epic poem, iii. 191; instances of the
false sublime, ib.
Subordination, instituted by Providence,
iv. 444.
Subsist, has no participle passive, ii. 73,
note.
Success, not always a criterion of merit,
iii. 304.
Such, when joined to an adjective, how to
be succeeded, iii. 203, note.
Such like, now redundant and tautologous,
iii. 411, note.
Suetonius, his history an arguinent against
despotic power, iii. 297; attests the tax-
ing of the empire under Augustus, v.
108.
Suffenus, places his happiness in a gilded
chariot, ii. 100; a fortune-hunter, iii.
319, 320.
Suffolk, the Duke of, buried in the con-
vent of the Austin monks at Pavia, i.
365; his history, 366.
Sugar-plums, disposed into heaps of hail-
stones, ii. 109.
Suggestum of the ancients described, i.
402.
Suicide, why suggested by Eve, and dis-
approved by Adam, iii. 268.
Sulfatara, a surprising volcano near Na-
ples, i. 438.
Sully, Duke of, his advice to some Popish
ladies on the accession of Henry IV.,
iv. 440, 441.
Sultan of Egypt, a story of one, ii. 417,
418; of Persia, story of one, performing
an act of justice, iv. 177.
Summer, in England, pleasanter than
elsewhere in Europe, iii. 370.
Sun, the palace of the, described, from
Ovid, i. 87; used as an emblem on me-
dals, 305, 307; why represented by the
corona radiata, 319; satirized by the
owls, bats, &c., in a fable, ii. 174; of
Glory, a title of the emperor of Persia,
505.
Sun-rising and setting, the most glorious
show in nature, iii. 406.
Sunday in the country,why pleasing, ii. 446.
Sunderland, Lord, proposes the Peerage
Bill, v. 236; Secretary of State for
Southern Province, 353; at Newmarket
with the queen, 364; christening of his
son, 365; invited by Duchess of Marl-
borough to dine, 365; Lord-Lieutenant
of Ireland, 433, 633, note; resignation
of the office, 434; transacts business for
Addison during the illness of the latter,
492; his letter to Mr. Dayrolles, 513;
Addison the under-secretary to, 634,
635, 745; royal warrant for his salary
as Secretary of State, 639; Secret Ser-
vice Money granted to, 640; Addison's
official communications to the private
secretary of, 646, 648, 652, 655, 668;
a member of the Kit-cat Club, 676;
letters to, 387.
Superintendence of the English language
proposed, iii. 12.
Superiority reduced to the notion of quali-
ty, iii. 99.
Superstition, ridiculed, ii. 244; antidote to
it, 246; an excess in devotion, iii. 72;
tinctured with folly, ib.
Superstitions, Jewish and Romish, per-
nicious to mankind and destructive to
religion, iii. 93.
Superstitious fears destroy the pleasures
of conversation, iv. 11.
Supply, Committee of, debate on the, v.
668.
Supreme Being, his nature, an argument
for the immortality of the soul, ii. 443;
a sense of his presence productive of
good actions, iii. 94; alone, can rightly
judge of our own actions, 165; or esteem
us according to our merits, 166; sub-
limely described by Plato, iv. 25; a
proof of his goodness in the extent and
variety of animal existence, 42; demon-
strations of his wisdom, power, and
goodness, 72; his omnipresence, 104;
his omniscience, ib.; his mercy, 105;
essentially present in heaven, 128; his
eternity, 145; his unutterable goodness,
147; has designed the soul of man for a
state of future happiness, 157; the fear
of him is the foundation of fortitude and
courage, 226.
Surnames, the occasion of a club, ii.
250.
Surprise, the life of story-telling, iv. 6.
Surrentum, promontory of, divides the
bay of Naples from that of Salernum, i.
427.
Surtout, &c., likely to occasion a learned
treatise a thousand years hence, i. 261.
Survey of the city by Mr. Bickerstaffe as
censor, ii. 142.
Suspension of the Habeas Corpus act, iv.
457; precedents, 459.
Sutherland, Earl of, his application to
succeed Addison in the Exchequer, v.
644; biographical notices of, 645, note;
his appointments and character, ib.
Swallow, Lady Catherine, widow of two
husbands and two coachmen, iv. 95.
Swan, the famous punster, his conversa-
tion described, ii. 355.
Swash, Sir Paul, knt., indicted in the
Court of Honour, ii. 223.
Swearers in discourse, happily ridiculed,
iii. 352.
Swearing, profane, its horrible absurdity,
iv. 55.
Sweden, the king of, holds the balance of
European power, iv. 358.
Sweden, a Protestant country, has had the
misfortune to see Popish princes on the
throne, v. 59; dispute with the Crown
of Great Britain, 469.
Swift, his writings, in what respects in-
ferior to Addison's, ii. 1; invented the
subject of a story in the Tatler, 184,
note; Isaid to have furnished the hint
for a paper in the Spectator, ii. 328,
note; extracts from his letters, relating
to Mr. Addison and Mr. Steele, iv. 157,
158; allusion to a political paper in
which he was concerned, 368, note; his
connexion with the Examiner, v. 308;
married to Mrs. Johnson, 377; letter
from Earl of Halifax, 379; from Steele,
380; from Sir Andrew Fountaine, 383;
to Addison, 391, 407; letter to Addison
on Steele's charge of being the author
of the Examiner, 406; Steele's reply,
408; the probable truth as to the cir-
cumstances of their difference, 408, 511,
512; his rejoinder to Steele, 408; Pope's
relation towards him, 417; how highly
he was esteemed by Lady Warwick,
511; and by Addison, 512; Addison's
letters to, 510, 511; Addison and Steele's
first meeting with, 685; early memorial
of his friendship with Addison, 686; his
joke against Partridge the astrologer,
ib.; renders the name of "Bickerstaffe "
famous throughout Europe, 686, 687;
humorous lines by, on "Namby Pam-
by," 696; comparison of, with Addison
and Bolingbroke, 731; counted the
number of his steps from London to
Chelsea, 735; letters to, 359, 377, 378,
379, 381, 386, 390, 510, 511.
Swine, its ingredients compose the soul
of some women, iii. 86.
Swiss, their custom of hiring themselves
out as soldiers, ii. 25; remarkable for
love of their country, iv. 411.
Swiss musician, an extraordinary one, ii.
294.
Switzerland, the reason of its periodical
fountains, i. 512, 519; soldiers, 520;
convenience of its navigable rivers, ib. ;
scholars, 522; peace and tranquillity
throughout the country and its alli-
ances, 525; pomp and superfluity ban-
ished, 526; dress and manners, 527;
law of inheritance, 529; granaries, 528;
Protestants and Papists, 529; notion of
witchcraft very prevalent, 530; a new
sect, called Pietists, sprung up, 531;
might furnish troops to Britain, iv. 355.
Sword-cutler, his sign of the French
King's head, ii. 286.
Sybils, their prophecies subsequent to the
events they pretend to foretell, iv. 16.
Sydenham, Dr., lavish in praise of riding,
ii. 551.
Sylla, the dictator, surnamed Felix or
Fortunate, iii. 303.
Syllogism, how answered by a lady, v. 18.
Syllogisms, invented by Aristotle, iii. 131.
Symmetry of objects, how it strikes, iii. 395.
Symposium, mentioned by a Greek author,
a parallel to it, ii. 252.
Syncopists, political, a specimen of their
style, iv. 106.
Syntax violated in Paradise Lost, iii.
196.
Syphax, general of the Numidians (in
Cato), i. 177, 195, 199, 210; his notion
of honour, iv. 311.
Syracuse, prince of, procures a whelp of
Vulcan's breed of dogs to prove the
chastity of his wife, iv. 127.
Syria, chronicle of the kings of, collected
from medals, i. 263.
Syrians, when smitten with blindness, to
whom compared, iv. 501.
Syrisca's ladle, where lost, iv. 374.
T. at the end of some speculations, sup-
posed to stand for trader, iii. 103.
Mr., ill used by his angel, goes
to sea and makes a fortune, iv. 302; his
letter on marrying her, 304.
Table, a fashionable one, haunted by dis-
tempers, iii. 65.
Table of Cebes, an allegory, its character,
ii. 138.
"Table of Fame," The, v. 380.
Tacitus, monument erected to him at
Terni, i. 411; his account of a mutiny
raised by a lying sentinel, iv. 462; at-
tests the taxing of the empire by order
of Augustus, v. 108; and the crucifixion
of our Saviour, 109.
Tailor, plays the part of the lion at the
opera, ii. 260.
Tale-bearers, censured, iii. 440.
Talents, without discretion, useless, iii.
109.
Talicotius, the first clap-doctor, his his-
tory, ii. 215; his motto, and number of
his patients, 216.
Talkativeness of the French, iv. 183.
Tall Club, letter of remonstrance from the
secretary, iv. 202; qualifications of its
members, 203.
Tallard, loses his son and is himself taken
prisoner at Blenheim, i. 51.
Tangereen captain, an old one, member
of the Court of Honour, ii. 189.
Tangier, the Rev. Lancelot Addison sent
to, v. 673.
Tantalism, a laughable species of, ii. 407.
Tantalus, his torments, in what nation
originating, ii. 406.
Tariff, Count, his trial and conviction, iv.
364; origin of the paper, ib.; charges,
365; answers, 367; calls witnesses, ib.;
loses his cause, 369.
Tariff, settled in the trade to the Nether-
lands, v. 56.
Tartar, General, takes a town in China,
and sets all the women to sale, iv. 29.
Tartars, why ambitious of destroying
eminent men, ii. 479.
Tasso, his stanzas sung among the com-
mon people of Venice, i. 395; imitated
by Milton, iii. 283.
Taste, false, of the Genoese, in embellish-
ing their houses, i. 362; for the fine arts,
like another sense, ii. 414; fine, the
perfection of an accomplished man, iii.
387; in writing, rules for acquiring it,
388, 389; of the English, 393.
Tate, Mr., his epigram on the Spectator,
iv. 7.
Tatian, his remark on the Christian vir-
gins of the second century, v. 124.
Tatler ridicules his adversaries, ii. 175.
Tatler, The, No. 18, v. 230; No. 24, 232;
Steele's papers in, 380; its account of
the "Knights of the Toast, 678; its
first publication, 687; the author dis-
covered by Addison, ib.; condemned
by the Inquisition, ib.; curious notice
of errata in the, 688; publication of the
last number, ib.; translations of the,
693; unpublished letters of the, printed
by Lillie, 694.
Tatlers, their popularity proves them to
have done good, v. 64; Addison's share
in them acknowledged by Sir. R. Steele,
145.
Tattle, Jasper, Esq., his charge against
Benjamin Busy, ii. 222.
Taureas, or Toryas, the brewer, his con-
test with Alcibiades, iv. 382.
Tautology, iii 455, note, 456, note; how
avoided by the Freeholder, v. 100.
Tavernier, his account of the battle of
monkeys in the East Indies, v. 83.
Taxing of the empire under Augustus
mentioned by several historians, v.
T. B., his letter on the consolations of ab-
sent lovers, iii. 141.
Te Deum, a kind of one in the Pretend-
er's declaration, iv. 433.
Tea, not used in Queen Elizabeth's time,
ii. 107; ten different sorts distinguished
by the taste, iii. 388.
Tea-equipage, the Spectator's paper to
form a part of it, ii 253.
Tea-table, an open one, proposed by a
lady, for the friends of King George, iv.
425.
Tear, shed by our Saviour over Lazarus,
preserved at Vendome, i. 371.
Technical words, in Milton's style, a fault,
iii. 203.
TEKEL, dubious application of the word
in a vision, iii. 479.
Telauges, an eminent philosopher, son of
Pythagoras, iv. 320.
Telemachus, his story written in the spirit
of Homer, ii. 128; his adventures in the
empire of death, 129.
Tell, a representation of him in the arsenal
of Berne, i. 519.
Temper, rules for moderating, iv. 152; a
discontented one described, 336.
Temperance, a preservative of health, iii.
64; rules for it by an eminent physi-
cian, 65.
Tempers, disparities in, make marriages
unhappy, iii. 169.
Tempest, Martha, why styled by her hus-
band, Ocean, iii 91.
Tempest, prospect of one, creates an agree-
able horror in the mind, iv. 7.
"Tempest," a chest containing a violent
storm for that play, iv. 148.
Templar, the, of the Spectator's club, ac-
count of him, ii. 233; his remonstrance
with the Spectator on the inns of court,
295; answered by the arguments of the
clergyman, 296.
Temple, Sir W., quotation from his ver-
sion of Horace, i. 289; his Memoirs
dwindled into a penny book, ii. 38; his
query respecting the northern hive of
Goths and Vandals, 273; his rule for
drinking, iii. 66; Robin Goodfellow's
correction of it, 80; observes that the
English love a king who is valiant, iv.
401.
Temple, of Hymen, ii. 78; of Lust, 79;
of Honour, 88; of Virtue, ib.; of Vani-
ty, 89; of Avarice, 90.
Templum Væjovis, dedicated to the beard-
less Jupiter, i. 460.
Temptations, called by the world oppor-
tunities, to be avoided by the fair sex,
iii. 68.
Ten, called by the Platonic writers the
complete number, iii. 104.
Tender, a kind of writing so called by the
French, iii. 266.
Tender Husband, a comedy, prologue to,
i. 81; Mr. Addison's assistance acknow-
ledged by the author of that comedy, v.
146.
Tenebrificous stars, certain writers com-
pared to, iv. 133.
Tentamen de Poetis Romanis Elegiacis,
v. 599.
Teraminta resents Mr. Ironside's paper
on tuckers, iv. 204.
Terence, a passage from, applied to imi-
tators of Pindar, ii. 505; a sentence
from, in reproof of stolen jests, iv. 101;
his observation on men of genius, 150;
a fine saying of his quoted, v. 90; his
phrases ridiculously imitated by modern
editors and commentators, 219; his
style and subjects, 598.
Terni, a town of Italy, formerly called
Interamna, described, i. 411; cascade
near it, ib.
Terracina, figures on a rock near it, i. 423.
Terror, how excited in modern tragedies,
ii. 314; and pity, excited by poetry,
why pleasing, iii. 420; its tendency to
turn the hair grey, iv. 66.
Tertuga. See Tortuga.
Tertullian, refers to Pontius Pilate's re-
cord of our Saviour's death, v. 106;
tells the Roman governors that their
councils, &c., are filled with Christians,
117; what led to his conversion, 132.
Tesin, river, its rapid course, i. 367; an
outlet of the Lago Maggiore, ib.
Test for distinguishing puns from true wit, ii. 356.
Testimony, in the play of Sir Courtly Nice, the hero of the Whigs, v. 25. Tests of good-nature, iii. 34.
Tetrachtys, a sacred number with the Pythagoreans, iii. 104.
Tetrachymagogon, a hard word used by a quack, ii. 179.
Teverone, its cascade described, i. 483. Text, a mysterious one of Dr. Alabaster's, iii. 104.
Texts of Scripture used as inscriptions over Roman Catholic confessionals, i. 370.
Tettyx, a dancing-master, crippled by the Lover's Leap, iii. 123.
Thales, his saying on tyrants and flatterers, iv. 394.
Thalia, the comic muse, how represented, i. 467.
Thames, fireworks on, described, iv. 187. Thammuz, account of him, finely romantic, iii. 207.
Thanksgiving-day for peace, procession
of charity-children on, iv. 103; considerations appropriate to it, v. 78; a glorious instance in the dedication of Solomon's temple, 78; other instances in English history, 80; reflection on the subject, 81.
Thaw of words in Nova Zembla, ii. 196. Theano, wife of Pythagoras, taught philosophy after his death, iv. 320; a saying, honourable to her wisdom and virtue, ib.
Theatins, convent of, at Ravenna, a superstitious story respecting, i. 400. Theatre, English, the practice of it in several instances censured, ii. 311, &c., 314; how it may contribute to the reformation of the age, iii. 450. Theatres in London and Amsterdam, account of them, ii. 2.
Theatrical psalm-singing exposed, iii. 80. Thebes, its wars, an improper subject for a Roman poet, ii. 375.
Theft, when punished by the Spartans, iii. 317.
Themistocles, his reply to a question on marriage, iii. 319.
Themius, Homer's school-master, v. 215. Theocritus, thought superior to Virgil in pastoral, i. 154; describes a despairing shepherd addressing his mistress, iii.
Theodosius, celebrated by Claudian, i. 316; emperor, shut out from church by St. Ambrose, 369; married to Athenais, iv. 285.
Theodosius and Constantia, their story, iii. 7, 8, &c.
Theognis, a saying of his on virtue and vice, iii. 480.
Theophrastus, complains of his wife's gaming, iv. 232, 233; characters of, trans
lated by Mr. Budgell, 335; merits of the work, 336; his characters supposed to be drawn from the life, v. 217. Theron places his happiness in a running horse, ii. 100.
Thersites, transmigration of his soul into a monkey, iii. 90; Homer's character of, supposed to be drawn from the life, v. 215.
Theutilla, story of, resembling that of Judith, iv. 243.
Thinking aloud, what, iii. 109.
Thirteen, in company, an ominous number, ii. 245.
Thought in sickness, iv. 34; a hymn on that subject, 36.
Thoughts, of the highest importance to sift them, iii. 379; in poetry, none can be beautiful which are not just, iv. 45; an exception, which greatly reduces the rule, ib., note.
Three nuns and a hare, a sign, its origin, ii. 286.
Thrift, in moral life, defined, iii. 93. Thrifty, John, his letter to the Tatler, ii.
Thunder, new, rehearsed at the theatre, iv. 148; a common drug among the chemists, 187.
Thunderbolt, a reverse of Augustus, i.
297; epithets applied to, 298.
Tiber, river, its classic celebrity, i. 31; its mouth finely described by Virgil, 457; its bed a magazine of treasures, 471; offer of the Jews to cleanse it, ib. Tiberius, the Spintriæ of, furnished designs to Aretine, i. 259; a coin of his explained, 309; remains of a statue erected to him by the fourteen cities of Asia, 433; medals on the same occasion, 434; his residence on the isle of Caprea, 443; said to have received accounts of our Saviour from Pontius Pilate, v. 106; his letter respecting the Christians lost, 128.
Tibullus, his allusion to the allegorical representation of peace, i. 276. Ticinum of the ancients, now called Pavia, i. 366.
Ticinus, now called the Tesin, a rapid river, i. 366; described by Silius Italicus, ib.; and Claudian, 377. Tickell, Mr. T., his biographical Preface, i. v.; copy of verses on the opera of Rosamond, 55; his verses on the tragedy of Cato, 166; an oversight in his edition of the Dialogues on Medals noticed, 337, note; his "Royal Progress," complimentary verses on the accession, praised in Spectator, at end; his preface to Mr. Addison's works animadverted on by Sir Richard Steele in his epistle to Mr. Congreve, v. 142; his remarks on the Tatler, 144; and the Spectator, ib.; attempts to add to Mr. Addison by disparaging Sir R. Steele,
147; under-secretary to Addison, 329;
his translation of 1st book of the Iliad,
423; his Life of Addison, 432; his verses
on Addison's marriage, 434; letter (for
Addison) to Vice-Admiral Cornwall, 458;
his translation of Homer, 542; referred
to, 701-703; his notices of Addison's
Cato, 715; his elegy on Addison, 745.
Tickell, Richard, appointed a clerk in
Addison's office, v. 508.
Tide, observable in the Adriatic from Ve-
nice to Ancona, i. 397; of Eternity, ii.
500.
Tillotson, his remark on King William's
wound at the battle of Boyne, i. 5; his
widow's dowry raised on the sale of his
writings, ii. 38; his opinion on Provi-
dence, iii. 305; his improved notion of
heaven and hell, 456; extract from an
elegant sermon of his, iv. 86; deserved-
ly called the great British preacher, ib.,
note; his remark on the happiness of
the blessed, 154; advanced by King
William to the highest station in the
church, 422; his friendship and cor-
respondence with Lord Somers, v. 42.
Timavus described by Claudian, i. 377.
Timbrel of the Egyptians, i. 323.
Time, how represented on ancient medals,
i. 287; exhibited as retouching the
works of the great painter, ii. 395; its
shortness unjustly complained of, 412;
methods of employing it to advantage,
412, 413; measured by the succession
of ideas, 416; compared to an ocean, iii.
105; seldom affords sufficient employ-
ment to the mind, 491; has mellowed
and given grace to the writings of anti-
quity, v. 227.
Times of disorders and tumults fullest of
instruction, iv. 498.
Timogenes, a man of false honour, iv. 311.
Timoleon, referred all his successes to
Providence, iv. 227; his extraordinary
deliverance from a conspiracy, ib.
Tintoret, Tom, a wine-colourer, ii. 94.
Tiresias, his sexual transformation, i. 124,
his advice to Ulysses, ii. 111.
Tirol, the territory of, described, i. 533; its
government, privileges, &c., 538.
Titan, description of, in Claudian, i. 307.
Titanius ales, i. 285.
Titian, a painting of, story respecting, i.
352; vision of his pictures, ii. 394.
Titles, an intimation of some particular
merit, iii. 99; a death-bed shows their
emptiness, 100; among the common-
wealth of males, 432.
Tittle, Sir Timothy, a critic, ii. 150; his
behaviour at a friend's house, ib.; dis-
putes with his mistress, 151.
Titus, one of his medals explained, i. 331;
his arch, 480; could not prevent the de-
struction of the temple of Jerusalem, v.
136.
Tivoli, described, i. 483.
Toad, valued at a hundred crowns, ii. 156.
Tobacco, quantity smoked by the Ever-
lasting Club, ii. 380.
Toga, of the Romans, i. 261.
Toleration Act, hung up in the hall of
Public Credit, ii. 237.
Tom, cousin to the Lizards, his charac-
ter, iv. 312.
Tom-tits, to personate singing-birds in an
opera, ii. 243.
Tombs contemplated, ii. 283, 284.
Tonon, a town on the lake of Geneva, be-
longing to Savoy, i. 510; its wholesome
fountain of water, 511.
Tonson, Mr. Jacob, jun., recommends
Bayle's dictionary to the ladies, ii. 409;
his behaviour to Sir R. Steele, respect-
ing the Drummer, v. 142; letters to,
319, 320, 321, 434; probably founder of
the Kit-cat Club, 343; assignment with
him by Addison for volume of Spectator,
524; anecdote of him, as secretary of
the Kit-cat Club, 677; his profits from
Milton's Paradise Lost, 695.
Tooke, Ben, Swift's bookseller, v. 380.
Topknot, Dr., iv. 224.
Torcy, Marquis de, to be president of the
politica! academy at Paris, iii. 314; ple-
nipotentiary from the King of France,
iv. 662, and note; Bolingbroke's corres-
pondence with, v. 653; Bolingbroke im-
peached for betraying instructions to,
662; and holding a private correspond-
ence with, relative to the Pretender,
663.
Toricellius, inventor of the weather-glass,
ii. 162.
Tories, described as monsters, ii. 331;
called by the Examiner the whole body
of the English nation, iv. 377; their
absurd and wretched attempts to ca-
lumniate King William and the house
of Hanover, 421; actuated by a pre-
tended concern for religion, 423; their
emissaries diligent in spreading ridicu-
lous fictions, 424; forced to borrow
toasts from their antagonists, 426; their
political faith, 451; their credenda, 452;
reasons why they resort to libel and
ridicule, 468; some of them scandalized
at such measures, 470; driven by de-
spair to the comfort of old women's
tales, 487; absurdly arrogate the name
of the church, 593; call royalty repub-
licanism, and rebellion passive obedi-
ence, ib.; impose on the ladies, by re-
presenting all the rebels as handsome
men, v. 19; represent the Whigs as
aiming to retrench the privileges of the
fair sex, ib.; deceive them by reports
of prodigies, 20; and of the danger of
the church, ib.; their favourite charac-
ter in the play of Sir Courtly Nice, 25;
the avowed friends of the French, 98;
Addison's intimacy with the, 695.
Tortuga, report concerning the capture of
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