INDEX
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Abernethy, a timid lecturer, 255.
Abd-el-Lateef, anecdote of, 383.
Addison, on living and dressing according to the rules of common sense, 64; his care in composition, 127; reputed portrait of, 189; his belief in ghosts, 243; his marriage, 246; enlarges on a thought of Socrates, 374.
Advice, on asking and giving, 104.
Æschines, of Pericles and Aspasia, 41.
Æsop, fable of the travelers and the chameleon, 379.
Agassiz, had no time to make money, 139.
Aikenhead, hanged for free religious opinions, 362.
Alfieri, how he composed, 126.
Alfred, King of Denmark, story of, 165.
Alger, public opinion the atmosphere of society, 7; most men live blindly, 23; ruins, and what they symbolize, 216; on the blindness or Homer, Milton, Galileo, and Händel, 228; on the happiness of solitude, 342; his account of the hermit of Grub Street, 343; the forest of statues on the roof of Milan cathedral, 354; the scholar's pantheon at the top of his mind, 354.
Amyot, his poverty and success, 125.
Anaxagoras, a request made by, 216; whom he believed to be most happy, 346.
Andersen, advice to, 148.
Anecdote of a singer and his wife in Leipsic, 316; of a hypochondriacal comedian, 323.
Angelo, Michel, confesses his ignorance, 29; on reforming mankind, 93; anecdote of, 168; and Raphael, 171; a gem once worn on the finger of, 178; and the Reformation, 252; the statues of, 303; and Bramante, 303; of Donatello's statue, 325; a saying of his commending moderation, 348.
Annals of the Parish, why rejected, 148.
Anson, Lord, different opinions of, 189.
Appleseed, Johnny, character and career of, 112.
Apelles and Protogenes, 171.
Apuleius, a curious fact relating to, 249.
Arago, his claim for ancient Egypt, 181.
Arbuthnot, Pope, and Gay, fate of a joint play of, 255.
Archimedes, the tomb of, 215.
Arctic morality, 102.
Arctic region, small proportion of fuel used in the, 241; effect of frost in the, 301.
Arethusa, Fountain of, 302.
Aristotle, on proverbs, 159; logic known before, 182; fate of, 223.
Arnold, Matthew, moral rules for the sage only, 369.
Artist, an, in serpents, 300.
Aspasia and Pericles, 41.
Atterbury, Bishop, what he said of Newton, 107.
Augereau, at the coronation of Napoleon, 110.
Augustine, St., and the idea of Fourierism, 182; subtleties on the question, What then is time? 339; on a happy life, 340; a passage from his Confessions, 354.
Auld Lang Syne, 204.
Auld Robin Gray, its authorship a secret for fifty years, 254.
Aurelius, Marcus, tolerant and good to all but Christians, 33; his idea of free government, 185; his doubtful wife and bad son, 247; what he learnt from his tutor, 347; a lofty thought of, on the sacredness of life, 355.
Babinet, his opinion of a submarine telegraph, 267.
Bacon, on nature reviving—Æsop's damsel, 48; of policy and craft, 65.
Bailly, story told of, 167.
Balzac, his care in composition, 128.
Barbauld, Mrs., passage from, 296; lines by, 356.
Barère, views and conduct early and late in life, 104.
Barry, Michael J., some lines by, 120.
Barton, Bernard, his surprise at a funeral, 156.
Bathurst, Lord, and the Essay on Man, 249.
Baxter, a believer in witchcraft, 250; his views at the end of life, 268; the result, after a trial of worldly things, 326.
Bayle, on Pericles and Aspasia, 41; on the spirit of party, 61; on Machiavelli's Prince, 233; the purity of, 245.
Beattie, Dr., of a witty parson, 43.
Beaumarchais, adaptations of Tarare, 221.
Becket, Thomas à, story of the mother of, 212.
Beckford, and his romance, Vathek, 252.
Bentivoglio, misfortunes of, 262.
Béranger, refuses a legacy, 141.
Berkeley, Bishop, on being master of one's time, 136.
Bernis, Cardinal, and Madame de Pompadour, 268.
Betterton, a borrower from Steele, 169.
Beyle, Henri, a laborious writer, 125.
Beza, one of his invectives, 45; his coarse, amorous poems, 268.
Bible, the, in literature, 161; a reference to, 241.
Billingsgate, fish-woman of, 28.
Blackwood's Magazine on diversity, 5; on the inevitable and irremediable, 91; on public opinion, 361; on the adoring principle in human nature, 368.
Blake, William, artist, genius, mystic, madman, 281.
Blessington, Lady, relating to Moore, 140.
Boileau, an unwearied corrector, 126; relating to Molière, 149.
Bolingbroke to Swift, 214.
Books never published, 194.
Boots with pointed toes believed to be the cause of the plague, 203.
Borghese, Paulo, poverty of, 261.
Borghese, Princess, anecdote of, 311.
Bossuet, confesses his insignificance, 30; appearance of his manuscript, 129.
Boswell, and intellectual chemistry, 42; on being reckoned wise, 168; the bulwark of Johnson's fame, 190; Johnson's pretended contempt of, 243.
Boyle, effect of falling water upon, 244.
Brackenridge, distrust of moderation natural, 296.
Brahe, Tycho, and the idiot Lep, 228; his terror of a hare or fox, 244.
Brain, insensibility of the, 242.
Bramah, origin of the idea of his lock, 181.
Brewster, Sir David, and the story of the falling apple, 175; on Galileo's abjuration, 223.
Brontë, Charlotte, a painstaking writer, 126; life and genius of, 276, 277, 278.
Brougham, how he composed one of his speeches, 132; a curious fact of, 254.
Brown, John, utterances and incidents of, 113; and the old engine-house, 264; and the governor of Virginia, 264; a daughter of, 265; one of his trusted men, 265.
Brown, Tom, a remark of, 121.
Browne, Sir Thomas, on self-love, 14; confesses his ignorance, 31; on a neglect of the great, 151; on maxims that will never be out of date, 159; his faith in witchcraft, 224; a lofty thought of, on the immortality of life, 355; on usurping the gates of heaven, 366; his distrust of his own judgment, 381.
Bruce, and the story of the spider, 165; death of, 260.
Brunel, a remark of, relating to Pompey's Pillar, 181.
Brunelleschi, and the story of the egg, 166.
Buffon, his manner of composing, 128.
Bülow, effects of his stopping practice, 130.
Bulwer, on truth, 4; anecdote of Kean, 13; relating to Calvin and Torquemada, 46; his description of a superior man, 68; on the English language, 158; on the language of Spain, 158; on La Rochefoucauld, 234; of Descartes, 238; looking from the window of his club, 338; paraphrase from Phædrus, 374.
Bunsen, dying exclamation of, 387.
Bunyan, wrote Pilgrim's Progress in prison, 135.
Burke, no great fire without great heat, 46; a remark of on idleness, 122; how he worried his printer, 132; at Beaconsfield, 154; his tribute to John Howard, 231; his great care as a writer, 249; his style in youth and old age, 254.
Burnet, Bishop, his estimate of Newton, 107; on Lord Rochester, 236.
Burns, characterizes woman, 3; remarks of and by, 123; his poverty and pride, 137; advised to imitate Mrs. John Hunter, 145; confidence in his own powers, 150; tribute of Hawthorne to, 153; the Scotsman's religion, 174; a complaint of himself, 244; pronounced incapable of music, 263; on sensibility, 314; his constitutional melancholy, 315; lines by, 344; his gospel of charity, 376.
Burton, naught so sweet as melancholy, naught so damned as melancholy, 314; on content and true happiness, 325.
Butler, misery of, 315.
Byron, some lines by, 150; criticises mythology, 187; a peculiarity of, 244.
Cæsar, Augustus, his fear of thunder, 244.
Cæsar, Julius, the corpse of, 222; ambition of, criticised by Pascal, 353.
Cagliostro, Lavater duped by, 258.
Calamities sometimes blessings, 226.
Caligula and his horse, 99.
Caliph, memorial of an illustrious, 333.
Callcott, his picture of Milton and his daughter, 175.
Calvin, occasional violence of, 45.
Camoëns, poverty of, 134, 261.
Campbell, his difficulty in finding a bookseller, 133; Scott and Hohenlinden, 150; and Prof. Wilson, 268.
Candide's supper at Venice with the six kings, 333.
Canova exhibiting his paintings, 261.
Canute, the story of, 166.
Captain of Virginia militia, exclamation of, 119.
Carlyle, legend of Moses and the Dead Sea people, 49; on the effects of custom, 64; fastidiousness as a writer, 130; his opinion of a hero, 232; compares men to sheep, 295.
Cashmere shawls, 180.
Castelar, a republican's opinion of Rome, 307; on the unhappiness of life, 337; pleads for universal toleration, 361.
Cato, how he was estimated by contemporaries, 144; learned Greek after he was seventy, 267.
Cecil, sorrowed in the bright lustre of a court, 334.
Cervantes, poverty of, 134; planned and commenced Don Quixote in prison, 135; a curious fact of, 191; his wretchedness and melancholy, 315.
Chalmers, as to certain of his compositions, 254; and the views of Malthus, 263.
Change, anecdotes and facts illustrating, 9, 10, 11.
Channing, on establishing a new society, 386.
Chapman, Jonathan, known as Johnny Appleseed, 112.
Charlemagne, a story of the daughter of, 165.
Charles I., a story told of, 167.
Charles II., his criticism of Sir Matthew Hale, 3; touching for the evil, 224; and Cromwell, 304; and Wycherley, 304; the name given him by one who knew him, 304; manner of his death, 304; character of, drawn by Macaulay, 306.
Charles XII., of Sweden, anecdote of, 167.
Charity, Christian, a story illustrating, 357.
Chaulnes, Duke de, and Johnson, 370.
Chaumette, devoted to an aviary, 99.
Cheops, ring of, 178.
Chesterfield, a remark on, 190; speeches of, written by Johnson, 248.
Chillingworth, at last confident of nothing, 258.
China, scarcity of labor in, 240.
Chinese rebuke of Christians, 101.
Chrysippus, of misers, 72.
Cicero, of the man and his eggs, 6; his experience at a watering-place, 16; how laboriously he prepared his speeches, 131; the diminutive copy of the Iliad he saw, 178; on universal brotherhood, 185; hunting the tomb of Archimedes, 215; timidity of, 262.
Clairvoyance, very old, 183.
Coal, a man executed for burning it, 202.
Cobbe, Frances Power, on the Christian movement, 370.
Cobbett, revisits the scenes of his boyhood, 220.
Cockburn, Lord, anecdote of Dr. Henry, 80.
Coleridge, one just flogging he received, 21; horrified by the exclamation of a boy, 22; some devil and some god in man, 42; anecdote of a dignified man, 69; on doing good, 93; of traders in philanthropy, 97; project of pantisocracy, 102; fears he has caught the itch, 103; gained little by his writings, 133; what he thought a sufficient income, 138; of Goethe, 147; intellect of, 151; comparison of Shakespeare with Milton, 152; on Shakespeare and Homer, 152; at York minster, 196; a remark of, in one of his lectures, 200; and John Chester, 211; curious facts relating to, 250; and the House that Jack built, 268; on certain smells, 302; his summing up of life, 336; remark on Horne Tooke, 378; remark on toleration, 383.
Columbus, and the egg, 166; fact relating to, 259.
Commodus, tolerant to Christians, 247.
Common sense defined, 7.
Communist, a, defined, 105.
Conciergerie, flirting and love-making in the, 35.
Confucius, describes the conduct of the superior man, 23; his joy in frugality, 136; and the Golden Rule, 185; anecdote of, 373.
Congreve, what the one wise man knew, 32.
Conscience, 22.
Corey, Giles, pressed to death, 60.
Corneille, his poverty, 134; what Napoleon said of him, 153; tiresome in conversation, 260.
Cornwall, Barry, his fear of the sea, 251.
Correggio, no portrait of, 262.
Corwin, Thomas, anecdote of, 168.
Cottle, Joseph, relating to Coleridge, 22; of Coleridge at York minster, 196; lines by, admired by Coleridge, 378.
Couthon, devoted to a spaniel, 99.
Cowley, a curious fact of, 245.
Cowper, his poems and their publisher, 192; his mental malady, 226; the ballad of John Gilpin, 227; the poor school-master, Teedon, 228; his attempt at suicide, 246; his giggling with Thurlow, 246; the sanest of English poets, 254; fancied himself hated by his Creator, 259; a melancholy confession of, 317.
Crabbe, wrote and burned three novels, 259.
Credulity, 20, 224.
Creed, in the biliary duct, 8; referred to in the rebuke of a clergyman, 20.
Crichton, curious achievement of, 264.
Cromwell, his distrust of popular applause, 298; and Charles II., 304; and Milton, 304; how estimated when flattery was mute, 304; manner of his death, 304.
Crowne, John, reading by lightning, 46.
Cumberland, and Sheridan, 9; describes Soame Jenyns, 236; Goldsmith and his comedy, 270; the dinner at the Shakespeare tavern, 271; predicament of an artist in serpents, 300; a reflection on old age, 332; on a man gifted with worldly qualities, 350; remark on Bubb Doddington, 378.
Curing public evils, 25.
Curiosity, 17, 32.
Curran, contest with the fish-woman, 28; remark to Phillips about his speeches, 249; melancholy nature of, 314.
Curtis, George William, castles in Spain, 327.
Cushman, Charlotte, anecdote related by, 35.
Custom, doth make cowards of us all, 64.
Daguerre, his discovery anticipated, 181.
Damascus blades of the Crusades, 180.
Dante, a story told of, 170; the prodigal and the avaricious together, 302.
D'Arblay, Madame, and Mrs. Barbauld's stanza on Life, 356.
Darwin, cattle in East Falkland Island, 10; earthquake at Talcahuano, 17; a curious fox on the island of San Pedro, 18; conduct of the Fuegians, 27; petrified trees on the Andes, 108; conduct of the New Zealand chief, 211; the three years' drought in Buenos Ayres, 222; sound and silence in the forest of Brazil, 301.
D'Alembert, declines the favors of royalty, 141.
De Coverley, Sir Roger, cause of the death of, 373.
De Foe, rules from the Complete English Tradesman, 86.
De l'Isle and the Marseillaise, 205, 248.
Della Valle, conduct of the women at Goa, 34; his own strange conduct, 35.
Demetrius, and his father, 166; a story told of, 167.
Democritus, thought to be a madman, 144.
Demosthenes, gloried in the smell of the lamp, 131; timidity of, 262.
Denham, curious facts relating to, 235; anecdote of, 235.
De Quincey, no thought without blemish, 90; his estimate of Goethe, 146; of Milton, 152.
Descartes, modesty of, 238.
De Retz, statement of, 234.
Desert, painful silence of the, 301.
De Staël, Madame, criticism of Godwin, 98; and Madame Récamier, 172; Talleyrand's reply to, 187; Napoleon's hatred of, 253; mourns the solitude of life, 335.
De Tocqueville, character of the French, 40; remark of an old lady to, 75; story told to by Rulhière, 77; on old age, 333; some wise observations on life, 341.
Devil, the Reformation and the, 204; the priest and the, 204.
Dickens, his care in composition, 128.
Digby, an illustration from, 11.
Dignity, assumed, described, and satirized, 67, 68, 69, 70.
Diminutive writing and printing, 178.
Diogenes, banished for counterfeiting, 260.
Dionysius, story of, 166.
Disraeli, Isaac, his sketch of Audley, 73; anecdote of, 138; on proverbs, 159; on men of genius, 232.
Disraeli, Benjamin, on the limits of human reason, 62.
Diversity, 4, 5.
Doddington, Bubb, characterized by Cumberland, 378.
Doing good, Lamb on, 89; difficulty of, 93; remark of Coleridge, 93; passages from Thoreau, 93.
Domitian, amused himself catching flies, 263.
Drake, and the origin of the Culprit Fay, 193.
Drummond, the sonorous laugher, 271.
Dryden, criticises the judges of his day, 3; anecdote relating to, 154; a curious fact of, 255.
Duchâtel, his poverty and renown, 125.
Dunbar, neglect of the poems of, 199.
Dutch Ambassador and the King of Siam, 101.
Dyer, George, his experience while usher, 88; an associate of Lamb's, 284; his biography of Robinson, 284; his absent-mindedness, 284; anecdotes of, 285, 286.
Eckermann, describes a scene on the Simplon, 350.
Edwards, Jonathan, effect of his work on Original Sin, 56; curious fact relating to, 266.
Egypt, hospitals for cats in, 99; ventilation in the pyramids of, 181; the railroad dates back to, 181; social questions discussed to rags in, 181.
Eldon, Lord, an anecdote he was fond of relating, 76; a remark in old age, 104; and Bessy Surtees, 246; his daughter's elopement, 246; a curious experience of, at Oxford, 246.
Elizabeth, Queen, a curious fact of, 245.
Elliot, Sir Gilbert, passion necessary to revolution, 46.
Elliott, the Corn-Law Rhymer, defines a communist, 105.
Eloquence, a rude specimen of, 313.
Emerson, a man like a bit of Labrador spar, 3; the soul not twin-born, 5; life a series of surprises, 24; confesses his ignorance, 32; on the good of evil, 40; few spontaneous actions, 64; on reforming, 90; is virtue piecemeal? 93; of one that would help himself and others, 105; the martyrdom of John Brown, 119; advantages of riches not with the heir, 121; personal independence, 138; of Shakespeare, 153; of the theory and practice of life, 240; the plant papyrus, 241; relating to Columbus, 259; the difference between the wise and the unwise, 354; effects of an acceptance of the sentiment of love, 359.
Epictetus, on forgiving injuries, 185.
Epicurus, his name a synonym for sensuality, 261; his moderation, 349.
Erasmus, on self-love, 12; two natures in Luther, 47; of the Colloquies of, 193; effect of the smell of fish upon, 244; and Luther, 308; what he said of Luther, 309.
Erskine, a severe corrector, 132.
Essay on Man, curious statement relating to, 249.
Esquirol, effects of occupation, 378.
Euclid, stereoscope known to, 181.
Evelyn, observation on Jeffreys, 189; his argument against solitude, 244.
Evil, ceremony of touching for the, 224.
Extremes, law of, 295; meeting of in morals and legislation, 304.
Fairy's funeral, description of a, 293.
Falstaff, dress to represent, 69.
Faraday, curious fact relating to, 253.
Farrar, legend of St. Brendan and Judas Iscariot, 387; of the purification of souls, 388.
Faustina, wife of Marcus Aurelius, 247.
Fénelon, and the publication of Telemachus, 193; on a violent zeal that we must correct, 363; anecdotes of, 373.
Fielding, a curious fact relating to, 191; and Richardson, 199; on our faults, and the difficulty of amending them, 338.
Fittleworth, rector of, how he lost his living, 37.
Fitzherbert and Townshend, 211.
Flaxman, of the Graces and the Furies, 10; determines the sex of a statue, 187; strange fact of the wife of, 226.
Foote, how he took off the Dublin printer, 78; a story of, 164; a remark on the death of, 265.
Forster, relating to Goldsmith, 156.
Foster, record of a reflective aged man, 7; analysis of an atheist, 19; story of the devil turned preacher, 43; on self-idolizing dreamers, 91; care in composition, 129; tribute to John Howard, 229; on a violation of the laws of goodness, 240; origin of his essays, 246.
Fournier, devoted to a squirrel, 99.
Fox, fastidious in composition, 126.
Francis, Sir Philip, and Junius, 257.
Franklin, Dr., his advice to the three sages, 367; doubted his own judgment as he grew older, 381.
Frederick the Great, a story told of, 167; and Robespierre, 238.
Frederick William, canes a Jew in a street of Berlin, 51.
Froissart, of a reverend monk, 48.
Froude, terrible story related by, 57; human things and icebergs, 109; a reflection of, applied to John Brown, 119; of fortune and rank, 121; prosperity consistent with worldliness, 349; the Scots a happy people, 350; on putting to death for a speculative theological opinion, 363; how the laity should treat the controversial divines, 367.
Fuller, Margaret, on Goethe, 105; few great, few able to appreciate greatness, 143.
Fuller, Thomas, statement relating to Rabelais, 190; curious fact relating to Wolsey, 224; the Holy Ghost came down not in the shape of a vulture, 359; he shall be immortal who liveth till he be stoned by one without fault, 388.
Fuseli, a habit of in sketching, 2.
Gainsborough, a remark on painting and engraving, 198.
Galileo, ceremony of abjuration, 223; blindness of, 228.
Galt, an observation by, 110; Annals of the Parish, 148.
Garrick, variety of his countenance, 10; a story of his acting, 78; the public grew tired of admiring him, 297.
Gaskell, account of the death of a cock-fighting squire, 38; anecdote of Grimshaw, 55.
Gay, Pope, and Arbuthnot, fate of a joint play of, 255.
Gems, imitations of, 177; cabinet of in Italy, 178.
Genius, our obligations to, 161.
Geoffrin, Madame, and Rulhière, 170.
Gertrud bird, 79.
Giardini, of playing the violin, 130.
Gibbon, his fastidiousness as a writer, 125; review of the series of Byzantine emperors, 219.
Gladstone, interesting reply of, 263.
Glass in Pompeii, 177.
Godwin, Madame de Staël's criticism of, 98; a good husband and kind father, 255; and Rough, 311.
Goethe, confesses his ignorance, 29; reason can never be popular, 62; anecdote of Merck and the grand duke, 89; to know how cherries and strawberries taste, 90; a fortunate mistake of, 92; nature, 103; giving advice, 104; aristocracy and democracy, 104; the world cannot keep quiet, 109; his works commercially, 133; objections to luxurious furniture, 137; of Dante's great poem, 147; advised against writing Faust, 148; genius of Shakespeare, 152; influence of Voltaire, 153; a staff officer's opinion of, 155; first impression of Switzerland, 195; critical remark of, 198; on a peculiarity of Schiller, 244; disparaged himself as a poet, 261; pleasant dreams after falling asleep in tears, 318; compares life to a residence at a watering-place, 332; the simplicity of the world, 347; arrogance natural to youth, 352; remark of at the age of seventy-five, 355; truth and error, 361; of a Christianity of feeling and action, 366.
Goldsmith, of the vanity of human judgment, 24; ten years composing the Traveller, 129; to Bob Bryanton, 135; proud reply to Hawkins, 139; reply to Dr. Scott, 139; criticises Waller, Pope, and Milton, 145; opinion of Tristram Shandy, 147; his street ballads, 156; a saying of credited to Talleyrand, 172; relations with Bott, the barrister, 200; friendship and jealousy, 240; as a talker and as a writer, 244; Goody Two Shoes, 268; at the British Coffee House, 270; first acting of She Stoops to Conquer, 270; conduct during, 271.
Goodness tainted, 94.
Gordianus, epitaph of, 263.
Grammont, Count, on Sir John Denham, 235.
Gray, twenty years touching up his Elegy, 126; criticises Thomson and Akenside, 145; diffidence and fastidiousness of, 238; his Elegy not intended for the public, 258.
Greene, Peele, and Marlowe, 249.
Grimaldi, devouring melancholy of, 315.
Groenvelt, Dr., persecution of, 201.
Guérin, Eugénie de, her story of the poor shepherdess, 345.
Guérin, Maurice de, on a solitary life, 342.
Guido, and the portrait of Beatrice Cenci, 313.
Guizot, declines a title, 141.
Hadrian's villa, 217.
Hale, Sir Matthew, criticised by Charles II., 3; unpublished writings of, 194; trials before for witchcraft, 224; influenced by Jeffreys, 247.
Hall, Robert, sought relief in Dante, 267.
Hallam, his opinion of Hooker, 225.
Hammond, Elton, 278.
Händel, blindness of, 228; his hallelujahs open the heavens, 229.
Harrington, imprisonment of, 135; man a religious creature, 368.
Harvey, effects of his discovery, 147, 301.
Hawthorne, on men who surrender themselves to an overruling power, 97; on special reformers, 98; distinction between a philanthropic man and a philanthropist, 113; Byron and Burns, 153; of the Scarlet Letter, 188; statement relating to the Mayflower, 241; of artists who have painted their own portraits, 377.
Haydn, a story told of, 175.
Hayward, passages from, 164, 165, 174.
Hazlitt, his violence at times, 36; legend of a Brahman turned into a monkey, 48; of two pictures by Northcote, 190; of Coleridge and John Chester, 211; the poet Gray, 238; every man an exception, 240; strange facts about, 263; opinion of Mary Lamb, 267; of Garrick, 297; wanting one thing, he wanted everything, 325; on aiming at too much, 337; on keeping in our own walk in life, 347; life, at the beginning and the end, 352.
Heart, insensibility of the, 242.
Heine, pleads for the negro king, 27; of Luther, 47; when he would forgive his enemies, 53; tribute to Goethe, 153; ignorance of doctors, 208; of the leper-poet, 318; a paralytic, 320; fame nauseous to, 331.
Helps, Arthur, the nature of man, 33; you never know enough about a man to condemn him, 39; the art of life, 341; dialogue on toleration and charity, 383.
Helvetius, of the passions, 46; advice to Montesquieu, 148.
Henderson, faculty of getting words by heart, 125.
Henry VI. of France, a story of, 171.
Henry, Patrick, his last speech, 264.
Hercules, a diminutive figure of, 178.
Herder, advice to Goethe, 148.
Herrick, a painstaking elaborator, 129.
Hiero, questions Simonides, 31, 348.
Hildebrand, Pope, fate of, 223.
Hill, Dr., and Hannah Glass, 268.
Hillard, on Hadrian's villa, 217.
History and fiction, 164.
Hogarth, relating to the sale of certain pictures, 192; his estimate of Reynolds, 198; impressions as to his true vocation, 258.
Hogg, his neighbors thought him no poet, 145.
Holbein, German engraving in the manner of, 326.
Hood, origin of the Song of the Shirt, 149; what delighted him, 155; a victim of distress and melancholy, 321; anecdotes of, 321; lines on his dead child, 322; passages from letters to little children, 322, 323.
Hook, attempt of Southey to hoax, 200.
Hooker, circumstances of his marriage, 224; character of, by Izaak Walton, 225.
Home, Sweet Home, 205.
Homer, called a plagiarist, 144; effect of his character and genius, 162.
Horace, a laborious writer, 125; passage from, 302.
Howard, John, humanity of, 229; and solitary confinement, 260.
Howe, John, his method of conducting public fasts, 37.
Huber, François, blindness of, 259.
Human things compared to icebergs, 109.
Humboldt, credits the Chinese with magnetic carriages, 181.
Hume, his care in composition, 126; his history slow of sale at first, 133; advice to Robertson, 148.
Humility illustrated by the rain-drop, 344.
Hunt, Leigh, tribute to Händel, 228; on pseudo-Christianity, 364; remark on Lamb, 383.
Hyacinthe, the church of the future, 366.
Hypocrite, profession of, 71.
Ice, curious facts relating to, 210.
Iceland, the best building in, 241.
Icicles, formation of, 209.
Ideas, the few great, remain about the same, 157.
Ignorance, 17, 18, 19, 20, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 240, 352.
Incledon, stories of Garrick and Foote, 77.
Indian cazique, story of, 101.
Intellectual chemistry, 42.
Invective, a primitive Quaker's, 44.
Ireland, baptisms in, 37.
Irving, on the habit of criticising government, 25; small returns from his writings, 133; an observation on Goldsmith, 187; modesty and diffidence of, 239; called a vagabond by a neighbor, 239; stealing his own apples, 239; of elaborating humor, 316; circumstances under which he composed the History of New York, 319.
Isocrates, timidity of, 262.
Jameson, Mrs., a story related by, 172.
Java, flowers, fruits, and trees of, 301.
Jeffreys, portrait and conduct of, 189; influence over Sir Matthew Hale, 247.
Jenner, persecution of, 202.
Jenyns, described by Cumberland, 236.
Jerome, St., legend of St. John recorded by, 359.
Jerrold, Douglas, his dislike of the theatre behind the scenes, 1; of the practical benevolence of a London tradesman, 81; ambitious to write a treatise on philosophy, 261; the Caudle Lectures, 316.
Jews, curious persecution of the, 203.
Joan of Arc, Shakespeare's and Schiller's, 174.
Johnson, reply to Boswell as to the indecency of a statue, 1; his opinion of remarks by Orrery and Delany on Swift, 2; his hatred of baby-talk, 50; a remark on marriage, 62; opinion of feeling people, 98; opinion of levelers, 105; Life of, at first slow of sale, 133; Cumberland on, 142; how he was once made happy, 143; opinion of Milton's sonnets, 146; criticises Swift, Gray, and Sterne, 146; opinion of Lycidas, 147; a neglect of the great, 151; of Shakespeare, 152; Dr. Campbell's estimate of, 153; remark to Mrs. Macaulay, 168; version of Pope's Messiah, 176; reviewer's remark on, 190; painter's confession to, 199; of Demosthenes Taylor, 212; tribute to Savage, 236; poverty and companionships of, 243; belief in ghosts, 243; a peculiarity of, 244; a famous speech of Pitt, 248; speeches of Chesterfield, 248; collected sermons, 248; a number of the Rambler, 248; Ramblers written rapidly, 248; confidence in Psalmanazar, 250; bigotry of, 257; learned Dutch after he was seventy, 267; first acting of Goldsmith's comedy, 270; melancholy of, 316; of Pope and his writings, 317; of Young and his writings, 317; of the Christian religion, 370.
Jones, Paul, and Thomson's Seasons, 261.
Joubert, a thought of, 1; his habit as a writer, 127.
Journalism, impersonal, 241.
Judkins, Juke, reminiscences of, 81.
Junius, warns the king, 298.
Jupiter and Cupid, 296; imaginary proclamation by, 374.
Kane, Dr., curious experience with the Esquimaux, 102; of frost in the Arctic region, 301.
Kant, a curious fact of, 251.
Kean, Edmund, wretchedness of his early life, 124; how he studied and slaved, 131.
Kemble, John, reply to Northcote, 15; as to his new readings of Hamlet, 131.
Kempis, Thomas à, of simplicity and purity, 345; of charity and humility, 372; of amending our own faults, 374.
King, Dr., on toleration, 383.
Kinglake, care in the composition of Eothen, 128.
Kingsley, Charles, of his father, 151.
Kneller, Sir Godfrey, remark to a sitter, 13.
Knives and forks, ridiculed by Ben Jonson and Beaumont and Fletcher, 202.
Knowledge reserved, 240.
Kotzebue, relating to, 257.
Labor, life's blessing, 121.
La Bruyère, of judging men, 2; of diversity, 6; some thoughts of, 24; on the mixture of good and evil, 73; eloquent passage of, 219.
La Fontaine, always copying and recopying, 126; dull and stupid in conversation, 260.
Lais, the courtezan, saying of, 41.
Lamartine, a strange statement relating to, 256.
Lamb, remark on covetousness, 73; dissection of meanness, 81; anecdote of George Dyer, 88; doing good by stealth, 89; story of an India-house clerk, 100; care in composition, 127; anecdote of, 134; criticises Faust, 146; tribute to Manning, 150; essay on the Origin of Roast Pig, 169; could spit upon Howard's statue, 260; first acting of Mr. H., 272; hopeful letter to Manning, 273; hisses his own bantling, 274; another letter to Manning, not so hopeful, 275; poor Elia, 275; constitutional melancholy of, 316.
Lamb, Mary, Hazlitt's estimate of, 267.
Landor, eyes of critics on one side, 4; of Shakespeare and Milton, 152; of Cromwell and Milton, 152; of the estimation of the great by their contemporaries, 153; of Swift, Addison, Rabelais, La Fontaine and Pascal, 315; of Aspasia and Pericles, 347; the falsehood of life, 364; of looking down on ourselves, 372.
Lansdowne, phrenologist's judgment of, 188.
Lardner, curious facts of, 266.
La Rochefoucauld, his Maxims criticised by Sterling, 2; reference to his Maxims, 12; care in composition, 129; an unselfish, brave, humane man, 234.
Last Rose of Summer, 204.
Latimer, Tenterden-Steeple and Goodwin Sands, 18.
Laud, cruelty of, 363.
Lavater, judgment of Lord Anson, 189; duped by Cagliostro, 258.
Lay, Benjamin, an enthusiast, anecdote of, 367.
Layard, nature breaking out in a party of Arabs, 48; engravings on Nineveh, 178; lens found in Nineveh, 181; tradition of Nimrod and the gnat, 302.
Lecky, witchcraft in England, 56; opinion of Hooker, 225; great and multiform influences of Christian philanthropy, 372.
Legends and parables: a Brahman turned into a monkey, 49; Moses and the dwellers by the Dead Sea, 49; the redbreast, and how it was singed, 55; the man in the moon, 79; man and woman in the moon, 79; Gertrud bird, the woodpecker, 79; the Wandering Jew, 80; the Brahman and the three rogues, 296; Og, a king of Bashan, 298; Nimrod and the gnat, 302; Gabriel and the idol-worshiper, 346; St. John in the arms of his disciples, 359; blind men and the elephant, 379; St. Brendan and Judas Iscariot, 387; Abraham and the old man who worshiped the fire only, 388.
Leighton, a clergyman, persecution of, 363.
Le Notre and Louis XIV., 167.
Le Sage, poverty of, 134.
Leslie, anecdote of Owen and Wilberforce, 92.
Lessing, the restless instinct for truth, 32.
Levelers, remark of Johnson on, 105.
Life, every year of a wise man's, 8; a series of surprises, 24; knowledge of, 353; beginning and end of, 353; stanza on, 356.
Lilli Burlero, ballad of, 204.
Lilliput, the mighty emperor of, 28.
Lincoln, his dislike of being preached to, 94; how he earned his first dollar, 122; idea the slaves had of him, 314; the reason he gave for not uniting himself to any church, 386.
Linnæus, curious facts relating to, 235.
Liston, a confirmed hypochondriac, 315.
Livingstone, exclamation of Sekwebu at seeing the sea, 19; tribe of good Africans, 102.
Livy, on curing public evils, 26.
Llandaff, Bishop of, anecdote of, 121.
Lloyd, his remedy for madness, 267.
Locke, of the king of Siam, 101.
Lockhart, wrote the first of the Noctes papers, 255.
Longfellow, lines from Hiawatha, 299.
Lovelace and Suckling, 266.
Lowell, definition of common sense, 7; Montaigne and Shakespeare, 12; witchcraft, 61.
Lucian, a pretty passage in one of his dialogues, 296.
Lucretius, his one poem, 125.
Luther, a violent saint sometimes, 45; what Heine said of him, 47; what he said of himself, 47; and the devil, 204; believed in ghosts, 243; relations with Erasmus, 308; opinion of Erasmus, 309; with Melancthon in the pulpit, 310.
Mabillon, a genius by an accident, 226.
Macaulay, conduct of a nephew of, 25; a laborious writer, 129; Machiavelli, 233; Byron, 298; times of Cromwell and Charles II., 304, 305, 306; ethics of Charles II.; hanging of Aikenhead, 362.
Machiavelli, of judging by appearances, 71; a zealous republican, 233; curious facts relating to, 233.
Mackenzie, Henry, his advice to Burns, 145; a hard-headed, practical man, 255.
Mackenzie, Sir George, an advocate of solitude, 244.
Mahagam, ruins of, 222.
Mahomet, turns a misfortune to advantage, 66.
Maintenon, Madame de, to her niece, 336.
Maistre, Xavier de, on self-love, 12; of people fancying themselves ill, 76.
Malherbe, how he composed 126; anecdotes of, 126.
Mallet, a curious fact relating to, 256.
Man, like a certain statue, 2; like a bit of Labrador spar, 3; a noble animal, 3; his own chiefest flatterer, 13; most apt to believe what he least understands, 17; lives blindly, 23; tries to pass for more than he is, 27; a terrible Voltaic pile, 33; some devil and some God in him, 42; who succeeds, 46; a curious object for microscopic study, 63; a natural reformer, 90; persuadability of, 103; when he is powerful, 105; the fittest place where he can die, 120; when he becomes conscious of a higher self, 355; naturally religious, 368.
Mandeville, an observation by, 346.
Man-mending, mania of, 103.
Marat, kept doves, 99.
Marlborough, avarice of, 264; meanness of, 264.
Marlowe, Peele, and Greene, 249.
Marseillaise, origin of the, 205.
Marvell, pride and independence of, 139.
Mather, Cotton, epithets he applied to the Quakers, 44; account of the trial of Mary Johnson for witchcraft, 58; the panic he created in New England, 60.
Mathews, curious anecdote by, 207.
Mayflower, a slave-ship, 241.
Meanness, a study and an analysis of, 81.
Medhurst, Chinese opinions of Christians reported by, 101.
Melancthon, approved of the burning of Servetus, 258; with Luther in the pulpit, 310.
Melmoth, on thinking authors, 158.
Menander, proverb from, quoted by St. Paul, 160.
Mencius, on the disease of men, 95.
Merck, and the Grand Duke, 89.
Mercury and Jove, 92.
Mesmerism, very old, 183.
Meyer, curious fact related by, 302.
Michelet, his horror of the sea, 252.
Middleton, stories of Cicero, 16, 215.
Migne, Abbé, curious cruelties referred to by, 99.
Milan cathedral, 196.
Mill, curious omission of, 266.
Miller, strange fact relating to, 267.
Mills of God, 107.
Milton, his care in composition, 126; and Paradise Lost, 147; De Quincey's estimate of, 152; of lyric and epic poets, 348.
Mirabeau, ugliness and attractiveness of, 259; his distrust of popular applause, 297.
Miser, characterized by Colton, 72; a saying of Foote, 72; effect of his hoarding habits illustrated, 73; an observation of Lamb, 73.
Misfortunes never come singly, 299.
Molière, on the profession of hypocrite, 71; his slowness as a writer, 127; used one of his servants as critic, 149; a grave and silent man, 316.
Money-getter analyzed, 71, 72.
Monod, of the conduct of certain missionaries, 56.
Montagu, Basil, prejudice, the spider of the mind, 376.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, of the Duchess of Marlborough, 34; her criticism of women, 34; obloquy she endured, 201.
Montaigne, difference in opinions, 5; of laws and events, 6; action of seeing outward, 12; a pattern within ourselves, 22; the virtue of the soul, 23; curing public evils, 25; conduct of lecturers in the courts of philosophy, 41; nature starting up, 47; how estimated by his neighbors, 154; faith in physicians, 208; the fairest lives, in his opinion, 346; the thoughts and actions of man, 375; on distrusting our own judgments, 382.
Montespan, Madame de, to Madame de Maintenon, 34; rigorous devotion of, 268.
Montesquieu, a laborious writer, 125.
Moore, the lady and the second volume of the Life of Byron, by, 54; seventy lines a week's work for, 128; pride and independence of, 140; story of the jeweled lady, 165; trick of Father Prout at the expense of, 176; of Scott and Waverley, 191; and the opera of Tarare, 221; and Lalla Rookh, 251; of the authorship of the Junius letters, 257; statement relating to Sheridan, 267.
More, Hannah, her opinion of Milton's sonnets, 146.
More, Sir Thomas, a fierce persecutor, 245;
Morris, Robert, imprisoned for debt, 256.
Mosheim, a sentence from an old album, 347.
Mother Goose's Melodies, 206.
Motley, effects of the gout of Charles V., 8; Luther when angry, 47; Radbod and Bishop Wolfran, 100; the Netherlands, 107; long live the beggars! 110; Erasmus and Luther, 308.
Mozart, declaration of, 30; his estimate of Händel, 228.
Müller, Max, of children's fables, 160; when a man becomes conscious of a higher self, 355; of Christianity, 370.
Nanac, the holy, and the Moslem priest, 368.
Napoleon, what he said of Corneille, 153; a thing that puzzled him, 170; and Madame de Staël, 253; his fondness for Ossian, 261; remark to Bourienne, 297.
Nature, goes her own way, 103.
Neander, and Plutarch's Pedagogue, 265.
Nero, sensitive to poetry and music, 33.
Netherlands, the, Motley's description of, 107.
Newton, Sir Isaac, confesses his ignorance, 30; his character illustrated, 105, 106, 107; neglected as a lecturer, 133; the story of the falling apple, 176; a poor accountant, 263; as a poet, 264.
Newton, John, to the woman in prison, 55.
Nicholls, a sensual clergyman, 43.
Nimrod and the gnat, 302.
Nollekens and the widow, 9.
Norris, John, self-love, 13; our passions, 47.
Northcote, and the pedantic coxcomb, 1; blaming himself to Kemble, 15; of two of his pictures, 190; of the conceited painter in the Sistine Chapel, 197.
Olaf's mode of converting Eyvind, 52.
Old Hundred, 204.
Old Oaken Bucket, 248.
Opinions, no two alike, 5; human, the history of, 7; bundles of contradictions, 8; of the same men at different times, 8.
Orrery, Lord, story of Swift, 170.
Owen, Robert, reply to Wilberforce, on putting off the happiness of mankind, 92.
Oyster-eating, first act of, 169.
Paley, what he thought of Tristram Shandy, 147.
Palgrave, anecdotes of Abd-el-Lateef, 383.
Panis, devoted to pheasants, 99.
Pantisocracy, Coleridge's Utopia, 102.
Paracelsus, persecution of, 201.
Paradise and Paris, 308.
Paradise Lost, slow sale of, 133.
Park, Mungo, and the sable chief, 27.
Pascal, of vanity, 13; on our love of wearing disguises, 66; maxims of conduct, 159; twenty days perfecting one letter, 126; vanity of the world, 240; Solomon and Job on human misery, 337; the present never the mark of our designs, 339; a great advantage of rank, 353; remark on the ambition of Cæsar, 353; the two extremities of knowledge, 354; maxims and first principles subject to revolution, 360; the choice of a profession, 377.
Paul, St., effects of his preaching at Ephesus, 362.
Paul, Jean, a curious fact about sheep, 296; his comic romance, Nicholas Margraf, 318.
Paul and Virginia, pronounced a failure, 148; origin of an English translation of, 248.
Payne, and Home, Sweet Home, 205.
Peele, Greene, and Marlowe, 249.
Penn, a curious statement relating to, 257.
Pepys, his opinion of Hudibras, 146; the poor widow in Holland, 325.
Pericles and Aspasia, 41.
Persian, passage from the, 344.
Persius, chastity and modesty of, 261.
Peruvian bark, an invention of the devil, 201.
Peterborough, of Fénelon, 373.
Petrarch, his sonnets, 190; despised Dante, 199; a curious fact of, 253; an exclamation of, 355.
Petrified trees in the Andes, 108.
Phædrus, apologue of the two sacks, 374.
Phidias, his reported service to Pericles, 41; his sitting statue of Jupiter, 261.
Philanthropic man, a, not a philanthropist, 113.
Philanthropists, malicious, anecdotes of, 96, 97.
Philanthropy, traders in, wrong in head or heart, 97.
Philip III. and Don Quixote, 314.
Phillips, Wendell, on borrowing in literature, 162; on the lost arts, 177; curious statements relating to, 237.
Philosophy, molecular, 6.
Pitt, authorship of a famous speech of, 248.
Plague, curious superstitions as to the cause of the, 203.
Plato, evidence of great care in the composition of his Republic, 125; accused of envy, lying, etc., 144; timidity of, 262.
Playfair, a strange fact of, 258.
Plays of the stage and of literature, 207.
Pliny, opinion of the Christian religion, 266; questions nature, 337; a custom of the Thracians, 339.
Plutarch, of self-love, 13; without a biography, 262; strange omission of, 265; learned Latin after he was seventy, 267; on the universality of religion, 368.
Poe, of God and the soul, 32; and the Swedenborgians, 188; the grand duke of Weimar's criticism of the Raven, 317; lines by, 329; what he thought a strong argument for the religion of Christ, 359.
Pompadour, Madame de, and Cardinal Bernis, 268; her life an improbable romance, 336.
Pompey, career and end of, 222.
Pontifical army, soldiers of the, 241.
Pope, of every year of a wise man's life, 8; opinion of Newton, 107; an unwearied corrector, 126; tradition of at Twickenham, 154; anecdote of, 168; Johnson's Latin version of his Messiah, 176; and Gay and Arbuthnot, fate of a joint play of, 255; timidity of, 262.
Poussin, reply to a person of rank, 121; story told of, 175; reply to Cardinal Mancini, 349.
Poverty, fine horror of, 73; and parts, 121; necessary to success 121; amusing evidence of, 124.
Prayer, the, said to have been in use by the Jews for four thousand years, 185.
Preaching, remarks of Thoreau on, 94; Lincoln's horror of being preached to, 94; virtue takes no pupils, 95.
Presbyterian Holdenough and Episcopalian Rochecliffe, 366.
Prescott, of the Aztec priests, 33; a statement of, 240.
Procter, of Lamb's tragedy, 272.
Protogenes, and Apelles, 171.
Prout, Father, and Moore, 176.
Psalmanazar and Johnson, 250.
Public opinion, 71, 361.
Publius Syrus, sayings of, 48, 158, 226.
Puritanism in New England, 36.
Pyramids, story of the erection of one of them, 253.
Pythagoras, a curious statement relating to, 250.
Rabelais, a strange fact relating to, 190; knew Rome, 308.
Racine and Louis XIV., 134.
Radbod, at the baptismal font, 100; declines the Christian's heaven, 100.
Radcliffe, Mrs., an interesting fact of, 255.
Railroads and rain, 209.
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 135.
Randolph, John, his first public speech, 264.
Raphael, story of and Michel Angelo, 171; his Transfiguration, 197.
Rawlinson, the stone he brought from Nineveh, 179.
Récamier, Madame, and Madame de Staël, 172; sits and muses on the shore of the ocean, 336.
Reformers, stories of, 96, 97.
Reign of Terror, incident during the, 40.
Religion, a subject proscribed in general society, 242; if charity were made the principle of it instead of faith, 357; two religions, the religion of amity and the religion of enmity, 365.
Renous and his caterpillars, 267.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, story related of, 174; his colors fading, 179; inquires in the Vatican for the works of Raphael, 197; critical remark of, 197; and Hogarth, 197; his portrait of Bott, alongside of Goldsmith, 200.
Richard Cœur de Lion and Saladin, 180.
Richardson, man's resemblance to a statue made to stand against a wall, 2.
Right, too rigid, hardens into wrong, 96.
Robertson, F. W., from his sermon on the Tongue, 365.
Robertson, advised against writing his history of Charles V., 148.
Robespierre, defends Franklin's lightning-rods, 203; and Frederick, 238; what was found in his desk, 256; Madame Roland to, 298.
Robinson, Henry Crabb, his partiality for the Book of Revelation, 20; how he reconciled himself to his ignorance, 29; rebuke of spiritual pride, 52; the Mahometan's heaven and the Christian's hell, 55; his opinion of Edwards' Original Sin, 56; Jeffrey's portrait, 189; at the Fountain of Arethusa, 302.
Robinson, Robert, remark of relating to the Trinity, 20; Dyer's biography of, 284.
Rochester, Lord, the last year of the life of, 236.
Rodgers, Judge, the dying Scotsman's tribute to Burns, 174.
Rogers, his care in composition, 129; his proposition to Wordsworth, 137; remark on Sydney Smith, 151; anecdote of relating to Dryden, 154; amusing incident of, 155; pretty story of a little girl, 359.
Roland, Madame, to Robespierre, 298.
Rollo, Duke of Normandy, story told of, 165.
Roman emperor, curious use of the marble head of a, 302.
Romanianus, with only a name, 262.
Rome, a bitter republican's opinion of, 307.
Rösch, on effects of occupation on the mind, 378.
Rough and Godwin, 311.
Rousseau, a saying of, 103; and Voltaire, 198; cause of his cynicism, 245; a painstaking writer, 248; fancied himself the object of all men's hatred, 259; his preaching and his practice, 268.
Rubens, a complaint of, 30.
Rulhière, story of a Russian friend of, 77; and Madame Geoffrin, 170; guilty of only one wickedness, 375.
Ruskin to his students, 179.
Russell, Lord John, his definition of a proverb, 159.
Rutherford, Samuel, and Archbishop Usher, 357.
Saadi, the traveler and the bag of pearls, 122; description of a drink, 184; verse of the elephant-driver, 372; reply of the piece of scented clay, 373; Abraham and the old man who worshiped the fire only, 387.
Sachs, of earth and heaven, 325.
Sainte-Beuve, fastidiousness as a writer, 126.
Saint Simon, story of two sisters, 34; of the dying duchess, 75.
Saladin and Richard Cœur de Lion, 180.
Sanson, the hereditary executioner, 259.
Saurin, advice to Montesquieu, 148.
Savage, corrects a lady's judgment of Thomson, 188; tribute of Johnson to, 236; with Johnson all night in London streets, 243.
Saxe, Marshal, his terror of a cat, 244.
Scaliger, his opinion of Montaigne, 147; a peculiarity of, 244; difficulty in communicating his knowledge, 258.
Scaramouche, snuff of a thousand flowers, 300.
Scargill, of the English, Scotch and Irish, 302.
Scarron, wretchedness of, 320.
Schedone, of a painting by, 326.
Schiller, Indian Death Song, 147; Joan of Arc, Don Carlos, and Tell, 174; the scent of rotten apples a necessity to, 244; a curious fact relating to, 251.
Scott, story of a placid minister near Dundee, 50; how estimated by his neighbors, 144; failure of Waverley predicted, 148; Campbell and Hohenlinden, 150; Burns and the mouse, 150; meeting of Richard and Saladin, 180; how he discovered his talents, 191; the authorship of Old Mortality, 201; never saw Melrose Abbey by moonlight, 251; remarkable industry of, 266; a sad bit of self-portraiture, 317; a strange fact relating to the Bride of Lammermoor, 318.
Scott, General, a sculptor's story of, 173.
Seeing, limits to, 12; action of seeing outward, 12.
Selden, a remark on marriage, 240.
Selwyn, his reply on being charged with a want of feeling, 53; of vices becoming necessities, 65.
Seneca, an usurer with seven millions, 245; a maxim of, 349.
Shakespeare, Johnson's tribute to, 152.
Sharp, on the difficulty of doing good, 22.
Shelley, sighs to Leigh Hunt, 357.
Shenstone, splendid misery of, 246.
Sheridan, sarcasm upon Cumberland, 8; fastidiousness as a writer, 127; how he elaborated his wit, 129; a curious fact of, 267.
Sherlock, consolation for the shortness of life, 332.
Siddons, Mrs., confesses her ignorance, 30.
Sidney, Algernon, remark of Evelyn relating to, 189.
Silenus, of Jove and Mercury, 92.
Simonides, replies to Hiero, 31, 348; fable of the crab and the snake, 364.
Small-pox, goddess of, worshiped and burned in China, 36.
Smith, Adam, a laborious writer, 129.
Smith, Sydney, how he was cured of shyness, 15; his objection to Scotch philosophers, 93; advice to the Bishop of New Zealand, 99; the Suckling Act, 103; remark to his brother, 169; a phrenologist pronounces him a great naturalist, 188; authorship of the Plymley Letters, 201; resorted to Dante for solace, 267; on getting human beings together who ought to be together, 341.
Smollett and his dependents, 199; private character of, 245.
Socrates, reply to Menon, 6; the hardest of all trades, 25; called illiterate, 144; to his judges, 174; idolatry of, 243; timidity of, 262; a poor accountant, 263; learned music after he was seventy, 267; enlargement of a thought of, 374.
Solomon, there is no new thing, 186; his wicked son, 247; what he said of laughter, 314.
Somerset, duke of, 69.
Sophocles, considered a lunatic, 144.
Soul, purification of the, illustrated by the old coin, 388.
Southey, story of Vergara and the seventh commandment, 17; to Cottle of the meanness of an Englishman at Lisbon, 88; not ashamed of his radicalism, 104; declines the editorship of the Times, 141; unknown to his neighbors, 145; on certain famous literary works, 199; attempt to hoax Hook, 200.
Souvestre, virtue takes no pupils, 95; philosophizes on the carnival, 299; the small dwelling joy can live in, 348; awards the palm to moderation, 348; rest in an eternal childhood, 353.
Spencer, the religion of amity and the religion of enmity, 365.
Spenser, poverty of, 134; story told of, 166.
Spinoza, declines a present, 142; persecuted by the Jews, 254.
Spiritualism, very old, 182.
Stanley, Dean, story of Rutherford and Usher, 357.
Statue, doubtful sex of a, 187.
St. Bartholomew, conduct of ladies at the massacre of, 35.
Steele, one of his Tatlers referred to, 169; Miss Prue, 246; castle-builders, 330; on Christianity, 372; epitaph by, 382.
Sterling, criticises Rochefoucauld's Maxims, 2; on seeking perfect virtue, 90; there will always be errors to mourn over, 91.
Sterne, conscience not a law, 22; on the affectation of gravity, 70; an incessant corrector, 129; the sermon in Tristram Shandy, 192; the charge of plagiarism against, 259.
Story of the lady and her three lovers, 173.
St. Peter's, first view of, 196.
St. Pierre, and Paul and Virginia, 148.
Stewart, Dugald, remark of, on Bacon's Essays, 30.
Suckling and Lovelace, 266.
Sue, Eugene, a Jesuitess more to be dreaded than a Jesuit, 3.
Suetonius, of Caligula's horse, 99; how he regarded Christians, 266.
Sully, story told of, and the veiled lady, 166.
Surrey, Earl of, lines by, 326.
Swift, on men's opinions, 8; story of and four clergymen in canonicals, 172; Bolingbroke to, 214; some thoughts of, 214; anticipates his death, 214; to Bolingbroke, 246; irony and seriousness of, 312; never known to smile, 315; just religion enough to make us hate, 364.
Sydenham, poverty of, 135.
Tacitus, his opinion of the Christian religion, 266.
Taine, defines a character, 40; of Puritanism, 307.
Talfourd, and Lamb's farce of Mr. H., 273; anecdotes of Dyer, 285, 286.
Talleyrand, his reply to Madame de Staël, 172; trembled when the word death was pronounced, 244; his reply to Rulhière, 375.
Tamerlane and the spider, 166.
Tasso, an unwearied corrector, 126; poverty of, 134; a curious fact relating to, 247; cause of his insanity, 247.
Taylor, Demosthenes, Johnson's story of, 212.
Taylor, Jeremy, arguments for humility, 14; earthen vessels better than golden chalices, 347; our trouble from within, 349; the religion of Christ, 371; those that need pity and those that refuse to pity, 376; of Abraham and the old man who worshiped the fire only, 387.
Tell, William, relating to, 175.
Temple, Sir William, of the old earl of Norwich, 297; compares life to wine, 332.
Tennyson, his care in composition, 127.
Tertullian, his mode of dissuading Christians from frequenting public spectacles, 54; ideas of justice and mercy in his day, 55.
Thackeray, the world can pry us out, but it don't care, 15; credulity of the sexes, 20; our paltry little rods to measure heaven immeasurable, 53; a reflection on marriage, 62; of the dying French duchess, 75; a reflection of, applied to Madame de Pompadour, 336; toil, the condition of life, 337.
Themistocles, Thucydides' remark on, 379.
Theophrastus, a lament of, 30; timidity of, 262.
Thompson, George, what he saw in Calcutta, 180.
Thomson, a lady's opinion of, gathered from his writings, 188; luxurious indolence of, 247.
Thoreau, on doing good, 93; goodness tainted, 94; hacking at the branches of evil, 95; personal independence of, 136.
Threshing-machines, first effect of, 203.
Thucydides, how he toiled on his history, 125; ignorance bold and knowledge reserved, 240; a remark on Themistocles, 379.
Thurlow, and his daughter, 247.
Tiberius, life of, with two title-pages, 2.
Tillotson, two wonders in heaven, 382.
Titian, how he painted, 130; colors of, compared with Reynolds', 179.
Tomochichi, would be taught before he was baptized, 101; what he thought of the colonists, 101.
Tooke, Horne, how to be powerful, 67; Beckford's speech, 252; a remark on, by Coleridge, 378.
Torquemada, and the Inquisition, 46.
Townshend, Charles, and Fitzherbert, 211.
Trench, of the fraud played off on Voltaire, 176.
Truth, as humanity knows it, 4; the difficulty of finding it, 360; it must be repeated over and over again, 361; the infinite number who persecute it, 362.
Tyndall, of the formation of icicles, 209.
Tyrian purple, 179.
Tytler, a remark by, on Raleigh's History, 135.
Value of an epithet, 110.
Vandyck, portrait of a celebrated widow by, 189.
Vanity of human judgment, 24; of the world, 240.
Vanvenargues, on curing the vices of nature, 91.
Vere, Sir Horace, what caused his death, 121.
Vespasian, a story told of, 167.
Vicar of Wakefield and the peasant, 312.
Vinci, Leonardo da, his conscientiousness as a painter, 130; anecdote of, 377.
Virgil, his care in composition, 125; what Pliny and Seneca thought of him, 144.
Virtue, of the soul, 23; takes no pupils, 95.
Voltaire, the history of human opinions, 7; upon what the fate of a nation has often depended, 8; anecdote of, 8; compares us to a river, 11; we on this globe like insects in a garden, 18; confesses his ignorance, 31; of the story of Newton and the apple, 176; the forged Veda, 176; invention of scissors, shirts, and socks, 203; Candide's supper at Venice with the six kings, 333.
Vondel, poverty of, 134.
Wallenstein, faculties of, improved by a fall, 226.
Waller, a laborious writer, 126; his opinion of Paradise Lost, 147; lines by, 355.
Walpole, Horace, compares man to a butterfly, 19; man a ridiculous animal, 20; opinion of the Divina Commedia, 145; contempt of Johnson and Goldsmith, 145; criticises Sterne, Sheridan, Spenser, Chaucer, Dante, Montaigne, Boswell, and Johnson, 146; and Strawberry Hill, 154; opinion of Lord Anson, 189; a curious fact of, 258.
Walton, Izaak, quaint passages from, relating to Hooker, 225; reply to the discontented man, 344.
Warren, Samuel, how the critics misjudged his first work, 148.
Washington, a story related by, 163; his remarkable gravity, 246.
Webster, Daniel, wrote and re-wrote his fine passages, 132; the best talker he ever heard, 246.
Weighing souls in a literal balance, 55.
Wesley, Charles, his son a papist, 254.
Wesley, John, on witchcraft, 59; and Tomochichi, 101; his belief in ghosts, 243; his quiescent turbulence, 261; his story of a parishioner who lived on boiled parsnips, 382.
White, Gilbert, effect of certain food on a bullfinch, 10; differences in flocks of sheep, 11; a strange propensity of cats, 210; peculiarity of the tortoise, 211.
Whitefield, always improving his discourses, 132; an exclamation of, 376.
Whipple, on an affectation of dignity, 67; of the mother of Thomas à Becket, 212.
Wilberforce, and Owen's scheme of reform, 92; and Wendell Phillips, 237.
Willemson, Richard, martyrdom of, 51.
Wilson, Prof., to the Ettrick Shepherd, 10; thought to be a madman in Glasgow, 145; the idea of the Noctes not his, 255; tête-à-tête with the poet Campbell, 267; contest for the professorship, 287; first lecture in the university, 288; achievements in running, leaping, etc., 289; encounter with a pugilist, 289; pedestrian feats, 290; scene in an Edinburgh street, 291; interferes at a prize-fight, 292; describes a fairy's funeral, 293; his relations with Dr. Blair, 310.
Witchcraft, Sir Matthew Hale's belief in, 57; Sir Thomas Browne's opinion of, 57; terrible punishment of, 57; John Wesley's belief in, 59; Richard Baxter a believer in, 59; a passage from Lowell on, 61.
Wither, George, wrote his Shepherd's Hunting in prison, 136.
Wolsey, credulity of, 224.
Woman, characterized by Burns, 3; reply of a good, 377.
Woodworth and his famous song, 248.
Woolman, John, eulogium upon, and passage from, 370.
Wordsworth, his care in composition, 128; his reply to Rogers, 137; Tobin's advice to, 148; origin of the Ancient Mariner, 149; thought to be a fool by some of his neighbors, 155; his defense of the church, and his opinion of the clergy, 257; his man-servant James, 351; lines by, 352; what he said of Mrs. Barbauld's stanza on Life, 356.
World, the, 19; on reforming it, 90; it cannot keep quiet, 109.
Wotton, Sir Henry, his reply to a bigot, 372.
Wycherley, on reproving faults, 364.
Ximenes, Cardinal, a story told of, 167.
York minster, not appreciated by Coleridge, 196.
Youatt, differences in flocks of sheep, 11.
Young, Mr., the prototype of Parson Adams, 285.
Young, an incident of Swift, related by, 214; gayety of, 245.
Young, Dean, passages from his sermons, 366, 372.
Zeal, a violent, that we must correct, 363.
Zenobia, temple of, idealized by La Bruyère, 219