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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
Acid, muriatic, 273

Adam leaving the garden of Eden, 3
Adversity, 31

Agincourt, battle of, 64
Ajax, tomb of, 86

Akenside, 161

Alcmeon, his opinion of the soul, 301
Alexander, travels to visit the tu-
mulus of Achilles, 103
Alexander the Sixth, Pope, 6
Alexandrian Platonists, their opi-
nion of the soul, 301
Alfred surprising the Danes, 58
America, North, antiquities of, 44
America, 61

Aminta, the, of Tasso, 36
Andromache, 57

Angelo, Michael, 316

Angelo, Victor's, opinion in respect
to, 302

Animals, exhibition of, 11. Lon-
gevity, 286, 287. Pithing of, 313
Animation, suspension of, 291
Antioch, 90

Antiquities, 41

Antoninus, Marcus, 316

Apennines, summit of, 57

Arsasees, 75

Arabia, antiquities of, 42
Arch-Druid, the, 10

Archelous, 301

Architecture, duration of, 292

Arctic regions, natives of, little or
no ideas of a Supreme Being, 309
Arezzo, 79

Arthur, 73

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Babylon, ruins of, 220
Baillie, passage from, 176
Bajazet, 53

Ballads, ancient, 13

Bangor, massacre of the monks at, 67
Bannockburn, 71

Banyans, the, axioms of, 330
Barbauld, Mrs., the author's grati-
tude to, 324

Barberini vase, 312
Barthelemy, Abbé, 8

Bat, a scarlet, found in a cherry
tree, 290

Beattie, Dr. passages from, 17, 121,
228

Bed of sickness, the, 138

Beetle, a live, found in a tree, 289
Belisarius, his letter to Totilus, 48
Benin, natives of, in respect to the
soul, 305

Benserade, his gardens at Gentilly,
27

Berkeley castle, 65

Bernadotte, the pleasures of his
early years, 27

Bird, passage from, 299
Birth-places of men of genius, 56
Biscayans, their rejoicing at fune-
rals, 331

Black Prince, the, 73

Blenheim, field of battle of, 69
Boethius, 300

Bog-berry, associations in respect
to the, 25

Bolotoo, residence of the gods, 308
Borghese, the villa, 27

Borgia, Count Camille, 43
Boulogne, birth-place of Godfrey,
king of Lorraine, 73
Bracciolini, Poggio, 5

Brachmans, their opinion of death,
329

Bramins, classed with the druids, 20
Bruce, Robert, 71

Brun, Le, 47

Buildings, the Roman, 100

Burke, 157

Change, 225. Geological, 228, 229,
230. Chemical, 272. Vegetable,
276. Animal, 277.

Change, one of the great laws of the
universe, 206

Channel, English, the, 51
Chatterton, the house in which he
was born, 105
Chelmsford, 65

China, antiquities of, 42
Christians, number of, 304
Churchill, Gen., his life, 69
Cicero, passage from, 1. His voyage
to Greece, 60. His opinion of
the soul, 306

Cincinnati, antiquities at, 45
Clarke, demonstration of his, 271
Claude, his landscapes characterized,
36

Claudia Ruffina, 66

Clemens Alexandrius, his opinion of
the soul, 301

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
Colosseum, the, 7

Burns, his visits to the scites of the Colton, passage from, 294

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Conspiracy of low societies against

genius, 20

Constantinople, 92

Cordova, 85

Corinth, 210

Cottage, a, in ruins, 22
Courtiers of Caubul, 32

Crabbe, passage from, 15, 25, 123
Crassus, 102

Cressy, field of battle of, 68
Crichton, Dr., 291

Cumberland, 106

Cupid and Pysche, fable of, 311
Cyrus, his injunction on the bed of
death, 331

Czar Peter, 55

Dactyli, fouud in solid stones, 289
Dale, poetical passage from, 226
Damascus, 216

Dante, the pleasure of his early
years, 27. His opiniou of hope,
38

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

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Gades of Spain, 329

Galen, his opinion of the soul,
301

Galla of Abyssinia, 303

Ganganelli, an analogy of, 302
Gardens of Benserade, 29
Gascoigny, sky of, 89

Gauls, their opinion of death, 329
Gems and cameos of Cupid and
Psyche, 311

Genevieve, misfortunes of, 39

Germanicus at Actium, 47

Germany, antiquities of, 41

Gibbon among the ruins of Rome, 5.

His opinion of hope, 38
Glendower, 66

Glyder Vawr, 234
GOD, existence of, 322
Godolphin, Lord, 69
Goëthe, 106

Government, various forms of, 12
Grampian mountains, the, 71
Gray, passage from, 97, 297
Great, observations on the, 35
Greece, 92. Antiquities of, 42
Grenada, 83.

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Hipparchus, his idea of the duration Juvenal, 328

of the world, 264

Hobbes, 332

Home, Sir Everard, 44

Hope ruins more men than despair,
34. Pleasures of, 38. The ne-
penthe of the heart, 50
Hornstein, Baron, buried alive, 291
Hotspur, where slain, 63
Hubert, Mons. 289

Human frame, duration of, 293
Humboldt, Baron de, his pleasure
at seeing the constellation of the
cross, 29

Hungary, antiquities of, 41

Hunter, Dr., his opinion of death,
331

Hurd, his benevolence, 105
Hymn to the Moon, 267

Iceland, 231

Ice plant, the, 23

Imagination, the, 134. Subjects on
which it delights to dwell, 107.
Pleasures of, 2-13
Immortalitate, animi de, 304
Immortality, 296

Independence of character, 153
Indians, their opinion in respect to
the soul, 305

Inn, the, at Brisack, 136
Inscription, 144

Ireland, antiquities of, 41

Irish, their opinion of death, 330
Ironside, Edward, 66
Ismaelites, manners of, 67

Jacqueline, Roger's, 124
Java, antiquities of, 43
Javan inscription, 309

Javans, their opinion of the soul,309.
Customs at funerals, 330
Japanese, their opinion of the soul,
310

Jerrasch, ruins of, 42

Jerusalem, 222. In the day of her
misery, 38

Jews, the, their belief, 263. Num-
ber of, 304

Jezides, the black, 329

Job, his opinion in respect to futu-
rity, 305

Jones, Sir Wm., passage from, 164

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Mackenzie, Sir A., his discovery, 276
Madonna Pia, legend of, 80
Magi classed with the druids, 20
Magnet, fluid of the, 322

Mahometans, number of, 304. Why
they hate portraits, 309
Maldive islands, the, 278
Man of taste, 14

Man, the masterpiece of nature, 297.
A god in exile, 316
Mantua, groves of, 13
Marlborough, Duke of, 64
Marmontel, his Shepherdess of the
Alps, 22. His recollections, 30
Marseilles, cause of its rise, 10
Martyr, P., passage from, 14
Mary, queen of Scots, 104
Maximin, 75
Medals, age of, 292

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