Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14: Little Journeys to the Homes of Great MusiciansHubbard, Elbert
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Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14: Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians
Hubbard, Elbert
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Milton, Sir Christopher, quoted, v, 120.
Milton, John, ii, 76;
home of, in Bread Street, London, v, 119;
father of, v, 119;
youth of, v, 121;
education of, v, 122;
life of, at Cambridge, v, 123;
his ascetic nature, v, 124;
life of, at Horton, v, 126;
influence of mother on, v, 126;
his marital experiences, v, 128;
his tractate on divorce, v, 130;
travels of, v, 136;
his political pamphlets, v, 137;
his surpassing genius, v, 139;
Lord Byron compared with, v, 230;
influence of Dante on, xiii, 137;
Dore's illustrations of the works of, iv, 338;
Galileo and, xii, 82;
Heaven and, i, 179;
Macaulay on, v, 181;
referred to, v, 83;
Satan of, v, 320;
as a secretary, v, 26;
and ship-money, ix, 316.
Mind, the supremacy of, viii, 161.
Mineptah, the great Pharaoh, x, 17.
Minerva, ii, 43.
Ministers, sons of, iii, 102.
Mintage of wisdom, i, p xii.
Mirabeau, Marat and, vii, 223;
Thomas Paine and, ix, 178;
quoted, ix, 387;
Madame de Stael compared with, ii, 183.
Mission furniture, i, p xxv.
Missions of California, x, 163.
Missouri River, referred to, i, 123.
Mitford, Mary Russell, ii, 26; v, 59;
life of Dean Swift by, i, 143.
Mobocrats, vii, 407.
_Modern Painters_, Ruskin, i, 89; v, 246; vi, 329.
Modesty, definition of, x, 16.
Mohammedans, expulsion of, from Spain, viii, 207.
Mohammed, the religion of, ix, 375.
Mommsen, Theodor, historian, xi, 291.
Monahan, Michael, iii, p xii.
_Mona Lisa, The_, vi, 41;
Walter Pater on, vi, 58.
Monasteries, age of the, xi, 306;
as mendicant institutions, vii, 113.
Monastic impulse, the, vii, 87, 111; x, 166, 119, 304.
Monasticism, x, 302;
forms of, vii, 111.
Monastic life, vii, 86.
_Money-changers_, Rembrandt, iv, 64.
Mongoose, story of the imaginary, ix, 300.
Monism, xii, 256.
Monogamy, Ernst Haeckel on, x, 305.
Monroe, James, and Thomas Paine, ix, 160.
_Monstrous Regiment of Women, The_, John Knox, ix, 210.
Montague, Charles, Lord Halifax, quoted, v, 244.
Montaigne, quoted, v, 151;
referred to, iii, 35.
Montebello, home of Empress Josephine in, ii, 275.
Monte Cassino, Benedictine monastery, x, 315.
Montesquieu on heaven, viii, 130.
Monticello, home of Jefferson, iii, 69.
_Moonlight Sonata_, Beethoven, xiv, 277.
Moore, George, and Corot, vi, 205.
Moore, Thomas, i, 155, 280;
birthplace of, i, 156;
Lord Byron and, v, 224;
Disraeli and, v, 333;
Dore's illustrations of the works of, iv, 338.
Moqui Indians, the, viii, 46.
Morality, v, 226;
defined, x, 318;
Schopenhauer on, viii, 377;
Herbert Spencer on, ix, 191.
Moravians, John Wesley and the, ix, 31.
More, Hannah, Edmund Burke and, vii, 161;
Macaulay and, v, 181;
friend of Reynolds, iv, 305.
More, Sir Thomas, i, 124; x, 117.
Morgan, J. Pierpont, vi, 72; vii, 193;
Patrick Sheedy and, vi, 145.
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