PARAPHRASE OF A PASSAGE IN THE CHRONICLE OF THE MONK OF ST. GALL. (1856.)
[In the summer of 1856, the author travelled with a friend through Lombardy. As they were on the road between Novara and Milan, they were conversing on the subject of The the legends relating to that country. author remarked to his companion that Mr. Panizzi, in the Essay on the Romantic Narrative Poetry of the Italians, prefixed to his edition of Bojardo, had pointed out an instance of the conversion of ballad poetry into prose narrative which strongly confirmed the theory of Perizonius and Niebuhr, upon which "The Lays of Ancient Rome" are founded; and, after repeating an extract which Mr. Panizzi has given from the chronicle of "The Monk of St. Gall," he proceeded to frame a metrical paraphrase. The note in Mr. Panizzi's work (vol. i. p. 123, note b) is here copied verbatim.]
"The monk says that Oger was with Desiderius, King of Lombardy, watching the advance of Charlemagne's army. The king often asked Oger where was Charlemagne. Quando videris, inquit, segetem campis inhorrescere, ferreum Padum et Ticinum marinis fluctibus ferro nigrantibus muros civitatis inundantes, tunc est spes Caroli venientis. His nedum expletis primum ad occasum Circino vel Borea cœpit apparere, quasi nubes tenebrosa, quæ diem clarissimam horrentes convertit in umbras. Sed propiante Imperatore, ex armorum splendore, dies omni
nocte tenebrosior oborta est inclusis. Tunc visus est ipse ferreus Carolus ferrea galea cristatus, ferreis manicis armillatus, &c. &c. His igitur, quæ ego balbus et edentulus, non ut debui circuitu tardiore diutius explicare tentavi, veridicus speculator Oggerus celerrimo visu contuitus dixit ad Desiderium: Ecce, habes quem tantopere perquisisti. Et hæc dicens, pene exanimis cecidit.-MONACH. SANGAL. de Reb. Bel. Caroli Magni. lib. ii. § xxvi. Is this not evidently taken from poctical effusions?"
That stiff harvest which is reaped
With sword of knight and peer, Then by that sign ye may divine That Charlemagne is near.
"When round the Lombard cities The iron flood shall flow, A swifter flood than Ticin, A broader flood than Po, Frothing white with many a plume, Dark blue with many a spear, Then by that sign ye may divine That Charlemagne is near."
INSCRIPTION ON THE STATUE OF LORD WM. BENTINCK. AT CALCUTTA. (1835.)
WILLIAM CAVENDISH BENTINCK, Who, during seven years, ruled India with eminent
Prudence, Integrity, and Benevolence: Who, placed at the head of a great
Empire, never laid aside The simplicity and moderation of a private citizen:
infused into Oriental despotism the spirit of British Freedom: Who never forgot that the end of Government is
The happiness of the Governed:
Who abolished cruel rites: Who effaced humiliating distinctions: Who gave liberty to the expression of public opinion:
Whose constant study it was, to elevate the intellectual
And moral character of The Nations committed to his charge: This Monument
Was erected by men, Who, differing in Race, in Manners, in Language, and in Religion, Cherish, with equal veneration and gratitude,
The memory of his wise, upright, and Paternal Administration.
Were successively entrusted to his care. In India, his fortitude, his wisdom, His probity, and his moderation, Are held in honourable remembrance By men of many races, languages, and religions.
In Jamaica, still convulsed by a social revolution,
His prudence calmed the evil passions Which long suffering had engendered in one class
And long domination in another. In Canada, not yet recovered from the calamities of civil war,
He reconciled contending factions To each other,
And to the Mother Country. Costly monuments in Asiatic and American cities
Attest the gratitude of the nations which he ruled.
This tablet records the sorrow and the
With which his memory is cherished by his family.
Absolute government, theory of, 172. Absolute rulers, 155.
Academy, the French, its services to litera- ture, 10.
Addington, Henry, formation of his adminis- tration, 353. His position as Prime Minis- ter, 353. Resigns, 356. Raised to the peerage, 357.
Eschines, compared by Mr. Mitford to De- mosthenes, 77, 78.
Eschylus, his works, how regarded by Quintil- lian, 57.
Agesilaus, depressed by the constitution of Lycurgus, 74.
Ajax, the prayer of, in the Iliad, 57. Aldrich, Dean, his mode of instructing the youths of his college, 282. Employs Charles Boyle to edit the letters of Phalaris, 283. Alfieri, Vittorio, character of his works, 24. His great fault in his compositions, 70. Antinomian barn preacher, story of the, 199. Approbation, love of, 148.
Aristocratical form of government. See Oli- garchy.
Aristotle, his unrivalled excellence in analysis and combination, 56. Value of his general propositions, 56. His enlightened and pro- found criticism, 57.
Arnault, A.V., Translation from, 366. Arras, cruelties of the Jacobins at, 255. Arrian, his character as a historian, 114.
the temper of the Athenians in the time of Aristophanes, 109.
Atterbury, Francis, his birth and early life, 282. Defends Martin Luther against the aspersions of Obadiah Walker, 282. Enters the church and becomes one of the royal chaplains, 282. Assists Charles Boyle in preparing an edition of the letters of Pha- laris, 283. His answer to Bentley's disser- tation on the letters of Phalaris, 284. Bentley's reply, 285. Atterbury's defence of the clergy against the prelates, 285. Created a D.D. and promoted to the Deanery of Carlisle, 285. His pamphlets against the Whigs, 286. Appointed to the Deanery of Christ Church, 286. Removed to the Bi- shopric of Rochester, 286. His opposition. to the government of George I., 286. His private life, 287. His taste in literature and literary friends, 287. Thrown into prison for treason, 288. Deprived of his dignities and banished for life, 288. Calls Pope as a witness to his innocence, 288. Goes to Paris, and becomes Prime Minister of King James, 289. Retires from the court of the ex-King, 289. Death of his daughter, 289. Induced by the Pretender to return to Paris, 290. His defence of the charge of having garbled Clarendon's History of the Rebel- lion, 290. His death, 290. August, lines written in, 379.
Arts, the fine, laws on which the progress and BACON, Lord, his description of the logo-
Athenian Revels, scenes from, 12. Athens disreputable character of Peiræus, 14. Police officers of the city, 14. Favour- ite epithet of the city, 15. The Athenian orators, 56. Excellence to which eloquence attained at, 59. Dr. Johnson's contemptu- ous derision of the civilisation of the people of, 59. Their books and book education, 59.
An Athenian day, 59, 60. Defects of the Athenians' conversational education, 60. The law of ostracism at Athens, 73. Hap- piness of the Athenians in their form of go- vernment, 75. Their naval superiority, 76. Ferocity of the Athenians in war, 76. And of their dependencies in seditions, 76. Cause of the violence of faction in that age, 76. Influence of Athenian genius on the human intellect and on private happiness, 81. The gifts of Athens to man, 82. Character of the great dramas of Athens, 93. Change in
machies of the schoolmen, 161, 171. And of the Utilitarian philosophy, 161. His mode- of tracking the principle of heat, 168. Barbaroux, the Girondist, his execution, 254. Barère, Bertrand, Mémoires de, of Carnot and David, review of the, 232. Barère's true character, 233. His lies, 235. His talents as an author, 237. Sketch of his life, 237- 242. Votes against the King, 245. His federal views and ultra-Girondism, 248. His apparent zeal for the cause of order and humanity, 249. His motion for punishing the Jacobins, 249. Defeat of the Girondists, 249. Retains his seat at the Board of the Triumphant Mountain, 250. His infamous motion against the chiefs of the Girondists, 251. Moves that the Queen be brought be- fore the Revolutionary Tribunal, 252. Re- gales Robespierre and other Jacobins at a tavern on the day of the death of the Queen, 252. Formation of his peculiar style
BARRE. of oratory, 252. His Carmagnoles, 253. Effect produced by his discourses, 253. Seconds Robespierre's atrocious motion in the Convention, 253. Becomes one of the six members of the Committee of Public Safety, 254. The first to proclaim terror as the order of the day, 257. Recommends Fouquier Tinville to the Revolutionary Committee of Paris, 257. His proposal to destroy Lyons and Toulon, 257. His oppo- sition to the personal defence of Danton, 257, 258. His support of the wretch Lebon, 258. His war against learning, art, and history, 258. His sensual excesses, 258. Becomes a really cruel man, 259. His morning audiences and mode of treating petitions, 259. His orders against cer- tain head-dresses, 259. Nicknames given to him, 260. Obtains a decree that no quar- ter should be given to any English or Hanoverian soldier, 260. M. Carnot's de- fence of this barbarity, 260 note. Barère's support of Robespierre's fiendish decree, 263. His panegyric on Robespierre, 264. His motion that Robespierre and his ac- complices should be put to death, 264. Destruction of the power of the Jacobins, 265. Report on his conduct voted by the Convention, 267. Condemned to be re- moved to a distant place of confinement, 268. His perilous journey, 268. Impri- soned at Oléron, 268, 269. Removed to Saintes, 269. Escapes to Bordeaux, 269.
Chosen a member of the Council of Five Hundred, which refuses to admit him, 270. His libel on England, 270. The Liberty of the Seas, 270. His flight to St. Ouen, 270. Sends a copy of his work to the First Consul, 270. Allowed by Bonaparte to remain in Paris, 271. Refuses; becomes a writer and a spy to Bonaparte, 272. Sends his friend Demer- ville to the guillotine, 274. Spies set to watch the spy, 274. Ordered to quit Paris, 274. Employed in the lowest political drudgery, 274. His Mémorial Antibritan- nique and pamphlets, 275. His fulsome adulation of the Emperor, 275. Causes of his failure as a journalist, 275. Treated with contempt by Napoleon, 276. treachery to his Imperial master, 277. Be- comes a royalist on the return of the Bour- bons, 277. Compelled to leave France, 278. Returns in July 1830, 278. Joins the ex- treme left, 278. His last years and death, 279. Summary of his character, 280. His hatred of England, 280. His MS. works on divinity, 281.
Barré, Colonel, joins the Whig opposition, 332. Appointed by Pitt Clerk of the Pells, 338.
Bearn, the constitution of, 239. Beatrice, Dante's love of, 26.
Beauclerk, Topham, a member of the Literary Club, 320.
Bentham, Mr., his defence of Mr. Mill, 150. His merits and shortcomings, 150, 151. Examination of his views, 153. His ac- count of the manner in which he arrived at the "greatest happiness principle," 162. Testimony to his merits, 216.
Bentinck, Lord William, inscription on the statue of, at Calcutta, 382. Bentley, Richard, his dissertation on the
Bonaparte, Napoleon, his detestation of the cruel decree of the Convention respecting English prisoners, 262. His return from Egypt, and assumption of absolute power as First Consul, 270. His policy at this period, 270. Allows Barère to reside in Paris, 271. Employs Barère as a writer and spy, 272, 274. Establishes the Imperial government, 275. His opinion of Barère's journalism, 275. His defeat and abdication, 277. Boswell, James, becomes a member of The Club, 320. His character, 320. His life of Johnson, 320.
Bourbon, Duke, character of the government of, 228.
Bow Street, whiggery of, 159, 160. Boyd, his translation of the Divine Comedy of Dante, 31.
Boyle, Charles, his college edition of the letters of Phalaris, 283. The answer to Bentley attributed to him, 284.
Boyse, the poet, his friendship with Samuel Johnson, 312.
Brasidas, great only when he ceased to be a Lacedæmonian, 74.
Brissot, the Girondist leader, 244. His trial, 253.
Brissotines, the. See Girondists. Buccaneer, the Last, 378. Bunyan, John, age in which he produced his Pilgrim's Progress, 92. His birth and early life, 290. His notions of good and evil, 291. Enlists in the parliamentary army, 291. Returns home and marries, 292. fantasies and internal sufferings, 292, 293. Thrown into gaol, 293. His prison life, 294. His intimate knowledge of the Bible, 294. His early writings, 294. His abhor- rence of the Quakers, 294. His controversies, 294. His answer to Edward Fowler, 294. His dispute with some of his own sect, 294. His liberation from prison, 295. His Pil- grim's Progress, 295. His Holy War, 296. Difficulties of 1685, 297. His death and burial-place, 297. Fame of his Pilgrim's Progress, 297, 298.
Burgundy, Duke of, his theory of good go- vernment, 226.
Burke, Edmund, his character of the first French republic, 117. And of the French National Assembly, 220. His vindication of himself from the charge of inconsistnocy, 222. His part in The Club, 320. His posi- tion in the Whig opposition, 332.
Burns, Robert, age in which he produced his works, 92.
Butler, Samuel, character of his poetry,
Byron, Lord, his egotism and its success, 32.
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