ADAMS, JOHN, 187.
Addison, Joseph, 4.
Aikin, Dr., 273–276.
Allston, Washington, 316.
Anne, Queen, the times of, 1-3.
Austen, Jane, her life and per-
sonality, 265-267; opinions of
Walter Scott, Macaulay, and
Miss Mitford concerning, 266,

267;
her Pride and Prejudice,
268; Persuasion and North-
anger Abbey, 268, 269; her
qualities, 270, 271; burial-
place, 270.

Austen, Lady, and William
Cowper, 246, 247.

BARBAULD, MRS., 273-276.
Beauclerk, Topham, 114-116.
Beckford William, and his
Vathek, 285-291.
Bentley, Richard, his Siris: A

chain of Philosophical Re-
flections and Inquiries con-
cerning the Virtues of Tar-
water, 9; writes on the Epis-
tles of Phalaris, 9-11; his
family, 10; portrait of, 10,
11; as a writer and as a man,
11, 12.

Berkeley, George, his Theory
of Vision, 4; his career, 4-9;
his verse, 5; his sermons, 6;
The Minute Philosopher, 7;
his family, 7; his philosophy,
9.

Blair, Hugh, 230.
Blounts, Alexander Pope and
the, 34.

Boswell, James, and his Life of
Dr. Johnson, 118-122.
Boufflers, Madame de, and David
Hume, 150.

Burke, Edmund, 112, 113; his
words concerning Beauclerk's
widow, 115; his burial-place,
145.

Burney, Frances, and Dr. John-
son, 138, 142, 164, 165; her
stories, 165; Evelina, 165–168;
Camilla, 168; her Diary, 168-
169; last years, 170, 171.
Burns, Robert, his poetry, 291;
his career, 292–297; his death,
298, 301; compared with
Samuel Rogers, 302, 303.

Camilla, Miss Burney's, 170.
Carlyle, Thomas, his words con-
cerning Coleridge, 318.

Castle of Otranto, The, Wal-
pole's, 84.

Chatterton, Thomas, the young
poet, 202-205; his end, 205,
206, 209; and Horace Wal-
pole, 206-209; the Rowley
Poems, 207, 208; compared
with Poe, 210.
Chesterfield, Lord, and Dr.
Johnson, 97, 98.

Children of the Abbey, Miss

Roche's, 282, 283.
Christabel, Coleridge's, 317, 318.
Coach, the Venetian, 3.
Calebs, Hannah More's, 175, 176.
Coleridge, S. T., 298, 299; his
life, 309-317; Lamb's apos-
trophe to, 310; and Southey,
311, 312; and Wordsworth,
313; his Ancient Mariner,
314, and Washington Allston,
316; his opium habit, 316,
317; his Christabel, 317; Car-
lyle's words concerning, 318;
his death, 318.
Collins, William, 160-163; his
Ode to Evening, 163, 180.
Coverley, Sir Roger de, 2.
Cowper, William, his family
and education, 239, 240; his
love affair, 240; mental trou-
ble, 241, 242; and Mrs. Un-
win, 243-245, and Rev. John
Newton, 245; John Gilpin's
Ride, 245, 246, and Lady
Austen, 246; The Task, 246,
247; on American affairs, 248;
later life, 249-253; his Homer,
250, 251; his place as a poet,
254-256.

Crabbe, George, compared with
Pope, 232, 233; his birth and

early work, 233-235; private
chaplain to the Duke of Rut-
land, 235, 236; his life and
character, 237, 238.
Curchod, Mademoiselle, after-
ward Madame Necker, 123.

DAY, THOMAS, and Sandford

and Merton, 271–273.
Decline and Fall of the Roman
Empire, Gibbons's History
of, 125, 127, 130.

EDGEWORTH, MARIA, 277–281.
Ernest, Augustus, Duke of
Brunswick, 57.

Evelina, Miss Burney's, 165–168.
Evenings at Home, by Dr. Aikin
and Mrs. Barbauld, 273-276.

FERGUSON, ROBERT, 229.
Fielding, Henry, his coarse-
ness, 67, 68; his character
and ancestry, 68; his school-
ing, 69; his dramatic work,
69, 70; his Joseph Andrews,
Amelia, and Tom Jones, 71,
72; his marriage, 70, 71; his
death, 72.

Fox, Charles James, 188-192.
Franklin, Benjamin, and Miss

Burney, 166; his words con-
cerning George III., 184.
Freeman, Edward, his words
concerning Gibbon, 128.

GARRICK, DAVID, at Dr. John-
son's school, 91, 92; as a boy,
116; a member of the "Lit-
erary Club," 116; as an actor,
117, 118; his death, 138;
Hannah More and, 173, 174.

George I., ancestry, 57; comes
to England, 58; his charac-
ter, 58; his wife, 58, 59.
George II., 59-61; his reign, 61.
George III., character and per-
sonality of, 181-187.
Gibbon, Edward, birth, par-
entage, and education, 122;
his love for Mlle. Curchod,
afterward Madame Necker,
123, 124; a member of the
"Literary Club," 124, 127;
as an author, 124, 125; his De-
cline and Fall of the Roman
Empire, 125, 127-130; as a
man, 125, 126; in Paris, 126;

his burial-place, 145.
Goldsmith, Oliver, a member

of the "Literary Club," 130,
131; as a writer, 132, 133;
his death, 133, 134; his burial-
place, 144, 145.

Gray, Thomas, birth, parentage,

and education, 79, 80; opin-
ions of his work, 80; his fas-
tidious refinement, 80-82; the
Elegy churchyard, 82; and
the Rowley Poems, 208.

HALKET, GEORGE, 229.
Hayley, William, a friend of
Cowper's, 249.

Hesketh, Lady, her interest in

Cowper, 250, 252.

Homer, Pope's translation of,
43-45; Cowper's translation,
250, 251.

Honeycomb, Will, 2.
Hume, David, compared with
Gibbon, 145, 146; his birth
and early years, 146-148; his
Political Discourses, 148; his

History of England, 146, 149,
150, 156, 157; and Madame de
Boufflers, 150; in Paris, 151–
154; ambassador to the Court
of France, 152; did not love
England, 152, 153; his home
in Edinboro', 154, 155; his
death, 155, 156, 179; his
words concerning James Mac-
pherson, 226.

John Gilpin's Ride, Cowper's,
245, 246.

Johnson, Samuel, his birth,
parentage, and early career,
88-90; his marriage, 90, 91;
his boarding-school, 91; his
personal appearance, 91; goes
to London, 91, 92; his Irene,
90, 92, 96, 97; and Richard
Savage, 92-94; his London,
94, 95; his Vanity of Human
Wishes, 95, 96; his Prologue
spoken at Drury Lane, £6;
his Dictionary, 97, 98; his
letter to Lord Chesterfield,
98; in poverty, 102; death of
his wife, 104; and Miss Will-
iams, 104, 105; his power
felt, 105; his Rasselas, 105-
108; his friendship with Sir
Joshua Reynolds, 108, 109;
Boswell's Life of, 118-122;
and the Thrales, 135-137, 139,
140; his journey to the Heb-
rides, 137, 138; his last years,
137-143; his burial - place,
145; Hannah More and, 173;
his reply to James Macpher-
son, 225, 226.

Joseph Andrews, Fielding's,
177.

KAMES, LORD, 230.

LAMB, CHARLES, his words on
Burns, 299; his apostrophe to
Coleridge, 310; his writings,
319, 320, 323-326; his per-
sonality, 320, 321; his family
afflictions, 321-323; his death,
326.

Lamb, Mary, 321-323, 326.
"Literary Club," the, 111.
London Bridge, 103.

MACAULAY, T. B., on Boswell,
119; his opinion of Jane Aus-
ten, 266.

Mackenzie, Henry, 230.
Macpherson, James, and the Os-

sian poems, 221-227; his life,
224, 225; his habits and dis-
position, 226, 227.
Mitford, Miss, her words con-

cerning Jane Austen, 266, 267.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley,
her birth, parentage, and ear-
ly life, 21, 22; her marriage,

22;
her letters, 21, 23, 28; has
her son inoculated for small-
pox, 23, 24; Pope's admi-
ration for, 23-25; quarrels
with Pope, 25, 26; a favorite
of George I., 26; her later
life, 27-30; Horace Walpole's
words concerning, 30, 52, 53.
More, Hannah, her words con-

cerning Dr. Edward Young,
20; her youth, 171, 172; her
pension, 172; acquaintance
with Garrick and Johnson,
173, 174; her tragedy of Percy,
174; as a worker, 175; her
Calebs, 175, 176; her good-

Persuasion, Jane Austen's, 268,
269.

Pitt, William, 192–195.
Pope, Alexander, his admira-
tion for Lady Mary Wortley
Montagu, 23-25; familiar
couplets of, 31; his infirmity
and personal appearance, 31,
32; his birth and early years,
33, 34; and the Blounts, 34;
his poetic methods, 35-39;
his Essay on Criticism, 36;
his Windsor Forest, 36; his
Rape of the Lock, 36, 39-42;
writes for the Spectator, 38,
39; his translation of Homer,
43-45; his house and friends
at Twickenham, 45-50; his
last days, 48-51, 53.
Porter, Jane, her Thaddeus of
Warsaw, 283, 284; her Scot-
tish Chiefs, 284.

ten's, 268.

RADCLIFFE, ANN WARD, her

Mysteries of Udolpho, 284,
285.

Rambler, The, 98.

Ramsay, Allan, 228.

180.

Sheridan, Thomas Brinsley,

195-202; as an orator, 199,
200; his end, 201, 202, 219.
Smibert, John, his painting of
Berkeley and family, 7.
Smith, Adam, 230.

39-42.

Rasselas, Dr. Johnson's, 105-108.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 108-111.
Richardson, Samuel, a printer
and book-seller, 62; his
friends, 63, 64; as a writer
of letters, 63-66; the father
of the novel, 66, 67; assists
Dr. Johnson, 102.
Robertson, Dr., 230.
Roche, Maria Regina, her Chil-
dren of the Abbey, 282, 283.
Rogers, Samuel, his Pleasures
of Memory, 301, 302, 307–309;
compared with Burns, 302,
303; his career and charac-
ter, 303-307.

Rousseau, J. J., 154.
Rowley Poems, The, 208.

Ruskin, John, on Gibbon's style,
128.

I. and mother of George I., 57.
Southey, Robert, and Cole-
ridge, 311, 312.

Sterne, Laurence, his death, 211,
212; his style, 212-214; his
burial-place, 215; his charac-
ter and habit, 215, 216; his
literary pilferings, 216, 217;
pathos of his life, 217, 218,
220.

Stoke - Pogis Churchyard and
Gray's Elegy, 82.

Stuart, Charles Edward, the
Young Pretender, 55, 56.
Stuart, Elizabeth, daughter of
James I., 57.
Stuart, Henry, 56.

Stuart, James Edward, the Pre-
tender, 53-55.

Swift, Dean, and Pope's Homer,

44.

nah More, 177, 178.

Scott, Walter, his opinion of

Jane Austen, 266; his trans-
lation of Leonora, 298.
Scottish Chiefs, Jane Porter's,
284.

Selborne, Natural History of,
White's, 260-262.

Porter's, 283, 284.

Thomson, James, his boyhood,
73; brings his poetry to Lon-
don, 73, 74; his Winter, 74,
75; befriended by Pope, 76;
his Liberty and Castle of In-
dolence, 77, 78; his burial-
place, 101.