_For the soother in absence_, 95-97 Language, its growth, etc., 95 Medical romance--a title, 96 Mylius, 96 Poets the bridlers of delight, 96 Quintetta, the, in the Syracuse Opera, 95 Recollections of pre-existent state, 96 Tarantula dance of argumentation, 97
_For the soother in absence_, 99-100 _Quisque sui faber_, 99 Nature a Penelope, 100 Root to the crown--growth of the flower, 99
_For the soother in absence_, 115-118 Admiralty Court maxims, 116 Convoy from England, 115 Cyphers, 118 Death and the sleeping baby, 118 Faults and forewarnings, Miss Edgeworth, 117 Johnson, Dr., and Shakspere, 115 Pen-slit, the action of, 118 Sealing-wax--where was it? 116 Totalising, disease of, 116 Voice and eye--precedence and sequence, 118 Wafers, Maltese, 115
_For the soother in absence_, 147-150 Conscience and watches, 150 Contra-reasoning and controversy, 149 Earthly losses and heaven, 150 Eye, the twofold power of, 149 Facts and the relation of them, 148 Metaphor and reality, 149 Negation begets errors, 147 Speculative men not unpractical, 148 War, the weariness of, no excuse for peace, 148 Word-play a cat's cradle, 149 Worldly men, their belief in sincerity, 149
_For the soother in absence_, 159-161 _Co-arctation_, 161 Dull souls may become great poet's bodies, 161 Judgment compared to Belgic towns, 160 Lover married, a frog in a well, 160 Music and the genus and particular, 160 Originality not claimed by the original, 160 Shorthandists for the House of Commons, 161 Stiletto and the rosary, 159 Water-lily and the sponge, 160
_For the Soother in Absence_, 162-164 Death and the tree of life, 163 Grave, our growth in, 163 Irish architect, 164 _Scopæ viarum_, 164 Shooting stars and bedtime, 162 Sleep, the lovers', 164 Swift and the pine-tree, 164 Truth and action, 164 Wordsworth, an aspiration, 163 Yellowing leaflets, 163
_For the Soother in Absence_, 175-180 Affliction and adversity, 176 _Allapse_ of serpents, 176 Atmosphere, every man his own, 176 Augustine, St., and a friend's misjudgment, 179 Blast, the, 178 Blue sky, yellow green at twilight, 175 Greece, the genius of, 177 Hayfield and still life, 175 _Heu! quam miserum_, 177 Indian fig and death of an immortal, 177 Kings, what kind of gods? 176 Love, the mighty works of, 178 Metallic pencils, 175 Parisatis, and the poisoned knife, 176 Peacock moulting, 178 Shadow, 177 Sheridan, and Bacon, 177 Sunflowers, 175 Strabo Geographicus on genius, 179 Two faces, etc., 176-177 Tycho Brahe, a subject for Allston, 175 Water-wagtails, 178 Woman, a passionate, a simile, 178