Abuse, not an argument against the use of things, 96. Actors, as conversers, 10. Adams, John Q. 254. Addison, his conversation, 12; his care in writing, 117; his fondness for Bayle's Diction- ary, 195; his worldly success, 228; his failure as an orator,
Alba, Duke of, his cruelty, 74. Alcibiades, his conversation, 15. American literature, its defects, 161.
Andrew Fletcher, 205. Angelo, Michael, 170. Anglo-Saxon race, the, unsympa- thetic, 144.
Anjou, François, Duke of, 264. Aquinas, Thomas, 193. Argyle, the Duke of, as an ora- tor, 206.
Artists, their coarseness, 180. Authors, as conversers, 9-15; their writings not always a key to their dispositions, 170, 174, 179; their poverty, 233, 234; advice to, 235, 236. Authorship, examples of unpro- fitable, 224; its remuneration in France, 231; not ill-paid, 224-238; often a pis-aller, 234; its prerequisites, 235, 236; not incompatible with vulgar cares, 236.
Baillie, Joanna, quoted, 14-33; on Mackintosh's talk, 29. Beattie, Dr. James, his literary criticisms, 243.
Beaumont, Francis, on the con- versation at the "Mermaid" tavern, 20.
Beecher, Dr. Lyman, his wit, 191. Beecher, Henry Ward, his wit, 191; his elocution, 205. Beethoven, a slow composer, 113;
anecdote of, 113. Bentley's Miscellany, 33. Béranger, a laborious writer, 118. Beresford, author of 'Miseries of Human Life," 181. Bergerac, Cyrano de, 264. Berkeley, Bishop, on elocution, 206.
Blanc, Louis, on Robespierre, 130. Blanchard, Laman, 173, 225. Blucher, Field Marshal, his de- feat at Ligny, 276.
Boasters, not always cowards, 72. Boileau, epigram by, 59. Bon mots, their power in France, 141.
Book, one, value of its exclusive
Books, their cheapness not wholly a blessing, 199; communion with, 199.
Booth, Junius Brutus, the elder, his reading of the Lord's Pray-. er, 203. Bossuet, his labor in writing, 117. Bravery, sometimes associated with cruelty, 73, 74. Brougham, Lord, his nose, 268 Brown, Dr. Thomas, 168.
Bacon, Lord, his essays, 23; his Browne, Sir Thomas, on Physi-
Buckle, Henry Thomas, his con- | Chateaubriand, his occasional versation, 41. Buffon, 12, 24; a fastidious Chatham, Lord, his conversation, writer, 118.
Burke, Edmund, his conversa- tion, 40, 41; his fastidiousness as a writer, 117; on the French idealism in government, 154, 155; a type of the English mind, 158; on political ab- stractions, 158.
Burns, Robert, his conversation, 27, 28; a fastidious writer, 116. Burton, Robert, his Anatomy of Melancholy, 221.
Bushnell, Dr. Horace, 204, 205. Butler, Samuel, his conversation, 13; on the tongue, 1; epi- gram on, 61; his miseries, 172. Byron, Lord, his conversation, 28; on De Stael's, 34; a rapid writer, 110; his opinion of his poems, 169; his melancholy, 172; on originality, 220; his income, 230; his literary criti- cisms, 240, 245.
Cæsar, Julius, 16, 169. Calvin, John, contrasted with Luther, 148, 190. Campbell, Thomas, his conversa- tion, 14; a fastidious writer, 116; his opinion touching his masterpiece, 169, 170; his worldly success, 230. Canning, George, his labor on his speeches, 119. Canova, sculptor, 168.
Carlini, actor, anecdote of, 173. Carlyle, Thomas, his conversa- tion, 39.
Cellini, Benvenuto, his boastful- ness, 73.
Chalmers, Dr. Thomas, 203, 220, 254.
Charles II., on Butler's conversa- tion, 13.
40; his fondness for Barrow, 195.
Chaucer, 219, 227. Cheerfulness, its value, 186, 187. Chesterfield, Lord, on laughter, 190; his oratory, 206. Christina, of Sweden, saying of,
Cicero, his conversation, 16. Clarendon, Lord, 195. Cleveland, John, his epigram on the Scots, 60.
Clubs, literary, 44-52; when ob- jectionable, 44-46; the London "Literary Club," 46; advan- tages of, 46, 52. Cobbett, William, on writing, 108.
Coincidences, literary, 221, 222. Coleridge, S T., his conversation, 34-36; on the French, 121; his indebtedness to Collins, 195; a literary borrower, 220; why always poor, 230; his nose, 263. Composition, literary, hints on,
107-8; speed in, 109-113; ex- acts labor, 114; also time, 120. "Contentment better than rich- es," a fallacy, 79. Conversation, of authors, 9-15; of actors, 10; of the ancients, 15; requisites of good, 40; the art dying out, 42-43; neces- sary to culture, 50-52. Conversers, the great, 9-43; need of a work on, 9; authors and actors not good, 10. Cooper, Fennimore, 220. Corneille, 12;
Courier, Paul Louis, his style, 138.
Cowley, Abraham, his conversa- tion, 24.
Cowper, William, his conversa tion, 12; on care in writing, 116; his mental gloom, 171; his bashfulness, 252.
Criticism, curiosities of, 239-248;, Dualism, in men's lives, 168-185. how biased, 239; rarity of Duclos, on papal elections, 101. genuine, 247. Duelling, repressed by satire, 164.
Cromwell, Oliver, 102, 104; con- trasted with the French revo- lutionists, 147.
Curran, John Philpot, his first speech, 252. Cuvier, 102.
David, painter, 168. De Maistre, Count Joseph, on France in 1796, 122; on the proselytism of the French, 143; on the French Constitutions, 157. Demogeot, J., on French civiliza- tion, 142.
Demosthenes, 195.
Denham, Sir John, on Cowley and Killigrew, 24. De Quincey, Thomas, on Cole- ridge's conversation, 35; his own conversation, 38-39; on his own physiognomy, 86; on improvisation, 112; on the in- vention of types, 213. Descartes, 12.
De Stael, Madame, her conversa- tion, 34.
DeTocqueville, Alexis, on the French, 124. Dickens, Charles, 230. Difficulty, a blessing, 97. Diogenes, his sayings, 15. Disraeli, Benjamin, epigrams on, 64, 65.
Disraeli, Isaac, quoted. Dissatisfaction, a law of life, 81. Dolabella, 16. Domitian, 178.
Dorset, the Earl of, on Butler's
conversation, 13. Drudgery, the Bishop of Exeter on, 119.
Dryden, John, his conversation, 12; his elocution, 202; his in- come, 228.
Dugazon, actor, on noses, 270.
Economy, private, a public bless- ing, 78.
Eldon, Lord, epigram on, 58; on public speaking, 254.
Ellis, George, his conversation, 28.
Eloquence, the heart its source, 208.
Elphinstone, Bishop, 187. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, on origi- nality, 217.
Emmons, Dr. Nathaniel, his wit, 191.
English periodicals, their solem- nity, 159, 160.
English, the, their slowness, 127; their pertinacity, 128; their gruffness, 133; their hospital- ity, 133; good colonizers, 135; inferiority of their writers as stylists to the French, 138; their wealth, 138; their nar- rowness, 144; their orators com- pared with those of the French, 149; defects of their literature, 152, 153; their contempt of po- litical abstractions, 155; their political inconsistencies, 156; their legislation, 157; their love of precedents, 157. Epigrams, 53-71; why good ones are rare, 53; their requisites, 54; the changes they have un- dergone, 55; collection of, by Rev. J. Booth, 55; Martial's, 56-58; neatness of the French, 59; surprise an element of, 60; the great age of, 61; on Marl- borough, 61, 62; on names, when formidable, 68, 69; why nearly obsolete, 69-71. Erasmus, 163.
Fallacies, popular, 72-84. Fénélon, a rapid writer, 111. Fielding, Henry, 247. Foote, Samuel, 17.
Foster, John, his conversation, 37. Fox, Chas. James, his conversa- tion, 40; on Burke's, 41; on the French, 136.
France, the focus of civilization, 142; the interpreter between England and mankind, 142, 143.
Francis, Sir Philip, 252. French, the, their versatility, 122, 123; their paradoxical char- acter, 123, 124; described by De Tocqueville, 124; caricatured by the English, 125; the lead- ing nation of Europe, 125; their mercurial nature, 126; their lack of patience, 127; 128; their fondness for the theatrical, 128-132; their van- ity, 132; contrasted with the English, 132; their love of glory, 132; their self-con- sciousness, 133; their divorce of profession and practice, 134; their dependence on others for happiness, 134 their gregari- ousness, 134; their failure as colonizers, 135; their litera- ture, 137-143; clearness of their literary style, 139, their sociality, 140; their superiority in conversation and letter- writing, 140; their brilliant wit, 140; their appreciation of foreign ideas, 141; their spirit of proselytism, 143; their sym- pathy with the down-trodden, 143; their preeminence as lo- gicians, 145, 147; their ten- dency to scepticism, 146; their
lack of profound convictions, 147; their dogmatism, 148; their preeminence as orators, 148; their inferiority in poetry, 149, 151; their passion for ab- stract ideas, 151-153; their idealism in politics, 153, 154, 157.
French language, its defects, 146, 151.
French traits, 121-158. Frenchwomen, their coquetry, 131.
Fuller, Margaret, on Carlyle's conversation, 40.
Galiani, the Abbé, his definition of sublime oratory, 7. Garrick, David, on Adam Smith's conversation, 13. Garrow, Baron, 59. Gay, John, his epitaph, 172. Gauls, the, described by Julius Cæsar, 128.
Genest, the Abbé, 263, 264. Genius, men of, their self-igno- rance, 169.
Germanic literatures, their merits and defects, 150, 151. German writers, their obscurity, 139, 140.
Gibbon, the historian, a rapid writer; his failure as an ora- tor, 251; his nose, 266. Gifford, his critical judgments, 244.
Girardet, painter, 168. Godliness, true, is cheerful, 186. Godwin, William, his talk, 13; a rapid writer, 111; his nose, 265.
Goethe, John Wolfgang, 70; on originality, 217; his borrow- ings, 221.
Goldsmith, Oliver, as a converser, 12, 13; on Johnson's conversa- tion, 12; on Burke's, 41; his care in composition, 115; on the solemnity of contemporary
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