi
Ends, [i. 80-1.]
Enthusiasm, [i. 149.]
Epitaphs, upon, from 'The Friend,' [ii. 27.] [40;]
laws of, [31,] et seqq.;
requisites of, [ii. 35.] et seqq.;
a perfect, [ii. 39.]
The country Churchyard, and critical Examination of ancient, [ii. 41.] [59;]
in Germany, [ii. 44.]
homeliness, [ii. 46-7;]
in Westmoreland, [ii. 51-2;]
of Pope, criticised, [ii. 55.] et seqq.;
Celebrated Epitaphs considered, [ii. 60.] [75;]
favourable examples, [ii. 72.] et seqq. (See preface, I.[xxiv.-v.])
Equality, [i. 14.] [288.]
Established church and priesthood, [i. 232.]
preservation of, [i. 290.]
Eschylus, [iii. 508.]
'Estate,' gift of, [ii. 151.]
Europe, state of, [i. 220-1.]
Evil, [ii. 91.]
Excursion, [ii. 145.] [8,] [168-9.]
Executive, the power, [i. 13.]
F.
Faith, [ii. 109-10.]
Fancy and imagination, [ii. 134-5,] et seqq.
'Favourite spots,' [iii. 424.]
Fame, posthumous, [iii. 458.] [493.]
Faber, [iii. 488.] [506.]
Family, a single, [215-16.] et seqq.;
defence of the, [217-18.] et seqq.
Feelings, [i. 65.] [158,] [ii. 83.] [4,] et seqq.;
rely on our, [ii. 99.]
Ferguson, General, [i. 137.]
Fermor, Mrs., [ii. 178.]
Fenwick, Miss, [xxvi-xxx.]
Ferdinand VII., [i. 358.]
'Fire.' [i. 118-19.]
Flowers, [iii. 447.]
Florus, [i. 359.]
Fortitude, ancient, [i. 205-6.]
Forebodings, [i. 249-50.]
Fore-feeling, [ii. 344.]
Founders of a school to be remembered, [i. 351.]
Fool, in Lear, [iii. 419.]
Fools, Paradise of, [ii. 18.]
Fox, letter to, on poems, [ii. 202.] [5;]
reply, [ii. 205-6.]
Frere, [i. 67.][8,] [96,] [358.]
French armies, character of, [i. 79-80;]
to surrender at discretion, [i. 81.]
under French government, [i. 90.]
'Free,' a nation resolved to be, [i. 146.]
Franchise, [i. 223.] [239.]
Fuller, [iii. 506.]
G.
Gardening, [ii. 174.]
and building, [ii. 184.] [191.]
Generals, British, bearing of, [i. 79.]
political, [i. 95.]
incompetent and competent, [i. 143.]
Girl, peasant, [iii. 466-7;]
education of, [i. 341.]
Goldsmith, [ii. 154.] [333.]
Goethe, [iii. 435.][6,] [465.]
Grammar, &c., [i. 353.]
Grasmere, [ii. 229.]
Gratifications, what, [i. 315-16.]
Gratuitous instruction, [i. 346.]
Gratitude for kindnesses, [ii. 149.]
Graves, Rev. R.P., M.A., [i. xxxv-vi.;]
prayer by, [i. 359-60.]
Gray, [ii. 41.] [67-68,] [85-6,] [327,] [344,] [345,] [iii. 507.]
Gray, James, [ii. 5.] [343.]
Gregoire, [i. 4,] [5,] [357.]
Grievances, national, [i. 4.]
Grimm, Baron, [ii. 113.]
Guide through the District of the Lakes, [ii. 215.] [313.](See under
[Lakes] and different places.)
H.
Hamlet, [i. 22.]
Hakewell, [ii. 113.] [345.]
Hamilton, Sir R.W., [iii. 492.] [506,]
[508,] et frequenter.
Hamilton, Miss, [iii. 508.]
Hazlitt, i. xxiv., [ii. 168.] [177,] [iii. 125.] et alibi.
Hearne, [iii. 505.]
Hemans, Mrs., [iii. 507.]
Hessians, [i. 136.]
High-minded men, [i. 76.]
Hope, [i. 41.] [123-4,] [148,] [169,] [322-3.]
Honour, [i. 78.]
Home influences, [i. 345.]
Houbraken, [ii. 170.] [346.]
Homer and the classics, [iii. 458.] [9.]
Horace, [i. 357.][iii. 509.](bis).
Humanity, [i. 78.] [274.]
Humility, [iii. 491.]
Humour, [iii. 495-6.]
'Hurricane,' [iii. 507.]
I.
Idiots, [ii. 212.]
Impulses, grand, [i. 115.]
Imagination, [i. 154.]
and taste, [ii. 126.] et seqq.;
and fancy, [ii. 134.]5, et seqq.
Immoral, the perishable, [i. 163.]
Improvement, process of intellectual, [i. 318-20.]
Immortality, [ii. 27.] [30.]
Imbecility, [i. 172.]
Imagery and imagination, [iii. 464-5.]
Independence and liberty, [i. 102-3;]
of Spain, [i. 151.]
'Indifferent,' [i. 110.]
Invasion of our country, supposed, [i. 114.]
Infancy and childhood, [i. 318.]
Intellect, sharpening of, [i. 340.]
Infant-schools, [i. 343.]
Inscriptions at Coleorton, [ii. 191.] [2,] [195-6.]
'Intimations of immortality,' [iii. 464.]
Individual character, [iii. 467-8.]
Intake, [iii. 505.]
Ireland, [i. 267-8,] et alibi.
J.
James I., [ii. 47-8.]
Johnson, Dr., [ii. 98.] [103-4.]
Jones, Rev. Robert, [iii. 506.]
Judges in England, [i. 12.]
Junot, [i. 55-6.]
'Judicature, court of,' not essential to a verdict on wrong, [i. 108-10.]
Justice, [i. 116.]
moral, [i. 118.]
K.
Kant, [iii. 420.]
Keble, [iii. 441.]
Kendal and Windermere Railway, two letters on, [ii. 321-41,] [iii. 448-9.]
Keswick, vale of, [ii. 229.]
Kirkstone, pass of, [ii. 314-15.]
Klopstock, [iii. 405-23.]
Knowledge, life and spirit of, [i. 309.]
for virtue, [i. 320.]
L.
Laws, partial and oppressive, [i. 12-13.]
Laws, delay, [i. 20.]
Labour, dishonoured, [i. 18.]
Lament for England, [i. 112.]
Land, [i. 239.]
Landscape gardens, [i. 248.]
Lakes, the country of, as formed by Nature, [ii. 235-6;]
as affected by its inhabitants, [ii. 256-69;]
changes and rules of taste for preventing their bad effects, [ii. 269-86;]
miscellaneous observations, [ii. 287.][301;]
excursions to the top of Scawfell, &c., [ii. 302.] [315.]
itinerary of, [ii. 316-19.]
(See preface, i.[xxv.-vi.])
Laodamia, [iii. 496.]
Laing, Malcom, [ii. 345.]
Lamb, letters of, [iii. 507.]
Leon, [i. 60.]
Legislation for the Poor, &c., [i. 271-94.]
Letter-writing, difficulty of, [ii. 149-50.]
Leech-gatherer, [ii. 206-7.]
Letters and extracts of Letters, [ii. 217.] [401.]
(See preface, I.[xxx.-ii].)
Liberty, [i. 6.]
against oppression, [i. 52.]
and independence, [i. 155-6.]
Life, [i. 77-8,] [280.]
Library for poor, [i. 337-8.]
Lindsay, Lady Ann, [iii. 509.]
Louis XVI., 'royal martyr' (so-called), [i. 4-5.]et seqq.
Loyalty, enthusiasm of, [i. 46.]
Lowther family, [i. 235.][iii. 507-8.]
'Lower orders,' [i. 273.]
Loughrigg Tarn, [ii. 155.]
Loweswater, [ii. 230.]
Locke, [iii. 461.]
Loison, [i. 357.]
Luff, Mr., [ii. 172.]
Lucretius, [ii. 347.]
Lyttleton, Lucy, [ii. 52.]
Lord, monody criticised, [ii. 53-4.]
Lyrical ballads, defence of, [ii. 79.] [100.]
Lying, [iii. 497-8.]
M.
Macpherson, [ii. 122.] et seqq.
Madoc, [ii. 169.] [171.]
Madras, system of education, [i. 341.] [343.]
Malignity, [ii. 17.]
Manner in conversation, [iii. 480.]
Manufactories, workmen in, [i. 282-3.]
Massaredo, [i. 56-8,] [357.]
Mathetes, Letter of, [i. 297.] [308;]
Answer to, [i. 309-26.]
Mason, William, [ii. 62.] et seqq.
Matter-of-fact and poetry, [ii. 86.]
Means, [i. 80.]
Mearely, [ii. 344.]
Memory, [ii. 41.]
Metrical language, [ii. 95-6,] et seqq.
Might, [i. 116.]
Military spirit, [i. 48-9;]
men to be judged by the people, [i. 83-4.]
Milton, [i. 358.](bis), [359,] [360.] [ii. 6.] [40,] [114-15,] [136,]
[142,] et seqq. [344,] [345,] [346,] [iii. 430.] [1,] [449,] [453-4,]
[461,] [505,] [506,] [507,] [508;]
contemporary notice of, [iii. 509.] et alibi frequenter.
'Ministry,' the conduct of the, [i. 105-6.]
Mirza, vision of, [i. 3.]
Miscarriages, national, [i. 128-9.]
Misery, effects of, [i. 281.]
Monarchy, objections to, [i. 13.] et seqq.
Montgomery, James, [iii. 505.]
Montrose, Marquis of, [ii. 49,] [51,] [344.]
Monuments to Literary Men, [ii. 20.] [22;]
beauty of, [ii. 31-2;]
monition of, [ii. 32-3.]
near churches, [ii. 34-5;]
in churches, [iii. 450-1.]
'Moral' superiority, [i. 165.]
Morla, [i. 357-8.]
Morning Post, letter to, [ii. 321-41.]
N.
Nations, the two suffering, [i. 63-4;]
to speak to representatives of, [i. 144-5.]
Nature, [i. 317.][ii. 60.][iii. 493-4;]
and art, [ii. 157.] [161.]
Needpath Castle, sonnet on, [ii. 152.] [345-6.]
Nelson, Lord, [ii. 173.]
Necklace, diamond, [i. 357.]
Newcastle, Duchess of, [iii. 508.]
Nobility, hereditary, a wrong, [i. 17.]
Notes and Illustrations of the Poems
(a), the notes originally added to the first and successive editions;
(b) the whole of the I.F. MSS., [ii. 1.] [216.]
(For details of these Notes, see minute ['Contents' of Vol. III.])
O.
Obliquities of admiration, [ii. 116.]
Observation and description, [ii. 131.] [144.]
'Occurrences,' [i. 98.]
Offices, [i. 18-19.]
Oligarchy, [i. 147.]
'Oppression,' [i. 168-9.]
'Opposition,' in House of Commons needed, [i. 219.]
the party of, [i. 222.]
degenerated, [i. 225.]
Originality, [ii. 126.]
Oviedo, [i. 63.]
Oversight, culpable, [i. 68.]
Ovid, [iii. 506.]
P.
Paine, Thomas, [i. 14.] [357.]
Parchment, 'dead,' [i. 21.]
Past, retrospect of, [i. 43-4.]
Passions and passion, [i. 115-6.] [ii. 127.] et seqq.;
in poetry, [iii. 473-4;]
though not declamatory, [iii. 489.]
'Party,' [i. 144.] [219.]
Patriot, the, [i. 150.]
Palafox, [i. 167.] [359.]
Pasley, letter to, [i. 195.] [206;]
essay on the military policy of Great Britain, [i. 197.] [205,]et seqq.
Palmers, [ii. 46.]
Page, Frederic, [iii. 508.]
'People,' the, [i. 10-11;]
Spanish, [i. 47-8;]
their ways and needs, [i. 334.] [339.]
Peasants and mechanics, [i. 11-12;]
peasantry, [i. 159.]
'Petition,' vindication of, [i. 107-8,] [110.]
'Petty' things, [i. 120.]
Peninsula, southern, [i. 122-3.]
'Peace,' [i. 221.]
Peterkin, [ii. 5.] [343.]
'Pedlar,' [ii. 163.] [346.]
Pelayo and Cid, [i. 358.]
Petrarch, [i. 359.]
Philosophy, [i. 316.]
Pity, [i. 5.]
Pitt, [ii. 174.]
Pleasures, poetic, [ii. 13.]
production of, [ii. 90.]
Pluralities, [i. 284.]
Policy, [i. 116.]
'Political' generals, [i. 78-9.] [95.]
Poems, classification of, [ii. 133.] et seqq.
Poet, what is a, [ii. 87.] et seqq.
Poetry, of the Principles of and the 'Lyrical Ballads,' [ii. 79.] [100;]
as a study, [ii. 106.] [130;]
kinds of readers of, [ii. 106.]
as observation and description, [ii. 131.] [144;]
forms of, [ii. 132-3;]
of the principle of and Wordsworth's own poems, [ii. 208-14.]
(See preface, I.[xxv.-vi.])
Poor, laws to be reformed, [i. 232.]
amendment act, [i. 273-4,] et seqq.;
just claims of the, [i. 274-7,] [278-9.]
Pope, [ii. 55.] et seqq., 116, [iii. 419.]
'Popular,' [ii. 129.]
vox populi, [ii. 130.]
Portugal, [i. 80.]1.
Portugeze, [i. 43.] [54-5,] [67,] [86,] [97,] [100-101,] et seqq.
Power without right, [i. 159-60.]
Priesthood, French, [i. 6-7.]
Principles, [i. 39.] [43,] [74-5,] [144,] [145;]
of poetry, [ii. 79.] [100.]
Primogeniture, [i. 16.]
Prostitution, [i. 18.]
'Precautions,' [i. 45.] [61.]
Prudence, [i. 58-9.]
Private, a, individual, [i. 83.]
Private property, [i. 89-90.]
Preface, Editor's, [i. vii-xxxviii.]
Prisoners of war, [i. 89.]
Property, a sound basis, [i. 240.]
Protestantism and Popery, [i. 261.]
Progress, [i. 314-15.]
Prosaisms, [ii. 85.]
Prose, more of but for Coleridge, [iii. 457.]
Purpose, worthy, [ii. 82.]
Public, not the people, [ii. 130.]
Puny, [ii. 347.]
Pyrrhus, [i. 359.]
Q.
Qualities, moral, [i. 49-50.]
Queen, dedication and poem to the, [i. v-vi.]
R.
Racine, [i. 5.]6.
'Rash' politicians, [i. 248.]
Reputation, [i. 3.]
Republic, American, [i. 10.]
Republican, Wordsworth a, [i. 3.] [10]
republicanism defended, [i. 9-10.]et seqq.
Revolution, [i. 6.]
war against the French, [i. 135.][iii. 490.]
Reform, parliamentary, [i. 22.]
Representation, universal, [i. 11.]
'Rejoicing,' deplorable, [i. 69.] [105.]
Regeneration, national, [i. 122.]
'Remonstrance,' [i. 127.]
Representation of Westmoreland, [i. 215.]
Religion, in poetry, [ii. 108-9.]et seqq.
Religious instruction, [i. 354.]
Reserve, biographical, [ii. 9.]
'Reliques,' [ii. 120.] et seqq.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, [ii. 153-7,] [161-2,] [345.]
'Recluse,' the, [ii. 163.] [105.]
Revision of Authorised Version, &c., [iii. 471-3.]
Riddance, [i. 115.]
Royalty, no more, in France, [i. 5.]
Road, anecdote, [i. 22.]
old, [iii. 428.]
Robespierre, [ii. 18.]
Roscius, Young, [ii. 164.] 165.
Robinson Crusoe, [iii. 468.]
Rogers, [iii. 516.] et alibi.
'Ruin mouldering.' [i. 237.]
Russell, [iii. 507.] 509.
S.
Saragossa, [i. 117.] [121,] [166,] [357.]
Sass, Padre St. Iago, [i. 167.] [359.]
Scott, i. xiv., [iii. 442.] [30,] [445,] [457,] [462,] [487;]
vindication of, [509,] et alibi frequenter.
Scotland, critics of, [ii. 116.]
Schiller, [iii. 417.]
Seville, [i. 1-3.] [60.]
Shelvocke, [iii. 505.]
Shelley, [iii. 489.] [493,] [501,] [503.]
Shakespeare, [ii. 113.] [114,] [136,] [139,] [140,] [141,] [345-6,]
[460,] [488,] [506,] [509,] et alibi frequenter.
Silence, [ii. 10.]
Simonides, [ii. 30.]
Sincerity, [ii. 48.]
Slavery, [i. 77.]
Smith, Charlotte, [iii. 507.]
Southey's Letters, [iii. 509.]
Spain and Britain, [i. 41-2,] [161-2,] et seqq.
Spanish people, patriotism of, [i. 45-7,] et seqq., [125-6,] et seqq.
Spenser, [i. 322.][ii. 111-12,] [345,] [347,] [iii. 466,] [506,] et alibi.
Speech on laying the Foundation stone of Bowness School, [i. 350-6.]
Spelling and style, [iii. 452.]3.
Struggle, how the, ought to have been carried on, [i. 116.]
Statesmen and courtiers, minds of, [i. 130-1,] et seqq.
Stagnation, apparent, [i. 313.]
Statistical account of Scotland, [ii. 44.]
Style, [ii. 84.] et seqq.
Stevens, George, [ii. 113-14.]
Steamboats and railways, [ii. 340.]
Superstition, [i. 117.]
Superiority, [i. 321.]
Sword, not pen, [i. 95.]
Sympathy, [ii. 38.]
Sydney, Sir Philip, [ii. 49-50.]
Sympson, Rev. John, [iii. 506.]
T.
Tam o'Shanter, [ii. 13-14.]
Tempers and dispositions, [i. 279.]
Teacher, enlightened, [i. 325.]
Tenderness, [iii. 480.] [489.]
Tennyson, [iii. 390.] [492,] et alibi.
Things, if not men, [i. 142.]
Thomson, [ii. 117.] et seqq., [160,] [iii. 505.] et alibi.
Timidity, [i. 231.]
Tourist, directions and information for the, [ii. 221.] et seqq.
Traitors,
[i. 23.]
Tranquillity from 'Relief Bill' not possible, [i. 266-7.]
Truth, love of, [i. 323.][iii. 488.]
Trespass, [iii. 425.]
Tree-planting, [iii. 436.]
Transcendental world, [iii. 467.]
Triad, [iii. 505-6.]
Turner, Sharon, [iii. 506.]
Tyrant, the, [i. 70.] et seqq.
Tyranny, French, basis of, [i. 139.] [148.]
U.
Ulpha, Kirk, [ii. 227.]
Ullswater, [ii. 230-4.]
Union of nations, [i. 152-3.]
Unworthy objects, [i. 326.]
V.
Vane, Sir George, [ii. 47.]
Verse, why write in, [ii. 93-4.]
Veracity and ideality, [iii. 486.]
Vespers, Sicilian, [i. 359.]
Vimiera, [i. 43.] [75.]
Vindication of opinions, &c.[i. 195.] [209.]
Vice and Virtue, [ii. 42-3,] [61.]
Virgil, [i. 358.](bis), [iii. 469.] et alibi.
(See II. 274-9.)
Virgin, the, [iii. 492.]
Voice of the people, [i. 113.]
Volunteers, [i. 234.]
W.
Watson, Bp., [i. 3.] et seqq.
(See preface, I.[x.-xiv.])
Watson, Thomas, [ii. 313.]
War, just and necessary, [i. 39-40;]
opponents of, [i. 40.]
with France, wished still, [i. 201-2,] et seqq.;
varied opinions of, [i. 226-7.]
Warrior, happy, [ii. 173-4.]
Wales, North, excursion in, [ii. 197.] [201.]
Wastdale, [ii. 230.]
Walks, [iii. 423.]
Warwick, Sir Philip, [i. 359.]
Walker, A., book on the lakes overlooked, [ii. 346-7,] [iii. 506. (?)]
Waterton, [iii. 506.]
Wealth, [i. 15.] [189.]
Westmoreland, two letters to freeholders of, [i. xix-xxi.,] [211,] et seqq.
Wellesley (= Wellington), [i. 65-6.] [68-9,] [126-7,] et seqq., et alibi.
Weever, John, [ii. 27.] [50,] [344.]
Westall, [iii. 506.]
Wickedness, prodigious, [i. 170.]
Wilson, Alexander, [ii. 346.]
Wilson, Professor, [ii. 208-14.]
(See under Mathetes.)
Windermere, [ii. 223-4.]
Wieland, [iii. 418.]
Winchelsea, Countess of, [iii. 508.]
Wordsworth, Mrs.[iii. 509.]
Workmen in manufactories, [i. 282-3.]
Worthlessnesses swept away, [i. 311.]
Woman, [iii. 457.]
Y.
Young, Advice to the.[i. 295.]326, et alibi.
(See under Education.)
Z.
Zaragoza, [i. 167.]
FINIS.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Memoirs, ii. 97-8.
[2] Mr. Walker's charity being of that kind which 'seeketh not her own,' he would rather forego his rights than distrain for dues which the parties liable refused, as a point of conscience, to pay.
[3] Memoirs, ii. pp. 57-58.