Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ When I was last at * * a nun made her escape from the Irish nunnery. The first thing for which she enquired, when she reached the house in which she was to be secreted till she could be conveyed on board ship, was a looking glass. She had entered the convent when only five years old, and from that time had never seen her own face. This was not vanity. A man in the same situation might have been allowed to interpret γνωθι σεαυτον in the same manner.
The Hindoo women wear a small mirror in a ring,—the Chury, Sir William Jones calls it. We have them in pocket books ”

“ Image Worship 330 165
Effect of Domestication upon the Skin and Tendons of Animals 331 166
Filtering Apparatus 332 167
Palestine 333 168
Earth Bathing 335 ↑ * The articles marked thus are by a different writer. ”

“ Adipocire 35 184
Beer and Ale 37
185
Te Franciscum 41 186
The Glib 44 187
Chess 46 188
The Ass at the Meeting 48 189
Religious Epigram 51 190
The Holy Fire ib. 191
Beards 52 192
The Plague 58 193
Alva 63 194
Anglesea Beef ib. 195
Amphibious Fish 64 196
Triumphs and Trophies of Cookery, to be used at Festival Times, as Twelfth Day, &c. 66 197
Snails 80 198
Spectral Flowers 82 199
Merino Sheep 103 200
Gigantic Bird 109 201
Tarring and Feathering 113 202
Rondelle ib. 203
If 115 204
Capt. ”