old," a translation from Prout, 95; his rogueries, 135; his "Travels in Search of Religion," 143; attack on "the Fa- thers," 144; his visits to Blarney, 146; "Go where glory waits thee," from the French, 147; "O'twas all but a dream," from ditto, 149; "Lesbia hath a beam- ing eye," from the Latin, with a portrait of Moore, taken in flagrante delicto, 150; "The Shamrock," from the French, 154; "Wreath the bowl," from the Greek, 156; his "History of Ireland," 343; robs Petrarca, 327; "appropriates" Horace, 430; robs Fontenelle, 545.
More (Sir T.), his joke on Erasmus, 87; his poetry, 166.
Morgan (Lady) and Puckler Muskaw, 165; her "Italy," 318.
Mullins (Denny), patriot and breeches- maker, the Aristides of Cork, 171.
Nebuchadnezzar, statue of, 60, 89. Nicodemo Lermil, a Milanese Poet, his song on the Battle of Waterloo, 356. Nights passed in study, 310, 345. Noctes Atticæ, 345.
Noll, old, a canting thief, 358; storms Blarney Castle, 56, 100.
Normans, a glorious race, 244; terror they spread, 247.
O'Brien (Henry), his various acquire- ments, 141; his death and character, 162.
O'Connell got no rint from Watergrasshill, 73; an enemy to poor-laws, 127; advo- cates a grand national cemetery in Dublin, 128; denounced by Doyle, 106; resem- bles Wood, of copper celebrity,121; his "Abbey," 299.
O'Fagans, a hungry race, 85; origin of the name, ib.
O'Kelly, an Irish poet, 435.
Olden, inventor of a shaving oil called
Eukeirogeneion, 77; his song in praise of the same, in Greek and English, 91. O'Meara, not the "Voice from St. Helena," 79; a Franciscan friar; pleasant man, ib.; sings the praise of eggs, 98. Oriental poetry, decline and fall of, 98. vid quoted, 290, 343.
Owen Glendower fed on leeks 12.
Pancakes of Greek origin, 26.
Pascal's "Lettres Provinciales," 184; a hypochondriac, 186. Pasquinade, a Roman, 233.
Peter the Great chops off the beards of the Russians, 90.
Petrarca, his sonnets not condemned by
the Papal court, 235; meets Chaucer in Provence, 240; communicates to him the tale of Griselda, ib.; his exquisite Platonism, 324; his "Address to the Fountain of Vaucluse," 225; is robbed by Tom Moore, 327; a passage in his will, ib.; Prout envies him his death, 346; his epitaph, 348; his triumph at the Capitol, 349; he dances a pas seul in the palazzo Colonna, 350; his vision of a white doe, 351; his connexion with Cola Rienzi, 352; his "Dream," 368; his "Palinodia," 369.
Petronius Arbiter quoted, 77. Phædrus, 157, 203, 238, 287. Pigs in Ireland, 25. Pilgrimages, a plea for, 29. Pindar quoted, 96.
Plantagenet, derivation of, 49. Plato quoted, 263.
Pliny the Elder's etymology of water cresses, 260.
Pliny the Younger quoted, 81. Plutarch quoted, 17, 114. POETRY-Songs:
Groves of Blarney (polyglot), 56. The muse shed a tear, 88.
Come, list to my stave (Anglicè et Græcè
On Linden when the sun (Angl. et Lat.), 92 Believe me, dear Prout, 93.
Let Erin remember (Angl. et Lat.), 95. I sing the fount of soda, 96. Why then, sure it was made by a learn ed owl (Angl. et Lat.), 98.
O, Blarney Castle, my darlint, 100. Adrian's death-song, 112.
Stella's lament, "While round the churn," (Gr. et Ang.), 131.
A Chancellor's song (Gallicè), 132. Go where glory (Ang. et Gall.), 147. O'twas all but a dream (Ang. et Gall.,
Lesbia hath a beaming eye (Ang. et Lat.), 150.
Marie Stuart (Gall.), 153.
Through Erin's isle (Ang. et Gall.), 154. Wreath the bowl (Ang. et Gr.), 156. The Shandon bells, 159.
When at thy shrine, most holy maid (Ang. et Lat.), 174.
When Brennus came back here from Rome (Gall. et Angl.), 210.
"Il pleut, il pleut enfin,"-Rain best doth nourish, &c., 212,
The song of the Cossack (Angl. et Gall.).
Le bon Roy Dagobert, 217.
Malbrouck s'en va-t-en guerre, 219. L'épée de Damocles - The dinner of Dionysius (Gall. et Angl.), 221. My dwelling is ample, 223. "Le pigeon messager, Helen sat by my side, 224.
"Dans la solitaire bourgade," Pray for me, 227
"On parlera de sa gloire," —They'll talk of HIM for years to come, 248. "Le vieux drapeau," The tricolour flag, 251. Clement Marot's song to the vanguard of the French (Gall. et Angl.), 253. "De la dépouille de nos bois,"-Autumn had stript the grove, 255.
"Il descend ce cercueil,"-Ere that cof- fin goes down, 256.
"Noé le patriarche," 258.
La théorie des éclipses,"-Blindman's buff, 265.
"La mort de Socrate,"-The night be- fore Larry was stretched, 267. "Le convoi de David,"-The painter's funeral, 270.
"Généreux, favoris,"-If your bosom beats high, 272.
"Le violon brisé."-The French fid- dler's lament, 275.
"Le chien du Louvre,"-The dog of the Three days, 277.
The Mistletoe, a type of the Heaven- born, 279.
"Les étoiles qui filent," - Shepherd,
they say that a star presides, 281. "Les oies,"-A panegyric on geese, 283. "Le Temps et l'Amour,"-Old Time is a pilgrim, 284.
"Si je devais un jour,"-If my mind's independence one day I'm to sell, 286. "Les Bohémiens," a gypsy song,-Sons of witchcraft, 293.
"Le Dieu des bonnes gens,"-There's a God whom the poet, 297.
"Le grenier,"-The garret of Béranger, 299.
"Le tailleur et la fée,"-Autobiography of a poet, 301.
"Le voile orientale,"-What has hap- pen'd, my brothers? (Victor Hugo),
"Monseigneur le duc de Bretagne," The bride of the cymbaleer (Victor Hugo), 307.
"Ah, le bel état! que l'état de sollat!" -The French soldier's life, 310. Les Funerailles de Beaumanoir (Gall.), 312.
"L'ange exilé,"-Lady, for thee (to L. E. L.), 313. Petrarca's ode, Vaucluse," 825,
"Sweet fountain of
"Non mi far, O Vulcan,"-The wine- cup bespoken, 329.
"Italia! Italia !"-Filicia's song, 330. "Chi é costui,"-Statue, whose giant limbs, 332.
"Io credea,"-Tiber! my early dream, 333.
"Per me si va," (Dante),-Seek ye ye path, 336.
"O crine, o crin,"-With awe I look on that peruke, 339.
"Una candida cerva,"-A form I saw with secret awe, 351.
"Cantiam' tutti,"-Song on the battle of Lepanto, 353.
"O pescator,"-Prythee, young fisher- man, 355.
"La fuga di Napoleone,"-When Bo- naparté, overcome, 356.
"Son povera ragazza," a village song,
"Cives Hymetti,"-Citizens of Mount Hymettus, 537.
"Dives Galesus,"-As slow the plough, 539.
"Est mihi rivo vitreus perenni,"- There's a fount, 544.
"Je voyais du rivage," 545.
"Si rogat Cererem," - The soldier soothes, 553.
Nay, gather not that filbert, 554. Meditations in a wine-cellar, 557.
Ode on the taking of Calais (Lat. et Angl.), 561.
The old housewife's address to her gude- man (Lat. et Angl.), 564. The Red-breast of Aquitania, 567. The legend of Arethusa, 569. There's a being bright, 571. Life a bubble (Fr. et Angl.), ib. Poetry, the nurse of freedom in every age,
Poets, the earliest writers in every lan- guage, 322. Potato, the, 26.
Profession, the Military, in France, a song, 310. Prout, Father Andrew, his character, 5; gallantry, ib.; fond of angling, 6; his library, ib.; death and burial, 7; ge- nius, 33; knowledge of the world, 70; condemns potheen, 71; confessor to Joe Hayes, 72; his song, 95; secret of his birth and parentage, 124; is kidnapped, ib.; a lock of his mother's hair, 125; Royal Cork Foundling Hospital, ib.; escapes from it in a churn, 129; a com- pound of Sancho Panza and the Vener- able Bede, 167; travels through France," 5, 108, 204; cares not a fig for his ma- ligners; attacked by the "Sun" news- paper, 258; his frugal life, 260; his tuneful soul, 288; his recollections of Italy, 320; resolves to mix his own punch for the future, 345; hopes to die like Petrarca, 346; free from the odium theologicum, 548; his sermon for Tri- bute Sunday, 519.
Purgatory, St. Patrick's, 47; Dr. Lard- ner's, 66.
Quintilian quoted, 229, 408. Quintus Curtius quoted, 328.
Raleigh (Sir W.) planter of the potato, 26, 82.
René d'Anjou, le bon roy, 207; long re- membered in Provence, ib.
Rhyme, an apology for, by La Faye, 361. Richard Coeur de Lion, 44, 122, 207. Rienzi, 352.
Spartan black broth, 16. Spenser, his account of Irish diet, A.D. 1518, 260.
Staël (Madame de), 347. Stars-the shooting stars, a poem by Bé- ranger, 281.
Stella, the mother of Prout, 124; her la- ment (Gr. et Angl.), 130.
Sterne accused of deliberate falsehood (a lie repeated in Grose's "Antiquities of England," at "Gisborne Abbey, York. shire." J. Roche), 348. Strabo quoted, 17, 51.
Sun" newspaper, quarrel with, 257. Swift, eulogy of, 105; his madness a my- stery, 115; not occasioned by too much learning, 116; nor by unrequited love, 117; nor loss of fortune, 118; nor in- temperance, 119; nor loss of friends, ib.; nor love of country, 120; notwithstand- ing, his genuine patriotism, ib.; true cause of his insanity, 123; his proposal for eating children, 127.
Tacitus, 140. De Morib. Germ., 244. Talleyrand, a schoolfellow of Prout, 103; gives a death.blow to the old Gallican church, 320,
Tasso, madness of, 118; begs his cat to lend him the light of her eyes to write by, ib.; his melancholy death, 348; epi taph quoted, ib.
Templars, tribute to the, 185. Tertullian quoted; defended, 144. Thiébault (Comte de Champagne), 207. Tiber, ode to the, by Guidi, 333.
Roche (James, Esq. of Cork), a friend of Time and Love, an allegory, by Count
Ronsard, the hour-glass of, 228.
Round towers (Irish) of Oriental origin, 52, 82; described by Lucian, 142. Rymer's Fœdera, 13, 47.
Salvator Rosa, couplet from, 231.
Salvian, of Marseilles, quoted, 206. Sannazar, 542.
Sarbiewski, Casimir, 536.
Sauce Robert, the inventor of, 16. Scarron quoted, 125.
Scott (Sir W.), his visit to Blarney, 137; Prout's panegyric on, 40; kisses the Blarney stone, 54.
Sevigne, Madame, said to be the au- thoress of Malbrouck, 221. Shells on the Pyrenees, Voltaire's opinion of, 266.
Silius Italicus, 40, 329
Simonides of Cos, his Lament of Danaë, translated 131.
Socrates, the death of, a song, by Dean Burrowes 57. Songs, see Poetry.
Segur, 284: ode to Time, by Thomas, 286.
Thomas à Kempis, his saying on pilgrim-
ages, 46; his relish for salmon, 81; his maxims, 100.
Tolomei's" Non mi far, o Vulcan,"-The wine-cup bespoken, 329,
Tricolor flag, song on the, 251. Troubadours, a queer set, 241, 244.
University at Blarney, projected, 65. University, the London, 132.
V. Vanière, Jacques, 555,
Venice, origin of, 20; Jesuits expelled from, 184.
Venetian gondoliers severe critics, 355. Vert-vert, the parrot, a poem, 188; hys originall innocence, ib.; hys fatall re- nowne, 190; hys evil voyage, 193; the awful discoverie, 196.
Victor Hugo praised, 158; his oriental poem, "The Veil," 305; his ballad, The bride of the cymbaleer," 307.
Vida, sketch of his life, 513; his poem Wetherell, Sir C., letter from, about King "The Silkworm," 623. Village song, canzmitta, 358.
Virgil cited, 15, 49, 53, 68, 72, 95, 117, 118, 164, 181, 183, 216, 217, 322, 342, 344, 349, 508, 518. Vittorelli, "Guarda che bianca luna!" a serenade, 363; "Il dono di Venere,"— The gift of Venus, 365.
Voltaire, his opinion of the shells of the Pyrenees, 266; his occupation at Pots- dam, 442.
Dagobert, 233. Whalley, Jerusalem, 65.
Wig of Roger Boscovich, "Alla perrucca," De fictâ comâ, &c. 339. Wine debtor to water, 212. Woods, Wm., his base-currency scheme, 121; a kidnapper, 124, 135.
Y. Yarmouth herrings, 13.
Yorke, Oliver, editor of the Reliques, passim.
Zisca, his skin made into a drum, 288.
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