Peter the Third, of Russia, 718 n. Pisani, Vettor, 159.
Pisse-Vache, the, 135 n. Pistoia, 161. Pistol, 652.
Pistol-firing, xiv. n. 13 n.
Pitt, Right Hon. William, 24, 25. His additions to our parliamentary tongue, 172. His grave next that of Fox, 567. The pilot that weather'd the storm,' 572. His disinterestedness, 712. 'Epi- taph for,' 897. Pitti Palace, 132 n. Pizarro, 83, 569, 570. Plagiarism, 237 n. 274 n. 476 n. 589 n.
Planter of the Lion, 128. Platea, plain of, 99, 115 n. Plato, his lines on the tomb of The- mistocles, 196. His character of Socrates, 491. His Dialogues, 767. His reply to Diogenes,
Platonic love, 601, 604, 605 n. 717. Playhouse bill, origin of, 177 n. Propriety of repealing it, 178 n. Pleasure, 91, 605, 606, 614. A stern moralist,' 642.
Phillips, Ambrose, his 'Pastorals,''Pleasures of Hope,' 62 n. 222 n. 829. 'Pleasures of Imagination,' 305 n.
Phillips, Charles, esq. (the barris-Pleasures of Memory,' 62 n.
Philopappus, 191 n. 825. 'Philo-progenitiveness,' 737. Philosophy, 615, 635, 767. Phoenix, Sheridan's story of the, 829 n. 863 n.
Phrygia, 68.
Phyle, Fort, 93, 189. Physicians, 722.
Piazzetta, at Venice, 150, 307. 'Pibroch,' 16, 47. Pickersgill, Joshua, his 'Three Bro- thers' the foundation of "The De- formed Transformed,' 488 n. Picton, Sir Thomas, 115 n. Picture, a, 'is the past,' 770. Pictures, 132 n. 773. Pie' di Lup lake, 135 n. Pietro ad Vincula, St., Church of, at Rome, 252 n.
Pigot, Dr., 'Reply to some Verses of, on the cruelty of his mistress,'
'Lines written on a blank leaf of,' 862.
Pliny, 142, 156 n.
Pompey, his statue, 137, 163. His Pillar, 568. A hero, conqueror, and cuckold,' 635. Pope, his Essay on Man,' 62 a. His 'Pastorals,' 178. Systema- tic depreciation of, 799. Har- mony of, ib. His versification, 802. His imagination, ib. His 'Rape of the Lock,' ib. His character of Sporus, ib. List of his disciples, 803. Passages of his earliest poems quoted, 803 R. His Essay upon Phillips's Pas- torals' a model of irony, 829. His Homer,' ib. His 'Eloisa,' 837. The principal inventor of modern gardening, 839. Letter on Bowles's Strictures on the Life and Writings of,' 821. 'Se- cond Letter,' 832. See also, xvii. xxxii. 51 n. 179 n. 799-804, 823, 829, 833-836, 848 n. Popular applause, 643. Popular discontent, progress of, 702. Popularity, 660. Poro, 260 n. Porphyry, 82 n.
Porson, Professor, anecdotes of, 22 n. His 'Devil's Walk,' 867 n. Portland (William Henry Caven- dish), third Duke of, 65. Portolongo, 159. Portpatrick, 816.
Portrait painter, agonies of a, 826. Portsmouth, 581, 710 n.
Plutarch's Lives,' 291 n. 589 n. Portugal, xviii. 67, 76 n.
Mitford's abuse of, 736. Plymley, Peter (Rev. Sidney Smith), 57 n. His 'Letters,' 775 n. Po, the river, 131. 'Stanzas to the,' 895.
Poetry, new school, of, xvii. 800, 802. Nothing so difficult as a beginning in, 647. 'Is a passion, 660. Present state of English, 799. Descriptive, 828. Ethical, the highest of all, ib. Poets, unfitted for the calm affec- tions and comforts of domestic life, xxi. 877 n. Amatory, 661. Duties of; 706. "The greatest living,' 731. See also, 804, 828.
Portuguese, the, characterised, 72,, 72 n. 75 n. Possession, 649. Posterity, 590, 736. Potemkin, Prince, 102, 694. His instructions to Suwarrow before the siege of Ismail, 694. His cha- racter, 694 n.
Potiphar's wife, 217 n. 674. Pouqueville, M. de, 89 n. 664 n. Character of his writings, 100,
Poussin, his picture of the Deluge,' 426 n.
Power, Mr., music-seller, 873 n. 799-Powell, Mr., 59.
Prague, 533, 555, 561.
Poggio, his exclamation on looking Pratt, Samuel Jackson, 61 n. 62 m. down on Rome, 131 n.
Pigot, Miss, 23 n. 26 n. 'Lines Poland, 569, 723.
Pillans, James (Professor of huma- nity at Edinburgh), 57.
185 n. His 'Sympathy,' 54. Praxiteles, 189.
Pillar of the Place Vendôme, 568. Polidori, Dr., xiv. n. 798.
'Vampire,' 798 n. His tragedy, 892 n. 'Epistle from Mr. Mur- ray to,' 892. Polybius, 162. Polycrates, 344. Polygamy, 676, 681, 707. Polyzois, 101.
Pompadour, Madame de, 350.
Presle, Mlle., 59.
Pretension, absence of, 761. Previsa, 92.
Priam, King, 65 n. 492. Pride, 507, 508, 648, 744. Prince Regent, a finished gentle- man from top to toe,' 742. Lord Byron's introduction to, 742 K. Lines to, on his being seen standing between the coffins of
tages of, 599 n. Best adapted to the genius and constitution of the English, ib. Pulci, his Morgante Maggiore,' 324. 'Sire of the half serious rhyme,' 324, 648.
Pultowa, battle of, 317, 324 n. Puns, 137.
Pye, Henry James, esq., 50, 407. Pygmalion, statue of, 684, 715. Pyramids of Egypt, 568, 615. Pyramus and Thisbe, 668.
Pyrenees, the, 83.
Pyrrhic dance, 97, 639, 644.
Pyrrho, the doubting philosopher,
712. Pyrrhus, 96, 574.
Ram Alley,' Barrey's comedy of, Rhodes, 369, 626. 193 n.
Ramazan, feast of, 90, 198. 'Ranz des Vaches,' 476. Rape of the Lock,' 802. Raphael, cause of his death, 311. His 'Transfiguration,' 761. Raphti, Port, 89 n. Rapp, American Harmonist, 763. Ratcliffe, Mrs., 128. Ravenna, xxvi. xxviii. 133, 895 n. Its pine forest, 646. Battle of, 659. Dante's tomb at, ib. Ravenstone, 295 n. 546. Rawdon family, xx.
Ready money is Aladdin's lamp,' 735.
Reason, 141, 522. 'Ne'er was hand in glove with rhyme,' 717. Red Sea, 629.
Reformadoes, 719.
Rhone, the arrowy,' xxiii. 119.
Its colour, 119 n. 759.
Rhyme, its excellence over blank
verse, 173 n. 802. Rialto, 127, 309.
Ribas, Russian admiral, 693. Ribaupierre, General, 704. Rich, Claudius, esq., his 'Memoirs on the Ruins of Babylon,' 668 n. Richards, Rev. Dr., his 'Aboriginal
Britons,' 65. Account of, 65 n. Richardson, the vainest and luckiest of authors,' 615 n. Richelieu, Duke of, his humanity at the siege of Ismail, 589, 679 n. 693 n. 699, 706 n. Richmond Hill, 80, 826. Ridge, Mr., bookseller, xv. Ridotto, description of the, 312. Rienzi, 140.
'Refreshing,' origin of the phrase, Riga, the Greek patriot, 219 n.
Regnard, his hypochondriacism, 836, 901 n.
Reichenbach, the, 135 n. Reichstadt
(Napoléon François Charles Joseph), Duke of, 574, 774n.
855 n. His Greek War-song,
* Δεύτε παῖδες, 105, and Trans- lation, 854.
Rimini, Francesca of,' 899. Ring, the matrimonial, 717. Ritchie, David, the Black Dwarf,'
of Mucklestane Moor, 488. Riva della Paglia, 385.
Reinagle, R. R., his chained eagle, River that rollest by the ancient
Roberts, Mr. (editor of the 'British Review'), 614 n. 782, 792-794. Robertson, Dr., 500 n., 671 n. Robespierre, 593 n.
Robins, George, auctioneer, 882 n. Rocca, Giovane, 169. Rochdale, xxxi.
Religion, Lord Byron's opinions on, xxix. xxxi. 39, 40, 84, 137, 296 n. 507 n., 604n., 646. Vari-Rochefoucault, Sayings of, 125 n. ableness of, 84, 668, 767. Religious opinions, folly of prosecu- tions for, 680. Rembrandt, 748.
Remember him, whom passion's power,' 865.
'Quaker, Lines to a beautiful,' 23. Remembrance,' 37.
Quakers, tenets of the, 84 n.
Quarrels of Authors,' D'Israeli's,
'Remind me not, remind me not,' 849. Remorse, 201, 526.
Rogers, Samuel, esq., his 'Plea- sures of Memory,' 62 n. 222 n. 613. His Jacqueline,' 62 n. 242 n. Dedication of the 'Giaour to, 195. His 'Columbus,' 195 n. His 'Italy' quoted, 304 n. 358 n. 467 n. 487 n. His translation of Zappi's sonuet on the Statue of Moses, 340n. Sonnet to,' 898. 'Lines to,' 904. His tribute to the memory of Lord Byron, 905 n. See also xii. n. xxii. 62, 800, 822, 862 n. 865 n. 881 n. 904. Roland, 68.
Rolandiui, 226 n. Romagna, xxvii.
Romaic, or modern Greek lan- guage, remarks on, with specimens and translations,' 104-111. Romaic dance, 97. Authors, list of, 104. War-song,' 105, 854. 'Song,' 855. 'Love song,' 864. Roman Catholic religion, 43 n. 813. Roman Daughter, story of the, 143. Romance muy doloroso del Sitio y Toma de Alhama,' translated, 889.
Romance, Lines to,' 27. Romanelli, physician, 97, 854. Rome, described, 131, 298. The city of the soul,' and 'Niobe of nations,' 136. Sackage of,
337 n. 501 n. See also, xxiv. 136 n. 499, 826.
St. Peter's, at Rome, 136 n. 143,
St. Sophia, at Constantinople, 93, 143. Not to be compared with St. Paul's Cathedral, 662. Sainte Palaye, M. de, 68. Salamanca, 619.
Romilly, Sir Samuel, 595, 733, Salamis, 197, 570, 644.
Romulus, temple of, 164, 165. Roncesvalles, 327, 726.
Rooms, large ones comfortless, 667. Roque, Monsieur, 99. Rosa Matilda, 61, 64. Rosbach, battle of, 350. Roscius, 24, 862.
Roscoe's 'Leo the Tenth,' 253 n. Roscommon, 60.
Rose, William Stewart, esq., his "Sonnet to Constantinople,' 93 n. His Essay on Whistlecraft,' 307 n. His Picture of a de- cayed Venetian Nobleman,' 393. His character of Pindemonte,
Rose-glaciers, 119 n.
'Rose-water,' 837.
Salerno, 151.
Salisbury, Countess of, 68. Salisbury Plain, 403, 825. Sallust, 689. Salonica, 99.
Salvator Rosa, 748. Salviati, Leonard, 155. Samuel, the Prophet, 256. Sandwich, Lord, 680 n. Sanguinetto, river, 134, 163. Santa Croce, 133, 156. Santa Maura, 88 n. Sanuto, extract from, 388. Sapienza, 355, 358. Sappho, 88, 598, 635. Saracens, picture of, at Newstead,
mion,' 51, 275n. His review of 'Childe Harold' in the Quar- terly,' 67 n. 797. His Vision of Don Roderick,' 76 n. The Ariosto of the North,' xxii. 131. His novels 'a new literature in themselves,' 131 n. His 'Tales | of my Landlord,' 325. His 'Black Dwarf,' 488. Dedication of 'Cain' to, 504, 506 n. His 'De- monology,' 746 n. His opinion of Don Juan,' 789. His Bridal of Triermain,' and 'Harold the Dauntless,' 804. His dog Maida, 848 n. See also, xi. xxxii. 40 n. 51 n. 63, 67, 76, 172, 179, 720, 731, 736, 742 n. 765, 876 m. Critical notes by, passim. Scott, Mr., of Aberdeen, 835. Scriptures, 506, 750.
Sculpture, 826. The most artificial of the arts, 132 n. More poetical than nature, 826. Scutari, 218 n. Sea-attorney, 637.
Saragoza, Maid of, 78, 570. Sieges Sea-coal fires, 749. of, 78 n. 82.
Ross, Rev. Mr. (Lord Byron's tutor Sardanapalus; a Tragedy, 429.
Savage, Richard, 831. Savary, 874 n. Savoy, 241, 278. Saxe, Count, 36 n. Scalanovo, Port of, 230. Scaligers, tomb of the, 571. Scamander, 656. Scandal, 600, 611. Scanderbeg, 96. Scepticism, 296.
Schaffhausen, fall of, 135 n. Schiller, his 'Ghost-seer,' 15 n. His 'Wallenstein,' 296 n. 594 n. Schlegel, Frederick, his writings, $99 n. Schlick, M., 392 n.
'School for Scandal,' 351 n. Schroepfer, 778.
Schwartzenburg, Prince, 118 n. Sciarro, Marco di, 304 n.
Sea-sickness, remedies for, 616,617. Seale, Dr. John, his 'Greek Metres,' 11.
Sea-walls between the Adriatic and
Venice, inscription on, 774 m. 'Seasons,' Thomson's, would have been better in rhyme, 173 n. 802. ; Inferior to his Castle of Indo- lence,' ib.
Seduction, 35 n. 87 n.
Ségur, Count, his character of Prince Potemkin, 694 n.
Seine, the river, 569.
Sejanus, 898.
Self-love, 682, 717.
Semiramis, 433, 668.
Seneca, 336 n.
'Sennacherib, Destruction of,' 259. . Senses, duty of not trusting the, 752. Septimius Severus, 164. Arch of 165.
Seraglio, interior of, 684, 688. Seraphin, of Periclea, 104. Serassi, his 'Life of Tasso,' ¡54. Servetus, 178.
Sesostris, 552, 567.
Sestos, 215. Lines after swim- ming from,' 853.
Scimitars, Turkish, characters on, Settle, Elkanah, 799.
Scio, isle of, 101, 215. Scipio Africanus, 499. Scipios, tomb of the, 136, 159. Scorching and drenching,' 624 n. Scorpion, 200, 201. Scotland, 189, 720. Scott, Sir Walter, his first acquaint- ance with Lord Byron, xxi. His tribute to his memory, xxii. 789. His Lay of the Last Minstrel,' 51, 90, 736, 765 n. His
'Seven before Thebes,' 300 n. Seven Towers, prison of the, 676. Seville, 77, 79, 594, 631 m. Seward, Anne, 801.
Sewell, Sir John, LL.D., 505 n. Sforza, Francesco, 468 n. Sforza, Ludovico, 279 n. Sgricci, Signor, 157. Shadwell, Sir Lancelot, 505 m. Shadwell, Thomas, 173 R. Shakspeare, 67 n., 289 m., 645, 758. His obligations to North's,
Plutarch,' 589 n. His infelici- tous marriage, 637 n. Will have his decline, 828 n. Sharpe, Richard, esq., 505 n. Shaving, miseries of, 754. She-epistle described, 751. She walks in Beauty,' 254. Shee, Sir Martin (president of the Royal Academy), his 'Rhymes on Art,' 63.
Sheffield, 55, 60.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, esq., xvii. xxviii. 396 n. 488 n. 768 n. 798, 902 n.
Slavery, 662, 663; of the great, 664.
Sleep, 628, 630, 656, 686. Sir T. Browne's encomium on, 651 n. Sligo, Marquis of, his letter on
the origin of the 'Giaour,' 195 n. Smedley, Rev. Mr., his 'Sketches of Venetian History,' 357 n. 463 -465 n.
Smith, Rev. Sidney, 56. The re- puted author of 'Peter Plymley's Letters,' 57 n. 775 n. His 'twelve- parson power,' 721 n. •Peter Pith,' 775.
Shelley, Mrs., 488 n. Her 'Fran- Smith, Mrs. Spencer, account of,
kenstein,' 818 n.
Shenstone, 801.
Sheridan, Right Hon. Richard Brinsley, 58, 880 n. 898. Com- pared with Colman, 58 n. lines on Waltzing, 194 n. eloquence, 733, 881. His 'Cri- tic,' 792. His phoenix story, 829 n. 863 n. • Monody on the Death of,' 880. Defence of, 881. His speech against Mr. Hastings, 881, 882 n. His conversation, 881 n. 'Whatever he did was the best of its kind,' 882 n. Sheridan, Thomas, esq., 58 n. Sheridan, Mrs. Thomas, her Car-
Ship of war, description of, 85, 86. Shipwreck, description of a, 617- 621.
xviii. 852 n. See Florence.'
Smith, William, esq., his attack on Mr. Southey in the House of Commons, 397, 409, 798. Smoking, 582.
Smollett, xxxii. 658, 678. Smyrna, 818.
Smythe, Professor, 64 n.
So we'll go no more a roving,' 892. Sobieski, 263.
Society, 664, 740, 741, 749, 750, 753, 759.
Socrates, 187, 491, 680, 690, 743,
Soignies, wood of (remnant of the
forest of Ardennes), 114. Solano, governor of Cadiz, his trea- chery, 82.
Southerne, dramatist, 828. Southey, Robert, esq., LL.D., his
person, manners, prose, and poetry, 52 n. His 'Old Woman of Berkeley,' 52. His Dactylics and Sapphics,' 52 n. His Ma- doc, 52, 184, 800. His 'Thala- ba,' 52, 800. His 'Joan of Arc,' 52, 173 n. 184, 800. His 'Don Roderick' and 'Life of Nelson,' 53 n. His 'Curse of Kehama,' 183, 800. His 'Wat Tyler,' 395, 397, 798. His Inscription for Henry Martin' the Regicide, 397. His 'Letter to Mr. William Smith,' 410, 798. His 'Pilgrimage to Waterloo,' 615. His 'Pantiso- cracy,' 645, 798, 799. Dedica- tion of Don Juan' to, 589. See also, 394-416, 613, 646, 719, 722, 731, 732, 795, 798, 800, 830.
Southwell, xiv., theatricals at, 24 n. Church of, 29 n. Spagnoletto, 748. Spain, xviii. 67, 82. Spartan's epitaph, 128. Speeches at Harrow, xiii. 12, 24 n. Speeches in Parliament, Lord By- ron's, 811, 813, 817. Spence's Anecdotes (Malone's edi- tion), 678 n.
Spencer, Dowager Lady, 880 n.
Solitary confinement, effects of, Spencer, Earl, 881 n. 281, 475. Spencer, William, esq., 344 n.
'Shipwreck,' Falconer's, 824, 827. Solitude, 86, 122, 130, 146, 475, Spenser, Edmund, his measure, 68,
'Song-Do you know Doctor Nott,' Spoleto, 134 n. 163.
'Song for the Luddites,' 891. 'Song of Saul before his last battle,' 256.
Songs of the Venetian gondoliers, 127, 148, 605. Sonnets-on Chillon,' 278; 'to Genevra,' 866; to Lake Le- man,' 888; from Vittorelli,' 891; 'to George the Fourth, on the repeal of Lord Edward Fitzge- rald's forfeiture,' 896; to Sa- muel Rogers, esq.,' 898.
Singing, 657. Merit of simplicity in, Sonnets, the most puling, petri-
Sporus, Pope's character of, 802. Spurzheim, Dr., 737 n. Staël, Madame de, tribute to her memory, 156. Her de l'Alle- magne,' 212 n. Her Corinne' quoted, 611. See also 644, 797, 876 n., 888 n. Stamboul (Constantinople), 93, 99. Stanhope, Hon. Col. Leicester,
xxix. xxxi. 188 n. 905 n. Stanzas :-' to a lady with the poems of Camoens,' 8; 'to Inez,' 81; Tambourgi! Tambourgi! thy larum afar,' 92; to a lady on leaving England,' 850; "to Florence,' 852; 'composed during a thunder-storm,' ib.; 'written on passing the Ambracian Gulf,' 853; 'Away, away, ye notes of woe,' 859; One struggle more, and I am free,' ib.; And thou art dead,' etc., 860; If sometimes in the haunts of men,' 861; 'Thou art not false, but thou art fickle,' 864; 'on being asked what was the origin of love,' 865, 'Remember him,' etc., ib.; 'I
speak not, I trace not,' 870, 'There be none of Beauty's daughters,' 872; Elegiac, on the death of Sir Peter Parker,' ib.; 'There's not a joy the world can give,' 873; 'on the Star of the Legion of Honour,' 875; Augusta, 878, 879; 'to her who can best understand them,' 887; 'to the Po,' 895; Could love for ever,' 896; 'written when about to join the Italian Carbo- nari,' 901; written on the road between Florence and Pisa,' 902; 'on completing my thirty-sixth year,' 904; 'to a Hindoo air,' ib.; 'I heard thy fate without a tear,' 998.
Statesmen, 775. Statius, 99.
Statues, 627.
Staubach, the, 135 n. Steam-engines, 718.
Steele, Sir Richard, 605 n. Stella, Swift's, 834. Steno, Michel, 349, 389. Sterne, 282 n. His affected
Stevenson, Sir John, 873 n. Stillingfleet, 342.
'The Conquest,' 904.
The Destruction of Sennacherib,' 259.
Suspicion, 120. Suwarrow, Field Marshal, 691, 694. His polar melody' on the cap- ture of Ismail, 710. His charac-The Devil's Drive,' 867. ter, ib. Brevity of his style, 716. The First Kiss of Love,' 8. Swift, Dr. Jonathan, xxxii., 179, The harp the monarch minstrel 690. His recipe for an epic, swept,' 254. 612 n. His Stella and Vanessa, 834. Swimming, xiv. n. 147, 466, 626, 'The spell is broke, the charm is 854 n. flown!' 853.
The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece,' 644.
Swoon, the sensation described, 626. The Wild Gazelle,' 255. Sydney, Algernon, 349 n. 'The world is a bundle of hay,' 897. Sylla, 136, 312 n. 703, 869 n. Theatrical representations, the first, Sympathy, 631, 755. 177 n. Symplegades, 146, 573, 662, 825. Thebes, xviii. 94, 99, 103. Syracuse, 128. Thelusson, Mr., 395 n.
Switzerland and the Swiss, 119- Themistocles, tomb of, 196. Lines
Tacitus, 114 n. 814. 'Tact,' 610. Tagus, the rive, 72. Tahiri, Dervish, 97.
sensi-Talavera, 76.
Stoddart, Sir John, LL.D., 780. Stoics, 664.
Stonehenge, 729, 825.
Tambourgi, Tambourgi, thy larum Theseus, temple of, 188, 188 n.
Storm, 122, 620 n. Aspect of one Tamerlane, 579, 870n.
Tarpeian rock, 139. Tarquin, 350, 601.
Tasso, 130, 131, 148, 154, 301-- 304, 338, 801. Lament of, 301. Tassoni, 799 n. Tattersall, Rev. John Cecil (Lord Byron's school acquaintance), xiii.
Tavell, Rev. G. F. (Lord Byron's college tutor), 176. Taxation, 637.
Tea, prophetic powers of, 653. 'Tear, The,' 25. Tears, 673, 719,
Telemachus, the monk, 168.
'This day, of all our days,' 901. Thomson, 224. His Seasons' would have been better in rhyme, 802.
Thornton, Thomas, esq., character of his State of the Ottoman Empire,' 100, 101. Thou are not false, but thou art fickle,' 864.
Though the day of my destiny's over!' 879.
Thoughts suggested by a College Examination,' 22.
Thrasimene, lake of, 133, 134. Battle of, 162. Thrasybulus, 381.
Throgmorton, Mrs., 829.
'Through cloudless skies, in silvery
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