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Wilkes, Joba, confiderations on his being rejected by the Houfe of
Commons as reprefentative for Middlesex, x, 5.

Wilks, Mr. (the actor) occafionally allows a benefit to Savage, iii. 259.
Inftances of his generofity, 256.

Wills, the neceffity of making them, exemplified in the ftory of Sophia
Heedful, viii. 390.

William III. King, fupplied copious materials for prose and verse, iii.

132.

Winbury, Mifs, Pope's unfortunate lady, iv. 113. Saidave been
in love with Pope, 113.

Windows in Scotland described, x. 337-

Winter, the season of seriousness and terror, vi. 54. And of retire-
ment and study, 57. The horrors of it in the polar countries, vii.
266. In the Hebrides little more than rain and wind, x. 376. An
Ode, xi. 354. Winter's Walk, 355.

Winter's Tale, obfervations on Shakespeare's comedy, ix, 310.
Wishes, vain, the folly of indulging them, vi. 17.

Wit, has its changes and fashions, ii. 22. Pope's defcription erro-
neous, 23. Properly characterized, 23. Exuberance of, con-
demned, 41. Sir R. Blackmore's account of, iii. 182. Its ori-
ginal, v. 144. Wherein it differeth from learning, 144. The
mutual advantages of their being united, 149. The folly of af-
fecting that character, 168. The means neceflary to the production
of a perfon eminent for the character of a wit, vi. 194.

Wits, feldom rewarded by their fuperiors, ii. 218. Affected, the
meanness of their character, vi. 366. vii. 4. 200. In the time of
Charles II. characterized, xi. 344.

Witchcraft, hiftory of, ix. 312. An annual fermon ftill preached at
Huntingdon, in commemoration of the conviction of the witches of
Warbois, 314. King James I. wrote in defence of it, 314.
Act of Parliament made i James I. for the punishment of, 314.
Withers, Gen. Hen. Pope's Epitaph on him, with the Vifitor's criti-
cifms, iv. 152.

Wolfey, the rife and fall of, xi. 334.

Women, Lord Bacon's fevere reflection on beautiful, v. 246. Infeli-
cities peculiar to, 251. The want of attention to their enquiries,
cenfured, vi. 356. Their deplorable cafe in the beginning of a war,
by lofing their gallants, viii. 18, Recommended to follow the fol-
diers to camp, 19. Capable to become foldiers, 19. An army of,
might have been defeated, as Braddock, without feeing the enemy,
furrendered Minorça, without a breach, and looked at Rochfort, 20.
A good fort of one, characterized, 400, The danger they are in
when they lay afide their religion, ix. 3. The fortitude of, de
fcribed, xi. 265.

Wonder, an inftance of the defire of man to propagate a, ii, 6.
Wood, confiderations on making plantations, x. 490.

Wood's Halfpence, their history, iii. 391.

Word to the Wife, Prologue to, xi. 349.

World, Milton fuppofed it to be in its decay, ii. 127. This opinion
was refuted by Dr. Hakewill, 127. Compared to a clock, 34.
World Difplayed, (a collection of voyages) Introduction to, ix. 374-

Wormwood,

Wormwood, Dick, his ftory, viii. 337.

Writing, the rage for, viii. 6.

Wycherley, W. a man esteemed without virtue, and caressed without
good-humour, iv. 7. Wrote Verfes in praise of Pope, 7.

X.

XERX, the vanity of a warrior exemplified in him, xi. 338:

Y.

YALDEN, Thomas, his life, iii. 226. Born at Exeter, in 1671,
His readiness at compofition,
226. Educated at Oxford, 226.
226. Became Doctor of Divinity, 17c6, 228. Rector of Chalton
and Cleanville, 228. Preacher of Bridewell, 1698, 228. Charged
with a dangerous correfpondence with Kelly, 228. His papers
feized, but no criminality appearing, was discharged, 228. Died
July 16, 1736, 229. Account of his poems, 229.
Young, Edward, his life, by Herbert Croft, iv. 213. Born at Upham,
near Winchester, 1681, 223. Account of his father, 224. Queen
Mary was god-mother to him, 224. Educated at Winchester Col-
lege, 225. Entered at New College, 1703, 225. Law Fellow of
All Souls, 1708, 226. Batchelor of Civil Laws, 1714, and Dr. 1719,
226. Speaks the Latin Oration, when the foundation of the Cod-
rington Library was laid, 226. Published his Epiftle to Lord
Landfdown, 1712, 228. Pocm on the Laft Day published, 1713,
229. Account of fome pieces omitted in his works, 231. Pa-
tronized by Lord Wharton, 233. Bufiris brought on the stage, 1719,
234. The Revenge, 1721, 234. Has two annuities granted him,
by Lord Wharton, 236. Attempts to get into Parliament for Ci-
1.
rencester, 236. Takes orders, and becomes a popular preacher,
237. Account of his Satires, 238. Acquired more than 3000
by the Univerfal Paffion, 240. Chaplain to George II. 244.
Writes the Brothers, 244. Prefented to the living of Walwyn, 1730,
244. Married Lady Eliz. Lee, daughter to the Earl of Litchfield, 1731,
244. His wife died 1741, 248. His Philander and Narciffa fuppofed
to be intended for Mr. and Mrs. Temple, 248. The occafion of the
Night Thoughts real, 249. His fon defended from the reports of his
ill behaviour to his father, 253. The character of Lorenzo not de-
figned for his fon, 253. His Letter to Pope, 259. None of his
writings prejudicial to the cause of virtue and religion, 261. The
Brothers, brought on the ftage, 1753, 262. Gives 1000l. to the So-
ciety for the Propagation of the Gospel, 262. Hiftory and account
of his poem called Refignation, 266. His friendship for his house-
keeper, 268. Died 1765, 268. Many untruths mentioned of him
in the Biographia, 269. Story of his ftraying into the enemy's
camp, with a claflick in his hand, 269. The Archbishop of Canter-
Princefs
bury's Letter to him, 270. Appointed Clerk of the Clofet to the

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Princess Dowager, 1761, 27. Not the Parfon Adams of Fielding,
274. His Epitaph, 273. His Poems characterized by Dr. John-
fon, 274.
Youth, modefty and active diligence its amiable ornaments, v. 63.
Often deluded and ruined by profufeness and extravagance, 169.
Too easily ensnared by early immerfion in pleafure, 271. A time
of enterprize and hope, vi. 254. Delighted with fprightliness and
ardor, 267. The dangers to which it is often exposed, vii. 208.
Their fond opinion of their own importance, 325. The forbearance
due to young actors, on the stage of life, viii. 98. The proper cm-
ployment of, xi. 52.

Z.

ZEPHYRETTA, her character, v. 120.

Zoroafer, fupposed to have borrowed his Inftitutions from Mofes,

viii. 14.

Zofima, her history, v. 73. Her Epitaph, ix. 445.

FIN I S.

ERRATA in the INDEX.

Hammond, Dr. James, dele Dr.

The laft article under James Hammond belongs to Dr. Henry Hammond.

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