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Pride and vanity our besetting sins, ii. 512;
its effects, iii. 280

Priests, their influence, ii. 127; of Isis, Chris-
tianity borrowed from the, ii. 273; their
power at Rome, iii. 455; religion in danger
from, ib.

Prime ministers, Louis Philippe's estimate
of, vi. 564

Princes, how they should be educated, iii. 19;
should not be protectors of lawless men,

282

*Pritchard, Queen Pomare, Captains Polverel
and Des Mitrailles, Lieutenant Poignaunez,
and Mariners, vi. 458-469

Prodicus, his style, iii. 157

Progression of souls not unreasonable, v. 483
"Prometheus" of Eschylus, its character, ii.
254; represented in the theatre of Athens,
v. 317; not equal to the "Iliad," 321
Propertius, his writings criticised, ii. 414
Propylæa, their magnificence, 395
Prosperity and Felicity, distinction between,
iv. 5

Prostitutes, iii. 46; in Tuscany, ib. and note
Protest, not allowable in a court of justice, ii.
474

Proxenos, a native of Massilia, introduced by
Anaxagoras to Aspasia, v. 476; his opinions
on poetry, 493

Prussia, her crafty and insincere policy, vi.
605, 606

Psalms of David criticised, iii. 470

Psyche, the story of, had its origin in the
East, iii. 452

"Ptolemy and Theocritos," vii. 476, 477
Punishment, eternal, the doctrine of, con-
demned, ii. 269; considered, v. 70 et seq.
Punishments, inequality of, ii. 79 et seq.;
capital, iii. 46

Puns, examples of, in Plato's writings, iii.

155

*Puntomichino, Cavaliere, and Mr. Denis
Eusebius Talcranagh, vi. 57-71

-, sketch of his life, vi. 57, 58
Purgatory, iii. 61, 64, 84, 86
Puritanism, its character, iii. 121
Pyrrha, lines to, v. 512

Pythagoras instructed the Gauls, ii. 135, v.
484; his style, ii. 136; sketch of his career,
v. 476, 480; his doctrines, 480, 481; attempt
to prove that he is identical with Samotes,
the lawgiver of the Gauls, in a letter from
Psyllos to Pisander of Elea, 484 et seq.

Q.

Quails, extravagant fiction regarding, iii. 179,
180 and note
Quakers, their doctrines discussed by Penn and
Peterborough, iii. 278 et seq.; literature and
science neglected by, 284; their doctrine of
excommunication, 303; their use of the
term "friend," 331; consider it unlawful
to kill a fellow-creature for any offence,
339

Quarterly Review, the author's reply to an
unprovoked attack on him by a writer in
the, v. 570-573

Queypo, Bishop, cruelties committed against

him by Ferdinand of Spain, vi. 349 and note
Quietism opposed by Bossuet, v. 195, 196 n.
Quiroga, his interview with El Rey Netto, vi.
102, 103

Quotation, to be avoided in composition, ii.
281, 282; a common one from Shakespeare,
corrected, 490 n.

R.

Racine, his writings criticised, iv. 120
Raffael, character of his works, vi. 422, 423,
429, 430; superior to Michel-Angelo, 423
Raffaellino and the trout, Boccaccio's story
of, iii. 543

Raleigh, his name not perishable, iii. 49;
anecdote of, v. 92

*Rao-Gong-Fao and the King of Ava, vi.
365-378

ambassador to the King of

Ava, his account of his visit to the English
nation, vi, 365 et seq.

Reading, pleasures of, ii. 172

Reason assisted by belief, ii. 358; strength-
ens Religion, but weakens Devotion, v. 520
Rebellion, the great, in England, moving
causes of, v. 43 et seq.
Reflection, definition of, ii. 14
Reform, Parliamentary,
Canning on, iii. 196

Pitt's advice to

Reformation, the, how effected, v. 14, 15
Relics of sculpture, barbarian practice of
collecting, in use with travellers, v. 511
and note

Religion, the best kind of, ii. 129; of the
ancients, 354, 355; character of the Roman
Catholic, 515; benefits of diversities in,
iii. 87; the Roman Catholic, a support
to the throne, 90; of Christ, peace and
good-will, 288; of Christendom, war and
ill-will, ib.; the Roman Catholic, discussed
between Penn and Peterborough, 288 et seq.;
men of genius not indifferent to, 311; im-
policy of interfering with that of others,
364 et seq.; in danger from the Romish
priesthood, 455; superior to philosophy, ib.;
its power over men, 456; considered in
relation to social duties, iv. 256 et seq.;
proper aim of, 260; a predominant affection
of the soul, v. 358; often united with Love,
ib.; makes us better, 359; influence of,
366; abused by its professors, 420; neces-
sary to men, 482, 483; Christian, the only
one in which individuals and nations
can dispense with their bounden duties,
vi. 35

Religions, old, better than the later, v. 154
Repeal of the law which denied the freedom
of Athens to children not born of an Athe-
nian mother, procured by Pericles, v. 504
and note
Republicanism, nature of, iii. 130; principle
of, 491

Republics, reason why they are not universal, ii.
148; their position in regard to kings, 154;
Plato's scheme for, 177 et seq.; small, super.or
to small principalities, iii. 281; more turbu-
lent than monarchies, 329; small, the best
form of government, 492; plan for the
establishment of, in Italy, iv. 417 et seq.;
small collective, the most happy, 424, v. 17;
municipalities of the like nature, v. 17;
defended, 32, 33; small, beneficial to larger
states, 362; envious of their greatest
citizens, 410; ancient, how esteemed by the
Holy Alliance, vi. 21

Revolutions, rapid, their effects, v. 133

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Rhigas, his career and fate, vi. 73, 74
Rhodope and Æsop, ii. 8-19, 19-27
-, story of, ii. 19 et seq.

Rhyme, what it consists in, iv. 106; sometimes
admitted by the ancients, 125,

Riccardi, Marchese, story of his reliquary, iii.
6) et seq.

Richard I. and the Abbot of Boxley, iii. 3-9
anecdote of, iii. 8, 9

Richelieu, Duke de, Sir Firebrace Cotes,
Lady Glengrin, and Mr. Normanby, vi.

121-204

-, his character, iii. 349; his retire-
ment from office, vi. 121; his residence at
Nice, ib.; visits Ireland, 123; his adventures
there, 184 et seq.; his character as a minister,

625

Ridicule, legitimate employment of, ii. 258
Riego, treatment of him and his companions

when taken prisoners, vi. 104 n.; his wife
sentenced to the galleys, 258 and note
Rienzi, the name a contraction of Lorenzi,
iii. 454; his treatment by the Romans, ib.;
his political career, 456; destroyed by his
vanity, iv. 311, viii. 440; delegated with
Petrarca and others to invite the Pope to
return from Avignon to Rome, viii. 436;
establishes liberty and order in Rome, 438;
appointed tribune, ib.; his follies and ex-
travagances, 439; compared with Bona-
parte, 440, 441

Riots, their use, vi. 64

Rivals, their uses, v. 361, 362
Robespierre, joy exhibited in France on the
news of his death, vi. 165, 166
Rochefoucault and La Fontaine, v. 53-69
his "Maxims" incorrect, iii.
306; indebted to Hobbes, v. 59; his
"Maxims" criticised by La Fontaine, ib.
et seq.

Rochester, Lord, Andrew Marvel, and Lord
Chancellor Hyde, anecdote of, v. 152, 153
Roman Catholic religion not professed by
Shakespeare, ii. 515; its character, ib.
Romans, not a creative people, iii. 452; their
degradation, 454; rose against Rienzi, ib. ;
their subjugation effected by the deprava-
tion of their morals, ib.; power obtained
over them by the priesthood, 455; their
character, 494; state of the culinary art
among the early, v. 162; character of the
ancient, vi. 8-10

Rome, cause of her fall, ii. 371, 372, 378;
source of the greatness of its power, 435;
can never revive, iii. 459; ancient, when
most wretched, 494; account of its founda-
tion, v. 433-438; policy of Louis Napoleon
towards, vi. 626

Rome, Church of. See Church of Rome
*Romilly and Perceval, iii, 161–167

and Wilberforce, iii, 397-409

his proposition for the reform of
the criminal law, iii 162 et seq.; his cha-
racter, 408 n.

Rosenhagen, Mr., his loss of sight in the
public service, viii. 98 n.

Rousseau and Malesherbes, iv. 279-293
remarks on his writings, iv 282

et seq.

Royal families, prevalence of insanity in, ii.
61

Royalty, its privileges, ii. 497

Rubens, character of his works, vi. 429
Russel, Florentine, anecdote of, vi. 60, 61
Russia, her policy immutable, iii. 353 et seq.,
vi. 29, 578; designs of, on Greece, vi. 21
et seq.; Turkey. 22 et seq.; claim of, to
California and the north-west coast of
America, 27; designs of, on Hindostan, ib.
597; her army and navy, 579; her policy
towards England, ib.; her foreign policy
discussed between the Emperor Nicholas
and Nesselrode, 585 et seq.; her great
wealth, 588; her elaborate system of
espionage, ib.; her designs respecting the
Church of Rome, 597, 598

S.

Sabines, probable facts attending their con-
nection with Rome, v. 433 et seq.
Sacrament of the Eucharist, iii, 25
"Saez, Don Victor, and El Rey Netto, vi.
102-111

Sailor and the Lord Chancellor, story of the,
iii. 130; and his amber, iv. 271

Saint Bartholomew's Day, massacre of, medals
coined to celebrate, iii. 40; extracts from
Muretus's Oration in celebration of, 41 n.
Saints, intercession of, iv. 138
Saladin, his character, iii. 3, 5

Salomon the Florentine Jew, and Alfieri,
iv. 265-278

Salutation, different modes of, iii. 81
Salvation, meaning of the term, ii. 268; dis-
cussed between Melancthon and Calvin, v.
70 et seq.

Samians declare war against the Milesians,
v. 403; speech of Pericles on the occasion,
404; punishment of those who favoured the
Persian party, 418

Samos, subjugation of, by Polycrates, ii. 40;
preparations for attacking, v. 409; oration
of Pericles to the soldiers round, 411, 412;
subdued by Pericles, 413; character of the
leaders in, 414, 415; an hereditary aristo-
cracy proposed in, 418, 419; abuses dis-
covered in the service of the temples in,
419, 420; other abuses, 420, 421
Samotes, the lawgiver of the Gauls, pro-
bably identical with Pythagoras, v. 484 et
seq.

"Samson Agonistes," Milton's, criticised, iv.
489 et seq.

Samuel, the defender of Sania Veneranda and
leader of the Suliots, vi. 289 et seq.
Sanctification of Labre, story of, iii. 66-68
Sandt and Blucher, vi. 438-448

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and Kotzebue, vi. 399-407

his murder of Kotzebue, vi. 407
Sandwich Isles, King of the, Peel, Croker,
and Interpreter, vi. 359-364

Santander, a Story of," v. 574-583
Sappho, her poems criticised, v. 344, 345; lines
by, 345, 350; remarks on her poetry, 378,
450; her Address to Hesperus, 450
"Sappho, Alcæus, Anacreon, Phaon," vii.
541-543

Saracens, their influence on civilisation, vi.
583, 584

Satire, true definition of, ii, 415; less fertile
in novelty than other poetry, iv. 106

*Savage, Philip, and Archbishop Boulter,
iii. 202-210

his character, iii. 202 n.

Sir Arnold, and King Henry IV.,
iii. 11-13

first Speaker of the House of Com-
mons" who appears on any record," iii. 14 n.
Savary, his seizure of Madame de Staël's
Germany," viii. 248 n.

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"Scaliger, Joseph, and Montaigne, iv. 294-298

his notion that the nativity of our
Lord happened in April, iv. 145; his vanity
exposed in his Conversation with Montaigne,
294 et seq.

Schoolmasters, why censurable, iii. 372
Scioppius, Casper, his opinion of heretics, v.
186 n.; his presents to James I., ib.
*Scipio Emilianus, Polybius, and Panatius,
ii. 314-343

Scotch, character of the, v. 34 and note
Scotchman, story of a patriotic, iii. 269
Scott, Sir Walter, his poetry criticised, iv. 52;
character of his " Marmion," ib. 53
Sculpture, ancient, fate of its masterpieces,
iv. 425; suggestion as to the use of wax in
restoring, 426; proper materials for, v.
364, 365; advances made in, in the time
of Pericles, 366

"Sea-shell," Landor's, v. 114; the use Words-
worth made of it, ib.

Secretary, import of the term, iii. 25

Senate of Rome, intended suppression of the,
by the Marian faction, ii. 371
Senator, Roman, his rank, iii. 4 n.
*Seneca and Epictetus, ii. 424-427
Sergius and Mahomet, iii. 211-220
Sertorius, his conduct as a military leader,
ii. 369; error committed by him in Spain,

372

Service, efficacy of the word among the mili-
tary, vi. 596

Sewer, vast, at Rome, period of its construc-
tion unknown, v. 438

"Shakespeare, William, Citation and Exami-
nation of," ii. 455-557

Shakespeare, difference between his imagina-
tion and that of Plato, ii. 100 n.; his be-
haviour at Spenser's funeral, 463; accused
of deer-stealing, 465; his retort to Master
Silas's threat of banishment, 467; his cou-
plet on "Grief," 472; witnesses produced
against, ib.; protests against the evidence,
473; quotes a case in illustration of the law
of evidence, 474; his presence with the deer-
stealers attested by Carnaby, 477; his song
of the "Mermaid," 478; his song of the
"Merman," 479, 480; papers found in his
pocket, 480; his lines "To the Owlet," 481;
counselled to study by Sir Thomas Lucy, 482;
his "Maid's Lament," 483, 484; criticised by
Sir Thomas Lucy, 484; his poetical dialogue
between two shepherds, a covert satire on Sir
Thomas Lucy and his lady, 488, 489; a mis-
reading in a common quotation from his
works corrected, 490 n. ; identified by Treen,
492; his defence, 501; successfully flatters
Sir Thomas Lucy, 502; his quotation from
Dr. Faustus, 503; narrates his journey to
Oxford, and gives quotations from Dr. Glas-
ton's sermon, 505 et seq.; quotes the doctor's
admonition concerning pride and vanity,
512; his commendation of Charlcote Hall,
513; disclaims attachment to the Roman

Catholic religion, 515; his encounter of wit
with Sir Silas Gough, 516, 517; gives fur-
ther quotations from Dr. Glaston's sermon,
518 et seq.; advised by Sir Thomas Lucy
to copy the French drama, 527; and to avoid
tragedy and comedy, 528; his verses on a
"Sweet-briar," 532; on Sir Thomas Lucy,
537; repeats Dr. Glaston's advice to young
men regarding poetry, ib. et seq.; his in-
timacy with Hannah Hathaway, 553; re-
fuses to abandon her, 555; makes his escape,
556; threatened prosecution of, for horse-
stealing, 557; often admits lines of little
worth, iv. 24; estimation of his powers,
27; comparison between him and Bacon,
ib.; his Sonnets, 56, 512; little esteemed by
Byron, 76; his philosophical spirit, 80; criti-
cisms on, by Voltaire, 92; his dramatic
writings criticised, 127 et seq., v. 120; lines
by the author, descriptive of his powers,
iv. 130; his historical dramas, 155, 156; the
greatness of his genius, 481; Milton's false
estimate of him, 491; his clowns, 492; his
Latin poetry, 517 et seq.; his copiousness
and discrimination, v. 104; mistaken in
representing Othello as a black, and Cleo-
patra as a gypsey, 138; his Cleopatra founded
on Queen Elizabeth, ib.; defacement of his
monument in Stratford church censured,
158; superior to Bacon in intellectual power,
vii. 323 n.

"Shell, the Pilgrim's," lines on, iii. 505, 506
Shelley, his generous estimation of Keats, iv.

478; difficulties overcome in his "Cenci,"
482; character of his translation of Plato's
"Dialogues," viii. 435 n.; his estimate of
Petrarca and Dante, ib.

Shenstone, his resemblance to Petrarca, iii.
518 n

Shepherd Kings. See Pelasgians

Shepherds, a poetical dialogue between two,
a covert satire on Sir Thomas Lucy and his
lady, ii. 488, 489; reason why those men-
tioned in poems are so learned, 491
*Sheridan and Windham, iii. 379-386

-, his speech on the Mutiny at the
Nore commended, iii. 379

Shipley, Bishop, and Benjamin Franklin,
iii. 372-378

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his "Invocation to Sleep," iv. 12, 13
"Siege, the, of Ancona," a Dialogue in Verse,
vii. 240-281

Silent lovers, their treatment by women, iv.
15, 16

Silver combs, edict against, vi. 434 and note
Simplicity incapable of adornment, ii. 426
Singing, arguments in defence of, iii. 277
Singing-birds eaten in Italy, iii. 507; never
killed in England, ib.

Skeias at Sparta described, v. 474 n.
"Skylark," Dante's lines on the, iii. 461
Slavery, opinion of early Christians as to,
ii. 293

Slave trade, expediency of the abolition of,
discussed, iii. 397 et seq.; a secondary con-
sideration to the freedom of Greece, vi. 294,

295

Sleep, what time should be devoted to, iii.
283. 284; poetical Invocation to, by Sir
Philip Sidney, iv. 12, 13

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Socrates, a truly great man, ii. 69; his cha-
racter as exhibited by Plato, iii. 156; in
love with Aspasia, v. 327; his poetical
Address to her, 322; practices of him and
his disciples, 478; his attendant Genius, 491;
his marriage, 493; saves the life of Alci-
biades, 516

Soldiers in a free state, how to be raised, ii.
82, 83; luxury of, 326, 340, 341; highest
or lowest of mankind, vi. 441
*Soliman and Mufti, iii. 181-186
Solomon, maxim of his denied, v. 7
*Solon and Pisistratus, ii. 28-37
Somaglia, Cardinal Della, his election to the
Popedom nullified by the Emperor of Aus-
tria, iv. 139 n.

Sonnets, remarks on, iii. 472; Milton's, criti-
cised, iv. 55, 56, 511 et seq.; Shakespeare's,
56, 512

Sophists bad teachers, v. 355
Sophocles and Pericles, ii. 56-63

-, his contest with Eschylus, ii. 57;
his character, ib. n.; verses by, on the com-
pletion of the Piræus and Poecile, 63; visits
Aspasia, v. 446; anecdote of him, ib.; his
personal appearance, ib.; his noble beha-
viour to his rival Euripides, 455, 456
"Sophron's Hymn to Bakkos," vii. 468, 469
"Sorel, Agnes, and the Maid of Orleans, v.
220-227

Sorrow, uses of seasonable, ii. 404
Sosigines, unhappy story of him and his
friend Melanthos, v. 513-515

Soul, immortality of the, criticism on Plato's
argument for, ii. 84 et seq.; opinions of
Cicero concerning, 379, 380

Southern nations more sanguinary than
northern, v. 161

*Southey and Landor, iv. 427-475, 476-528
and Porson, iv. 18-41, 41--83

his "Critical Reviews," iv. 52; an
imitator of Landor's versification, v. 122;
the style of his " Colloquies" modified by
Landor's "Imaginary Conversations," ib.
Sozzifante, Father Onesimo, and Mr. Har-
bottle, story of, iv. 140-142

Spain, state of, vi. 41 et seq.; treatment of, by
the Holy Alliance, 88 et seq., 108 et seq.;
Inquisition restored in, 94; scheme for the
reformation of, 96 et seq.; character of the
people of, 98; revocation of medical diplomas
and licenses granted by the Cortes of, 110
and note; evils produced in, by the restora-
tion of Ferdinand, 300, 331 n.; reflections on
the misrule of, 357 n.; her mercenary cha-
racter, 563; condition of, under the Saracens
and Bourbons contrasted, 583
Sparta, how to be humbled, v. 362
Speaker of the House of Commons, first
appointment of a, iii. 14 n.
Speech of Sheridan on the Mutiny at the Nore
commended, iii. 379; of the President of
the Senate to Bonaparte, vi. 37-40; of the
President of the Court of Cassation to
Charles X., 40 n.

Speeches of Pericles on proposing a statue to
Cimon, v. 390; on the banishment of Cimon,
391; on the defection of Euboea and Megara,
393, 394; on the war between Samos and
Miletus, 404; to the soldiers round Samos,
411, 412; in reply to the accusation of
Cleon, 446-449; the first delivered by him
to the Athenians, on the declarations of
Corinth and Lacedæmon against Athens,
457, 458; the second, 458-461; on the
approach of the Lacedaemonians to Athens,

461-463

*Spenser and Essex, v. 90-96

his burial, ii. 463; character of his
poetry, iv. 74; his residence in Ireland
described, v. 93; sacked and burnt by the
rebels, ib.; estimate of his "Faery Queen,"
151; his merits discussed by Queen Eliza-
beth and Cecil, 173 et seq.; quotations from
his poetry, 174, 175; Queen Elizabeth's
generosity to him, 176

Spleen, effects of, ii. 226

Spring," verses on the, iv. 14, 15

Staël, Madame de, seizure of her work on
"Germany," viii. 248 n.

Starkeye, Sir Edward, his lines on Fanny
Carew, ii. 543

State religions, advantages of their abolition,
iii. 121

Stay's "Modern Philosophy," notice of, iv.

129

*Steele and Addison, v. 50-52

harsh treatment of, by Addison, v. 50
Study, its fit uses, v. 355

Style of Aristoteles, ii. 8, 71, 88, 405, 406, iii.
150; Herodotus, ii. 88; Demosthenes, 130
et seq., 143, 144, 155 et seq.; Democritus,
136; Pythagoras, ib.; Theophrastus, 213,
223; Polemon, 252; Livy, 282, 449, 450;
Polybius, 339; Thucydides, 356, v. 442, 444,
453, 454; Cicero, ii. 357, 450 et seq., iii. 438;
Plato, ii. 392, iii. 144 et seq.; discussed
between Seneca and Epictetus, ii. 425 et seq.;
of Locke, iii. 142 et seq.; Tibullus, 147; Mure-
tus, ib.; Prodicus, 157; in composition, requi-
sites of modern, iv. 30; of Wordsworth, 31;
Gibbon, 95, 96; Dr. Johnson, 122; Menan-
der, 152; of English writers, remarks on,
164 et seq., 209 et seq.; Addison, 223; Swift,
ib.; Plutarch, 224; Rousseau, 283; Montes-
quieu, 284; Dr. Donne, 407; Mimnermus,
v. 344; Elizabethan poetry, the author's
objection to it, viii. 378; various English
poets, remarks on, ib.; Catullus, 421-423
Suliots, their heroic defence of their country,
vi. 288 et seq.

Sun, advantages of its worship in a hot
climate, ii. 118

Sunday, Parliamentary regulation for the due
observance of, iii. 551; amusements formerly
encouraged on, iv. 4 and note; modern
observance of, vi. 203, 490, 491
Superiority, different ways of showing it, iii.

258

Surgeons in Spain, ordinance issued against,
vi. 110 and note

"Swallow," lines on the, in Italian, v. 276,
277; in English, 277 n.

"Swan, Rev. Mr., Lord Coleraine, and Rev.
Mr. Bloombury, vi. 112-120
Swedes, character of the, vi. 31
"Sweet-briar," Shakespeare's verses on a, ii.

532

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*Talleyrand and Archbishop of Paris, vi. 476
-480

and Louis XVIII., iii. 387-396
visit of the Archbishop of Paris
to, on his sick-bed, vi. 476 et seq.; his con-
fession, 479, 480

Tanagra, the birthplace of Corinna, v. 334;
hospitality of the inhabitants, ib.; Corinna's
Ode on, 342

*Tancredi and Constantia, v. 232-235

takes prisoner Constantia, daughter
of William II. of Sicily, v. 232; his death,
ib. n.

*Tasso and Cornelia, v. 269–277

compared with Virgil, iv. 105; ill-
treated by his countrymen, v. 86; his
"Gerusalemme Liberata" criticised, 87, 88;
his lament over the death of Leonora, 269
et seq.; causes of his miseries, 275 n.; his
lines to Leonora, 276

Tax, new one proposed by Ferdinand of
Spain, vi. 344

Taxes, comparative rates between ancient
and modern, iii. 120

Tears, salutary influence of, ii. 405

Tenerin de Gisors, story of, related by Petrarca,
iv. 338-341

Tennyson, character of his Idyl, "Godiva,"

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her sickness and death, ii. 247 et
seq.; reasons why no statue of her was
made, 248, 249; influence of her memory
over Epicurus, 254
*Tersitza, Odysseus, Acrive, and Trelawny,
vi. 272-307

lines on her, by Trelawny, vi. 273
Testament, New, reasons why it is not plain
and explicit, iii. 313

Texts, variance between, vi. 113

Theatre, reason why women should visit it
but rarely, ii. 216; strictures on the, iii.
320 et seq.; at Athens described, v. 317;
courtesy of the spectators to strangers in,
ib.; adventure of Aspasia in, ib. et seq.
Theocritus, criticisms on the "Idyls" of, viii.
357-378; character of the German editions
of him, 357 et seq.; doubts respecting the
genuineness of some of the "Idyls," ib.;
sketch of his history, 359, 360; imitated by
Virgil, 363 et seq.; and by Milton, ib.; com-
pared with the latter, 364; character of
Virgil's translations from him, 367 et seq. ;
his resemblance to Pindar, 370, 374; estimate
of his "Inscriptions," 377

Theologians, their phraseology drawn from
the military vocabulary, vi. 621
Theology, the study of, preferable to that of
poetry, ii. 538

Theophrastus, his opposition to the doctrines
of Epicurus, ii. 209, 210, 212; his style, 213,
223; verses written by a friend of his, 214
"Theron and Zoe," vii. 409-411
"Theseus and Hippolyta," vii. 544, 545
Thiers and Lamartine, vi. 574-576

Louis Philippe's estimate of him, vi.
571; his opinion on home and foreign
policy, 575

Thracian morality, ii. 10

Thraseas, his interview with Cleone, v. 367;
his disparagement of Apollo, ib.
"Thrasymedes and Eunöe," vii. 407-409
"Three Scenes, not for the Stage," a Dialogue
in Verse, vii. 339-341

Thucydides, his style commended, ii. 356, v.
442, 444; visits Pericles and Aspasia, v.
441; his History, 441, 444; chooses the
Peloponnesian war as the subject of his
History, 453; his style criticised, 453, 454
Thurlow, Lord, anecdote of him, iv. 485
Tiberius and Vipsania, ii. 420-423

his meeting with his divorced wife
Vipsania, ii. 420; tendency of his family to
insanity, ib. n.; his regret at the death of
Agrippa, 422 n.

Tibullus and Messala, ii. 407-423

his panegyric on Messala, ii. 409;
his love of nature, 413; his style, iii. 147;
remarks on Heyne's false punctuation of
a passage of, vili. 412, 413

Time, Dr. Glaston's sermon on the abuse of,
ii. 505-511, 518-520

Timotheus and Lucian, ii. 258-305
Tithes among the Jews, ii. 380; exacted by
Pisistratus and Hiero, ib.; in England, iii.
124; their original purpose, 325

Titian, character of his works, vi. 429. See
also Vecelli, Tiziano

Titles, changes in, iii. 4 n.; their value, v.

176

"To Corinth," vii. 475, 476

Tooke, John Horne, and Samuel Johnson,
iv. 163-208, 209-255

and Johnson, attacks on the Conver-
sations between, iv. 299, 500

Tory and Whig, argument between, vi.
546-550

Toussaint L'Ouverture, treatment of, by Na-
poleon, vi. 231, viii. 141 n.

Tragedy and comedy, why to be avoided, ii.
528

Trajan, his character as a ruler, ii. 264
Tranquillity, reflections on, ii. 255, 256
Translation of bishops, iii. 31, 32

Transmigration of souls unreasonable, v. 483
Transubstantiation, doctrine of, when first
established, iii. 33

Travel, foreign, effects of, on female character,
iii. 62, 63

Treen, Euseby, a witness against Shake-
speare, ii. 472; his fright on beholding the
deer-stealers, 474; his evidence, 492 et seq.;
is dismissed, 504

Trees, old, their beauty and value, vi. 5, 6
*Trelawny, Odysseus, Tersitza, and Acrive,
vi. 272-307

(the friend of Odysseus, the
Kleptic chieftain), his lines on Tersitza, vi.

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