104; gruff courtiership, 105; at
the Battle of Casano, 106; of the
whole strange kindred, no stran-
ger figure than the Friend of Men,
108; his literary and other gifts
and eccentricities, 109; his do-
mestic difficulties, and Rhada-
manthine struggles, 113; birth of
Gabriel Honoré, last of the Mira-
beaus, 116; education, the scien-
tific paternal hand versus Nature
and others, 119; sent to boarding-
school, 120; banished to Saintes;
fresh misdemeanors; Lettre de
Cachet, and the Isle of Rhé, 122,
123: fighting in Corsica, 124; the
old Marquis's critical survey of
his strange offspring, 126; the Gen-
eral Overturn, 128; the one man
who might have saved France,
129; marriage, 132; banished to
Manosque, 134; in the castle
of If, 136; a stolen visit from
his Brother, 137; at Pontarlier,
139; Mirabeau and Sophie Mon-
nier escape into Holland, 141; in
the castle of Vincennes, 146; be-
fore the Besançon and Aix Parle-
ments, 148; the world's esteem
now quite against him, 151;
States-General, his flinging-up of
the handful of dust, 155; deputy
for Aix, 157; victory and death,
158.
Miracles, the age of, now and ever,
iii. 47.
Misery not so much the cause as
the effect of Immorality, iii. 354.
See Wretchedness.
Moderation, and other fine names,
ii. 253. See Half-and-halfness.
More's, Hannah, anti-German trum-
pet-blast, ii. 416.
Moritz, Elector, and his superior
jockeyship, iv. 477.
Moses, the Hebrew outlaw, ii. 7.
Müller, Friedrich, i. 161.
Müllner, Dr., supreme over play-
wrights, i. 388; his Newspaper
qualifications, 401.
Musäus, Johann August, his life and
writings, i. 409; his Volksmährchen,
412; moral and intellectual char-
acter, 413.
Music, Luther's love of, ii. 241; the
divinest of all the utterances al-
lowed to man, iv. 441; condemned
to madness, 446.
Mystery, deep significance of, iii.
21; mystical and intellectual en-
joyment of an object, 286, 400.
Mysticism, i. 74; ii. 100, 133.
Mythologies, the old, once Philoso-
phies, iii. 57. See Pan, Sphinx.
Naigeon's Life of Diderot, iii. 263.
Names, inextricable confusion of
Saxon princely, iv. 470; Mira-
beau's expressive Nicknames, 154.
Narratives, difference between mere,
and the broad actual History, ii.
234; grand source of our modern
fictions, 383; mimic Biographies,
iii. 56; narrative, the staple of
speech, 250.
National characteristics, i. 33, 263,
295; iv. 205; suffering, i. 354.
Nature, not dead matter, but the
living mysterious Garment of the
Unseen, ii. 107; iii. 7; iv. 9, 66;
Book of, ii. 236; iv. 362; succes-
sive Revelations, ii. 239.
Netherlands, wars in the, iv. 435.
Newspaper-Editors, the Mendicant
Friars of these days, ii. 156; their
unwearied straw-thrashing, iv.
245. See Fourth Estate.
Nibelungen Lied, the, ii. 296–354; an
old German epos of singular poetic
interest, 314; extracts and con-
densed sketch of the Poem, 318;
antiquarian researches into its ori-
gin, 345.
Night-Moth, Tragedy of the, i. 469.
Nineteenth Century, our poor, and
its indestructible Romance, iv. 9;
at once destitute of faith, and ter-
rified at scepticism, 213, 219; an
age all calculated for strangling of
heroisms, 446. See Present Time,
European Revolution.
Nobility, Ig-, i. 316.
Nobleness, old, may become a new
reality, ii. 160. See Aristocracy.
North, Mr. Henry, of Mildenhall, iv.
Northern Archæology, ii. 296.
Novalis's perplexity with Wilhelm
Meister, i. 237; ii. 120; specula-
tions on French Philosophy, 74;
Novalis, 79-134; parentage and
youth, 87; death of his first love,
90; literary labours, 97; illness
and death, 98; his Idealism, 106;
extracts from his Lehrlinge zu
Sais, &c., 108; Philosophic Frag-
ments, 117; Hymns to the Night,
and Heinrich von Ofterdingen, 123;
intellectual and moral character-
istics, 130.
Novelle, translated from Goethe, iii.
Novels, Fashionable, iii. 57; partially
living, 60; what they must come
to, 258; Scott's Historical Novels,
iv. 241.
Oblivion, the dark page on which
Memory writes, iii. 253.
Memory.
Obscene wit, iii. 301.
Oliva, the Demoiselle d', iv. 55.
Opera, the, iv. 441–447.
Oratory and Rhetoric, iii. 11.
Original Man, difficulty of under-
standing an, i. 256, 259, 280; ii.
79, 246; iv. 85, 161, 270; the
world's injustice, i. 326; ii. 6; iii.
105; uses of, 149, 152, 154, 169;
iv. 389; no one with absolutely
no originality, iii. 94; an original
Scoundrel, 334; the world's wealth
consists solely in its original men,
and what they do for it, iv. 87.
See Man.
Pan, the ancient symbol of, iii. 84.
Paper, Rag-, invention of, ii. 399.
Paradise, the dream of, iií. 32.
Paraguay and its people, iv. 365.
Parker, Sir Philip, iv. 405.
Parliament, Long, an Election to the,
iv. 400-426; Samuel Duncon's af-
fidavits concerning the election
for Suffolk, 407; 'short and true
relation, of the same by Sir Sy-
monds D'Ewes, 415; his valuable
Notes of the Long Parliament,
424. See Commons, &c.
Pascal and Novalis, resemblances
between, ii. 132.
Past, the, the fountain of all Knowl-
edge, ii. 234; iii. 247; the true
Past never dies, 43; iv. 335; sa-
cred interest of, iii. 64, 87.
Patrons of genius, and convivial Me-
cænases, i. 310; patronage twice
cursed, 315; ditto twice blessed,
iii. 108.
Pauperism. iii. 238.
People's-Books, ii. 413.
Periodical Windmills, ii. 140.
Philosophes, the French, iii. 257,
285.
Philosophy teaching by Experience,
Phosphoros, Werner's parable of,
ii. 230; iii. 55. See Kant.
Playwrights, German and English,
i. 363; tricks of the trade, 370,
Pleasure, personal, ii. 71, 158, 272.
377, 393.
Poetic culture, i. 44, 59, 233, 280.
Poetry, the true end of, i. 70, 278,
321; ii. 120, 252, 423, 452; iv. 442;
English and German poetry mut-
ually illustrative, i. 72; Poetry
can never die, 90; not a mere
stimulant, 221, 262; ii. 155; our
theories and genetic histories of,
359; poetry as Apologue, 382;
what implied by a nation's Po-
etry, 424; Epic, iii. 58; present
condition of, 216; the life of each
Politeness, Johnson's, iii. 139.
man a Poem, 330.
Popularity and Originality, i. 256;
ii. 163, 231; iv. 197; fell poison of
popular applause, iii. 405; iv. 215.
Portraits, Project of a National Ex-
See Fame.
hibition of Scottish, iv. 448-457.
Poverty, the lot of many poets and
wise men, i. 820; advantages from,
321; ii. 184, 186; Christian-Ortho-
doxy's dread of, iii. 74.
Power, love of, iv. 383. See Ambition.
Present Time, the, ii. 136; iii. 22, 32;
in pangs of travail with the New,
86; the Present the living sum-
total of the whole Past, 43, 159.
Pride's purge, iv, 423.
See Nineteenth Century.
Priest and Philosopher, old healthy
Printing, invention of, ii. 399.
identity of, ii. 239; iii. 20.
Prose, good, better than bad Rhyme,
Prinzenraub, the, iv. 458-492.
Protestantism, modern, i. 137.
iii. 245.
Public Opinion, Force of, ii. 73, 157.
Publishing Societies, and what they
might do towards a real History
Puffery, the deluge of, iii. 283.
of England, iv. 425.
Putrescence and Social Decay, iii.
Pym, John, iv. 400.
Quackery, portentous age of, iii.
352; dishonesty the raw material
alike of Quackery and Dupery,
355; deception and self-deception,
877, 383.
Quietest, the Greatest by nature also
the, iv. 212. See Silence, Whole-
Rahel Varnhagen von Ense. See
Ense.
Ram-dass the Hindoo man-god, iv.
Read, what it is to, an author, i. 156,
259; ii. 79, 129; iv. 314.
Reality, deep significance of, iii. 57,
63, 258, 400; iv. 10, 66, 442.
Reform, ii. 161; not joyous but griev-
ous, iv. 382.
Reformation, era of the, ii. 366; in
Scotland, iii. 90.
Reid, Dr., ii. 102.
Religion, utilitarian, i. 222; ii. 156;
heroic idea of, i. 320; self-con-
scious, iii. 26. See Christian.
Renner, the. See Hugo von Trim-
berg.
Renunciation, the beginning of Life,
ii. 93; one harmonious element of
the Highest, iii. 320.
Republic of Literature, i. 207. See
Literary Men, Literature.
Respectability, iii. 335; baleful in-
fluence of, iv. 7, 192; how gener-
ated, 75. See Gigmanity.
Reverence, worth of, i. 242; not
sycophancy, iii. 85, 240; need of
enlightenment, 166; reverence for
the Highest, in ourselves and in
others, 330.
Reviewers, duty of, i. 404; what is
called reviewing,' ii. 83; iii. 29;
the trade wellnigh done, ii. 421;
Smelfungus's despair, iii. 216.
See Read.
Revolution, a European, rapidly pro-
ceeding, iii. 169. See Common-
weal, Europe.
English, our great, iv. 313, 400;
Civil-War Pamphlets, 402, 403;
Pride's purge, 423.
French, meaning of the, ii. 161;
masses of Quackism set fire to, iii.
355; a greater work never done by
men so small, iv. 89; the Event of
these modern ages, 163.
Parliamentary History of
the, iv. 163-184; Thiers's History,
Mignet's, and others, 165; curi-
ous collections of revolutionary
books, pamphlets, &c., 169; death
of Foulon, 172; the Palais-Royal;
white and black Cockades; In-
surrection of Women, 175; the
Jacobins' Club, in its early days
of moral-sublime, 177; the Sep-
tember Massacre, 180.
Revolution, the South-American,
and set of revolutions, iv. 339.
Reynard the Fox, Apologue of, ii.
355; researches into its origin,
400; analysis of, 406; extract,
showing the language of our old
Saxon Fatherland, 411.
Richardson, i. 284.
Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich, i. 5-29;
leading events of his life, 10; his
multifarious works, 13; extract
from Quintus Fixlein, 27, 28;
poverty, 322; brief sketch of his
life and writings, 443; J. P. F.
Richter again, ii. 162-227; his
peculiar style, 163; a true liter-
ary man, heroic and devout, 166;
interesting fragment of Autobi-
ography, 168; birth and pedigree,
170; his good Father, and early
home, 171; self-vision, 177; ed-
ucation and extreme poverty,
178; his first productions, 185;
this too a Spartan Boy, 190; his
Costume Controversy, 190; dares
to be poor, 194; triumphant suc-
cess of Hesperus, 201; his mar-
riage, 203; unwearied diligence,
205; blindness and death, 207;
intellectual and literary character,
209; extracts, 215; on Daughter-
full houses, 219; his vast Imagi-
nation, 220; his Dream of Athe-
ism, 221; review of De Staël's
'Allemagne,' 455; Varnhagen's
pleasant visit to, iv. 258.
Ridicule not the test of truth, ii. 21.
Right and Wrong infinitely differ-
ent, iii. 119, 320; the question of,
only the second question, 336. See
Evil.
Robber-Towers and Free-Towns of
Germany, ii. 393.
Robertson's History of Scotland, iii.
Robespierre's Mahomet, scraggiest
of prophetic discourses, iv. 89; an
atrabiliar Formula of a man, near-
ly two years Autocrat of France,
90; once an Advocate in Arras,
387.
Rohan, Prince Cardinal de, and Ca-
gliostro, iii. 385; what he was, iv.
20; how he bore his dismissal
from Court, and what came of it,
24-83.
Roland of Roncesvalles, iv. 8.
Romance, Translations from Ger-
man, Preface to, i. 405; the age
of Romance can never cease, iv.
5; none ever seemed romantic to
itself, 8.
Roman Emperors, era of the, ii. 70.
Rousseau, ii. 27, 55; iii. 57, 287; iv.
Rudolf of Hapsburg, ii. 358.
Sachs, Hans, a literary contempo-
rary of Luther, i. 36.
Satan, Milton's, i. 323.
Sauerteig, on the significance of
Reality, iii. 57; on Life, 330; on
National suffering, 353; on Re-
forming a Nation, iv. 382.
Saxe, Maréchal de, iv. 483.
Saxon Heptarchy, the, iii. 255.
Saxony, Kings of, iv. 479, 481.
Scepticism, the sourness of the new
fruit of growing Knowledge, iii.
44; the Sceptic's viaticum, 307.
See Doubt.
Schiller's ideal of the true Artist, i.
61; his perfection of pomp-prose,
ii. 215; Schiller, 245-295; Corre-
spondence with Goethe, 248; his
cosmopolitanism, 251; his high
aims, 253; literary life and strug-
gles, 255; connexion with Goethe,
266; illness and quiet heroism,
268; his character, and mode of
life, 273; intellectual gifts, 278;
contrast between the Robbers and
the Maid of Orleans, 284: Song of
the Alps, 291; his philosophy, 292.
See Madame de Staël.
Schlegel, Friedrich, iii. 36.
Schleiermacher, iv. 257.
Scotch metaphysics, i. 83; ii. 143
(see Mechanical Philosophy); na-
tional character, iv. 205, 432.
Scott, Sir Walter, iv. 185-251; great
man, or not a great man, 196; one
of the healthiest of men, 201, 215;
an old Borderer in new vesture,
203; early environment, 204; in-
fancy and young-manhood, 207;
Metrical Romances, and worldly
prosperity, 213, 219; his connex-
ion with the Ballantynes, 216; in-
fluence of Goethe, 220; the Au-
thor of Waverley, 223; not much as
a Letter-writer, 224; dinner with
the Prince-Regent, 224; birtheve
of a Waverley Novel, 226; life at
Abbotsford, 228; literary value of
the Waverley Novels, 237: extem-
pore writing, 241; bankruptcy,
247; a lonely, brave, impoverished
man, 248.
Scoundrelism, significance of, iv. 74.
Selborne, Natural History of, iii. 67.
Self-forgetfulness, Werner's notion
of, i. 122; how good men practise
it, 320. See Renunciation.
Self-interest, political systems found-
ed on, ii. 71, 73, 146.
Self-worship, iii. 168.
Seneca, our niceliest proportioned
Half-and-half, iii. 307.
Sentimentalist, the, barrenest of
mortals, iii. 14; Goethe's opinion
of him, 193; puking and sprawl-
ing, iv. 202.
Shakspeare's humour, i. 21; no sec-
tarian, 255; depth of insight, 262:
iii. 208; bombast, i. 277; Novalis's
thoughts on, ii. 120; good taste,
314; compared with Goethe, iii.
209; education, 222; compared
with Scott, iv. 218; not an easy
writer, 243.
Sheep, significant resemblances be-
tween man and, iii. 95, 163; iv.
186.
Siegfried the hero of old Northern
Tradition, ii. 310, 320.
Silence the grand epitome and sum-
total of all Harmony, iii. 21; out
of, comes Strength, 93; signifi-
cance and sacredness of, 314, 318;
iv. 190.
Sincerity, the grand secret for find-
ing readers, i. 274; iv. 218; the
most precious of all attainments,
ii. 450; iii. 226, 335; iv. 311, 442.
See Original Man, Truthfulness,
Wholeness.
Songs, and their influence, i. 293;
divine song, iv. 441.
Sorrow, Sanctuary of, i. 248; iv. 45;
Worship of, ii. 67.
Sower's Song, the, i, 473.
Space. See Time.
Speaking, difference between, and
public-speaking, iii. 375. See
Conversation.
Sphinx-Riddle, the, ii. 361.
Spiritual, the, the parent of the Vis-
ible, ii. 360; iii. 26; rudiments of
a new era, ii. 428, 451; iii. 41,
152, 320.
Staël's, Madame de, 'Allemagne,'
Richter's review of, ii. 455;
'Schiller, Goethe and Madame
de Staël,' iii. 424.
Stealing generically includes the
whole art of Scoundrelism, iii.
345; iv. 314.
Sterne, i. 21.
Stewart, Dugald, i. 88; his opinion
of Burns, 284; of Idealism, ii.
Goethe, iii. 192.
Strafford, passages in the Impeach-
ment and Trial of, iv. 325.
Strength. See Silence, Wisdom.
Stricker, the, an early German writ-
er, ii. 367.
Stuart, Mary, iii. 91.
Style, every man his own, i. 23; pic-
torial power, iii. 65; eccentricities
of, 161.
Supply and demand, our grand max-
im of, i. 265.
Swabian Era, the, ii. 356; birth of
German Literature, 357, 425.
Swashbuckler age, iv. 436.
Taylor's Historic Survey of German
Poetry, ii. 415-453.
Teufelsdröckh, on the Greatness of
Great Men, iii. 159.
Theatrical Reports, a vapid nui-
sance, i. 365.
Thinkers, how few are, iv. 6; intel-
lectual thrift, 273.
Thought, how, rules the world, ii. 5;
iii. 148; iv. 54, 66.
Tieck, Ludwig; his Volksmährchen
and other writings, i. 422; char-
acter and poetic gifts, 427.
Time and Space, quiddities not en-
tities, i. 172; ii. 105; the outer
veil of Eternity, iii. 87, 232.
Times, Signs of the, ii. 135-161.
To-day, i. 476; the conflux of two
Eternities, ii. 138.
Tolerance, ii. 14, 77; iii. 361.
Tongue, watch well thy, iii. 93; iv.
358; miraculous gift of, iii. 249;
iv. 244. See Eloquence.
Triller, der, iv. 467, 468, 491.
Trimberg, Hugo von, ii. 369, 381,
his Renner a singular, clear-heart-
ed old book, 371.
Trimmers and truckers, iii. 35; iv.
Troubadour Period of Literature, ii.
356, 364.
Truthfulness, ii. 33; iii. 251; iv.
454. See Sincerity.
Two-Hundred-and-Fifty Years ago:
a Fragment about Duels, iv. 427-
440; Holles of Haughton, 428;
Croydon Races, 432; Sir Thomas
Dutton and Sir Hatton Cheek, 435.
Tyll Eulenspiegel, adventures of, ii.
Swedenborgians in questionable com- Unconsciousness the first condition
pany, iii. 852.
of health, iii. 5, 21; the fathom-
less domain of, 315.
Symbols of the Godlike, worn-out, Universities of Prague and of Vi-
Tale, The, translated from Goethe;
with elucidations, iii. 435-467.
Tamerlane, ii. 8.
Taste, true poetic, not dependent on
riches, i. 44; German authors, 51;
gift of Poetry presupposes taste,
ii. 314; dilettante upholstery, iii.
196.
Tauler, Johann, ii. 390.
enna, ii. 397; disputed seniority
of Oxford and Cambridge, iv.
Untamability, iv. 35, 68.
Unveracity, iv. 447, 454. See Sin-
cerity.
Utilitarianism, i. 60, 87, 222; ii. 72,
153, 273, 442; iii. 46; Bentham's
utilitarian funeral, 173.
Valet, the, theory of Heroes, ii. 248.
Taxation, spigot of, ii. 237; iii. Vampire-bats, Ecclesiastic, iv. 348.
Varnhagen von Ense. See Ense.
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