Gibbon, his fastidiousness as a writer, 125; review of the series of Byzantine emperors, 219. Gladstone, interesting reply of, 263. Glass in Pompeii, 177. Godwin, Madame de Stael's criticism of, 98; a good husband and kind father, 255; and Rough, 311. Goethe, confesses his ignorance, 29; reason can never be popular, 62; anecdote of Merck and the grand duke, 89; to know how cherries and strawberries taste, 90; a fortunate mistake of, 92; nature, 103; giving advice, 104; aristocracy and democracy, 104; the world cannot keep quiet, 109; his works commercially, 133; objections to luxurious furniture, 137; of Dante's great poem, 147; advised against writing Faust, 148; genius of Shakespeare, 152; influence of Voltaire, 153; a staff officer's opinion of, 155; first impression of Switzerland, 195; critical remark of, 198; on a peculiarity of Schiller, 244; disparaged himself as a poet, 261; pleasant dreams after falling asleep in tears, 318; compares life to a residence at a watering-place, 332; the simplicity of the world, 347; arrogance natural to youth, 352; remark of at the age of seventy-five, 355; truth and error, 361; of a Christianity of feeling and action, 366. Goldsmith, of the vanity of human judgment, 24; ten years composing the Traveller, 129; to Bob Bryanton, 135; proud reply to Hawkins, 139; reply to Dr. Scott, 139; criticises Waller, Pope, and Milton, 145; opinion of Tristram Shandy, 147; his street ballads, 156; a saying of credited to Talleyrand, 172; relations with Bott, the barrister, 200; friendship and jealousy, 240; as a talker and as a writer, 244; Goody Two Shoes, 268; at the British Coffee House, 270; first acting of She Stoops to Conquer, 270; conduct during, 271. Goodness tainted, 94. Gordianus, epitaph of, 263. Grammont, Count, on Sir John Denham, 235. Gray, twenty years touching up his Elegy, 126; criticises Thomson and Akenside, 145; diffidence and fastidiousness of, 238; his Elegy not intended for the public, 258. Greene, Peele, and Marlowe, 249. Grimaldi, devouring melancholy of, 315. Groenvelt, Dr., persecution of, 201. Guerin, Eugenie de, her story of the poor shepherdess, 345. Guerin, Maurice de, on a solitary life, 342. Guido, and the portrait of Beatrice Cenci, 313. Guizot, declines a title, 141. Hadrian's villa, 217. Hale, Sir Matthew, criticised by Charles II., 3; unpublished writings of, 194; trials before for witchcraft, 224; influenced by Jeffreys, 247. Hall, Robert, sought relief in Dante, 267. Hallam, his opinion of Hooker, 225. Hammond, Elton, 278. Haendel, blindness of, 228; his hallelujahs open the heavens, 229. Harrington, imprisonment of, 135; man a religious creature, 368. Harvey, effects of his discovery, 147, 301.