Virgin, violated by Neptune; her petition

to him, ii. 69. Virginia, revenue on tobacco, quit rents, &c., v. 480.

Virgin-martyrs, inquiry whether they wore hoop-petticoats, iv. 272.

Virtu, its ridiculous studies, ii. 155. Virtue, described on a medal, i. 274; with the modern Italians signifies a knowledge of curiosities, ib.; her address to Hercules, ii. 28; venerable in men and lovely in women,43; her temple described in a vision, 88; its exercise, the best employment of time, 412; virtue the genuine source of honour, iii. 99; its beauty and loveliness considered, 136, 137; its charms in the fair sex, 138; several kinds of virtue more lovely than others, ib.; cheerfulness and good nature its great ornaments, ib. ; to be esteemed in a foe, ib.; how to be established in the soul, 378; habits of, why necessary to be acquired in this life, 456; produces its own heaven, 457; its business is not to extirpate but to regulate the affections of the mind, iv. 13; the perfection and happiness of the will, 25; the true source of nobility, 260; a general in the war of the sexes, 275; a distinct principle from honour, 310,

note.

Virtues, represented on medals, i. 273;

of females of a domestic turn, ii. 391; many of them incapable of outward representation, iii. 165; supposed ones, not to be relied on, 378.

Virtuoso of France, his artificial snowshower, iv. 187; remark on the plural of Virtuoso, ib., note.

Virtuoso's will, ii. 156.

Virtuosos, an assembly of, iii. 290. Virtuous Love, its temple in the Vision of Human Life, ii. 77.

Virtuous men, venerated in every stage of society, iv. 502.

Vision of the Hill of Fame, ii. 11; of Justice visiting the earth, 32; relating to animated nature, 72; of human life, 75, &c.; continued, 88; of blessings and calamities, 101; of liberty, 139; of the history of mankind in Paradise Lost, why objectionable, iii. 278; of the golden scales, 477; of the Mountain of Miseries, iv. 90, 93, &c.; of a window in a lady's bosom, 196, 197. See Dreams.

Visions of painters, ii. 394; of Mirzah,

499.

Visit of the Spectator and Will. Honeycomb to a travelled lady, ii. 319. Vitruvius, his opinion on architecture, i. 268; would have the front of his palace toward the setting sun, i. 427. Vitta, part of the Roman dress, i. 261. Vivacity, the gift of women, ii. 484. Volsinian's town, i. 488.

Voltaire's criticism on Cato, v. 722; his remarks on the relative value of literary honours in England and France, 723. Volumes, the advantage an author receives in publishing his works in volumes, rather than in single pieces, iii. 472.

Vossius, a free-thinker, his head combed in dactyls and spondees, i. 268; remark of Charles II. on him, iv. 452. Vowels, omitted in a certain way of writing, iv. 100.

Voyage from Naples to Rome described by Virgil, i. 449.

Vulcan, his temple on Mount Etna guarded by dogs, who could distinguish the chaste from the unchaste, iv. 126; he and Venus represented in fireworks, 189.

Vulgar thoughts to be avoided in epic poetry, iii. 188.

Vulgarism, iv. 360, note.

Vulturno, river, celebrated for its rapidity and noise, i. 422.

Waddle, Lady, buried her second husband in the honeymoon, iv. 96. Waking thoughts, finely observed to introduce a vision founded on truth, ii. 72, note.

Wales, Prince of, his patent drawn by Addison, v. 420; his difference with the king on occasion of the baptism of the young prince, 506;- his quarrel with the king, 513, et seq.; Addison's French circular on the, 514; official report to the king on his conduct, 516; his three letters to the king (in French), 517, 518; with translations, 519; the king's propositions and the prince's replies, 519522. See Prince.

Wales, Princess of, verses to, with the tragedy of Cato, i. 227; order for firing guns on occasion of her delivery, v. 495; her delivery, 497; execution of criminals respited on the event, 500; notified to the court of France, 504. Walking with God, meaning of that phrase in Scripture, iii. 94. Walks, public, of Berne, their immense height, i. 518.

Waller, characterized, i. 25; his compli

ment to Vandyke, ii. 248; his success in a certain way of writing, iv. 45, note. Wallingford, borough of, v. 645. Wallis, Dr., De Adjectivis, referred to, on the use of the pronoun his, iv. 173, note.

Wallop, J., one of the lords of the treasury, v. 640; afterwards Viscount Lyming ton and Earl of Portsmouth, ib, note. Walpole, Mr., (afterwards Sir Robert,) opposes the Peerage bill, v. 236; brings home a treaty of commerce with Spain, 362; writes Petticum's letter, 396; intrigues against Lord Halifax, 421;

his remarks on the forth-coming re-
port of the secret committee, 648, 650;
his observations on the mutiny act, 650;
his motion for the Speaker's warrant to
apprehend various political personages,
652; reads the report of the secret com-
mittee, and names the persons accused,
653; his speeches in favour of the secret
committee's report, 659, 660, 662; his
charges of impeachment against Boling-
broke, 662, 663; and against the Earl of
Oxford, 670; a member of the Kit-cat
Club, 676, 677.

Walpole, Horace, son of Sir Robert, his
opinion of the importance of the Kit-cat
Club, v. 677, note.

Walpole, Horatio, brother of Sir Robert,

his opinions of the secret committee's
report, v. 659.

Walsh, a member of the Kit-cat Club, v.
676.

Walsingham, said to have had many spies
in his service, iv. 123; the most eminent
among them one Lion, a barber, ib.;
his treatment of them, ib.
Waltheof, Earl, why put to death by Wil-
liam the Conqueror, v. 10.
War, its horrors portrayed to Adam in a
vision, iii. 275; the present state of, iv.
340; a model for political pamphlets,
363, note; the late one, why an instance
of the mutable temper of the English,

489.

Warburton, Bishop, his translation of Ad-
dison's Battle of the Cranes and Pyg-
mies, v. 563.

Ward, an obedient one, her letter to the
Guardian, iv. 236.

Ward, the lawyer, his opinion of the secret
committee's report, v. 656.

Wardrobe of old Roman vestments, pro-
posed, i. 261.

Warfare between a parson and a 'squire,
ii. 448.

Warriors, two made into one, iv. 242.
Wars, the late, made us so greedy of
news, iii. 461.

Warwick, Charlotte, Countess of, laid out
Mr. Addison in four years, iv. 98, note;
verses to her on her marriage, by Mr.
Welsted, v. 155; marries Addison, v.
366, 434; verses thereon by Tickell,
434; Addison's first acquaintance with
her, 701, 743; terms of their marriage,
743; the honeymoon, 744; death and
character of her daughter, 750, 751;
family notices of, 750.

Warwick, Edward Richard, Earl of, v.
366; educated by Addison, ib.; his
esteem for Swift, 511; his opinion of
Addison, 700; Macaulay's explanation
of the Earl's dislike, 701; no evidence
of Addison's having been his tutor, 743,
note; his death, 746.

Watch-well, Tim., his letter to the Spec-
tator on fortune-tellers, iii. 317, 318.

Watchman, his salutation to Mr. Bicker-
staffe, ii. 56.

Water converted into various sorts of
wines, ii. 94.

Water-deities represented on medals, i.
315.

Waters of jealousy, their qualities accord-
ing to Moses and the Rabbins, iv. 464.
Wax-work representation of the religions
in Great Britain, ii. 205.

Ways and Means of the emperor of Mo-
rocco, iv. 438.

Wealth, its unequal distribution among
mankind, ii. 31; the virtues and vices
it produces, iii. 480; and power, signify
the same thing in the present constitu-
tion of the world, iv. 346.
Weather, its extremes, how to be borne,
iv. 185.

Weather-glass, filled from the liquor found

in a coquette's heart, iii. 293; Addison's
Latin poem of the, translated by Sewell,
v. 555.
Welshman, indicted in the Court of Ho-
nour for breaking the peace, ii. 203.
Welshman's owl, compared to the mem-
bers of the Silent Club, iv. 233.
Welsted, Mr., his verses to the Countess of
Warwick on her marriage, v. 155.
West Indies, piracies in the seas of the,
v. 476.

Westminster Abbey, contemplations in,
ii. 282.

Westphalian treaty guaranteed by the
king of Sweden, iv. 358.

Whale carries about him a world of in-
habitants, ii. 172.

Wharton, Duke of, anecdote of him and
Addison, v. 578.

Wharton, Thomas, Earl of, afterwards
Marquis, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, v.
363, 374; invited by Duchess of Marl-
borough to dine, 365; his conduct in the
Lord-Lieutenancy, 377; his title, 385;
his resignation, 396, 397; threatened
with impeachment, 398; his character
by Mackey and Swift, 394; Addison the
principal Secretary to, 634, 678, 739,
745; a member of the Kit-cat Club, 676;
letters to, 393, 394, 396.

Wharton, Philip, Duke of, the patron of
the borough of Malmesbury, v. 644; his
practical joke with Addison, 738.
What, used for that of which, allowably,
iv. 346, note.

What, which, and that, dexterously ap-
plied in a sentence, iii. 400, note.
Wheel-barrow, Sir Giles, his visit to the
Tatler, ii. 18.

Which, why used for who in the Lord's
prayer, iv. 307, note.

Whig-Examiner, the, v. 309; design of
that work, iv. 370.
Whig-jockeys, ii. 480.

Whig patches worn by the ladies, ii. 389.
Whig principles, Irish notions of, v. 739.

Whig scheme with regard to foreigners,
v. 87.

Whiggism, described by Steele, v. 240.
Whigs, accused of monopolizing riches
and sense, iv. 371; the finest women of
Great Britain of that party, 426; supe-
rior to the Tories in principle, 468; ex-
horted to reverence religion, 502; how
to remove unjust accusations, 503; good-
ness of their principles proved by their
actions, 504; deficient in unanimity, ib.;
their favourite character in the play of
Sir Courtly Nice, v. 25; their scheme,
why preferable to that of the Tories, 96;
with regard to foreigners, 97; and to the
king and people, 98; all friends to the
constitution in church and state con-
sidered under this denomination, ib.;
demonstration of the, on the acting of
Addison's Cato, 717.

Whims and humourists, a letter concern-
ing, iii. 350, 351.

Whip of the horses of the sun, repre-
sented on a medal, i. 319.
Whiskers of a Turkish bassa to be sold,
ii. 4.

Whispering-place of Dionysius the tyrant,
iii. 440.

Whispers, a news-letter of, proposed, iii.
467.

Whistling-match, account of, iii. 40.
Whiston, William, v. 681; expelled from
Cambridge for heterodoxy, ib.; satiri-
cal lines on, ib.; his character of
Steele, 714; his fruitless attempts to see
Addison in his last illness, 745.
Whiston and Ditton's letter to Mr. Iron-
side on the longitude, iv. 200, 201.
White, Moll, a reputed witch, ii. 453; her
death followed by a storm, iii. 285.
White, Thomas, an alchymist, his letter
to Mr. Ironside, whom he had deluded,
iv. 324.

White witch, the Spectator taken for one,
ii. 494.

Whitelock, Sir W., his opinion on the Se-

cret Committee's report, v. 657.
Whittington and his Cat, an opera designed
from the story of, ii. 242.
Whitworth, Lord Charles, sent Ambassa-
dor Extraordinary to Russia, v. 371;
his political course, 470; his letter to
Lord Sunderland, 469.

Who, misuse of that relative pronoun no-
ticed, v. 527, note.

Who, which, and that, rules for applying
those relatives, 307, note.
Whole Duty of Man, converted into .a
parish libel, iv. 109, 110; the error cor-
rected, and the book proved to be writ-
ten against all the sinners in England,
110.

Widow, the perverse, her cruelty to Sir
Roger drives him to fox-hunting, ii.
450, 451.

Widow and six children, to be introduced
in a forth-coming tragedy, ii. 316.
Widow Club, account of one, iv. 95; mem-

bers, 95, 96 rules-politics-doctrines
on management of husbands, 97, 98.
Widow-lady, complained of, for theatrical
psalm-singing, iii. 80.

Widow-woman, the Spectator's hostess,
described, ii. 256, 257.

Widower, his unhappy state, ii. 61.
Widows, the great game of fortune-
hunters, iii. 320; why naturally friends
to the constitution, iv. 427.
Wife, grief of a husband for the loss of
one, ii. 82.

"Wife of Bath," lines in that ballad on
female loquacity, iii. 145.

Wig, pictures of, containing the Old
Testament, ii. 345; a long one, the elo-
quence of the bar, iii. 386.

Wigs, ridiculed, ii. 331; full-bottomed,
the fashion of wearing, v. 704.

Wild boar, a famous piece of sculpture at
Florence, i. 497.

Wildfire, Widow, her suite of lovers, iv. 96.
Wilkins, Bishop, confident of success in
the art of flying, iv. 213.
Will of Addison, v. 515.

Will. Honeycomb of the Spectator designed
for Major Cleland, v. 741.
William, King, extract from his last
speech to parliament on war with
France, iv. 343; the Conqueror, his
severe punishment of a conspiracy, v. 10.
William, Duke of Gloucester, v. 554.
William III., King, a poem to his Ma-
jesty, i. 4; efforts of a party to render
him unpopular, iv. 421; his promotion
of great men to high stations, 422; how
he treated the conspirators in the assas-
sination plot, v. 10; Lord Somers his
intimate counsellor, 41; furthered the
Protestant interest in Europe, 97; in-
auguration of, 546; Addison's Latin
verses on his return from Ireland after
the battle of the Boyne, 547; concludes
a peace against his own judgment and
views, 619; his grants to Addison, 636,
note, 675 and note.

Will's, frequented by the Spectator, ii.

230.

Wills, General, reduced the rebels at
Preston, iv. 407.

Wimble, Will., his letter to Sir Roger de
Coverley, ii. 437; his character, 438; his
case that of many younger brothers,
439; his rural politeness, 456; accom-
panies Sir Roger and the Spectator to
the assizes, 465; suspects the Spectator
to be a fanatic, 481; and fears he has
killed a man, 494.

Winchelsea, Charles, Earl of, v. 338; let-
ters to, ib.

Winchester, bishopric of, not disposed of
for a time, and why, v. 352.

Windham, Lieut.-Gen., v. 360.
Windmill, Andrew, Esq., ii. 18.
Wine, French, proposed in House of Com-
mons to be admitted, v. 365.

Wine, a present to Mr. Bickerstaffe, ii.
105; heightens indifference into love,
love into jealousy, and jealousy into
madness, iv. 111.

Wine-brewers, a fraternity, ii. 92; tried
before Mr. Bickerstaffe, 93; his request
to them, 95.

Wingate, Mr., v. 288; his Arithmetic re-
commended to all young wives, ii. 410.
Wings, a pair of, a Greek poem of twelve
verses, ii. 344.

Winifred Leer, her action against Richard
Sly for ogling, ii. 220.

Winter-piece, of sweetmeats, represented
in a fashionable dessert, ii. 109.
Wisdom, a passage concerning, from the
Proverbs, ii. 474; described by an apo-
cryphal writer, iii. 111; and virtue, not
inconsistent with politeness and good
humour, v. 65.

Wisdom of Solomon, passages from that
book, showing the vanity of honour, iii.
101.

Wisdom of the Son of Sirach, an apocry-
phal treatise, recommended, ii, 367.
Wise man, his character, ii. 58.
Wise men of old, often gave counsel to
their kings in fables, iv. 32.
Wit, mixed, disquisition respecting, i.
150; Mr. Locke's account of it, ib.;
the mischief of it, when accompanied
with vice, ii. 275; when not tempered
with virtue and humanity, 277; the
father of humour, 298; an accurate
treatise on it, desirable, 342, note; a
speculation on it, ib.; false wit, several
kinds of it, 343; true, represented by
Aristenætus's description of a beautiful
woman, 356; Mr. Locke's reflection on
its difference from judgment, 357; con-
sists in the congruity of ideas, ib.;
mixed, abounding in Cowley's writings,
358; defined by Dryden, 360: produced
by opposition as well as resemblance of
ideas, 362; allegory on wit, 363; aided
by Truth, invades the region of False-
hood, 365; his person described, 366;
less agreeable in conversation than good
nature, iii. 19; without discretion, is
impertinence, 109; consisting in the
affinity of ideas, 412; false, why some-
times pleasing, ib.

Witch, account of a reputed one, ii. 453.
Witch's prayer, an epigram to be read
either backward or forward, ii. 356.
Witchcraft, considered, ii. 452; country
notions concerning, 453; generally be-
lieved in by our forefathers, iii. 423.
Witches in Macbeth, called charming
creatures, ii. 321.

With, compounded with verbs, has an
adversative sense, iv. 117, note.

Withers, Maj.-Gen., governor of Sheer-
ness, v. 353.

Wits, the greatest, generally eminent for
their humanity, iii. 20.
Witty and humorous writings, Sir Richard
Blackmore's observation on, v. 64;
their tendency to furnish useful amuse-
ment by exposing vice and folly, 65.
Wives, bad, as numerous as bad husbands,
iv. 16; exhorted to look to the loyalty
of their husbands, 426, 427.

Wizards, their number in Great Britain
inconceivable, iv. 23.

Wolsey, Cardinal, his violent egotism, iv.
99; exceeded by the Examiner, 377.
Woman, plainly dressed in Switzerland,
i. 527; in what articles of dress to be
indulged, ii. 67; a satire on, by Simon-
ides, iii. 86, 87; an animal that delights
in finery, 173; seldom asks advice before
she has bought her wedding clothes, 495.
Woman of quality, her dress, the produce
of an hundred climates, ii. 372.
Woman-haters, how requited, iv. 50.
Womankind, described under the charac-
ter, of animals, iii. 86, 87.

Women, their taste for the showy and
superficial, ii. 263; their usual convers-
ation, ib.; formed to temper mankind,
340; why excluded from the Olympic
games, 391; signs of their improvement
under the Spectator's hand, 411; their
pains in all ages to adorn the outside of
the head, 419; why naturally more gay
and joyous than men, 484; their levity
no less fatal after marriage than before,
486; driven by jealousy of husbands
into crimes, iii. 23; a class of them
called salamanders, 67; danger they
incur by too great familiarities with
a male companion, 68; better quali-
fied for eloquence than men, 143; se-
veral causes assigned for this, 144;
what the chief object of their thoughts,
430; their conjugal affection at the
siege of Hensberg, iv. 16; how disposed
of at a fair in Persia, 28; sold in sacks
by a Tartar general, 29; judged at the
tribunal of Rhadamanthus, 298; the most
sensible and virtuous are Whigs, 407;
common ones, always oppose the true
interests of the nation, 408; how treated
under arbitrary governments, ib.; ought
to be equally averse to despotism and
Popery, 409; the finest in Great Britain
are Whigs, 426; are to be treated as
members of the body politic, v. 17.
Women of quality, learning a proper in-
gredient in their education, iv. 282;
gifted with a copia verborum, 283;
eminent philosophers of the sex, 284;
Sir Thomas More's verses on the
choice of one for a wife, 317; their
passions for chalk and china, surpris-

ing, 332; inconveniences thence result-
ing, 333.

Women's men, or beaux, how to be em-
ployed, iv. 61.

Wonder, produces reflection, iv. 189.
Wood, Mr., v. 337; letters to, 345.
Woodstock Park, a famous echo in, i. 57.
Woollen cloths, British trade in the Ne-
therlands improved, v. 571.

Woollen manufacture, the strength of
Britain, iv. 344.

Words, well chosen, their force on the
imagination, iii. 413; finely chosen, to
introduce a happy quotation from Solo-
mon, v. 37, note.

Words of command in the fan exercise, ii.
428.

Words ending in ed and eth how altered

in our language, ii. 497.

"Work if I had it," a strange cry for a

corn-cutter, iii. 152.

Wormwood, Will., his character, iv. 335.
World, the present, a nursery for the
next, ii. 445.

Worship, a title given to magistrates, iii.
99; evening, in Paradise, 230; reli-
gious, the first origin of the drama, 384.
Worsley, Mr., letter to, v. 522.
Wortley, Mr., his invitations to Addison,
v. 401-404; letters to, 401, 403.
Wotton, Sir Henry, his remark on one
who lied for the good of his country, iv.
461.

Would be, Lady Betty, accuses Ursula
Goodenough in the Court of Honour,
ii. 212.

Would, used instead of should, iii. 451,
note.

Wren, Bp., his peripatetic operations
while a prisoner in the Tower, v. 735.
Wrestlers, the Two, a piece of sculpture
at Florence, i. 500.

Writer, how he should perfect his imagin-
ation, iii. 416.

Writers, immoral, of great talents, ene-
mies of mankind, iii. 17; Romish notion
of their punishment in purgatory, ib.;
some of them stars of light, others of
darkness, iv. 133; it is but justice to
great writers to distinguish between
their hasty and deliberate composi-
tions, 396, note; good and bad, receive
great satisfaction from the prospects of
futurity, v. 45; those who would live
should treat on subjects of general con-
cern, 101, note.

Writing, in concert, an absurd practice

in men of wit, ii. 10, note; of every
kind, has a style of its own, iii. 392,
note; of two kinds, in the Spectator,
497; a provocation to the envious and
an affront to the ignorant, v. 45, a
benefit to mankind, 47.

Wyche, Mr., v. 339; letters to, 339, 345.
Wycherley, pamphlet respecting, v. 700,
and note.

Wyndham, Sir William, chancellor of the
exchequer, his proposal to reduce the
queen's expenses, v. 647, 648; his sen-
timents on the Secret Committee's Re-
port, 659.

X, a cabalistical signature to the Specta-
tor, iii. 103, 104; the signature of Eus-
tace Budgell in the Spectator, v. 679.
Xantippe, a modern one, her treatment of
her husband, iii. 506.

Xenophanes, his reply on being reproach-
ed as timorous, iii. 471.

Xenophon, his station in the temple of

Fame, ii. 14; celebrates good-nature in
the life of his imaginary prince, iii. 19.
Xerxes, why he wept over his army, ii. 27.

Y, preceding a vowel, often cut off in
Milton's verse, iii. 194.

Yalden, Rev. Dr. Thomas, v. 320; notices
of, ib., note.

Yaratilda and Marraton, a visionary tale,
ii. 330; their meeting, 338.
Yawning-match, described, iii. 41.
Yeoman, character of one, ii. 465.
York and Lancaster, many examples of
severity during the disputes of those
houses, v. 90.

Yorke, Philip, Earl of Hardwicke, his
praise of Addison's "Remarks on Italy,'
v. 733.

Young, Dr., his verses to the author of
Cato, i. 163; his remarks on Tickell's
Translation of Homer, v. 702; his cri-
ticism on Cato, 721.

Young, Dr. Margery, alias John, some ac-
count of, ii. 169.

Young, R., translator of Major Pack's
Essay on the Roman Elegiac Poets, v.
599, note.

Young gentleman, account of one, spoiled
by maternal indulgence, ii. 467.
Young men of fortune and quality, prone
to dissipation, iv. 210; examples pro-
posed to them, 211.

Young woman, judged by Rhadamanthus,
iv. 299, 300.

Younger brothers in great families, modes
of disposing of them, ii. 429.
Youth, cautioned to preserve their noses,
ii. 217.

Yvoire, a port on the lake of Geneva for
the duke of Savoy's galleys, i. 510.

Zamolxes, a servant of Pythagoras, emi-
nent in the list of his disciples, iv. 321.
Zeal, party, in females to be avoided, ii.
341; in a public cause, injurious to
virtue, 447; renders honest minds un-
charitable, ib.; men apt to deceive
themselves in it, iii. 51; distinction be-
tween true and false, 51, 52; in athe-
ists and infidels, 53; intemperate, its
evil tendency, 378; how represented in
the Highlander's Vision, iv. 497; in fe-