INDEX.
Reading edition
ABERNETHY'S opinion of enthusiasm, 145.
ABSTRACTION of mind in great men, 133-136.
ACTORS, traits of character in great, 137.
ADRIAN VI., Pope, persecutes literary men, 18.
AESTHETIC Critics, 282.
AKENSIDE on the nature of genius, 30.
ALFIERI, childhood of, 32; loneliness of his character, 96; excited by Plutarch's works, 141.
ANGELO, Michael, illustrates Dante, 21; his ideas of intellectual labour, 85; his reason for a solitary life, 111; his picture of battle of Pisa destroyed by Bandinelli, 158; his elevated character, 252; his letter to Vasari describing the death of his servant, 373.
ANTIPATHIES of men of genius, 160-163.
ANXIETY of genius, 74; of authors and artists over their labours, 80-88.
ARISTOPHANES, popularised by a false preface, 287.
ART FRIENDSHIPS, 209-210.
ARTISTS, "Studies," or first thoughts, 131; their mutual jealousies, 156-158.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY, its interest, 295.
BARRY the painter, his love of ancient literature, 23; his general enthusiasm, 60; his rude eloquence, 107.
BAILLET and his catalogue, 352.
BEATTIE describes the powerful effect on himself of metaphysical study, 147.
BIRCH, Dr., and Robertson the Historian, 342-350.
BOCCACCIO'S friendship for Petrarch, 212-214.