Volume Iv Part 29 (1/2)

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.