Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches Volume Iv Part 30

Pitt, William, popular comparison of, with Mr Canning.

His birth and early life.

His preceptor Pretyman.

His fondness for mathematics.

His knowledge of Greek and Latin.

And of modern literature.

His delight in oratory.

Studies the law.

Goes into parliament for Appleby.

Condition of the country at this period.

Pitt's first speech in Parliament.

Declines the Vice-Treasurers.h.i.+p of Ireland.

Courts the ultra-Whig party.

His advocacy of reform.

Becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer at twenty-three years of age.

Pitt's speech and Sheridan's repartee.

His visit to the Continent with William Wilberforce.

Appointed First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer.

His difficulties and dangers.

His power.

Review of his merits and defects.

His reported speeches.

Character of his oratory.

His private life.

His popularity.

His neglect of authors.

His talents as a leader.

Effect of the French Revolution.

His love of peace and freedom.

Unjustly charged with apostasy.

Beginning of his misfortunes.

His domestic policy.

His great designs for the benefit of Ireland.

His rupture with Addington.

His speech on the opening of the Session of 1803.

Reconstructs the government on the resignation of the Addington ministry.

Decline of his health.

His death.

His public funeral.

Vote for paying his debts.

Review of his life.

Lines to his memory.

Plautus, translation from his Rudens.

Plutarch, cla.s.s of historians of which he may be regarded as the head.

His delineation of character.

Poetry; Horace's comparison of poems to certain paintings.

Principles upon which poetry is to be estimated.

Element by which poetry is poetry.

Frame of mind required by poetry.

Absurdities of writers who attempt to give general rules for composition.

The mechanical part of the art of poetry.

Power of the imagination in a barbarous age.

Periods of consummate excellence and of the decline of poetry.

Age of critical poetry.

The imaginative school gradually fading into the critical.

The poets of Greece.

And of Rome.

Revolution of the poetry of Italy, Spain, and England.

The critical and poetical faculties, distinct and incompatible.

Excellence of English dramatic poetry.

Extinction of the dramatic and ascendency of the fas.h.i.+onable school of poetry.

Changes in the time of Charles II.

John Dryden.

Poets, the favourite themes of the, of the present day.

Catholicity of the orthodox poetical creed.

Why good poets are bad critics.

Police officers of Athens.

Polybius, his character as a historian.

Pomponius Atticus, his veneration for Greek literature.

Pope, Alexander, condensation of the sense in his couplets.

His friends.h.i.+p with Bishop Atterbury.

Appears as a witness in favour of his friend.

His epitaph on Atterbury.

Population, review of Mr Sadler's work on the law of.

His attack of Mr Malthus.

His statement of the law of population.

Extremes of population and fecundity in well-known countries.

Population of England.

Of the United States of America.

Of France.

And of Prussia.

Portland, Duke of, formation of his Administration.

Portrait-painting compared with history.

Posterity, Epistle to, Petrarch's.

Power, senses in which the word may be used.

Dependence of the happiness of nations on the real distribution of power.