writes a curious letter to George Catcott of the Bristol Library, 128; commences his tragedy _Osorio_, 129; has a droll dialogue with a countrywoman, 132; writes a humorous letter to Cottle about mice, 133; meets Dorothy Wordsworth, and describes her to Cottle, 136; meets John Thelwall, the democrat, 138-9; goes to London with _Osorio_, 140; meets W. Linley, Sheridan's brother-in-law and secretary, 141; his _Osorio_ rejected by Sheridan, 142; is offered but declines £100 from Thomas Wedgwood, 143; has conferred on him a pension of £150 a year from Thomas and Josiah Wedgwood, 144; his omnivorous reading, 146; along with Wordsworth projects and publishes the volume of the _Lyrical Ballads_, 147; anecdote of how the three bards were taught a lesson by a servant wench, 148; projects a Third Edition of his Poems, 153-4; has an estrangement with Charles Lamb and Charles Lloyd, 161; his second child born, 162; visits Germany, 162; ascends the Brocken, 167; projects to write a life of Lessing, 180; returns to England, 182; works along with Southey and publishes _The Devil's Thoughts_, 182; visits Ottery and Stowey and Sockburn, and meets Sarah Hutchinson, 182; contributes to the _Morning Post_, 185; meets Godwin, 185; translates Schiller's _Wallenstein_, 185; meets Horne Tooke, 188; leaves London for Stowey, 193; settles at Greta Hall, Keswick, 197; adventure of, among the mountains, 210; projects a work on the _Rise and Condition of the German Boors_, 216; makes pedestrian tours with the Wordsworths, 219; proposes to study chemistry, 222; proposes to write an essay _Concerning Poetry and the Nature of the Pleasure derived from it_, 223; meets John Stoddart and gives him a copy of _Christabel_, 228; laments the loss of his Poetic Faculty, 229; his ideal of _The Permanent_, 233-6; in ill health, 243; thinks of emigrating, 248; visited by Samuel Rogers, 249; goes again to London, 251; his projected Epic, _The Siege of Jerusalem_, 254; caught in a tempest among the hills, 258-9; translates Gessner's _Erste Schiffer_, 269; publishes a Third Edition of his Poems, 270; goes on a tour to Wales with Tom Wedgwood, 270; goes on a tour to Scotland with William and Dorothy Wordsworth, 270; projects a work on _Logic_, 271; writes again for the _Morning Post_, 275; projects a _Bibliotheca Britannica_, 279; lives with the Wordsworths (1803), 288; back to London, 289; invited by John Stoddart to Malta, 295; sails for Malta, ii, 1; reaches Valetta, 18th May 1804, 3; becomes acquainted with Sir Alexander Ball, 3; made interim-government secretary of Malta, 3; visits Sicily and ascends Etna, 4; goes to Rome and meets Baron Von Humboldt, Ludwig Ticck, Washington