not its slave. Your vulgar writer is always as the most vulgar the higher his subject, man who showed the menagerie at Pidcock's was wont to say, "This, gentlemen, is the eagle of the sun, from Archangel, in Russia; But to the the otterer it is the igherer he flies." proofs. It is a thing to be felt more than explained. Let any man take up a volume of Mr. Hunt's subordinate writers, read (if possible) a couple of pages, and pronounce for himself, if they contain not the kind of writing which may be likened to "shabby-genteel" in actual life. When he has done this, let him take up Pope; and when he has laid him down, take up the cockney again if he can.

Note to the passage in page 396. relative to Pope's lines upon Lady Mary W. Montague.] I think that I could show, if necessary, that Lady Mary W. Montague was also greatly to blame in that quarrel, not for having rejected, but for having encouraged him: but I would rather decline the task-though she should have remembered her own line, " He comes too near that comes to be denied." I admire her so much-her beauty, her talents that I should do this reluctantly. 1, besides, am so attached to the very name of Mary, that, as John

son once said, "If you called a dog Hervey(1),I should love him;" so if you were to call a female of the same species "Mary," I should love it better than others (biped or quadruped) of the same sex with a different appellation. She was an extraordinary woman: she could translate Epictetus, and yet write a song worthy of Aristippus. The lines,

"And when the long hours of the public are past,

And we meet, with champaigne and a chicken, at last,
May every fond pleasure that moment endear!
Be banish'd afar both discretion and fear!
Forgetting or scorning the airs of the crowd,
He may cease to be formal, and I to be proud.
Till," &c. &c.

There, Mr. Bowles!-what say you to such a supper
with such a woman? and her own description too? Is
not her "champaigne and chicken" worth a forest or
two? Is it not poetry? It appears to me that this stanza
contains the "purée
" of the whole philosophy of
Epicurus: I mean the practical philosophy of his
school, not the precepts of the master; for I have been
too long at the university not to know that the phi-
losopher was himself a moderate man. But, after all,
would not some of us have been as great fools as Pope ?
For my part, I wonder that, with his quick feelings, her
coquetry, and his disappointment, he did no more,-
instead of writing some lines, which are to be condemned
if false, and regretted if true.

[The Hon. Henry Hervey, third son of the first Earl of Bristol, from whom Johnson, in the early part of his London life, received great kindness.]

Barff, Mr., letters to, 622, 623. 627. 629,
630. 632, 633.

Barlorini, Princess, her monument at Bo-
logna, 398.

Barlow, Joel, character of his Columbiad,'
49.

Barnes, Thomas, esq., 129.

Barry, Mr., banker of Genoa, 419, 591.
Bartley, George, comedian, 284.
Bartley, Mrs., actress, 282. 284.

Bartolini, sculptor, his bust of Lord Byron,

555.571.

'Bath Guide,' Anstey's, 428.

Baths of Penelope, Lord Byron's visit to, 595.
'Baviad and Mæviad,' extinguishment of the
Della Cruscans by the, 357.

Bay of Biscay, 274.

Bayes, his expedient, 536.

Beattie, Dr., his Minstrel,' 21. 70.

Beaumarchais, his singular good fortune, 146.
Beaumont and Fletcher, 634.
Beaumont, Sir George, 281.
Beauvais, Bishop of, 161.
Beccaria, anecdote of, 325.

Becher, Rev. John, 32. 39, 40. 43. 45. Let-
ters to, 67. 69. 71.

Beckford, William, esq., his Tales' in con-

tinuation of Vathek,' 376.

Beggars' Opera,' a St. Giles's lampoon, 215.
Behmen, Jacob, his reveries, 135.

Beloe, Rev. William, character of his 'Sexa-

genarian,' 374.

Bembo, Cardinal, amatory correspondence
between Lucretia Borgia and, 325, 326.
Benacus, the (now the Lago di Garda), $26.
Bentham, Jeremy, quackery of his followers,

620.

Benzoni, Countess, her conversazioni, 413.
415. 512. Some account of, 415.
'Beppo, a Venetian Story,' 304. 368. $71,
372. 379.

Bergami, the Princess of Wales's courier and
chamberlain, 336.

Bernadotte, Jean-Baptiste-Jules, King of
Sweden, 195.

Berni, the father of the Beppo style of writing,

877.

Berry, Miss, 164.

' Bertram,' Maturin's tragedy of, 287. 368.
Bettesworth, Captain (cousin of Lord Byron),

57.

Betty, William Henry West, actor, 166.
Beyle, M., his Histoire de la Peinture en
Italie,' 326. His account of an interview
with Lord Byron at Milan, $26.

577, 578, 579.
Blessington, Countess of, 576, 577. Impromptu
on her taking a villa called 'Il Paradiso,' |
577. Lines written at the request of, 577.
Letters to, 577. 580. 591.
Blinkensop, Rev. Mr., his Sermon on Chris-
tianity, 188.

Blount, Martha, Pope's attachment to, 689.
703.

Blucher, Marshal, 416.

Blues, the;' a Literary Eclogue, 581.
'Boatswain,' Lord Byron's favourite dog, 38.
44. 73. Inscription on his monument,

73.

Boisragon, Dr., 168.

Bolivar, Simon, 561.

Bologna, Lord Byron's visit to the cemetery

at, 397, 398.

Bolton, Mr., 130, 131, 132.

588. 591. 601. 603, 604. 606.
Boxing, 204.

Bradshaw, Hon. Cavendish, 282.
Braham, John, vocalist, 201. 274.
Breme, Marquis de, 327.

Bride of Abydos; a Turkish Tale,' 197.
200. 211, 212. 217, 218. 221. 245. 301.
Brientz, town and lake of, 314.

Brig of Balgownie, 12.

British Critic, 201.

British Review, its character of the 'Giaour,'
191. Lord Byron's Letter to the Editor
of, 406.

Broglie, Duchess of (daughter of Madame de
Staël), her character,321. Anecdote of, 395.
Her remark on the errors of clever people,
653.

Brooke, Lord (Sir Fulke Greville), account
of a MS. poem by, 176.

Brougham, Henry, esq. (afterwards Lord
Brougham), 230.

Broughton, the regicide, his monument at
Vevay, 311.

203.

Bonstetten, M., 309, 310, 348.

Borgia, Lucretia, her amatory correspondence
with Cardinal Bembo, 325, 326.

Born in a garret, in a kitchen bred,' 302.
Borromean Islands, 325. 327.

Bosquet de Julie, 311. 320.

Brydges, Sir Egerton, his Letters on the

Character and Poetical Genius of Byron,'
180. His Ruminator,' 204.

Buchanan, Rev. Dr., 192.

Bucke, Rev. Charles, 178.

Buonaparte, Lucien, his Charlemagne,' 145.
193.

234. 239. 247. 277. 283. 304.

His style of

eloquence, 184.

Burke, Edmund, 185.

Burns, Robert, his habit of reading at meals,
46.
What
His elegy on Maillie, 73.
would he have been, if a patrician? 200.
His unpublished letters, 214. His rank