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 coarseness, 67, 68; his character and ancestry, 68; his schooling, 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 concerning George III., 184.
Freeman, Edward, his words concerning Gibbon, 128.
Garrick, David, at Dr. Johnson's school, 91, 92; as a boy, 116; a member of the "Literary Club, " 116; as an actor, 117, 118; his death, 138; Hannah More and, 173, 174.
George I., ancestry, 57; comes to England, 58; his character, 58; his wife, 58, 59.
George II., 59-61; his reign, 61.
George III., character and personality of, 181-187.
Gibbon, Edward, birth, parentage, and education, 122; his love for Mlle. Curchod, afterward Madame Necker, 133, 124; a member of the "Literary Club, " 124, 127; as an author, 124, 125; his Decline 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; opinions of his work, 80; his fastidious 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 Macpherson, 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, 96; his Dictionary, 97, 98; his letter to Lord Chesterfield, 98; in poverty, 102; death of his wife, 104; and Miss Williams, 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 Hebrides, 137, 138; his last years, 137-143; his burial-place, 145; Hannah More and, 173; his reply to James Macpherson, 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 personality, 320, 321; his family afflictions, 321-323; his death, 326.
"Literary Club, " the, 111.
London Bridge, 103.
Macaulay, T. B., on Boswell, 119; his opinion of Jane Austen, 266.
Mackenzie, Henry, 230.
Macpherson, James, and the Ossian poems, 221-227; his life, 224, 225; his habits and disposition, 226, 227.
Mitford, Miss, her words concerning Jane Austen, 266, 267.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, her birth, parentage, and early life, 21, 22; her marriage, 22; her letters, 21, 23, 28; has her son inoculated for smallpox, 23, 24; Pope's admiration 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 concerning 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 Cœlebs, 175, 176; her goodness, 175-178; Thackeray's reference to, in The Newcomes, 177, 178; her age, 180.
Mysteries of Udolpho, Radcliffe's, 284, 285.
Newton, Rev. John, of Olney, and William Cowper, 245.
Night Thoughts, Young's, 15, 16, 18-30.
Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen's, 269.
Nugent, Dr., 114.
Ode to Evening, Collins's, 163.
Ossian's Poems, 221-227; the Ossianic Hermitage, 257, 258.
Percy, Hannah More's tragedy, 174.
Persuasion, Jane Austen's, 268, 269.
Pitt, William, 192-195.
Pope, Alexander, his admiration 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 Scottish Chiefs, 284.
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's, 268.
Radcliffe, Ann Ward, her Mysteries of Udolpho, 284, 285.
Rambler, The, 98.
Ramsay, Allan, 228.
Rape of the Lock, Pope's, 36, 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 Children of the Abbey, 282, 283.
Rogers, Samuel, his Pleasures of Memory, 301, 302, 307-309; compared with Burns, 302, 303; his career and character, 303-307.
Rousseau, J. J., 154.
Rowley Poems, The, 208.
Ruskin, John, on Gibbon's style, 128.
Sandford and Merton, Day's, 271-273.
Savage, Richard, and Dr. Johnson, 92, 94.
Scott, Walter, his opinion of Jane Austen, 266; his translation of Leonora, 298.
Scottish Chiefs, Jane Porter's, 284.
Selborne, Natural History of, White's, 260-262.
Shenstone, William, 158-160, 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.
Sophia, grand-daughter of James I. and mother of George I., 57.
Southey, Robert, and Coleridge, 311, 312.
Sterne, Laurence, his death, 211, 212; his style, 212-214; his burial-place, 215; his character 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 Pretender, 53-55.
Swift, Dean, and Pope's Homer, 44.
Thackeray, W. M., and Hannah More, 177, 178.
Thaddeus of Warsaw, Jane Porter's, 283, 284.
Thomson, James, his boyhood, 73; brings his poetry to London, 73, 74; his Winter, 74, 75; befriended by Pope, 76; his Liberty and Castle of Indolence, 77, 78; his burial-place, 101.
Thrales, The, and Dr. Johnson, 135-137, 139, 140.
Turk's Head Club, The, 111 et seq.