Perfpicuity, its great merit in writing, 40.

Plague of London, melancholy event which it produced poeti-
cally described, 30. Mothers then carrying their dead child-
ren to public graves, Note, ibid. Of London, in 1349, de-
fcribed by Godwin, 46. Diffused a spirit of religion, 47.
Its direful effects delineated by Dryden, Motto, 46. Fol-
lowed by depravity of manners, 49.

Poet, the conjugal happiness of one defcribed in a series of let-

ters, 374.

Poiffardes, French, account of their cruelty, 33.

Pope implores mercy, but does not deferve it, 39. Character-
ifes mountains, Motto, 311. Defcribes Eden, Motto, 358.
Prefs, eulogium on the, Motto, Im It should be employed in

young,. 184.
They ought

the caufe of virtue, 3.
Princes, their hearts should be formed when
Their paffions ought to be early curbed, 186.
to be brought up in the love of religion, 188.
Profpect from the Table Mountain delineated, 17.
majestic and fublime, 21.

Punishment never fails to fall on the guilty, Motto, 15.

It is

Quatorze Oignons, account of a modern French Diogenes,
thus called, 367.

Reifenkoppe, the loftiest of all the Giant Mountains, described,
323.

Religion, according to Aulius Gellius, should not fall into fu
perftition, 133.

Revenge, the law of, facredly observed among the Circaffians,
II. It extends to the relations of the murderer, ibid.
Richardfon, Samuel, account of his health, Note, 348. De-
fcribes his perfon, Note, 352.

Rowe implores the happy art of fpeech, Motte, 91. Defcribes
with energy the ties of Hymen, Motto, 175.

Royalty, its nature, according to Dryden, Motto, 237.
Rubenzahl, a capricious fort of spirit refiding, according to an-
cient tradition, on the highest fummit of the Giant Moun-
tains, Note, 326.

Sailors, the courage of the English, extolled by Dryden, Motto,

261.

Salt water exhilirates the spirits, according to Addison, Motto,
58. Dangerous to the fair, 65.

Savoir-vivre, French, fome anecdotes of, 366.

Scotland a rich field for the botanift and the sportsman, 121.
May one day rival, if not excel, England, 122.

Schropfer, a German impoftor, 233. Exhibits wonders of ne-

cromancy to his numerous pupils, 234. Gets into debt and
fhoots himself, 236.

Seamen, British, their character displayed, 261. They have
a high fenfe of religion, 262. They are tremulous, but
lafting friends, 264.

Servants, good ones are rare, according to Dryden, 265. Sui-
cide of one, difcontented with his lowly ftation, 267.
Shaffras, a rich Armenian, poffeffor of the largest diamond, 299.
Obtains by its fale the grant of Ruffian nobility, 300.
Shakespeare, his address to an apparition, 26. His opinion of
death, Motto, 220.

Sharpers, two Frenchmen duping a Jew, a modern anecdote, 6.
Worthy to be admitted in the French legion of honour,
Note, 8. Modern, characterised in a fcene of a comedy,

405.

Shoeffer contributed much to the improvement of the art of
printing, 3.

Silence, the eloge of, by Otway, Motto, 301.

Slander is, according to Juvenal, the food of ignoble minds,
Motto, 171.

Smallpox, verfes on the termination of its
Misfortune of a child blinded by it, 203.
gave it a deadly blow in England, 204.
millions of people in Spain, Note, 205.
Ille of France, Note, 207.

deadly reign, 202.

Mrs. Montague
It proved fatal to
Fatal alfo in the

Soldier, Dryden's eloge of a hardy one, Motto, 304. The po-

etical dream of one, 357.

Soliloquy of a lover by moon-light, 159.

Spectator's, the, opinion of a palace, Motto, 105.

Staniflaus, his opinion of Voltaire, 240.

Speech, the happy art of it, implored by Rowe, Motto, 91.

Storm, matrimonial, description of one, 402.

Sukey, a Chriftian name which awakes the idea of scowering
of kettles, &c. 208.

Superftition condemned by Aulius Gellius, Motto, 133.
Surgeon, French, in ordinary to the emperor of Morocco, how
promoted to that dignity, 80. The difficulty and danger of
his fituation, 81. Generously rewarded for curing the tooth-
ache of the emperor, 83. He becomes tired of his good for-
tune, 87. He flies, by the impulse of fear, from the king-
dom of Morocco, 88.

Suvaroff, anecdote of him, Note, 305.

Swinging for a caft, an Indian ceremony, defcribed, 134.
Swiss, escape of one, on the 10th of August, 33.

Table Mountain, the profpect from it defcribed as enchanting
and folemn, 17.

Tears of fympathy are the glorious prerogative of man, Motto,
136.

Temperance, ode on, imitated from Horace, by the Rev. Dr.
Greaves, 44. The mother of health, 45.

Tems, le, et l'Amour, French ode on, 124.

Thlil-uafa, the price of blood, thus is called the tribute of
money paid in Circaffia, by the family of the murderer to
the family of the murdered, 12.

Thomas, old, a poor and honest peasant, 75. Poetical history
of his life, ibid. His death, 78.

Time and Cupid, tranflation of a French ode on, 125.
Timon reconciled to wedded love, 131.

Travels, their object, fays Lucian, is to obferve mankind,
Motto, 51. The fame idea expreffed by Horace, Motto,

152.

Tunbridge Wells, defcription of that place as it was in 1745,
348. A place of diffipation, 349.

Tyrant, a, characterised by Blackmore, Motto, 354.

Van fhoo-Yuen, the Chinese emperor's park, defcribed by
Lord Macartney, 358.

Verita, a Veronese nobleman, perfidiously put to death by Au-
gereau, 69.

Verona filled with lamentations by the treacherous cruelty of
Augereau, 71.

Veffels, an ode on feeing one failing, 181. Poetical address of
Dryden to them, Moito, ibid.

Village fair defcribed, 194.

Virgil afferts the omniprefence of God, 17. Affures that there
are fome events which cannot be related without a tear,
Motto, 31. His addrefs to a barbarian, Motto, 41. Cha-
racterifes duellifts, Motto, 372.

Voltaire, fome original anecdotes of this eminent writer, 239.
Defcribes himself as a peafant in his retreat, 240. He dif-
liked the king of Pruffia, 241. Tronchin's faying on him,
242. What he thought of Helvetius's book, De l'Esprit,
ibid. His faying on Condorcet's eulogium on Pascal, 243.
His expreffion on the family of Calas, 244. Critic on Con-
dorcet's life of that writer, 246.

Waller, his thoughts on education, Motto, 128.

Warnings, the three, of death exemplified in a poetical tale,

220.

Warrior, hiftory of a female, 162.

Whifton, an account of that extraordinary old man, 353.
Watson's, Dr. bishop of Llandaff, thoughts on the French in-
vafion, 224.

White's, T. addrefs to Britons for arming themselves, Motto,
224. His continuation of Collins's ode to evening, 380.
Widow, Indian, obliged to burn herself on the pile of her huf-
band, 288.

Wife, a talkative one has generally been a filent girl, as exem-
plified in an anecdote, 301.

Wildfire, an old veteran foldier, inftructs his young captain,

163. Meets with nothing from him but ingratitude, 167.
Wildfire, Jane, a female warrior, 162. Dreams of nothing but
fighting, ibid. Sends her fpruce, but dishonourable, lover
fprawling into the mud, 166. Perfecuted and reduced, on
that account, to poverty, 168. Marries Bob and goes with
him to the American war, 169. Is mangled in her face in
an heroic action, 170. Lofes her husband, who is killed in
battle, ibid. Receives a penfion from the general whose life
fhe had faved, 171.

Woman, an ignorant one is always talkative, 303.
Wren, ode on a, 383.

Zacher le Fall, in Silefia, described, 314.

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