Part 36

Reformers, stories of, 96, 97.

Reign of Terror, incident during the, 40.

Religion, a subject proscribed in general society, 242; if charity were made the principle of it instead of faith, 357; two religions, the religion of amity and the religion of enmity, 365.

Renous and his caterpillars, 267.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, story related of, 174; his colors fading, 179; inquires in the Vatican for the works of Raphael, 197; critical remark of, 197; and Hogarth, 197; his portrait of Bott, alongside of Goldsmith, 200.

Richard Coeur de Lion and Saladin, 180.

Richardson, man's resemblance to a statue made to stand against a wall, 2.

Right, too rigid, hardens into wrong, 96.

Robertson, F. W., from his sermon on the Tongue, 365.

Robertson, advised against writing his history of Charles V., 148.

Robespierre, defends Franklin's lightning-rods, 203; and Frederick, 238; what was found in his desk, 256; Madame Roland to, 298.

Robinson, Henry Crabb, his partiality for the Book of Revelation, 20; how he reconciled himself to his ignorance, 29; rebuke of spiritual pride, 52; the Mahometan's heaven and the Christian's hell, 55; his opinion of Edwards' Original Sin, 56; Jeffrey's portrait, 189; at the Fountain of Arethusa, 302.

Robinson, Robert, remark of relating to the Trinity, 20; Dyer's biography of, 284.

Rochester, Lord, the last year of the life of, 236.

Rodgers, Judge, the dying Scotsman's tribute to Burns, 174.

Rogers, his care in composition, 129; his proposition to Wordsworth, 137; remark on Sydney Smith, 151; anecdote of relating to Dryden, 154; amusing incident of, 155; pretty story of a little girl, 359.

Roland, Madame, to Robespierre, 298.

Rollo, Duke of Normandy, story told of, 165.

Roman emperor, curious use of the marble head of a, 302.

Romanianus, with only a name, 262.

Rome, a bitter republican's opinion of, 307.

Roesch, on effects of occupation on the mind, 378.

Rough and Godwin, 311.

Rousseau, a saying of, 103; and Voltaire, 198; cause of his cynicism, 245; a painstaking writer, 248; fancied himself the object of all men's hatred, 259; his preaching and his practice, 268.

Rubens, a complaint of, 30.

Rulhiere, story of a Russian friend of, 77; and Madame Geoffrin, 170; guilty of only one wickedness, 375.

Ruskin to his students, 179.

Russell, Lord John, his definition of a proverb, 159.

Rutherford, Samuel, and Archbishop Usher, 357.

Saadi, the traveler and the bag of pearls, 122; description of a drink, 184; verse of the elephant-driver, 372; reply of the piece of scented clay, 373; Abraham and the old man who worshiped the fire only, 387.

Sachs, of earth and heaven, 325.

Sainte-Beuve, fastidiousness as a writer, 126.

Saint Simon, story of two sisters, 34; of the dying duchess, 75.

Saladin and Richard Coeur de Lion, 180.

Sanson, the hereditary executioner, 259.

Saurin, advice to Montesquieu, 148.

Savage, corrects a lady's judgment of Thomson, 188; tribute of Johnson to, 236; with Johnson all night in London streets, 243.

Saxe, Marshal, his terror of a cat, 244.

Scaliger, his opinion of Montaigne, 147; a peculiarity of, 244; difficulty in communicating his knowledge, 258.

Scaramouche, snuff of a thousand flowers, 300.

Scargill, of the English, Scotch and Irish, 302.

Scarron, wretchedness of, 320.

Schedone, of a painting by, 326.

Schiller, Indian Death Song, 147; Joan of Arc, Don Carlos, and Tell, 174; the scent of rotten apples a necessity to, 244; a curious fact relating to, 251.

Scott, story of a placid minister near Dundee, 50; how estimated by his neighbors, 144; failure of Waverley predicted, 148; Campbell and Hohenlinden, 150; Burns and the mouse, 150; meeting of Richard and Saladin, 180; how he discovered his talents, 191; the authorship of Old Mortality, 201; never saw Melrose Abbey by moonlight, 251; remarkable industry of, 266; a sad bit of self-portraiture, 317; a strange fact relating to the Bride of Lammermoor, 318.

Scott, General, a sculptor's story of, 173.

Seeing, limits to, 12; action of seeing outward, 12.

Selden, a remark on marriage, 240.

Selwyn, his reply on being charged with a want of feeling, 53; of vices becoming necessities, 65.

Seneca, an usurer with seven millions, 245; a maxim of, 349.

Shakespeare, Johnson's tribute to, 152.

Sharp, on the difficulty of doing good, 22.

Shelley, sighs to Leigh Hunt, 357.

Shenstone, splendid misery of, 246.

Sheridan, sarcasm upon Cumberland, 8; fastidiousness as a writer, 127; how he elaborated his wit, 129; a curious fact of, 267.

Sherlock, consolation for the shortness of life, 332.

Siddons, Mrs., confesses her ignorance, 30.

Sidney, Algernon, remark of Evelyn relating to, 189.

Silenus, of Jove and Mercury, 92.

Simonides, replies to Hiero, 31, 348; fable of the crab and the snake, 364.

Small-pox, goddess of, worshiped and burned in China, 36.

Smith, Adam, a laborious writer, 129.

Smith, Sydney, how he was cured of shyness, 15; his objection to Scotch philosophers, 93; advice to the Bishop of New Zealand, 99; the Suckling Act, 103; remark to his brother, 169; a phrenologist pronounces him a great naturalist, 188; authorship of the Plymley Letters, 201; resorted to Dante for solace, 267; on getting human beings together who ought to be together, 341.

Smollett and his dependents, 199; private character of, 245.

Socrates, reply to Menon, 6; the hardest of all trades, 25; called illiterate, 144; to his judges, 174; idolatry of, 243; timidity of, 262; a poor accountant, 263; learned music after he was seventy, 267; enlargement of a thought of, 374.

Solomon, there is no new thing, 186; his wicked son, 247; what he said of laughter, 314.

Somerset, duke of, 69.

Sophocles, considered a lunatic, 144.

Soul, purification of the, illustrated by the old coin, 388.

Southey, story of Vergara and the seventh commandment, 17; to Cottle of the meanness of an Englishman at Lisbon, 88; not ashamed of his radicalism, 104; declines the editorship of the Times, 141; unknown to his neighbors, 145; on certain famous literary works, 199; attempt to hoax Hook, 200.

Souvestre, virtue takes no pupils, 95; philosophizes on the carnival, 299; the small dwelling joy can live in, 348; awards the palm to moderation, 348; rest in an eternal childhood, 353.

Spencer, the religion of amity and the religion of enmity, 365.

Spenser, poverty of, 134; story told of, 166.

Spinoza, declines a present, 142; persecuted by the Jews, 254.

Spiritualism, very old, 182.

Stanley, Dean, story of Rutherford and Usher, 357.

Statue, doubtful sex of a, 187.

St. Bartholomew, conduct of ladies at the massacre of, 35.

Steele, one of his Tatlers referred to, 169; Miss Prue, 246; castle-builders, 330; on Christianity, 372; epitaph by, 382.

Sterling, criticises Rochefoucauld's Maxims, 2; on seeking perfect virtue, 90; there will always be errors to mourn over, 91.

Sterne, conscience not a law, 22; on the affectation of gravity, 70; an incessant corrector, 129; the sermon in Tristram Shandy, 192; the charge of plagiarism against, 259.

Story of the lady and her three lovers, 173.

St. Peter's, first view of, 196.

St. Pierre, and Paul and Virginia, 148.

Stewart, Dugald, remark of, on Bacon's Essays, 30.

Suckling and Lovelace, 266.

Sue, Eugene, a Jesuitess more to be dreaded than a Jesuit, 3.

Suetonius, of Caligula's horse, 99; how he regarded Christians, 266.

Sully, story told of, and the veiled lady, 166.

Surrey, Earl of, lines by, 326.

Swift, on men's opinions, 8; story of and four clergymen in canonicals, 172; Bolingbroke to, 214; some thoughts of, 214; anticipates his death, 214; to Bolingbroke, 246; irony and seriousness of, 312; never known to smile, 315; just religion enough to make us hate, 364.

Sydenham, poverty of, 135.

Tacitus, his opinion of the Christian religion, 266.

Taine, defines a character, 40; of Puritanism, 307.

Talfourd, and Lamb's farce of Mr. H., 273; anecdotes of Dyer, 285, 286.

Talleyrand, his reply to Madame de Stael, 172; trembled when the word death was pronounced, 244; his reply to Rulhiere, 375.

Tamerlane and the spider, 166.

Tasso, an unwearied corrector, 126; poverty of, 134; a curious fact relating to, 247; cause of his insanity, 247.

Taylor, Demosthenes, Johnson's story of, 212.

Taylor, Jeremy, arguments for humility, 14; earthen vessels better than golden chalices, 347; our trouble from within, 349; the religion of Christ, 371; those that need pity and those that refuse to pity, 376; of Abraham and the old man who worshiped the fire only, 387.

Tell, William, relating to, 175.

Temple, Sir William, of the old earl of Norwich, 297; compares life to wine, 332.

Tennyson, his care in composition, 127.

Tertullian, his mode of dissuading Christians from frequenting public spectacles, 54; ideas of justice and mercy in his day, 55.

Thackeray, the world can pry us out, but it don't care, 15; credulity of the sexes, 20; our paltry little rods to measure heaven immeasurable, 53; a reflection on marriage, 62; of the dying French duchess, 75; a reflection of, applied to Madame de Pompadour, 336; toil, the condition of life, 337.

Themistocles, Thucydides' remark on, 379.

Theophrastus, a lament of, 30; timidity of, 262.

Thompson, George, what he saw in Calcutta, 180.

Thomson, a lady's opinion of, gathered from his writings, 188; luxurious indolence of, 247.

Thoreau, on doing good, 93; goodness tainted, 94; hacking at the branches of evil, 95; personal independence of, 136.

Threshing-machines, first effect of, 203.

Thucydides, how he toiled on his history, 125; ignorance bold and knowledge reserved, 240; a remark on Themistocles, 379.

Thurlow, and his daughter, 247.

Tiberius, life of, with two title-pages, 2.

Tillotson, two wonders in heaven, 382.

Titian, how he painted, 130; colors of, compared with Reynolds', 179.

Tomochichi, would be taught before he was baptized, 101; what he thought of the colonists, 101.

Tooke, Horne, how to be powerful, 67; Beckford's speech, 252; a remark on, by Coleridge, 378.

Torquemada, and the Inquisition, 46.

Townshend, Charles, and Fitzherbert, 211.

Trench, of the fraud played off on Voltaire, 176.

Truth, as humanity knows it, 4; the difficulty of finding it, 360; it must be repeated over and over again, 361; the infinite number who persecute it, 362.

Tyndall, of the formation of icicles, 209.

Tyrian purple, 179.

Tytler, a remark by, on Raleigh's History, 135.

Value of an epithet, 110.

Vandyck, portrait of a celebrated widow by, 189.

Vanity of human judgment, 24; of the world, 240.

Vanvenargues, on curing the vices of nature, 91.

Vere, Sir Horace, what caused his death, 121.

Vespasian, a story told of, 167.

Vicar of Wakefield and the peasant, 312.

Vinci, Leonardo da, his conscientiousness as a painter, 130; anecdote of, 377.

Virgil, his care in composition, 125; what Pliny and Seneca thought of him, 144.

Virtue, of the soul, 23; takes no pupils, 95.

Voltaire, the history of human opinions, 7; upon what the fate of a nation has often depended, 8; anecdote of, 8; compares us to a river, 11; we on this globe like insects in a garden, 18; confesses his ignorance, 31; of the story of Newton and the apple, 176; the forged Veda, 176; invention of scissors, shirts, and socks, 203; Candide's supper at Venice with the six kings, 333.

Vondel, poverty of, 134.

Wallenstein, faculties of, improved by a fall, 226.

Waller, a laborious writer, 126; his opinion of Paradise Lost, 147; lines by, 355.

Walpole, Horace, compares man to a butterfly, 19; man a ridiculous animal, 20; opinion of the Divina Commedia, 145; contempt of Johnson and Goldsmith, 145; criticises Sterne, Sheridan, Spenser, Chaucer, Dante, Montaigne, Boswell, and Johnson, 146; and Strawberry Hill, 154; opinion of Lord Anson, 189; a curious fact of, 258.

Walton, Izaak, quaint passages from, relating to Hooker, 225; reply to the discontented man, 344.

Warren, Samuel, how the critics misjudged his first work, 148.

Washington, a story related by, 163; his remarkable gravity, 246.

Webster, Daniel, wrote and re-wrote his fine passages, 132; the best talker he ever heard, 246.

Weighing souls in a literal balance, 55.

Wesley, Charles, his son a papist, 254.

Wesley, John, on witchcraft, 59; and Tomochichi, 101; his belief in ghosts, 243; his quiescent turbulence, 261; his story of a parishioner who lived on boiled parsnips, 382.

White, Gilbert, effect of certain food on a bullfinch, 10; differences in flocks of sheep, 11; a strange propensity of cats, 210; peculiarity of the tortoise, 211.

Whitefield, always improving his discourses, 132; an exclamation of, 376.

Whipple, on an affectation of dignity, 67; of the mother of Thomas a Becket, 212.

Wilberforce, and Owen's scheme of reform, 92; and Wendell Phillips, 237.

Willemson, Richard, martyrdom of, 51.

Wilson, Prof., to the Ettrick Shepherd, 10; thought to be a madman in Glasgow, 145; the idea of the Noctes not his, 255; tete-a-tete with the poet Campbell, 267; contest for the professorship, 287; first lecture in the university, 288; achievements in running, leaping, etc., 289; encounter with a pugilist, 289; pedestrian feats, 290; scene in an Edinburgh street, 291; interferes at a prize-fight, 292; describes a fairy's funeral, 293; his relations with Dr. Blair, 310.

Witchcraft, Sir Matthew Hale's belief in, 57; Sir Thomas Browne's opinion of, 57; terrible punishment of, 57; John Wesley's belief in, 59; Richard Baxter a believer in, 59; a passage from Lowell on, 61.

Wither, George, wrote his Shepherd's Hunting in prison, 136.

Wolsey, credulity of, 224.

Woman, characterized by Burns, 3; reply of a good, 377.

Woodworth and his famous song, 248.

Woolman, John, eulogium upon, and passage from, 370.

Wordsworth, his care in composition, 128; his reply to Rogers, 137; Tobin's advice to, 148; origin of the Ancient Mariner, 149; thought to be a fool by some of his neighbors, 155; his defense of the church, and his opinion of the clergy, 257; his man-servant James, 351; lines by, 352; what he said of Mrs. Barbauld's stanza on Life, 356.

World, the, 19; on reforming it, 90; it cannot keep quiet, 109.

Wotton, Sir Henry, his reply to a bigot, 372.

Wycherley, on reproving faults, 364.

Ximenes, Cardinal, a story told of, 167.

York minster, not appreciated by Coleridge, 196.

Youatt, differences in flocks of sheep, 11.

Young, Mr., the prototype of Parson Adams, 285.

Young, an incident of Swift, related by, 214; gayety of, 245.

Young, Dean, passages from his sermons, 366, 372.

Zeal, a violent, that we must correct, 363.

Zenobia, temple of, idealized by La Bruyere, 219.