Spleen, extracts from Sir R. Blackmore's
Essay on, iii. 648.

Sprat, Dr. Thomas, his life of Cowley
rather a funeral oration than a history, iii.
147. Assisted Buckingham in writing the
Rehearsal, 404. His life, 513. Born at
Tallaton, Devonshire, 1636, ib. Became
Commoner at Oxford 1651, 514. Takes
orders, and made chaplain to the Duke of
Buckingham, whom he is said to have as-
sisted in writing the Rehearsal, ib. A fa-
vourite of Wilkins, and one of the first Fel-
lows of the Royal Society, ib. Writes the
History of the Royal Society, ib. Made
Bishop of Rochester 1684, 515. Writes
the history of the Rye-House Plot, ib.
Made Commissioner of ecclesiastical affairs,
ib. Stood neuter respecting the Declara-
tion, ib. Withdraws from the commission,
516. In a conference whether the crown
was vacant, spoke in favour of his old mas-
ter, ib. A plan laid to charge him and
others with a plot to restore King James,
ib. The bishop seized, and confined for
some time, 517. In the cause of Sacheve-
rell appeared among the friends of the
Church, ib. Died May 20, 1713, ib. Anec-
dotes of him and Burnet, in the pulpit, ib.
List of his works, 518.

Spring, an ode, vi. 393. The pleasures
of that season displayed, i. 22.

Sprightly, Robin, his observations on
watering-places, and of a select set at one
of them, ii. 611. His farther account of
company at the Wells, 626.

Stafford, Lord, character of, by Sir John
Denham, iii. 204.

Stag, account of those in the Islands of
Sky, vi. 79. Verses on the head of a stag,
iii. 345.

Stage, the origin of tragedy and comedy,
v. 103. Advantages of the mingled drama,
ib. Tragedy, comedy, and history, distin-
guished, 104. Objections to the want of
unity of time and place removed, 110.
The laws of dramatic action stated, ii. 164.
The complaint, concerning the dramatic art
being long exhausted, ii. 395. Thoughts on
the appearance of new actors, 457. New
actors compared to new monarchs, 458.
The cruelty of combinations for or against
young actors, 459. Tragedies in thyme
introduced soon after the Restoration, iii.
382. A controversy between Dryden and
Sir. R. Howard on Dramatic Rhyme, 383.
Not attended with much profit in the time
of Dryden, 402. Southern the first who had
two nights and Rowe three nights of a new
play, ib. A flattering dedication to a play
a principal part of the profit of an author,
ib. Dryden wrote prologues for two gui-
neas each, and afterwards raised them to
three guineas, 493. Said, by Malone, to
have charged more, ib. Dryden's observa-
tions on Rhymer's Remarks on the Trage-

dies of the last age, 477. Dennis's reasons
audience, 578. Account of the dispute be-
for paying no regard to the opinion of an
tween Collier and the poets, 630. Vindi-
cation of the Licensers of, in the case of
Mr. Brooke's Gustavus Vasa, v. 475.

Stage-coach, characters in a stage-coach,

iii. 60.

Standish, Mrs. her character. i. 55.
Startle, Will, his story, ii. 613.
Steady, Tom, his story, ii. 612.
Drummer for 50 guineas, iii. 559. His con-
Steele, Sir. R. sold the comedy of the
troversy with Addison on the “
Bill," 564. Patronizes Savage, iv. 38. Story
Peerage
of writing a pamphlet, ib. Story of his
being served by bailiffs in livery, 40. Pro-
poses marrying one of his natural daugh-
ters to Savage, ib. Discards Savage, ib.
The early friendship between him and Ad-
dison, iii. 542. Borrows 100l. of Addison,
which he reclaims by an execution, ib.

Stella, odes to, vi. 400, 401. 403.-
STELLA, Mrs. Johnson, invited by Swift
into Ireland, iv. 129. Removes to Dublin,
and marries Swift, 140. Dies Jan. 28, 1728.
Her end supposed to have been hastened
by the neglect of Swift, 146.

scended from the family at Pendegrast,
Stepney, George, his life, iii. 361. De-
Pembrokeshire;
1663, ib. Educated at Westminster, and
born at Westminster
removed to Cambridge, ib. Engaged in
many foreign employments, ib. Died in 1707,
and buried in Westminster Abbey, ib. His
epitaph, 362. Character of his works, ib.

Stoicks, their erroneous system concern-
ing evil, i. 152.

Stonehenge, conjectures on, vi. 541.
Strand, characterized, vi. 303.
persons addicted to it, ii. 168. Exercise
Study, the imbecility of spirit incident to
the best relaxation from, iv. 418.

Sturdy, Bob, his story, ii. 628.

displayed, i. 500.
Style, the alteration of it humorously

Subordination, the necessity of, in places
of public education. iv. 559.

ploying that sacred season, i. 143. The
Sunday, the different methods of em-
true method recommended, 146.

sidered, ii. 493.
Superfluities and Necessaries of life con-

terrifying, i. 210. The danger of falling
Superstition, a disposition irrational and
into, vi. 195.

to be a state of quiet, ii. 440.
Supreme good, falsely supposed by some

the character of Candidus, iii. 35.
Suretyship, the danger of, exemplified in

i. 368. An enemy to virtue and happiness,
Suspicion, often the concomitant of guilt,
ib. Old age peculiarly addicted to it, 369.
Suspirius, the screech-owl, his character,

i. 278.

Tasso, represents spirits as promoting or
obstructing events by external agency, iii.
189. Represents the pleasures and splen-
dours of heaven, 190.

Taste, low, censured, ii. 254.

292. Is entertained in the family of Lord
Binning, 293. Publishes Spring in 1728, --
and Autumn in 1730,' ib. Writes Sopho-
nisba 1727, ib. The prologue to Sophonisba
written by Pope and Mallet, ib. Travels

Tate, Nahum, died in the Mint, in ex- with a son of Chancellor Talbot, 294. Gets
treme poverty, iii. 535.

Tatler, notes of some of the writers, iii.
548. Designed to divert the attention of the
people from publick discontent, 551.
Taxation no Tyranny, an answer to the
resolutions and address of the American
Congress [1775], v. 436.

the place of Secretary of Briefs, ib. Writes
his poem on Liberty, ib. Loses his place
by the death of the Chancellor, 295.* Al-
lowed a pension of 100l. a year by the
Prince of Wales, ib. Writes the tragedy
of Agamemnon 1738, ib. Licence refused
to his Edward and Eleonora, 296. In con-

Tea, review of Mr. Hanway's Essay on, junction with Mallet writes the masque of
v. 645.

Alfred, ib. Writes Tancred and Sigis-
munda 1745, ib. Appointed Surveyor-

Tears, the true taste of, iii. 171.
Tediousness in a Poet, the most fatal of general of the Leeward Islands, ib. Pab-

all faults, iii. 621. Characterized, ib.
Temper, good, by what means it is fre-
quently vitiated, i. 346.

Temperance, the cause of, ii. 643.
Tempest, general observations on Shaks-
peare's, v. 145.

Tempest, Tom, a friend of the House of
Stuart, history of, ii. 417.

Temple, Rev. Mr. his character of Gray,
iv. 395, 396.

Temple, Sir William, patronizes Swift,
iv. 126. Leaves his MSS. to Swift, 128.
Templeman, Geographia Metrica, La-
tine, vi. 458.

Temptations to vice, the motives to re-
sist them, with the difficulty attending that
resistance, i. 328.

Terms of art, the necessity of, ii. 589.
Ternate, account of the king and inha-
bitants of, iv. 513.

Tetrica, a lively example of habitual
peevishness, i. 345.

Thales, the departure of, from London,
vi. 302.

Theatre, Greek, general conclusion to
Brumoy's, v. 560.

Theobald, observations on his edition of
Shakspeare, v. 94. 129. Exposes the de-
ficiencies of Pope's edition of Shakspeare,
iv. 200. Celebrated by Pope in the Dun-
ciad, 204.

Theocritus, Excerpta ex, vi. 457.
Theodore, the Hermit of Teneriffe, the
vision of, vi. 273.

Thirlby, Mr. assists Pope in the notes
to the Iliad, iv. 184.

Thomson, James, his life, iv. 290. Son
of a Minister at Ednam, in Roxburgh, born
1700, ib. Educated under Mr. Riccarton,
ib. Removes to London, 291. Becomes
acquainted with Mallet and Aaron Hill, ib.
Sells his poem on Winter to Mr. Millan,
ib. Dedicates his Winter to Sir Spencer
Compton, from whom he receives a present of
20 guineas, ib. It is recommended by
Dr. Randle to Lord Chancellor Talbot, 292.
Publishes Summer, a poem on the death of
Sir Isaac Newton, and Britannia, in 1727,

lishes bis last piece, the Castle of Indolence,
ib. Died 1748, and buried at Richmond,
ib. His person described, 297. His tra-
gedy of Coriolanus brought on the stage
after his death by the friendship of Sir
George Lyttelton and Mr. Quin, ib. His
friendly letter to his sister, ib. Character
of his works, 299.

Thought, the power of, in animals, ii.
455. Some men never think, ib. Whether
the soul always thinks, ib. Farther in-
quiries on thought, 456.

Thraso, his reflections on the influence of
fear and fortitude, ii. 24, 25.

Thrasybulus, a remarkable instance of
being deluded by flattery, ii. 190.

Thrale, Mrs. impromptu on her complet-
ing her 35th year, vi. 418. Letters to,
464.

Thrale, Henry, Esq. Epitaph on, vi.

426.

Thyer, Mr. publishes two volumes of
Butler's Works, iii. 287.

Tickel, Thomas, his life, iv. 22. Born
1686, at Bridekirk, in Cumberland, ib.
Entered at Oxford, April 1701, ib. Ini-
tiated under the patronage of Addison, ib.
His Translation of Homer preferred to
Pope's, 24. A conversation between Pope
and Addison on the Translation, ib. Under-
secretary to Mr. Addison, 26. Secretary to
the Lords Justices of Ireland, ib. Died April
23, 1740, ib. A contributor to the Spec-
tators, ib. The Translation of the Iliad,
published by him, supposed to have been
Addison's, 198.

Time, the neglect of the present hour
censured, iii. 100. The loss of, considered,
112. Considerations on the loss of, vi.
171. The best remedy for grief, 239. The
principal employment of it should be di-
rected with a view to the end of our exis-
tence, i. 373. The negligent waste of it
censured, 504. Ought to be spent with
frugality, and improved with diligence,
505. 519. The injustice of wasting the
time of others, ii. 428. Statesmen and pa-
trons more reproached for it than they de-

serve, ib. Those who attend statesmen
the most criminal, ib. A tribute of time to
a multitude of tyrants, 429. The continual
progress of, taken notice of by all nations,
512. The effects of the progress not re-
garded, ib.

Timon of Athens, observations on Shak-
speare's play of, v. 159.

emplified in an Englishman's and a French-
man's account of Louisburgh, 444. How
far ridicule the test of it, iv. 387.

Trypherus, his character, i. 460.
Tucker, Dr. his proposals concerning
America considered, v. 471.

Turenne, Marshal, his saying of the im-
portance of immediately correcting our mis-

Titus Andronicus, observationso n Shak- takes, i. 155.
speare's play of, v. 159.

Tomkyns, apprehended for being con-
cerned in a plot against parliament with
Waller, iii. 325. Convicted and executed,
328.

Tradesman, the progress of, in London,
iii. 87. The folly of seeking happiness in
rural retirement, 88. Case of one attempt-
ing to become a wit and a critick, ii. 522.
Impropriety of his turning fop and fine
gentleman, 658.

Tragedy more uniform than comedy, v.
547. Critical remarks on the manner of
composing it, ii. 20.

Tragi-comedy, the nature and design of
it, ii. 165. Shakspeare's eminent success in
that species of dramatic composition, ib.

Tranquil, Tom (a rich man), his history,
ii. 598.

Tranquilla, ber account of the addresses
of Venustulus, Fungosa, Flosculus, and
Dentatus, designed as a contrast to the
narrative of Hymenæus, i. 560. Her mar-
riage with Hymenæus, and the felicity with
which it was attended, ii. 210.

Translations, observations on, ii. 583. A
production of moderns, ib. The progress
of, ib. Early cultivated in England, 585.
Its progress in England, 586. The progress
of, iv. 261. Unknown in Greece, ib. Not
much read in Italy, ib. State of, in France,
262.

Translator, character of a good translator,
iii. 538.

Trapp's Sermons, case of the abridge-
ment of, v. 497.

Travels, directions for writing works of,
ii. 637. Specimen of the common method
of writing journals of travels, 663.

Treakle, Zachary, complaint against his
idle wife, ii. 430. His wife's answer and
complaints against her husband, 467.

Turk, characterized as a husband, vi,

389.

Turpicola, her history, ii. 304.
Twelfth Night, observations on Shak-
speare's comedy, v. 150.

Two Gentlemen of Verona, observations
on Shakspeare's comedy of, v. 146.

Tyrconnel, Lord, takes Savage into his
hoase, and promises him a pension of 2001.
a year, iv. 58. His quarrel with Savage, 66.

Tatler's Historical Inquiry concerning
Mary Queen of Scots, Review of, v. 703.

VAFER, his character of an insidious flat-
terer, ii. 190...

Vagario, his character, i. 129.
Vagulus, bis account of Squire Bluster,
ii. 99.

Valdesso, his excellent remark upon re-
signing his commission, i. 137.

Vanessa, her unhappy partiality for Swift,
and death, iv. 141. By her will orders the
poem of Cadenus and Vanessa to be pub-
lished, ib.

Van Homrigh, Mrs. See Vanessa.

Vanity of authors, represented in the
case of Misellus, i. 76. Excessive, exem-
plified in the character of Mr. Frolick, 288.
Its tendency to idleness, ii. 154.

Venice, account of the quarrel between
that state and Paul V., iv. 414.

Venustulus, the manner of his addresses
to Tranquilla, i. 560. His unmanly and
timid conduct exposed, ii. 24.

Verecundulus, the infelicities he sus-
tained through his habitual bashfulness and
timidity, ii. 168.

Versification, remarks on its rules, i. 399.
408. The peculiarity of Milton's, in his Pa-
radise Lost, 409. See Virgil.

Vice, the descriptions of it in writing
should be always calculated to excite dis-
Trees, the want of, in a good part of gust, i. 19. The essence of, considered,
Scotland, vi. 7.

Troilus and Cressida, observations on
Shakspeare's play of, v. 160.

Trumbull, Sir William, Pope's Epitaph
on him, iv. 276.

Truth, its high original and vast impor-
tance, i. 448. Its easy entrance into the
mind when introduced by desire and at-
tended with pleasure, ii. 201. A steady
regard to the lustre of moral and religious
truth, a certain direction to happiness, 268.
The crime of the violation of, 443. The
want of it in historians lamented, ib. Ex-

v. 694.

Vicious Intromission, case of, v. 609.
Victoria, her letter on the foolish anxiety
to excel merely in the charms of external
beauty, ii. 41. On the mortifications aris-
ing from the loss of it, 55.

Vida, bis remarks on the propriety of
Virgil's versification, i. 429. His Art of
Poetry translated by Christopher Pitt, iv.
288.

Vines, first planted by Noah, v. 288.
Progress of the cultivation of, ib. Ordered
to be destroyed by an edict of Domitian,