task which he cannot properly pursue. He must complete the repose which was already doing him so much good: but he takes it only in the hope of being able to renew his labours, if not in this 'shape, in others.-Pleasures he should rather call them, for they are so even when pains and harms. The truth is, his pains have been so literally his pleasures, that although he has not written half what he reasonably might, nor attended a twentieth part as he ought to dispatch and punctuality, yet he has not put enough of his own rural doctrines in practice. He has suffered his imagination to take too many walks for him instead of his legs; has made hook-journies about Vaucluse and Hymettus, to the neglect of his much-injured suburbs; and instead of a dozen retreats or so at intervals, which might have saved him the necessity of making these effeminate excuses, has now to keep a holiday of unwilling length and very equivocal pleasure.-Upon casting his eye back upon the numbers of the Indicator, he has little to say but to thank his readers, his correspondents, his defenders, his users, who were always welcome when they were not afraid of being so, and his abusers, who in some instances have also thought fit to be his imitators. What he has written at any time, was at least written sincerely. He has generally had to perform his task without books, often with little comfort but the performance, always in the midst of a struggle of some sort; but if the mention of this is a váníty as well as an excuse, it may serve also to shew how much the cultivation of a natural chearfulness can do for the entertainment of itself and others, and what riches there must be in that ordinary world about us, whose veriest twigs and common-places want but the look of one's own eye to act upon them as a sunshine. If the Indicator has found some honey in places more barren than was expected, it is surely neither his fault nor theirs; nor will he make an apology for what is perhaps, at last, his only merit. To use a phrase of Cowley's, it would be very "unbirdly" of him. And now, returning to his own shape again, though retaining his birdly propensities, he shakes hands at parting with all his readers male, and gives a kiss on the cheek,-nonsense!-on the mouth, to all his fair readers, who have ever had faith in the good intentions of LEIGH HUNT. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The Editor need not excuse himself on this occasion to the various Correspon dents whose commuuications he intended to notice; but he is very sorry to part with some of them.-Will A. A. be good enough to mention some place to which few books can be sent her by and by? Printed and published by JOSEPH APPLEYARD, No. 19, Catherine-street, Strand. Price 2d.-And sold also by A. GLIDDON, Importer of Snuffs, No. 31, Tavistock street, Covent-garden. Orders received at the above places, and by all Book sellers and Newsmen." INDEX. to Vol I Acquaintance, link of personal, traced up from the present times to Shakspeare, 41. Alehouses and similar places of recreation, not to be condemned till certain statis- Ancients, their attention to the mutual interests of mind and body, 176. See Re- Anglers, their meditative want of thought, 44-Fish-like face of their father Wal- Ariosto, his description of a beautiful bosom, translated, 12-His prison, a sonnet, Basso, Andrea de, his Ode to a Dead Body, translated, 377-Remarks upon it, 381. Bourne, Vincent, his epitaph on a dog translated, 240. Boyle, Hon. Robert, singular gratuitousness of his moral arguments, 312. Chaucer, beauty of his versification, 229-Passages of his Palamon and Arcite, com- Children, their romance, 72-Deaths of, 201—A lost child the only eternal image of Christ's Hospital, its retired and scholastic character in the heart of the city, 21- Clouds and vapours, their aspect next the sun, 58-Use of, by the poets, 59.1 Coaches, their variety and merits, 361. Coachmen, private, stage, and backney, described, 361, 366, 373—Hackney, why Compliment, how to be given and received, 167. Conscience, cure for a wounded one according to Plato, 34. Cotton, his observations on the justice and passive obedience of anglers, 46. Country, Little Known, Description of one, 263. Crusades, their good effect on more refined tempers, 71. Custom, its self-reconcilements and contradictions, 390. Dante, his description of an angel coming over the sea translated, 61. Day, a rainy one described, 289-A rainy one how to be turned to account, 260–—– Death, pictures of it how overwrought, and to what little purpose they are so, 381. Dolphins, probably the same as the porpus, 132 Great favourites with the poets, Endeavour, sure to be right-388. English, do not make enough of their sunshine, 9-Nor of their winter out of Gentleman, the Old, described, 129. Godiva, Countess of Coventry, how she rode naked through the stréèls to free hér Good and Evil, Nature how justified in their proportion, 388-Goodness in things Hands, two errors in the custom of shaking them, $14. Happiness, how we forego it on earth, and might do as much in heaven, 391. Imagination, humble in proportion to its empire, 68-Fond of things remote, 69— Innovation, how to know whether its spirit is bad or good, 311. Intolerance, candid treatment of, the last and best proof of the growth of tolera- Jealousy, its results in a noble mind, 163. Jesus, summary of his doctrines, 115. Jews, amount of the question between them and Christians in general, 372. Lady's Maid described, 177. Lamb, Mr. his mention of a curious instance of the romantic among his school-fel- Leg, Lady's, what sort of one beautiful, 291-Uuder what circumstances its stocking London, pleasant recollections associated with various parts of, 19, 235—Its aspect Love, its essence consists in the return of pleasure, 218. Marvell his untimidated friendship for Milton, 406. May-day, how passed by our ancestors, 225-Why no longer what it was, 231. Money-getter described, 7. -Montaigae, his study, 11. Mother, the grave of one, 202. Names, utility of pleasant ones, 137-Signification of our Christian names, 138. Ovid, the story of Cyllarus and Hyloneme translated, 206-Description of the Parents, severity of, difference between brutal and mistaken, 64. Pastime, the folly of thinking any innocent one foolish, 34. Penates, the personification of a particular providence, 38. Perception, variety of the colours of, 385-How they are caused, 386. Petrarch, brief sketch of the character of his life, 317-His sight of his mistress sit- **༔ Poetry, Original, 88, 120, 153, 161, 246, 304, 307, 402. Principle, the very notion of it makes some persons impatient, 66. !་ T Quotations from Bacon, 34-Beaumont and Fletcher, 21, 108, 11, 303-Browne, Review, Retrospective, its merits, 249. Rising, Early, on cold mornings, what it has to say for itself, 117. Rousseau, his story of Pygmalion translated, 241—Himself a Pygmalion, ib. Sacchetti, a Florentine poet and novelist, notice of, 223→→His poem on gathering Sannazzaro, his apostrophe to the country and its deities/translated, 231. Sculpture, particular nature of its beauty, 48-Casts from sculpture and gems, how Seamen on shore, described, 177. d Shakspeare, probable amount of the question concerning him and Ben Jonson, Shape, monstrosities of, in what instances roconcileable or otherwise to the Shelley, Mr., Remarks on his tragedy of the Cenci, 829-His beautiful prefaces, ib. Shops, on the sight of, 265-The gallant figure they make in the Arabian Nights, Solomon, striking fiction respecting his dead body, 75 Was fond of nature and 1 Spenser, his remarkable faculty of realizing the imaginative, 136. Sticks, their genealogy and varieties, 257-How they help a want of ideas, and Stories, miraculous, frequent triviality of their origin, 4-Horrid ones in general Stories of Godiva, 17. An Evil Genius, 38. Gilbert Becket, 52. The Shoemaker of Veyros, 61. Acontius and Cydippe, 11. Polyphemus, Acis, and Galatea, 6. The Beau Miser, 26. Charles Brandon aad Mary, Queen of France, 35. A Tale for a Chimney Corner, 13. The Two Thieves and the Doctor of Bologna, 84. The Two Sharpers of Naples, 86. Lazarillo de Tormes, 90. Paul, the Spanish Sharper, 96. Claude du Vall the Highwayman, 102. The Fair Revenge, 109. Extremes meet, or All London and No London, 121, Bacchus and the Pirates, 133. Arion and the Dolphin, 135. Dolphins and Boys, 134. Ronald of the Perfect Hand, 159. Cyllarus and Hylonome, 206. Cephalus and Procris, 209. Thomas Lurting, a Quaker Seaman, 235. Pygmalion. See Roussean. The Daughter of Hippocrates, 281. The Venetian Girl, 292. - The Egyptian Thief, 298. A True Story, 319. The Destruction of the Cenei Family, 321. Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Hyperion, 337. Farinetta and Farinonna, 353. The Hamadryad, 391. Tha Nurture of Triptolemus, 393. Superstition, the bad character it brings upon doctrine, 386-Why it misrepresents Sympathy, the inhumanity arising from inability to procure it, 6-Our first duty Tasso, his stanza upon lovers talking and bathing translated, 12-Ode to the Gol- Theocritus, his Infant Hercules and the Serpents translated, 1-74. Thieves, of ancient times, 81-Of Italy, 83, 97-Of Spain, 89-Their talent at being Translations, bad ones, how made, 4, 198. Travellers, sensation they must formerly have created on returning home, 71. Venetians, why fond of black, 15-Chearful kindness to one another, 16. Virgil, his scepticism modified by a sickly temperament, 113-Apparition of the West, Mr. sale of his pictures, 285-Unpleasant to see an event of this kind in a World, knowledge of the, to what it amounts in general, 32. Printed and published by Joseph Appleyard, No. 19, Catherine-street, Strand. |