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Spiritual Kalendar, ib. REPRESENTATION, right of, not fixed in the 10th century, i. 162. RESIDENCES of literary men, notices of several, iii. 394-399. REVIEWS.--See LITERARY JOURNALS. REVOLUTIONS, maxim on, iii. 278. RHYMES inscribed on _knives_, and alluded to by Shakespeare, iii. 38, note; on _fruit trenchers_, ib.; on _rings_, 39, note. RICCOBONI, a celebrated actor, his remarks on the Italian extempore comedy, ii. 134; anecdote of, 137; his inscription on the curtain of his theatre, ib. RICH, a celebrated harlequin, ii. 130, and note. RICHARDSON, the author of _Sir Charles Grandison_, remarks on him and his works, ii. 62-65. RICHELIEU, Cardinal de, his general character, ii. 349; his death-bed, ib.; anecdotes of the sinister means practised by, 350; his confessor, Father Joseph, 351-353; projects of assassination of, 354, and note; drives Father Caussin, the king's confessor, into exile, 355. RIVE, Abbe de, librarian of the Duke de la Valliere, iii. 341; his style of criticism, 342; his collections for works never begun, ib.; his observations on the cause of the errors of literary history, 344. ROBINSON CRUSOE, remarks on, ii. 274; history of, traced, 275; written by Defoe, after illness, and in comparative solitude, 276; not published till seven years after Selkirk's adventures, 277. ROC, the, of Arabian tales, a creature of Rabbinical fancy, i. 124. ROCHEFOUCAULT De la, remarks on him and his maxims, i. 110. ROCHELLE, expedition to, ii. 367; preparations for, ib.; frustrated by the death of Buckingham, 369. ROMANCES, the offspring of fiction and love, i. 442; early, ib.; that of Heliodorus denounced in the synod, 443; forbidden in the Koran, ib.; of the Troubadours, 444; modern poets indebted to, ib.; Le Roman de Perceforest, 445; of chivalry, examples of, 446; Italian, 448; use made of by poets, 449; French, ib.; went out of fashion with square cocked hats, 450; modern novels, ib.; histories of, 451; D'Urfe's Astraea, ib. ROMNEY the painter, his belief in alchymy, i. 282, and note. RONSARD, the French bard, and his Bacchanalia, ii. 41. ROSY-CROSS, the President of, proffers his advice to Charles I., iii. 464. ROUSSEAU, his prediction of the French Revolution, iii. 271, 272, and note; his favourite authors, iii. 340. ROYAL Autographs, iii. 165
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