147 ; under-secretary to Addison, 329; Toad, valued at a hundre il crowns, ii. 156.
bis translation of 1st book of the Iliad, Tobacco, quantity smoked by the Ever-
423; his Life of Addison, 432; his verses lasting Club, ii. 380.
on Addison's marriage, 434 ; letter (for Toga, of the Romans, i. 261.
Addison) to Vice-Admiral Cornwall, 458; Toleration Act, hung up in the hall of
his translation of Homer, 542; referred Public Credit, ii. 237.
to, 701-703; his notices of Addison's Tom, cousin to the Lizards, his charac-
Cato, 715; his elegy on Addison, 745. ter, iv. 312.
Tickell, Richard, appointed a clerk in Tom-tits, to personate singing-birds in an
Addison's office, v. 508.
opera, ii. 243.
Tide, observable in the Adriatic from Ve- Tombs contemplated, ii. 283, 284.
nice to Ancona, i. 397 ; of Eternity, ii. Tonon, a town on the lake of Geneva, be-
500.
longing to Savoy, i. 510; its wholesome
Tillotson, his remark on King William's fountain of water, 511.
wound at the battle of Boyne, i. 5; his Tonson, Mr. Jacob, jun., recommends
widow's dowry raised on the sale of his Bayle's dictionary to the ladies, ii. 409;
writings, ii. 38; his opinion on Provi- his behaviour to Sir R. Steele, respect-
dence, iii. 305; his improved notion of ing the Drummer, v. 142; letters to,
heaven and hell, 456 ; extract from an 319, 320, 321, 434 ; probably founder of
elegant sermon of his, iv. 86; deserved- the Kit-cat Club, 343; assignment with
ly called the great British preacher, ib., him by Addison for volume of Spectator,
note; his remark on the happiness of 524 ; anecdote of him, as secretary of
the blessed, 154 ; advanced by King the Kit-cat Club, 677 ; his profits from
William to the highest station in the Milton's Paradise Lost, 695.
church, 422; his friendship and cor. Tooke, Ben, Swift's bookseller, v. 380.
respondence with Lord Somers, v. 42. Topknot, Dr., iv. 224.
Timavus described by Claudian, i. 377. Torcy, Marquis de, to be president of the
Timbrel of the Egyptians, i. 323.
political academy at Paris, iii. 314 ; ple-
Time, how represented on ancient medals, nipotentiary from the King of France,
i. 287; exhibited as retouching the iv. 662, and note; Bolingbroke's corres-
works of the great painter, ii. 395; its pondence with, v. 653 ; Bolingbroke im-
shortness unjustly complained of, 412; peached for betraying instructions to,
methods of employing it to advantage, 662; and holding a private correspond-
412, 413; measured by the succession ence with, relative to the Pretender,
of ideas, 416; compared to an ocean, iii. 663.
105; seldom affords sufficient employ- Toricellius, inventor of the weather-glass,
ment to the mind, 491 ; has mellowed ii. 162.
and given grace to the writings of anti-Tories, described as monsters, ii. 331 ;
quity, v. 227.
called by the Examiner the whole body
Times of disorders and tumults fullest of of the English nation, iv. 377; their
instruction, iv. 498.
absurd and wretched attempts to ca-
Timogenes, a man of false honour, iv. 311. lumniate King William and the house
Timoleon, referred all his successes to of Hanover, 421; actuated by a pre-
Providence, iv. 227; his extraordinary tended concern for religion, 423; their
deliverance from a conspiracy, ib.
emissaries diligent in spreading ridicu-
Tintoret, Tom, a wine-colourer, ii. 94. lous fictions, 424; forced to borrow
Tiresias, his sexual transformation, i. 124, toasts from their antagonists, 426 ; their
his advice to Ulysses, ii. 111.
political faith, 451; their credenda, 452;
Tirol, the territory of, described, i. 533; its reasons why they resort to libel and
government, privileges, &c., 538.
ridicule, 468; some of them scandalized
Titan, description of, in Claudian, i. 307. at such measures, 470; driven by de.
Titanius ales, i, 285.
spair to the comfort of old women's
Titian, a painting of, story respecting, i. tales, 487; absurdly arrogate the name
352; vision of his pictures, ii. 394.
of the church, 593 ; call royalty repub-
Titles, an intimation of some particular licanism, and rebellion passive obedi.
merit, iii. 99; a death-bed shows their ence, ib.; impose on the ladies, by re-
emptiness, 100; among the common- presenting all the rebels as handsome
wealth of males, 432.
men, v. 19; represent the Whigs as
Tittle, Sir Timothy, a critic, ii. 150; his aiming to retrench the privileges of the
behaviour at a friend's house, ib.; dis- fáir sex, ib. ; deceive them by reports
putes with his mistress, 151.
of prodigies, 20; and of the danger of
Titus, one of his medals explained, i. 331 ; the church, ib. ; their favourite charac-
his arch, 480 ; could not prevent the de- ter in the play of Sir Courtly Nice, 25 ;
struction of the temple of Jerusalem, v. the avowed friends of the French, 98;
136.
Addison's intimacy with the, 695.
Tivoli, described, i. 488.
Tortuga, report concerning the capture of
VOL. V.
British ships fetching salt thence, v. a fallacious doctrine, 808; disregarded
51.
in the best English tragedies, 309,
Tory foxhunter. humorous account of Rants, 310; false artifices to excite ter-
one, iv. 478; meets with the Freeholder ror and pity, 311; certain incidents to
in the Park, v. 61 ; his whimsical adven- be told, not represented, 313; often
tures with the batts, 62; his remarks on more indebted for success to the tailor
the masqueraders, 62, 63; his pocket and the painter than the poet, ib.; ter-
picked by a cardinal, 64; converted ror produced by thunder, lightning,
into a good subject to King George, 70; and spectres, 314; frequent murders on
which led to this change, 71 ; the English stage censured, 316; tragic
his resolution to convert his neighbour, occurrence in one of the Leeward Islands,
74.
iii. 96 ; writers of, take precedence of
Tory foxhunters, ii. 480.
those of Comedy, iv. 49; defective in
Tory patches worn by the ladies, ii. 389. proper sentiments, 207; an unpublish-
Tory principles weighed against those of ed one attributed to Addison, v. 746.
a Whig, iii. 479.
Tragedy-writers, wherein defective, iii. 97.
Tory scheme, why inferior to that of the Tragi-Comedy, a monstrous invention, iii.
Whigs, v. 96; its origin, and evil tend- 309.
ency of its principles, 96, 97.
Trajan, an act of his tribuneship comme-
Touchwood, Lady Penelope, indicts Cam- morated on coin, i. 263, 264; medal on
bric, a linen-draper, in the Court of his victory over the Daci, 309; repre-
Honour, ii. 211.
sented as the deliverer of Rome, 315;
Touchy, Col., indicts Mr. Heedless in the his triumphal arch at Ancona, 407; a
Court of Honour, ii. 221.
curious medallion of his, 474 ; his pillar
Touchy, Tom, a litigious country 'squire, the noblest in the world, 478; martyr-
ii. 465.
dom of Simeon in his reign, v. 125.
Toulon, how lost to the Duke of Savoy, Tranquillina, her bust at Florence, i. 500.
iv. 354.
Translation of Italian operas into English,
Tower-lions, judges of the title of our spoils the effect of the music, ii. 269.
British kings, v. 71.
Translations of Greek and Roman au-
Town, infested by lions, iv. 162.
thors have improved our language, v.
“ Town-talk," a letter in, answering the 48.
Pretender's declaration, commended, Translators, Horace's rule for, iv. 336,
iv. 428, 429.
337 ; difference between putting an au-
Town-woman, to be regarded as a Syren, thor into English and translating him,
ii. 217.
339.
Townly, Lady, her action of debt against Transmigration, of liquors, subterraneous
Mrs. Flambeau, ii. 220.
philosophers employed in, ii. 92; expe-
Townshend, Lord Viscount, secretary of riments, 94; the doctrine of, consi-
state, and afterwards lord-lieutenant of dered, iii. 89; of souls, Will. Honey-
Ireland, Addison's memorial to, v. 632, comb's opinion respecting, 335; letter
633.
from Pug the monkey to his mistress,
Trabea, (Italie) a vestment of the Ro- 336.
mans, i. 261.
Trapp, Dr., his remark on Pope's Satire on
Trade, has given additional empire to Addison, v. 700.
Britain, ii. 373; a foxhunter's invectives Travelling, of what use to ladies, ii. 319,
against, iv. 481 ; how encouraged by 321; behaviour of a travelled lady at
various English sovereigns, v. 49; essen- the play-house, 321; what good for, ac-
tial to the safety, strength, and pros- cording to the fox-hunter, iv. 480.
perity of this nation, 54 ; Council of, Travels of Mr. Addison in Italy, how cha-
Addison's letters to, 419; Lords Com. racterized, i. 358, note; his publication
missioners of, letters to, 443, 448, 452, of, v. 347.
465, 474, 475, 486, 500 ; Addison one of Treason, the grove of, in the Highlander's
the Lords of, 745.
Vision, iv. 496; punishments for it, why
Trades and professions, in what originat- particularly necessary, v. 7; general
ing, ii. 332.
charges of, against certain personages,
Tradewell, his remark on his wife's china, 650, 652, 653, 656–668 (see Secret Com-
iv. 332, 333.
mittee); charges of, against Lord Bo.
Trading nation, its advantages, ii. 274. lingbroke, 662; and the Earl of Oxford,
Tradition of the Indians erting souls, 664, 665.
ii. 336.
Treasury, Lords of the, letters to, v. 450,
Traerbach relieved by the British army, i. 451, 468, 479, 480, 483, 499, 503, 504.
53.
Treatall, Timothy, indicted by ladies in
Tragedy, perfect, the noblest production the Court of Honour, ii. 218; his sen.
of human nature, ii. 304; English, tence, 219.
wherein excellent, 305: poetical justice. Tree, genealogical, of an illegitimate issue
jä. 74; with black and white leaves, an Troubled ocean, creates an agreeable he
enigma, iv. 463.
ror in the mind, iv. 7.
Tree of dreams in the Highlander's Vision, Trowser, the old British, a subject for fu-
iv. 497.
ture antiquaries, i. 261.
Trees, more beautiful in all their luxu- Troy, Horace's Ode upon Augustus's de-
riancy than when cut and trimmed, iii. sign to rebuild it, i. 83.
406.
True-lover's knot, made of a lady's hair, a
Trekschuyt, from Leyden to Amsterdam, great consolation to her absent lover,
an adventure in, ii, 492.
iii. 141.
Treinble, Tom, a Quaker, his letter to Mr. Trueby, (widow,) her water recommended
Ironside on naked bosoms, iv. 224.
by Sir Roger de Coverley, iii. 329 ; his
Treves relieved by the British army, i. 53. commendation of her, ib.
Trial of wit, a safe one proposed, iv. Truelove, Mrs., her zeal in the cause of Dr.
173.
Titus Oates, ii. 342.
Trial and conviction of Count Tariff, iv. Truelove, Tom, his sensible mode of mak-
364.
ing love, iv. 217; his success, 218.
Tribunes, Roman, their share in the go- Trumbull, Sir William, his letter detailing
vernment, iii. 297.
the reception of Addison's Cato, v. 717.
Trident of Neptune, mystery of its three Trumpets, what sort of men are such in
prongs, i. 268.
conversation, ii. 116; where to be met
" Tried to out-rival,” a bad expression, with, 118.
iv. 265, note.
Truncheon, Mr. Alexander, foreman of
Triennial Act, alterations in the, v. 36. the jury on the Court of Honour, ii. 191.
Triennial Parliaments, Addison's argu- Trunk-maker, in the upper gallery, a per.
ments respecting, v. 614, nole.
son at the theatre so called, iji. 125 ; of
Trimming, the Spectator unjustly accused great use there, ib.; the means of sav-
of it, iii. 449.
ing a good play, or bringing a good
Trinity College, Dublin, Library, petition actor into notice, 126; a successor to
to the House of Commons in aid of, v. him proposed, 127.
484; address of the Irish House of Com- Trust in the Supreme Being, a duty, how
mons for the same object, 505; grant recommended, iii. 445.
made, ib.
Trusty, Sir, a character in the opera of
Tripodes of Homer, how ridiculed by Rosamond, i. 59.
Scaliger, iii. 233.
Truth, her mirror in the hand of Justice,
Trippet, Tom, his letter to the Spectator ii. 32; the founder of a family and the
on Greek quotations, iii. 287, 288.
father of good sense, 298; accompanied
Trippit, Simon, his petition to Mr. Bick- by wit, invades the region of falsehood,
erstaffe, ii. 44.
365; her triumph, 366; the natural food
Trippitt, William, Esq., his action against of the understanding, iv. 25; nothing so
Lady Prudely in the Court of Honour, delightful as hearing or speaking it, 85.
ii. 219,
Tryphiodorus, a lipogrammatist, his Odys.
Triton, figure of a, common to ancient sey, ii. 347; his phantom at a ball in the
vessels, i. 295.
temple of Duilness, 364.
Triumphal arch of Constantine at Rome, Tucker, a female ornament, lately laid
i. 480.
aside, iv. 178; married women mostly
Triumphal arches, how distinguished from the leaders of this fashion, 180; re-
honorary arches erected to emperors, i. proaches and applauses on the discourse
407.
against them, 204, 205 ; reforınation at
Triumvirate, Roman, their debate com. Rome, 225; letter to the pope upon it,
pared with that of the Spectator's club, 271.
ii. 297.
Tugghe, Sieur, v. 533, note.
Troilus, his letter to the Spectator on the Tullia, an accomplished woman, iv. 318.
Greeks and Trojans of the university, Tully exposes a precept delivered by the
iii. 142.
ancient writers, iii. 109; his thoughts
Trojan fleet, transformed into water- on the beauty of virtue, 137. (See
nymphs, a tradition, iii. 257.
Cicero.)
Trojans, remarks on their dress, i. 303 ; 'Tumults and riots lead to a civil war, iv.
their clamour on advancing to the 499.
enemy compared to the cackling of Tunica of the Romans, i. 261.
crapes, ii. 96.
Turkey, larded, mistaken for a roasted
Tron, Signor Nicolo, Venetian ambassa. porcupine, ii. 108; custom there of
dor, v. 450.
Turkisa tale, of Sultan Mahmoud and his Uniformity Act, hung up in the Hall of
vizier, iv. 32, 33.
Public Credit, ii. 237.
Turkish tales, a story from, ii. 417, &c. Union, of the French and Spanish mon-
Turks, formidable to the Venetians, i. 390; archies, advantageous to France and
all their commands performed by mutes, injurious to Great Britain, iv. 340 ; of
iv, 235; their women happy if they can the two kingdoms, called by the Pre-
get a twelfth share of a husband, 408. tender a grievance, iv. 430; chietly con-
Turnus, his death less heroic than that of ducted by Lord Somers, v. 41.
Earl Douglas in Chevy Chase, ii. 378. Union, Scottish, feelings of the people
Tuscany, the grand duke of, his immense respecting it, v. 350, 352, 353, 357 ; ra-
revenues from Leghorn, i. 490 ; his tified by Scottish parliament, 353; arms
schemes to prevent the pope from mak- conjoined with those of England, 360 ;
ing Civita Vecchia a free port, 492; his thanksgiving-day for, 361.
animosity against Lucca, whence aris- United Provinces, their public debt, iv.
ing, 493 ; childless, and living separate 361.
from his duchess, 500.
Unity of action, how preserved by Homer
Tusculum of Cicero, where situated, i. 484. and Virgil, iii. 177 ; and by Milton, ib.
Tutchin, Mr. John, v. 363.
Universe, how pleasing the contemplation
Tutor, Addison as a, v. 675.
of it, iii. 425; its magnificent harmony,
Twickenham, Pope's villa at, v. 703.
iv. 72.
Two-penny club, its rules, ii. 252.
University, why infested with puns, ii.
Tychius, an honest cobbler, how compli- 355.
wated by Homer, v. 215.
Universities, formerly carried on their de-
7'yers, Jonathan, first establishes Spring bates by syllogism, iii. 131; divided
Garden, afterwards Vauxhall, v. 689. into Greeks and Trojans, ib.
Typhæus, where placed by the ancient Unlearned, account of their works, a pro-
poets, i. 451.
jected monthly pamphlet, iii. 469.
Tyranny, described as leading an army Upholders, a new company, ii. 47, 52;
against Liberty, ii. 141 ; a phantom in their civility to Bickerstaffe, 85.
the Hall of Public Credit, 239 ; in what Upholsterer, Mr. Bickerstaffe's neighbour,
consisting, iii. 296.
a great newsmonger, ii. 125; his con-
Tyrants and flatterers always exist toge- versation with Mr. Bickerstaffe in the
ther, iii. 394.
park, ib.; his early visit to Mr. Bicker-
Tyre, its strength and commercial pros- staffe, 135; his reason for it, 136; the
perity, to what owing, v. 54.
host of the four Indian kings, produces
their manuscripts, 329.
Ulme opens her gates to the Duke of Urganda, an enchantress, allusion to, i.
Marlborough, i. 31.
83.
Ulpian collected all the imperial edicts Uriel's passage on a sunbeam, a pretti-
against the Christians, v. 106.
ness in Milton, iii. 227.
Ulysses, his conversations with the dead Usurer, grieves at the shortness of time,
supposed to have been in Narbon Gaul, ii. 412.
i. 359 ; his voyage undetermined among Utica, cene of the tragedy of Cato, i. 172.
the learned, ib.; his voyage to the Utrecht, treaty of, how interrupted, iii.
regions of the dead, ii. 110; his adven- 503; treaty of commerce compared with
tures there, ib., &c.; his bow, the that of Madrid, v. 50.
Guardian's papers compared to, iv. 173.
I'nanimity recommended to the Whigs, Vaillant, Mons., produced a chronicle of
iv. 504.
the kings of Syria from a collection of
I'ncharitableness, a species of, iii. 508. medals, i. 263.
Uncommon, a source of pleasure to the Valentinian and Valens, emperors, their
imagination, iii. 397.
law of libel, iii. 459.
Inderstanding, wherein more perfect than Valetudinarian, a letter from, ii. 278, 279 ;
the imagination, iii, 427.
Italian epitaph on one, 280.
Inderstands a critic, the expression cor- Vallesins, inhabitants of a district in Swit.
rected, iii. 195, note.
zerland, i. 513.
tindertakers, at Rome, who dig for an- Valley of Misery, ii. 500.
tiquities, i. 470.
Valour, personified in the Highlander's
I'nfortunate and imprudent, considered Vision, iv. 497.
by Richelieu synonymous, iii. 303. Vanbrugh, a member of the Kit-cat Club,
Unfurling the fan, directions for, ii. 429. v. 676, 677.
Unhappy marriages, a particular occasion Vauburgh, Mr., Clarenceux king at arms,
of them, iv, 217.
V. 348.
Unicorn's head, to be erected for the la- Vandeput, Mrs., Steele's landlady, who
dies, iv. 220; likely to prove a cornu. sued him, v. 373.
copiæ, 248.
Vandyke complimeuted by Waller, üi. 348.
Vanity, her temple, described in a vision, necessity and consequences of it, 392;
ii. 89; described as a French painter, character of its dramatic poetry, 393;
393 ; the support of infidelity, iii. 55; comedies, ib.; custom among the com-
a life of, described in the Wisdom of mon people of singing verses from
Solomon, 101; the natural weakness of Tasso, 395 ; no mention of the city
an ambitious man, 158 ; described as a made in the old poets, 396 ; lions at,
weight in the vision of the scales, 478 ; iv. 162; one erected by Mr. Ironside at
of human wishes, exposed in a fable, Button's, in imitation, 175; the com-
367, &c. ; of a man's valuing himself on monwealth of, maintains spies on all its
his ancestors, iv. 259, 260.
members, v. 89; affront offered to Earl
Vapours in women, to what to be ascribed, of Manchester at, 369; Venetian am-
ii. 449.
bassador complains of the arrest of one
Variety, charming to the imagination, iii. of his domestics, 509.
398 ; of happiness in a future state, iv. Venice Preserved, a fine scene in, ii. 98;
155; the notion confirmed by revelation, its plot censured, 307; artful effect of
156 ; variety studied by the Guardian in the clock striking, 314.
his daily dissertations, 263.
Venture, a neutral verb, misapplied in
Various readings, in the classics, humor. construction, ii, 274.
ously exemplified, iii. 490.
Venus, chamber of, described, i. 434 ;
Varro, his rules of husbandry less pleas- her statues at Florence, 499; numerous
ant than those of Virgil, i. 156.
copies of the Venus de Medicis, 472 ;
Vatican library, a letter of Henry VIII. presents her cestus to Juno to charm
to Ann Bulleyn in it, i. 481.
Jupiter, ii, 104; story of her amour with
Vauban calculates the reduced popula- Mars burlesqued, 214; Sappho's hymn
tion of France at the peace of Ryswick, to her translated, iii. 107; a pretty cir-
iv. 350.
cumstance in it, 108; described by the
Vaud, the country of, belonging to the poets as delighting in laughter, 148;
canton of Berne, i. 509; the country of, the charming figure she makes in the
the most cultivated and fruitful part of first Æneid, 417; how reproved by Ju-
the Alps, 514.
piter for mixing in a war, v. 37, 38.
Vauxhall, first established as Spring Gar. Venus semireducta, iv. 181.
den, v. 689.
Venus of Medicis, represented on medals,
Veal, a modern diet, ii. 107.
i. 266.
Vehemence of action, used by Latin ora- Vermin, feeding on the Tatler, noticed,
tors, iii. 386.
ii. 172.
Veii, ruins of their capital city, i. 487; Vernal delight, described by Milton, iii.
its desolation foretold by Lucan, ib. 371; how to be improved into a Chris-
Velini rosea rura, why so called by Vir- tian virtue, 372.
gil, i. 412.
Vernon, Mr., speech of, v. 667.
Velino, river, its cascade, i. 411 ; falls Verona, its amphitheatre described, i. 377 ;
into the Nera, 413.
its other antiquities, and churches, 378.
Venetians, their aversion to the king of Versailles, the palace of, described, iv.
France, i. 374; their thirst after con- 182, 183; letter respecting, v. 326.
quest on Terra Firma prejudicial to the Verse, blank, versus rhyme, v. 595.
commonwealth, 389; the republic in a Verses, by Mr. Tickell to the author of
declining condition, ib.; on what terms Rosamond, i. 55; to the author of Cato,
with the emperor, the Turks, the pope, by Sir Richard Steele, 162; by Mr.
and the Duke of Savoy, 390 ; their se- Hughes, ib.; by Dr. Young, 163; by
nate the wisest council in the world, Mr. Eusden, 164; by Mr. Tickell, 165;
391 ; refined policy and secrecy in state by Mr. Digby Cotes, 167 ; left with the
;
matters, with an instance of it, ib.; printer by an unknown hand, (G. Jeffe-
number of their nobility and operas, reys, Esq.,) 168 ; by Mr. Ambrose Phi.
ib.; a custom peculiar to the Venetians, lips, 170; to the Princess of Wales with
395; a show particular to them exhi- the tragedy of Cato, 227 ; to Sir Godfrey
bited on Holy Thursday, described by Kneller on his picture of the King, 229;
Claudian, ib.
occasioned by Mr. Addison's treatise on
Venice, its strength, owing to its situa- medals, 253; to the Countess of War.
tion in the sea, i. 386; its convenience wick, by Mr. Welsted, v. 155.
for commerce, 387; its manufactures of Versoy, a town in the canton of Berne,
cloth, plass, and silk, formerly the best the retreat of Ludlow, i. 513.
in Europe, ib. ; its buildings, bridges, Vertot, (the Abbot de,) his account of the
&c., 388; its celebrated painters, ib.; death of Muly Moluc, iii. 341.
moisture of its air, ib. ; its arsenal, Verulam, (Lord,) sunk under an impeach-
389; its republic declining in power, ment of the House of Commons, v. 44.
ib. ; secrecy of its councils, 390; pride Vervins, treaty, saying of Henry IV. of
of its nobility, 391; carnival, with the France on signing it, v. 11.
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