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Sunday, pleasures of, in the country,

ii. 145; its civilising effect, ibid.
Sunderland, Charles, Earl of, vi. v
Superstition, some forms of it illus-

trated, i. 37; employed by fools
to increase life's evils, 41; ghost
stories, 64; based upon natural
occurrences, ii. 136; spectres and
apparitions invented to frighten,
v. 145; ridiculous arts originated
by a desire to look into futurity,
vii. 149, viii. 206

Surprise in story-telling, vii. 314
Susanna, or Innocence Betrayed,'
puppet play, i. 78

Swan, Mr., famous punster, i. 317
Swift, Dean, i. 245 note, 257 note,
419 note; ii. 18 note, 37 note, 96
note, 210 note, 255 and note, 262
note, 299 note; iii. 247 note; iv.
271 note; v. vi note, 12 note, 38
note, 110 note, 129, 176 note, 330
note; vi. 85 note, 129 note, 158
note, 204 note, 232 note, 366 note;
viii. 267

Swingers described, vii. 91, 108
Swords, combat by, vi. 190
Sydenham, Dr. Thomas, his Metho-
dus curandi Febres, i. 129 and
note; cited, ii. 163 and note
Sylvana, her conduct in the absence
of Hortensius, v. 118
Sylvester, Joshua, his translation of

Du Bartas, i. 302 and note
Sympathy, Addison's essay on, vi. 10

TACITUS, ii. 98; iii. 335 and note
Tailors: a tailor as stage lion, i. 70;
the tailor often contributes more
to the success of a tragedy than
the poet, 218
Talents, good talents not to be held
honourable without considering
their application, iii. 15, 380; the
misapplication of talents, vi. 41
Talking aloud to one's self regarded
as a sign of madness, viii. 95
Tansy, the dish described, ii. 154

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Tasso, Torquato, Italian poet, i. 30;

iv. 37 note; v. 269
Taste, fine, essay on, vi. 62
Tate, Nahum, poet-laureate, vii. 74
and note

Tavern despots, vii. 162
Taverns, the Rose, i. 11 and note,
184; Bear, ii. 270; Cross Keys,
ibid.; Cock and Bottle, iii. 77;
Bumper, iv. 67, 68 note, 74;
Half Moon, vii. 8

Tea taken at breakfast, i. 53
Temperance, in eating and drinking,
iii. 126 et seq.

Tempers, merry and serious, viii.
181

Templar, the, member of Spectator

club, i. 10, 115, 174; vii. 327
Temple, Sir William, i. 109; iii.
129 and note

Temple, the, a custom of the
Benchers, iii. 383 and note
Terence, iii. 3 and note; vii. 134,
232

Terræ-filius, the, ii. 329 and note
Tertullian, vii. 69 and note
'That,' reply to petition of 'Who'
and 'Which,' i. 420

Theatres. See Stage; also Drury
Lane, Covent Garden, Hay-
market, &c.

Theocritus, i. 301 and note; iii. 281
Theognis, vi. 328

Thornhill, Mr., his duel with Sir
Cholmondeley, ii. 18 note
Thought in sickness, a, vii. 185
Thrift, remarks on, iv. 158; its
advantages urged, vi. 255 et seq.
Thucydides, ii. 5 and note
Thunder, stage, i. 185 and note,
215, 225; viii. 159 and note
Tickell, Thomas, i. intro. xlvi; iii.
261 note; vi. 67 and note; vii.
238 and note, 283, 285; viii. I
note, 269
Tillotson,

Dr., his 'Sermons'
quoted, v. 171; viii. 7 and note,
189 and note

Tilt Yard, the, ii. 132
Toasts, iv. 127 and note
Tofts, Mrs. Katherine, singer, i.

112 and note; vi. 222 and note
Toland, John, freethinker, iii. 317

note

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Tonson, Jacob, the publisher, i. 7
note; ii. 55 note, 359 note; vii.
124 note

Torcy, Marquis de, iv. 276

Tothill Fields, frequented by duel-
lists, ii. 18 note

Trade. See Commerce

Traders more exposed than other
classes to inquisitiveness and
slander, iii. 239

Tragedy, Addison's critical essays
on, i. 199, 204; remarks on the
tragedy of 'The Distrest Mother,'
iv. 196, v. 94, 112; it is witnessed
by the Spectator, Sir Roger, and
Capt. Sentry, v. 79. See also
Plays.

Tragi-comedy denounced, i. 207 and

note

Transmigration of souls, Addison's
essay on, iii. 205; v. 123
Travel, travelled ladies' fashions
introduced by, i. 233; foreign
travel discussed, v. 237
Trees, planting of, a pleasing amuse-
ment for country gentlemen, viii.
120; beauty and usefulness of,
146; veneration of the ancients
for, ibid.

Trick-track, game of, v. 377 and

note

Trojans, a university party, oppo-

nents of the Greek party, iii. 340,
369

Trophonius's Cave, viii. 183, 184
Trueby, widow, her waters, v. 46
and note

'Trunk-maker in the upper gallery,'
the, iii. 319

Truth in the allegory of True and
False Wit,' i. 329; is the founder
of the family of humour, 197;
Tillotson quoted, v. 171; essay
on truth and falsehood, 158; in-
ability of most people to keep to
it, vii. 228; a virtue in conversa-
tion, viii. 6

Tryphiodorus, Greek grammarian,
i. 304 and note
Tully. See Cicero

Tyburn, ii. 335 and note; v. 116

UGLINESS and Ugly Clubs, i. 89 et
seq., 161 et seq., 267 et seq., 406
et seq.
Universe, reflections on, viii. 40
Utrecht, treaty of, vii. 38 and note

VAILLANT, French bookseller, vi.
204 and note

Valentinus, Basilius, alchemist, vi.
151 note, 147
Valets-de-chambre for ladies, i. 233
Valetudinarians, i. 128
Vanbrugh, Sir John, architect of
Blenheim Palace, i. 307 and note
Vanini, Lucilio, v. 356 and note
Vauxhall or Foxhall, v. 325 and

note

Vega, Lope de, i. 304 note
Vertot, Abbé, v. 156 and note
Vertue, engraver, v. 205 note
Villars, Abbé de, v. 311 note
Vinegar Yard, Drury Lane, i. 278
and note

Viner, Sir Robert, a Lord Mayor
of London, cited, vi. 321 and

note

Virgil, i. 31, 108, 134, 322, 326,
365; ii. 45, 46 note, 208 note;
iii. 100, 167; iv. I note, 6, 80 et
seq., 108, 138 et seq., 230 et seq.,
303 note, 338; v. 69, 133, 161;
vi. 43, 105, 323, 337; viii. 72,
147

Virtue, heroic, in common life, iii.

343; Addison's essay on the
beauty of virtue, 357; virtue ac-
companied by extreme simplicity
to be deprecated, 365; exercise
by the great, 380; virtue and
beauty united in the character of
Emilia, iv. 255

Visions of Mirzah, the, ii. 370 and
note

Visiting, a fashion among coquettes
of receiving visits in bed, i. 233

WALL, Dr. William, ii. 56 and note
Waller, the poet, 45, 322; ii. 370

and note; iii. 53, 266, 333 and
note, 388 and note; iv. 364 and
note; vii. 251 and note
Watts, Dr. Isaac, vi. 314 note;
metrical psalm contributed by
him, 316

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Widow Club, viii. 23, 74
Widow-hunters, viii. 23
Widower, grief of a, vii. 224
Widows, custom of riding the black
ram, viii. 252, 280

Wilks, Robert, player, iv. 85 and
note; v. 271

William III., i. 302; vii. 204 et seq.
Wimble, Will, account of his char-

acter, ii. 126 and note, 195, 218;

iv. 91
Wingate, Edmund, his 'Arithmetic,'
ii. 56 and note
Winstanley, Henry, his Water-
Theatre, ii. 418 and note
Wit and humour: wit and sense
more esteemed than honesty and
virtue, i. 33; wit and learning to
be valued by their application,
35; Witty Club, 91; evil wrought
by witty and spirited lampoons,
118; history of lampooning and
satire, ibid.; behaviour of noble
victims to their lampooners, 119;
wits and their masks, 166 and
note; true and false wit and
humour, 178; Shadwell cited,

179; Cowley's definition of wit
by negatives, ibid.; allegorical
genealogy of True Humour, ibid.;
and of False Humour, 180;
characteristics of False Humour,
181; wit turned to deformity by
affectation, 194; Hobbes's hypo-
thesis of laughter, 242, 246; court
fools, 243; Dutch sign of the
Gaper, ibid.; vagrant wits, named
in every country from good dishes,
244; April fools, 245; conver-
sational butts,' 247; Falstaff
quoted, ibid.; 'biters' and their
methods, 245 and note; history of
false wit examined, 279; nothing
so much admired or so little un-
derstood as wit, 298; Dryden
quoted, 301; Herbert and Du
Bartas cited, 302 and notes; poems
in pictures, 302; universal desire
to become wits, 304; lipogram-
matists or letter-droppers, ibid.;
the rebus, 305; echoes as linguists
among the ancients, 307; echo-
speech ridiculed in Hudibras, 308;
false wit among the monks, 309;
anagrams, 310; acrostics, 311;
chronograms, 311; Bouts-rimés,
312; double rhymes, 314; pun.
ning, 315; classical puns, 316;
puns first separated from true wit
by Quintilian and Longinus, 318;
periodical revivals, ibid.; the

Witch's prayer,' ibid.; defini-
tion of a pun, 319; Locke quoted,
320; definitions of true wit, 321;
mixed wit, 322; Dryden's defini-
tion of wit, 324 and note; Bon-
hours cited, 325 and notes; alle-
gory of true, mixed, and false
wit, 328; use of wit in plays,
339; wit in connection with
authors, ii. 280; wit of ill-
natured and good-natured men
compared, 423; some artifices
and modes of false wits detailed,
iii. 246; low wit of the streets,
v. 183 and notes; whims and
humorists brought together in
company, 275; essay on raillery,
vi. 127; sound judgment neces-
sary to the wit, 128; various
species of false wit employed in

conversation, vii. 144; ridicule
most strong when concealed by
gravity, viii. 257; burlesque dis-
tinguished more by vivacity than
wit, 258; strained and pompous
humour illustrated, 260
Witchcraft, Addison's essay on, ii.
170; the character of a supposed
witch, 172; executions for witch-
craft, 174 note; on the stage, 286
'Wit's Commonwealth' of John
Bodenham, iv. 273 and note
Wolsey, Cardinal, viii. 27
Wood, Lieut.-Gen. Cornelius, ii.
341 and note

Woolston, Thomas, vi. 7 note
Women, more powerful part of
British nation, i. 25; trivial nature
of their employments deplored,
55: smitten by everything showy
and superficial, 80; English
women more beautiful than those
of other nations, ii. 5; satire of
Simonides on women, ascribing
their origin to the brutes, iii. 198;
letters to the Spectator on the
same, 208 et seq.; their gift of
eloquence and rhetoric, 375, iv.
4; love of finery, 69; long-
ings of, v. 24; influence on the
manners of men, vi. 178; re-
public of women, 180, 182;
power of, vii. 173; sales of, 177
Women's men, characteristics of, ii.

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