238
De Soyres (Mrs.), E. F.G.'s sister, her death, 168
Devrient, his Theory of Shakespeare's Sonnets, 253
Dickens (Charles), 69; E. F.G.'s admiration for him, 51, 126; his passion
for colours, 54
Donne (Blanche), 48, 111, 149, 154
Donne (Charles), 95, 111, 131
Donne (Mrs. Charles), her death, 106
Donne (Mowbray), 10, 29, 39, 62, 86, 95, 111, 140, 181, 185, 193, 196,
199, 206, 207, 212, 223, 227, 242, 259, 260; visits E. F.G., 86
Donne (Valentia), 6, 18, 111, 161, 199; her marriage, 127
Donne (W. B.), mentioned, 3, 4, 6, 8, 18, 48, 60, 64, 78, 98, 102, 111,
121, 181, 207, 212, 223, 227, 229, 241; his Lectures, 10; his illness,
35, 37, 39, 42; retires from his post as Licenser of Plays, 48, 50; his
successor, 50; reviews Macready's Memoirs, 75; his death, 243
Ducis, 219
Dunwich, 138
Eastern Question (the), 117
Eckermann, a German Boswell, 155
Edwards (Edwin), 139, 140, 158; his death, 155; exhibition of his
pictures, 166, 168, 169
Elio (F. J.), 120
Elliot (Sir Gilbert), pastoral by, 82
Euphranor, 65
FitzGerald (Edward), parts with his yacht, 3; his reader's mistakes, 4;
his house at Woodbridge, 8; his unwillingness to have visitors, 8, 9; his
mother, 11; reads Hawthorne's Notes of Italian Travel, 12; Memoirs of
Harness, 13; cannot read George Eliot, 15, 38, 171; his love for Sir
Walter Scott, 15, 229; visits his brother Peter, 16; on the art of being
photographed, 24, 25; reads Walpole, Wesley, and Boswell's Johnson, 28;
in Paris in 1830, 31; cannot read Goethe's Faust, 31, 124; reads Ste.
Beuve's Causeries, 40, and Don Quixote, 41, 45; has a skeleton of his
own, bronchitis, 45, 47, 75; goes to Scotland, 49; to the Academy, 49;
reads Dickens, 51; Crabbe, 54; condenses the Tales of the Hall, 59, 64,
118; death of his brother Peter, 64; translations from Calderon, 63;
tries to read Gil Blas and La Fontaine, 66; admires Corneille, 73; reads
Madame de Sevigne, 73; writes to Notes and Queries, 82; begins to 'smell
the ground,' 83; his recollections of Paris, 85; reads Mrs. Trollope's 'A
Charming Fellow,' 95; on framing pictures, 96, 99, 102, 106; translation
of the Agamemnon, 97, 103, 107, 111; meets Macready, 103; his Lugger
Captain, 104, 115, 117; prefers the Second Part of Don Quixote, 108;
scissors and paste his 'Harp and Lute,' 126; reads Dickens' Great
Expectations, 126; on nightingales, 128, 136, 184; wished to dedicate
Agamemnon to Mrs. Kemble, 129; reads The Heart of Mid-Lothi
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