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Taxation no Tyranny, an answer to the refolutions and addrefs of the American Congrefs [1775], viii. 155.

Tea, review of Mr. Hanway's Effay on, ii. 333. The ufe of, in China, 334. Rife and progrefs of the ufe of, in England, 334. First imported from Holland 1666, 335. First price 37. per lb. which it continued to 1707, 335. Defcended to the lower clafs 1715, 335. Clandestinely imported from France 1720, 335. In 1755, 2000 tons imported, 336. The mifchiefs of, 336. 339. 345. Other caufes of the mifchiefs ascribed to tea, 339 345. Tears, the true taste of, ix. 36.

Tedioufness in a Poet, the moft fatal of all faults, x. 179. Characterized, 179.

Temper, good, by what means it is frequently vitiated, v. 23.

Temperance, the caufe of, vii. 358.

Tempeft, general obfervations on Shakespeare's, ii. 141.

Tempeft, Tom, a friend of the houfe of Steuart, history of, vii. 38.

Temple, Rev. Mr. his character of Gray, xi. 369.

Temple, Sir William, patronifes Swift, xi. 3. Leaves his MSS. to Swift, 6.

Templeman, Geographia Metrica, Latiné, i. 213.

Temptations to vice, the motives to refift them, with the difficulty attending that refiftance, iv. 444.

Tenants, the orders of, in the lfles of Sky, viii. 318.

Terms of Art, the neceffity of, vii. 281.

Ternate, account of the king and inhabitants of, xii, 138.

Tetrica, a lively example of habitual peevishness, v. 21.
Thales, the departure of, from London, i. 3.

Theatre, Greek, general conclufion to Brumoy's, iii. 61.

Theobald, expofes the deficiencies of Pope's edition of Shakespeare, Celebrated by Pope in the Dunciad, 108. Observations

xi. 103.

on his edition of Shakespeare, ii. 119.

Theocritus, Excerpta ex, i. 218.

Theodore, the Hermit of Teneriffe, the vision of, ii. 398.
Thief and Pirate contrafted, viii. 102.

Thirlby, Mr. affifts Pope in the notes to the Iliad, xi. 81.
Thomfon, James, his life, xi. 221. Son of a Minister at Ednam, in
Roxburgh, born 1700, 221. Educated under Mr. Riccarton, 221.
Removes to London, 222. Becomes acquainted with Mallet and
Aaron Hill, 223. Sells his poem on Winter to Mr. Millai,
223. Dedicates his Winter to Sir Spencer Compton, from whom
he receives a prefent of 20 guineas, 223. Is recommended by
Dr. Rundle to Lord Chancellor Talbot, 224. Publishes Summer,
a poem on the death of Sir Ifaac Newton, and Britannia in 1727,
225. Is entertained in the family of Lord Binning, 225. Pub-
lifhes Spring in 1728, and Autumn 1730, 226. Writes Sopho-
nifbe 1727, 226. The prologue to Sophonisbe written by Pope
and Mallet, 226. Travels with a fon of Chancellor Talbot, 226.
Gets the place of Secretary of Briefs, 227. Writes his poem on
Liberty, 227. Lofes his place by the death of the Chancellor,
228. Allowed a penfion of 100% a year by the Prince of Wales,

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228. Writes the tragedy of Agamemnon 1738, 228. Licence refufed to his Edward and Eleonara, 229. In conjunction with Mallet writes the Mafque of Alfred, 229. Writes Tancred and

Sigifmunda 1745, 229. Appointed Surveyor General of the Leeward Islands, 230. Publishes his laft piece, the Castle of Indolence, 230. Died 1748, and buried at Richmond, 230. His perfon defcribed, 230. His tragedy of Coriolanus brought on the ftage after his death by the friendship of Sir George Lyttleton and Mr. Quin, 230. His friendly letter to his fifter, 231. Character of his works, 235.

Thought, the power of in animals, vii. 92. Some men never think, 93. Whether the foul always thinks, 93., Further enquiries on thought, 94.

Thrafo, his reflections on the influence of fear and fortitude, v. 352. 353.

Thrafybulus, a remarkable inftance of being deluded by flattery, vi,

133.

Thrale, Mrs. impromptu on her completing her 35th year, i. 165. Thyer, Mr. publishes 2 vols. of Butler's Works, ix. 187.

Tickell, Thomas, his life, x. 267. Born 1686, at Bridekirk, in Cumberland, 267. Entered at Oxford April 1701, 267. Initiated under the patronage of Addifon, 367. His tranflation of Homer preferred to Pope's, 368. A converfation between Pope and Addifon on the tranflation, 368. Under Secretary to Mr. Addison, 272. Secretary to the Lord Juftices of Ireland, 272. Died April 23, 1740, 272. A contributor to the Spectators, 273. The tranflation of the Iliad, published by him, fuppofed to have been Addison's, xi. 99.

Time, the principal employment of it should be directed with a view to the end of our existence, v. 58. The negligent wafte of it cenfured, 233. Ought to be spent with frugality, and improved with diligence, 234. 253. The injuflice of wafting the time of others, vii. 53. Statesmen and patrons more reproached for it than they deferve, 54. Thofe who attend ftatesmen the moft criminal, 54. A tribute of time to be paid to a multitude of tyrants, 55. The continual progrefs of, taken notice of by all nations, 173. The effects of the progrefs not regarded, 173. The neglect of the prefent hour cenfured, iii. 244. The lofs of, confidered, 125, Confiderations on the lofs of, iii. 310. The beft remedy for grief, 398.

Timon of Athens, obfervations on Shakespeare's play of, ii. 159.
Titus Andronicus, obfervations on Shakespeare's play of, ii. 160.
Toleration of Religion in Pruffia, xii. 229.

Tomkyns, apprehended for being concerned in a plot against parlia ment with Waller, ix. 245. Convicted and executed, 249. Tradefman, cafe of one attempting to become a wit and a critick, vii. 186. Impropriety of his turning fop and fine gentleman, 379. The progrefs of, in London, iji. 226. The folly of his feeking happiness in rural retirement, iii. 228.

Tragedy, origin of, iii. 8. More uniform than comedy, 41. Cri tical remarks on the manner of compofing it, v. 346.

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Tragi-Comedy, the nature and defign of it, vi. 98. Shakespeare's eminent fuccefs in that fpecies of dramatick compofition, Tranquil, Tom, (a rich man,) his hiftory, vii. 294. Tranquilla, her account of the addreffes of Venuftulus, Fungofa, Flofculus, and Dentatus, defigned as a contraft to the narrative of Hymenæus, v. 309. Her marriage with Hymenæus, and the felicity with which it was attended, vi. 158.

Tranflations, the progrefs of, xi. 182. Unknown in Greece, 182. Not much read in Italy, 183. State of, in France, 183. Obfervations on, vii. 272. A production of moderns, 272. The

progrefs of, 272. Early cultivated in England, 275. Its progrefs in England, 276.

Tranflater, character of a good tranflator, ix. 79.

Travels, directions for writing works of, vii. 350. Specimen of the common method of writing journals of travels, 387.

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Treakle, Zachary, complaint against his idle wife, vii. 56.
wife's anfwer and complaints against her husband, 111.
Trees, the want of, in a good part of Scotland, viii. 216.
Troilus and Creffida, obfervations on Shakespeare's play of, ii. 161.
Trumball, Sir William, Pope's Epitaph on him, and criticisms on it,

xi. 202.

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Truth, how far ridicule the test of it, xi. 357. Its high original and valt importance, v. 160. Its eafy entrance into the mind when introduced by defire and attended with pleasure, vi. 147. fteady regard to the luftre of moral and religious truth, a certain direction to happiness, 236. The crime of the violation of, vii. 75. The want of it in hiftorians, lamented, 75. Exemplified in an Englishman's and a Frenchman's account of the capture of Louisburgh, viii. 76.

Trypherus, his character, v. 175.

Tucker, Dr. his propofals concerning America, confidered, 180. Turenne, Marfbal, his faying of the importance of immediately correcting our mistakes, iv. 210.

Turk, characterized as a husband, i. 129.

Turnips, introduced into the ifle of Col, viii. 364.

Turpicola, her history, vi. 287.

Twelfth Night, obfervations on Shakespeare's comedy, ii. 148.

Two Gentlemen of Verona, observations on Shakespeare's comedy of,

ii. 142.

Tyrconnel, Lord, takes Savage into his houfe, and promises him a penfion of 200l. a year, iii, 317. His quarrel with Savage, 327.

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VAFER, his character of an infidious flatterer, vi. 134.
Vagario, his character, iv. 176.

Vagulus, his account of Squire Bluster, vi.

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Valdeo, his excellent remark upon refigning his commiffion, 186.

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Vanea, her unhappy partiality for Swift, and death, xi. 22.

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Vanity, of authors, represented in the cafe of Misellus, iv. 103. Ex. ceffive, exemplified in the character of Mr. Frolick, 389. Its tendency to idleness, vi. 84.

Venice, account of the quarrel between that state and Paul V. xii. 7. Venuftulus, the manner of his addreffes to Tranquilla, v. 308. His unmanly and timid conduct exposed, 351.

Verecundulus, the infelicities he fuftained through his habitual bashfulnefs and timidity, vi. 103.

Verfification, remarks on its rules, v. 92. 10.4. The peculiarity of Milton's, in his Paradife Loft, 106. See Virgil.

Vice, the defcriptions of it in writing fhould be always calculated to excite difguft, viii. 26. The effence of, confidered, 55.

Victoria, her letter on the foolish anxiety to excel merely in the charms of external beauty, v. 376. On the mortifications arifing from the loss of it, 394.

Vida, his art of Poetry tranflated by Chriftopher Pitt, xi. 218. His remarks on the propriety of Virgil's verfification, v. 132. Vines, firft planted by Noah, ii, 386. Progrefs of the cultivation of, 387. Ordered to be deftroyed by an edict of Domitian, 387. Of France, fuperior to the vines of America, 396.

Virgil, account of the Sortes Virgilianæ, ix. 8. Specimen of Sir John Denham's tranflation, 80. Milbourne's criticisms on Dryden's tranflation, 427. Vain attempts to tranflate Virgil by Brady and Tate, 431. Eneid, tranflated by Chriftopher Pitt, xi, 219. This tranflation contrafted with Dryden's, 219. In what refpect fuperior in paftoral poetry, iv. 239. Remarks on the judicious propriety of his verfification, 242. Why preferred to Homer by Scaliger, v. 140. The plan of his Æneid formed upon the writings of Homer, 323.

Virtue, the danger of miftaking the love, for the practice of virtue, exemplified in Savage, x. 342. The reprefentations of it in works of fancy, fhould be always exact and pure, iv. 26. The difference between fpeculative and practical virtue, 90. The error of fubftituting fingle acts of it, for habits, 184. Obstructed by confounding the praise with the practice of goodness, 184. United with industry supplies the genuine fources of hope, v. 211. Virtue and truth, often defeated by pride and obftinacy, 102. The conftant pursuit of it, the higheft excellence, vi. 263. The criterion of, confidered, x. 246. Such conduct not to be repented of, for the event, iii. 394. To be pursued by virtuous means, i, 79. The various attacks on it, 26.

Virtuofo, his character diftinctly drawn, v. 68. The advantages he is capable of communicating to others, 73. His exceflive fondness for curiofities often the evidence of a low genius, 76.

Vifionary fchemes, the effects of, iii, 419.

Vifitor's criticisms on Pope's Epitaphs, xi. 199.
Vivaculus, his letter on Virtuofos, vi, 215.

Ulinifh, account of, viii. 205.

Ulea

Ulva Isle, account of, viii. 387. The Mercheta Mulierum paid there, 388.

Ulyffes, the discovery of, improper for a picture, vii. 181.

Uneafinefs of mind, often relieved by comparing our lot with that of others, vi. 265.

Union, the difficulty of, either between nations or smaller communities, iii. 151.

Univerfities, the fuperiority of the English, to their academies, and foreign univerfities, vii 133.

Voltaire, his vifit to Congreve, xi. 194. Pays a vifit to Pope, x. 107.` Young's Epigram on him, 248.

Volunteer Laureat, x 367.

Voffius, Ifaac, delighted in having his hair combed for many hours together, ix. 294.

Voting, confiderations on the rights of, for reprefentatives in Parliament, viii. 73.

Voyages, introduction to The World Difplayed, a collection of, ii. 208. Abstract account of, in search of new countries, viii. 96. Ill confequences of, 98.

Upton, Mr. obfervations on his Critical Obfervations on Shakespeare, ii. 125.

Usefulness, publick, fhould be the object of our diligent endeavours, V. 37I. 375.

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WAINSCOT, TOM, complaint of his fon's becoming a fop, and neglecting bufinefs, vii. 379.

Waller, Edmund, his life, ix. 229. Born at Colfhill, in Hertfordshire, March 3, 1605, 229. His father left him 3500l. a year, 229. Educated at Eaton, and removed to King's College, Cambridge, 229. Returned to parliament in his 18th year, 229. Wrote his first poetry in his 18th year, 230. Wrote poetry almost by instinct, 231. Marries Mrs. Banks a great heiress, 232. Lofes his wife, who leaves one daughter, 232. Addreffes Lady Dorothea Sidney, under the name of Sachariffa, who rejects his addreffes, 232. Celebrates Lady Sophia Murray under the name of Amoret, 233. Supposed to have taken a voyage, 234. Marries a Lady of the name of Breffe or Breaux, by whom he has five fons and eight daughters, 234. Being returned to the parliament of 1640, makes a noify fpeech on imaginary grievances, 235. No bigot to his party, 237. His fpeech on Epifcopacy, 237. Sends 1000 broad pieces to the King when he fet up his ftandard, 240. Continues to fit in the rebellious conventicle, and to speak against their proceedings, 241. Nominated one of the Commiffioners to treat with the King at Oxford, 241. Engaged in a plot against Parliament, 242. The manner in which the plot was discovered, 244. Him and Tomkyns taken up, both of whom confefs the whole plot, 245. A day of thanksgiving appointed for deliverance from the plot, 244. Earl of Portland and Lord Conway taken up on the declaration of Waller, for being concerned

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