Fire, in the earth, 420;-from the bowels of a beast, 445;-kin¬

dled of itself, 489.

Firm, origin of the word, 245.

Flaccus, Valerius, critical remark on, 158.

Forster, on Greek accent, 386.

Fossil bones discovered in several counties, 460;-in the vicinity

of Oxford, 468.

Free Martin, account of, 517.

Furring, to keep metal pipes or boilers from, 527.

G.

Gauden, Bp. 54.

Gossamer, observations on the, 476.

Gay, Pope's epitaph on, borrowed, 242.

Gloss, whence derived, 46.

Gray, Criticism on his Bard, 237 ;-addition to his church-yard
Elegy, 244;-on Saxon and Gothic Architecture, 249;—
Imitations, 298, 314;-Criticism on, 354.

Grief, as described by the poets, 338.

Griffin, one of the supporters of the Royal Arms, 264.

Hammond's Elegies, 243.

H.

Harleian Library, Catalogue of, 8.

Harleian Manuscripts, 15.

Harmony, sentimental, 155.

Harvey, Dr. his account of the dissection of old Parr, 499.

Hedge-hogs, harmless nature of, 516.

Hendon Place, 512, note.

Hill, account of a moving, 448.

History, Ancient Universal, the authors of, 254, 255.

Historical manuscripts, 28.

Homer, Critical Remarks on Pope's translation of, 273;-on a
metaphor of, 352.

Hooker, a passage from his Eccl. Polity, 247.

Horace, critical remarks on, 106, 112, 270, 271, 352.

Huetiana, remarks on, 151.

I.

James I. at Cambridge, 100.

Jeffreys, Judge, his intended title, 265.

Imagination, effects of, on pregnant women, 395.

Improbus, the sense of, 38.

In, use of the preposition, 74.

Incidis in Scyllam, &c. whence taken, 199.

Inflammable wèll, 443.

Insects, the cruelty of collectors of, censured, 504.

Inscription, Greek, to be read either backwards or forwards, 160;-
curious Latin, 161.

Johnson, Dr. his Parliamentary Debates, 254;-instance of his
quickness in composing, ibid.-his Criticism on Milton's
Latinity, 329-his observations on the use of interjections,
341-his praise of Dryden's Ode on Mrs. Killigrew, 347...
Italy, separation of, from Sicily, 279.

Juvenal, a passage in, explained, 102.

Langeland, author of Pierce Plowman's Visions, 345.

Language, remarks on the analogy of, 173, note.

Latter-lammas, 68.

Lee, his description of Night, 184.

Letters, on the introduction of, into Greece, 213,

Mallet, 320.

Manuscripts, Harleian, 15.

Marine glow-worms, 435.

Marston, his description of Night, 183.

Martial, observations on a passage in, 159.

Mediterranean, on the influx of water into the, 479.

Melancholy, as described by the poets, 338.

Mela, Pomponius, a passage in, considered, 131.
Menander, 328.

Michael Angelo, 257.

Mickle, his translation of the Lusiad, 154.

Milton, Imitations and accidental resemblances of, 291;--Warton's
edition of, 302;--Critical Remarks on, 308;-Dr. John-
son's criticism on his Latinity, 329;-his conclusion of
Paradise Lost, 360;- his use of the words, pontifical and
pontifice, 367.

Missals, 23.

Morses, 109, note.

Muck, to run a, derivation of the phrase, 143.

Music, its effect in acute fevers, 406;—in the bite of the tarantula,

408.

N.

Names retained when their origin is disused, 200.

Natural curiosities, where they abound in England, 457.

Natural History of Great Britain, heads for, 437.

Newspapers, utility of, 1.

Newton, Sir Isaac, on the ancient year, 82; anecdote of, 248.
Night, descriptions of, 182, 188;-Pope's translation of Homer's
description of, 186, 277.

Nine Love, the phrase of, explained, 239.

Northamptonshire, discoveries in making new roads in, 454.
Northern Lights, 450.

Oh! on the use of the interjection, 341.

Old Nick, origin of the name, 215.

Old persons, on the stature and figure of, 502.

On, use of the preposition, 74.

Optical phenomena, solution of, 400.
Ormesta, the meaning of the word, 223.

Orphreys, what, 109, note,

Ovid, 269, 270, 272, 353.

Oxford, fossils in the vicinity of, 468.

P.

Packington, lady, supposed to be the author of the Whole Duty of
Man, 80.

Painting, Webb's Inquiry into the Beauties of, 256;-Walpole's
anecdotes of, 263.

Parochial Antiquities, 113.

Parr, curious account of the dissection of, 499.

Passions, mixed, on the expression of, 266,

Paterculus, critical remarks on a passage in, 174.

Paul, St. his Conversion, a mistake of painters, in their representa

tion of, 138.

Pen, on the word, 366.

Persius, explanation of a passage in, 87.

Petronius, critical remarks on a passage in, 176, 358.

Phaeton, story of, 96.

Phenomena, optical, solution of, 400.

Philemon, 328.

Phrases, obscure, explained, 88;-origin of some common, 142,

143, 357.

Pierce Plowman's Visions, 345.
Plagiarisms, 357.

Plants, Chaucer's description of the sleep of, 110.
Plautus, observation on a passage in, 158.

Pliny, his observations relative to painting, 258,

Poems, manuscript, 32.

Poetry, union of Imagination and Judgment required in, 351.
Pontifex, etymology of, 367.

Pope, his epitaph on Gay borrowed, 242;-Warton's Essay on,
245-instance of his irritability, 248;-Critical remarks
on his Homer, 273;his imitations of our early poets,
324;-confusion of metaphors in, 355;-imitation of Silius
Italicus, 363.

Powdered, signification of the word, 108.

Prayer, on the propriety of language in the Lord's, 70, 74,
Pregnant women, effects of imagination on, 395.

Proverbial sayings, 64, 66, 68.

Proverbs, Greek and Latin, 162, 199.

Psallere, signification of, 47.

Psalters, Manuscript, 21.

Pugna Porcorum, 209.

Purpureus, critique on the word, 269.

Quarles, 327.

Q.

Quem Jupiter vult perdere, &c. illustrated, 162.

R.

Rebus, the antiquity of, 40;-different kinds of, 43;-the mo-

dern, 43.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, on mixed passions, 267.

Rubens, 256.

Russel, on the Arabian Nights Entertainments, 382.

Salt cat, whence derived, 67,

S.

Sea water, the resplendency of, in the night time, 434,
Secker, Archbishop, his death, 494.

Seneca, critical remarks on the tragedies of, 172, 239.
Serpent destroyed by Regulus, 511.

Shakespeare, remarks on passages in, 90, 127, 128, 134, 170, 182,
188, 192, 193, 212, 478,-Parallel passages and remarks

Silius Italicus, critical observations on a passage in, 164, 166;—his
character as a poet, 169, note-passages from, 364, 366,

Solecisms, in the works of English Authors, 374.

Sorcery, the pretended power of, over the winds, 126,

South, Dr. 55,

Spenser, 321.
Spick and

span new, 88.

Statius, observations on a passage in, 159, 189, 269,
Stone-eater, description of, 500.

Stones not hurtful to land, 510.

Sylvester, his translation of Du Bartas, 317.

Syrinx, the ancient, as described in Virgil's Eclogues, 47;—whence

the name, 96,

T.

Tarantula, bite of, cured by music, 408,

Tasso, his description of Night, 191.

Tenses of verbs, 58.

Terence, 329.

Text, meaning of the word, and whence derived, 46.

Theobald, 239.

Thomson, 311.

Tibullus imitated by Hammond, 243.

Tongue, account of a woman who spoke though she had lost it, 404.
Topographical histories, 24.

Translation, observations on, 152,

Translations of the Bible into English, 116;-translators of, 120.
Trees, on promoting the growth of, 417;-on the prodigious growth
of, 492;—on the process of their vegetation, 505.

Virgil, critical remarks on passages in, 38, 47, 97, 104, 115, 151,
164, 190, 240, 269, 271, 279, 328, 340, 352, 373, 374.