George I., ancestry, 57; comes to England, 58; his character, 58; his wife, 58, 59. George II., 59-61; his reign, 61. George III., character and personality of, 181-187. Gibbon, Edward, birth, parentage, and education, 122; his love for Mlle. Curchod, afterward Madame Necker, 133, 124; a member of the "Literary Club, " 124, 127; as an author, 124, 125; his _Decline and fall of the Roman Empire_, 125, 127-130; as a man, 125, 126; in Paris, 126; his burial-place, 145. Goldsmith, Oliver, a member of the "Literary Club, " 130, 131; as a writer, 132, 133; his death, 133, 134; his burial-place, 144, 145. Gray, Thomas, birth, parentage, and education, 79, 80; opinions of his work, 80; his fastidious refinement, 80-82; the _Elegy_ churchyard, 82; and the Rowley Poems, 208. Halket, George, 229. Hayley, William, a friend of Cowper's, 249. Hesketh, Lady, her interest in Cowper, 250, 252. Homer, Pope's translation of, 43-45; Cowper's translation, 250, 251. Honeycomb, Will, 2. Hume, David, compared with Gibbon, 145, 146; his birth and early years, 146-148; his _Political Discourses_, 148; his _History of England_, 146, 149, 150, 156, 157; and Madame de Boufflers, 150; in Paris, 151-154; ambassador to the Court of France, 152; did not love England, 152, 153; his home in Edinboro', 154, 155; his death, 155, 156, 179; his words concerning James Macpherson, 226. _John Gilpin's Ride_, Cowper's, 245, 246. Johnson, Samuel, his birth, parentage, and early career, 88-90; his marriage, 90, 91; his boarding-school, 91; his personal appearance, 91; goes to London, 91, 92; his _Irene_, 90, 92, 96, 97; and Richard Savage, 92-94; his _London_, 94, 95; his _Vanity of Human Wishes_, 95, 96; his Prologue spoken at Drury Lane, 96; his Dictionary, 97, 98; his letter to Lord Chesterfield, 98; in poverty, 102; death of his wife, 104; and Miss Williams, 104, 105; his power felt, 105; his _Rasselas_, 105-108; his friendship with Sir Joshua Reynolds, 108, 109; Boswell's Life of, 118-122; and the Thrales, 135-137, 139, 140; his journey to the Hebrides, 137, 138; his last years, 137-143; his burial-place, 145; Hannah More and, 173; his reply to James Macpherson, 225, 226. _Joseph Andrews_, Fielding's, 177. Kames, Lord, 230. Lamb, Charles, his words on Burns, 299; his apostrophe to Coleridge, 310; his writings, 319, 320, 323-326; his personality, 320, 321; his family afflictions, 321-323; his death, 326. Lamb, Mary, 321-323, 326. "Literary Club, " the, 111. London Bridge, 103. Macaulay, T. B., on Boswell, 119; his opinion of Jane Austen, 266. Mackenzie, Henry, 230. Macpherson, James, and the Ossian poems, 221-227; his life, 224, 225; his habits and disposition, 226, 227. Mitford, Miss, her words concerning Jane Austen, 266, 267.