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-
males, often dangerous to society and to religion, v. 21.
Zealots, furious, how to be extirpated, ii. 479; false ones, in religion, treated on, iii. 51, 52.
Zelinda, a rich widow, pays to Silvio his bill of costs during his courtship of her,iv.171. Zell, dukedom of, an accession of domi- nion to the Elector of Hanover and King of Great Britain, iv. 402. Zemath-David, his testimony of the mi racle which frustrated the design of re- building the Temple, v. 135.
Zenobia, the figure of, how recognised on medals, i. 264.
Zephon, his rebuke of Satan, graceful and moral, iii. 226.
Zetus, how represented in a group of figures, i. 465.
Zimri, a character admirably finished by Dryden, iii. 3.
Zodiac, signs of, allusion to, i. 319. Zoilus, his ridicule of Homer. iii. 188. Zurich, the handsomest town in Switzer- land, described, i. 521.
Vol. v. p. 324, note, for Nicholl's read Nichol's.
330, line 6 from bottom, add accent to Abbé.
331, add accents to Châteaudun and Vendôme.
335, note1. Dr. Chartlett's letters are not published in Aubrey's Bodleian Collection.
365, note, for 1797 read 1707.
374, note 4, read Universelle.
418, note, for Lambertz read Lamberty.
Vol. vi. p. 537, in line 18 of Poem, for thirsty read thirst. 681, line 13 from bottom, for and read but.
observed that these Whiston and Ditton' lines are not pu It should also be lished in the name of Gay, but are merely assigned to him in an old MS. note found in the volume whence they are taken, and which consists chiefly of Swift's pieces. 726, line 10 from top, for 1701 read 1710.
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