CONTEXTS. 



2U11 



PACK 



Niebuhr on Baiae and Avernus, . 338 



" Night Thoughts," Young's, . 172 



Nineveh, Rapid Decay of, . . 328 



Sculptures in British Mu- 

 seum, 309 



Norton's, Sir F., " Two Little Ma- 

 nors," 91 



Novels and Novelists, . . . Ill 

 of Defoe, Goethe, and Miss 



Burney, . . . . 118 



M Botanical Classification of, 239 



O'Carroll, The, 330 



Ocean Volcano, 361 



Ogilvie, Dr. Johnson's Sarcasm to, 1 1 



Old Names with New Faces, . 3-'!3 



Oldys, W., and his Anagram, . 195 



Oracles, 234 



Oratory and Elocution, . . . 119 

 Organic Remains, Superstitions 



Respecting, ..... 70 



Origines, 261 



Orthography, Foreign, . . . 341 



Ossian's Poems, ..... 39 

 O'Sullivan the Reporter, and Wil- 



berforce, ...... 200 



Otranto, Castle of, . . 297 



Otway's Death and Debts, . . 18 



Over-Poetic Poet 182 



Overtasking the Mind, . . . 330 



" Pamela," Richardson's, . . . 284 



Paper-Making Machinery, . . 80 



" Paradise Lost," 144 



,, French Transla- 

 tion of, 367 



Parliamentary Electric Telegraph, 78 



Reprimand, . . 91 



,, Repartee, . . . 318 



Parr, Dr., and Samuel Johnson, . 105 



and Thos. Moore, . . 232 



,, Erudition, .... 24 



Pascal 287, 288, 289 



Paselikin, a Russian Poet, . . 156 



Pastimes of Poets, .... 93 



Patronage, an Author Soliciting, 273 



Pedagogue and Pig-iron, . . . 328 



Peel and Byron, 153 



Pennant's Eccentricities, . . . 289 



Percival, the American Poet, . 172 



Perfumed Gloves at Oxford, . . 221 



Perils of the Alps, .... 208 



Peter the Great a Surgeon, . . 223 



"Peverilofthe Peak," ... 278 



Philology and Linguists, . . . 125 

 Philosophy, Inductive Bacon its 



Founder, 73 



Physiognomy, ..... 288 

 Piracy in the Pulpit, .... 128 

 Pitcairne and Dutch Degrees, . 281 

 Pitt and the Duke of Newcastle, . 290 

 Pitt, Fox, and Sheridan, in Debate, 123 

 Planet-watchers at Greenwich, , 340 



Plants, British, 365 



Pleasures and Toils of Literature, 129 

 Plundering a Crystal Grotto, . . 335 

 Poe, Edgar Allen, the American 



Poet, . . 134 

 ,, ., M Retort upon a 



Critic, . 158 



Poet Laureate, the First, . . 165 



Poetic Effusion, First in America, 173 



,, Inspiration, Goldsmith's, . 169 



Poetry and Poets 133 



and Practice, .... 251 

 Poets at Breakfast, .... 133 

 ,, Extempore, of Italy, . . 186 

 Unharnessing a Horse, . 151 

 Pollok, Robert, as a Divinity Stu- 

 dent, . 163 



Polyglot Housekeeper, . . . 33(5 

 Pompeian Drawing-room, . . 365 

 Ponderous Erudition, . . . 187 

 Pope Innocent XL, .... 267 

 Pope no Public Speaker, . . 9 



Pope's Accuracy 136 



,, " Dunciad " and Enemies, 156 



Early Popularity, . .156 



,, Feud with Voltaire, . 154 



Sarcasms on Lord llervey, 10 



Popularity of Poets, . . .143,161 



Person, Professor, Anecdotes of, 22 



and the Oxonian in a Stage 



Coach, . . . .126 

 and Gillies on Greek 



Metres, . . . . 127 



at School 286 



Porson's Humour, . . . .265 

 Memory, .... 285 

 ,, Retort not Courteous, 126 

 Portland Vase in the British Mu- 

 seum, 331 



.Port Royal Society, .... *240 

 Postscripts to Ladies' Letters . 245 

 Poulet's, Lord W., Ignorance . 288 

 Preacher, a Gascon, . . . 26H 

 Preachers and Actors, . . 123 

 Preaching, Extempore, . . 240 

 Precocity of Authors, . . 7 

 Priestly, Dr., not an Analyst . 56 

 Printing and Printers, . .188 

 of Tindal's New Testa- 

 ment 189 



Press, first English, . 190 



