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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