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v. 164;
horizontal and angular, v. 164; grandeur of, consists in simplicity with variation, iv. 247; curved, iv. 263; apparent proportion in, ii. 61; all doubtful, rejected in armorial bearings, iii. 200.
Literature, greatest not produced by religious temper, v. 205; classical, the school of taste or restraint, v. 242; spasmodic, v. 242; world of, divided into thinkers and seers, iii. 262; modern temper of, iii. 252, 261-263; reputation of, on what dependent (error transitory) i. 1, 2.
Locke, quoted (hard to see well), i. 51, 67.
Love, a noble emotion, iii. 10; color a type of, v. 320 (note); source of unity, ii. 50; as connected with vital beauty, ii. 89; perception quickened by, i. 52; want of, in some of the old landscape painters, i. 77; finish proceeding from, i. 84; nothing drawn rightly with out, iv. 33; of brightness in English cottages, iv. 320; of horror, iv. 328; characteristic of all great men, ii. 90; higher than reason, ii. 114; ideal form, only to be reached by, ii. 121; loveliest things wrought through, ii. 131, v. 348; good work only done for, v. 346-348; and trust the nourishment of man's soul, v. 348.
Lowell, quotation from, v. 347.
Lowlander, proud of his lowlands (farmer in "Alton Locke"), iii. 182.
Magnitude, relation of, to minuteness, v. 175-177; love of mere size, v. 176; influence of, on different minds, v. 177.
Man, his use and function, ii. 4; his business in the world, iii. 44, v. 1; three orders of, iii. 286; characteristics of a great, iii. 260; perfection of threefold, v. 326; vital beauty in, ii. 111-131; present and former character of, iii. 149-151; intelligibility necessary to a great, iv. 74; adaptation of plants to needs of, v. 2, 3; influence of scenery on, v. 133-135; lessons learnt by, from natural beauty, v. 146; result of unbelief in, v. 345; how to get noblest work out of, v. 346-348; love and trust necessary to development of, v. 347; divided into five classes, v. 159-162; how to perceive a noble spirit in, iv. 18; when intemperate, ii. 13; pursuits of, how divided, ii. 8, v. 159-162; life of, the rose and cankerworm, v. 324, 332; not intended to be satisfied by earthly beauty, i. 204, iv. 131; his happiness, how constituted, iii. 303, v. 327-330; his idea of finish, iii. 113; society necessary to the development of, ii. 116; noblest tone and reach of life of, v. 331.
Marble, domestic use of, iv. 370; fitted for sculpture, iv. 127; colors of, iv. 140.
Mediæval, ages compared with modern, iii. 250; not "dark," iii. 252; mind, how opposed to Greek, iii. 193; faith, life the expression of man's delight in God's work, iii. 217; admiration of human beauty, iii. 197; knights, iii. 192-195; feeling respecting mountains, iii. 192, 196, 229, iv. 377; want of gratitude, iii. 193; sentimental enjoyment of nature, iii. 192; dread of thick foliage, iii. 213; love for color, iii. 219, 220; dislike of rugged stone, iv. 301; love of cities, v. 4; love of gardens, iii. 191; love of symmetry, iii. 199; neglect of earth's beauty, v. 5, iii. 146; love of definition, iii. 209; idea of education, v. 5; landscape, the fields, iii. 191-228; the rocks, iii. 229-247.
Mica, characteristics of, iv. 105; connected with chlorite, iv. 113; use of the word, iv. 114; flake of, typical of strength in weakness, iv. 239.
Michelet, "L'Insecte," quoted on magnitude, v. 176.
Middle Ages, spirit of the, iii. 151; deficiency in Shakspere's conception of, iv. 364-368; baronial life in the, iii. 192, 195; neglect of agriculture in, iii. 192; made earth a great battlefield, v. 5. See Mediæval.
Mill, J. S., "On Liberty," v. 174.
Milton, characteristics of, ii. 144, iii. 285, 296; his use of the term "expanse," iv. 83; and Dante's descriptions, comparison between, ii. 163, iii. 209; misuse of the term "enamelled" by, iii. 223; instances of "imagination," ii. 144.
Mind, independence of, ii. 191; visibleoperation of, on the body, ii. 113.
Minuteness, value of, v. 175-177; influence of, on different minds, v. 177. See Magnitude.
Mist, of what typical, iv. 70; Copley Fielding's love of, iv. 75.
Mistakes, great, chiefly due to pride, iv. 50.
Moderation, value of, ii. 84.
Modern age, characteristics of, iii. 251, 254, 264, 276; costume, ugliness of, iii. 255, v. 273 (note); romance of the past, iii. 255; criticism, iv. 389; landscape, i. 424, ii. 159, iii. 248; mind, pathetic fallacy characteristic of, iii. 168.
Moisture, expressed by fulness of color, iv. 245.
Moss, colors of, iv. 130, v. 99; beauty and endurance of, v. 100.
Mountaineer, false theatrical idea of, iv. 321; regarded as a term of reproach by Dante, iii. 241; same by Shakspere, iv. 371; his dislike of his country, iii. 182; hardship of, iv. 335; his life of, "gloom," iv. 320.
Mountains (see also Banks, Crests, Débris, &c.), uses and functions of,