child's advantage alone enables me to keep fixed in my resolution to return to England. It is best for him--and I go.
"Four years ago, we lost our darling William; four years ago, in excessive agony, I called for death to free me from all I felt that I should suffer here. I continue to live, and thou art gone. I leave Italy, and the few that still remain to me. That I regret less; for our intercourse is [so] much checkered with all of dross that this earth so delights to blend with kindness and sympathy, that I long for solitude, with the exercise of such affections as still remain to me. Away, I shall be conscious that these friends love me, and none can then gainsay the pure attachment which chiefly clings to them, because they knew and loved you-because I knew them when with youand I cannot think of them without feeling your spirit beside
"I cannot grieve for you, beloved Shelley! I grieve for thy friends-for the world--for thy child--most for myself, enthroned in thy love, growing wiser and better beneath thy gentle influence, taught by you the highest philosophy--your pupil, friend, lover, wife, mother of your children! The glory of the dream is gone. I am a cloud from which the light of sunset has passed. Give me patience in the present struggle. Good-night!
All that I am to be as thou now art;
But I am chain'd to time, and cannot thence depart.""
Ass, Adventure with, 37.
Atheist, Shelley as an, 42.
Atheism, The Necessity of, 82. What it
did for Shelley, 86. What it did for
Hogg, 89.
Babies, Shelley's notion about, 70.
Browne, Felicia Dorothea, Shelley corre-
sponds with, 6.
Byron, Lord, Shelley reads his "English
Bards and Scotch Reviewers," 94. Inti-
macy with Jane Clairmont, 206.
sult of intimacy, 206. What he did,
206. Influence of Shelley, 213. Tre-
lawny's first meeting with, 216. Con-
versation with Trelawny, 217. Personal
appearance, 218. Firing at a mark,
Conversation with Shelley, 219.
Praises Swift, 220. "Don Juan," 221.
Warned against Shelley, 221.
"If we
puffed the Snake,” 221. Real opinion
of Shelley, 222. Remark to Trelawny,
What he called Shelley, 223.
Contrasted with Shelley, 225. Deter-
mines to have a yacht, 241. Daily rou-
tine, 243. Working on his fears, 249.
Treatment of Leigh Hunt, 250. Re-
ception of Mrs. Hunt, 250. Row with
soldiers, 252. At the grave of Wil-
liams, 260. "Don't repeat this with
me," 261. Ill with swimming, 262. At
the grave of Shelley, 263. Wants
Shelley's skull, 263. A close, calculat
ing fellow, 268. Shabbiness to Mrs.
Shelley, 268. Debts, 269.
Clairmont Jane, her independent life, 191.
Christens herself "Claire," 191. Inju-
dicious influence on Mary Godwin, 193.
Godwin talks to her, 194. Elopes with
Shelley and Mary Godwin, 194. Re-
fuses to return with her mother, 195.
Returns with the fugitives, 206. Meets
Lord Byron at Sicheron, 206. What
she had wished to become, 206. Gives
birth to Byron's Allegra, 206. What
Byron did for her, 206.
Curran, John Philpot, pays no attention
to Godwin's letter of introduction, 131.
Shelley fails to see him, 132.
Elephantiasis, Shelley's dread of, 168.
"Gebir," Shelley's admiration for, 64.
What befel his copy, 64.
Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, considered
a child, 191. Character of, 192. Ac-
quaintance with Shelley, 193. Shelley
falls in love with her, 193. Unhappy at
home, 193.
Mrs. Godwin's remark to,
193. Reads by her mother's grave, 194.
Her father talks with her, 194. Elopes
with Shelley and Jane Clairmont, 194.
Displeasure of her father, 195. Harriet
Shelley's opinion of, 199. Receives a
letter from her father, 205. Married to
Shelley, 205. Birth of her first child,
206. Introduced to Trelawny, 216.
Threatens Shelley with a party, 224.
Williams intercedes with her, 225.
"Don't tell Mary," 227. Looking for
Shelley with Trelawny, 230. "What a
wild goose you are, Percy," 232.
count of Byron's row, 253. "Is there
no hope?" 258. Byron's shabbiness to,
268. Extracts from Journal, 269.
Godwin, William. Shelley introduces him-
self to, 130.
Gives Shelley a letter of
introduction to Curran, 131. Advice to
Shelley, 131. Hogg's acquaintance
with, 172. Hogg invited to dine with
him, 172.
Personal appearance, 173.
Inquiries about Shelley's absence, 173.
Hogg's reply, 173. Goes to dinner
with Hogg, 173. Dietetics, 174. Goes
to sleep, 174. Anxious about Shelley,
174. Discourses about Homer, 174.
Questions Hogg about Shelley, 175.
Speaks disparagingly of his "Political
Justice," 175. More anxiety about
Shelley, 175. Hogg is reprehended by
him, 176. Shelley's curiosity about
him, 176. Shelley calls with Hogg,
179. Father out, daughter in, 179.
First mention of Shelley in his Diary,
187. Letter from Shelley, 188. Letter
to his wife, 189. Dines the Shelleys,
191. Character of his two daughters,
192. Blindness as to what was going
on, 194. Talks with Mary, 194. Elope-
ment of Mary, Shelley, and Jane Clair-
mont, 194. Dispatches his wife in pur-
suit, 194. Irritation and displeasure,
195. Writes a letter to Mary, 204.
Present with his wife at the marriage of
Mary and Shelley, 206.
Halliday, Walter S., Reminiscences of
Shelley, 14.
Hogg, Thomas Jefferson, first meeting
with Shelley 17. Differs with him,
17. Invites Shelley to his rooms, 17.
Confesses his ignorance, 17. Questions
Shelley, 18. Describes Shelley's per-
sonal appearance, 18. His ears excori-
ated by Shelley's voice, 19. Invites
Shelley to tea, 20. Listens to Shelley's
discourses, 21. Lights Shelley down
stairs, 22. Goes to bed worn out, 23.
Visits Shelley in his rooms, 24.
De-
scribes Shelley's rooms, 25. A lucky
hit, 31.
Abstracts Shelley's powder
flask, flints, etc., 32. Persuades Shelley
for once, 34. How he lost his supper,
36. Adventure with an ass, 37. Re-
mark to Shelley about his reading, 40.
Asks Shelley a pertinent question, 44.
Calls upon Stockdale, 54, Stockdale's
inquisitiveness, 54. Shelley takes up
the cudgel for him, 55. Letter to
Dawson Turner, 60. Shelley copies a
poem for him, 63. He was to fall in love
with Elizabeth Shelley, 64. Snatches
"Gebir" from Shelley's hands, 64.
Remark of Landor to, 64. On Shelley's
Latinity, 65. Shelley's new suit, 66.
A country walk, 66. Adventure with a
mastiff, 66. Saves Shelley's skirts, 68.
Nonplusses an angry Irishman, 69.
Adventure with Shelley, 70. With
Shelley at a pawnbroker's, 72. Reads
Shelley's proofs, 74 Criticises them,
74. Makes alterations, 75. Hits upon
a title, 76. Reads metaphysics with
Shelley, 79. Hears Shelley's story of
his expulsion, 86. Writes a note to the
college authorities, 87. Called before
them. 88. Refuses to answer their
questions, 89. Commanded to quit col-
lege, 89. Goes to London with Shelley,
91. Lodgings, 92, Goes with Shelley
to see his sister, 93. Dines in Garden
Court, 95. Shelley's description of his
father, 96. Answer to Shelley, 97.
Questioned by Shelley's father, 97.
Behavior of the old baronet. 98. Ques-
tioned by him, 99. Listens to his argu-
ments, 99. "Not such a bad fellow
after all," 99. Shelley's confidant in
re Harriet Westbrook, 102. Lends
Shelley £10, 104. Opinion of Harriet,
Visits the Shelleys in Edinburgh,
106. Description of Mrs. Shelley, 106.
At Holyrood House, 107. On Arthur's
seat, 107. Lodgings in George street,
108. A stroll in Prince's street, 110.
Questioned by an old gentlewoman,
110. In kirk with Shelley, 111. The
Catechist, 113. Opinion of Harriet's
education, 113. Character of her read-
ing, 114.
Harriet's description of her
sister Eliza, 116. Arrival of Eliza, 116,
Makes tea for the ladies, 117. Paints
the portrait of the fair Eliza, 117. Who
was Miss Warne? 118. What does dear
Eliza do? 119. Harriet's answer, 119.
Talks with Shelley about Southey's
books, 121. Dines on bacon with Shel-
ley, 128. Sudden visit from Shelley in
London, 146. Alarm of his special
pleader, 147. Gets rid of Shelley at
last, 148. Visits Harriet, 148. Ques-
tioned about Robert Emmett, 149.
Opinion of Emmett, 149. Dines with
the Shelleys, 149. A startling letter from
Shelley, 151. Letters from Shelley and
Harriet, 151. Opinion of the attempted
assassination of Shelley, 154. A delicate
position, 157. Dining and teaing with
Harriet, 158. Shelley comes tumbling
up stairs, 158. Dines with a would-be
suicide, 160. Makes a queer visit with
Shelley, 161. Conversation with
clergyman's wife, 164. Description of
a Shelleyan dinner, 165. Remark to the
pap-eating Shelley, 166. "Poor Matil-
da!" 168. Shelley's delusion, 170.
Taken for Shelley, 171. Talk with the
bailiffs, 171. Excuses and apologies, 172.
What the arrest was for, 172. Invited
to dine with Godwin, 172. Describes
Godwin, 173. Anxiety of Godwin, 173.
The Godwin dinner, 174. Godwin
after dinner, 174. Godwin still anxious,
174. Conversation with Godwin, 174.
Godwin more and more anxious, 175.
Praises "Political Justice," 175:
ley's questions, 176. Harriet does not
let him see the baby, 177. Goes shop-
ping with Harriet, 178. Visits God-
win's house with Shelley, 179. "Shel-Roberts, Captain Daniel, Trelawny writes
ley!" "Mary!" 179. "Who was that,
pray?" 179.
Hunt, Leigh, Byron's eagerness for his
arrival, 249. Byron's vile treatment of,
250. At the grave of Shelley, 263.
Note to Trelawny, 265.
Jew, The Wandering, letter of Shelley
concerning his poem of, 48. Reply of
Ballantyne & Co., 48. Letter to Stock-
dale concerning, 51. Stockdale's anx-
iety about, 53. Shelley commences a
prose story upon it, 58. Fragment of
this story, 56.
Keate, Dr., appearance and character, 15.
Shut out of his desk, 16. What the
scholars saw, 16.
"Konx Ompax," Hogg nonplusses an
Irishman with, 69.
Landor, Walter Savage, remark to Hogg,
64.
Lewis, Matthew Gregory, plagiarized
from, 47.
Lind, Dr., Shelley's description of, 12.
Saves Shelley from a madhouse, 13.
What he taught Shelley, 44.
MacCarthy, Dennis Florence, on a state-
ment of Hogg's, 26. On a statement of
Stockdale's, 46. On Hogg's recollec-
tions of "Margaret Nicholson,"
75. On
"The Necessity of Atheism," 82. On
Harriet Grove, 90. Anecdote of Shelley,
On the attempted assassination of
Shelley, 155. On Shelley's child and
his singing, 177.
Marriage, Shelley's second, 197.
Medwin, Thomas, enthusiasm for Shelley,
Nicholson, Margaret, who she was, 76.
Hogg's bright idea, 76. Poetical re-
mains of, 77. Success of the hoax, 79.
Oxford, Earl of, puts a question to Shelley,
158.
Paley, Dr. William, who he had his ar-
guments from, 99.
Paul, Rev. Kegan, on the unkindness of
Harriet's father, 202.
Pawnbroker, a, Shelley's interview with,
Peacock, Thomas Love, on Shelley's ex-
pulsion from Oxford, 36. Differs with
Lady Shelley, 177. On Shelley, Harriet,
and Mary, 198. Description of Harriet,
to, 241. Obtains permission to build a
boat, 242. Protests against Williams's
plan, 244.
Note to Trelawny, 267.
Letter about Shelley's boat, 267.
Rossetti, William Michael, on Shelley's
assassination, 155. Singular anecdote
of Shelley, 201.
Shelley, Elizabeth, poem by, 62.
Shelley, Harriet, Hogg's description of,
106. At Holyrood House, 107. On
Arthur's seat, 107. Unwillingness to
show her ankles, 107. "Send her away,
Harriet," 109. Persuades in vain, 113.
Well educated, 113: Inclination for
reading, 114. Music, 114. Reading
aloud, 114.
What the ladies said of her,
115. Stigmatizes her drowsy lord, 115.
Describes her sister to Hogg, 116.
"Eliza has come," 116. Sipping tea,
What her father was called, 117.
A seraphic life, 118. "Think of your
nerves," 118. Whispers to Hogg, 119.
Remark of Shelley to, 119. Talks of
committing suicide, 120. Remark to
Hogg, 128. Ready to die of laughter,
134 Cordial greeting of Hogg, 148.
"You are so horribly narrow-minded,"
149. Letter to Hogg, 151. Letter to
Hogg about Shelley's attempted assas-
sination, 152. "As ladies wish to be,"
156. Is seen by Dr. S., 157. "He has
seen me," 157. Complains that she is
unhappy, 159. Entertains a model
guest, 160. No notion of a dinner, 164.
Orders Shelley to buy some buns, 167.
Her child, 177. Shopping with Hogg,
178. Loses her husband, 194. Why
did Shelley desert her? 196. Statement
of Lady Shelley concerning, 196. Dis-
proved by Peacock, 197. Certificate of
her second marriage to Shelley, 197.
Peacock's statement concerning, 198
Visited by Peacock, 199. Her opinion
of Mary Godwin, 199. Peacock's recol-
lections of, 200. Shelley wanted to take
her back, 202. Little known of her after
life, 202. What Thornton Hunt wrote,
202. Hardship of her father, 202.
Quincy's opinion of, 203. Drowns her-
self, 203.
Shelley, Hellen, Miss, letters to Lady
Shelley about Shelley's childhood, 1-12.
"Oh! there is little Hellen!" 93.
Shelley, John, playing with his brother
Percy, 3. Taught to say "Debbee,"
SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE, family, 1. Nur-
sery pranks, 2. Telling stories, 2. The
alchemist, 2. The great tortoise, 2.
Playing with fire, 2. Electrifies his sis
|