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Vespasian, medal of the peace he procured
the empire, i. 313, coins of his, repre-
senting the captivity of Judea, 331; a
fine bust of him at Florence, 497.
Vessel, old Roman, described, i. 294; in
distress, an emblem of the Roman com-
monwealth, 315.

Vestal, employed by the Everlasting Club
to keep in the fire, ii. 380.

Vestal, the, attributed to Addison, v. 536.
Vestal virgin, a statue of one at Florence,

decisive of a controversy among the anti-
quaries, whether their hair grew after
the tonsure, i. 497.

Vestis trabeata, of the Romans, disputes
of the learned concerning, i. 261.
Vesuvio, Mount, described, i. 438; its
rivers of lava, 439; its crater, 440; in-
creases in bulk at every eruption, ib. ;
much different from Martial's account
of it, 444.

Vicar of Bray, his use of the church ther-
mometer, ii. 162.

Vice, its own tormentor, iii. 456; if not
reclaimed, may be prevented by satire,
v. 64.

Vices, none so incurable as those which
men are apt to glory in, iv. 110; of
ill consequence in the head of a family,

319.

Vicious characters, set up as scare-crows,
iii. 77.

Vicious men, subject to jealousy, iii. 34.
Victory, the attendant of virtue, i. 274;
described on a medal, 289; represented
by medalists and poets with wings, ib. ;
ornamented with palm and laurel, ib. ;
statue of, finely described by Prudentius,
290; on a coin of Constantine, 291; re-
presented writing on a shield, 333.
Victories of the British considered as a re-

ward for their national charity, iv. 194.
Vienna, siege of, raised, curious inscrip-
tion respecting, i. 345; a story relating
to it, iv. 242.

Vigils of the card-table, wear out a fine
face, iv. 233.

Villa imperiale, a palace near Genoa, de-
scribed, i. 362.

Villages, drunk dry by the rebels, iv. 405.
Villars, Marshal, v. 662, 663.

Ville-neuve, in the canton of Berne, i. 513.
Vine, allusion to, by the Psalmist, i. 305.
Viner, Sir Robert, the Lord Mayor of Lon-
don, v. 692.

Vineyards of France, our gardens, ii. 372.
Violated, where a most happily chosen
word, iv. 81, note.

Violin and the maid-servant, a story, iv.
173.

Violins, who are such in conversation, ii.
116; where to be found, 118.
Viper, an experiment with one, at the
Grotto del Cani, i. 436.

Viper and file, the fable of, a lesson to
female malcontents, iv. 494.

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Virga somnifera, a term applied to the
Caduceus, i. 300.

Virgil, essay on his Georgics, 1. 154; supe-
rior to Hesiod, ib.; agreeable mode of
conveying his precepts, 156; digression
on the battle of Pharsalia, 157; repre-
sents fidelity under the figure of an old
woman, 277; his description of military
fury shut up in the temple of Janus,
310; describes the figure of Augustus
upon Æneas's shield, 319; traces the
origin of Padua to Antenor, 385; less
exact than Homer in his catalogues
of places, 416; composed a great part
of his Eneids at Naples, 427; his
tomb where situated, 431; his allu-
sion to the islands of Ischia and Pro-
cita, 451; his fine description of Æneas
passing the coast of Monte Circeio, 454;
ancient MS. copy of his works at Flo-
rence, which disputes its antiquity with
that of the Vatican, 501; how intro-
duced into the temple of Fame, ii. 15;
homage paid to him in a Roman theatre,
85; his description of a future state,
120; his allegories in the Æneid drawn
from the Platonic philosophy, 122; his
talent for satire, 178, note; with what
view he planned his epic poem, 375;
his authority in support of the cri-
tique on Chevy Chase, 384-388; be
longing to the second class of great
geniuses, 506; falls short of Homer in
the characters of his poem, iii. 181;
excels in the propriety of his sentiments,
186; inferior to Homer in the sublime,
187; indebted to Homer for sublimity,
244; his Fable considered with rela-
tion to the real history of Eneas, 246;
his epithets generally mark out what is
agreeable, 417; has written a whole
book on the subject of planting, iv. 137;
his retired station on the floating Par-
nassus, 223; his poetry characterized
by Strada, 243; represents a regard to
posterity as an incentive to glory, 264;
his fine compliment to Augustus, 265;
his excuse for severe measures in a
sovereign, v. 77; the characters and
manners of his poem but faintly drawn
and little varied, 216; his representa-
tion of rage bound up and chained in
the temple of Janus, 218; his poems
more relished by his contemporaries
than they can be by the moderns, 220,
222; his style at once sublime and na-
tural, 225; instance of his avoiding low
words in his epic poem, 225, 226; in his
Georgics, studied description more than
majesty, 226; style and subjects of, 588,
603
Virgilianism of Addison, in what consist-
ing, i. 231.

Virgin, the blessed, her history cut in
marble in the great church of Milan, i
369 her statue at Ravenna, 401.

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 know-
ledge 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; pro-
duces its own heaven, 457; its business
is not to extirpate but to regulate the
affections of the mind, iv. 13; the per-
fection and happiness of the will, 25;
the true source of nobility, 260; a ge-
neral 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 re-
presentation, iii. 165; supposed ones,
not to be relied on, 378.
Virtuoso of France, his artificial snow-
shower, 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 Moun-
tain 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. Honey-
comb 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 re-
ceives in publishing his works in vo-
lumes, 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 writ-
ing, 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 fire-
works, 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 hus-
band in the honeymoon, iv. 96.
Waking thoughts, finely observed to in-
troduce 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 cir-
cular 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 pro-
positions and the prince's replies, 519-
522. 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.

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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.

Witherington, his heroism at Chevy Chase,
ii. 388.

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
ehoice of one for a wife, 317; their
passions for chalk and china, surpris

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