The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Vol. 1 [of 2]

• Addison, his Cato, ii. 16
• Æschylus, quoted, ii. 340
• Alfieri, ii. 390
• Alps, the, i. 119, 120, 348
• Anacreon’s swallow, ii. 359
• Anastasius, ii. 341
• Annual Parliaments, i. 364, 365
• Apollodorus, a pupil of Socrates, ii. 49
• Apollonius Rhodius, i. 410
• Ariosto, tomb of, ii. 245;
• his arm-chair, 246;
• handwriting of, 247
• Aristotle, ii. 49
• Aspasia, ii. 134, 135
• Bacon, quoted, ii. 4;
• a poet, 8, 49
• Barthélemi, ii. 44
• Bisham wood, ii. 278
• Blackstone, quoted, i. 254
• Boccaccio, ii. 294, 295
• Buffon, his sublime but gloomy theory respecting the future of this globe, i. 352
• Byron, Lord, his Hours of Idleness, quotations or plagiarisms from? i. 132, 174;
• visit to, at Ravenna, 390, 391;
• his meeting with “Monk” Lewis, ii. 208;
• at Venice, 226;
• a gondoliere’s opinion of, 236;
• Shelley’s visit to, at Venice, 237;
• his Don Juan, 241;
• his Childe Harold, 259;
• his low debauchery, ib.;
• a great poet, 260;
• visit to, at Ravenna, 332-345;
• his Letter to Bowles, 342;
• his Cain, 355;
• at Leghorn, 362, 364
• Calderon, i. 388, ii. 14, 305, 306;
• his Magico Prodigioso, 353, 354
• Calvin and Servetus, i. 229
• Castlereagh, ii. 268
• Catholic emancipation, i. 242 sqq.
• Charlotte, Princess, death of, i. 369
• Chaucer, ii. 27
• Chesterfield, Lord, his distinction between simulation and dissimulation, ii. 394
• Chillon, castle of, i. 340
• Cicero, ii. 8, 49
• Clarens, i. 341
• Cobbett, William, on Annual Parliaments, i. 365; ii. 276, 289
• Coleridge, S. T., his tragedy of Remorse, ii. 292, 353, 354
• Coliseum, the, i. 394; ii. 260
• Como, ii. 223-225
• Comyns, Lord Chief Baron, his definition of libel, i. 254
• Constantine, the first Christian Emperor, atrocities of, i. 306;
• arch of, ii. 261, 280, 281
• Correggio, two pictures of, ii. 249, 250
• Dante, i. 385; ii. 24;
• the first religious reformer, 27, 40;
• tomb of, 344
• Danube, the, i. 15, 32
• Democritus, i. 400
• Diotima, the prophetess, ii. 88, 89
• Dowden, Professor, ii. 387
• Drummond, Sir William, his Academical Questions, i. 327; ii. 176
• Eaton, Daniel Isaac, sentence on, for publishing Paine’s Age of Reason, ii. 369-386
• Ellenborough, Lord, Shelley’s letter to, ii. 369-386
• Epicurus, i. 421
• Evian, town of, i. 335, 336
• Finnerty, Mr. Peter, i. 255; ii. 399
• Fitzwilliam, Lord, recall of, ii. 303
• Fletcher, John, his Two Noble Kinsmen, ii. 255
• Forsyth’s Travels in Italy, ii. 285
• Fox, Charles James, i. 238
• Franceschini, pictures of, ii. 251, 252
• Fust, specimens of his press, ii. 344
• Genoa, i. 153
• George III., i. 237
• George IV., i. 238
• Gibbon, his house at Lausanne, i. 343
• Gisborne, Mr. and Mrs., letters to, ii. 229-231, 290-291, 296-299, 301-309, 312-319, 326-330, 350-356
• Gisborne, Mrs., ii. 228, 229
• Godwin, William, his novels, i. 412-416;
• letter to, ii. 231-233, 317;
• his answer to Malthus, 352;
• his law-suit and pecuniary embarrassments, 360, 361
• Goethe, his Faust, ii. 353
• Guercino, pictures by, ii. 253
• Guiccioli, Contessa, Byron’s liaison with, ii. 333, 337, 340;
• her letter to Shelley, 343, 350, 351
• Guido, his picture of the Rape of Proserpine, ii. 249;
• his Samson, 250;
• his Murder of the Innocents, 250, 251;
• his “Fortune,” 251;
• his “Madonna Lattante,” ib.;
• his picture of Beatrice Cenci, 293
• Heraclitus, i. 400
• Hermance, village of, described, i. 333
• Hesiod, quoted, ii. 61
• Heyne, on the opinions entertained of the Jews by ancient poets and philosophers, i. 301
• Hogg, Thomas Jefferson, his Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff, ii. 387-396
• Homer, quoted, ii. 56, 62;
• on Calamity, 80, 81;
• the most admirable of all poets, 115;
• quoted, 124, 126, 127
• Horace, quoted, i. 105; ii. 275
• Hume, on causation, i. 327
• Hunt, Leigh, letters to, i. 381-391;
• invited by Lord Byron to Italy, ii. 268;
• letter to, 294-296, 317, 362, 364
• Kean, Edmund, ii. 293
• Keats, John, his Endymion, ii. 322-324;
• his sufferings, 323;
• death of, 327
• Lafayette, words of, i. 262
• Lamb, Charles, i. 384; ii. 295
• Laplace, demonstration of, i. 319
• Lausanne, i. 343
• Lear, King, ii. 14
• Lewis, M. G., his ghost stories, ii. 208-212
• Livy, ii. 9;
• description by, 256
• Lloyd, Charles, ii. 295
• Locke, on sensation, i. 327
• Lucretius, quoted, i. 296
• Luther, ii. 27
• Lyttelton, Lord, ii. 210, 211, 212
• Macbeth, quoted, i. 47, 93, 273; ii. 21, 31, 375
• Macchiavelli, on political institutions, ii. 17
• Malthus, i. 280, 281;
• Godwin’s answer to, ii. 232, 352;
• a very clever man, 243
• Marlow, ii. 223;
• Shelley’s house at, 226
• Marsyas, ii. 106, 107
• Mellerie, i. 336, 337
• Michael Angelo, i. 384, 385;
• his Bacchus, 409
• Milan Cathedral, ii. 225
• Milton, death of, i. 370
• Milton, his Paradise Lost quoted, i. 146, 415;
• stood alone, ii. 16;
• his Paradise Lost, 25, 33;
• quoted, 35
• Mirabaud’s Système de la Nature, i. 326
• Mont Blanc, i. 348
• Moore, Thomas, ii. 339, 357, 358, 361
• Music, ii. 70, 71
• Nerni, village of, described, i. 334
• Newton, Sir Isaac, ii. 374
• Obscenity, blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, ii. 17
• O’Neill, Miss, part of Beatrice Cenci fitted for, ii. 293
• Oxford, reminiscence of, ii. 193
• Paine, Thomas, i. 278
• Peacock, Thomas Love, letters to, ii. 221-229, 241-290, 291-293
• Petrarch, ii. 40
• Petronius, poetical description of, ii. 265
• Plato, i. 421;
• essentially a poet, ii. 7, 22, 24;
• the greatest among the Greek philosophers, 48;
• his Symposium, 232
• Pliny quoted, i. 294
• Pompeii, ii. 270-275
• Queen Mab, piratical republication of, ii. 328, 350
• Raphael, i. 384;
• his St. Cecilia, ii. 252, 253
• Ravenna, ii. 338
• Reveley, Henry, letters to, ii. 299-301, 309-312, 325, 326
• Richardson, Samuel, his Grandison quoted, ii. 237
• Rome, a city of the dead, ii. 261;
• English burying-place at, 262
• Rousseau, his Julie, i. 333, 337, 339-341, 343;
• essentially a poet, ii. 30
• Schiller, his Jungfrau von Orleans, ii. 352
• Scott’s Lay of the Last Minstrel quoted, i. 47, 212;
• Marmion quoted, 100
• Shakespeare, quoted, i. 384;
• the greatest individual mind, ii. 40;
• attribution to him of part of The Two Noble Kinsmen, 255
• Shelley, Mrs., her Frankenstein, i. 417-419
• Socrates, ii. 53-135, 381
• Sophocles, ii. 317
• Southey, Robert, Shelley’s visit to, at Keswick, ii. 295
• Spinosa, quoted, i. 328
• St. Gingoux, village of, i. 338
• St. Peter’s, Rome, ii. 282, 283
• Suetonius, quoted, i. 294
• Tasso, bold and true words of, ii. 35, 175;
• manuscripts of, 246, 247
• Terence, i. 409
• Theocritus, ii. 19;
• quoted, 291
• Thomson, quoted, i. 77
• Translation, vanity of, ii. 7
• Tuberose, odour of the, ii. 17
• Vallière, Madame de la, ii. 214
• Velino, cataract of the, ii. 257
• Venice, i. 87, 88; ii. 241
• Vesuvius, ii. 263, 265-267
• Vevai, i. 343
• Virgil, quoted, ii. 25;
• his Sixth Æneid, 264
• Wellesley, Marquis, quotation from a speech of, ii. 369
• Wieland, his novels, ii. 44
• Wollstonecraft, Mary, her writings, i. 413
• Wordsworth, i. 413;
• quoted, ii. 206, 263, 353
• Yvoire, village of, i. 335

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