ABUSE, all good attempts get, 81.
Air-pump, animal under, 304.
Anatomist's Hymn, The, 175.
Anniversaries dreaded by the Poet, and why, 222.
Audiences very nearly alike, 141; aspect of, 140; a compound vertebrate,
141.
Automatic principles appear more prevalent the more we study, 85;
mental actions, 134.
BABIES, old, 154.
Beauties, vulgar, their virtuous indignation on being looked at, 194.
Beliefs, like ancient drinking glasses, 15.
Benjamin Franklin, the landlady's son, 12, 53, 57, 116, 135, 136, 246, 311.
Bell-glass, young woman under, 305.
Blondes, two kinds of, 184.
Bridget becomes a caryatid, 100; presents a breast-pin, 313.
Browning, Elizabeth, 306.
Byron, his line about striking the electric chain, 78.
CACHE, children make instinctively, 204.
Calamities, grow old rapidly in proportion to their magnitude, 31; the
recollection of returns after the first sleep as if new, 32.
Call him not old, 174.
Carlyle, his article on Boswell, 280.
Chambers Street, 272.
Children, superstitious wretches and spiritual cowards, 204.
Chloroform, Professor, the, under, 295.
Closet full of sweet smells, 78.
Coat, constructed on a priori grounds, 67.
Coleridge, his remark on literary men's needing a profession, 179.
Conversation, very serious matter, 5; with some great persons
weakening, 5; great faults of, 10; spoiled by certain kinds of
argument, 10; a code of finalities necessary to, 11; compared to
Italian game of mora, 15; shapes our thoughts, 27; Blair-ing of
reported, 40; one of the fine arts, 52; compared to chess-playing, 64;
depends on how much is taken for granted, 64; of Lecturers, 65.
Crow and king-bird, 29.
DANDIES, uses of, 257; illustrious ones, 258, 259; men are born, 259.
Death as a form of rhetoric, 132; introduction to, 209.
Drinking-glasses, ancient, beliefs like, 15.
Droll, authors dislike to be called, 49.
Drunkenness often a punishment, 190.
EARS, voluntary movement of, 10.
Earth, not ripe yet, 24.
Eggs, ovarian, intellectual, 195.
Emerson, 2.
Emotions strike us obliquely, 279.
Epithets follow isothermal lines, 114.
Essays, diluted, 66.
Eternity, remembering one's self in, 201.
Ex pede Herculem, 109.
Experience, a solemn fowl, her eggs, 271.
Faces, negative, 141.
Facts, horror of generous minds for what are commonly called, 5; the
brute beasts of the intelligence, 5; men of, 142.
Fault found with everything worth saying, 111.
Feeling that we have been in the same condition before, 73; modes of
explaining it, 74, 75.
Feelings, every person's, have a front-door and a side-door, 128.
Friendship does not authorize one to say disagreeable things, 51.
Fruit, green, intellectual, these United States a great market for, 261;
mourning, 307.
GEESE for swans, 233.
Genius, a weak flavor of, 3; the advent of, a surprise, 54.
Gilbert, the French poet, 184.
Gingko-tree, 277.
Girls' story in Book of Martyrs, 305; two young, their fall from gallery,
280.
Gizzard and liver never confounded, 309.
Green fruit, intellectual, 261.
Ground-bait, literary, 38.
HABIT, what its essence is, 155.
Hand, the great wooden, 205.
Hearts, inscriptions on, 246.
Heresy, burning for, experts in, would be found in any large city, 33.
Honey, emptying the jug of, 17.
Housatonic, the Professo's dwelling by, 244.
Humanities, cumulative, 23. Hyacinth, blue, 228, 229.
Hysterics, 90.
ICE in wine-glass, tinkling like cowbells, 78.
Ideas, age of, in our memories, 31; handling them as if they had the
three dimensions of solids, 85.
Imponderables move the world, 136.
Inherited traits show very early, 195.
Insanity, the logic of an accurate mind overtasked, 42; becomes a duty
under certain circumstances, 42.
Instincts, crushing out of, 304.
Inventive Power, economically used, 238.
Iris, cut the yellow hair, 50.
JAILERS and undertakers magnetize people, 33.
Jaundice, as a token of aff ection, 133.
John and Thomas, their dialogue of six persons, 53.
John, the young fellow called, 54, 65, 73, 79, 101, 113, 174, 187, 192, 194,
207, 218, 230, 251, 257, 266, 307, 312.
KEATS, 184.
Knowledge, little streaks of specialized, breed conceit, 9.
Knuckles, marks of, on broken glass, 108.
LADY, the real, not sensitive if looked at, 194.
Laughter and tears, wind and waterpower, 90.
Leibnitz, remark of, 1.
Letter to an ambitious young man, 289.
Life, experience of, 29; compared to transcript of it, 59; compared
to books, 134; divisible into fifteen periods, 153; early, revelations
concerning, 202; its experiences, 275.
Lilac leaf-buds, 228, 229.
Literary pickpockets, 51.
Living Temple, Th e, 175.
Love-capacity, 270.
Love, introduction to, 210; its relative solubility in the speech of men
and women, 271.
Ludicrous, a divine idea, 92.
Luniversary, return of, 49.
MACULAY-FLOWERS of Literature, 13.
"Magazine, Northern," got up by the "Come-Outers," 120.
Maine, willows in, 288. Man of family, 20.
"Mare Rubrum," 122.
Marigold, its suggestions, 76. Mather, Cotton, 67, 299.
Meerschaums and poems must be kept and used, 101, 103.
Middle-aged female, takes offence, 30.
Milton compared to a Saint-German pear, etc., 83.
NAHANT, 265.
Nature, Amen of, 229; leaking of, into cities, 273.
Nerve-playing, masters of, 129.
Nerve-tapping, 6.
Newman's Grammar of Assent, 147.
Newton, his speech about the child and the pebbles, 84.
Norwich, elms in, 287; how not to pronounce, 288.
Novel, one, everybody has stuff for, 59; why I do not write a, 59.
OAK, its one mark of supremacy, 232; at Beverly Farms, 288.
Ocean, the two men walking by, 83.
Old Age, starting point of, 151; allegory of, 151; approach of, 152; how
nature cheats us into, 154; habits the great mark of, 155; in the
Professor's contemporaries, 160; remedies for, 163; excellent remedy
for, 173.
Omens, of childhood, 205.
"Our Sumatra Correspondence," 117.
PAIL, the white pine, of water, 200.
Pears, men are like, in coming to maturity, 82.
Pie, the young fellow treats, disrespectfully, 79; the Author takes too
large a piece of, 80.
Piecrust, poems, etc., written under the influence of, 80.
Pillar, the Hangman's, 288 et seq.
Pirates, Danish, their skins on church doors, 107.
Pocket-book fever, 207.
Poetaster who has tasted type, 293.
Polish lance, 19.
Portchuck, his vivacious sally, 177.
Preacher, dull, might lapse into quasi heathenism, 29.
Principle against obvious facts, 56.
Prologue, 45.
Pugilists, when "stale," 156.
Pupil of the eye, simile concerning, the Author disgorges, 144.
QUANTITY, false, Sidney Smith's remark on, 110.
RACE of life, the, report of running in, 95.
Races, our sympathies go naturally with higher, 66.
Raphael and Michael Angelo, 204.
Raspail's proof-sheets, 25.
Repeating one's self, 7.
Rhode Island, near what place, 233.
Rowing, nearest approach to flying, 168; its excellences, 169; its joys, 170.
Rum, the term applied by low people to noble fluids, 190.
SAÄS-PLATES, 308.
Saddle-leather compared to sole leather, 166.
"Sahtisfahction," a tepid expression, 109.
Santorini's laughing muscle, 194.
Saving one's thoughts, 27.
Scientific certainty has no spring in it, 56.
Scientific knowledge partakes of insolence, 55.
Scraping the floor, effect of, 50.
Sea and Mountains, 264.
Self-made men, 19.
Shakespeare, old copy, with flakes of pie-crust between its leaves, 78.
Shawl, the Indian blanket, 19.
Shortening weapons and lengthening boundaries, 19.
Similitude and analogies, ocean of, 84.
Sin, its tools and their handle, 124; introduction to, 209.
Smell, as connected with the memory, etc., 75.
Sneaking fellows to be regarded tenderly, 219.
Societies of mutual consideration, 2.
Spoken language, plastic, 27.
Spring has come, 197.
TALENT, a little, makes people jealous, 3.
Talkers, real, 143.
The old Man Dreams, 68.
Theological students, we all are, 29.
Thought revolves in cycles, 73; if uttered, is a kind of excretion, 196.
Tobacco-stain may strike into character, 103.
Toys moved by sand, caution from one, 80.
Trees, great, 230; mother-idea in each kind of, 232; afraid of measuring
tape, 233; Mr. Emerson's report on, 234; of America, our friend's
interesting work on, 236.
Truths and lies compared to cubes and spheres, 116.
Tupperian wisdom, 271.
Tutor, my late Latin, his verses, 262.
UNLOVED, the, 305.
VENEERING, in conversation, 143.
Verse, proper medium for revealing our secrets, 60.
Verses, Album, 15; abstinence from writing, the mark of a poet,
201.
Violins, soaked in music, 103; take a century to dry, 104.
Virtues, negative, 262.
Voice, the Teutonic maiden's, 215; the German woman's, 216; the little
child's in the hospital, 217.
Voices, certain female, 214; fearfully sweet ones, 214; hard and sharp,
216; people do not know their own, 217; sweet, must belong to good
spirits, 217.
Volume, man of one, 143.
WALKING arm against arm, 18; laws of, 72; the Professor sanctions,
165; riding and rowing compared with, 167.
Wasp, sloop of war, 206.
Water, the white-pine pail of, 200.
Wedding, the, 313.
Wellington, gentle in his old age, 82.
What we all think, 146.
Willows in Maine, 288.
Wine of ancients, 66.
Wit takes imperfect view of things, 50.
Woman, an excellent instrument for a nerve-player, 129; to love a, must
see her through a pin-hole, 221; must be true as death, 270; lovecapacity
in, 270; marks of low and bad blood in, 271; pride in, 271;
why she should not say too much, 271.
YES? in conversation, 18.
Yoricks, 21.
Young Fellow called John, 54, 65, 73, 79, 101, 113, 174, 187, 192, 194, 207,
218, 230, 251, 257, 266, 307, 312.
Young Lady come to be fi nished off , 10.
Youth, flakes off like button-wood bark, 153; American, not perfect
type of physical humanity, 171; and age, what Author means, by, 199.
ZIMMERMAN'S Treatise on Solitude, 6.
