IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS.
N.B. The sign prefixed intimates that the names following are those of the Interlocutors in a "Conversation."
Aboukir, lines on the battle of, i., 44
Absence, effects of, i., 113
Accent, wrongly applied by modern English writers, i., 200;
alteration of, by Greek writers, ib.
Achilles, character of, i., 222
Acrive, Odysseus. Tersitza, and Trelawny, i., 387
Actors, French, difficulties they have to surmount, i., 93
Addison and Steele, ii., 151
Addison, his style, i., 197, 199; his harsh treatment of Steele,
ii, 151; doubts as to his true character, ib., note
•Eschines and Phocion, i., 23
Eschylus, his contest with Sophocles, i., 145 and note
Esop and Rhodope, ii., 95, 193
Age, reflections on, i., 511
Agrarian laws of the Gracchi, i., 238
Ainsworth's Dictionary negligent and injudicious, ii., 170
Air, the, how impersonated in Mythology, i., 453
Alain, Maitre, his Somnium Vividarium, i., 36
Albani, the Cardinal Legate, and Picture-Dealers, ii., 4
Albigenses, the, i., 36
Alexander and the Priest of Hammon, i., 418
and Aristoteles, comparison between, 28; his
conduct towards Aristoteles, 226, 232; compared with
Epaminondas, 227; his death and tomb, 230 and note;
his pretensions to a divine origin rebuked by the priest of
Hammon, 418, et seq.
Alexander, the Emperor, and Capo d'Istria, i., 106
*Alexis and Peter the Great, i., 352
-, son of Peter the Great, his education, i., 352; dus-
approved his father's attack on Poland and Sweden, 353;
his sudden death, 354
Alfieri and Salomon the Florentine Jew, i., 187
Alpuente, Romero, and Lopez Banos, i., 211
denounced by the English minister, i., 560
Alum, use of, in rendering substances incombustible, i., 364
Ambition, definition of, i., 6; always disappointed, 370
America, North-West coast of, claim of Russia to, i., 108
American government, advantages of, i., 125, et seq.
American war, reflections on, ii., 44
Amphibious, definition of the term, by M. Corbière, i., 383
Amusements formerly encouraged on Sundays, i., 4 and
Anacreon and Polycrates, i., 270
Anachronisins, when allowable, ii., 215
Cimber, 249; Anacreon and Hylactor, 273; Thomas
Payne, 296; Captain O'Mara's travels, 306, et seq.; Mr.
Moyle's duel, &c., 310, 311; Sieur Dorcas, 325; Grand
Duke Ferdinand, 328, 329, 330, 331, 332, 335; the Empe-
ror Francis, 334; Prince Corsini, 336; Shelley and Byron,
340; General Monton, 343; the Pope and the wooden
fish, 348; the Irishman's scourging, 350; Monna Tita
Monalda, 361, et seq.; the defenders of Greece, 393,
et seq.; the Prince of Policastro, 417; Sir Magnus Lacy,
454; Ternerin de Gisors, 414; Archbishop of Evora,
431; Fra Lope de Hornaches and Donna Immaculata's
veil, 434; Díaz and the onions, 440; Croker and Lieu-
tenant White, 448; Daniel Fogram the poacher, 519;
the patriotic Scotchman, 525; William Penn and his
father, 528; Peterborough and Ludlow, 552; the English-
man and his fountain, ii., 5; the same and the picture-
dealers, 7, et seq.; the Cardinal-Legate Albani and Titian's
Holy Family, 16; Xenophanes and his horse, 18; the
Gasteres, a fraternity of priests, 29; the miracle of Aulus
of Pelusium, 32; Admiral Nichols, 57; Fra Filippo
Lippi's captivity in Barbary, 81: Lord Thurlow, 158;
Molière, 208; Michel-Angelo and the poet, 213; Ra-
leigh, 240; Euthemedes and Thelymnia, 253
Anglican church, oppressive in collection of tythes, i, 535;
Chinese opinion of, 129; approximation of its doctrines to
those of Rome, ii., 111
Anjou, Duke of, Queen Elizabeth, Cecil, and De La Motte
Fenelon, ii.. 174
*Aphanasia and Beniowski, i., 264
Apologue of Truth, written by Critobulus, i., 249
*Arab Chieftain and Marshal Bugeaud, ii., 242
*Archbishop of Paris and Talleyrand, ii., 237
Architecture, Italian, i., 38-40; English, 40, 41; Greek, ib.,
42; Chinese, ib.; Roman, ib., 41; Moorish, 41; Eliza-
bethan, 41
Argonauts, doubts respecting the, i., 227
Ariosto, his Orlando, i., 100; his merits, ii., 218; slowly
acknowledged, 219
Aristocracy, hereditary, a definition of, i., 25; its nature,
139; in England, debased by Pitt, 188; in Rome,
237, 238; considered as a system of government, 522;
mercantile, insecure, ii., 245
Aristocrats and democrats defined, i., 187
Aristophanes, his merits considered, i., 122
"Aristoteles and Callisthenes, i., 225
Anecdote of Porson at a rout, i., 27; the Japanese at
his definition of happiness, i., 6 and note; com-
Rouen, 38; the barbarity of an English General Officer, 43;
parison between him and Alexander, 28; remarks on his
the death of an English Officer, ib.; Sir Humphrey Hard-
style, 220, 221, 451, 461; ill-treated by Alexander, 226,
castle, 45; Mr. George Nelly, 47; the defective adminis-
232; his " "Polity" compared with Plato's scheme of
tration of justice in Tuscany, 52, 63 and note; St. Isidore,
government, 231 and note; his influence in Greece, ii., 220
b. a young Englishwoman in Italy, 55; Benedetto Sant- Armour, defensive, its use in war considered, i., 183
Anna, 57; the sanctification of Labre, ib. ; the Marchese Arts, the, influence of Freedom on, ii. 56
Riccardi's reliquary, 58; an Italian Peasant, 65; Ana-Ascham Roger and Lady Jane Gray, i., 135
destatos, the Athenian Orator, 88; the consecrated Ashbourne, the village of, 572, 573, note
lamp. 111; Father Onesimo Sozzifante and Mr. Har- Athens, her ancient excellence, i., 42; her resuscitation
bottle, 117; Giacomo Pastrani and his picture, 118;
retarded, ib.; condition of, in the time of Pericles, 145,
Auco-Mazzio's image of the Virgin, ib.; Angiolina Cecci,
et seq.; of Aristoteles, 229; description of a procession
119: Ebenezer Bullock and his son Jonas, 131; the sailor
at, 147
and the Lord Chancellor, 134; old lady and the hemlock,
Athenian people, their levity, ii., 186
139;
the itinerant preacher, 140; Don Britomarte Austria, Emperor of, claim of precedence for, i., 1, note
Delciego, 143; Chloros, 147; the Duke of Marlborough's *Ava, King of, and Rao-Gong-Fao, i., 490
mince pie, 149: Lord Tylney, 150; Florentine Russel,
170; Goffrido Piccoluomini and Leopoldina, 173; the
sailor and his amber, 190; of an Irish lord, 223; Caspar
Scioppius, 235; Fœdirupa and Gentius, 242; Aquilius
Bacon, Lord, and Richard Hooker, i., 136
, comparison between, and Shakspeare, i., 15
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