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The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Vol. 2 [of 2]

Volume 2 — INDEX.

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Addison, his Cato, ii. 16

Æschylus, quoted, ii. 340

Alfieri, ii. 390

Alps, the, i. 119, 120, 348

Anacreon’s swallow, ii. 359

Anastasius, ii. 341

Annual Parliaments, i. 364, 365

Apollodorus, a pupil of Socrates, ii. 49

Apollonius Rhodius, i. 410

Ariosto, tomb of, ii. 245;

his arm-chair, 246;

handwriting of, 247

Aristotle, ii. 49

Aspasia, ii. 134, 135

Bacon, quoted, ii. 4;

a poet, 8, 49

Barthélemi, ii. 44

Bisham wood, ii. 278

Blackstone, quoted, i. 254

Boccaccio, ii. 294, 295

Buffon, his sublime but gloomy theory respecting the future of this globe, i. 352

Byron, Lord, his Hours of Idleness, quotations or plagiarisms from? i. 132, 174;

visit to, at Ravenna, 390, 391;

his meeting with “Monk” Lewis, ii. 208;

at Venice, 226;

a gondoliere’s opinion of, 236;

Shelley’s visit to, at Venice, 237;

his Don Juan, 241;

his Childe Harold, 259;

his low debauchery, ib.;

a great poet, 260;

visit to, at Ravenna, 332-345;

his Letter to Bowles, 342;

his Cain, 355;

at Leghorn, 362, 364

Calderon, i. 388, ii. 14, 305, 306;

his Magico Prodigioso, 353, 354

Calvin and Servetus, i. 229

Castlereagh, ii. 268

Catholic emancipation, i. 242 sqq.

Charlotte, Princess, death of, i. 369

Chaucer, ii. 27

Chesterfield, Lord, his distinction between simulation and dissimulation, ii. 394

Chillon, castle of, i. 340

Cicero, ii. 8, 49

Clarens, i. 341

Cobbett, William, on Annual Parliaments, i. 365; ii. 276, 289

Coleridge, S. T., his tragedy of Remorse, ii. 292, 353, 354

Coliseum, the, i. 394; ii. 260

Como, ii. 223-225

Comyns, Lord Chief Baron, his definition of libel, i. 254

Constantine, the first Christian Emperor, atrocities of, i. 306;

arch of, ii. 261, 280, 281

Correggio, two pictures of, ii. 249, 250

Dante, i. 385; ii. 24;

the first religious reformer, 27, 40;

tomb of, 344

Danube, the, i. 15, 32

Democritus, i. 400

Diotima, the prophetess, ii. 88, 89

Dowden, Professor, ii. 387

Drummond, Sir William, his Academical Questions, i. 327; ii. 176

Eaton, Daniel Isaac, sentence on, for publishing Paine’s Age of Reason, ii. 369-386

Ellenborough, Lord, Shelley’s letter to, ii. 369-386

Epicurus, i. 421

Evian, town of, i. 335, 336

Finnerty, Mr. Peter, i. 255; ii. 399

Fitzwilliam, Lord, recall of, ii. 303

Fletcher, John, his Two Noble Kinsmen, ii. 255

Forsyth’s Travels in Italy, ii. 285

Fox, Charles James, i. 238

Franceschini, pictures of, ii. 251, 252

Fust, specimens of his press, ii. 344

Genoa, i. 153

George III., i. 237

George IV., i. 238

Gibbon, his house at Lausanne, i. 343

Gisborne, Mr. and Mrs., letters to, ii. 229-231, 290-291, 296-299, 301-309, 312-319, 326-330, 350-356

Gisborne, Mrs., ii. 228, 229

Godwin, William, his novels, i. 412-416;

letter to, ii. 231-233, 317;

his answer to Malthus, 352;

his law-suit and pecuniary embarrassments, 360, 361

Goethe, his Faust, ii. 353

Guercino, pictures by, ii. 253

Guiccioli, Contessa, Byron’s liaison with, ii. 333, 337, 340;

her letter to Shelley, 343, 350, 351

Guido, his picture of the Rape of Proserpine, ii. 249;

his Samson, 250;

his Murder of the Innocents, 250, 251;

his “Fortune,” 251;

his “Madonna Lattante,” ib.;

his picture of Beatrice Cenci, 293

Heraclitus, i. 400

Hermance, village of, described, i. 333

Hesiod, quoted, ii. 61

Heyne, on the opinions entertained of the Jews by ancient poets and philosophers, i. 301

Hogg, Thomas Jefferson, his Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff, ii. 387-396

Homer, quoted, ii. 56, 62;

on Calamity, 80, 81;

the most admirable of all poets, 115;

quoted, 124, 126, 127

Horace, quoted, i. 105; ii. 275

Hume, on causation, i. 327

Hunt, Leigh, letters to, i. 381-391;

invited by Lord Byron to Italy, ii. 268;

letter to, 294-296, 317, 362, 364

Kean, Edmund, ii. 293

Keats, John, his Endymion, ii. 322-324;

his sufferings, 323;

death of, 327

Lafayette, words of, i. 262

Lamb, Charles, i. 384; ii. 295

Laplace, demonstration of, i. 319

Lausanne, i. 343

Lear, King, ii. 14

Lewis, M. G., his ghost stories, ii. 208-212

Livy, ii. 9;

description by, 256

Lloyd, Charles, ii. 295

Locke, on sensation, i. 327

Lucretius, quoted, i. 296

Luther, ii. 27

Lyttelton, Lord, ii. 210, 211, 212

Macbeth, quoted, i. 47, 93, 273; ii. 21, 31, 375

Macchiavelli, on political institutions, ii. 17

Malthus, i. 280, 281;

Godwin’s answer to, ii. 232, 352;

a very clever man, 243

Marlow, ii. 223;

Shelley’s house at, 226

Marsyas, ii. 106, 107

Mellerie, i. 336, 337

Michael Angelo, i. 384, 385;

his Bacchus, 409

Milan Cathedral, ii. 225

Milton, death of, i. 370

Milton, his Paradise Lost quoted, i. 146, 415;

stood alone, ii. 16;

his Paradise Lost, 25, 33;

quoted, 35

Mirabaud’s Système de la Nature, i. 326

Mont Blanc, i. 348

Moore, Thomas, ii. 339, 357, 358, 361

Music, ii. 70, 71

Nerni, village of, described, i. 334

Newton, Sir Isaac, ii. 374

Obscenity, blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, ii. 17

O’Neill, Miss, part of Beatrice Cenci fitted for, ii. 293

Oxford, reminiscence of, ii. 193

Paine, Thomas, i. 278

Peacock, Thomas Love, letters to, ii. 221-229, 241-290, 291-293

Petrarch, ii. 40

Petronius, poetical description of, ii. 265

Plato, i. 421;

essentially a poet, ii. 7, 22, 24;

the greatest among the Greek philosophers, 48;

his Symposium, 232

Pliny quoted, i. 294

Pompeii, ii. 270-275

Queen Mab, piratical republication of, ii. 328, 350

Raphael, i. 384;

his St. Cecilia, ii. 252, 253

Ravenna, ii. 338

Reveley, Henry, letters to, ii. 299-301, 309-312, 325, 326

Richardson, Samuel, his Grandison quoted, ii. 237

Rome, a city of the dead, ii. 261;

English burying-place at, 262

Rousseau, his Julie, i. 333, 337, 339-341, 343;

essentially a poet, ii. 30

Schiller, his Jungfrau von Orleans, ii. 352

Scott’s Lay of the Last Minstrel quoted, i. 47, 212;

Marmion quoted, 100

Shakespeare, quoted, i. 384;

the greatest individual mind, ii. 40;

attribution to him of part of The Two Noble Kinsmen, 255

Shelley, Mrs., her Frankenstein, i. 417-419

Socrates, ii. 53-135, 381

Sophocles, ii. 317

Southey, Robert, Shelley’s visit to, at Keswick, ii. 295

Spinosa, quoted, i. 328

St. Gingoux, village of, i. 338

St. Peter’s, Rome, ii. 282, 283

Suetonius, quoted, i. 294

Tasso, bold and true words of, ii. 35, 175;

manuscripts of, 246, 247

Terence, i. 409

Theocritus, ii. 19;

quoted, 291

Thomson, quoted, i. 77

Translation, vanity of, ii. 7

Tuberose, odour of the, ii. 17

Vallière, Madame de la, ii. 214

Velino, cataract of the, ii. 257

Venice, i. 87, 88; ii. 241

Vesuvius, ii. 263, 265-267

Vevai, i. 343

Virgil, quoted, ii. 25;

his Sixth Æneid, 264

Wellesley, Marquis, quotation from a speech of, ii. 369

Wieland, his novels, ii. 44

Wollstonecraft, Mary, her writings, i. 413

Wordsworth, i. 413;

quoted, ii. 206, 263, 353

Yvoire, village of, i. 335

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