G.

G.Gabrielli, the singer,256Galileo,305Galway, Lord, commander of the allies in Spain in170109119; defeated by the Bourbons at Almanza,124Game, (a) Roman,4; noie; (a) Greek,30; note.Ganges, the chief highway of Eastern commerce,229Garden of Eden, pictures of, in oil Bibles,343; painting of, by a gifted master,343Garrick, David, a pupil of Johnson,179; their relations to each other,189190203398; his power of amusing children,255; his friendship lor Crisp,261202; his advice as to Crisp's tragedy of Virginia,202; his power of imitation,300; quotation from Fielding illustrative of the effect of his acting,332Garth, his epilogue to Cato,392; his verses upon the controversy in regard to the Letters of Phalaris,118Gascons,430487511525Gay, sent for by Addison on his death-bed to ask his forgiveness,418Generalization, superiority in, of modern to ancient historians,410414Geneva, Addison's visit to,350Genius, creative, a rude state of society favorable to,57325; requires discipline to enable it to perfect anything.334335Genoa, its decay owing to Catholicism,330Addison's admiration of,345Gensonnd, his ability,452; his impeachment,409; his defence,473; his death,474"Gentleman Dancing-Master," its production on the stage,375; its best scenes suggested by Calderon,385"Gentleman's Magazine" (the),182184Geologist, Bishop Watson's comparison of,425Geometry, comparative estimate of, by Plato and by Bacon,450George I., his accession,136George II., political state of the nation in his time.533; his resentment against Chatham for his opposition to the payment of Hanoverian troops,220; compelled to admit him to office,221; his efforts for the protection of Hanover,230; his relations towards his ministers,241244; reconciled to Chatham's possession of power,14; his death,14; his character,16George III., his accession the commencement of a new historic era,532; cause of the discontents in the early part of his reign,534; his partiality to Clive,292; bright prospects at his accession,581; his interview with Miss Burney,277; his opinions of Voltaire, Rousseau, and Shakespeare,277278; his partisanship for Hastings,291; his illness, and the view taken of it in the palace,291292; the history of the first ten years of his reign but imperfectly known,1; his characteristics,1617; his favor to Lord Bute,19; his notions of government,21; slighted for Chatham at the Lord Mayor's dinner,31; receives the resignation of Bute, and appoints George Grenville his successor,54; his treatment by Grenville,59; increase of his aversion to his ministers,6263; his illness, 06; disputes between him and his ministry on the regency question,66; inclined to enforce the American Stamp Act by the sword,76; the faction of the "King's friends,"7989; his unwilling consent to the repeal of the Stamp Act,82; dismisses Rockingham, and appoints Chatham,88; his character and late popularity,263265; his insanity and the question of the regency,265267; his opposition to Catholic emancipation,281282; his opposition to Fox,291293George IV.,125265266Georgies (the), Addison's translation of a portion of,332333Germany, the literature of, little known in England sixty or seventy years ago,340341Germany and Switzerland, Addison's ramble in,351Ghizni, peculiarity of the campaign of,29Ghosts, Johnson's belief in,410Gibbon, his alleged conversion to Mahommedanism,375; his success as a historian,252; his presence at Westminster Hall at the trial of Hastings,126; unlearned his native English during his exile,314260Gibbons, Gruiling,367368Gibraltar, capture of, by Sir George Booke,110Gittard, Lady, sister of Sir William Temple,3539101; her death,113Gifford, Byron's admiration of,352Girondists, Barère's share in their destruction,434435468469474; description of their party and principles,452454; at first in the majority,455; their intentions towards the king,455456; their contest with the Mountain,458459460; their trial,473; and death,474475; their character,474Gladstone, W. E., review of "The State in its Relations with the Church,"110; quality of his mind,111120; grounds on which he rests his case for the defence of the Church,122; his doctrine that the duties of government are paternal,125; specimen of his arguments,127129; his argument that the profession of a national religion is imperative,120131135; inconsequence of his reasoning,138; to:148Gleig, Kev. review of his Life of Warren Hastings,114Godfrey, Sir E.,297Godolphin, Lord, his conversion to Whiggism,130; engages Addison to write a poem on the battle of Illenheim,355Godolphin and Marlborough, their policy soon after the accession of Queen Anne,353Goëzman, his bribery as a member of the parliament of Lewis by Betmarchais,430431Goldsmith, Oliver, Life of,151171; his birth and parentage,151; his school days,152153; enters Trinity College, Dublin,153; his university life,154; his autograph upon a pane of glass,154; note; his recklessness and instability,154155; his travels,155; his carelessness of the truth,150; his life in London,156157; his residence,157; note; his hack writings,157158; his style,158; becomes known to literary men,158; one of the original members of The Club,159Johnson's friendship for him,159170; his "Vicar of Wakefield,"159161; his "Traveller."160; his comedies.161163; his "Deserted Village,"162163; his histories,164; his amusing blunders,164; his literary merits, 165,170; his social position,165; his inferiority in conversation,165166,393; his "Retaliation,"170; his character,167168407; his prodigality,168; his sickness and death,169; his burial and cenotaph in Westminster Abbey,169170; his biographers,171Goordas, son of Nuneomar, his appointment as treasurer of the household,24Gorhamlery, the country residence of Lord Bacon,409Government, doctrines of Southey on the duties and ends of, stated and examined,157168; its eon-duet in relation to infidel publications,170; various forms of,413414; changes in its form sometimes not felt till long alter,86; the science of, experimental and progressive,132272273; examination of Mr. Gladstone's treatise on the Philosophy of,116176; its proper functions,362; different forms of,108111; their advantages,179181Mr. Hill's Essay on, reviewed,551Grace Abounding, Runyan's,259Grafton, Duke of, Secretary of State under Lord Rockingham,74; first Lord of the Treasury under Chatham,91; joined the Bedfords,100Granby, Marquis of, his character,261Grand Alliance (the), against the Bourbons,103Grand Remonstrance, debate on, and passing of it,475Granville, Lord. See Carteret, Lord. Gray, his want of appreciation of Johnson,261; his Latin verses,342; his unsuccessful application for a professorship,41; his injudicious plagiarisms from Dante,72; note."Great Commoner." the designation of Lord Chatham,25010Greece, its history compared with that of Italy,281; its degradation and rise in modern times,334; instances of the corruption of judges in the ancient commonwealths of,420; its literature,547340349352; history of, by Mitford, reviewed,172201; historians of, modern, their characteristics,174177; civil convulsions in, contrasted with those in Rome,189190Greek Drama, its origin,216; compared with the English plays of the age of Elizabeth,338Greeks, difference between them and the Romans,237; in their treatment of woman.8384; their social condition compared with that of the Italians of the middle ages,312; their position and character in the12th century,300; their exclusiveness,411412Gregory XI., his austerity and zeal,324Grenvilles (the),11Richard Lord Temple at their head,11Grenville, George, his character,2723; intrusted with the lead in the Commons under the Bute administration,33; his support of the proposed tax on cider,51; his nickname of "Gentle Shepherd,"51; appointed prime minister,54; his opinions,5455; character of his public acts,5550; his treatment of the king,59; his deprivation of Henry Conway of his regiment,62; proposed the imposition of stamp duties on the North American colonies, 05; his embarrassment on the question of a regency; his triumph over the king,70; superseded by Lord Rockingham and his friends,74; popular demonstration against him on the repeal of the Stamp Act,83; deserted by the Bedfords,109; his pamphlet against the Rocking-hams,102; his reconciliation with Chatham,103; his death,104Grenville, Lord,291292290Greville, Eulke, patron of Dr. Burney, his character,251Grey, Earl,129130209Grey, Lady Jane, her high classical acquirements,349"Grievances," popular, on occasion of Walpole's fall,181Grub Street,405Guadaloupe, of,244Guardian (the), its birth,389390; its discontinuance,390Guelfs (the), their success greatly promoted by the ecclesiastical power,273Guicciardini,2Guiciwar, its interpretation,59Guise, Henry, Duke of, his conduct on the day of the barricades at Paris,372; his resemblance to Essex.372Gunpowder, its inventor and the date of its discovery unknown,444Gustavus Adolphus,338Gypsies (the),380

Gabrielli, the singer,256

Galileo,305

Galway, Lord, commander of the allies in Spain in170109119; defeated by the Bourbons at Almanza,124

Game, (a) Roman,4; noie; (a) Greek,30; note.

Ganges, the chief highway of Eastern commerce,229

Garden of Eden, pictures of, in oil Bibles,343; painting of, by a gifted master,343

Garrick, David, a pupil of Johnson,179; their relations to each other,189190203398; his power of amusing children,255; his friendship lor Crisp,261202; his advice as to Crisp's tragedy of Virginia,202; his power of imitation,300; quotation from Fielding illustrative of the effect of his acting,332

Garth, his epilogue to Cato,392; his verses upon the controversy in regard to the Letters of Phalaris,118

Gascons,430487511525

Gay, sent for by Addison on his death-bed to ask his forgiveness,418

Generalization, superiority in, of modern to ancient historians,410414

Geneva, Addison's visit to,350

Genius, creative, a rude state of society favorable to,57325; requires discipline to enable it to perfect anything.334335

Genoa, its decay owing to Catholicism,330Addison's admiration of,345

Gensonnd, his ability,452; his impeachment,409; his defence,473; his death,474

"Gentleman Dancing-Master," its production on the stage,375; its best scenes suggested by Calderon,385

"Gentleman's Magazine" (the),182184

Geologist, Bishop Watson's comparison of,425

Geometry, comparative estimate of, by Plato and by Bacon,450

George I., his accession,136

George II., political state of the nation in his time.533; his resentment against Chatham for his opposition to the payment of Hanoverian troops,220; compelled to admit him to office,221; his efforts for the protection of Hanover,230; his relations towards his ministers,241244; reconciled to Chatham's possession of power,14; his death,14; his character,16

George III., his accession the commencement of a new historic era,532; cause of the discontents in the early part of his reign,534; his partiality to Clive,292; bright prospects at his accession,581; his interview with Miss Burney,277; his opinions of Voltaire, Rousseau, and Shakespeare,277278; his partisanship for Hastings,291; his illness, and the view taken of it in the palace,291292; the history of the first ten years of his reign but imperfectly known,1; his characteristics,1617; his favor to Lord Bute,19; his notions of government,21; slighted for Chatham at the Lord Mayor's dinner,31; receives the resignation of Bute, and appoints George Grenville his successor,54; his treatment by Grenville,59; increase of his aversion to his ministers,6263; his illness, 06; disputes between him and his ministry on the regency question,66; inclined to enforce the American Stamp Act by the sword,76; the faction of the "King's friends,"7989; his unwilling consent to the repeal of the Stamp Act,82; dismisses Rockingham, and appoints Chatham,88; his character and late popularity,263265; his insanity and the question of the regency,265267; his opposition to Catholic emancipation,281282; his opposition to Fox,291293

George IV.,125265266

Georgies (the), Addison's translation of a portion of,332333

Germany, the literature of, little known in England sixty or seventy years ago,340341

Germany and Switzerland, Addison's ramble in,351

Ghizni, peculiarity of the campaign of,29

Ghosts, Johnson's belief in,410

Gibbon, his alleged conversion to Mahommedanism,375; his success as a historian,252; his presence at Westminster Hall at the trial of Hastings,126; unlearned his native English during his exile,314260

Gibbons, Gruiling,367368

Gibraltar, capture of, by Sir George Booke,110

Gittard, Lady, sister of Sir William Temple,3539101; her death,113

Gifford, Byron's admiration of,352

Girondists, Barère's share in their destruction,434435468469474; description of their party and principles,452454; at first in the majority,455; their intentions towards the king,455456; their contest with the Mountain,458459460; their trial,473; and death,474475; their character,474

Gladstone, W. E., review of "The State in its Relations with the Church,"110; quality of his mind,111120; grounds on which he rests his case for the defence of the Church,122; his doctrine that the duties of government are paternal,125; specimen of his arguments,127129; his argument that the profession of a national religion is imperative,120131135; inconsequence of his reasoning,138; to:148

Gleig, Kev. review of his Life of Warren Hastings,114

Godfrey, Sir E.,297

Godolphin, Lord, his conversion to Whiggism,130; engages Addison to write a poem on the battle of Illenheim,355

Godolphin and Marlborough, their policy soon after the accession of Queen Anne,353

Goëzman, his bribery as a member of the parliament of Lewis by Betmarchais,430431

Goldsmith, Oliver, Life of,151171; his birth and parentage,151; his school days,152153; enters Trinity College, Dublin,153; his university life,154; his autograph upon a pane of glass,154; note; his recklessness and instability,154155; his travels,155; his carelessness of the truth,150; his life in London,156157; his residence,157; note; his hack writings,157158; his style,158; becomes known to literary men,158; one of the original members of The Club,159Johnson's friendship for him,159170; his "Vicar of Wakefield,"159161; his "Traveller."160; his comedies.161163; his "Deserted Village,"162163; his histories,164; his amusing blunders,164; his literary merits, 165,170; his social position,165; his inferiority in conversation,165166,393; his "Retaliation,"170; his character,167168407; his prodigality,168; his sickness and death,169; his burial and cenotaph in Westminster Abbey,169170; his biographers,171

Goordas, son of Nuneomar, his appointment as treasurer of the household,24

Gorhamlery, the country residence of Lord Bacon,409

Government, doctrines of Southey on the duties and ends of, stated and examined,157168; its eon-duet in relation to infidel publications,170; various forms of,413414; changes in its form sometimes not felt till long alter,86; the science of, experimental and progressive,132272273; examination of Mr. Gladstone's treatise on the Philosophy of,116176; its proper functions,362; different forms of,108111; their advantages,179181Mr. Hill's Essay on, reviewed,551

Grace Abounding, Runyan's,259

Grafton, Duke of, Secretary of State under Lord Rockingham,74; first Lord of the Treasury under Chatham,91; joined the Bedfords,100

Granby, Marquis of, his character,261

Grand Alliance (the), against the Bourbons,103

Grand Remonstrance, debate on, and passing of it,475

Granville, Lord. See Carteret, Lord. Gray, his want of appreciation of Johnson,261; his Latin verses,342; his unsuccessful application for a professorship,41; his injudicious plagiarisms from Dante,72; note.

"Great Commoner." the designation of Lord Chatham,25010

Greece, its history compared with that of Italy,281; its degradation and rise in modern times,334; instances of the corruption of judges in the ancient commonwealths of,420; its literature,547340349352; history of, by Mitford, reviewed,172201; historians of, modern, their characteristics,174177; civil convulsions in, contrasted with those in Rome,189190

Greek Drama, its origin,216; compared with the English plays of the age of Elizabeth,338

Greeks, difference between them and the Romans,237; in their treatment of woman.8384; their social condition compared with that of the Italians of the middle ages,312; their position and character in the12th century,300; their exclusiveness,411412

Gregory XI., his austerity and zeal,324

Grenvilles (the),11Richard Lord Temple at their head,11

Grenville, George, his character,2723; intrusted with the lead in the Commons under the Bute administration,33; his support of the proposed tax on cider,51; his nickname of "Gentle Shepherd,"51; appointed prime minister,54; his opinions,5455; character of his public acts,5550; his treatment of the king,59; his deprivation of Henry Conway of his regiment,62; proposed the imposition of stamp duties on the North American colonies, 05; his embarrassment on the question of a regency; his triumph over the king,70; superseded by Lord Rockingham and his friends,74; popular demonstration against him on the repeal of the Stamp Act,83; deserted by the Bedfords,109; his pamphlet against the Rocking-hams,102; his reconciliation with Chatham,103; his death,104

Grenville, Lord,291292290

Greville, Eulke, patron of Dr. Burney, his character,251

Grey, Earl,129130209

Grey, Lady Jane, her high classical acquirements,349

"Grievances," popular, on occasion of Walpole's fall,181

Grub Street,405

Guadaloupe, of,244

Guardian (the), its birth,389390; its discontinuance,390

Guelfs (the), their success greatly promoted by the ecclesiastical power,273

Guicciardini,2

Guiciwar, its interpretation,59

Guise, Henry, Duke of, his conduct on the day of the barricades at Paris,372; his resemblance to Essex.372

Gunpowder, its inventor and the date of its discovery unknown,444

Gustavus Adolphus,338

Gypsies (the),380


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