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 Ashdown, battle of, 66 Atheists, 317 Augustine, St., his opinion of the Aurora, 328 Ausonius, 61 Autumn, associations in, 21 Babylon, ruins of, 220 Ballads, ancient, 13 Bangor, massacre of the monks at, 67 Banyans, the, axioms of, 330 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 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 36 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 Colonna, near Capel Curig, 16 Colosseum, the, 7 Conspiracy of low societies against genius, 20 Burns, his visits to the scites of the Colton, passage from, 294 Scottish battles, 66 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 Diocletian, 75 Dionysius, 330 Douglas, young, 104 Drayton, style of, 57 Du Gard, a patient of, 313 Eagle, hieroglyphic of, 311 Ecclesiastes, passage from, 306 Edwin, king of Northumberland, Egypt, antiquities of, 43 Egyptians, their opinion in respect Ely, reflections at, 50 Empires, the fall of, 172. Duration England, antiquities of, 41 Entaglios of Cupid and Psyche, 311 Essenes, their opinion in respect to Fourcroy, M., assertion of his, 281 France, antiquities of, 41 Franklin, his engagement in respect to death, 331 Friendly islands, natives of, 303 Gades of Spain, 329 1 Galen, his opinion of the soul, 301 Galla of Abyssinia, 303 Ganganelli, an analogy of, 302 Gauls, their opinion of death, 329 Genevieve, misfortunes of, 39 Gibbon among the ruins of Rome, 5. Glyder Vawr, 234 Government, various forms of, 12 Hamilton, Sir W., 312 Haydn, the pleasures of his early Heart's ease, the, 24 Helvetius, 75 Hemsterhuis, 314 Herculaneum, 215 Hercules in misfortune, 32 Hindostan, antiquities of, 42 Ꮓ Lusiad of Camoens, the, 58 Lussac, Mons., discovery of his, 271 Indians, their opinion in respect to Lycurgus, 56 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 Macassar, isle of, 190 Macbeth, 72. Lady Macbeth, 72 Macedon, 100 Mackenzie, Sir A., his discovery, 276 Man, the masterpiece of nature, 297. Medals, age of, 292 |