Miller’s Old Red Sandstone, 103
Milman’s History of the Jews, 377, 378
Milton’s Areopagitica and other Prose Works, 795
Milton’s Poems, 384
Mommsen’s History of Rome, 542-545
Montagu’s (Lady) Letters, 69
Montaigne, Florio’s, 440-442
More’s Utopia, and Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation, 461
Morier’s Hajji Baba, 679
Morris’ (Wm.) Early Romances, 261
“ Life and Death of Jason, 575
Motley’s Dutch Republic, 86-88
Mulock’s John Halifax, 123
Neale’s Fall of Constantinople, 655
Newcastle’s (Margaret, Duchess of) Life of the First Duke of
Newcastle, etc., 722
Newman’s Apologia Pro Vita Sua, 636
“ On the Scope and Nature of University Education,
and a Paper on Christianity and Scientific Investigation, 723
Oliphant’s Salem Chapel, 244
Osborne (Dorothy), Letters of, 674
Owen’s A New View of Society, etc., 799
Paine’s Rights of Man, 718
Palgrave’s Golden Treasury, 96
Paltock’s Peter Wilkins, 676
Park (Mungo), Travels of, 205
Parkman’s Conspiracy of Pontiac, 302, 303
Parry’s Letters of Dorothy Osborne, 674
Paston’s Letters, 752, 753
Paton’s Two Morte D’Arthur Romances, 634
Peacock’s Headlong Hall, 327
Penn’s The Peace of Europe, Some Fruits of Solitude, etc., 724
Pepys’ Diary, 53, 54
Percy’s Reliques, 148, 149
Pitt’s Orations, 145
Plato’s Republic, 64
“ Dialogues, 456, 457
Plutarch’s Lives, 407-409
“ Moralia, 565
Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination, 336
Poe’s Poems and Essays, 791
Polo’s (Marco) Travels, 306
Pope’s Complete Poetical Works, 760
Prelude to Poetry, 789
Prescott’s Conquest of Peru, 301
“ Conquest of Mexico, 397, 398
Procter’s Legends and Lyrics, 150
Rawlinson’s Herodotus, 405, 406
Reade’s The Cloister and the Hearth, 29
“ Peg Woffington, 299
Reid’s (Mayne) Boy Hunters of the Mississippi, 582
Reid’s (Mayne) The Boy Slaves, 797
Renan’s Life of Jesus, 805
Reynolds’ Discourses, 118
Rhys’ Fairy Gold, 157
“ New Golden Treasury, 695
“ Anthology of British Historical Speeches and Orations, 714
“ Political Liberty, 745
“ Golden Treasury of Longer Poems, 746
Ricardo’s Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, 590
Richardson’s Pamela, 683, 684
Roberts’ (Morley) Western Avernus, 762
Robertson’s Religion and Life, 37
“ Christian Doctrine, 38
“ Bible Subjects, 39
Robinson’s (Wade) Sermons, 637
Roget’s Thesaurus, 630, 631
Rossetti’s (D. G.) Poems, 627
Rousseau’s Emile, on Education, 518
“ Social Contract and Other Essays, 660
Ruskin’s Seven Lamps of Architecture, 207
“ Modern Painters, 208-212
“ Stones of Venice, 213-215
“ Unto this Last, etc., 216
“ Elements of Drawing, etc., 217
“ Pre-Raphaelitism, etc., 218
“ Sesame and Lilies, 219
“ Ethics of the Dust, 282
“ Crown of Wild Olive, and Cestus of Aglaia, 323
“ Time and Tide, with other Essays, 450
“ The Two Boyhoods, 688
Russell’s Life of Gladstone, 661
Russian Short Stories, 758
Sand’s (George) The Devil’s Pool, and François the Waif, 534
Scheffel’s Ekkehard: A Tale of the 10th Century, 529
Scott’s (M.) Tom Cringle’s Log, 710
Scott’s (Sir W.) Ivanhoe, 16
“ Fortunes of Nigel, 71
“ Woodstock, 72
“ Waverley, 75
“ The Abbot, 124
“ Anne of Geierstein, 125
“ The Antiquary, 126
“ Highland Widow, and Betrothed, 127
“ Black Dwarf, Legend of Montrose, 128
“ Bride of Lammermoor, 129
“ Castle Dangerous, Surgeon’s Daughter, 130
“ Robert of Paris, 131
“ Fair Maid of Perth, 132
“ Guy Mannering, 133
“ Heart of Midlothian, 134
“ Kenilworth, 135
“ The Monastery, 136
“ Old Mortality, 137
“ Peveril of the Peak, 138
“ The Pirate, 139
“ Quentin Durward, 140
“ Redgauntlet, 141
“ Rob Roy, 142
“ St. Ronan’s Well, 143
“ The Talisman, 144
“ Lives of the Novelists, 331
“ Poems and Plays, 550, 551
Seebohm’s Oxford Reformers, 665
Seeley’s Ecce Homo, 305
Sewell’s (Anna) Black Beauty, 748
Shakespeare’s Comedies, 153
“ Histories, etc., 154
“ Tragedies, 155
Shelley’s Poetical Works, 257, 258
Shelley’s (Mrs.) Frankenstein, 616
Sheppard’s Charles Auchester, 505
Sheridan’s Plays, 95
Sismondi’s Italian Republics, 250
Smeaton’s Life of Shakespeare, 514
Smith’s A Dictionary of Dates, 554
Smith’s Wealth of Nations, 412, 413
Smith’s (George) Life of Wm. Carey, 395
Smith’s (Sir Wm.) Smaller Classical Dictionary, 495
Smollett’s Roderick Random, 790
Sophocles, Young’s, 114
Southey’s Life of Nelson, 52
Speke’s Source of the Nile, 50
Spence’s Dictionary of Non-Classical Mythology, 632
Spencer’s (Herbert) Essays on Education, 504
Spenser’s Faerie Queene, 443, 444
Spinoza’s Ethics, etc., 481
Spyri’s Heidi, 431
Stanley’s Memorials of Canterbury, 89
“ Eastern Church, 251
Steele’s The Spectator, 164-167
Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, 617
Sterne’s Sentimental Journey and Journal to Eliza, 796
Stevenson’s Treasure Island and Kidnapped, 763
“ Master of Ballantrae and the Black Arrow, 764
“ Virginibus Puerisque and Familiar Studies of Men and Books, 765
“ An Inland Voyage, Travels with a Donkey, and Silverado
Squatters, 766
“ Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Merry Men, etc., 767
“ Poems, 768
“ In the South Seas and Island Nights’ Entertainments, 769
St. Francis, The Little Flowers of, etc., 485
Stopford Brooke’s Theology in the English Poets, 493
Stow’s Survey of London, 589
Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 371
Strickland’s Queen Elizabeth, 100
Swedenborg’s Heaven and Hell, 379
“ Divine Love and Wisdom, 635
“ Divine Providence, 658
Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, 60
“ Journal to Stella, 757
“ Tale of a Tub, etc., 347
Tacitus’ Annals, 273
“ Agricola and Germania, 274
Taylor’s Words and Places, 517
Tennyson’s Poems, 44, 626
Thackeray’s Esmond, 73
“ Vanity Fair, 298
“ Christmas Books, 359
“ Pendennis, 425, 426
“ Newcomes, 465, 466
“ The Virginians, 507, 508
“ English Humorists, and The Four Georges, 610
“ Roundabout Papers, 687
Thierry’s Norman Conquest, 198, 199
Thoreau’s Walden, 281
Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War, 455
Tolstoy’s Master and Man, and Other Parables and Tales, 469
“ War and Peace, 525-527
“ Childhood, Boyhood and Youth, 591
“ Anna Karenina, 612, 613
Trench’s On the Study of Words and English Past and Present, 788
Trollope’s Barchester Towers, 30
“ Framley Parsonage, 181
“ Golden Lion of Granpere, 761
“ The Warden, 182
“ Dr. Thorne, 360
“ Small House at Allington, 361
“ Last Chronicles of Barset, 391, 392
Trotter’s The Bayard of India, 396
“ Hodson, of Hodson’s Horse, 401
“ Warren Hastings, 452
Turgeniev’s Virgin Soil, 528
“ Liza, 677
“ Fathers and Sons, 742
Tyndall’s Glaciers of the Alps, 98
Tytler’s Principles of Translation, 168
Vasari’s Lives of the Painters, 784-7
Verne’s (Jules) Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, 319
“ Dropped from the Clouds, 367
“ Abandoned, 368
“ The Secret of the Island, 369
“ Five Weeks in a Balloon and Around the World in Eighty Days, 779
Virgil’s Æneid, 161
“ Eclogues and Georgics, 222
Voltaire’s Life of Charles XII., 270
“ Age of Louis XIV., 780
Wace and Layamon’s Arthurian Chronicles, 578
Walpole’s Letters, 775
Walton’s Compleat Angler, 70
Waterton’s Wanderings in South America, 772
Wesley’s Journal, 105-108
White’s Selborne, 48
Whitman’s Leaves of Grass (I.) and Democratic Vistas, etc., 573
Whyte-Melville’s Gladiators, 523
Wood’s (Mrs. Henry) The Channings, 84
Woolman’s Journal, etc., 402
Wordsworth’s Shorter Poems, 203
“ Longer Poems, 311
Wright’s An Encyclopædia of Gardening, 555
Xenophon’s Cyropædia, 672
Yonge’s The Dove in the Eagle’s Nest, 329
“ The Book of Golden Deeds, 330
“ The Heir of Redclyffe, 362
“ The Little Duke, 470
“ The Lances of Lynwood, 579
Young’s (Arthur) Travels in France and Italy, 720
Young’s (Sir George) Sophocles, 114
The New Testament, 93.
Ancient Hebrew Literature, 4 vols., 253-256.
English Short Stories. An Anthology, 743.
Everyman’s English Dictionary, 776
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] Lib. 2. in Timæum Platonis, as cited by Junius de Pictura Veterum.
R.
[2] Essays, p. 252, edit. 1625.
[3] “Those,” says Quintilian, “who are taken with the outward show of
things, think that there is more beauty in persons, who are trimmed,
curled, and painted, than uncorrupt nature can give; as if beauty were
merely the effect of the corruption of manners.” R.
[4] Dicendo, che molto gli piaceva il colorito suo, e la maniera;
mà che era un peccato, che a Venezia non s’imparasse da principio a
disegnare bene, e che non havessano que’ pittori miglior modo nello
studio. Vas. tom. iii. p. 226. Vita di Tiziano.
[5] Nelle cose della pittura, stravagante, capriccioso, presto, e
resoluto, et il più terrible cervello, che habbia havuto mai la
pittura, come si può vedere in tutte le sue opere; e ne’ componimenti
delle storie, fantastiche, e fatte da lui diversamente, e fuori
dell’ uso degli altri pittori: anzi hà superato la stravaganza, con
le nuove, e capricciose inventioni, e strani ghiribizzi del suo
intelleto, che ha lavorato a caso, e senza disegno, quasi monstrando
che quest’ arte è una baia.
[6] Que cette application singulière n’était qu’un obstacle pour
empêcher de parvenir au véritable but de la peinture, et celui qui
s’attache au principal, acquiert par la pratique une assez belle
manière de peindre. Conférence de l’Acad. Franç.
[7] A more detailed character of Rubens may be found in the “Journey
to Flanders and Holland,” near the conclusion. M.
[8] Sed non qui maxime imitandus, etiam solus imitandus
est.--QUINTILIAN.
[9] In the Cabinet of the Earl of Ashburnham.
[10] In the Cabinet of Sir Peter Burrel.
[11] Dr. Goldsmith.
[12] Nulla ars, non alterius artis, aut mater, aut propinqua
est.--TERTULL, as cited by JUNIUS.
[13] Omnes artes quæ ad humanitatem pertinent, habent quoddam commune
vinculum, et quasi cognatione inter se continentur.--CICERO.
[14] Put off thy shoes from off thy feet; for the place whereon thou
standest is holy ground.--EXODUS, iii. 5.
[15] Discourses II. and VI.
[16] This was inadvertently said. I did not recollect the admirable
treatise “On the Sublime and Beautiful.”
[17] Sir William Chambers.
[18] See “Il reposo di Raffaelle Borghini.”
[19] Some years after this Discourse was written, Bernini’s “Neptune”
was purchased for our author at Rome, and brought to England. After
his death it was sold by his Executors for £500 to Charles Anderson
Pelham, Esq., now Lord Yarborough. M.
[20] Discourse III.
[21] In Ben Jonson’s “Catiline” we find this aphorism, with a slight
variation:
“A serpent, ere he comes to be a dragon,
Must eat a bat.” M.
[22] The addition of _accio_ denotes some deformity or imperfection
attending that person to whom it is applied. R.
[23]
Towers and battlements it sees
Bosom’d high in tufted trees.--MILTON, “L’Allegro.” R.
[24] Mr. Hodges.
[25] This fine picture was in our author’s collection; and was
bequeathed by him to Sir George Beaumont, Bart. M.
[26] Dr. Johnson.
[27] James Harris, Esq. R.
[28] Pictura quoque non alium exitum fecit, postquam Ægyptiorum
audacia tam magnæ artis compendiariam invenit. R.
[29] _Che Raffaelle non ebbe quest’ arte da natura, ma per longo
studio._ R.
[30] Unfortunately for mankind, these _were_ the last words pronounced
by this great painter from the Academical chair. He died about
fourteen months after this Discourse was delivered. M.