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INDEX.

IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS.

N.B. The sign® prefixed intimates that the names following are those of the Interlocutors in a "Conversation."

A.

Aboukir, lines on the battle of, i., 44

Absence, effects of, i., 113

Accent, wrongly applied by modern English writers, i., 200;
alteration of, by Greek writers, ib.

Achilles, character of, i., 222

Acrive, Odysseus, Tersitza, and Trelawny, i., 387

Actors, French, difficulties they have to surmount, i., 93
Addison and Steele, ii., 151

Addison, his style, i., 197, 199; his harsh treatment of Steele,
ii., 151; doubts as to his true character, ib., note
Eschines and Phocion, i., 23

Eschylus, his contest with Sophocles, i., 145 and note
Æsop and Rhodope, ii., 95, 193

Age, reflections on, i., 511

Agrarian laws of the Gracchi, i., 238

Ainsworth's Dictionary negligent and injudicious, ii., 170
Air, the, how impersonated in Mythology, i., 453
Alain, Maitre, his Somnium Vividarium, i., 36
Albani, the Cardinal Legate, and Picture-Dealers, ii., 4
Albigenses, the, i., 36

Alexander and the Priest of Hammon, i., 418

and Aristoteles, comparison between, 28; his
conduct towards Aristoteles, 226, 232; compared with
Epaminondas, 227; his death and tomb, 230 and note;
his pretensions to a divine origin rebuked by the priest of
Hammon, 418, et seq.

Alexander, the Emperor, and Capo d'Istria, i., 106
*Alexis and Peter the Great, i., 352

-, son of Peter the Great, his education, i., 352; dis-
approved his father's attack on Poland and Sweden, 353;
his sudden death, 354

*Alfieri and Salomon the Florentine Jew, i., 187
*Alpuente, Romero, and Lopez Banos, i., 211
denounced by the English minister, i., 560
Alum, use of, in rendering substances incombustible, i., 364
Ambition, definition of, i., 6; always disappointed, 370
America, North-West coast of, claim of Russia to, i., 108
American government, advantages of, i., 125, et seq.
American war, reflections on, ii., 44

Amphibious, definition of the term, by M. Corbière, i., 383
Amusements formerly encouraged on Sundays, i., 4 and

note

⚫Anacreon and Polycrates, i., 270
Anachronisms, when allowable, ii., 215

Cimber, 249; Anacreon and Hylactor, 273; Thomas
Payne, 296; Captain O'Mara's travels, 306, et seq.; Mr.
Moyle's duel, &c., 310, 311; Sieur Dorcas, 325; Grand
Duke Ferdinand, 328, 329, 330, 331, 332, 335; the Empe-
ror Francis, 334; Prince Corsini, 336; Shelley and Byron,
340; General Monton, 343; the Pope and the wooden
fish, 348; the Irishman's scourging, 350; Monna Tita
Monalda, 361, et seq.; the defenders of Greece, 393,
et seq.; the Prince of Policastro, 417; Sir Magnus Lacy,
454; Ternerin de Gisors, 414; Archbishop of Evora,
431; Fra Lope de Hornaches and Donna Immaculata's
veil, 434; Díaz and the onions, 440; Croker and Lieu-
tenant White, 448; Daniel Fogram the poacher, 519;
the patriotic Scotchman, 525; William Penn and his
father, 528; Peterborough and Ludlow, 552; the English-
man and his fountain, ii., 5; the same and the picture-
dealers, 7, et seq.; the Cardinal-Legate Albani and Titian's
Holy Family, 16; Xenophanes and his horse, 18; the
Gasteres, a fraternity of priests, 29; the miracle of Aulus
of Pelusium, 32; Admiral Nichols, 57; Fra Filippo
Lippi's captivity in Barbary, 81; Lord Thurlow, 158;
Molière, 208; Michel-Angelo and the poet, 213; Ra-
leigh, 240; Euthemedes and Thelymnia, 253
Anglican church, oppressive in collection of tythes, i., 535;
Chinese opinion of, 129; approximation of its doctrines to
those of Rome, ii., 111

*Anjou, Duke of, Queen Elizabeth, Cecil, and De La Motte
Fenelon, ii.. 174

Aphanasia and Beniowski, i., 264

Apologue of Truth, written by Critobulus, i., 249
Archbishop of Paris and Talleyrand, ii., 237
*Arab Chieftain and Marshal Bugeaud, ii., 242

Architecture, Italian, i., 38-40; English, 40, 41; Greek, ib.,
42; Chinese, ib.; Roman, ib., 41; Moorish, 41; Eliza-
bethan, 41

Argonauts, doubts respecting the, i., 227

Ariosto, his Orlando, i., 100; his merits, ii., 218; slowly
acknowledged, 219

Aristocracy, hereditary, a definition of, i., 25; its nature,
139; in England, debased by Pitt, 188; in Rome,
237, 238; considered as a system of government, 522;
mercantile, insecure, ii., 245

Aristocrats and democrats defined, i., 187
Aristophanes, his merits considered, i., 122
*Aristoteles and Callisthenes, i., 225

Anecdote of Porson at a rout, i., 27; the Japanese at
Rouen, 38; the barbarity of an English General Officer, 43;
the death of an English Officer, ib.; Sir Humphrey Hard-
castle, 45; Mr. George Nelly, 47; the defective adminis
tration of justice in Tuscany, 52, 63 and note; St. Isidore,
ib.; a young Englishwoman in Italy, 55; Benedetto Sant
Anna, 57; the sanctification of Labre, ib. ; the Marchese
Riccardi's reliquary, 58; an Italian Peasant, 65; Anæ-
destatos, the Athenian Orator, 88; the consecrated
lamp, 111; Father Onesimo Sozzifante and Mr. Har-
bottle, 117; Giacomo Pastrani and his picture, 118;
Anco-Mazzio's image of the Virgin, ib.; Angiolina Cecci,
119; Ebenezer Bullock and his son Jonas, 131; the sailor
and the Lord Chancellor, 134; old lady and the hemlock,
139; the itinerant preacher, 140; Don Britomarte
Delciego, 143; Chloros, 147; the Duke of Marlborough's
mince-pie, 149; Lord Tylney, 150; Florentine Russel,
170; Goffrido Piccoluomini and Leopoldina, 173; the
sailor and his amber, 190; of an Irish lord, 223; Caspar Bacon, Lord, and Richard Hooker, i., 136
Scioppius, 235; Fœdirupa and Gentius, 242; Aquilius

-, his definition of happiness, i., 6 and note; com-
parison between him and Alexander, 28; remarks on his
style, 220, 221, 451, 461; ill-treated by Alexander, 226,
232; his "Polity" compared with Plato's scheme of
government, 231 and note; his influence in Greece, ii., 220
Armour, defensive, its use in war considered, i., 183
Ascham Roger and Lady Jane Gray, i., 135
Arts, the, influence of Freedom on, ii. 56
Ashbourne, the village of, 572, 573, note
Athens, her ancient excellence, i., 42; her resuscitation
retarded, ib.; condition of, in the time of Pericles, 145,
et seq.; of Aristoteles, 229; description of a procession
at, 147
Athenian people, their levity, ii., 186
Austria, Emperor of, claim of precedence for, i., 1, note
Ava, King of, and Rao-Gong-Fao, i., 490

B.

comparison between, and Shakspeare, i., 15

Barbarian, origin of the term as used by the Greeks, i., 321 *Catharine, the Empress, and Princess Dashkof, i., 515
Barbary, captivity of Fra Filippo Lippi in, ii., 81

his opposition to Quietism, 319 and note; ungene- Christianity, questionable professions of, i., 3; benefits
rous conduct toward Fenelon, 320, note
*Boulter, Archbishop, and Philip Savage, i., 377

desired by Pitt to be his successor in power, i., 371; Clemens, Jacques, his defence of his attempt to murder the

Capital offences, proposition of Romilly to diminish the Coleraine, Lord, Rev. Mr. Bloombury, and Rev. Mr. Swan,

*Colonna, Vittoria, and Michel- Angelo Buonarotti, ii., 213
*Colocotroni (the elder) and Maurocordato, i., 181
Comedies, English and Italian, i., 185

Comedy, Milton's advice to Marvel on the construction of
a, i., 120, et seq.; among the ancients, 122, 123
Commons, House of, first appointment of a Speaker of the,
10, note; placed in opposition to the Barons by Henry
IV., i., 10

Composition, obscurity the greatest fault in, i., 509; quota-
tion to be avoided in, ii., 26

"Comus," Milton's, criticised, ii., 165

Confession, effects of, i., 54; of Mademoiselle Fontanges,
318; the practice censured, 551; of Talleyrand, ii., 239
"Constantia and Tancredi, ii., 79

taken prisoner by Tancredi, ii., 79; her parent-
age, ib., note

Constitution, character of the English, i., 133 and note; a,
proposed by the Pope to Portugal, i., 349

Constitutionalists (of Spain), plan proposed by Ferdinand
for destroying them, i., 438

Content and Happiness contrasted, i., 6

Controversial writings, reason and origin of, i., 504
*Corbière and Villèle, i., 382

Corinna, why preferred to Pindar, i., 14

Corinth, destruction of, ii., 246

Cork, recommended as a substitute for iron armour, i., 184
*Cornelia and Tasso, ii., 182

Cornelia (mother of the Gracchi), her letter to her son
Caius, i., 239; her house and garden at Misenus
described, i, 242; her mode of life, 243

Corsini, Prince, his parsimony, i., 336
Correggio, character of his works, ii., 13
Cortes, of Spain, i., 139

Death, the punishment of, considered, i., 48, 554; the fear
of, to be cast aside, 499

Deathbed repentance futile, ii., 117

Dead, the, respect for, among the English, i., 327; treatment
of in Italy, ib.

De Lille, the Abbé, and Walter Landor, i., 90
Democracy, opposed to quiet, i., 549; advantages of, 550;
ii., 55

Democrats and Aristocrats described, i., 187
Democritus, his style, i., 87; first proposed the theory of
colours, ib., note

* Demosthenes and Eubulides, i., 84, 357

his style of oratory, i., 25, 26, 27, 85, 88, 358;
compared with Milton, 74

Despot, proper punishment of a, i., 132
Despotism, when most secure, i., 140; protected by the
institution of a Peerage, i., 216

Destiny, the supreme power, i., 321
Devil, the, belief in considered, i., 179

* Dewah, Walker, Hattaji and Gonda, ii., 225
Diaz, Juan, his assassination, i., 36

Dialogue, the, as a mode of communicating knowledge, con-
sidered, i., 245, et seq.

* Diogenes and Plato, i., 451

sketch of his life, i., 470; the wisest man of his
time, ii., 27

Dispensations, price of, ii, 6 and note
Dithyrambic verse, adapted to all modern languages except
the French, i., 93

Dittany, its fabled effects, i., 138 and note
Divorce, Milton's Treatise on, ii., 113

Dogs, their merits, ii., 212; variety of character in, 234
* Dominican, a, Milton and Galileo, ii., 234

*Cotes, Sir Firebrace, Duke de Richelieu, Lady Glengrin, Donne, Dr., his passion for Margaret Hayes, i., 574; lines
and Mr. Normanby, i., 278

*Cotton, Walton, and Oldways, i., 572

- visits Oldways at Ashbourne, 572; verses by, 572,
573
Councils of the Church, the four Ecumenical, i., 30; of the
Lateran, 32, 33; of Nicea, 33; at Rome in 610, ib.; of
Chalcedon, ib.; at Constantinople, ib.

Courage of women, ii., 37

ii., 207

Cowley, treatment of, by Sir Humphrey Hardcastle, i., 45;
comparison between him and Sir Humphrey as poets, 46
Cowper, his poetry commended, i., 79; compared with
Dryden, 80; and Young, ib.

Crabbe, his poems criticised, i., 69

Criminals, plan for the care and employment of their
children, I., 52

Critics, criticism on, i., 12, et seq.; their merits as com-
pared with poets, 70; modern, 78

Criticism, rules of, i., 11, 12, 14; low state of, in Italy, ii.,

236, and note

Critobulus, his Apologue of Truth, i., 249
* Cromwell, Oliver, and Walter Noble, i., 20

-, and Sir Oliver Cromwell, ii., 227

, not cruel, i., 23, note; protected the
Valdenses, 553; his character, i., 554; ii., 108, 227, and
note; his treatment of the fellows of Cambridge Univer-
sity, 228

• Croker, King of the Sandwich Isles, Peel, and Interpreter,

i., 446

his quarrel with Lieutenant White, i., 448
Curiosity, misapplication of the word, ii., 212; a feminine
quality, ii., 93

Cybele, statue of, by Phidias, i., 145

on her, 575, 576; his marriage, 576; his style criticised, ib.
* Donati, Gemma, and Dante, ii., 232
Drake took possession of California, i., 108
Drawing, arguments in defence of, i., 528
Dress, absurdity of that in the time of La Fontaine, ii., 213
Druids, their religion, i., 87; did not construct the altars
called after them, ib.

Dutch nation, conduct of Louis XIV. towards the, in his
wars, i., 148, and 150, note

E.

Eboli, Princess, accusations of, by Philip II., 150
Economy of Lord Eldon, ii., 77, et seq.

Edgeworth, Miss, remarks on her writings, i., 170
Education, of kings, i., 22, ii., 255; Lord Chatham's opinions
on, i., 217, 225; mode of, practised by Peter the Great, 352
*Edward I., King, and William Wallace, i., 448
Egypt, the Frenchin, i., 43; shepherd kings of. See Pelas-
gians
*Eldon and Encombe, ii., 76

his economy, ii., 77, et seq.
Elections, in England, i., 549

*Elizabeth, Princess, and Princess Mary, ii., 90
*Elizabeth, Queen, and Cecil, i., 27

Fenelon, ii., 174

, Cecil, Duke of Anjou, and De la Motte

her age at her mother's death, i., 235,
note; her opinion of parliaments, ii., 90; her vanity illus-
trated by a Conversation" with Anjou, 174, et seq.;
the first slave-trader, 202

Ellenborough, Lord, his Indian policy considered, ii., 40
Eloquence of Demosthenes, i., 84, 85, 358; of Pythagoras,
87; Democritus, ib.; Aristoteles, ib.; Pericles, ib.; decay
of, at Athens, 88; over-estimated, 265
Emperor, true meaning of the term, ii., 112
*Encombe and Eldon, ii., 76

Cyclops" of Euripides and "Caliban" of Shakspeare, com- England, her continental wars ill conducted, i., 107;
pared, 102, 105

her

resources misapplied, ib.; conduct of her public men,
325; respect for the dead shown in, 327; policy of an
alliance between her and Greece, 393; her foreign policy
condemned, 398; propositions to the court of, by Don
Ferdinand, king of Spain, and Don John-Mary-Luis,
king of Portugal, discussed by those potentates, 428;
account of his visit to, by a Chinese, ii., 118, et seq. ;
elections in, 119, 549; system of government, 567;
policy of France towards, 191, et seq.

English constitution, anomalies in the, i., 258
English General Officer, barbarous conduct of an, at Albaro,
near Genoa, 38, 43

English gentlemen, their high character, i., 188, 521
English government, under Henry VIII., i., 233, note
English labourers, their condition inferior to those of Negro
slaves, ii., 198

English ladies abroad, i., 55; adventure of one, ib.; com-
pared with the Florentines, 56