INDEX

Abstruse Research, 53-55 Face, the phantom of, 54 Eye-spectra, 55 Reluctance of mind to analyse, 53 Soul within the body. Window at Keswick, 54 A bliss, &c., 264 Adam's death, 51 Alas! they had been friends, &c., 62 Allston, To, 169 All thoughts, all passions, &c., 224 A man's a man, &c., 51 Analogy, 89-91 Anecdote, a genuine, 218 Anecdotes, a Sheaf of, 66-68 Beaumont, Sir G., and gauze spectacles, 67 Beaumont, Lady, her prayers, 67 Göttingen and the hospes, 67 Godwin, Holcroft, and Underwood, 68 Holcroft and M. Wollstonecraft, 66 Exeter, the organ pipe, 67 Lamb, Charles, a call upon, 66 Rickman and George Dyer, 67 Anticipations in Nature, &c., 136 Aphorisms and Adages, 300-301 Aphorisms and Pithy Sentences, 253-256 Bookmaking, 256 Burdett, Sir Francis, 255 Catamaran, man compared with, 253 Convalescence without love, 254 Half-reconciliation, 254 Hunter, the light of his torch, 255 Love, inspired by superiority, 253 Money, the depreciation of, 254 Peninsulating river, 255 Philosophy, its plummet-line, 255 Sun, the rosy fingers of, 254 Vision and appetite, 255 Architecture and Climate, 194 Art, the pyramid in, 98 An afterthought, 99 As the sparks fly upward, 110 Ascend a step, etc., 158-159 Aspiration, a pious, 213 Association, 226 Association, of streamy, 55 A time to cry out, 220-221 Attention and sensation, 128 Auri sacra fames, 44 Ave Phœbe Imperator, 63 Being, the three estates of, 294 Bells, concerning, 210-212 Clotharius, 211 Latin distichs, 210 Names of bells, 211 Passing bells, 211 Waggon-horse, &c., in the Hartz, 211 Note on Schiller's 'Song of the Bell,' &c., 211 Bibliological memoranda, 182-183 Bird, the captive, 193 Birds caged, especially the robin, 194 Bliss, a land of, 286-287 Book-knowledge and experience, 129 Book-learning for legislators, 285 Books in the air, 206-207 Bright October, 34 Browne, William, of Ottery and Note, 157-158 Bruno, Giordano, 16, 17 Bulls in action, 156 But love is indestructible, 250 Candour another name for cant, 75 Catholic reunion, 215 Cast not your pearls, &c., 80-81 Ceres, the conversion of, 110 C'est magnifique, etc., 258 Children of a larger growth, 204 Christabel, a hint for, 223 Chymical analogies, 204-206 Clerical errors, the psychology of, 181-182 Cogitare est laborare, 66 Communicable, the, 32 Comparisons and Contrasts, 5-7 Constitution, the, and rotten cheese, 6 Eyes, meaning glances from, 6 Genoa, "Liberty" on prisons of, 7 Gratitude, the curse of, 7 Intellect, snails of, 6 Mackintosh, the style of, 6 Malice, 6 Minds, pygmy, 6 Poetry, the effect of, 5 Sot, the prayer of, 7 Southey, an ostrich, 6 Trout, his likeness to, 5 Truth, the blindness of, 7 Two dew-drops, 6 Worldly-minded men, like owls, 7 Columba, St., 129 Conceits, verbal, 108 Conscience and immortality, 201-3 Constancy, etc., 304 Conversation, his, a nimiety, &c., 103-104 Converts, the intolerance of, 74 Corruptio optimi pessima, 92, 263 Cottle, an apology for, 86 Cottle, free version of the Psalms, 235 Country and Town, 28-29 Calf-lowing, a reminiscence of Ottery, 29 Coloured bottles, reflections of, 28 Country, depraving effect of, 25 Lecture, dream concerning a, 29 Smiles on men and mountains, 29 Stones like life, and life motionless as stones, 28 Critics, immature, 128 Criticism, a principle of, 30 Criticism, minute, 167 Darwin's "Botanical Garden," 280 Death, the realisation of, 139-140 Delusion, an optical, 47 Devil, the, with a memory, 161-162 Devil, the, a recantation, 259-260 Distemper's worst calamity, 126-127 Distinction in union, 184 Document humain, 168 Dream, a, and a parenthesis, 40 Dreams, order in, 134 Dreams and Shadows, 172-173 Idea, the descent of, 172 Taper's cone of flame, a simile, 172 "As in life's noisiest hour," etc., 172 "You mould my thoughts," etc., 173 Drip, drip, drip, drip, 165 Duty and Experience, 2, 3 Human happiness, 3 Chymistry, a noble, 3 Metaphysical opinion in anguish, 3 Misfortunes a fertilising rain, 2 Pleasure and pain, 2 Real pain a panacea, 2 Duty and self-interest, 130-131 Early death, 44, 45 Easter, the Northern, 138 Education, of, 227-228 Ego, the, 15 Egotism, 14 Empyrean, the, 125 England, the righteousness of, 284 Enthusiasm, 139

Entity, a superfluous, 217 Entomology v. ontology, 94 Epigram, a divine, 273 Error, a life-long (his age), 295 Etymology, 123-124 Evil, the origin of, 36-42 Evil produces evil, 131 Experience and book knowledge, 129-130 Experiment, a doubtful, 56 Extremes meet, 52, 53 Facts and Fiction, 75 Fallings from us vanishings, 180-181 "Floods and general inundations," 282 First thoughts and friendship, 251, 252 Flowers and light, 304, 305 Flowers of speech, 269, 270 Form and feeling, 101 Formula, a comprehensive, 306-307 "For compassion a human heart," 282 For the soother in absence, 84-85 Dreams and reveries, 85 Dresden, the engraved cherry-stone, 85 Mediterranean, the white sails on, 85 Outwardly happy but no joy within, 84 Sunset in winter, and summer-set, 84 For the soother in absence, 86-87 Caracciolo and his floating corse, 87 Final causes, 87 Moonlight, crinkled circles on the sea, 87 Religion repels the gay, 86 Vicious thoughts and rhyme-terminations, 86 Diogenes, why not? 97 Interest and satisfaction, 97 For the soother in absence, 95-97 Language, its growth, etc., 95 Medical romance—a title, 96 Mylius, 96 Poets the bridlers of delight, 96 Quintetta, the, in the Syracuse Opera, 95 Recollections of pre-existent state, 96 Tarantula dance of argumentation, 97 For the soother in absence, 99-100 Quisque sui faber, 99 Nature a Penelope, 100 Root to the crown—growth of the flower, 99 For the soother in absence, 115-118 Admiralty Court maxims, 116 Convoy from England, 115 Cyphers, 118 Death and the sleeping baby, 118 Faults and forewarnings, Miss Edgeworth, 117 Johnson, Dr., and Shakspere, 115 Pen-slit, the action of, 118 Sealing-wax—where was it? 116 Totalising, disease of, 116 Voice and eye—precedence and sequence, 118 Wafers, Maltese, 115 For the soother in absence, 147-150 Conscience and watches, 150 Contra-reasoning and controversy, 149 Earthly losses and heaven, 150 Eye, the twofold power of, 149 Facts and the relation of them, 148 Metaphor and reality, 149 Negation begets errors, 147 Speculative men not unpractical, 148 War, the weariness of, no excuse for peace, 148 Word-play a cat's cradle, 149 Worldly men, their belief in sincerity, 149 For the soother in absence, 159-161 Co-arctation, 161 Dull souls may become great poet's bodies, 161 Judgment compared to Belgic towns, 160 Lover married, a frog in a well, 160 Music and the genus and particular, 160 Originality not claimed by the original, 160 Shorthandists for the House of Commons, 161 Stiletto and the rosary, 159 Water-lily and the sponge, 160

For the Soother in Absence, 162-164 Death and the tree of life, 163 Grave, our growth in, 163 Irish architect, 164 Scopæ viarum, 164 Shooting stars and bedtime, 162 Sleep, the lovers', 164 Swift and the pine-tree, 164 Truth and action, 164 Wordsworth, an aspiration, 163 Yellowing leaflets, 163 For the Soother in Absence, 175-180 Affliction and adversity, 176 Allapse of serpents, 176 Atmosphere, every man his own, 176 Augustine, St., and a friend's misjudgment, 179 Blast, the, 178 Blue sky, yellow green at twilight, 175 Greece, the genius of, 177 Hayfield and still life, 175 Heu! quam miserum, 177 Indian fig and death of an immortal, 177 Kings, what kind of gods? 176 Love, the mighty works of, 178 Metallic pencils, 175 Parisatis, and the poisoned knife, 176 Peacock moulting, 178 Shadow, 177 Sheridan, and Bacon, 177 Sunflowers, 175 Strabo Geographicus on genius, 179 Two faces, etc., 176-177 Tycho Brahe, a subject for Allston, 175 Water-wagtails, 178 Woman, a passionate, a simile, 178 French language and poetry, 118-120 Friendship and marriage, 235-236 Genius, 233 Genius, his own, 197-198

German philosophy, his indebtedness to, 106 God, the idea of, 300 Great and little minds, 293 Great men and national worth, 150-152 Hail and farewell, 218 Halfway house, the, 195-197 Happiness made perfect, 142 Hazlitt, W., 36 Health, independence, and friendship, 248 Heart, a broken, 303 Heaviness, may endure, &c., 239, 240 Hesperus, 247, 248 Hinc illa marginalia, 91-92 Hints for the Friend, 209, 210 Authors and Buffon's fan, 209 Conscience good, and fine weather, 209 Great deeds, great hearts, and great states, 209 Hypocrisy, 210 Massy misery, 210 Mystery from wilful deafness, 210 No glory and no Christianity, a total eclipse, 210 Proud ignorance, 210 Reformers like scourers of silver plate, 209 Hints for the Friend, 221-223 Conscience, a pure, like a life-boat, 221 Dame Quickly on parties, 222 Duns Scotus on faith, 222 Foliage, not the trunk, 223 Helvetius, his selenography, 221 Lavater and Narcissus, 223 Pope, the, a simile, 233 Reliance on God and man, 222 Reviewers like jurymen, 223 Hints for the Friend, 230-233 Amboynese, and their clove trees, 232 Eloign, a word of Queen Elizabeth's, 231 Esoteric Christianity, 231 Mathematics and metaphysics, 230 Monsoon, the Chinese elephant, 232 Nature, the perception of, a comparison, 232 Paracelsus, on new words, 232 Partisans or opponents, how to address them, 231 Hope, the moon's halo an emblem of, 238 Humanity, the hope of, 137, 138 Humility, the lover's, 188 Hypothesis, of a new, 105 I will lift up, etc., 101 Idea, the birth of, 109 Idealist, the, at bay, 277-279 "If a man could pass through paradise," 282 Ignore thyself, 301 Illusion (Mr. Dennison and the "bottle man"), 144-147 Imagination 'eisenoplasy,' 236 In a twinkling of an eye, 185-186 In wonder all philosophy began, 185 Incommunicable, the, 31 Infancy and infants, 3, 4 Infinite, the, and the finite, 81 Inopem me copia fecit, 189 Insects, 271 Spiders' webs in Java, 271 Libellulidæ, 271 Tipulidæ minimæ, 271 Islamism, 287, 288 "Kingdom of Heavenite," a, 273 Knave, a treacherous, 28 Knowledge, a royal road to, 298-300 Knowledge and Understanding, 173 Landing places, 157 Law and gospel, 214 Liberty, the cap of, 203 Life, the idea of, 305 Light, the inward, 48 Litera scripta manet, 121 Love, 1-2 Affected by jealousy, 1 soother of misfortune, 2 Disappointed, 2 The transformer, 2 Love, 233-235 Love, the adolescence of, 68 Love, the divine essence, 133-134 Love and duty, 140-142 Love, the ineffable, 191-192 Love and music, 200-201 Lover, the humble complaint of, 190 Loves, of first, 153-154 Lucus a non lucendo, 200 Magnitude, the sense of, 112-115 Maiden's primer, 195 Marriage, the ideal, 216 Mean, the danger of, 62 Means to ends, 107 Mediterranean, the, 100 "A brisk gale and the foam," 100 Memorandum, a serious, 79 Metaphysic, a defence of, 42 Metaphysician, the, at bay, 106 Metaphysic, the aim of his, 42 Milton's blank verse, 253 Milton and Shakspere, 296-8 Mohammed, the flight of, 290-291 Moment, a, and a magic mirror, 245-246 Monition, the rage for, 68-70 Moonlight gleams and massy glories, 171 Moonset, a, 50 Morning, a gem of, 187 Mot propre, the passion for, 155 Mother wit, 226 Motion, the psychology of, 56-57 Multum in parvo, 85 Name it and you break it, 198 Nature, the night side of, 45-47 Ne quid nimis, 89

Nefas est ab hoste doceri, 76 Neither bond nor free, 195 Neutral pronoun, a, 190 Night, in the visions of, 43, 44 Nightmare, the hag, 243-245 Noscitur a sociis, 32 Not the beautiful, etc., 49-50 Obductâ fronte senectus, 272-273 Observations and Reflections, 17-21 Ashes in autumn, 19 Citizens eat, rustics drink, 19 Definition hostile to images, 19 First cause and source of the Nile, 20 Love poems, a scheme of, 20 Moon, the setting, 18 My birthday, 19 Northern Lights, Derwent's birthday, 18 Shakspere and Naucratius, 21 Soul the mummy, an emblem, 20 Spring with cone of sand, 17 Stability and Instability, the cause of, 19 State, the eye of, 18 Superiors and inferiors, 20 Truths and feelings, 18 Two moon-rainbows, 19 Of a too witty book, 280-281 Official distrust, 83 O star benign! 76 O thou whose fancies, etc., 15-16 Omniscient, the comforter, 127 One music as before, etc. 168 One, the, and the good, 63 One, the many and the, 77 Opera, the, 82 Orange blossom, 134-136 Over-blaming, the danger of, 198 ΠΑΝΤΑ ΡἙΙ, 183-184 Pars altera mei, 49

Partisans and renegades, 173-174 Past and present, 1 People, the spirit of a, 288-290 Petrarch's epistles, 262, 263 Phantoms of sublimity, 170 Philanthropy and self-advertisement, 249, 250 Philosophy the friend of poetry, 78 Pindar, 168 Places and persons, 70-74 Poet, a, on poetry, 294 Poet, the, and the spider, 32 Poetic licence, a plea for, 165-166 Poetry, 4 Correction of, 4 Dr. Darwin, 5 Elder languages, the fitter for, 5 Ode, definition of, 4 Poetry and prose, 229-230 Poets as critics of poets, 127-128 Populace and people, 174 Posterity, a caution to, 159 Practical man, a, 199-200 Praise, the meed of, 284 Presentiments, 256-257 Price, Dr., 167-168 Prophecy, the manufacture of, 192-193 Prudence versus friendship, 291-293 Pseudo-poets, 156 Psychology in youth and maturity, 218 Public opinion and the services, 237 Purgatory, an intellectual, 152-153 Rain, the maddening, 154 Recollection and remembrance, 57 Reimarus and the instinct of animals, 92-95 Religion, spiritual, 138, 218-219 Remedium amoris, 266 Richardson, 166-167 Righteousness, the sun of, 162 Rugit leo, 301-303

Save me from my friends, 264-265 Science and philosophy, 261-262 Scholastic terms, a plea for, 274-275 Schoolman, a Unitarian, 58 Sea, the bright blue, 109 Self, the abstract, 120 Self-absorption and selfishness, 249 Self-esteem, excess of, 198, 199 Self-esteem, defect of, 199 Self-reproof, a measure in, 81-82 Sensations, the continuity of, 102, 103 Sentiment an antidote to casuistry, 124-125 Sentiment, morbid, 169-170 Sentiments below morals, 154 Seriores Rosæ, 274 "Lie with the ear," 274 "Like some spendthrift lord," 274 "On the same man as in a vineyard," 274 "The blossom gives not only," 274 "We all look up," 274 Sermons, ancient and modern, 237-239 Seventeen hundred and sixty yards, etc., 280 Shakspere and Malone, 88 Subject and object, 294 Silence is golden, 259 Simile, a, 76 Sine qua non, 186 Sleepless, the feint of the, 251 Solace, external, his need of, 167 Solvitur suspiciendo, 187 Sonnet, an unwritten, 295 Soul, the embryonic, 104 Spinoza, a poem on spirit or on, 61 Spinoza, the ethics of, 57 Spiritual blindness, 270 Spiritualism and mysticism, 276-277 Spooks, 281 Spring, the breath of, 305 Square, the, the circle, the pyramid, 97 Star, to the evening, 247

Style of Milton, Smectymnuus, etc., 271 Subject and object, 294 Sundog, a, 97 Sunset, a, 52 Superstition, 143-144 Supposition, a, 138 Syracuse, 78 Taste, an ethical quality, 165 Teleology and nature worship, 35 Temperament and morals, 33 That inward eye, etc., 246, 247 The body of this death, 276 The conclusion of the whole matter, 266 The greater damnation, 279 The mind's eye, 286 "The more exquisite," etc., 282 The night is at hand, 307 "The sunny mist," etc., 31 The tender mercies of the good, 208-209 "The tree or sea-weed like," etc., 31 Theism and Atheism, 285-286 Things Visible and Invisible, 7-14 Anthropomorphism and the Trinity, 14 Anti-optimism, 13 Babe, its sole notion of cruelty, 13 Cairns, J., on the Nazarites, 9 Child scolding a flower, 10 Children's words, analogous, 11 Dandelions, beards of, note, 10 Dyer, George, and poets' throttles, 9 Fisherman, the idle, note, 10 Friends' friends, reception by, note, 8 Godwin, a definition of, 13 Hartley's fire-place of stones, 13 Hazlitt's theory of picture and palette, 9 "Hot-headed men confuse," 11 "How," the substratum of philosophy, 13 Kingfishers' flight, 7 "Little Daisy," etc., 7 London and Nature, 8 Luther, his prejudices, 11 Comment, 11 Materialists and mystery, 14 Nightingale and frogs in Germany, note, 7 Quotations, rage for, 9 Reproaches and remorse, 12 Sickbed and prison, 12 "Slanting pillars of misty light," 9 Space a perception of additional magnitude, 12 Taylor, Jeremy, quotation from Via Pacis, 12 "The thin scattered rain-clouds," 12 Things perishable, thoughts imperishable, 8 Thinking and perceiving, 12 Time and likeness, 13 Upturned leaves, 10 Thoughts, a Crowd of, 58-61 Children and hard-skinned ass, 59 Ghost of a mountain, 60 Light as lovers love, 59 Man, epitheton of, 58 Palm, the, 61 Place and time, 59 Poets' bad and beautiful expressions, 59 Public schools, advantage of, 60 Rainbows stedfast in mist, 61 Rosemary tree, a, 59 Slang, religious, 60 Sopha of sods, note, 60 Stump of a tree, 61 Thought, a mortal agony of, 63 Thought and attention, 213-214 Thoughts and Fancies, 22-25 Achilles and his heel, 25 Devil at the very end of hell, 23 Dimness and numbness, 23 Friendship and comprehension, 24 Green fields after the city, 25 Happiness and paradise, 25 Hartley and the "seems," 24 Kind-hearted men refuse roughly, 23 Limbo, 22 Metaphysics, their effect on the thoughts, 23 Nature for likeness, men for difference, 25 Old world, the, and the new year, 22 Opposite talents not incompatible, 24 Poets and death, 22 Poets, his rank among, 25 Sounds and outness, 23 Swift and Socinianism, 24 Time as threefold, 22 Thought and things, 143 Thoughts-how like music at times! 139 Through doubt to faith, 85 Time an element of grief, 31 Time and eternity, 155 Time, real and imaginary, note, 241-243 Transcripts from my velvet pocket-books, 26-28 Action, the meanness of, 27 Barrow and the verbal imagination, 26 Candle-snuffers not discoverers, 26 Falling asleep, 27 New play compared to toy ship, 27 Plagiarist, a thief in the candle, 26 Post, its influence, 26 Quotation and conversation, 26 Repose after agitation, 27 Socinianism and methodism, 26 Teme, the valley of, 26 Universe, the federal republic of, 27 Wedgwood, T., and thoughts and things, 27 Transubstantiation, 61-62 Truth, 191, 220 Truth, the danger of adapting, &c., 228 Truth, the fixed stars of, 257 Turtle-shell, a, for household tub, 207-208 Unwin, Mrs., Cowper's lines to, 121-123 Unknown, the great, 284

Vain Glory, 203-204 Verbum sapientibus, 102 Ver, zer, and al, 187 Vexation, a complex, 283 Vox hiemalis, 303-304 We ask not whence, etc., 89 Wedgwood, T., and Reimarus, 91 What man has made of man, 264-265 Will, the undisciplined, 64-66 Windmill and its shadow, 77-78 Winter, a mild, 170 Woman's frowardness, 89 Words and things, 225 Words, creative power of, and images, 87 Words, the power of, 266-269 Wordsworth and The Prelude, 30 Wordsworth, John, 132 Worldly wise, 230 Wounded vanity, a salve for, 82-83

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