lose all embellishment; leaving the present nothing but a dreary and savage waste; almost as terrifying to the imagination, as a cavern full of serpents. Death, on the other hand, presenting to our acceptance oblivion for the past, and a beautiful perspective for the future, is "the nightingale flower" of existence: when, therefore, it does arrive, may we, in the soundness of our reason, still retain the fervour of our hopes, and reap the harvest of our thoughts. Then shall we hail the sacredness of its coming, as a weary pilgrim hails the sun's blushing orb behind the temple of Jerusalem!-Let us then, my Lelius, endeavour to divest ourselves of that fear of death, which afflicts the imagination of men so powerfully; and, throwing off the trammels of association, let us accustom ourselves to regard it, as an instrument of emancipation from a frail and anxious being; as the only means of renovating our youth; and as a translation to perpetual joy. INDEX TO VOL. IV. Abbey, Melrose, 173 Abruzzo, the shepherds of, 207 Adam leaving the garden of Eden, 3 Agincourt, battle of, 64 Akenside, 161 Alcmeon, his opinion of the soul, 301 Aminta, the, of Tasso, 36 Angelo, Michael, 316 Angelo, Victor's, opinion in respect Animals, exhibition of, 11. Lon- Antiquities, 41 Antoninus, Marcus, 316 Apennines, summit of, 57 Arsasees, 75 Arabia, antiquities of, 42 Archelous, 301 Architecture, duration of, 292 Arctic regions, natives of, little or Arthur, 73 Babylon, ruins of, 220 Ballads, ancient, 13 Bangor, massacre of the monks at, 67 Banyans, the, axioms of, 330 Barberini vase, 312 Bat, a scarlet, found in a cherry Beattie, Dr. passages from, 17, 121, Bed of sickness, the, 138 Beetle, a live, found in a tree, 289 Benserade, his gardens at Gentilly, Berkeley castle, 65 Bernadotte, the pleasures of his Bird, passage from, 299 Black Prince, the, 73 Blenheim, field of battle of, 69 Bog-berry, associations in respect Bolotoo, residence of the gods, 308 Borgia, Count Camille, 43 Brachmans, their opinion of death, Bramins, classed with the druids, 20 Brun, Le, 47 Buildings, the Roman, 100 Burke, 157 Change, 225. Geological, 228, 229, Change, one of the great laws of the Channel, English, the, 51 China, antiquities of, 42 Cincinnati, antiquities at, 45 Claudia Ruffina, 66 Clemens Alexandrius, his opinion of Burnet, 303. His opinion in respect Coins, gold, dug up in Kentucky, 45 to the phoenix, 311 Burning of women, 329 Scottish battles, 66 Colonna, near Capel Curig, 16 Burns, his visits to the scites of the Colton, passage from, 294 Conspiracy of low societies against genius, 20 Constantinople, 92 Cordova, 85 Corinth, 210 Cottage, a, in ruins, 22 Crabbe, passage from, 15, 25, 123 Cressy, field of battle of, 68 Cumberland, 106 Cupid and Pysche, fable of, 311 Czar Peter, 55 Dactyli, fouud in solid stones, 289 Dante, the pleasure of his early Dardanelles, the, 92 Chaldeans, their worship of the Darwin, 313. Economy of vege- Ceylon, antiquities of, 43 sun, 189 Chaldee paraphrase, 311 tation, 86 Day, a, among mountains, 112 Gades of Spain, 329 Galen, his opinion of the soul, Galla of Abyssinia, 303 Ganganelli, an analogy of, 302 Gauls, their opinion of death, 329 Genevieve, misfortunes of, 39 Germanicus at Actium, 47 Germany, antiquities of, 41 Gibbon among the ruins of Rome, 5. His opinion of hope, 38 Glyder Vawr, 234 Government, various forms of, 12 Hipparchus, his idea of the duration Juvenal, 328 of the world, 264 Hobbes, 332 Home, Sir Everard, 44 Hope ruins more men than despair, Human frame, duration of, 293 Hungary, antiquities of, 41 Hunter, Dr., his opinion of death, Hurd, his benevolence, 105 Iceland, 231 Ice plant, the, 23 Imagination, the, 134. Subjects on Independence of character, 153 Inn, the, at Brisack, 136 Ireland, antiquities of, 41 Irish, their opinion of death, 330 Jacqueline, Roger's, 124 Javans, their opinion of the soul,309. Jerrasch, ruins of, 42 Jerusalem, 222. In the day of her Jews, the, their belief, 263. Num- Jezides, the black, 329 Job, his opinion in respect to futu- Jones, Sir Wm., passage from, 164 Mackenzie, Sir A., his discovery, 276 Mahometans, number of, 304. Why Man, the masterpiece of nature, 297. |