national insanity, imitate the French in their foolery, and translate authors from their graves, as saints were formerly translated, it will be visited hereafter by travellers, for Cowper's sake. The last remark of Southey just quoted suggests, as an appropriate conclusion, the first stanza of a beautiful poem by Elizabeth Barret Browning, on "It is a place where poets crown'd may feel the heart's decaying; It is a place where happy saints may weep amid their praying: Yet let the grief and humbleness, as low as silence, languish ! Earth surely now may give her calm to whom she gave her anguish." THE END. A Briton's scorn of arbitrary chains, 201- Kings, their opportunities of doing good, Eden, the language there used in man's in- Olympic speed, 309. INDEX TO THE TASK. Acquaint thyself with God," v. 779. Action, i. 367. Actor, iv. 200. Address to domestic happiness, iii. 41, 292. Ægypt (plague of frogs), ii. 827. Air and exercise, i. 589. Alcove, i. 278. Alert and active, i. 396. America lost, ii. 263. Amusements, i. 463. Ancient Philosophy, ii. 500. Angler, iii. 313. Animals enjoying life, vi. 325. Animals, sagacity and fidelity, vi. 610. Apostrophe to popular applause, ii. 481. Atheist, vi. 486. Auction, vi. 286. Babel, v. 193, Bacon (sculptor), i. 702. Balaam, vi. 467. Bastile, v. 383. Battered fortunes, iii. 834. Beauty and old age, iii. 601. Birds in winter, v. 77. Bodies corporate, iv. 671. Books, iii. 392; iv. 158; vi. 87, 98. Brotherhood, iii. 208. Brown (" capability”), iii. 766. Cæsar's laurels, vi. 989. Caffraria, iii. 585. Calenture, i. 447. Candid and liberal, iii. 93. Chess, vi. 265. Church fares ill, 888. Cities, i. 128, 689; iii. 729. Civilized life, i. 596, 679; iv. 659. Clerical coxcomb, ii. 445. Clouds, v. 2. College discipline, ii. 699. Colonnade of trees, i. 252 355: vi. 70. Commerce, iii. 739. Common, i. 526. Compunction, v. 616. Connoisseur, vi. 284. Conscience, iii. 185; v. 600, 666. Contemplation, v. 263, 924. Contrivers of creation, iii. 156; vi. 198. Country ("God made"), i. 740; iii. 708. Country, few lovers of it, iii. 293, 725. Country deserted, iii, 711, 750; iv. 589. Country, who love it, iii. 320. Course of human things, iv. 578. Fables false as hell, v. 862. Familiarity with nature, vi. 121. Famine, ii. 185. Fancy, iv. 242, 286. Fatigue of idleness, i. 895, 755. Fireside enjoyments, iv. 140. Foddering of cattle, v. 80. Fortune, ii. 658. France, ii. 213, 264; v. 468. Freedom, ii. 33, 130; v. 375. Freeman, truth makes free, v. 783, 893. Frost, fantastic doings, v. 113. Frosty morning, v. 7. Gaming, i. 503; -iii. 761. Gipsies, i. 559. Glide my life away! vi. 1000. God in every thing, ii. 161; y. 808; vi. 221. Goliath, iv. 270. Gout, i. 105. Grace, v. 688. Gratitude and love, iv. 182. Great offices, iv. 788. Green-house, iii. 565. Groans of nature, vi. 728. Grove, i. 307, 354, 753; iii. 734. Guilty splendor, iii. 70. Hale, Sir Matthew, ii. 358. Handel, vi. 637. Happily-tempered minds, ii. 788. Happy man, vi. 247, 906. Hare, tame, iii. 334. Hay-field, i. 295. Headland, i. 518. Health, i. 750. Heavenward all things tend, vi. 818. History writers, iii. 139. Home-born happiness, iv. 140. Homer, iii. 454. Honest pride, iv. 405. Honest rags, iii. 806. Ice-palace, v. 127. "Idleman's" employment, iii. 352. Idol of the mob, v. 260; vi. 710. Improvement, "idol of the age," iii. 764. Infidel, vi. 872. Invocation of the Saviour, vi. 855. Italy, ii. 214. Jockeyship, ii. 276. Jocular preacher, ii. 463. Jotham, v. 322. |