Southern Italy. His doctrines blended politics and religion,
taught abstinence from flesh, and made much of numbers
and music; and he had exoteric, or outer, and esoteric, or
inner discipleship, with the degrees, signs, and discipline,
of a kind of freemasonry.

QUARLES, FRANCIS, born in Essex, Eng., in 1592; died in
1644. Educated at Cambridge, he afterwards studied at
Lincoln's Inn, and was successively cupbearer to Eliza-
beth, Queen of Bohemia, secretary to Archbishop Usher,
and chronologer to the city of London. He espoused the
cause of Charles I., and was harassed to death by the
other party. His Divine Emblems, published in 1645 (see
extracts, pp. 192, 330, 358), made him the darling of
plebeian judgments,' under the name, it is believed, of
Hermit Quarles.

QUARLES'S Delight in God, 192; - Psalm XLII. 1, Longing
after God, 358; - Psalm XLII. 2, Longing to see God,
330.

Queen Anne, complimented by Pope, 292, 294. See Anne.
Queen-bee, 232. See Bees.

Queen of the May, Ganderetta, 90; her throne, 99.
Quince-stocks and sloe-stocks, 379, 380.

Rabbit, morning, 43.

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Ramble, morning, 76; — school-boy's, 246 ; — evening, of
lovers, 149.

Rambler, Robert Dingley, story of, 411, 412.

RAMSAY, ALLAN, whose very name is now an impersona-
tion of Scottish scenery and manners,' born 1686, in Lan-
arkshire, where his father was a manager of mines. At
fifteen he was apprenticed to a wig-maker, in Edinburgh,
and did not commence writing till he was twenty-six years
of age. He became the friend of Pope and Gay; married
and set up a book-store, editing the Tea-Table Miscellany,
also the Evergreen. His Gentle Shepherd is the best
specimen of the pastoral' in any language. Through
his thrift and cheerful sense, he became prosperous and
influential, and built the Lodge, cut p. 128, on the north
side of Castle Hill, Edinburgh. He died June 17th, 1758,
aged 72.

RAMSAY'S Gentle Shepherd, 103-128;- Richy and San-
dy, 336;-Songs. See Sangs.

Rank, its disgusting accompaniments, 58.
Ranunculus, 8.

Raphael, 163; note quoting his letter, 179.

Rats, destructive to cane-plants, 424; how to destroy them;
cats, snakes, gallinazos, Ibbos; ratsbane, nightshade,
424.

READ, THOMAS BUCHANAN, born in Pennsylvania, in 1822.
He went to Cincinnati, at the age of 17, and devoted him-
self to the fine arts; in 1847, he published, in Boston, his
Lays and Ballads; his latest work is 'The New Pastoral,'
1855.

READ'S Stranger on the Door-sill: an ode, 416.

Reapers, 194;- and harvest, 299.

Reflections of mature rural life; soliloquy, 373.

Reform, legal, urged, 399.

Refreshment in the harvest-fields, 195.

Regimen, delicate, enslave not yourself to it, 239, 340.
Register. See Parish.

Reign of May: an ode, by J. G. Percival, 101, 102.
Reindeer, 403; as food, 202.

Religion, 501; the handmaid of joy and moral pleasures,
366; necessary to true science, 81, 82.

Religious rites, observed by Roman farmers in spring and
autumn, 211.

Reminiscences of Grainger, Johnson, Percy, White, Lennox,
434.

Retirement, rural, 170; favorable to virtue, 36;— and se-
clusion, praise of, 86; — self-improvement, self-content,
170; sought by the disappointed statesman, 363;-
various motives to; the poet's, the lover's, 361; choice of
books in, 365, 366; friendship in, 366;-forbids not the
highest usefulness, 485.

Retirement: a poem, from Table Talk, by W. Cowper, 359
-366.

Retired statesman; his rural companions; the mechanic,
363.

Retrospection, excited by music, 476.

Reuben and Rachel, a prudent, happy marriage; their
thrift and comforts, 373; like two sturdy elms, 373.
Revel, the, after a fox-chase, described, 302;-May-Day,

97.

Revery, and thought, 365;- a repose of the mind, 460;-
reveries of a spring morn, 8.

Revivescence of forests, a type of man's, 131.
Rhadamanth, the justice; speech, 94, 95;-arrests Hob-
binol for seduction, 100.

Rhyme and reason of poverty, 255.

Rhymed lessons for July, 244; - for August, 296.

Rich and poor, in Great Britain, 37; - tending further
apart, 196; their relation; feelings of the poor, 196,

197.

Richard Monday's story, 321.

Richard I., his exploits, 390.

Richmond, in the valley of the Thames, England, 149; -as
a healthy home, 48;- grounds, 64; Richmond-hill-land-
scape, 149; London, 149; Richmond and Windsor, 162.
Richy and Sandy: Ramsay's pastoral on Addison's death,
336.

Ridge, a breezy, recommended, 50.

Rill, how to dispose of; the Lin, 176;- busy life of one,

312.

Riot, at May-games, 92-94; village riots, 259.
Ripening, artificial, 385; - of various ciders, 388.
Riquet, engineer of the Languedoc canal, 275.
River-god's address to Marina, 155, 156.
Rivers seen from Grongar Hill, 75, 76; like life, 76;-
unhealthiness of marshy, 48;-of South America, 143;
a river personified, and its bustling life described, 157 ; —
sources of the, Nile, Po, Euphrates, Don, 202; homes of
the rivers and lakes, described by Virgil, 234; river nav-
igation, 509.

Rivulet, the: an ode, by W. C. Bryant, 261;-use of in
enlivening the air, 49, 50.
Roadster, the, described, 69.

Roast meats, recommended, 49.

Robert and Susan, a frugal, contented pair, 319.
ROBIN HOOD, note on, p. 32; ballads on, 32-34.
Robin redbreast, 398; in winter, 477.
Robin Dingley, the poor sailor rambler, 411, 412.
Roger Cuff, the abused uncle, story of, 413, 414.
ROGERS, SAMUEL, born 1762; died Dec., 1855, aged 93. A
poet of perfect taste, an accomplished traveller, a lover of
the fair and good, a worshipper of the classic glories of
the past, and, withal, a banker who left a large property
at his death. His hospitality and benevolence were inex-
haustible. He was contemporary with some of the most
distinguished people and events in history, and first
appeared as an author in 1786, at the same time with
Burns.

ROGERS'S Rural Retreat: a sonnet, 205;- Italian Cot, 324.
Roller, 56. Rose, damask, 9. Rot and worms, 381.
Romans, early, their rustic virtues, 221; - worthies of
Rome, 400. See Mighty Dead.

Romney, Lord, eulogized, 431, 432.

Romulus, son of Mars and a Vestal Virgin, and founder of
Rome, in 1752 B. C.

Rook, love-song of, 8; city of the, in spring, 11; rooks
and crows, how to guard against, 62.

Rosy Hannah: a ballad, by Bloomfield, 74.

Rotation of crops, 208; ashes, 208.

Rousseau's apostrophe to Paris, 288.

Row,' the, its filth and wretchedness, 316.

Row of rigid oaks, how to manage in landscape, 164; Sid-
ney, Surrey; shadowy pomp, 164.

Rubia, 66.

Ruby, 137.

Rufus, William II., killed in the New Forest, 290.
Ruins, in gardening; castle, abbey, 164;
Ruin of states, gradual, 281.
Rum, praise of, 433, 434.

Rural Sports; angling, fowling, hunting : a poem, by John
Gay, 27-31.

Rural mirth and manners, gone, 35.

Rural happiness, of a young couple, described by Gay, 31;

retirement, by Goldsmith, 36;- Odes for April, 51-
54; independence, 58;- Ballads for April, 71–74 ; —
scenes, calculated to soothe and elevate, 82;- life, its
advantages, Cowper, 82; life, distaste of, a cause of de-
generacy, 86; repast of May-day, 97;- feast, 196; its
guests, 196; changes, 197; -Retreat: a sonnet, by Sam-
uel Rogers, 205; - Happiness (Virgil), 219, 220, 221; —
Poems, by Milton, 239-243;-sights and sounds, 247;
-and city life, contrasted, 252; — games (Crabbe), 256;
- Philosopher, or Country Gentleman, 263-289; - taste
should be formed, 264;-choice, 271;- Poetry, solace
to the author's disappointments, 273;- retirement, its
quiet and hopes, 273; - poets, monuments to, 267; Ber-
ghem, Virgil, Theocritus, Bion, St. Lambert, Thomson,
Pope, Gesner, 267; Polish compliment to Delille, 268;
and note, p. 289; Poetry, Delille's precepts and hints
for, 284-289; -retirement, Delille's longings for, 288;

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scenes, Cooper's Hill; Denham, Cowley, 293;-com-
petence, study, botanizing, etc., 293; life, 308; - re-
tirement, a common craving, 359; Cowper's aim in it,
366;-life, nature, its reflections, 373;- Poets ad-
dressed, Hesiod, Virgil, Dyer, Philips, Smart, Somerville,
417;-evenings, employments, 458;-philosopher and
philosophy, 458;- Poetry, Virgil, Milton, 463, 464; —
life, apostrophe to, 464; Walks. See Walk.
Russell, Lord William, eulogized, 150.
Ruth, the Gleaner: a ballad, by T. Hood, 290.
Rye, 66; bread of rye, note on, 66.

Sabbath, the Poor Man's: by Grahame, 330.

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Sabbath profanation in London, 252; - of the village, 258;
interrupted by drunkenness, etc., 258; bells, 322.
Sabrina, the Severn and its genius: note, 496.
Sap, in spring, 9.

Sage, the, his enjoyment of the country, 263, 264.
Sahara, horrors of its deserts and coasts, 144.

Sailor and farmer, 211;- sea-tost, crazed with longing for
land, 249; - his courtship and revenge, 318; - boy, 363;
-the poor, story of, 412; — simile of the 'tame' fox, 413.
Saline earths, how to test, 216.

Sally Gray, the broken-hearted: story of, 325-327.
Salmon-fishing described, 29.

SALVATOR ROSA, an Italian painter of savage scenery, 163.
Samiel, the, 144; camel, sand-spouts, caravan, 144.
Samoiedes, gross and stupid life, 404.
Samphire, gatherers, 278.

Sapphire, 137.

Sands, moving, reclaimed, 274; sand-spouts, 144; sandy
soil, its advantages and disadvantages; how to better it,
60.

Sangs, Scotch, in the Gentle Shepherd, I., 103; II., 103;
III., 106; IV., 106; V., 106; VI., 107, 108; VII., 108;
VIII., 108; IX., 109, 110; X., 111, 112; XI., 112; XII.,
112; XIII., 114; XIV., 116; XV., 118; XVI., 120;
XVII., 122; XVIII., 122; XIX., 123; XX., 124 ; XXI.,

128.

SATURN (full), in Greek, Kronos (time), son of Heaven and
Earth, and father of Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto. He
ate up his other children. Jupiter dethroned him, and
he went to Italy, where he civilized the people, taught
them agriculture and the arts, and inaugurated the Sa-
turnian or Golden Age of love and virtue, 221.
Savage, contrasted with civilized, 251; progress of, 298.
Saxon kings, their wars, 389, 390; Edgar, 389, 390.
Scab, the, 491. See Sheep. Scarecrows, 380; best, 42.
Scent, causes of; when it does not lie, 347, 348.
Science, must be religious to advance, 81, 82;- preten-
sions of, reproved; bootless toil; follies and conceit of,
81; reach of, 152.

Schoolmaster, village, by Goldsmith, 36, 37;-by Delille,

269.

School-children, various characters and destinies of, 269,

270.

Schoolmistress, the good, 320;-a poem, by Shenstone, 511.
Scotch, the, 305; glossaries of Scotch words, 26; 186; 336;
517, 518.

Scotland, described, 305; her resources, 306.

Screens, best trees for; shrubs better; pines, thorn, holly,
box, privet, pyracanth, 173.

Scudamore, Lord, 381.

Scythe, 56.

Scythians, 403; the armory of Providence, 403,

Sea, conquests over, in Holland; dikes, meadows, pas-
tures, 276. See Ocean.

Seaboard population, a vicious, described; smugglers, in-
stead of happy 'swains,' 256.

Sea-shore, fashionable migration to, 364; ocean, 364; —
humid marshes near, occasion dropsy, palsy, gout, ague,
scurvy, catarrh, 48; sea-cliff, a landmark, 250.
Season, the: a ballad, by Thomas Hood, 357.

Seasons, Thomson's, Spring, 3-14; Summer, 135-152;
Autumn, 297-310; Winter, 395-405;-changed by
the flood, 6;-procession of, personified, 59; - dance
of with the Hours, Zephyrs, Rains, Dews, Storms, 136;
-man's ages compared to, 179;- pleasures of each of
the, 220, 221; the four, 312;-change of, gradual;
precepts of health in respect to; furs, 341;-life com-
pared to, 405.

Seduction, the victim of, 38;-story of Mopsa's, 99, 100;
consequences, 100; -resisted, tempter foiled, double tri-
umph of virtue, 374.

Seclusion and retirement, praise of; not enjoyable by the
dissipated, 86.

Seeds, choice and preparation of; degeneracy, 209; - pro-
vision of nature for scattering, 151; - diffusion of, 5; —
seed-time, 42.

Seedling forest trees, seeds; spring culture of, 62.
Selfishness, its brood of curses, 6; — a life of, and a life of
beneficence, contrasted, 151.

Self recollection and reproof, 79.

Self-reform, if self-reliant, is fleeting, 473.
Sennaar, 142.

Sensible, the most so, are happiest and most virtuous, 453.
September, 331.

Serpents, tropical, 144.

Severn, legend of, note, 496.

Sexton, Dibble, and his parsons, 414.
Shade, in summer noon, 140;-trees, not noxious, 422;
utility of, 422; shade-trees for mountain grounds assigned
to slaves in the West Indies, 440; mammey, tamarind,
cassia, chirimoia, palmetto, Indian fig, anata, 440.
Shaftesbury and Shakespeare, eulogies of, 150.
Shaddoc, 417.
Shark, and slavers, 145.

Shaw, its definition, note, p. 486.
Shearing-time, 494; how to shear, 494, 495; festivities;
dance; pastoral eclogue, 495. See Sheep.
Sheep, tending of, 31;-feeding; need variety, and are
fond of changing, 44; and shepherds, in spring, 44; -
husbandry, 489, 496, 67, 68 ; — of Britain, care, diseases,
breeding, shearing of, 64, 68 ; - washing, shearing, mark-
ing, by Thomson, 139; - shearings of Lincoln, 439; —
give life to landscapes; primeval innocence, 168; -- and
goats, best grounds for, 216; - Taranto, Mantua, 216;
and goats, 225; see Goats; - morning, noon, and even-
ing pasturing of, 226; sickness of, and remedies; scab,
fevers, murrain, 227; — walks, 490; — nightly murders
of, by sheep-dog, 447; — pastures; best English, 489;
how to improve, 490:- breeds of, English, 491; sickness,
remedies; rot, halt-ail, scab; crow-flower, tar, 491, 492;
-nature their physician, 492;-when to be housed;
extremes hurtful to; winter tending, 493, 494; - the most
useful of animals, 496; - sheep-shearing festivals, 494-
496.

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Shene (splendid), the Saxon name for Richmond, 149.
SHENSTONE, WILLIAM, born at Leasowes, in the parish of
Hales Owen, Shropshire, England, Nov., 1714; died Feb.
11, 1763. He was taught to read at a dame school, and
has immortalized his preceptress in his poem of the
Schoolmistress, pp. 511-513. He was educated at Oxford.
In 1745 the paternal estate of the Leasowes fell to his
care, and he began, says Johnson, to point his pros-
pects, to diversify his surface, to entangle his walks, and
to wind his waters; which he did with such judgment and
fancy, as made his little domain the envy of the great,
and the admiration of the skilful; a place to be visited by
travellers, and copied by designers.' Dodsley and Gold-
smith have both written descriptions of the Leasowes.
Cut, p. 50.

SHENSTONE'S eclogues, Hope,' 154; Absence,' 406; 'Dis-
appointment,' 406; - Schoolmistress: a poem, 511.
SHENSTONE Complimented as a landscape gardener, by
Mason, 166;- address to, by Grainger, 424.
Shepherdess gathering flowers, 314.

Shepherd, 136;- and milkmaid, returning from work, 151.
Shepherd and his Wife: an ode, by R. Greene, 510.
Shepherd's Life: an idyl, by P. Fletcher, 488; - Eve, by
J. Fletcher, 368; -song, by Heywood, 130;-boat-song,
314; dancing-song, 158; - boy, 363; his freedom, 363;
-children, use for, 170; - piping, sheep, 77.
Shepherds, British, 11; 67; 493, 494;- classic; Arabian,
494; Lybian, Scythian, Thracian, Crimean, Danubian,
226;work of, for leisure hours, 492;-holiday of;
names, dance, 157; music and sweethearts of, 157; song,
maidens, posies, 158.

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Sherbets, 386; recommended for a dry climate, 49. See
Drinks.

Sherwood forest, renewal of, urged, 63; birthplace of Dods-
ley, 63; Robin Hood in, 34.

Shetland and the Hebrides, flocks, birds of, 305.
Shooting stars, 152.
Shore-fishing, 29.

Shore, wasted by the sea, and deserted, 256.
Showers, vernal, brought by south wind; - fertilizing, of
April; clearing up, 5;—in torrents, in West Indies,
420. See Rain.

Ship foundering in a tropical storm, 145.
Ship-building, British, 294.

Shipping of England, ports, London, 490.

Shipwreck, 145; 397; -on the coasts of the Sahara, 144 ;
- of Nerina, and rescue, 178, 179.
Shrubbery: a monologue, by Cowper, 290.
Shrubbery and trees, how to arrange picturesquely, 163;
173, 174;- various kinds of, 63; 173; 478; - young
birds of, 175; scenery; abele, beech, alder; simultaneous
leafing; habitats, size, 174; exotics precarious, natives
preferable, 174; - spring revival of; laburnum, syringa,
rose, cypress, yew, lilac, woodbine, hypericum, mezereon,
broom, jasmine, 478. See Shrubs.

Shrubs, which add to the beauty of a landscape; orange,
almond, pine, gelder-rose, acacia, roses, honeysuckle,
mezereon, laurustinus, laburnum, 63.

Sick poor, their discomforts, 257.

Sidney, Algernon, eulogized, 150.

Signs of a plentiful season, 509; observed by Roman farm-
ers, 210; of heat, rain, wind, dry and wet weather,
storm, 211, 212.

Signs of the Zodiac. See Zodiac.

Silence, apostrophized, 77.

SILVANUS, a Roman god of fields, cattle, and boundaries.
He was imaged as old, and bearing an uprooted cypress.
Silver Age, Hesiod's description of the, 19.

Simoom, the, 144; camels, caravans, 144.

Simplicity, dedication to; the arbitress of taste in garden-
ing, 161.

Sin, originated fear and distrust between man and animals,
480.

Singers of Pastorals: an eclogue, translated from the Greek
of Theocritus, by J. M. Chapman, 253, 254.
Singing-birds, 136.

Sirius, the dog-star, in Canis Major; supposed to be the
star nearest the earth.

SISYPHUS, son of Eolus, and founder of Corinth. He out-
witted Death several times. For this Pluto condemned
him to roll a stone up hill, which constantly recoiled.
Sites for homes, best, 48.
Skiddaw, Mt., 172.

Sky of autumn, blue, cool, golden, 297, 298.

Slave clothing, 441 ;-code, should protect the West India
negro, 441;-marriages, 441.

Slaves, 435-442; see Negro; urged to be happy, 437.
Slavers, sharks, and their victims, 145.

Slavery, irrational and monstrous (Cowper), 470; — to
error, 476.

Sleep, exercise promotes good; avoid eating late at night,
340; on food half-digested; bad dreams; — - noon-day,
reprobated, and midnight study, 340, 341;— of vegeta-
bles, 477.

Sloth, effects of on a farm, 60, 61.
Smelting of iron ore, 66.

Smock-race, the, on May-day, 98, 99.

SMOLLET, TOBIAS GEORGE, the distinguished novelist, and
author of some good poetry. He was born near Renton,
Dumbartonshire, Scotland, in 1721, and died at Leghorn,
Tuscany, Oct. 21, 1771. Surgeon in the navy in youth,
about 1750 he devoted himself to literature; and his life
was a perpetual struggle for a living. He wrote Roderick
Random, Peregrine Pickle, &c.; also a history of England.
Smugglers, 256.
Snails in the orchard, 381.

Snake, wounded, simile, 96;- how to expel snakes; kill-
ing of one; the Calabrian snake; shedding his skin, 227.
Snow, 467;- of North Europe; hunting deer in snow,
226; as a fertilizer, 386;-storm; fields, ox, birds,
397; robin redbreast, hare, sheep, 398; - the first
snow-storm, travelling, teamster; humanity to teams, 460.
Snow-ball bush, or yellow rose, 63. Snowdrop, 6.
Sociability, rural, described; female art of talking, 373.
Society, not strict enough as to virtue, 80; — origin of, 152;

necessary in age, 267;-fountain of; civil liberty;
justice; refinement, 298; of the wise; of friends, 400.
Sofa: a poem, by Cowper, 245-252.

Soil, uses of and how to improve, sandy, clayey, loamy, 60;
-varying appearances of, 278; -every kind good for
something, 378; - for the sugar-cane, 417, 418 ; — dif-
ferent culture and various properties of, 59, 60.

Soils, should be well pulverized, 208;-improvement of,
208; nature of; best for olives; grapes; sheep and
goats; tillage, 216; poor and good soils, described; Cam-
pania; light and heavy, use of each; saline, how
tested; how to know and test, 216, 217;for cane,
dark, 418; transported by washing away, 276; epi-
sode, illustrative, 276, 277 ; — fitted to peculiar products,
207; Tmolus, India, Edom, Pontus, Spain, Epirus, prod-
ucts of, 207, 208.
Solar system, 136.

Soldier, Roman, 226.

Soldiers of the cross, children to become, 133.
Soliloquy of Alcander over Nerina's corpse, 183; - of the
worn-out old laborer, 257.

Solitude, its uses, 170; its conveniences and inconveni-
ences, 247, 248 ; — grateful in youth, 267 ; — and liberty,
333; a grave, without friendship, 365; -use and
abuse of, 451, 452.

Solyma, Jerusalem.

SOMERVILLE, WILLIAM, born 1682, died 1742. He tells Ram-
say that he was a squire well born, and six feet high."
His estate lay in Warwickshire, and brought him fifteen
hundred pounds per annum. Generous, but extravagant,
he died in distress.

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SOMERVILLE'S May Games, 89-100; Chase, abridged,
345-355.

Song of Spring: an ode, by Rufus Dawes, 101.
Song, Shepherd's: by Heywood, 130.

Song of Wooing: an idyl, by Bryant, 159.

Songs, in Gentle Shepherd.' See Sungs; also their first
lines in this Index.

Sonnet for November: by Bryant, 376.
Sophy, the Shah or King of Persia.

Sorrow, for the loved and honored dead, 260 ; — sacredness
of; a reality, 362; — use of, 412; cure; change, travel,
war; woful effects of trying to drown it in drink, 452.
Sorrows of Love, or the Broken Heart: a poem, 325-327.
Soul, redemption of, a divine, not human work, 474.
Sounds, Rural, 247. See Rural Sounds.

Sound should echo sense, in rural poetry; imitation of Pope
and Horace, 288.

South America, rivers of, 143; compared with European,

285.

Soups, when to be used, 49.
Southcote's grounds, 64.

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Southcote complimented by Mason, 166.

Sowing, spring, 4;-religious rites in; Hesiod's remarks
on, 21;-time for, indicated by the stars; Arcturus,
Aldebaran, 210.

'Speak on, speak thus, and still my grief:' a song (XVII.),

122.

Speculations, philosophic, ridiculed, 81.
Spendthrift, the, in the country, 364.

SPENSER, EDMUND, one of the glories of Queen Elizabeth's
reign; born 1553, educated at Cambridge. Appointed
secretary to Gray, lord deputy of Ireland, he received
three thousand twenty-eight acres of land in Cork county,
forfeited by Earl Desmond. He had to live here at Kil-
colman Castle, whose ruins are still seen. The Mulla ran
through his grounds. Here he wrote the Fairy Queen,
and entertained Raleigh. In Tyrone's rebellion the castle
was set fire to, and Spenser's new-born infant perished.
He reached London impoverished, broken-hearted, and
died three months after, 16th January, 1599.
SPENSER, EDMUND, eulogized, 150; - residence of; art sec-
onding nature, 165; — March; an eclogue, 15.
Spirit, wounded, God alone cures, 362; of Beauty ode,
by Dawes, 160; - world, of the departed, its music to the
poet, 140, 141; spiritual progress, 30.
Spleen, cured by change and nature, 250.
Spider, its hunt and prey, 130.
Spinning wool, 503, 504.
Spiuster, prudish, story of, 410.
Sporting cruelties censured, 480.

Sports, Rural: described by Gay, 27-31;-rustic, pleaded
for, 270.

Sportsman, the (Thomson); spaniel, covey, 301, - his
sports reprobated by Cowper, 82;- and hunter, the
mere, 267.

Spring, season of, 1-134 ; — invocation to, 3;— effects of,
on minerals, vegetables, and animals, 4-11; on the pas-
sions, 11-14; - compared to childhood, 170 ; — Greek,
23; landscape, its marvellous beauty, 8;-flowers of
8; 44;-creation of the world took place in; account of
it, 218; revivifying energies of (Virgil), 217; on birds,
beasts, plants, 217, 218;-forests reviving in, 131; —
and summer personified, 59,- and autumn, their differ-
ent scenes; effects on the mind contrasted; on insect,

sage, and poet, 264; — active pleasures of; health, 265;
-its rural sports, 28;-coming of, described, 42;—
coming forth, 44; - its amusements, 265; -bird-life in,
132, 133; - the smile of God, 11;- effects of, on man,
12-14; on the benevolent, sick, pious, 12; -forest-
flowers of, 132; — early, capricious, care of buds in, 83.
Spring: Anacreon's ode to, by T. Moore, 102; ode on, by
Mrs. Barbauld, 41; song of, by Dawes, 101; ode on, by
Gray, Lo where,' &c., 101; Voice of Spring: ode by
Hemans, 52; Spring-scene, by O. W. Holmes, 102; - Me-
leager's ode on, by Buckminster, 46; Spring Musings:
an ode, by Clare, 53; - an ode, by Percival, 52; - Thom-
son's poem of, 3—14.

Springs, medicinal, 280; their visitors, 280.
Squire Hobbinol, 89. See Country Squire.
Squirrel, 479; and boys in chase, 313.

Stag-hunt, 266, 292, 301; at bay, 266. See Hunt.
Stagnant waters, avoid drinking till boiled, 203.
Stanley, a beatified spirit, addressed, 141.
Stallions, good points in, 222.

Statesman, disappointed, seeks rural retirement, 363.
'Statute,' in England, note describing it, 56.

St. Christopher (Kitts'), W. I., described, 417, 418.

Steer, breaking to the yoke, 223; -and Swiss plague, 228.
Stirom cider, apt to be heady; consequences, 388.

St. John's College, 177, and note.

Stock-dove, love-song of, 9;-plaint of, 141.
Stock-flower, 8.

Stone, product of Britain, 66.

Stones, origin of man from, 218. See Deucalion.
Storm, signs of a; see Signs;-winter, northern, described,

22.

Storms of tropical oceans, 145;-of winter described, 396,
397; signs of, 396; freshet, 396.

Stowe, the seat of Cobham, described, 307.

Stream, compared to an unsuccessful author, 156; tor-
mented, 157; in spring; fish, alders, trouts, angler, 131,
132;-to be curbed, 276.

Stranger on the Door-sill: an ode, by T. B. Read, 416.
Strata, deposits of, from solutions, 278.

'Street' of hamlet; scold, smugglers, prostitutes, 316, 317.
STREET'S August,' 262;- Early Garden,' 130.
String-fences, their advantages and disadvantages, 169.
Stripping the cane-plants, 423.

Strymonian, from the Strymon, now Karasou river, Turkey
in Europe.

Stuart (Queen Anne), compliment to one, 291.
Stud-horse, good points in, 222.

Study, as influencing health, 451; -midnight, reprobated,
341.

Style of building should not jumble temples, tents, pyra-
mids, circles, 181.

Suburban residences satirized, 364; 323; taste in, 365.
Suffolk, in England, note, p. 44; -skim-milk cheese, 43, 44.
Sugar, boiling, granulating, explosions, lime, 430, 432, 433.
Sugar Cane: a poem, by J. Grainger, 417-442; book I.,
cane-planting, 417-423; book II., evils affecting the
cane, 423-429; book III., cropping, making, 429-435;
book IV., negroes, 435-442. See Cane; Negroes.
Suicide's grave, 151.

Sultanas of Aurengzebe, sue for mercy to the chase, 353.
Summer: a poem, by Thomson, 135-152; - a poem, by
Bloomfield, 193-197;- an eclogue, by Pope, 198.
Summer, 265; -the Second of the Seasons, 135-192; -
personified, by Dodsley, 59;-its approach, 135; —
heats, of Greece; effects; refreshment, 23;-day, de-
scribed, by Thomson; dawn, sunrise, 136; forenoon, 137;
noon, 139, afternoon, 148; sunset, evening, 151; night,
151, 152;-noon, preparations for, 137; flocks, cows,
daw, rook, magpie, shade of oaks, fowls, house-dog,
greyhound, insects, 137, 138;-noon, blaze of light and
heat, silence, quiet, 139; shade, scenes, cattle, slumber-
ing herdsman, 140; insects, 138; 194; their variety
and beauty; of the water, wood, flowers, house, 138 ; —
in the torrid zone, 141-146;-tempest, described, 146;
clouds, fruits ripening, evening walk; circle of friends,
148, 149;-evening, 238; - described; shadows, breeze,
quail, wafted seeds, 151;-night; glow-worm, evening-
star, 151; midnight, tempest of the; dread; elm;
house-dog, 196; insect life; habits of the beetle, moth,
grasshopper, 194; - employments, and winter pleasures,
211; praise of; moonlight, 265; - drinks, 386;—
Indian, 343, 344; 356.

Summer Months: an ode, by Motherwell, 160;-Insects:
an ode, by Clare, 262;-Wind: by Bryant, 206.

Syracuse, note on, p. 26.

Syrian wool; Tyrian dyes, 498.

Syrup of sugars, 433.

Swale, fate of exotics on its banks, 174.

Swallow, building his nest, 10; — in Greece, 23.

Swampy luxuriance, how to beautify, 167, 168.
Swan and her young, 11.

Sweating plague, 342.

Swedish wool, 500.

Swinging, 290.

Sweethearts and their champions, on May-day, 90.
Swimming, 147.

Swiss epidemic among animals, 227, 228; see Epidemic;
plague; avalanches, 399.

Tabitha, competitress in the race, 98.

Taburnus, a lofty mountain of the Samnites, south of Rome,
whose southern slope was covered with olives, and ended
at the Caudine Pass.

TACITUS, the Roman historian, 94.

Talking party, of women, in the country, 373.
Talbot-hound; used in hunting moss-troopers, 347.
Talents, diversified; use for mutual aid, 132.
Talgol, his exploits at the May-day riot, 93.
Tamarind-walk, 423.

Tamarisk, a shrub prized for long spikes of pink flowers.
Tanks, canals, terraces, in gardening, satirized, 176.
TANTALUS. See Pelops.

Tapestries, Blenheim, 508.

Tartar army-hunt described, 351-353.

Taste should preside over rural labors, 85; — vulgar, in
gardening, 85; - true, in gardening, Bacon its prophet,
Milton its herald, 165; - not inconsistent with thrift; -
exhortation to; Reynolds, Garrick, 166; not to be
taught by rules, 175; to be curbed by reason, 172.
Tempe, 12, a vale of Thessaly, about five miles long, through
which flowed the Peneus, from Mt. Pindus. It was and
is a proverb for beauty.
Temperance, 389; 49; recommended to the young farm-
er, 55; inculcated by Epicurus, 64; — is true luxury,
200.

Temperate zone, the, pictured, 286.
Tempest, 300;-ravages of in harvest, 65; — of summer,
146, 147; mineral exhalations; clouds, preceding calm;
birds, raven; cattle; thunder and lightning, 146;-at
night, wholesome awe from, 196; -in harvest; floods,
thunder and lightning, fright, noises, 211; — winter;
signs of on ocean; on land, 396, 397.

TEMPLE, SIR WILLIAM, his idea of a garden, 165. Born
1628, died 1700; ambassador to Holland, secretary of
state, and an eminent statesman. At his country-seat,
Surry, he was often visited by Charles II., James II.,
and William III.
Temptation, 374; 86; of the farmer, not ambition, ava-
rice, or luxury, 58;-nobly and triumphantly resisted,

374.

Tenglio river, 404, and note.

TERPSICHORE, inventress and muse of dancing; imaged
holding music and crowned with laurel. See Muses.
TETHYS, wife of Oceanus (ocean), and daughter of Uranus
and Terra (heaven and earth), mother of the rivers and
three thousand ocean-nymphs. See Nymphs.
THALIA, muse of comedy; also of husbandry and planting.
Thanksgiving Hymn of the Farmers: by Jones, 358.
Thames, the, good example compared to, 260; — appears
with his tributary rivers in pageantry, to honor Queen