Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ; He, who is thus the Way, the Truth, and the Life, being verily God manifest in the flesh, the great Teacher and Example, "full of wisdom and perfect in beauty."
Life therefore can only be beautiful, as it approaches the Christ-like, or God-like: for LOVE is LIGHT;-Truth, Beauty, and Goodness, being the three primitive colours of the million-coloured bow which surrounds the Throne of the ETERNAL.
Adversity, uses of, ii. 223. Æginetan sculptures and friezes, i. 246.
Æolian harp, ii. 11, 163. Eschylus, dramas of, i. 383; the soldier, ii. 150.
Æther waves, colour-vibrations, i. 44.
Agrippina, Turner, i. 311. Aim of the student or philosopher, i. 60.
Akenside on taste, ii. 160. Al Farabi's music, ii. 18, 19. Alexandrian schools, i. 27. Alfred the Great, ii. 272-3; a patron of music and a musician, ii. 32-3.
Alhambra Court, ii. 174. Alison on beauty, i. 35. Allegri, ii. 38.
Aloe-form and the grasses, i. 72. Alps, first sight of the, i. 90; Ruskin, i. 87.
Ambrosian chant, ii. 30. Anatomy, the Greeks acquainted with, i. 244.
Ancient Mariner, i. 349, 399. Aneiteum, contrasted with India,
Anger, Dr. South, ii. 209. Angling, its poetical relations to scenery, Davy, i. 89. Eneid, Virgil's, i. 356. Animals influenced by music, ii. 6. Antagonisms everywhere, ii. 217. Anthems, hymns, and choruses, Mendelssohn's, ii. 87. Antiphonal singing psalm, ii. 22.
Antoninus, extracts from, ii.
Appreciation, degree of musical, ii. 112, 122-3; differences of, in art, ii. 148.
Approval of God and the good
sustains the artist, i. 213. Arabesque,origin of, Burton, i.232 Architecture, i. 225; divisions of, Ruskin, i. 225; Gothic, i. 226; Greek, i. 226; requirements of, Ruskin, i. 225; modified by requirements, i. 227; require- ments of true religion, i. 240; Romanesque, i. 226. Architect, sculptor, painter, poet, and musician, may each give his own rendering of the same thought, i. 222-3. Ardentinny, i. 100.
D'Arezzo's introduction of syl- lables, ut, re, mi, &c., ii. 31-2. Aristotle, i. 22, 26; poetics, i. 356.
Arithmetic, Mozart's love of, ii.
ART, in general, i. 197; apprecia- tion and production, i. 197; concluding section, ii. 146-191; -conscience, i. 199; excellence ever in conformity with natural laws, i. 244; expression based on, and subject to, natural laws, i. 199, 278, 321, 337; function, to elevate, ii. 147; the high aim of, i. 198; indebted to Christianity for all that is purest and noblest, ii. 272; ought to be subservient to God's glory, i. 338; should refine, not corrupt and debase, i. 259, 274; must conform to harmonic ratios, ii. 176; not ultimate, ii. 190; means of study should be afforded to all, ii. 178; vitality distinguished from repetition, i. 229.
Artists' accomplishments, i. 336; of fifteenth century, i. 287; frequently misjudged, i. 210; the greatest, men of action, ii. 149-151.
Arundel Society, i. 286. Aspects of scenery, i. 64. Assyrian Art, i. 279. Astronomy, i. 112.
Ataruipe, visit to the, tropical night, i. 76.
Atoms and stars, i. 49; disposi- tion of, ii. 15. Atonement, the, ii. 210. Atterbury on sacred music, ii. 142. Auber, ii. 95.
Aurora Borealis, an, Humboldt, i. 67.
Austin, St., ii. 32. Austria, ii. 162.
Avalanche, Turner, i. 309.
Bach, his life and works, ii. 48-9. Bacon on beauty, i. 31; on poetry, ii. 288; division of poetry, i. 424; Macaulay's misconception of his philosophy, i. 22, 24; his system, i. 22.
Bacon Roger, anticipations of, re- garding locomotion, i. 41. Bad music, ii. 100, 118-19.
Bailey, i. 407. Balfe, ii. 96.
Ballad of Sir Andrew Barton, i. 145; Sir Patrick Spens, i. 146. Banyan tree, Milton, i. 166. Barbiere di Seviglia, Il, Rossini, ii. 91.
Barry Cornwall, i. 368. Basil's love of nature, i. 142. Bavaria, Schwanthaler, i. 270. Baxter, Richard, on instrumental music, ii. 142. Bayard, ii. 258.
Bay of Baiæ, Turner, i. 311. Beauties of the universe, Jeremy Taylor, ii. 291.
Beautiful, the, and the good, Plato, i. 20.
Beauty around us, Wordsworth, i. 178; defined by Cruden, ii. 194-5; in death, Byron, i. 193, also Shakspere, i. 159; extracts regarding, i. 29-38; of holiness, ii. 294; of Providence, Wilkins, ii. 285; and truth, Shakspere, ii. 282. Beethoven resembles Eschylus, Angelo or Dante, ii. 78-9. Beethoven's critics, ii. 79-80; life and works, ii. 64-81; seated at the pianoforte, ii. 75-78; songs, ii. 70; resembles Turner, ii. 79. Beetle, Shakspere's allusion to, i.
Birs Nimroud, i. 325. Bishop, Sir Henry, ii. 97. Blake, Flaxman, and Stothard, i. 336.
Bligh Sand, Turner, i. 308. Blindness, Milton alludes to his, i. 169.
Blind man made to see, supposi-
tion of, Walton, i. 62. Blondel de Nesle and Coeur de Lion, ii. 33. Body, the, Dr. South, ii. 210. Boieldieu, ii. 95.
Bonheur, Rosa, i. 295.
Books, Bacon on, i. 55; use of, Sir Thomas Browne, i. 56. Bower in Eden, Milton, i. 167. Bowie, William, on the Messiah's kingdom, ii. 244-5.
British school of painting, i. 297. Brown, i. 185.
Browne, Sir Thomas, on beauty, i. 32; on deformity, i. 34; on harmony, i. 33.
Browning, Mrs., i. 407; lines, "Nothing low in Love," ii. 216. Browning, Robert, i. 407. Burke on beauty, i. 35. Burns, i. 367.
Busts, ii. 162; three fine modern, i. 273.
Byron, i. 403-4, 406. Byzantine art, i. 283.
Calvin's metrical psalmody, ii.
Camacho, wedding of, Mendels- sohn, ii. 84.
Camoens, i. 362. Campbell, i. 367, 406.
Campo Santo at Pisa, paintings on walls, i. 285. Canova, i. 267.
Canute's stanza relating to music, ii. 33.
Capillary attraction, i. 47.
Career, fetching a, Jeremy Taylor, ii. 277.
Cartoons of Raphael, i. 277. Cathedrals, various, i. 233, 234. Catullus, i. 366.
Causes and methods, i. 19.
Chanson de Roland, ii. 33. Chaos, Milton, i. 166. Characteristics
of Assyrian, Egyptian, and Greek sculpture, i. 246; of Haydn's music, lines, ii. 55; of landscape painters, i. 328-30.
Character of Christ, Hazlitt, ii.
232-4; Henry Rogers, ii. 279-80; Newcombe, ii. 278-9; and pre- cepts of the Saviour in Scrip- ture language, ii. 240-4. Characteristics of French, Italian, German, and English music, ii. 46-7.
Charcoal, power of, to imbibe gas, i. 47.
Charity, Dr. Barrow, ii. 211; has
two significations, i. 417. Charm of being natural, ii. 273. Chaucer's allusions to nature, i.
148-50; interred in Westminster Abbey, Fuller, i. 364; leaves his books for the fields, i. 148; love for the daisy, i. 149; love of music. ii. 34; tales, i. 363. Chemical philosopher, the, Davy,
Chemistry, i. 113; and Astro- nomy, i. 8.
Chesterfield school of manners, ii. 258.
Cheever on nature, ii. 213. Chevreul, tabular form of colour
combinations, from, i. 203. Children of Light, Hare, ii. 250-3. Chinese musical traditions, ii. 17. Chivalry a reflex of Christianity, ii. 258.
Chladni's experiments, ii. 15. Choir, effect of, on St. Augustine, ii. 30.
Choral service, English, ii. 39.
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