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Spenser, opinion of, by Lord Burleigh, 89.

Stage, history of the rise and progress of, by Cumberland, 568.

Stanwick, rectory of, accepted by Cumberland's father, 34. Exchanged

by him for the vicarage of Fulham, 109.

St. Mark's Eve, elegy on, written by Cumberland, 96.

Dodsley, ib. Passes into oblivion, ib.

Stone, Primate, his character, 139, 140.

Stoneland, a seat of Lord George Germain, 337,338.

Stothard, Mr., exertions in his behalf by Cumberland, 577.
Stubbs, Mr. tribute to, 465.

Published by

Style, observations on simplicity of, 253, 254. General remarks on, 444

-446.

Summer's Tale, a drama by Cumberland, remarks on, 156, 157.
Sun, extract from Cumberland's ode to the, 312.

T.

Terence, observations on his Andria, 283.

Thompson, Dr., a physician out of practice, Dodington's body-physician,
description of, 111. Anecdote of, 111, 112. An inmate of La Trappe, ih.
Tickell, remarks upon his elegy on the death of Addison, 86, 87.
Timon of Athens, Shakspeare's play of, altered and spoiled by Cumberland,
313. Specimen of, 314-316. Murphy's and Davies' opinion of, 316.
Tiranna, a celebrated Spanish actress, account of, 362–367.
Townsend, Charles, one of the Lords of Trade, notices Cumberland for
solving an enigma, which required a geometrical process, 97. Submits
a report to him, for his inspection, ib. Affords him an opportunity of
displaying his scholastic acquirements, 97, 98.

Townsend, Mr., absurd examination of his Armageddon, by Cumberland,
574, 575.

Trinity College, Cambridge, an alteration in its existing statutes, agreed
upon, in favour of Cumberland, 90.

Troades, of Seneca, a passage in, versified by Cumberland, 98-100.
Tunbridge, invocation to, from the Retrospection, 393. Volunteers of,
headed by Cumberland, 581.

Turner, Mr. Sharon, sends a complimentary letter to Cumberland, 584,
585.

V.

Vicar of Wakefield, copyright of, sold for sixty guineas, 269. Cumberland's
mistake concerning, ib.

Vincent, Dr., Dean of Westminster, his address delivered on the funeral
of Cumberland, 589. Objections to, 590.

Virgil's Georgies, part of, translated by Cumberland, 56, 57. Extract
from, 58.

W.

Walker, vice-master of Trinity College, represented as the obsequious
attendant of Dr. Bentley, 13.

Wallis, Dr., a friend of Dr. Bentley, 20.

Walloons, remarks on Camberland's comedy of, 406. Henderson's cha-
racter in, ib. 407.

Warburton, Bishop, Dr. Bentley's opinion of, 38. Complimentary letter
to Mr. Cumberland, on the Banishment of Cicero, 125, 126. Opinion
of Burke's style, 252.

Warren Dr., a competitor of Cumberland, while at school, 39.

Wat Tyler, a comic opera, by Cumberland, altered and produced under
the name of the Armourer, 547.

West, Mr., tribute to, 465.

Observa-

West Indian, presented to Garrick, 202. Accepted and performed, 203, 204;
History of its success, 204-206. Copyright sold to Griffin for 150l. who
boasted of having sold 12,000 copies, 205, 206. Criticisms upon it, by
Lord Lyttleton and Lord Clare, 207. By Lord Nugent, 208.
tions upon its fable, characters, and language, 208–215.
209, 210. Charlotte Rusport, Louisa Dudley, 210. Major O'Flaherty,
210-213. Inferior to the delineations of Irish characters, by Colman
and Miss Edgeworth, 213. Ungrammatical construction of the lan-
guage, 214. Mrs. Inchhald's mode of criticism, 214, 215.

Belcour,

Westminster, Dean of, address delivered on the funeral of Cumberland,
589. Objection to, 590.

Westminster Abbey, Cumberland buried in Poet's Corner there, 589.
Westminster School, Cumberland removed to, 50. His contemporaries
there, 50, 51.

Wheel of Fortune, a play, by Cumberland, notice of, 547. Kemble's
acting in Penruddock contributes to its popularity, 553. Outline of the
plot taken from Kotzebue's Misanthropy and Repentance, 553.
Its
characters examined, 553-557. Mrs. Inchbald's observation on, 554.
Whig, constitutional, character of, 79.

Widow of Delphi; or, the Descent of the Deities, remarks on Cumberland's
opera of, 341.

Word for Nature, a play, by Cumberland, notice of, 547.

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