Lindsay, Sir David, account of, i. 279.
-, poetry by, i. 281.

Lodge, Thomas, his poetry, i. 184.

Longlande, Robert, slight account of, ii. 108.
Lovelace, Captain Richard, his biography, ii. 192.
Lover, Samuel, slight sketch of, i. 191.

-, poetry by, i. 192.

Love-song of a Finland peasant, iii. 86.
Lyttleton, Lord, recollections of, ii, 286.

Macpherson's Lament," ii. 122.

Malcolm, Sir John, poetry by, ii. 77.

Malherbe, his opinion of the usefulness of poets, i. 120.
Mallet, David, his infidelity, i. 270.

Tragedy of " Elvira," i. 276.

recollections of, ii. 286.

Maniac, verses written by a, iii. 166.

Mapes, Walter, "the Anacreon of the 11th Century,"

ii. 102.

Marloe, or Marlow, Christopher, his death, i. 97.
Maturin, Rev. R. C., his eccentricities, i. 63.

Menage, his remarkable memory, i. 272.

Metastasio, his peculiarities, as related by Mrs. Piozzi,

iii. 162.

iii. 216.

return to the Bar and resumption of poetry,

Meun, John of, the continuator of "the Romaunt of the
Rose," his legacy, i. 181.

Middleton, Thomas, his whimsical petition to King James I.,
ii. 128.

Milton, John, his singular adventure when at Cambridge,

i. 113.

i. 131.

Mask," i. 218.

i. 287.

iii. 88, 178.

cottage, account of, by Sir William Jones,

curious proclamation against, ii. 35.
Marshall's portrait of, ii. 88.

Dr. Johnson's defence of, ii. 178.

his "Paradise Lost," anecdotes concerning,

Milton, John, his love of music, iii. 99.

Winstanley's abuse of, iii. 217.

Montgomery, James, his "Climbing Boy's Album," iii. 245.

in, iii. 246.

poetry

Moore, Thomas, comparison of his Poetry with that of Burns,

account of his cottage at Devizes, iii. 100.
epigram by, iii. 101.

daughter, iii. 136.

on, iii. 102.

addressed to, on the birth of his

his lines on Joseph Atkinson, iii. 136.
"Flash," Poetics, iii. 239.

More, Hannah, her lines to Dr. Langhorne, ii. 234.
Sir Thomas, poetry by, ii. 42.

Nivernois, Due De, his last verses, iii. 85.

Nonsense verses, curious specimens of, iii. 227.
North, Lord, his distich on Mr. Mellagen, i. 141,

O'Driscolls, the song of the, i. 189.

O'Leary, J., poetry by, ii. 142.

"Ordinary of Christian Men," the, poetic extract from,

ii. 162.

O'Shea, J. A., poetry by, ii 139.

Otway, Thomas, his death, the various accounts of, i. 1.

Palindromes, or recurrent verses, ii. 27.

Palmer, G. F., a sailor, poetry by, iii. 133.

Pananti, his epigrams, ii. 134.

Parini, biographical and critical sketch of, ii. 195.

Parnell, Thomas, his intemperance, the alleged cause of, i. 67.
Peele, George, his life and merry jests, iii. 211.

poetry by, iii. 215.

Petrarch, bis cloak, curious account of, i. 118.

iii. 62.

iii. 154.

books, i. 186.

reflections on the summit of Mount Venoux,

"Laura," Lord Woodhouslee's account of,

hermitage at Vaucluse, iii. 155.

precision, iii. 162.

Pilkington, Mrs., poetry by, iii. 126.

Piron, and other French poets, ludicrous adventures of,

iii. 263.

Poems, minutely written, account of various, i. 68.
singular dedications of, ii. 79.

Hindoo, subjects of two, iii. 137.

Poet Laureate, account of this office in various countries,
ii. 172.

Poetic highwayman, the, ii. 83.

Poetical present to King James I., i. 140.

associations connected with garrets, i. 253.
garland of Julia, ii. 115.

flattery, various choice specimens of, ii. 157.
court of John II., ii. 209.

genealogy (by Leigh Hunt,) iii. 105.

recollections connected with various parts of the

metropolis, (by Leigh Hunt,) iii. 250.

Poetry and preaching united in former days, i. 215.
Pastoral English, some account of, iii. 66.

specimen of, iii. 69.

of the Hindoos and the Persians described by
Broughton, iii, 183.

last moments of celebrated persons, iii. 202.
modern flash, account of, iii. 239.

-, specimen of, iii. 241,

Poets, peculiar habits of, i. 263.

ii. 158.

vanity of French, i. 274.

dramatic, readers of their own works, ii. 84.
patronage of, by Stratonice and Madame Geoffrin,

religious confessions of, ii. 189.

their impositions upon antiquaries, ii. 217.

poverty as described by Brathwayte and Hey-

wood, ii. 230.

royal, some account of, ii. 252.

why professional men are indifferent, iii. 12.
fondness of, for rivers, iii. 139.

calamities of, iii. 167.

female favourites of, iii. 286.

Pope, Alexander, bis various hair-breadth escapes, i. 8.

i. 73.

"Rape of the Lock," the origin of,

Villa, i. 94.

paintings, i. 187,

patronage, i. 205.

mother, himself, and Voltaire, ii. 8.

Pope, Alexander, Sir Godfrey Kneller, and the Guinea
Trader, ii. 14.

his criticism on Philips's Pastorals,"

"Essay on Man," Morris's criticism

"Man of Ross," John Kyrle's account

recollections of, ii. 286.

and Warburton, iii. 220.

monument to his nurse, iii. 235.
his MSS. of " the Iliad," iii. 262.

remuneration for the same, iii. 262.
Lord Halifax's style of criticism on,

his person and peculiarities, iii. 284.
Puttenham, his poetical portrait of Queen Elizabeth, i. 18.
Quaintness of Expression, by John Beaumont and George
Gascoigne, iii. 221.

Querno Camillo, a Buffoon Poet in the Court of Leo X.,
his gormandizing and verses, i. 57.

Racine, Madame De Maintenon and Louis XIV., i. 37.
"" his poetry, Voltaire's opinion of, ii. 168.

Raleigh, Sir Walter, his poetry, i. 40.

execution, i. 44.

Rapin, the provost-marshal and poet, i. 74.

Rhyming," being an extract from Miss Hawkins's Memoirs,
i. 213.

Ritson, Joseph, his peculiarities of style and thinking,
iii. 197.

Ronsard, called, par eminence, "The French Poet," i. 74.
Roucher, his last stanzas, iii. 273.

Rowe, Nicholas, account of, from Spence, i. 141.

Ruddy, Thaddeus, his practical description of Bridget
Brady, i. 108.

Rudeki, the Persian Poet, i. 124.

Ryan, Edmund, or "Ned of the Hills," account of, i. 35.

mistress, i. 36.

his elegy to his

Richard, his song of "Whiskey Punch," ii. 144.

Christmas Carol, iii. 193.

Sadi, the Persian poet, and his wife, iii. 226.

Sanazarius, his lines on the City of Venice, i. 217.
Santieul, and the French porter, ii. 126.

Schiller, his childhood, i. 78.

contempt of nobility, iii. 210.

Scott, Sir Walter, his lines in the Album of Bell-rock Light-
house, i. 115.

French accounts of, ii. 204.

his "Helvellyn," also the circumstances

on which it is founded, ii. 240.

iii. 196.

incapability of writing verse, iii. 51.
residence at Abbotsford described,

Settle, Elkanah, Dryden's character of, i. 207.

Seward, Miss, her poetical enigma, ii. 57.

Shakspeare, his birth-day, how this anniversary should be
spent, i. 52.

Jubilee, account of, i. 243.

resemblance of some passages in "Gerard

Brandt" to, iii. 148.

Shenstone, his kindness and generosity, ii. 180.
Sidney, Sir Philip, character of his poetry, i. 143.
-, his death, i. 146.

poetry by, ii. 203.

Simonides, his avarice, ii. 224.

Skulls, as drinking cups, poetical notices of, iii. 236.
Smith, George Henry, his "Tribute to the Memory of
Bloomfield," iii. 116.

"Sortes Virgilianæ," singular adventure of Charles I. at
the, iii. 152.

Southern, Thomas, his ludicrous stanzas addressed to the
Duke of Argyle, i. 18.

Southwell, Rev. R., slight account of, ii. 267.

, poetry by, ii. 269.

Spenser, Edmund, his account of the Irish Bards in the
time of Queen Elizabeth, i. 4.

and the Earl of Southampton, i. 206.
Suckling, Sir John, account of the death of, ii. 117.
Surville, Madame De, account of her poems, iii. 77.

her biography, iii. 79.

-, poetry by, iii. 82.

Swift, Jonathan, and Ambrose Phillips, their opinion of
Julius Cæsar, i, 117.

his last lines, i. 204.