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,
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.
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,
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,
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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