IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS.
N.B. The sign prefixed intimates that the names following are those of the Interlocutors in a "Conversation."
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 Esop 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; dus- 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
Anacreon and Polycrates, i., 270
Anachronisins, 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 *Arab Chieftain and Marshal Bugeaud, ii., 242 *Archbishop of Paris and Talleyrand, ii., 237 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 his definition of happiness, i., 6 and note; com- Rouen, 38; the barbarity of an English General Officer, 43; parison between him and Alexander, 28; remarks on his the death of an English Officer, ib.; Sir Humphrey Hard- style, 220, 221, 451, 461; ill-treated by Alexander, 226, castle, 45; Mr. George Nelly, 47; the defective adminis- 232; his " "Polity" compared with Plato's scheme of tration of justice in Tuscany, 52, 63 and note; St. Isidore, government, 231 and note; his influence in Greece, ii., 220 b. a young Englishwoman in Italy, 55; Benedetto Sant- Armour, defensive, its use in war considered, i., 183 Anna, 57; the sanctification of Labre, ib. ; the Marchese Arts, the, influence of Freedom on, ii. 56 Riccardi's reliquary, 58; an Italian Peasant, 65; Ana-Ascham Roger and Lady Jane Gray, i., 135 destatos, the Athenian Orator, 88; the consecrated Ashbourne, the village of, 572, 573, note lamp. 111; Father Onesimo Sozzifante and Mr. Har- Athens, her ancient excellence, i., 42; her resuscitation bottle, 117; Giacomo Pastrani and his picture, 118; retarded, ib.; condition of, in the time of Pericles, 145, Auco-Mazzio's image of the Virgin, ib.; Angiolina Cecci, et seq.; of Aristoteles, 229; description of a procession 119: Ebenezer Bullock and his son Jonas, 131; the sailor at, 147 and the Lord Chancellor, 134; old lady and the hemlock, Athenian people, their levity, ii., 186 139; the itinerant preacher, 140; Don Britomarte Austria, Emperor of, claim of precedence for, i., 1, note Delciego, 143; Chloros, 147; the Duke of Marlborough's *Ava, King of, and Rao-Gong-Fao, i., 490 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 Scioppius, 235; Fœdirupa and Gentius, 242; Aquilius
Bacon, Lord, and Richard Hooker, i., 136
, comparison between, and Shakspeare, i., 15
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