Lamb, Charles, his words
on Burns, 275; his
apostrophe to Coleridge,
286; his writings, 293,
294, 298-301; his per-
sonality, 295, 296; his
family afflictions, 296-
298; his death, 301.
Lamb, Mary, 296-297, 301.
"Literary Club," the, 104.
London Bridge, 97.
Macaulay, T. B., on Bos-
well, III; his opinion of
Jane Austen, 245.
Mackenzie, Henry, 212.
Macpherson, James, and
the Ossian poems, 203-
210; his life, 206, 207;
his habits and disposi-
tion, 209-210.
Mitford, Miss, her words
concerning Jane Austen,
245.
Montagu,
Walpole's words con-
cerning, 30, 50.
More, Hannah, her words
concerning Dr. Edward
Young, 20; her youth,
158; her pension, 159;
acquaintance with Gar-
rick and Johnson, 159,
160; her tragedy of
Percy, 160; as a worker,
161; her Calebs, 162;
her goodness, 161-164;
Thackeray's reference
to, in The Newcomes,
163, 164; her age, 166.
Mysteries of Udolpho,
Mrs. Radcliffe's, 259, 262.
Necker, Madame, 115, 116.
Newton, Rev. John, of
Olney, and William
Cowper, 226.
Night Thoughts, Young's,
16, 17, 19-21.
Northanger Abbey, Jane
Austen's, 248.
Nugent, Dr., 106.
Lady Mary
Wortley, her birth, par-
entage, and early life,
22, 23; her marriage, 23;
her letters, 22, 24, 27,
29; has her son inocu-
lated for smallpox, 24;
Pope's admiration for,
23-25; quarrels with
Pope, 26; a favorite of
George I., 27; her later Percy, Hannah More's
life, 27-30; Horace tragedy, 160.
Ode to Evening, Collins's,
150.
Ossian's Poems, 203-210;
the Ossianic Hermitage,
237, 238.
Persuasion, Jane Austen's, Rasselas, Dr. Johnson's
Pitt, William, 176, 179
Pope, Alexander, his ad-
miration 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 Es-
say on Criticism, 35; his
Windsor Forest, 35; his
Rape of the Lock, 35, 39–
41; writes for the Spec-
tator, 38, 39; his transla-
tion of Homer, 43-45;
his house and friends at
Twickenham, 44-49; his
last days, 47-49, 51, 53.
Porter, Jane, her Thad-
deus of Warsaw, 259,
260, 261; her Scottish
Chiefs, 259, 261.
Pride and Prejudice, Jane
Austen's, 246.
Radcliffe, Ann Ward, her
Mysteries of Udolpho,
259, 262.
Rambler, The, 92.
Ramsay, Allan, 210.
Rape of the Lock, Pope's,
36, 39-41.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 101-
Richardson, Samuel, a
printer and book-seller,
58; his friends, 59-61;
as a writer of letters,
61-62; the father of the
novel, 63; assists Dr.
Johnson, 96.
Robertson, Dr., 212.
Roche, Maria Regina, her
Children of the Abbey,
259, 260.
Rogers, Samuel, his Pleas-
ures of Memory, 277,
278, 282-285; compared
with Burns, 278, 279;
his career and charac-
ter, 279-280.
Rousseau, J. J., 142.
Rowley Poems, The, 191,
192.
Ruskin, John, on Gibbon's
style, 119, 120.
Sandford and Merton,
Day's, 250-251.
Savage, Richard, and Dr.
Johnson, 86-88.
Scott, Walter, his opinion
of Jane Austen, 245; his
translation of Leonora,
Scottish Chiefs, Jane Por- Swift, Dean, and Pope's
ter's, 259, 261.
Selborne, Natural History
of, White's, 239–244.
Shenstone, William, 145-
148, 166.
Sheridan, Thomas Brins-
ley, 180-186; as an ora-
tor, 183, 184; his end,
185, 186, 202.
Smibert, John, his paint-
ing of Berkeley and
family, 9.
Smith, Adam, 212.
Sophia, grand-daughter of
James I. and mother of
George I., 54.
Southey, Robert, and
Coleridge, 287, 288.
Sterne, Laurence, his
death, 194, 195; his
style, 195-198; his bur-
ial-place, 198; his char-
acter and habit, 199,
200; his literary pilfer-
ings, 199, 200; pathos of
his life, 200, 201.
Stoke-Pogis Churchyard
and Gray's Elegy, 78. ·
Stuart, Charles Edward,
the Young Pretender, 53.
Stuart, Elizabeth, daugh-
ter of James I., 54.
Stuart, Henry, 53.
Stuart, James Edward, the
Pretender, 51-53.
Thackeray, W. M., and
Hannah More, 163, 164.
Thaddeus of Warsaw,
Jane Porter's, 259, 260.
Thomson, James, his boy-
hood, 69; brings his po-
etry to London, 69, 70;
his Winter, 70, 71; be-
friended by Pope, 71;
his Liberty and Castle
of Indolence, 73; his
burial-place, 95.
Thrales, The, and Dr.
Johnson, 125-127, 129.
Turk's Head Club, The,
104 et seq.
concerning Gibbon, 125;
and the poet Chatterton,
190-192.
Watts, Isaac, associations
of the name, 14; birth,
parentage, and educa-
tion, 14, 15; Bryant's
admiration for, 15; his
hymns, 15; endowed with
a home, 16.
Westminster Bridge, 96.
White, Gilbert, and the
Natural History of Sel-
borne, 240-243; his
house, 243, 244.
Williams, Miss, and Dr.
Jchnson, 98.
Wordsworth, William, 274,
275; and Coleridge, 288;
the author's personal
reminiscence of, 301-
304, his poetry, 304-310;
his parentage and early
years, 311-313; his mar-
riage, 313; his love of
Nature, 314; personal
traits, 314, 315; his
home at Rydal Mount,
316, 317; his pension,
317; made Poet Laure-
ate, 317; opposed to
railways and manu-
factures, 318, 319; his
burial-place, 319.
Young, Dr. Edward, his
Night Thoughts, 16, 17,
19-21; his birth, paren-
tage, and early work,
17; his Last Day, 18;
his marriage, 19; back
at court, 20; Hannah
More's words concern-
ing, 20, 21.
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