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The Coalition.
End of the Coalition.
Ode on St Cecilia's Day of Dryden; its character.
Oleron, Barere, Billaud, and Collot d'Herbois imprisoned at.
Oligarchy, Mr Mitford's love of pure.
Examination of this sentiment.
The growth of genius always stunted by oligarchy.
Mr Mill's view of an oligarchical form of government.
Opinion, good, of the public, causes of our regard for the.
Orators, Athenian.
Oratory: Excellence to which eloquence attained at Athens.
Circ.u.mstances favourable to this result.
Principles upon which poetry is to be estimated.
Causes of the difference between the English and Athenian orators.
The history of eloquence at Athens.
Speeches of the ancients, as transmitted to us by Thucydides.
Period during which eloquence flourished most at Athens.
Coincidence between the progress of the art of war and that of oratory.
The irresistible eloquence of Demosthenes.
The oratory of Pitt and Fox.
Orestes, the Greek highwayman.
Orleans, Philip, Duke of, character of him and of his Regency.
Ossian, character of the poems of.
Ostracism, practice of, among the Athenians.
Oth.e.l.lo, causes of the power of.
Paganism, effect of the overthrow of, by Christianity.
Pallas, the birthplace of Oliver Goldsmith.
Paradise, Dante's, its princ.i.p.al merit.
Paraphrase of a pa.s.sage in the Chronicle of the Monk of St Gall.
Paris, policy of the Jacobins of.
Their excesses.
Parliamentary government, its advantages and disadvantages.
Parliamentary Reform, Speeches on.
Patronage, effect of, on literature.
Pausanias, his insanity.
Pauson, the Athenian painter.
Peers, question of the sterility of the, as a cla.s.s.
Peiraeus, disreputable character of.
People's Charter, the, Speech on.
Pericles, his eloquence.
Petion, the Girondist.
Saint Just's speech on his guilt.
His unfortunate end.
Petrarch, influence of his poems on the literature of Italy.
Criticism on the works of.
Celebrity as a writer.
Causes of this.
Extraordinary sensation caused by his amatory verses.
Causes co-operating to spread his renown.
His coronation at Rome.
His poetical powers.
His genius.
Paucity of his thoughts.
His energy when speaking of the wrongs and degradation of Italy.
His poems on religious subjects.
Prevailing defect of his best compositions.
Remarks on his Latin writings.
Phalaris of Agrigentari, the spurious letters of.
Sir W. Temple's opinion of them.
Their worthlessness shown by Bentley.
Phillips, John, his monument refused admission into Westminster Abbey.
Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan's history of the.
Its fame.
Attempts to improve and imitate it.
Pilnitz, League of, effect of the.
Piozzi, Mrs.
Pisistratus, his eloquence.