CONTENTS OF VOL. VIII.

RHYMES ON THE ROAD.

Dedication

Preface

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Introductory Rhymes. Different attitudes in which authors

compose.-Bayes, Henry Stephens, Herodotus, etc.-Writ-

ing in bed-in the fields.-Plato and Sir Richard Black-

more.-Fiddling with gloves and twigs.-Madame de Staël.

-Rhyming on the road in an old calèche

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EXTRACT I. View of the Lake of Geneva from the Jura.--

Anxious to reach it before the sun went down.- Obliged

to proceed on foot.-Alps.-Mont Blanc.-Effect of the

scene

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EXTRACT II. The Fall of Venice not to be lamented.-For-

mer glory.-Expedition against Constantinople.—Guisti-

nianis.-Republic.-Characteristics of the old Government.

Golden book.-Brazen mouths.-Spies-dungeons.-Pre-

sent desolation.

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EXTRACT III. Lord B- -'s Memoirs, written by himself.-

Reflections when about to read them

EXTRACT IV. The English to be met with every where.-

Alps and Threadneedle-street. The Simplon and the

Stocks.-Rage for travelling.-Blue-stockings among the

Wahabees.-Parasols and Pyramids.-Mrs. Hopkins and

the Wall of China

EXTRACT V.

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EXTRACT VI. Reflexions on reading De Cerceau's account of

the Conspiracy of Rienzi, in 1347.-The meeting of the

Conspirators on the night of the 19th of May.—Their pro-

cession in the morning to the Capitol.-Rienzi's speech. 32

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FXTRACT VII. Mary Magdalen-Her story.-Numerous pic-

tures of her.-Correggio. — Guido. — Raphael, etc. — Ca-

nova's two exquisite statues.-The Somariva Magdalen.—

Ch-ntr-y's admiration of Canova's works.

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FXTRACT VIII. A visit to the house where Rousseau lived

with Madame de Warens.-Their Menage.-Its grossness.

-Claude Anet.-Reverence with which the spot is now vi-

sited. —Absurdity of this blind devotion to fame.-Feelings

excited by the beauty and seclusion of the scene.—Dis-

turbed by its associations with Rousseau's history.-Impos-

tures of men of genius.-Their powers of mimicking all

the best feelings, love, independence, etc. .

Notes.

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

The Sylph's ball

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Remonstrance.-After a conversation with L-d J— R—, in

which he had intimated some idea of giving up all political

pursuits.

Epitaph on a Lawyer

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ib.

FABLES.

I. The dissolution of the Holy Alliance

II. The looking-glasses

III. The fly and the bullock

IV. Church and state.

Quick! we have but a second

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Our first young love

To the memory of Joseph Atkinson, Esq. of Dublin

Epitaph on a well-known poet

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RHYMES ON THE ROAD,

EXTRACTED FROM THE JOURNAL

OF A

TRAVELLING MEMBER OF THE POCOCURANTE SOCIETY, 1819.

VOL. VIII.

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