Perfpicuity, its great merit in writing, 40. Plague of London, melancholy event which it produced poeti- 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- young,. 184. the caufe of virtue, 3. Punishment never fails to fall on the guilty, Motto, 15. It is Quatorze Oignons, account of a modern French Diogenes, Reifenkoppe, the loftiest of all the Giant Mountains, described, Religion, according to Aulius Gellius, should not fall into fu Revenge, the law of, facredly observed among the Circaffians, Rowe implores the happy art of fpeech, Motte, 91. Defcribes Royalty, its nature, according to Dryden, Motto, 237. Sailors, the courage of the English, extolled by Dryden, Motto, 261. Salt water exhilirates the spirits, according to Addison, Motto, Savoir-vivre, French, fome anecdotes of, 366. Scotland a rich field for the botanift and the sportsman, 121. Schropfer, a German impoftor, 233. Exhibits wonders of ne- cromancy to his numerous pupils, 234. Gets into debt and Seamen, British, their character displayed, 261. They have Servants, good ones are rare, according to Dryden, 265. Sui- Sharpers, two Frenchmen duping a Jew, a modern anecdote, 6. 405. Shoeffer contributed much to the improvement of the art of Silence, the eloge of, by Otway, Motto, 301. Slander is, according to Juvenal, the food of ignoble minds, Smallpox, verfes on the termination of its deadly reign, 202. Mrs. Montague 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 Superftition condemned by Aulius Gellius, Motto, 133. Suvaroff, anecdote of him, Note, 305. Swinging for a caft, an Indian ceremony, defcribed, 134. Table Mountain, the profpect from it defcribed as enchanting Tears of fympathy are the glorious prerogative of man, Motto, Temperance, ode on, imitated from Horace, by the Rev. Dr. Tems, le, et l'Amour, French ode on, 124. Thlil-uafa, the price of blood, thus is called the tribute of Thomas, old, a poor and honest peasant, 75. Poetical history Time and Cupid, tranflation of a French ode on, 125. Travels, their object, fays Lucian, is to obferve mankind, 152. Tunbridge Wells, defcription of that place as it was in 1745, Tyrant, a, characterised by Blackmore, Motto, 354. Van fhoo-Yuen, the Chinese emperor's park, defcribed by Verita, a Veronese nobleman, perfidiously put to death by Au- Verona filled with lamentations by the treacherous cruelty of Veffels, an ode on feeing one failing, 181. Poetical address of Village fair defcribed, 194. Virgil afferts the omniprefence of God, 17. 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