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His memory, 3., Spouting
Latin, 3. Playing with his brother
John, 3. "Debbee," 4. Kisses sister
Margaret, 4. With his sisters in the
fields, 4. Eton attire, 5. An imaginary
visit, 5. Poetizing at night, 5. Satir-
izes a French teacher, 5. The very
bold boy our broder must be," 6. Sends
a play to Matthews, 6. Corresponds
with Felicia Dorothea Browne, 6. Ad-
miration of Monk Lewis, 6. Astonished
at sister Hellen's learning, 6. Prints
her poetry, 7.
Wishes to educate a
child, 7. Angry at a school mistress, 7.
Harriet Grove quiets his wildness, 8.
Carefully watched by his sister, 8.
Why he and Harriet Grove were not
married, 8. Disguised as a country-
man, 9. Hay-tea for chilblains, 9. Pre-
tends that he wants to be a game-keeper,
Personal appearance, 9. Poem on
a cat, Io. At Sion House, 11. Char-
acter of his master, 11. His singing,
Eccentric quantity of hair, II.
Eton, 12. Acquaintance with Dr. Lind,
His father thinks of sending him to
a madhouse, 12. Sends an express to
Dr. Lind, 13. Dr. Lind rescues him,
13. Studies magic and watches for
ghosts, 13. Tries to raise the devil, 14.
Rambles with a school-fellow, 14. Not
made for rough pastimes, 14. Power of
Latin versification, 14.. Love of nature,

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Declines to join in boyish sports,
Dislikes Dr. Keate, 16. First ap-
pearance at Oxford, 17. Discusses Ger-
man literature with Hogg, 17. Invited
to Hogg's rooms, 17. Confesses that
he knows nothing of German, 17. Dis-
courses about chemistry, 18. Hogg's
portrait of, 18. Rubbing his hair, 19.
His voice, 19. Goes to a lecture on
"About stones! about
stones! 20. Declaims about chemis-
try, 21. Declaims about souls, etc., 22.
His hasty steps, 22. Hogg visits him,

mineralogy, 20.

23.

No notion of time, 24. Annoyed
by the scout, 24. Disorder of his rooms,
25. Enthusiastic about electricity, 26.
Hogg spends the evening with, 26. His
fits and starts, 27. Effects of his ex-
periments, 28. Diverted at Hogg's
caution, 28. Thinks his constitution
impaired by poison, 29. Intimacy with
.Hogg, 29. Fondness for fire, 30. His
profound torpor, 30. Practices with
pistols, 31. Astonished at Hogg's shot,
31. Carelessness with pistols, 32. Of-
fended because his pistols were out of
order, 32. Poetizing by an old pool, 33.
Splashes stones in the water, 33. Makes

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ducks and drakes, 33. Delights in sail-
ing paper boats, 34. "The Demiurgus
of Plato," 34. The value of waste paper,
34. A mythic fable, 35. Dislikes the
public dinner, 35. Upsets Hogg's sup-
per, 36. Don't like cheese, 36. Moon-
ing about moonlight, 37. A mysterious
search, 37. Finds his dessert, 37.
venture with a boy and an ass, 37. As
a reader, 39. Remarks of Hogg about
his reading, 40. Extent of his Greek,
40. Fondness for bread, 41. General di-
etetics, 42. Questioned by two Etonians,
What he was called at Eton, 43.
Refuses to curse his father and the king,
44. His grandfather and his tutor, 44.
Early writings, 44. Stockdale's recol-
lections of, 45. In pecuniary trouble,
"Victor and Cazire," 45.

42.

45.

Letters
to Stockdale, 46. Some one a plagiarist,
46. Letter about "The Wandering
Jew," 48. Letter of Messrs. Ballantyne
to, 48. Orders a book of Stockdale, 49.
"St. Irvyne," 49. Short of money, 50.
Explains the plot of "St. Irvyne," 50.
Inquires after "The Wandering Jew,"
51. Presentations of his romance, 52.
Stockdale uneasy about him, 53. In
debt to Stockdale, 54. Stockdale re-
monstrates with him, 55. Angry letter
to Stockdale, 55. Asks for his account,
56. No finances, 56. Offers Stockdale
a copyright, 57. Books he read at Ox-
ford. 57. A literary fiction, 58. Frag-
ment of "The Wandering Jew," 59.
Rough draft of a poem by, 60. Unfin-
ished Oxford verses, 61. Copies his
sister's verses for Hogg, 63. Proposes
that Hogg should love his sister, 64.
Admiration of "Gebir," 64. His Latin-
ity, 64. In a new suit, 66. Adventure
with a mastiff, 66. The tail of the new
suit, 67. Vows to shoot the mastiff, 67.
Hedging the skirts, 67. Hogg saves
them for him, 68. The coat repaired,
68. "I have said Konx ompax,” 70.
Holding a baby, 70. An odd question,
71. He can speak if he will, 71.
voking closeness of new-born babes, 71.
At a pawnbroker's, 72. Why he pawned
his solar microscope, 73. Redemption
of the microscope, 73, "I am going to
publish some poems," 74. Hogg's criti-
cism of the proofs, 74. "I will alter
them," 75. Hogg helps to write them
Hogg hits upon a title for
them, 76. Shelley's delight at being in

over, 75.

Pro-

print, 77 Prints a little book, 79.

Anxious for letters, 80. Anonymous in-
quirers, 80. A trap for correspondents,
81. Q. E. D., 81. "The Necessity of

Atheism," 82. Love of truth at all haz-
ards, 83. His meek seriousness, 84.
Expulsion from the University, 85.
Conversation with his master, 86.
His
emotion, 87. Goes with Hogg to Lon-
don, 91. At tea with his cousins, 91.
Hunting for lodgings, 92. Takes a
lodging in Poland Street, 92. "Stay
forever!" 92. About grapes, 92. Visits
his sister at school, 93. Buys English
Bards and Scotch Reviewers." 93. His
opinion of it, 94. Dines in Garden Court,
95. Disgusted with one of the guests, 96.
Describes his father to Hogg, 96. Finds
Voltaire amusing, 96.
"What do you
think of my father?" 97. Wild
with laughter, 97: Goes on an
errand for his father, 97. What
he had heard before, 99. Always
calls him Palley," 100. His affair with
Harriet Grove, 101. "She abhors me
as a sceptic," IOI. Makes the acquain-
tance of Harriet Westbrook, 101. Ref-
erences to her in his letters, 102. Walks
with her sister, 102. "Consistency thou

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102. Visits Harriet Westbrook,
Discusses the Misses Westbrook,
Effect of his advice to Miss Har-
riet, 103.

103.

Material prospects, 103. The
wooing, 104. Remark of Southey to,
105. Elopes with Miss Harriet, 105.
Marriage in Edinburgh, 105. After the
marriage supper, 105. Visited by Hogg,
106. Hogg must lodge with them, 106.
Goes home to write letters, 107. Agon-
ized by the servant-girl, 108. "Send her
away, Harriet!" 109. Fond of honey,

109.

A fiendish laugh for Sunday, 110.
Dejection at kirk, 111. Another fiend-
ish laugh, 113. Drops off asleep, 115.
What he should have done with Miss
Eliza, 118. "What would Miss Warne
say?" 119. Among Southey's books,

121.

His opinion of Southey, 122.
Southey reads his epic to him, 125. Re-
sult of the reading, 125. Takes tea at
Southey's, 126. "Why, good God,
Southey!" 127. Mrs. Southey short
as pie crust, 127. Devours her cakes
greedily, 127. "So, this is bacon!" 128.
"Bring more bacon!" 128.
ought to be killed!" 129.

"She

Goes to Ire-

land, 129. His object in going,

129.

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God-

Excites a sensation of wonder, 130.
troduces himself to Godwin, 130.
win sends a letter to Curran, 131.
dress to the Irish People," 131.
to Hamilton Rowan, 132.
tributed his address, 133.
riet thought of it, 134.
lie about his age, 135. The famous bal-

"Ad-
Letter
How he dis-
What Har-
His servant's

cony, 136. Attends a meeting in Fish-
amble street, 137. Mention of by a
police reporter, 138. His speech in
brief, 139.
Fuller report of it, 140.
Hissed when he spoke of religion, 141.
As an orator, 142. Described by "An
Englishman," 142. First public notice
of, 144.
Rushes in upon Hogg in Lon-
don, 146. Thinks Hogg's special plead-
er an ass, 148. Thunders up stairs,
What about his Irish trip? 150.
Escapes assassination, 151. Letter to
Hogg, 151. Description of the affair by
Harriet, 152. What Mr. Luson thought
of it, 153. What Hogg thought also,
154. The promise of an heir, 156.
Questioned by the Earl of Oxford, 158.
Entertains a would-be suicide, 160.
Takes Hogg to a queer house, 161.
Episode of a heavy old woman, 162.

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All murthered! 162. "Guard, let
me out!" 163. Aghast at the thought
of dinner, 163. A poetic dinner, 164.
Tracked by crumbs, 165. Shooting pel-
lets of bread, 165. Cramming with
panada, 166. "I lap up the blood of
the slain," 166. Starvation prevented by
penny buns, 167. The agile bun-car-
rier, 168. Imposed upon, 168. Dread
of an old woman, 168. Dread of ele-
phantiasis, 169. Examination of
breasts and arms, 169. Inspects Hogg
daily, 170. The delusion vanishes, 170.
Hogg is taken for him, 171. Godwin
waits dinner for him, 173. He cometh
not, 175. Questions Hogg, 176. Has a
little daughter, 176. Calls at Godwin's
with Hogg, 179. "Shelley!" "Mary!"
179. Last visit to Field Place, 180.
What might have been, 180. Fondness
of his mother, 180. Appearance and
disposition, 181. Doffs his black coat
and dons a uniform, 182. Captain
Jones, 182. Eloquent and enthusiastic,
182. Horror of taking life, 182. As a
musician, 183. Early recollections of,
183. Attachment to Harriet Grove,
183. At Lincoln's Inn Fields, 183. Dis-
solution of engagement, 184. Delighted
with anatomy, 184. Refuses to become
a politician, 185. Off from the Green
Dragon, 186. Disguised as a beggar,
186. High spirits, 187. Prints a little
satire, 187. First notice of in Godwin's
Diaries, 187. Letter to Godwin, 188.
Invites Godwin to visit him in the coun-
try, 189. Leaves three weeks before he
arrives, 189. Leaves in debt, 191.
Dines with Godwin in London, 191.
Becomes acquainted with Mary God-
win, 193. Unhappy with his wife, 193.

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Falls in love with Mary, 193. Receives
a letter from Godwin, 194. Elopes with
Mary and her half-sister, 194. A fat
lady follows him, 195. A strange honey-
moon, 195. Why did he desert his
wife? 196. What Lady Shelley says,
196. What Mary Shelley wrote,
196. Mysterious papers, 197. What
Peacock discovered, 197. Descrip-
tion of his passion for his new love, 198.
Takes laudanum and quotes Sophocles,
199. His opinion of his old love, 199.
What Peacock has proved, 200. Wants
Harriet to live in the same house, 202.
Suicide of Harriet Shelley, 203.
Letter
to Godwin, 204. Marries Mary God-
win, 205.
Meets Byron at Sicheron,
206. Returns to England, 206.
turns to Italy, 206. "Queen Mab,"
A priest's denunciation, 208.
Wordsworth's opinion of "The Cenci,"
210. Williams's description of, 212. Sug-
gestions to Byron, 213.
"Come in,
Shelley," 215. Translating Calderon,
215. Goes like a spirit, 216. Reads
Byron's versicles, 217. Shooting at a
mark, 219. Conversation with Byron,
219. The Snake, 221. "If we puffed
the Snake," 221. Byron's opinion of, 222.
Discouragement, 222. In the affairs of
others, 222. Poetic picture of himself,
223. "The Snake has fascinated you,'
223. Mental activity infectious, 224;
Mary says she will have a party,
224. Hops off rejoicing, 225. His daily
Jife, 225.
Indifferent about himself. 226.
In danger of drowning, 227. "Don't
tell Mary," 227. Doubts the immortal-
ity of the soul, 227. Why he called
himself an atheist, 227. Reading all
day, 228. Forgets he has had no din-
ner, 228. Proposition of an Italian, 229.
Hooted out of his country. 229.
never stopped, 229. Seeks the water,
230. "L'Inglese malincolico," 231. In
the woods maledetta, 231. The three
pines, 232.
"Poor Mary!" 232.

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What a wild goose you are," 232.
Wild flights of mirth, 233. Manner of
writing, 233. Why he published, 233.
Writing a play, 234. Opinion of "Don
Juan," 234. "Prometheus ""
original,
234. His special vanity, 234. No fears,
and some hopes, 235. Shelley! that
bright-eyed youth," 235. "Poor boy!"
236. On the San Spiridione, 237.
Reminded of hell, 237. Conversation
with an American mate, 238. Opinion
of Washington, 239. Writing to authors,
239. His friends, 240. Talks of ships
and sailors, 240. Resolves to have a

boat, 241. House on the Gulf of Spez-
zia, 242. Habits. 243. Eagerness for
his boat, 243. The boat finished, 244.
Letters to Trelawny, 245. No seaman,
248. Shelley, you can't steer," 248.
"Gone down with the rest of the pigs,"
249. Goes with the Hunts to Pisa, 249.
Returns to Leghorn, 249. Note to Tre-
lawny, 253;
Goes to his bankers, 253.
Starts with Williams for home, 253.
The body found, 256. The books that
were with it, 256. Opening the grave,
261. Burning the body, 263. Heart of
hearts, 264. Where he was buried, 265.
Inscriptions on, 266. Raising his boat,
267.

Shelley. Timothy, M.P., Stockdale's opin-
ion of, 50. How he alienated his son, 50.
Note to Stockdale, 55. Calls on Stock-
dale, 56. What Shelley told Hogg, 96.
Conversation with Hogg about Shelley,

97.

Wants more wine at dinner, 98.
Behavior and importance, 98. "There
is certainly a God," 98. Questions
Hogg, 99. Reads to him, 99. Hogg's
reply, 99. They are Palley's argu-
ments," 99. "Not such a bad fellow,"
99. Exit, 99.

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Stockdale, J. J., extricates Shelley from a
pecuniary trouble, 45. Receives the
sheets of a volume of poems, 45. The
authors, 45: Advertises the work, 45.
Opinion of Shelley. 46. Letter from
Shelley, 46. Discovers a plagiarism in
the volume, 47. Unsold copies destroy-
ed, 47. Letter from Shelley, 48. Shel-
ley inquires after a dangerous book, 49.
Anxious about Shelley, 49. Opinion
of Shelley's father, 50. Letter from
Shelley, 50.
Letter from Shelley about
"St. Irvyne," 51. Letters from Shel-
ley, 51-53. More anxious about Shel-
ley, 53. Hints to the elder Shelley, 53.
What he lost by Shelley, 54. The work
of the destroyer, 54. Visited by Hogg,
54. Mrs. Stockdale's knowledge, 54.
Shelley suspended by a hair, 54. Rep-
resentations to Shelley 55. Angry let-
ter from Shelley, 55. Note from the
elder Shelley, 55. Visit from, 56. Let-
ters from Shelley, 56.
Southey, Mrs. Edith, who she was, 123.
Binding her husband's books, 123. Her
marriage, 123. Her wonderful seed-
cakes, 126. Refused by Shelley, 126.
Devoured by her husband, 126. Sharp
reply to Shelley, 127. How the wonder-
ful cakes were made, 127. Shelley
greedily devours them, 127. Pacities
the lady, 127.

Southey, Robert, Shelley curious to see

one of his epics, 51. His houseful of
books, 121. Curious conduct to Shel-
ley, 121. Shows Shelley remarkable
passages, 122. A living commonplace
book, 122. Binding of his books, 123.
Every hour has its employment, 123.
Pre-arrangement of time, 123. "When
dost thou think, friend?" 124. Cap-
tures Shelley, 125. Reads an epic to
him, 125. Its effect, 126. Custom in
travelling, 125. Eating buttered seed-
cakes, 126. Shelley's disgust, 127.
Matched by Shelley in eating, 127.

Trelawny, Capt. E. J., meets an intelli-
gent bookseller at Lausanne, 207. He
translates the German poets for him,

207.

Hears about "Queen Mab.'
207. Meets an English party, 208.
Their appearances, 208. An English-
man's growl, 209. What he thought of
Shelley as a poet, 210. What his Scotch
terrier was, 210. Who the Englishman
was, 210. Meets three young men, 211.
Hears about Shelley from Medwin, 211.
Drives the Williamses to Chalons, 212.
Letter from Williams, 212. Visits the
Williamses at Pisa, 214. First glimpse
of Shelley, 214. Description of Shelley,
215. "Where is he?" 215. Introduced
to Mrs. Shelley, 216. Goes with Shel-
ley to visit Byron, 216. Byron at bil-
liards, 217. Byron's frivolous talk, 217.
Byron's vivacity and memory, 218.
Description of Byron, 218. Fires at a
mark with Byron and Shelley, 219.
Surprised at Byron's docility, 220.
Byron's chat with him about "Don
Juan" and Shelley, 221. A suggestion
to Byron, 221. "If we puffed the
Snake," 221. Comparisons are odorous,
222. Where he passed his hours and
evenings, 223. "The Snake has fasci-
nated you," 223. Byron the real snake,
224. Byron's questions, 225. Bathing
in the Arno, 226. Tells Shelley how to
swim, 227. Saves Shelley from drown-
ing, 227.
Conversation with Shelley,
227. Leaves Shelley reading, 228. Re-
turns and finds him reading, 228.
"What's this?" 228. Lugs Shelley
in to dinner, 228. Byron's remark about
Shelley, 229. Goes with Mrs. Shelley
to find Shelley, 230. Questions an old
man about him, 231. Finds his wood-
land study, 231. Tells Shelley his wife
is in despair, 232. "Poor Mary!" 232.
Picks up a scrawl of Shelley's, 233.
Shelley speaks of his writings, 234.
Shelley pays a visit with him, 235.
Tells a Scotch woman about Shelley,

235. Takes Shelley to the docks at
Leghorn, 236. With Shelley on board
the San Spiridione, 237. Conversation
with an American mate, 238. Sea talk
with Shelley, 240. Proposes to form a
colony, 241. Tells Byron his plan, 241.
Writes to Captain Roberts for estimates,
241. Takes a house with Williams for
the Shelleys, 242. Settles with Captain
Roberts, 242. Draws plans on the
sands. 243. Dispatches the boat to
Shelley, 245. Letters from Shelley,
245-6. Sailing in Shelley's boat, 247.
Description of the seamanship of Shel-
ley and Williams, 248. Advice to Wil-
liams, 248. "If we had been in a
squall," 249. Watches Shelley and
Williams set sail, 253. Makes inquiries,
255. Horrible suspense, 255. Dis-
patches a courier, 255. Patrols the
coast, 256. Examines the bodies washed
ashore, 256. Recognizes them, 256.
Visits the two widows, 257. Writes to
the English minister at Florence, 258.
Reply of the English minister, 258. Has
a furnace made, 259. Walks with Byron
to the grave, 260. Opening the grave
of Williams, 261. Byron's remark, 261.
The burning of Williams, 262. Takes a
swim with Byron, 262. Gathers the ashes
of Williams, 262. Opening the grave of
Shelley, 263. Byron wants Shelley's
skull, 263. Burning Shelly's body, 264.
Saves Shelley's heart, 264. Purchases
a grave for Shelley in Rome, 265. Let-
ter from Leigh Hunt with inscriptions,
265. Adds three lines from "The Tem-
pest." 266. Plants cypresses round
Shelley's grave, 266. Letters from
Captain Roberts, 267. Remark to By-
ron, 269.

Turner, Dawson, letter of Hogg, to, óo.

Westbrook, Eliza, Shelley's walk with,
102. Too civil by half, 102. Reading
Voltaire, 103. Harriet's guide, philoso-
pher, and friend, 116. Mythical per-
sonal appearance, 116. Arrival of the
peerless one, 116. Over her tea, 117,
Real personal appearance, 117. What
Shelley should have done with her, 118.
Supervision of Harriet, 118. Her Mrs.
Harris, 118. How she spent her time,
119. Shelley's jest about, 119. With
Shelley in Ireland, 129. Answers for
Harriet's nerves, 149. Horrible threat
against, 152. More about Harriet's
nerves, 156. A visitor at Godwin's,
191. Unkindness to Harriet, 202.
Westbrook, Harriet, personal appearance,

II.

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lawny, 212.
Shelley, 225.
vanity, 244.

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The new toy, 243
Orders to Shelley. 248.

Burn-

Remark of Trelawny, 248. Letter to his
wife, 250. Starts to return with Shelley,
253. Finding of his body, 256.
ing of the body, 260.
Williams, Mrs. Jane, Come in, Shel-
ley," 215. "What is the matter, Percy?"
224. Letter from her husband, 250.
Wordsworth, William, At Lausanne, 208.
Down upon mo lern improvements. 209.
Opinion of "The Cenci," 210. His flea-
trap, 210.

Wyse, Sir Thomas, boyish speech in
Dublin, 138.

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