Berkeley, George, his _Theory of Vision_, 4; his career, 4-9; his verse, 5; his sermons, 6; _The Minute Philosopher_, 7; his family, 7; his philosophy, 9. Blair, Hugh, 230. Blounts, Alexander Pope and the, 34. Boswell, James, and his _Life of Dr. Johnson_, 118-122. Boufflers, Madame de, and David Hume, 150. Burke, Edmund, 112, 113; his words concerning Beauclerk's widow, 115; his burial-place, 145. Burney, Frances, and Dr. Johnson, 138, 142, 164, 165; her stories, 165; _Evelina_, 165-168; _Camilla_, 168; her Diary, 168-169; last years, 170, 171. Burns, Robert, his poetry, 291; his career, 292-297; his death, 298, 301; compared with Samuel Rogers, 302, 303. _Camilla_, Miss Burney's, 170. Carlyle, Thomas, his words concerning Coleridge, 318. _Castle of Otranto_, The, Walpole's, 84. Chatterton, Thomas, the young poet, 202-205; his end, 205, 206, 209; and Horace Walpole, 206-209; the Rowley Poems, 207, 208; compared with Poe, 210. Chesterfield, Lord, and Dr. Johnson, 97, 98. _Children of the Abbey_, Miss Roche's, 282, 283. _Christabel_, Coleridge's, 317, 318. Coach, the Venetian, 3. _C[oe]lebs_, Hannah More's, 175, 176. Coleridge, S. T., 298, 299; his life, 309-317; Lamb's apostrophe to, 310; and Southey, 311, 312; and Wordsworth, 313; his _Ancient Mariner_, 314, and Washington Allston, 316; his opium habit, 316, 317; his _Christabel_, 317; Carlyle's words concerning, 318; his death, 318. Collins, William, 100-163; his _Ode to Evening_, 163, 180. Coverley, Sir Roger de, 2. Cowper, William, his family and education, 239, 240; his love affair, 240; mental trouble, 241, 242; and Mrs. Unwin, 243-245, and Rev. John Newton, 245; _John Gilpin's Ride_, 245, 246, and Lady Austen, 246; _The Task_, 240, 247; on American affairs, 248; later life, 249-253; his Homer, 250, 251; his place as a poet, 254-256. Crabbe, George, compared with Pope, 232, 233; his birth and early work, 233-235; private chaplain to the Duke of Rutland, 235, 236; his life and character, 237, 238. Curchod, Mademoiselle, afterward Madame Necker, 123. Day, Thomas, and _Sandford and Merton_, 271-273. _Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_, Gibbons's History of, 125, 127, 130. Edgeworth, Maria, 277-281. Ernest, Augustus, Duke of Brunswick, 57. _Evelina_, Miss Burney's, 165-168. _Evenings at Home_, by Dr. Aikin and Mrs. Barbauld, 273-276. Ferguson, Robert, 229. Fielding, Henry, his coarseness, 67, 68; his character and ancestry, 68; his schooling, 69; his dramatic work, 69, 70; his _Joseph Andrews_, _Amelia_, and _Tom Jones_, 71, 72; his marriage, 70, 71; his death, 72. Fox, Charles James, 188-192. Franklin, Benjamin, and Miss Burney, 166; his words concerning George III., 184. Freeman, Edward, his words concerning Gibbon, 128. Garrick, David, at Dr. Johnson's school, 91, 92; as a boy, 116; a member of the "Literary Club, " 116; as an actor, 117, 118; his death, 138; Hannah More and, 173, 174.