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Landor, Walter Savage:

167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 173, 174,
176, 177, 179, 180, 182, 183; to
Bishop Burgess, 147; to Mr. Baron
Thompson, 155, 156; to the Duke
of Beaufort, 157; to Lord-chancel-
lor Eldon, 158-9; to Mr. Jervis,
181; to his biographer, 143.

FOURTH BOOK.

His first journey to Italy, 187-
189; his wife, 189; on lake Como,
191; touching letter on Southey's
silence, 192-3; on Wordsworth,
&c., 194; birth of his first child, &c.,
194; last incidents at Como, 195;
going to Pisa, ib.; ode to Berna-
dotte, ib.; on Byron, himself, and
Goethe, &c., 196-7; birth of a
daughter, and various matters po-
litical and social, 202-3; at work
on a Latin dissertation, 197-8; his
Orations in Italian, 203; sympathy
with the reaction against the Holy
Alliance, ib.; letter about his family,
204; letters from his mother, 205-6,
276-81, 323-4; letter from Words-
worth, 206; in the palazzo Medici
in Florence, 207; advantages of the
form of dialogue, 208-9; his wish to
be remembered with Southey, 209;
likeness and difference, 213-16
illustrations of character, 210-17;
advantages from self-banishment,
214, 220; beauty of minor poems,
217-9; two scenes, 221-3; plan of
Conversations confided to Southey,
225-6; better prospects, ib.
Letters of Landor, to members of his
family, 195, 204; to Southey, 191,
192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 199,
201, 202, 203, 204, 206, 225, 226.

FIFTH BOOK.

Influence of intercourse with Fran-
cis Hare, 228; first portion of
the Conversations, 233; letters to
Southey on the publication of same,
233, 235, 236; his Imag. Conver
sation on Wordsworth's poetry,
239-40; contents of the first series,
241-62; English spelling, reform
of, criticised, 251-6 and note; his
liking for Alfieri, 257; reception
of the Conversations, 262-7; writ-
ing to Southey: upon forms of
government, 268; on colonisation,
ib.; on Irish grievances and errors,
269; on Byron's attacks, 270; a
history-writing project, 270-1; on

Landor, Walter Savage:

Canning, 272; on domestic affairs,
&c., 272-5; further grievances,
public and private, 274; a parcel
of books from Italy, 274-5, 276; on
the death of Southey's uncle Hill,
ib.; on republishing his poems, 277;
family letters, 276-88; at Kome,
282; first letter from his son, and
reply, ib.; illness of his children,
284-5; his Neapolitan visit, 285-6 ;
collecting pictures, 286, 287; Gib-
son's bust of him, 287; passion for
his children, 322, 333; to Southey,
as to second series of Conversations,
289-99; to Julius Hare, 292-93;
contents of new series, 300-2; pas-
sage from cancelled preface, 302;
English visiter, Florentine visiter,
and himself (Imag. Con.), 304-5.
Letters of Landor, to members of his
family, 228, 281, 284, 285, 286, 287,
288; to Southey, 227, 229, 232, 233,
234, 235, 230, 263, 269, 271, 272,
273, 274, 275, 276, 289, 290, 291,
293, 296, 298; to Julius Hare, 266,
292, 293, 296.

SIXTH BOOK.

At Fiesole, 317-23; his absence of
mind, 319-20; closing years in pa-
lazzo Medici, 317-325; death of
his mother, 325; family epitaphs,
325 note; ordered to leave Tuscany,
326; on his manner of life, 330-33;
his dispute with M. Antoir, 335;
the publication of his collected
poems (1831), 336; revisits Eng-
land, ib.; interview with Coleridge
and Lamb, ib.; visits Julius Hare,
and Warwick, 337; at the Lakes
with Southey and Wordsworth,
338; his argument with Southey
about the word impugn, 338-9;
return to Italy, 340; his odes to Sou-
they and Wordsworth, 340-1; ode
to Joseph Ablett, 343-4; Emerson
at Fiesole, 346-7; reply to Emer-
son's account of his opinions, 350-1;
his Examination of Wm. Shake-
speare for Deer-stealing, 354-9;
Pericles and Aspasia, letters to
Southey about, 359-60; review of
its plan, &c., 360-1; another do-
mestic breach, and departure from
Fiesole, 364-7.

Letters of Lander, to members of his

family, 325, 330, 331, 332, 333, 334,
336, 340, 343, 344, 345, 368; to
Southey, 326, 327, 338, 339, 359,

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Satire on Satirists, 370-1; refunds to
the publisher the money paid for
Pericles, 372; letter to the author
from Clifton, 371-2; to Southey,
372-3; last days with Southey, 373-
4; visits to friends, 374; Lady Bless-
ington, 376-7; the Pentameron,
378-87; settled at Bath, 385; An-
drea of Hungary, &c., 387-99; error
as to Greek trilogies, 399; failures
of memory, 400-3 and note; glimp-
ses of his friends, 404-12; his re-
ception in Paris (1841), 410; last
letter to Southey, 415; his inscrip-
tion for monument to Southey, 416;
last series of Conversations, 419-
24; Southey and himself (Imag.
Con.), 423; passages from his let-
ters to the author (1843-5), 424-
8; his dog Pomero, 428 30, 433,
471;

letters from Bath to his sister
Elizabeth, 430-3; his essays on
Catullus, Theocritus, and Petrarca,
&c., 435-9; collection and revision
of his works, 439-44; his Poemala,
445-6; the Hellenics, 448; letter
to the Times on De Foe, 451; at
the author's. 454, &c.; at Hurst-
monceaux, 459; last visit to Lon-
don, 463; last visit to Llanthony,
464; grief for deaths of old friends,
465-71; verses on Wordsworth,
Southey, and Hare, 469; on Julius
Hare's death, 471; his Last Fruit,
&c., 472-90; on Beatrice Cenci,
474-5; short poems, 475-7; lines on
Wordsworth, 478; poem to his
brother Robert, 478-9; Scenes for a
Study, 481-9; passages from letters
to the author on the Life and Let-
ters of Blanco White, 490-5; Notes
on Books and Men, from letters to
the author: of Milton's poetry, 495;
of himself as he appears in Southey's
Letters, 495; of the great masters
of our language, 496; of Southey
and Cowper, ib.; of William Gif-
ford, ib.; of Tennyson's Maud, 497;
of Aubrey de Vere's Masque, ib. ;
of Scott and Keats, ib.; of his por-
trait by Boxall, 498; of Sydney and
Bobus Smith, ib.; De Quincey's
Essays and Recollections, 498-9; of
some novels, 499; of the Edinburgh

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Landor, Walter Savage:

on his Hellenics, 500; of the Quar-
terly on Steele, ib.; of the drama-
tists of Elizabeth and James, 500-1;
of some recent poems (1856), 501;
of the Apple of Discord, ib.; of
Swift's Tale of a Tub, 502; of Sir
Robert Peel's posthumous memoir,
ib.; of Grote's history, 504; of cor-
ruptions of language, ib.; of his
own proposed amendments, 505 6;
the action for libel at Bath, 506-9,
512, 518; his Dry Sticks, 510; last
visit to the author, 514.

Letters of Landor, to members of bis
family, 430, 431, 432, 433, 507, 508;
to Southey, 372, 373, 382, 383, 415;
to John Kenyon. 411, 412; to Miss
Rose Paynter (Lady Sawle), 411,
441, 463; to Crabb Robinson, 375,
376; to Lady Blessington, 439; to
the editor of the Times (on Defoe),
451; to his biographer, 371, 372,
373, 375, 377, 378, 382, 386, 387,
388, 389, 390, 391, 392, 393, 397,
403, 409, 410, 414, 424, 425, 426,
427, 428, 429, 430, 436, 437, 438,
439, 440, 441, 442, 443, 144, 446,
448, 451, 454, 455, 457, 458, 462,
464, 465, 467, 468, 469, 470, 471,
472, 474, 475, 482, 493, 494, 495,
496. 497, 498, 499, 500, 501, 502,
504, 505, 506, 510, 512.

EIGHTH BOOK.

Return to Italy, 516; failing strength
of mind and body, 519; domestic mi-
series, 520; Mr. Browning's friend-
liness, 520-1; at Siena, 521-4; again
at Florence, 524; last Dramatic
Scenes, 527-8; last published Con-
versations, 529-30; Heroic Idyls,
530; five unpublished scenes and
Conversations, 531-8; last letters
to author, 540-1; his death, 543;
Swinburne's verses to his memory,
513-4; the end, 544-6.

Letters of Landor, to his biographer,
518, 520, 524, 529, 530, 540, 541.

Landor, Mrs. W. S., 149-52, 183,
184-5, 188 90, 318-9, 332, 364-8, 517;
and see 517-520.
Landor, Arnold, 195; his grandmo-
ther's wish to be intrusted with his
education, 278; first letter to his
father, and reply, 282; question
of his education, 333-4, 316; his
death, 517 note; and see 517-20.
Landseer, Sir Edwin, 458, 495.

Langley, Mr., vicar of Ashbourne,

Landor's tutor, 21.
Language, the English, and ortho-
graphy, a favourite study of Lan-
dor's, 251; contributions to reform
of, 251-6; and see 503-6.
Laodamia, Wordsworth's, 240, 267.
Larochejaquelin and Béranger (Imag.
Con.), 419-20.

Lascy, General, and Cura Merino
(Imag. Con.), 250.
Last Fruit from an Old Tree, Lan-
dor's, 472-90.

Latin verse, Landor's excellence in,
12, 18. For references in this work
to his Latin poetry, see 115, 126,
177, 195, 197, 202, 207; see also
445-8.

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Le Sage, 493.

Letters of a Conservative, Landor's,
147-8.

Letters to Charles Butler, Landor on
Southey's, 269.

Lincoln, president, allusion to his
death, 215-16.

Lisle, Lady, and Elizabeth Gaunt
(Imag. Con.), 307-8.

Literary fame, Landor, Southey,

Quarterly Review (1850), and au-
thor on, 502-3.

Literary Fund, Southey on, 418.
Literature, how regarded by Landor,
2, 208-9, 502.

Llanthony estate, described by Lan-

dor in a letter to Southey, 8, 153;
proposal to plant a wood of cedar
of Lebanon on, 142; letter to the
author descriptive of, 143; author's
visit to, 144-5; letters to Bishop
Burgess about the abbey-chapel,
147; progress of repairs and plans,
148-9; life there, 152.61; his mo-
ther's management of the estate,
187; as to Ipsley, 204-5; last visit
to, 464; and see 507.

Lockhart, on a passage of one of Sou-

they's letters, 417; on Landor, ib.
London Journal, Leigh Hunt's, 345.

London Magazine, first Imaginary
Conversation published in, 239-40.
Lonsdale, Lord, in Devil's Walk, 457.
Lords, a house of, Landor on, 203;
Southey, 214-5.

Louis XIV. and Father la Chaise
(Imag. Con.), 250-1.

Louis XVIII. and Talleyrand (Imag.
Con.), 419.

Lowell, Professor, of Boston, opinion
of Landor, 2.

Lucullus and Cæsar (Imag. Con.),
314.

Lucys, the old and young, 335.
Lynn, Miss (Mrs. Linton), 475.
Lyttelton, Dorothea, 34-41.

Lytton, Bulwer (Lord), the Caxtons,
499.

Lytton, Robert, Landor on, 463; let-
ter to, 15.

Macaulay, T. B. (Lord), Landor meets
at the author's, 457.

Macchiavelli and Michael Angelo
(Imag. Con.), 420.

Mackintosh and Dr. Parr, 65.

Maclise, Daniel, 458, 495; and W.
Mulready, ib.

Macready, Mr., reform of theatre-
lobbies, 137; on Landor's trilogy,
398.

Mahomet and Sergius (Imag. Con.),
309.

Malesherbes and Rousseau (Imag.
Con.), 308.

Marcellus and Hannibal (Imag. Con.),
313-14.

Marriage of Helena and Menelaos,
Landor's, 553.6.

Marriage, seriousness of, 151 note.
Martin and Jack, Swift's progeny

(Imag. Con.), 420.

Marvel and Henry Marten, Landor's,
537-8.

Masque of Proserpine, Aubrey de
Vere's, 497.

Mavrocordato and Colocotroni (Imag.
Con.), 256-7.

Mediocrities, reign of, 164.

Memory, failures and tricks of, 319-
20, 402-3, 527.

Menander and Epicurus (Imag. Con.),
420.

Metellus and Marius (Imag. Con.),
313-14.

Methodism and Wesley, 472.
Middleton and Magliabechi (Imag.
Con.), 248.

Mignet, his courtesy to Landor in
Paris, 410.

Miguel and his mother (Imag. Con.),
300.

Milman, Dean, 457.

Milnes, R. Monckton, poems on Lan-
dor's children, 345; friendship with
Landor, 345, 359-6; his Life of
Keats, 405 note; see Houghton.
Milton, Landor's study of Paradise
Lost, 49; Landor charged with im-
itating, 51; Landor's veneration
for, 70; Wordsworth on the son-
nets of, 231; Landor on the poetry
of, 423, 495, 500; and Marvel
(Imag. Con.), 248-9, 530.
Mina, 443.

Mackenzie, Miss, of Seaforth, 366,
382.

Mocatta, Isaac and Jacob, 73-4.
Modern allusions in dialogues of an-
cients (Imag. Con.), 247, 258.
Molandé, Jane Countess de (Ianthe),
103, 327-8, 331, 336, 372, 429, 467.
Molesworth, Sir William, 454, 471.
Molly Perry' and her letter, 41 and

note.

Montaigne and Joseph Scaliger (Imag.
Con.), 309.

Monthly Review on Gebir, 70.
Moore, Sir John, 123.

Moore and Landor, 205, 408.
Moral Epistle to Earl Stanhope, 42-4.
Morning Chronicle, Landor solicited
for contributions to, 68.
Morning Post and Courier, early con-
tributors to, 67.

Mother, Landor's, 3, 46 note, 48,
150, 153, 182, 187, 188, 190, 202,
204-6, 226, 276-9, 280-1, 323-5; her
death, 325.

Multiformity, a test of genius, 443.

Napier, Gen. Sir Wm., 350, 385, 431,
433, 459-61; defence of Landor, 462;
Landor's last meeting with, 463;
see also 470, 506; a parallel, 434.
Napier, Gen. Sir Charles, 459-60, 470.
Napoleon, Prince Louis, visits Lan-
dor at Bath, 455.

Napoleon, President Louis, and M.
de Molé (Imag. Con.), 419.
Newton and Barrow (Imag. Con.),
306.

Nichol, Mr., of Edinburgh, and the
Dry Sticks, 511.

Nicholas and Michael (Imag. Con.),

303; and Nesselrode (Imag. Con.),
420.

Noble, Michael, Christian name
wrongly given by Landor (Imag.
Con.), 243.

Norris, Miss, letter to Landor from,
1790, 19.

Nugent, Lord, 454, 466.

Observations on Trotter's Life of Fox,
Landor's, 164-5.

O'Connell and Landor, 434.
Occasional verses, 159-60, 216-20.
Ode to General Washington, 28.
Odysseus, Tersitza, Acrive, and Tre-
lawney (Imag. Con.), 303.
Odyssey, the, read in the original
Greek by Landor at 85, 14.

Old man and a child. Landor's, 537.
One life, incidents embraced by, 21-2.
Oratory, not always safe guidance,
249.

Oriental literature, Landor's imita-
tions of, 80.
Orsini, 456-7.
Ovid, 323.

Oxford Review, the, 94.

Pallavicini, Marchese, and Landor,
245.

Parallel, the, Landor's, 164-5.
Parents of Luther, a scene, 384.
Parkhurst family, their friendship
for Landor. 17.

Parr, Dr., 62 5; his threefold claim
to the admiration of Landor, 63;
Johnson's story of him, ib. ; some
of his peculiarities, 64-5; in con-
troversy with Mackintosh, ib.; Mr.
Robert Landor on, 65-6; his taste
for poetry, 67; a note to Landor,
81; obscurity of his hand writing,
ib.; his charges' against Pitt,
82; selections from his correspond-
ence, 82-4; instance of his friend-
ship for Landor, 107-8; letter to
Landor on his marriage, 151-2;
Imaginary Conversations and, 279;
and see 77, 201.

Paynter, Miss Rose, afterwards Lady
Sawle, 12, 385, 411, 440-1, 446, 454.
Peel, 502; and Walpole, ib.; and
Castlereagh, ib.

Pelayo, Southey's. See Roderick.
Penn and Peterborough (Imag. Con.),
307.

Pentameron, Landor's, 378-82.
Pericles and Aspasia, Landor's letters
to Southey on, 359-60; account of,
&c., 360-3.

Pericles and Sophocles (Imag. Con.),
250.

Peter the Great and Alexis (Imag.

Con.), 310.

Phocæans, the, whence derived, 26;

some extracts from, 91; Southey's
article in the Annual Review on,
92-3.

Photo, Lavellas, and Kaido (Imag.
Con.), 303.

Pictures, old and new, and picture-
dealers. 341-2. 343-4.

Pitt and Canning (Imag. Con.), 302-3.
Pitt, William, 63-4; Dr. Parr's opi-
nion of him, 82; Landor and Southey
on, 107, 111; Pitt and Fox, 162-3;
measured by results, 163-4.
Plato, imperfect estimate of, by Lan-

dor, 14; explanation of, 312;
mighty influence of, 258; see also
302.

Pluck, Landor's horror of the word,
255 note.

Poetry, danger in modern criticism
of, to poets, 305.

Poets, what they think of poets, 422,
501; four magic ones, 495; hatred
of poets by poets, 501.
Pollio, Asinius, and Licinius Calnis
(Imag. Con), 421.

Pomare, queen of Tahiti, and others
(Imag. Con.). 419.

Pomero, Landor's dog, 428-30, 471.
Popery, British and Foreign, Lan-
dor's, 472.

Popular writers, 1.

Porson, Parr's remark about, 62
note.

Postscript (unpublished) to Gebir,
70-3.

Powell, General, 45-6.

Pride and Prejudice, Miss Austen's,
511, 523.

Puntomichino, Cavaliere, and Mr.
Devis Eusebius Salcranagh (Imag.
Con.), 256.
Pybus, Mr., 70.

Pythagoras, The Priest of Isis and,
531-3.

Quarterly Review, notice of Gebir,
52; Southey's connection with, 161;
Imaginary Conversations and, 243;
its intended notice anticipated by
Hare, 265-6; and see 502-3.

Rabelais' use of the word Landore, 5.
Rawson, Mr., of Wastwater, 338.
Republicanism, Landor's and Sou-
they's, 168-9; illustration of Lan-
dor's, 351-2.
Reviewers, challenge to, 70.

Richard Coeur de Lion and the abbot
of Boxley (Imag. Con.), 241.
Richelieu, Duc de, Sir Firebrace

Cotes, Lady Glengrin, and Mr.
Normanby (Imag. Con.), 304.
Rickman, clerk to parliament, 142.
Riguelme, General, 123.

Robinson, Mr. Crabb, 336, 366-7;
Landor's Satire on Satirists, 370;
opinion of the Pentameron, 381;
opinion of Andrea, &c., 398; ex-
cellent remark, 371.

Roderick, Southey's, 126; plan of the
poem explained to Landor, 127-8.
Roderigo, 131; the theme of Scott,
Southey, and Landor simulta-

neously, 138.
Rogers, Samuel, 457-8.

Romilly and Perceval (Imag. Con.),
308; and Wilberforce (Imag. Con.),
420.
Romilly, Sir Samuel, 30, 378, 420.
Rose, George, 165-6.

Rosenhagen, Mrs. and Mr., 406-8; his
death, 407.

Rough, Serjeant, 70-80; his imita-
tion of Gebir, 59; his visit to
Robert Landor, 76-7; end of the
friendship with Landor, 77-8, 79-
80; see also 286-7.

Saez, Don Victor, and El Rey Netto
(Imag. Con.), 300.

Sandford, William, 456, 514.
Satire on Satirists, Landor's, 370-1.
Savonarola and the prior of Florence,

Italian dialogue by Landor, 529..
Sawle, Lady, see Paynter, Miss Rose.
Scott, Walter, 54, 137, 497; and see
417 ;
and for how he fared in
Wordsworth's talk, 338.
Self-portraiture, touches of, 138 note,
338; self-accusings and exaltings,
122, 233-5, 274.

Seward, Miss Anna, of Staffordshire,
60; Landor's anger at her attack
upon him, ib.

Shaftesbury, Earl of, 418.
Shakespeare, 380, 423, 426; Examina-
tion of, before Sir Th. Lucy touching
Deer-stealing, Landor's, 354-9 (see
also remark in Preface); a Shake-
speare celebration, 401, 427; and
see 493; remarks of Landor on
his satellites, 496, 501; allusion to,
as 'perfect poet,' 544; and see 388,
423.

Shelley, his favourite passages in
Gebir, 54; his passion for that
work, related by Hogg, 62; Lan-
dor's opinions of, 304; Mrs. Shel-
ley to Landor on his Collected
Works, 445.

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