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Abbeville, house at,91.Academy, London, and village architecture,93.Royal,6.Achilles,168.Acland, Dr.,159.his dog “Bustle,”151Actions and aims,214.Advance and contentment in knowledge,81.Æschylus, Prom. Vinct., 1022, quoted,157.Æstheticism, modern, and sombre colours,114.Æthuia, the bird,192.Affectation, artistic,201.Age, feeling of increasing,104.the present, its dulness and excitement,65.its vanity in art and science,33.Ἀγνοία,8.Αἰδὼς in art,71.Aims and actions,214.Alabama, the,24.Alcyone,190.Alsace, inscription on peasant’s house in,86.peasants of, their delight and art,ib.Altorf,199.Amboise, chapel of,92.America and England, relations of,79.Amusement, modern forms of,71,72.Anacreon and his dog, (Greek vase),151.Anatomy, a degradation in painting man,150.a hindrance   "      "       animals,ib.comparative mental,151.destroys art,pref.vii.its effect on the artist’s mind and power,158.its place in relation to art,149,seq.most fatal to the greatest minds,159.Sir J. Reynolds, and,154.statement as to, inStones of Venice, withdrawn,159.Anaxagoras,23.Angelico’s jewel painting,218.Angels, modern feeling about,62.their interest in human work,53.(the coins),117.Ancestral honour, power of,171.Animalism, humanity, divinity,30.Animal history, modern books of, fail and why,158. See s.Nat. Hist.Animals, artist’s right view of their nature,150.each knows its own good,23.desire to kill, in inverse ratio to power to see and love,175.man’s relation to,30.use of, as types in art,151.wearing of their skins, begins heraldry,223.Ἀνοία,8.Apathy, modern,72,73.Ἀφροσύνη, in men, nations, and art,69–71,74.Apollo,105.temple of,119.the Python and,117.Apollodorus, quoted on the Halcyon,190.Apsis and Aspis,230.Arabs,203.Architects, Institute of British,6,93.Architecture, decline of English,239.evidence of mental development in,236.short reign of perfect,82.woodcarving and,86.See s.Abbeville,Academy,Alsace,Amboise,Apsis,Bergamo,Châlet,Cottages,Hotels,Rouen,York.Aristotle,“common sense” in,25.division of faculties,8.σοφία and prudence in,26.Quoted:—Ethics vi. 7. 12. on wisdom and prudence,19,23.Hist. Av. i. 9. 2. on κανθός,235.v. 8. 9. on the Halcyon,192.Armorial bearings, meaning of,228.Art—aim of what it should be,3,76.anatomy, fatal to,pref.vii.characteristics of:—eagle eyes,36.love of nature,41.modesty,Lect. iv.,74.of wise appreciation,172.originality, to what extent,32,33.refinement and rudeness,90–91.sight before knowledge,125–26.simplicity before skill,40.temperance,90.unconsciousness,53–54.unity of feeling,93.unselfishness as essential to wisdom,76,172.wisdom and folly inLect. i.definition of great:—it begins rightly, ends beautifully,146.it needs no addition, bears no taking away,147.See below s.Meaning.education in:—generally,94.the teacher need not talk much,2.ethics and,18.the science of right conduct essential to it,161.imitative, Shakespeare quoted on,39.influenced by:—local surroundings,91.love of death, esp., modern,69.meaning of,38.national art, proper subjects of,95.ignorance of art,16.nature and:—art less beautiful than reality,172.general knowledge of organic nature essential to art,149.science and:—art above science, but must comply with it,145.does not teach science,160.the handmaid and shadow of science,47,68,76,172.highest sciences need art most,45,96.simplest art the most useful to,127.subjects of art and, the same,43.the masters of art, beyond all science,136.wise art and wise,Lect. iii.See s.Nature,Use,Science.self-sufficiency of. See above s.Characteristics.subject of, appearances rather than facts,149.theology of, only recenartly recognised,46.truth complete given by artandscience,58. See s.Artist.use and value of,as a means of record,38–9,as expressing nature,41.practical,206.to history and physiology,38–39,47,207 seq.See above s.Science.to religion,46.See s.Astheticism,Affectation,Anatomy,Animals,Architecture,Author,Beauty,Chromo-lithotint,Cleanliness,Colour,Competition,Death,Decency,Drawing,Dress,Folly,French,Gothic,History,Indolence,Invention,κακία,Knowledge,Lindsay,Madonna,Nature,Nude,Photography,Royal Academy,Science.Artemisium,199.Artist—modesty of,31.modesty about, enjoyment in, and feeling as to their own work,52.science needed by an,124–25,133.he must know as well as see,123.subjects of, not invisible structures, though often invisible things,172–3.See s.Angelico,Barry,Bellini,Botticelli,Copley Fielding,Correggio,Durer,Ghirlandajo,Giotto,Holbein,Hunt (A.),Hunt (Holman),Leonardo,Lippi,Luini,Mantegna,M. Angelo,Mulready,Raphael,Reynolds,Robson,Titian,Tintoret,Turner,Van Eyck.Artistic affectation in England,201.Aspis and apsis,230.Associations, local, to be cherished,94.Astronomy—how far valuable discovery yet possible in,66.two young ladies studying,26. See s.Stars.ἀτεχνία 8.Atheism, modern,202.tries to dispense with the sun,104.Athena, power of,196, andn.protects Ulysses,75.typical of what,224.Atlantic, Ulysses in the,75.αὐταρχεία,80.Author: (1)Generally, (2)Teaching, (3)Books, &c.1.Generally:—drawings by, his own pleasure in them,84.leaf-outlines,217.early boyhood, its tendencies,41.feeling of increasing age,104.life of, progressive from his childish pleasures,83.love of art, its foundation and growth,41.and of nature combined,42.story of a serpent and,101.study of Tuscan art begun (1846),46.success and failure, effect on,31.various movements of:—at Crystal Palace,93.Düsseldorf,88.Hincksey, Oxford,217.Iffley Church,118.London, watching traffic,59.Lucerne, rowing. 215.Verona (1870),125.Wallingford,240.Westminster (watching clouds),130.See s.Acland,Frou-frou,Helps,Mineralogy,Sight,Water-Colour Exhibition.2.Teaching of:—cannot follow modern science,134.despairs of return to simplicity,94.feeling for Norman art,92.his abuse of modernism,34.reverence for mythology,95.on Luini, his position shown (1860),46.study of the S. Catherine,226.on Turner, his defence of him,128.result of his teaching on his early disciples,42.Ritualism, not deceived by,73.teaches only what he knows,123.work at Oxford,thought spent in preparing his lectures,pref.,2,217.assistants,31.audiences,1.plan for lectures,236.3.Books, Lectures, &c.:—constant appeals to physical science in,128.fine writing in,3paradoxes in,89.Quoted or referred to:—Aratra Pantalici, (12),62.(88–9),240.(142),39.Ariadne Florentina, (141)pref.viii.Arrows of the Chace (ii. 178),212.Eagle’s Nest—pains of writing,pref.vii.teaching of, needed,172.Fors Clavigera (Letter v., p. 4),88.Giotto and his Works in Padua (p. 25),204.Lecturer on Art (60),18.(66),18.Landscape (1871),62.Munera Pulveris (106),212.Modern painters, incomplete,129.tone of Vol. I.,42.Queen of the Air (135),52.(162seq.),229.Sesame and Lilies (97),3.Stones of Venice (iii. 2, 23seq.),159.Authority, heraldic sign of,235,1.Autolycus and Philammon, myths of,189.Bacon, quoted on venomous knowledge,20.New Atlantis, ref. to,120.Bardi, the,209.Barry, classical paintings of,63.Beauty, Greek love of,167.Bee, wisdom of the,193–196.Behaviour, knowledge of right, essential to art,161.Belfry,93.Bellini, jewel painting of,218.Bend, the heraldic,235.Benvenue,199.Bergamo, Duomo of,86.Berne, gas works at,102.carving at,88.Beverley, lesser egret last seen in England at,174.Bible, statements of mental condition in the,69.Quoted or referred to:—Gen. i. 3.Let there be light,99.ii. 19.Brought to Adam to see what he would call them,150.iii. 21.Unto Adam also and his wife ... coats of skin,223.Exod. xx. 12.Long in the land the Lord ... giveth thee,240.xxv. 5.Rams’ skins dyed red,226.Deut. xxxii. 11.An eagle ... fluttereth over her young,63.Judges v. 30.Divers colours of needlework,225.Job xix. 26.Aftermy flesh shall I see God,121.Ps. xiv. 1.The fool hath said in his heart,104.xxvii. 1.The Lord is my light ... whom shall I fear,104–120.xlviii. 13.Mark well her bulwarks, consider her palaces,240.xcvii. 2.Clouds and darkness are round about him,7.ciii. 1–5.Bless the Lord ... youth renewed like the eagle’s,63–4.cxxxvi. 8.The sun to rule the day,100.Prov. iii. 15.She is more precious than rubies,19.iv. 13.Take fast hold on instruction,19.viii. 30–31.I was daily His delight ... rejoicing ... with the sons of men,19,64.Eccl. i. 18.He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow,80.Malachi iv. 2.Sun ofjustice... with healing in his wings,115.Matt. v. 8.Blessed the pure in heart ... shall see God,121,176.vi. 22–23.The light of the body is the eye,106,108,110.viii. 20.Son of Man hath not where to lay his head,205.x. 16.Wise as serpents,103–105.xi. 7.A reed shaken with the wind,203.xii. 31–32.Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost,169.xv. 14.Blind ... fall into the ditch,106.xxiv. 28.Where the carcase is, etc.,36.Mark v. 3.Dwelling among the tombs,69.v. 15.Clothed and in his right mind,69.x. 15.Receive the Kingdom as a little child,81.John i. 9.Light that lighteth every man,115,116,120.1 Cor. viii. 1.Knowledge puffeth up,29.xiii. 5.Charity ... thinketh no evil,152.6.Rejoiceth not in iniquity,210.11.Put away childish things,81.2 Cor. iii. 6.The letter Killeth,4.v. 1.Houses not built by hands,205.1 Peter i. 12.Things the angels desire to look into,54.Birds, builders and singers,48.classifications of (raptores, rasores, &c.),187–9.English temper towards, illustrated174–5.praising God,61.rare, becoming extinct,34.shooting them, the first idea of English gentlemen,178.See s.Athuia,Bullfinch,Clematis,Cuvier,Egret,Gould,Gull,Halcyon,Hawk,Heron,Kingfisher,Laros,Nest,Nightingale,Ornithology,Peacock,Pheasant,Skylark.Blake, Wm., as painter and as poet,21.quoted, “The Book of Thel,” “Doth the eagle know,” &c.,21,22,63.Blindness of mind and body,106.Boat race,212.Boats, loved by all boys,41.Books, children’s,61.Botanic gardens at Oxford,160.Botticelli, as an engraver,pref.vii.his study of face and limb,pref.viii.Bottle, science of the formation of a,135.Brutes, man’s relation to the,30. See s.Animals.Briareus,183.British Museum, Greek Vase, “Anacreon and his dog” at,151.Bruges,93.Bubble, soap, unexplained,132,134.Bullfinch’s nest,48.Bustle, Dr. Acland’s dog, author’s delight in,151,154.California,70.Camarina,229.Cambridge wranglers, value of art to,96.Canton, the heraldic,235.Carlyle, T., “Shooting Niagara,”70.Carrion and game, choice of,11,36.Cassell’sEducator,202.Cassiopeia,124.Cat, its power and use of sight,110.“may look at a king,”ib.Ceyx, son of the Morning Star,198.Chærephon, in Lucian’s dialogue on the Halcyon,194.Châlet, education needed to build a Swiss,202.Chamouni, Turner’s drawing of,147.Chance, and design in nature,182, seq.Change, and living change, how wrought,208–9.Chapel, attendance at, in Oxford,169.Character, evidenced by dress,220.Chariot, use of Greek,231.Charity, true, more reverent than pitiful,211.Charlemagne’s treaty with Scotland,235.Chartism, story of a Chartist herald (Sir A. Helps, quoted),208.Charybdis,75.Chaucer, quoted, “Cuckoo and Nightingale,”37 (motto),56.Chemistry, a modern God,202.modern progress in,33.of little use to art,96.Cherwell, the,179.Chevron, the heraldic,235.Chiefe, the heraldic,235.Child and dog, pictures by Titian and Reynolds,151.Childhood, pleasures and retrospect of,82.Children’s books,61.Chivalry, Christian and Greek,219.history of, to be learnt by gentlemen,216.conception of, as an influence in education,239.European, its basis,236.leaders of,240.Christ, heraldic symbol of, in Italy,229.Christian chivalry. See s.Chivalry.Christianity, early traces of in heathen literature (Lucian),194.idea of God as Light,116.its statements of mental health,69.Chromo-lithotints, style of,69–71.Church of England,73.Cid, The,240.Civilization, false,94.Civil Service, the, and Orissa,35.Classification, scientific,186–7.Cleanliness and art,95.Clematis, a bird’s nest of,48.Clouds,129–30.effect of storm-clouds on scientist, artist, and scholar,7.forms of, unexplained by science,131.Coins, English “angels,”117.engravings of,157. See s.Angels,Sovereign.Colonization, Englishmen likely to be colonists,94.Colour, connection of with health,113.design in, on Gothic shields,233.gloomy, in art,69.in dress, originates in the skins of animals,226–7.love of light,113,116,117.perception of, a spiritual and moral power,122.pure, delight in,113,115.school of shade and of crystalline colour,114.temperance of,71.Common-sense in the English,24,25. See s.Aristotle.Competition in art,88.in education,177,212.Conceit of science,22.Conceptions, range of dignity of, and literature,7–8.reason and,11.Consideration for others demands imagination,27.Contentment and advance in knowledge,81.Copiapo,83.Copley Fielding,41.“Coronis,” Pindar’s,189.Correggio, use of orange for red by,226.Corruptibility of art,11,13.Cottages, who should build peasants’, and how,201.Courtesy, instance of modern,240.Covetousness in art,81.Coxe, Mr. (Bodleian Library, Oxford),157.Crane, legs of a,162.Creation, man’s relation to the brute,30.Creatures, different knowledge fit for different,21.Creed, Apostles’, its first three clauses,169.Crest, heraldic meaning of the,228.personal, but becomes hereditary,230.Cross, heraldic,235.heraldic quartering and the,236.Crystal Palace, toy at the,93.Cuirass, earliest form of,224.Cup, forms of,139.Cuvier, classification of birds,188.Daisy, Wordsworth on a,51.Dancing, fair and foul,13,14.Dante, quoted or referred to—De remi, facemmo ale al folle volo,79.on Pisa’s cruelty,35.on the sight of Beatrice,177.on Ulysses,75.Darwin, account of peacock’s feather,185.Darwinism,153–155,207.Death, connection with the myth of the Halcyon,199.love of, by modern art,69.Decency and art,95.Deeds, taught by art,8.Defence, heraldic sign of,235. (s.).Delights, man’s best,212.Dependence,77.Derivative beauty in modern art,219.Design in nature,152, seq.Desires, man’s best,212.Devices on Greek and Gothic shields,233.Devil, personality of the,69.truth of the expression, “the Devil in him,”ib.Dictionaries, contain “Tout ce qu’il y a de plus beau,”100.Dinner, derivation of word,235.Diomed,168.Dionysus’ cup,139.nebris,225.Disc or disk,235.Discovery of one age, the common knowledge of the next,34.science and,65,66.vain passion for,74.value of, in itself,33.Divinity, Humanity, Animalism,30.Doctor, Helps’ story of a, in Chartist riots,208.Dog, Anacreon and his (Greek vase),151.carved by boy,88.Dr. Acland’s dog “Bustle,”151.meaning of its introduction in portraits,151.by Titian and Reynolds, their pictures of children and,ib.Doing, knowing, and talking,2,3,4.Domestic love, in peace,168.its place and influence,199.Doncaster, Mr. Reed, bird-stuffer of,174.Drake, Sir Francis, arms of,235.Drapery, effect of gentleness gained by,235.its laws,141, seq.on persons and statues,143.Drawing, a vital part of education, and why,179.rules of, use of sight and science in,148.“draw for your subject, not your picture,”163.Dress, a sign of character,220.earliest forms of,223–4.Eastern,225.form and colour of, originates in skins of animals,226–7.heraldic,222,225.national, should be the same in life and art,166.squalor of, a sign of national decay,221.Drummond armorial bearings,235.Du Cange, on St. Etheldreda,235.on the orle quoted,235.Dürer,217.anatomy in pictures of,155; influence of anatomy on,pref.viii.animals introduced by,151.beautiful faces rare in,pref.viii.engraving of,pref.vii.his “Sir, it cannot be better done,”52.love of grotesque in,151.works of:—Knight and Death,pref.viii.Melancholia,pref.viii.St. Hubert,pref.viii.St. Jerome,pref.viii.Düsseldorf, art at,88.Eagle, the,184.characteristics of,156–7.sight and scent of,111.Eagles Nest, The.See s.Author. (3)Books.Ease of great work,85.Eastern dress,225.Eccelin of Padua,35.Ecu, derivation of,230.Edify, meaning of word in “Charity edifieth,”30.Education, aim of, morality not knowledge,212.a matter of feeling, not of knowledge,179.competition in,212.means power of true sight, animals, man, God,175–6.modern architecture and,202.modern,120.its error and toilsomeness,ib.national,94.science as an instrument of,65.sympathy essential to learning,236.true, brings delight in seeing things,177.summed in enjoyment,ib.Effort in study, how far necessary,2.Egeri, lakes of,199.Egret, the leper,174.Egyptian leopard, of what typical,125.plagues,118.Elgin marbles, as models for students,162.Elis, coins of,157.Elizabeth, Queen, arms given to Sir F. Drake by,235.Embassy, heraldic sign of,235,2.Emerson, on distinctive class dress,221,n.Emulation in art,90.England, and America, relations of,79.chivalry of, led by Richard Cœur de Lion,240.Church of,73.colonisation by,94.glory and power of old,203.misery of modern, its fallen temper,203.power of help in,36.prudence of the English as a nation,24.schools of, the,6.Engraving, lines in, representative of colour,152.Enjoyment and Achievement,85.ἐπιστήμη,8.Erie, Lake,70.Ermine, the,225.Etheldreda’s, St., “bend” (heraldic),235.Ethics and art,18.See s.Actions,Aims,Amusement,Behaviour,Character,Chivalry,Dancing,Education,Evil,Imagination,Intemperance,Passions.Etruscan helmet derived from horse’s head,227.Euclid quoted,124.Evil correlative with good,17.Examinations, frequent, an error of modern education,177.Experiments in art,123.Eye, “if thine eye be evil,”106.Eyes, different kinds of,107.noble and ignoble,122.not telescopes,99.Facultiesof art, science and literature, in extreme,10.Failure, effect of, on author,31.Faith, heraldic sign of,235,2.Famine, in Persia,36.Fascia, origin of fesse,235.Fesse, the heraldic,235.“Fiat lux, fiat anima,”97–8.Fields, in London,72.Film, nature of, a difficult study,134.Flasque, the heraldic,235.Fleet Street,61.Florence, the Duomo of,138.schools of,159.Flowers, loss of rare, nowadays,34.Fog, in England,130.Folly, in art,Lect. i., andii.in science,20,seq.vanity of,40.Forgiveness, the sin for which there is no,169.Fortification, heraldic sign of,235,9.Fortitude, her shield,230.France, chivalry of, led by Roland,240.Germany and, their relations,79.French art, dexterity in, effect of,89.use of colour, in art schools, deadly,96,114.French plays. See s.Frou-frou.Fresco-painting,226.Frogs at Iffley,118.Frou-frou, play of, its effect on author,72.statement as to, by a French lady,72.Furres, heraldic meaning of,225.Gaiety Theatre, dancing at,14.Game and carrion, choice of,11,36.Gaslight, work done by,104.Gentiles, meaning of the word,170.Gentleness and kindness, alike in derivation,170.Geology, Silurian and Permian systems of,160.Geometry and art,96.meaning of the word,ibid.George III., portrait of daughter of, by Reynolds,151.German erudition, effect on art of,89.Germany and France, relations of,79.Ghent, workmen at,93.Ghirlandajo, read in his frescoes,226.Giesbach, author at the, (1870),101.Giotto, “paint me my arms” anecdote,209.simplicity of,pref.vii.Gladstone (W. E.), at Nat. Assoc. for Soc. Science,63.Glass, painting on, a lost art,33.orangev.purple in,226.at Iffley,118.God, birds’ praise of,61.man’s honouring of,55.relation to,30.universal idea of, as Light,116.Goethe, Faust quoted,62.Good and evil, in art,17.Gothic art, modern imitations of, purposely wrong to nature,145.its scientific side and basis,137.its sense of strength,137.shield,230.Gould, Mr., the ornithologist,48.his account of the lesser egret,174.Grallatores, birds called,187.Great men, their greatness in their aim, not their actions,214.Greece, sources and nature of her power,167–8.Switzerland and, a district of each compared,109.Greek armour,231.helmet = horse’s head,227.shield,230.classification of birds,189.idea of God as Light,116.mythology,95.patronymics, meaning of,168.vase, dog painting on a,151.vases, Sir Wm. Hamilton on,139.Gremium, the, of Christ and the Madonna in art,235.“Greta and Tees,” Turner’s,69,70.Guillim’s “Heraldry” quoted,234, n.Guillotine and mitrailleuse,34.Gules,226.Gull, the “swimmer” of birds,188.Gun-cotton,33.Gyron, the heraldic,235.Halcyondays, meaning of,192.—— the, its feathers,185.Greek notices of,190 seq.myth of, and death,199.Scholiasts’ description of,197.story of,172 seq.Hamilton, Sir W., on Greek verses,139.Happiness, in Aristotle,19.Hawk, the “snatcher” of birds,188.Health, “mens sana, &c.,”68.of heart,ibid.Heat, a mode of motion,100.Helen, in the “Iliad,”168.Helmet, earliest idea of the,224.Greek and Etruscan, derived from horse’s head,227.Helps, Sir A., his “War and Culture” quoted,208.Helps, Sir A., his “War and Culture,” dedicated to author,ib.Hera,190.Heraldry, a despised science,173.aim of,207.author’s drawings of,112.distinct meaning of crest and arms,228.dress and,225.function of,210.Greek and Gothic,230seq.importance to art of,173.natural types in,229.power of,47.teaching of,171.the heraldic ordinaries,Lect. x.,235.their symbolism,236.use in teaching colour,114.See s.Armorial bearings,Bend,Chevron,Chief,Crest,Cross,Drummond,Embassy,Fesse,Furres,Guillim,Gules,Gyron,Helmet,Ordinaries,Orle,Quartering,Red,Varie,Verrey.Hercules,75.his death,199.lion’s skin, and,229.the, of Switzerland,199.type of what,224.Hereditary skill to be cherished,94.Heron, the stilt-walker of birds,188.Hincksey, author walking back from,217.History, art as an end to,47.art and,207 seq.how to read,214.probable view of the Nineteenth Century in,35.should separate the ideal and the real,215,216.true, defined,214.what it has been and should be,207.Historical painting, its function,210.Holbein,217.as an engraver,pref.vii.study of face and limb by,pref.viii.Holy Ghost, the sin against the,169.Home, the true, for which to seek,206.Homer, Odyssey vi., quoted,74,75,78.passage on the Sirens, quoted,100.  See s.Iliad,Odyssey.Honour, power of,212.Horse’s head, gives rise to helmet-form,227.Hôtel de Ville, architecture of an,201.Hubert, Dürer’s St.,pref.viii.Hughes, Tom,63.Human form and art. See s.Anatomy,Nude.Humanity, Animalism, Divinity,30.Hunt, Alfred, his rainbow,129n.Hunt, Holman, his “Light of the World,”115.Hyginus, quoted on the Halcyon,190.Idealism,95.Ideal, the, and real in history to be distinguished,215–216.Iffley church, author at,118.Ignorance, how far essential to art,88.Iliad, moral of the,168.Imagination,95.condition of modern,69.history of the, best part of man’s history,214.implied in consideration for others,27.its precious value,215.self-command and,26.Independence, in pursuit of art and science,76,77.Indolence in art,81.Insanity, author’s use of the word,69n.Inscription on house in Alsace,86.Insessores, birds,187.Intemperance, distinct from passion,72.Invention, artistic, excels science,140.Inventions of the age,33.vanity of pride in,34.Isis, the,179.Isle of Dogs, starvation at,63.Jerome, Dürer’s St.,pref.viii.Judgment, a Latin word,7.κακία in art, how evidenced,40.κάνθαρος, Greek,139.κανθὸς, use of, by Aristotle,235.Kennington,208.Kensington, art schools of,6.education at,202.museum, statue of dog in,88.studies of the nude in,166.Kindness, derivation of the word,170.“King-fisher, power of sight of,112.See s.Halcyon.Knight, armour of,231–2.and Death, Dürer’s,pref.viii.Knowing, doing, talking,2–4.Knowledge, art the shadow of,68.charity and,29.limits of human,80.perception, and their places in art,126.Pope on, quoted,20.“science” and,37.taught by science,8.tenderness the basis of high,77.various kinds for various creatures,21–2.venomous, quoted by Bacon,29.what, good for an artist,123–4.“Know thyself,” a law to man,22–3.Lago di Garda, sunset at,125.Lake Erie,70.Ontario,70.Landlord, duty of a, not to build cottages,201.speech of an English, to author,200.the good they can do, in keeping the land lovely,179.Landscape, author’s lectures on, Oxford, 1871,62.choice of subject in,69.Laros, the bird,192.Law, evidence of, in nature,183.the laws of life, the true object of science,206.Leake’s travels,199.Lectures. See s.Landscape.Leonardo, Luini’s master,46.subtle delineation of,87.Liberty, modern desire for,204.Life, duty of, to give praise and deserve it,213.its laws, the true object of science,206.its source is love,168.temperance of the artistic,90.Light, definition of,97.universal prayer for,115.ideas of God as,116.Lindsay, Lord, his Christian Mythology, author’s early guide,46.the first to see the theology of art,ib.Linnæus, his classification of birds,188.Lion, Charlemagne’s treaty and the Scottish,235.the,184.Lippi, Filippo, his St. John Baptist,229.Literature, eagle-eyed,36.expresses theology less perfectly than does art,46.right aim of, “to exalt the fancy,”3,206.sphere and meaning of,3,4.Livy, Book iii. 26, quoted,215,222.Local associations, to be cherished,94.Logic, a method, not a power,5.London, Academy of,93.art in,82.as a “man’s nest,”61.building over,72.traffic, its aspect and meaning,59–60.water-supply,154.See s.Academy,Author,British Museum,Fields,Fog,Isle of Dogs,Ludgate Hill,Noise,Paradise Row,Parliament.Lord’s Prayer, the, quoted,75.Love, all things founded on,169.derived from “laus,” its meaning,213.domestic, its place and influence,199.power of,212.the source of honour,219.life,168.Lucerne, Lake of,199.Lucian, on the Halcyon,194.Ludgate Hill, scene of traffic at,59.Luini, his position vindicated by author, 1861,46.use of red in his frescoes,226.Madonna, The, her power in Christian chivalry,219.picture of, bought by author, its derivative beauty,218.Magpie, the,188.Man, his honour of God,55.his relation to things above and below him,30.not a beast of prey,63.“know thyself,” a law to,22–3.strength of mutual dependence amongst men,77.what kind of, occupied by art, science, and literature,3.Mantegna,155.as an engraver,pref.vii.evil influences of anatomy on,pref.viii.his “Angels,”62.his “Vices,”pref.viii.Marble, veins in, unexplained,132.Margaret, Queen, and the Drummond arms,235.Maskelyne, Prof., of Oxford,160.Mathematics, of little use to art,96.Matterhorn,70.Max Müller, Professor,3.Mechanism, modern,34.Melancholia, Dürer’s,pref.viii.Memling’s grace and severity,218.Mephistopheles,62.Michael Angelo,155.dome of Florence, and,138.effect of anatomy on,159.puts orange for red,226.Middle Ages, history of the, real and ideal in,216.Milton, “Comus,” l. 706, referred to,75.Ode to the Nativity, quoted,198.Mind, effect of various tempers of, on art,96.its choice of subject more important than its methods,11.safe conditions of,68–9.various states of the, described in the Bible,69.Mineralogy, author’s early,3.Mitrailleuse, the age of the,34.Models, may be too good,90.Modern advance, probable view of, by future generations,34–5.greed for money,204.knowledge, its pride and folly,79.life, what ideas obsolete in,120.See s.Age,Atheism,Education,Liberty.Modesty purifies art,81.true, in man,30.Molière quoted,100.Money, modern greed for,204.Monte Rosa,70.Moral temper, essential to appreciate art,161.Morgarten, the Thermopylæ of Switzerland,199.μωρία in art, how evidenced,40.of the faculties,9seq.Motives, human,212.Mountains, blueness of, at Verona,125.Mulready’s studies of the nude,166.Myths of Apollo and St. George,117.of Autolycus and Philammon,189.physical causes as affecting,199.Mythology,95.of importance to art,172.why a despised science,173.See s.Autolycus,Briareus,Ceyx,Hercules,Orpheus,Pelides,Philammon,Pleiades,Polygnotus,Poseidon,Tydides.Napoleon, Louis,208.Natatores, (Birds),187.National History, scientific view of,49,57.Life, sources of its power,171.symbols, more cruel than gentle types chosen for,229.Nativity, Raphael’s, offered to the English,24.Nature, art less beautiful than,172.chance and design in,152seq.effect of, on local art,91.love of art involves greater love of,41.teaching of the power of the Holy Spirit in,169.Natural History, its true scope and triple division,180–1.what it should amount to,207.modern study of,2.Nest, bullfinch’s,48.halcyon’s,193.true man’s true,206.Niagara, “Carlyle’s” Shooting,70.Nightingale, the Greek singing-bird,189.Nineteenth century, history’s probable view of the,35.Nitro-glycerine,33.Noble and notable,39.Noise of London traffic,60–61.Nomenclature, scientific,186.Norman design,92.Northern minds and Southern art,163.Notable and noble,39.νοῦς,8seq.,25.Novelty of wisdom, its danger,74.Nude, the, degrades art,149.its limit,ib.its study:—places where Impracticable,164.how far desirable in England,164.result of, in Greece,167.Nuremberg carving,88.Oarsmanship, art of,12.Ochiltree, Edie. SeeScott.Œta, Mt., the country round,199.Ontario, Lake,70.Optics and art,96.Orange and purple, use of in art,226.Ordinaries, the heraldic,Lect. x.;234n.,235.Organic form and art,149seq.Orion,28.Orissa,35–6.Orle, the heraldic,235.Originality in art, its value,32.how estimated in the great and base schools,ib.modern demand for it in art and science,33.Ornithology,47,48.further discoveries impossible in,66.modern work in,156–7.modern classification criticised,187–8.Orpheus,151.Oxford, approach to,119.Brasenose Lane, filth of,119.charm and power of its buildings,Lect. v., end.colleges, style of their buildings,239.disuse of academicals at, its meaning,221.education,177,237.idea of its possible beauty,179.improvements at,118.Lect. v., end.new church at,63.“motto” of,120.printsellers’ windows at, art in the,217.object of study at,95.its teaching, ancient idea of,121.undergraduates and author’s lectures,1.Padua, Eccelin of,35.Painting on glass, a lost art,33.perfection of, reached only in Venice,82. See s.Art,Drawing.“Pale,” the heraldic,235.Pall Mall Gazette, (Jan. 29, 1869), quoted,63.Paradise Row,206.Paris, art in,82.Parliament, its work done by night,104.the little good done by,179.—— Houses of, their affected architecture,201.Parrot, the “climber,”188.Passion, not full of intemperance,72.Passions, the, controlled in dancing,13.ruled by Sophia (σοφία),19.Patronymics, meaning of Greek,168.Pausanias quoted,199.Peace, man’s search for,204.how to be found,205.Peacocks and pheasants, Darwinian connection of,185.Pelides,168.Perception, knowledge interferes with artistic,126.Permian system of geology,160.Persia, famine in,36.Persian idea of God as Light,116.Peru,83.Pheasant, the “scratcher” of birds,188.and peacock, Darwinian connection of,185.Phidias’ Theseus,39.Philammon,151.myth of Philammon and Autolycus,189.Phillips, Prof., of Oxford,160.Philophronesia,8.Philosophia,8.Photography, value of,147.φρόνησις,8,25.different kinds of,23.Physical circumstances, effect of, on myths,199.Physiology and art,207.its true meaning,207.Physiologist, on sight,99.Plagues of Egypt,118,170.Plants, instinct of,97.Plato, his definition of sight, quoted,97.Pleasure, in great and small, rude and fine art,82.the greatest, given by inferior art,82.decrease of, with increase of years,82.Pleiades,28.Plutarch, on the Halcyon, quoted,193.Plymouth, Turner’s drawing of,125.Piacenza, the orle of,235.Pictures, the reality must be better than the semblance,165.Pietra dura ornament,88.Pile, the heraldic,235.Pindar’s “Coronis” (Pyth. iii. 14, 48),189.Pines, Scotch and stone, confused by Turner,133.Pisa, coin of,157.cruelty of, and Dante,35.Pæstum, plain of,7,25.Poetry, its essence,100.ποικιλία,73.Polygnotus, porch of,119.Pool of water at Iffley,118.Pope, quoted:—Essay on Criticism, “A little knowledge,” &c.,20.Homer, “Oh stay, oh pride of Greece, Ulysses, stay,”74.Poseidon,25.Possibility, ancient recognition of human and divine,195.Pottery, not made by rule,139.Power, constructive and negative,20.Praise, life’s duty is to give and deserve it,213.love of, in man,212.what kind of, to compete for,212.Prayer, efficacy of,67.Prey, use of sight to beasts of,110.Prodicus (of Xenophon),40.Proprietor, speech of English landed, to author,200.Protection, heraldic sign of,235(10).Prout, growth of his power,86,87.Provincial art,91,92.Prudence, a lower virtue,23.contrasted with σοφία,26.Purification, the most sacred art,118.Purity, physical,117.Purplev.orange, use of, in art,226.Quartering, heraldic,236.Quoits, disk and orle,235.Radclyffe, the, at Oxford,119.Railway, power of sight on the,111.Rainbows, drawings of,129n.Raphael,218.substitutes orange for red,226.works of:—Nativity of, offered to the English,24.Theologia, or Dispute of the Sacrament,46.Raptores, Birds,187.Rasores, Birds,187.Rattlesnake, eyes of the,109.Real and ideal in history to be distinguished,215–216.Reason and conceptions,11.Red, or “gules,” its history and universal use,226.Reed, Mr., of Doncaster, bird-stuffer,174.Refinement, loss of pleasure with increase of,82 seq.Regillus, battle of Lake,215.Religionists, errors of,79.Renaissance, Italian,86.the so-called,236.Reu, chapel of,92.Reynolds (Sir J.),218.anatomy and,154.child and dog, by,151–4.speed of,139.Richard Cœur de Lion,240.Ridiculous, the,16.Ritualism,73.Rivalry, modern, and Venetian art,82.Robson,41.Roland,240.Roman history, its lessons,215.Rome, fresco painting of,226.power of domestic life in,170.Rouen Cathedral,92.Rowing, art of,12.Royal Academy, failure of power at exhibition 1871,89.vulgar sending of portraits to the,151.Royal Society,6.Rubens’ Rainbow,129n.Rubric,226.Sacrament, dispute of the, by Raphael,46.Saint Andrew’s Cross,235.George and the Dragon,117.Hilaire and natural history,158.Mark’s, Venice, doves at,62.Michael (coin stamped with),117.Paul’s Cathedral, worship in,61.Saltire, the heraldic,235.“Sanitas,”68.Scaligers, arms of the,235.Scansores (Birds),187.Scholarship, the aim of true,7.Schools of art, should encourage constructive power,20.Scienceaim of right,3.ancient and modern men of,100.aspects of modern,65.art and:—artistic invention unaided by,140.together give complete truth,58. See s.Art,Artist.conduct, the science of, the one s. essential to art,161.defined,37,38,65.discovery and, their relations,66.eagle-eyed,36.function of, to explain the laws of life,206.man in relation to,22.modesty of, in wise appreciation,Lect. IV.,72,172.nomenclature and,96,186.originality in, demanded,33.power of, deadly,20.progress in, its vanity,33. See below s.Vanity.pursuit of:—selfish and unselfish,33.tone of right,76.rank and classification of different,67,186–87.theology and,67.vanity in, its effect,33,74.wisdom and folly in,20seq.in unselfishness,76,172.See s.Anatomy,Astronomy,Chemistry,Clouds,Cuvier,Discovery,Folly,Heat,Invention,Natural History.Scotland, the Scottish Lion,235.treaty with Charlemagne,ib.Scott, Sir W., Antiquary (Edie Ochiltree), referred to,222.Sculpture at Abbeville,91.perfection in, reached only in Athens and Etruria,82.“Scutum,” derivatives of,230.Sea-mew, the, Greek myth of,190.Self-command and imagination,26.Self-interest, as a motive-power in revolution,208–9.Selfishness, how far unconquerable,31–2.Self-satisfaction in one’s own work, right and wrong,81.Semmes, Captain, and theAlabama,24.Sense, faculty of,8.Serpent, characteristics of a,102; its wisdom,ib.anecdote of, and author,101.Servius, quoted on the Halcyon,191.Shadow, “folly looks at her own,”40.Shakespeare, on mimetic art,39.his chemical, anatomical, substantial, and ideal aspects,44.as a subject of science and art,ib.Quoted:—Hamlet iii. 1. “Arms against a sea of troubles,”204.v. 1. “Here hung those lips that I have kissed,” &c.,157.Macbeth i. 3. “The earth hath bubbles, &c.,”137.Mids. Night’s Dream v. i.  “The best in this kind are but shadows,”39,148.Shell, meaning of the word,230.Shepherd boy, carving dog,88.Shield, forms and use of a,224.Greek and Gothic,230.meaning of, in heraldry and etymology,230.Sight, accurate, to be acquired,112.author’s controversy with physiologist on,99.author’s sight tired,112.clear, so far as kind,ib.growth of educated,176.index to nobility of nature,110.kinds of, physical and moral,108.mathematical power of,111.not mechanical, but spiritual,99.noble and ignoble,122.Plato’s definition of,97.power of metric,112.source of all knowledge in art,172.spiritual,111.weariness, effect of, on metric power of,112.Silurian system of geology,160.Simonides quoted on the Halcyon,192.the “wisdom of calm,”199.Simplicity in estimate of one’s own work,53.quoted also,199.Sin, the unforgiveable,169.Sirens, knowledge of the,100,108,168.song of,74,75,78.Skiddaw,199.Skill, tenderness, the basis of high,77.Skull, man’s, and an eagle’s,155 seq.Skye-terrier painted by Reynolds,151.Sky-lark, the,56.Social Science meeting (1869–70),63.Socrates in Lucian’s dialogue on the Halcyon,194.Solar force,100.Sophia, or σοφία,Lect. I.Aristotle’s definition of,9 seq.,90.eternal and universal,23.faculty of recognition and choice,30.higher forms of,27–28.modesty of true,30–31.prudence, and contrasted,26.ruling spirit,20.sway over wise art and science,37.unselfishness of true,29,31.Sophocles’ Trachiniæ,199.σωφροσύνη,68,90.Sovereign, English (coin) and St. George,117.heraldry of art (1870–1880),235.Spain, chivalry of, led by the Cid,240.Sparrow, the “percher” of birds,188.Spear, proper form of a,224.Species, modern theories on,34.Sport, English ideas of,178.Sport,continued:—love of killing birds, its meaning,175.Squire, derivation of word,230.Stars, their value to artist and scientist,124.Star-gazing, probable conditions of, by two girls,26.“Stones of Venice,” statement as to anatomy in, withdrawn,159.Strasburg, architecture of,202.art in,82.drawing of house in, by Prout,86.Street, E.,50.Strozzi, child and dog, Titian’s,151.Subjects in art, natural subjects of national art,95.Success, one’s own, and others’,31.effect of, on author,31.Sun, power of the,100.modern efforts to dispense with,104.should “rule the day,”104.Swine, symbol of the herd of,69.Swiss châlet, education needed to build,202.Switzerland and Greece, two districts of, compared,199.the Heracles of,199.the history of, its lessons,21.Sympathy, essential to learning,236.Tabernacle, Jewish,226.Talking, doing, and knowing,2,3,4.τεχνὴ,8.Tees,” Turner’s “Greta and,70.Telescopes and eyes,99.Tell, William, legendary,215.Temper, trials of,69.success, influence on,31.Temperance, true, in recognition of work,81.Temptations of knowledge,79.Ulysses, their meanings,74–5.Tenderness the basis of skill and knowledge,77.Thales,23.“Theologia,” Raphael’s,46.Theology, more perfectly expressed by art than by literature,46.Theology, of art, only recently recognised,46.of more value than anatomy to art,168.science and,67.Thermopylæ, blue waters of,199.Theseus, Phidias’,39.Thirst, man’s best, for what,212.Thought, the peace of beautiful,205.right, the end of literature,3,206.Throne, a Greek word,7.Titian, use of red by,226.Titian’s Strozzi Princess and dog,151.Titmouse, a new specimen of the,66.Tintoret, use of red by,226.speed of,139.Toy, useless, at Crystal Palace,93.Trachiniæ, Sophocles’,190.Trachis, king of,190.Tressure, the heraldic,235.Truth, completely given by science and art together,58.Turner, J. W. M., drawing of seen and known facts by,125.early patronage of,199.pines, drawing of Scotch and stone, confused,133.truth of, proved by author,128.works of—engraving of a cloud (Educ. Series,8E.),7.Greta and Tees, its quietude,69–70.Val. Plymouth, drawing of (anecdote),125.Valley of Chamouni,147.Tydides,168.Tyndall, Prof., “Palæontology,” quoted,100.Ulyssesof Dante and of Homer,74–5.Unity of feeling in great art,93.University, aim ofits teaching,4,5,6,18.definition of a,5.its function only to examine!120.See s.Cambridge,Oxford.Unselfishness in art,31.of high forms of faculties,29.Unwise, man meant to be,31.Van Eyck’sgrace and severity,218.Vases, Greek,139.Vatican, frescoes,226.Varie, meaning of (heraldic),225.Venetian glass,139.Venice, Londoners’ regret at its quietude,60.perfect art in,82.sunset at,125.Veronese, P., animals introduced by,151.his “Solomon and the Queen of Sheba,”151.Verrey, meaning of,225.Villas, London,72.Virgil, Servius quoted on,191.Georgics, i. 399.Virgin, pictures of the, bought as furniture by Oxford undergraduates,240.Votes, modern desire for,204.Wallingford, incident at, seen by author,240.Water-colour exhibition, author at,41.Wealth, results of modern,63.Westminster, Victoria Tower at,130.Windgelle,199.Winds, Halcyone, daughter of the,198.Wisdom,8art and,Lect. I.folly and, in science,20 seq.its view of modern life,64.novelty of, its danger,74.Wit,8.Wood-carving and architecture,86.of dog, by shepherd boy,88.Wordsworth, (Poems of sentiment and reflection, “Daisy,” 40); quoted,51.Work, the morning, the best time for,104.Workmen, feeling of, in great art,93.Wrangler, value of art to a senior,96.Wyatt, printseller at Oxford,217.Xenophon’s“Memorabilia,” II. i. 22, quoted,40.York,93.Minster,82.Zeus,25,190.Zoroaster,150.


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