Robinson, Robert, remark of relating to the Trinity, 20; Dyer's biography of, 284. Rochester, Lord, the last year of the life of, 236. Rodgers, Judge, the dying Scotsman's tribute to Burns, 174. Rogers, his care in composition, 129; his proposition to Wordsworth, 137; remark on Sydney Smith, 151; anecdote of relating to Dryden, 154; amusing incident of, 155; pretty story of a little girl, 359. Roland, Madame, to Robespierre, 298. Rollo, Duke of Normandy, story told of, 165. Roman emperor, curious use of the marble head of a, 302. Romanianus, with only a name, 262. Rome, a bitter republican's opinion of, 307. Roesch, on effects of occupation on the mind, 378. Rough and Godwin, 311. Rousseau, a saying of, 103; and Voltaire, 198; cause of his cynicism, 245; a painstaking writer, 248; fancied himself the object of all men's hatred, 259; his preaching and his practice, 268. Rubens, a complaint of, 30. Rulhiere, story of a Russian friend of, 77; and Madame Geoffrin, 170; guilty of only one wickedness, 375. Ruskin to his students, 179. Russell, Lord John, his definition of a proverb, 159. Rutherford, Samuel, and Archbishop Usher, 357. Saadi, the traveler and the bag of pearls, 122; description of a drink, 184; verse of the elephant-driver, 372; reply of the piece of scented clay, 373; Abraham and the old man who worshiped the fire only, 387. Sachs, of earth and heaven, 325. Sainte-Beuve, fastidiousness as a writer, 126. Saint Simon, story of two sisters, 34; of the dying duchess, 75. Saladin and Richard Coeur de Lion, 180. Sanson, the hereditary executioner, 259. Saurin, advice to Montesquieu, 148. Savage, corrects a lady's judgment of Thomson, 188; tribute of Johnson to, 236; with Johnson all night in London streets, 243. Saxe, Marshal, his terror of a cat, 244. Scaliger, his opinion of Montaigne, 147; a peculiarity of, 244; difficulty in communicating his knowledge, 258. Scaramouche, snuff of a thousand flowers, 300. Scargill, of the English, Scotch and Irish, 302. Scarron, wretchedness of, 320. Schedone, of a painting by, 326. Schiller, Indian Death Song, 147; Joan of Arc, Don Carlos, and Tell, 174; the scent of rotten apples a necessity to, 244; a curious fact relating to, 251. Scott, story of a placid minister near Dundee, 50; how estimated by his neighbors, 144; failure of Waverley predicted, 148; Campbell and Hohenlinden, 150; Burns and the mouse, 150; meeting of Richard and Saladin, 180; how he discovered his talents, 191; the authorship of Old Mortality, 201; never saw Melrose Abbey by moonlight, 251; remarkable industry of, 266; a sad bit of self-portraiture, 317; a strange fact relating to the Bride of Lammermoor, 318. Scott, General, a sculptor's story of, 173. Seeing, limits to, 12; action of seeing outward, 12. Selden, a remark on marriage, 240.