Part 35

Goethe, confesses his ignorance, 29; reason can never be popular, 62; anecdote of Merck and the grand duke, 89; to know how cherries and strawberries taste, 90; a fortunate mistake of, 92; nature, 103; giving advice, 104; aristocracy and democracy, 104; the world cannot keep quiet, 109; his works commercially, 133; objections to luxurious furniture, 137; of Dante's great poem, 147; advised against writing Faust, 148; genius of Shakespeare, 152; influence of Voltaire, 153; a staff officer's opinion of, 155; first impression of Switzerland, 195; critical remark of, 198; on a peculiarity of Schiller, 244; disparaged himself as a poet, 261; pleasant dreams after falling asleep in tears, 318; compares life to a residence at a watering-place, 332; the simplicity of the world, 347; arrogance natural to youth, 352; remark of at the age of seventy-five, 355; truth and error, 361; of a Christianity of feeling and action, 366.

Goldsmith, of the vanity of human judgment, 24; ten years composing the Traveller, 129; to Bob Bryanton, 135; proud reply to Hawkins, 139; reply to Dr. Scott, 139; criticises Waller, Pope, and Milton, 145; opinion of Tristram Shandy, 147; his street ballads, 156; a saying of credited to Talleyrand, 172; relations with Bott, the barrister, 200; friendship and jealousy, 240; as a talker and as a writer, 244; Goody Two Shoes, 268; at the British Coffee House, 270; first acting of She Stoops to Conquer, 270; conduct during, 271.

Goodness tainted, 94.

Gordianus, epitaph of, 263.

Grammont, Count, on Sir John Denham, 235.

Gray, twenty years touching up his Elegy, 126; criticises Thomson and Akenside, 145; diffidence and fastidiousness of, 238; his Elegy not intended for the public, 258.

Greene, Peele, and Marlowe, 249.

Grimaldi, devouring melancholy of, 315.

Groenvelt, Dr., persecution of, 201.

Guerin, Eugenie de, her story of the poor shepherdess, 345.

Guerin, Maurice de, on a solitary life, 342.

Guido, and the portrait of Beatrice Cenci, 313.

Guizot, declines a title, 141.

Hadrian's villa, 217.

Hale, Sir Matthew, criticised by Charles II., 3; unpublished writings of, 194; trials before for witchcraft, 224; influenced by Jeffreys, 247.

Hall, Robert, sought relief in Dante, 267.

Hallam, his opinion of Hooker, 225.

Hammond, Elton, 278.

Haendel, blindness of, 228; his hallelujahs open the heavens, 229.

Harrington, imprisonment of, 135; man a religious creature, 368.

Harvey, effects of his discovery, 147, 301.

Hawthorne, on men who surrender themselves to an overruling power, 97; on special reformers, 98; distinction between a philanthropic man and a philanthropist, 113; Byron and Burns, 153; of the Scarlet Letter, 188; statement relating to the Mayflower, 241; of artists who have painted their own portraits, 377.

Haydn, a story told of, 175.

Hayward, passages from, 164, 165, 174.

Hazlitt, his violence at times, 36; legend of a Brahman turned into a monkey, 48; of two pictures by Northcote, 190; of Coleridge and John Chester, 211; the poet Gray, 238; every man an exception, 240; strange facts about, 263; opinion of Mary Lamb, 267; of Garrick, 297; wanting one thing, he wanted everything, 325; on aiming at too much, 337; on keeping in our own walk in life, 347; life, at the beginning and the end, 352.

Heart, insensibility of the, 242.

Heine, pleads for the negro king, 27; of Luther, 47; when he would forgive his enemies, 53; tribute to Goethe, 153; ignorance of doctors, 208; of the leper-poet, 318; a paralytic, 320; fame nauseous to, 331.

Helps, Arthur, the nature of man, 33; you never know enough about a man to condemn him, 39; the art of life, 341; dialogue on toleration and charity, 383.

Helvetius, of the passions, 46; advice to Montesquieu, 148.

Henderson, faculty of getting words by heart, 125.

Henry VI. of France, a story of, 171.

Henry, Patrick, his last speech, 264.

Hercules, a diminutive figure of, 178.

Herder, advice to Goethe, 148.

Herrick, a painstaking elaborator, 129.

Hiero, questions Simonides, 31, 348.

Hildebrand, Pope, fate of, 223.

Hill, Dr., and Hannah Glass, 268.

Hillard, on Hadrian's villa, 217.

History and fiction, 164.

Hogarth, relating to the sale of certain pictures, 192; his estimate of Reynolds, 198; impressions as to his true vocation, 258.

Hogg, his neighbors thought him no poet, 145.

Holbein, German engraving in the manner of, 326.

Hood, origin of the Song of the Shirt, 149; what delighted him, 155; a victim of distress and melancholy, 321; anecdotes of, 321; lines on his dead child, 322; passages from letters to little children, 322, 323.

Hook, attempt of Southey to hoax, 200.

Hooker, circumstances of his marriage, 224; character of, by Izaak Walton, 225.

Home, Sweet Home, 205.

Homer, called a plagiarist, 144; effect of his character and genius, 162.

Horace, a laborious writer, 125; passage from, 302.

Howard, John, humanity of, 229; and solitary confinement, 260.

Howe, John, his method of conducting public fasts, 37.

Huber, Francois, blindness of, 259.

Human things compared to icebergs, 109.

Humboldt, credits the Chinese with magnetic carriages, 181.

Hume, his care in composition, 126; his history slow of sale at first, 133; advice to Robertson, 148.

Humility illustrated by the rain-drop, 344.

Hunt, Leigh, tribute to Haendel, 228; on pseudo-Christianity, 364; remark on Lamb, 383.

Hyacinthe, the church of the future, 366.

Hypocrite, profession of, 71.

Ice, curious facts relating to, 210.

Iceland, the best building in, 241.

Icicles, formation of, 209.

Ideas, the few great, remain about the same, 157.

Ignorance, 17, 18, 19, 20, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 240, 352.

Incledon, stories of Garrick and Foote, 77.

Indian cazique, story of, 101.

Intellectual chemistry, 42.

Invective, a primitive Quaker's, 44.

Ireland, baptisms in, 37.

Irving, on the habit of criticising government, 25; small returns from his writings, 133; an observation on Goldsmith, 187; modesty and diffidence of, 239; called a vagabond by a neighbor, 239; stealing his own apples, 239; of elaborating humor, 316; circumstances under which he composed the History of New York, 319.

Isocrates, timidity of, 262.

Jameson, Mrs., a story related by, 172.

Java, flowers, fruits, and trees of, 301.

Jeffreys, portrait and conduct of, 189; influence over Sir Matthew Hale, 247.

Jenner, persecution of, 202.

Jenyns, described by Cumberland, 236.

Jerome, St., legend of St. John recorded by, 359.

Jerrold, Douglas, his dislike of the theatre behind the scenes, 1; of the practical benevolence of a London tradesman, 81; ambitious to write a treatise on philosophy, 261; the Caudle Lectures, 316.

Jews, curious persecution of the, 203.

Joan of Arc, Shakespeare's and Schiller's, 174.

Johnson, reply to Boswell as to the indecency of a statue, 1; his opinion of remarks by Orrery and Delany on Swift, 2; his hatred of baby-talk, 50; a remark on marriage, 62; opinion of feeling people, 98; opinion of levelers, 105; Life of, at first slow of sale, 133; Cumberland on, 142; how he was once made happy, 143; opinion of Milton's sonnets, 146; criticises Swift, Gray, and Sterne, 146; opinion of Lycidas, 147; a neglect of the great, 151; of Shakespeare, 152; Dr. Campbell's estimate of, 153; remark to Mrs. Macaulay, 168; version of Pope's Messiah, 176; reviewer's remark on, 190; painter's confession to, 199; of Demosthenes Taylor, 212; tribute to Savage, 236; poverty and companionships of, 243; belief in ghosts, 243; a peculiarity of, 244; a famous speech of Pitt, 248; speeches of Chesterfield, 248; collected sermons, 248; a number of the Rambler, 248; Ramblers written rapidly, 248; confidence in Psalmanazar, 250; bigotry of, 257; learned Dutch after he was seventy, 267; first acting of Goldsmith's comedy, 270; melancholy of, 316; of Pope and his writings, 317; of Young and his writings, 317; of the Christian religion, 370.

Jones, Paul, and Thomson's Seasons, 261.

Joubert, a thought of, 1; his habit as a writer, 127.

Journalism, impersonal, 241.

Judkins, Juke, reminiscences of, 81.

Junius, warns the king, 298.

Jupiter and Cupid, 296; imaginary proclamation by, 374.

Kane, Dr., curious experience with the Esquimaux, 102; of frost in the Arctic region, 301.

Kant, a curious fact of, 251.

Kean, Edmund, wretchedness of his early life, 124; how he studied and slaved, 131.

Kemble, John, reply to Northcote, 15; as to his new readings of Hamlet, 131.

Kempis, Thomas a, of simplicity and purity, 345; of charity and humility, 372; of amending our own faults, 374.

King, Dr., on toleration, 383.

Kinglake, care in the composition of Eothen, 128.

Kingsley, Charles, of his father, 151.

Kneller, Sir Godfrey, remark to a sitter, 13.

Knives and forks, ridiculed by Ben Jonson and Beaumont and Fletcher, 202.

Knowledge reserved, 240.

Kotzebue, relating to, 257.

Labor, life's blessing, 121.

La Bruyere, of judging men, 2; of diversity, 6; some thoughts of, 24; on the mixture of good and evil, 73; eloquent passage of, 219.

La Fontaine, always copying and recopying, 126; dull and stupid in conversation, 260.

Lais, the courtezan, saying of, 41.

Lamartine, a strange statement relating to, 256.

Lamb, remark on covetousness, 73; dissection of meanness, 81; anecdote of George Dyer, 88; doing good by stealth, 89; story of an India-house clerk, 100; care in composition, 127; anecdote of, 134; criticises Faust, 146; tribute to Manning, 150; essay on the Origin of Roast Pig, 169; could spit upon Howard's statue, 260; first acting of Mr. H., 272; hopeful letter to Manning, 273; hisses his own bantling, 274; another letter to Manning, not so hopeful, 275; poor Elia, 275; constitutional melancholy of, 316.

Lamb, Mary, Hazlitt's estimate of, 267.

Landor, eyes of critics on one side, 4; of Shakespeare and Milton, 152; of Cromwell and Milton, 152; of the estimation of the great by their contemporaries, 153; of Swift, Addison, Rabelais, La Fontaine and Pascal, 315; of Aspasia and Pericles, 347; the falsehood of life, 364; of looking down on ourselves, 372.

Lansdowne, phrenologist's judgment of, 188.

Lardner, curious facts of, 266.

La Rochefoucauld, his Maxims criticised by Sterling, 2; reference to his Maxims, 12; care in composition, 129; an unselfish, brave, humane man, 234.

Last Rose of Summer, 204.

Latimer, Tenterden-Steeple and Goodwin Sands, 18.

Laud, cruelty of, 363.

Lavater, judgment of Lord Anson, 189; duped by Cagliostro, 258.

Lay, Benjamin, an enthusiast, anecdote of, 367.

Layard, nature breaking out in a party of Arabs, 48; engravings on Nineveh, 178; lens found in Nineveh, 181; tradition of Nimrod and the gnat, 302.

Lecky, witchcraft in England, 56; opinion of Hooker, 225; great and multiform influences of Christian philanthropy, 372.

Legends and parables: a Brahman turned into a monkey, 49; Moses and the dwellers by the Dead Sea, 49; the redbreast, and how it was singed, 55; the man in the moon, 79; man and woman in the moon, 79; Gertrud bird, the woodpecker, 79; the Wandering Jew, 80; the Brahman and the three rogues, 296; Og, a king of Bashan, 298; Nimrod and the gnat, 302; Gabriel and the idol-worshiper, 346; St. John in the arms of his disciples, 359; blind men and the elephant, 379; St. Brendan and Judas Iscariot, 387; Abraham and the old man who worshiped the fire only, 388.

Leighton, a clergyman, persecution of, 363.

Le Notre and Louis XIV., 167.

Le Sage, poverty of, 134.

Leslie, anecdote of Owen and Wilberforce, 92.

Lessing, the restless instinct for truth, 32.

Levelers, remark of Johnson on, 105.

Life, every year of a wise man's, 8; a series of surprises, 24; knowledge of, 353; beginning and end of, 353; stanza on, 356.

Lilli Burlero, ballad of, 204.

Lilliput, the mighty emperor of, 28.

Lincoln, his dislike of being preached to, 94; how he earned his first dollar, 122; idea the slaves had of him, 314; the reason he gave for not uniting himself to any church, 386.

Linnaeus, curious facts relating to, 235.

Liston, a confirmed hypochondriac, 315.

Livingstone, exclamation of Sekwebu at seeing the sea, 19; tribe of good Africans, 102.

Livy, on curing public evils, 26.

Llandaff, Bishop of, anecdote of, 121.

Lloyd, his remedy for madness, 267.

Locke, of the king of Siam, 101.

Lockhart, wrote the first of the Noctes papers, 255.

Longfellow, lines from Hiawatha, 299.

Lovelace and Suckling, 266.

Lowell, definition of common sense, 7; Montaigne and Shakespeare, 12; witchcraft, 61.

Lucian, a pretty passage in one of his dialogues, 296.

Lucretius, his one poem, 125.

Luther, a violent saint sometimes, 45; what Heine said of him, 47; what he said of himself, 47; and the devil, 204; believed in ghosts, 243; relations with Erasmus, 308; opinion of Erasmus, 309; with Melancthon in the pulpit, 310.

Mabillon, a genius by an accident, 226.

Macaulay, conduct of a nephew of, 25; a laborious writer, 129; Machiavelli, 233; Byron, 298; times of Cromwell and Charles II., 304, 305, 306; ethics of Charles II.; hanging of Aikenhead, 362.

Machiavelli, of judging by appearances, 71; a zealous republican, 233; curious facts relating to, 233.

Mackenzie, Henry, his advice to Burns, 145; a hard-headed, practical man, 255.

Mackenzie, Sir George, an advocate of solitude, 244.

Mahagam, ruins of, 222.

Mahomet, turns a misfortune to advantage, 66.

Maintenon, Madame de, to her niece, 336.

Maistre, Xavier de, on self-love, 12; of people fancying themselves ill, 76.

Malherbe, how he composed 126; anecdotes of, 126.

Mallet, a curious fact relating to, 256.

Man, like a certain statue, 2; like a bit of Labrador spar, 3; a noble animal, 3; his own chiefest flatterer, 13; most apt to believe what he least understands, 17; lives blindly, 23; tries to pass for more than he is, 27; a terrible Voltaic pile, 33; some devil and some God in him, 42; who succeeds, 46; a curious object for microscopic study, 63; a natural reformer, 90; persuadability of, 103; when he is powerful, 105; the fittest place where he can die, 120; when he becomes conscious of a higher self, 355; naturally religious, 368.

Mandeville, an observation by, 346.

Man-mending, mania of, 103.

Marat, kept doves, 99.

Marlborough, avarice of, 264; meanness of, 264.

Marlowe, Peele, and Greene, 249.

Marseillaise, origin of the, 205.

Marvell, pride and independence of, 139.

Mather, Cotton, epithets he applied to the Quakers, 44; account of the trial of Mary Johnson for witchcraft, 58; the panic he created in New England, 60.

Mathews, curious anecdote by, 207.

Mayflower, a slave-ship, 241.

Meanness, a study and an analysis of, 81.

Medhurst, Chinese opinions of Christians reported by, 101.

Melancthon, approved of the burning of Servetus, 258; with Luther in the pulpit, 310.

Melmoth, on thinking authors, 158.

Menander, proverb from, quoted by St. Paul, 160.

Mencius, on the disease of men, 95.

Merck, and the Grand Duke, 89.

Mercury and Jove, 92.

Mesmerism, very old, 183.

Meyer, curious fact related by, 302.

Michelet, his horror of the sea, 252.

Middleton, stories of Cicero, 16, 215.

Migne, Abbe, curious cruelties referred to by, 99.

Milan cathedral, 196.

Mill, curious omission of, 266.

Miller, strange fact relating to, 267.

Mills of God, 107.

Milton, his care in composition, 126; and Paradise Lost, 147; De Quincey's estimate of, 152; of lyric and epic poets, 348.

Mirabeau, ugliness and attractiveness of, 259; his distrust of popular applause, 297.

Miser, characterized by Colton, 72; a saying of Foote, 72; effect of his hoarding habits illustrated, 73; an observation of Lamb, 73.

Misfortunes never come singly, 299.

Moliere, on the profession of hypocrite, 71; his slowness as a writer, 127; used one of his servants as critic, 149; a grave and silent man, 316.

Money-getter analyzed, 71, 72.

Monod, of the conduct of certain missionaries, 56.

Montagu, Basil, prejudice, the spider of the mind, 376.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, of the Duchess of Marlborough, 34; her criticism of women, 34; obloquy she endured, 201.

Montaigne, difference in opinions, 5; of laws and events, 6; action of seeing outward, 12; a pattern within ourselves, 22; the virtue of the soul, 23; curing public evils, 25; conduct of lecturers in the courts of philosophy, 41; nature starting up, 47; how estimated by his neighbors, 154; faith in physicians, 208; the fairest lives, in his opinion, 346; the thoughts and actions of man, 375; on distrusting our own judgments, 382.

Montespan, Madame de, to Madame de Maintenon, 34; rigorous devotion of, 268.

Montesquieu, a laborious writer, 125.

Moore, the lady and the second volume of the Life of Byron, by, 54; seventy lines a week's work for, 128; pride and independence of, 140; story of the jeweled lady, 165; trick of Father Prout at the expense of, 176; of Scott and Waverley, 191; and the opera of Tarare, 221; and Lalla Rookh, 251; of the authorship of the Junius letters, 257; statement relating to Sheridan, 267.

More, Hannah, her opinion of Milton's sonnets, 146.

More, Sir Thomas, a fierce persecutor, 245;

Morris, Robert, imprisoned for debt, 256.

Mosheim, a sentence from an old album, 347.

Mother Goose's Melodies, 206.

Motley, effects of the gout of Charles V., 8; Luther when angry, 47; Radbod and Bishop Wolfran, 100; the Netherlands, 107; long live the beggars! 110; Erasmus and Luther, 308.

Mozart, declaration of, 30; his estimate of Haendel, 228.

Mueller, Max, of children's fables, 160; when a man becomes conscious of a higher self, 355; of Christianity, 370.

Nanac, the holy, and the Moslem priest, 368.

Napoleon, what he said of Corneille, 153; a thing that puzzled him, 170; and Madame de Stael, 253; his fondness for Ossian, 261; remark to Bourienne, 297.

Nature, goes her own way, 103.

Neander, and Plutarch's Pedagogue, 265.

Nero, sensitive to poetry and music, 33.

Netherlands, the, Motley's description of, 107.

Newton, Sir Isaac, confesses his ignorance, 30; his character illustrated, 105, 106, 107; neglected as a lecturer, 133; the story of the falling apple, 176; a poor accountant, 263; as a poet, 264.

Newton, John, to the woman in prison, 55.

Nicholls, a sensual clergyman, 43.

Nimrod and the gnat, 302.

Nollekens and the widow, 9.

Norris, John, self-love, 13; our passions, 47.

Northcote, and the pedantic coxcomb, 1; blaming himself to Kemble, 15; of two of his pictures, 190; of the conceited painter in the Sistine Chapel, 197.

Olaf's mode of converting Eyvind, 52.

Old Hundred, 204.

Old Oaken Bucket, 248.

Opinions, no two alike, 5; human, the history of, 7; bundles of contradictions, 8; of the same men at different times, 8.

Orrery, Lord, story of Swift, 170.

Owen, Robert, reply to Wilberforce, on putting off the happiness of mankind, 92.

Oyster-eating, first act of, 169.

Paley, what he thought of Tristram Shandy, 147.

Palgrave, anecdotes of Abd-el-Lateef, 383.

Panis, devoted to pheasants, 99.

Pantisocracy, Coleridge's Utopia, 102.

Paracelsus, persecution of, 201.

Paradise and Paris, 308.

Paradise Lost, slow sale of, 133.

Park, Mungo, and the sable chief, 27.

Pascal, of vanity, 13; on our love of wearing disguises, 66; maxims of conduct, 159; twenty days perfecting one letter, 126; vanity of the world, 240; Solomon and Job on human misery, 337; the present never the mark of our designs, 339; a great advantage of rank, 353; remark on the ambition of Caesar, 353; the two extremities of knowledge, 354; maxims and first principles subject to revolution, 360; the choice of a profession, 377.

Paul, St., effects of his preaching at Ephesus, 362.

Paul, Jean, a curious fact about sheep, 296; his comic romance, Nicholas Margraf, 318.

Paul and Virginia, pronounced a failure, 148; origin of an English translation of, 248.

Payne, and Home, Sweet Home, 205.

Peele, Greene, and Marlowe, 249.

Penn, a curious statement relating to, 257.

Pepys, his opinion of Hudibras, 146; the poor widow in Holland, 325.

Pericles and Aspasia, 41.

Persian, passage from the, 344.

Persius, chastity and modesty of, 261.

Peruvian bark, an invention of the devil, 201.

Peterborough, of Fenelon, 373.

Petrarch, his sonnets, 190; despised Dante, 199; a curious fact of, 253; an exclamation of, 355.

Petrified trees in the Andes, 108.

Phaedrus, apologue of the two sacks, 374.

Phidias, his reported service to Pericles, 41; his sitting statue of Jupiter, 261.

Philanthropic man, a, not a philanthropist, 113.

Philanthropists, malicious, anecdotes of, 96, 97.

Philanthropy, traders in, wrong in head or heart, 97.

Philip III. and Don Quixote, 314.

Phillips, Wendell, on borrowing in literature, 162; on the lost arts, 177; curious statements relating to, 237.

Philosophy, molecular, 6.

Pitt, authorship of a famous speech of, 248.

Plague, curious superstitions as to the cause of the, 203.

Plato, evidence of great care in the composition of his Republic, 125; accused of envy, lying, etc., 144; timidity of, 262.

Playfair, a strange fact of, 258.

Plays of the stage and of literature, 207.

Pliny, opinion of the Christian religion, 266; questions nature, 337; a custom of the Thracians, 339.

Plutarch, of self-love, 13; without a biography, 262; strange omission of, 265; learned Latin after he was seventy, 267; on the universality of religion, 368.

Poe, of God and the soul, 32; and the Swedenborgians, 188; the grand duke of Weimar's criticism of the Raven, 317; lines by, 329; what he thought a strong argument for the religion of Christ, 359.

Pompadour, Madame de, and Cardinal Bernis, 268; her life an improbable romance, 336.

Pompey, career and end of, 222.

Pontifical army, soldiers of the, 241.

Pope, of every year of a wise man's life, 8; opinion of Newton, 107; an unwearied corrector, 126; tradition of at Twickenham, 154; anecdote of, 168; Johnson's Latin version of his Messiah, 176; and Gay and Arbuthnot, fate of a joint play of, 255; timidity of, 262.

Poussin, reply to a person of rank, 121; story told of, 175; reply to Cardinal Mancini, 349.

Poverty, fine horror of, 73; and parts, 121; necessary to success 121; amusing evidence of, 124.

Prayer, the, said to have been in use by the Jews for four thousand years, 185.

Preaching, remarks of Thoreau on, 94; Lincoln's horror of being preached to, 94; virtue takes no pupils, 95.

Presbyterian Holdenough and Episcopalian Rochecliffe, 366.

Prescott, of the Aztec priests, 33; a statement of, 240.

Procter, of Lamb's tragedy, 272.

Protogenes, and Apelles, 171.

Prout, Father, and Moore, 176.

Psalmanazar and Johnson, 250.

Public opinion, 71, 361.

Publius Syrus, sayings of, 48, 158, 226.

Puritanism in New England, 36.

Pyramids, story of the erection of one of them, 253.

Pythagoras, a curious statement relating to, 250.

Rabelais, a strange fact relating to, 190; knew Rome, 308.

Racine and Louis XIV., 134.

Radbod, at the baptismal font, 100; declines the Christian's heaven, 100.

Radcliffe, Mrs., an interesting fact of, 255.

Railroads and rain, 209.

Raleigh, Sir Walter, 135.

Randolph, John, his first public speech, 264.

Raphael, story of and Michel Angelo, 171; his Transfiguration, 197.

Rawlinson, the stone he brought from Nineveh, 179.

Recamier, Madame, and Madame de Stael, 172; sits and muses on the shore of the ocean, 336.