Vespasian, medal of the peace be procured | Virga somnifera, a term applied to the

the empire, i. 313, coins of his, repre- Caduceus, i, 300.
senting the captivity of Judea, 331; a Virgil, essay on his Georgics, 1. 154 ; supe-
fine bust of him at Florence, 497.

rior to Hesiod, ib. ; agreeable mode of
Vessel, old Roman, described, i. 294 ; in conveying his precepts, 156 ; digression

distress, an emblem of the Roman com- on the battle of Pharsalia, 157 ; repre-
monwealth, 315.

sents fidelity under the figure of an old
Vestal, employed by the Everlasting Club woman, 277 ; his description of military
to keep in the fire, ii. 380.

fury shut up in the temple of Janus,
Vestal, the, attributed to Addison, v. 536. 310; describes the figure of Augustus
Vestal virgin, a statue of one at Florence, upon Æneas's shield, 319; traces the

decisive of a controversy among the anti- origin of Padua to Antenor, 385; less
quaries, whether their hair grew after exact than Homer in his catalogues
the tonsure, i. 497.

of places, 416; composed a great part
Vestis trabeata, of the Romans, disputes of his Æneids at Naples, 427; his
of the learned concerning, i. 261.

tomb where situated, 431 ; his allu-
Vesuvio, Mount, described, i. 438 ; its sion to the islands of Ischia and Pro.

rivers of lava, 439; its crater, 440 ; in- cita, 451 ; his fine description of Æneas
creases in bulk at every eruption, ib. ; passing the coast of Monte Circeio, 454 ;
much different from Martial's account ancient MS. copy of his works at Flo-
of it, 444.

rence, which disputes its antiquity with
Vicar of Bray, his use of the church ther- that of the Vatican, 501; how intro-
mometer, ii. 162.

duced into the temple of Fame, ii. 15;
Vice, its own tormentor, iii. 456; if not homage paid to him in a Roman theatre,

reclaimed, may be prevented by satire, 85; his description of a future state,
V. 64.

120; his allegories in the Æneid drawn
Vices, none so incurable as those which from the Platonic philosophy, 122 ; his

men are apt to glory in, iv. 110; of talent for satire, 178, note; with what
ill consequence in the head of a family, view he planned his epic poem, 375;
319.

his authority in support of the cri.
Vicious characters, set up as scare-crows, tique on Chevy Chase, 384-388 ; be.
iii. 77.

longing to the second class of great
Vicious men, subject to jealousy, iii. 34. geniuses, 506 í falls short of Homer in
Victory, the attendant of virtue, i. 274; the characters of his poem, iii. 181;

described on a medal, 289; represented excels in the propriety of his sentiments,
by medalists and poets with wings, ib. ; 186; inferior to Homer in the sublime,
ornamented with palm and laurel, ib. ; 187; indebted to Homer for sublimity,
statue of, finely described by Prudentius, 244; his Fable considered with rela-
290 ; on a coin of Constantine, 291; re- tion to the real history of Æneas, 246;
presented writing on a shield, 333. his epithets generally mark out what is
Victories of the British considered as a re- agreeable, 417; has written a whole

ward for their national charity, iv. 194. book on the subject of planting, iv. 137 ;
Vienna, siege of, raised, curious inscrip- his retired station on the floating Par.

tion respecting, i. 345; a story relating nassus, 223; his poetry characterized
to it, iv. 242.

by Strada, 243; represents a regard to
Vigils of the card-table, wear out a fine posterity as an incentive to glory, 264 ;
face, iv. 233.

his fine compliment to Augustus, 265 ;
Villa imperiale, a palace near Genoa, de- his excuse for severe measures in a
scribed, i. 362.

sovereign, v. 77; the characters and
Villages, drunk dry by the rebels, iv. 405. manners of his poem but faintly drawn
Villars, Marshal, v. 662, 663.

and little varied, 216 ; his representa-
Ville-neuve, in the canton of Berne, i, 513. tion of rage bound up and chained in
Vine, allusion to, by the Psalmist, i. 305. the temple of Janus, 218; his poems
Viner, Sir Robert, the Lord Mayor of Lon- more relished by his contemporaries
don, v. 692.

than they can be by the moderns, 220,
Vineyards of France, our gardens, ii. 372. 222 ; his style at once sublime and na-
Violated, where a most happily chosen tural, 225; instance of his avoiding low
word, iv. 81, note.

words in his epic poem, 225, 226; in his
Violin and the maid-servant, a story, iv. Georgics, studied description more than
173.

majesty, 226; style and subjects of, 588,
Violins, who are such in conversation, ii. 603
116 ; where to be found, 118.

Virgilianism of Addison, in what consist-
Viper, an experiment with one, at the ing, i. 231.
Grotto del Cani, i. 436.

Virgin, the blessed, her history cut in
Viper and file, the fable of, a lesson to marble in the great church of Milan, i
female malcontents, iv. 494.

Virgin, violated by Neptune; her petition Voltaire's criticism on Cato, v. 722 ; his
to him, ii. 69.

remarks on the relative value of literary
Virginia, revenue on tobacco, quit rents, honours in England and France, 723.
&c., v. 480.

Volumes, the advantage an author re-
Virgin-martyrs, inquiry whether they wore ceives in publishing his works in vo-
hoop-petticoats, iv. 272.

lumes, rather than in single pieces, iii.
Virtu, its ridiculous studies, ii. 155,

472.
Virtue, described on a medal, i, 274; with Vossius, a free-thinker, his head combed

the modern Italians signifies a know- in dactyls and spondees, i. 268 ; remark
ledge of curiosities, ib.; her address to of Charles II. on him, iv. 452.
Hercules, ii. 28; venerable in men and Vowels, omitted in a certain way of writ-
lovely in women, 43; her temple described ing, iv. 100.
in a vision, 88; its exercise, the best Voyage from Naples to Rome described by
employment of time, 412; virtue the Virgil, i. 449.
genuine source of honour, iii. 99; its Vulcan, his temple on Mount Ætna
beauty and loveliness considered, 136, guarded by dogs, who could distinguish
137 ; its charms in the fair sex, 138; the chaste from the unchaste, iv. 126 ;
several kinds of virtue more lovely than he and Venus represented in fire-
others, ib.; cheerfulness and good nature works, 189.
its great ornaments, ib. ; to be esteemed Vulgar thoughts to be avoided in epic
in a foe, ib. ; how to be established in poetry, iii. 188.
the soul, 378; habits of, why necessary Vulgarism, iv. 360, note.
to be acquired in this life, 456 ; pro- Vulturno, river, celebrated for its rapidity
duces its own heaven, 457; its business and noise, i. 422.
is not to extirpate but to regulate the
affections of the mind, iv. 13; the per- Waddle, Lady, buried her second hus-
fection and happiness of the will, 25 ; band in the honeymoon, iv. 96.
the true source of nobility, 260; a ge- Waking thoughts, finely observed to in-
neral in the war of the sexes, 275; a troduce a vision founded on truth, ii.
distinct principle from honour, 310, 72, note.
note.

Wales, Prince of, his patent drawn by
Virtues, represented on medals, i. 273; Addison, v. 420; his difference with the

of females of a domestic turn, ii. 391; king on occasion of the baptism of the
many of them incapable of outward re- young prince, 506; his quarrel with the
presentation, iii. 165; supposed ones, king, 513, et seq.; Addison's French cir-
not to be relied on, 378.

cular on the, 514 ; official report to the
Virtuoso of France, his artificial snow- king on his conduct, 516 ; his three

shower, iv. 187; remark on the plural letters to the king (in French),517, 518;
of Virtuoso, ib., note.

with translations, 519; the king's pro-
Virtuoso's will, ii. 156.

positions and the prince's replies, 519
Virtuosos, an assembly of, iii. 290.

522. See Prince.
Virtuous Love, its temple in the Vision of Wales, Princess of, verses to, with the
Human Life, ii. 77.

tragedy of Cato, i. 227; order for firing
Virtuous men, venerated in every stage of guns on occasion of her delivery, v.
society, iv. 502.

495; her delivery, 497 ; execution of
Vision of the Hill of Fame, ii. 11; of criminals respited on the event, 500 ;

Justice visiting the earth, 32; relating notified to the court of France, 504.
to animated nature, 72; of human life, Walking with God, meaning of that
75, &c.; continued, 88; of blessings phrase in Scripture, iii. 94.
and calamities, 101; of liberty, 139; Walks, public, of Berne, their immense
of the history of mankind in Paradise height, i. 518.
Lost, why objectionable, iii. 278; of Waller, characterized, i. 25; his compli.
the golden scales, 477 ; of the Moun- ment to Vandyke, ii. 248; his success
tain of Miseries, iv. 90, 93, &c.; of a in a certain way of writing, iv. 45, note,
window in a lady's bosom, 196, 197. See Wallingford, borough of, v. 645.
Dreams.

Wallis, Dr., De Adjectivis, referred to,
l'isions of painters, ii. 394 ; of Mirzah, on the use of the pronoun his, iv. 173,
499.

note.
Visit of the Spectator and Will. Honey- Wallop, J., one of the lords of the treasury,
comb to a travelled lady, ii. 319.

v. 640; afterwards Viscount Lyming.
Vitruvius, his opinion on architecture, i. ton and Earl of Portsmouth, ib., note.

268 ; would have the front of his palace Walpole, Mr., (afterwards Sir Robert.)
toward the setting sun, i. 427.

Whig scheme with regard to foreigners, Widow and six children, to be introduced
V. 87.

in a forth-coming tragedy, ii. 316.
Whiggism, described by Steele, v. 240. Widow Club, account of one, iv.95; mem-
Whigs, accused of monopolizing riches bers, 95, 96 ; rules-politics--doctrines

and sense, iv, 371; the finest women of on management of husbands, 97, 98.
Great Britain of that party, 426; supe- Widow-lady, complained of, for theatrical
rior to the Tories in principle, 468; ex- psalm-singing, iii. 80.
horted to reverence religion, 502 ; how Widow-woman, the Spectator's hostess,
to remove unjust accusations, 503; good- described, ii. 256, 257.
ness of their principles proved by their Widower, his unhappy state, ii. 61.
actions, 504 ; deficient in unanimity, ib.; Widows, the great game of fortune.
their favourite character in the play of hunters, iii. 320; why naturally friends
Sir Courtly Nice, v. 25; their scheme, to the constitution, iv. 427.
why preferable to that of the Tories, 96; Wife, grief of a husband for the loss of
with regard to foreigners, 97 ; and to the

one, ii. 82.
king and people, 98; all friends to the “Wife of Bath,” lines in that ballad on
constitution in church and state con- female loquacity, iii. 145.
sidered under this denomination, ib. ; Wig, pictures of, containing the old
demonstration of the, on the acting of Testament, ii. 345; a long one, the elo-
Addison's Cato, 717.

quence of the bar, iii. 386.
Whims and humourists, a letter concern- Wigs, ridiculed, ii. 331 ; full-bottomed,
ing, iii. 350, 351.

the fashion of wearing, v. 704.
Whip of the horses of the sun, repre- Wild boar, a famous piece of sculpture at
sented on a medal, i. 319.

Florence, i. 497.
Whiskers of a Turkish bassa to be sold, Wildfire, Widow, her suite of lovers, iv. 96.
ii. 4.

Wilkins, Bishop, confident of success in
Whispering-place of Dionysius the tyrant, the art of fiying, iv. 213.
iii. 440.

Will of Addison, v. 515.
Whispers, a news-letter of, proposed, iii. Will. Honeycomb of the Spectator designed
467.

for Major Cleland, v. 741.
Whistling-match, account of, iii. 40. William, King, extract from his last
Whiston, William, v. 681; expelled from speech to parliament on war with

Cambridge for heterodoxy, ib. ; satiri- France, iv. 343 ; the Conqueror, his
cal lines on, ib. ; his character of severe punishment of a conspiracy, v. 10.
Steele, 714 ; his fruitless attempts to see William, Duke of Gloucester, v. 554.
Addison in his last illness, 745.

William III., King, a poem to his Ma-
Whiston and Ditton's letter to Mr. Iron- jesty, i. 4; efforts of a party to render

side on the longitude, iv. 200, 201. him unpopular, iv. 421 ; his promotion
White, Moll, a reputed witch, ii. 453 ; her of great men to high stations, 422 ; how

death followed by a storm, iii. 285. he treated the conspirators in the assas-
White, Thomas, an alchymist, his letter sination plot, v. 10; Lord Somers bis

to Mr. Ironside, whom he had deluded, intimate counsellor, 41; furthered the
iv. 324.

Protestant interest in Europe, 97; in-
White witch, the Spectator taken for one, auguration of, 546 ; Addison's Latin
ii. 494.

verses on liis return from Ireland after
Whitelock, Sir W., his opinion on the Se- the battle of the Boyne, 547 ; concludes
cret Committee's report, v. 657.

a peace against his own judgment and
Whittington and his Cat, an opera designed views, 619; his grants to Addison, 636,
from the story of, ii. 242.

note, 675 and note.
Whitworth, Lord Charles, sent Ambassa- Will's, frequented by the Spectator, ii.

dor Extraordinary to Russia, v. 371; 230.
his political course, 470; his letter to Wills, General, reduced the rebels at
Lord Sunderland, 469.

Preston, iv. 407.
Who, misuse of that relative pronoun no- Wimble, Will., his letter to Sir Roger de
ticed, v. 527, note.

Coverley, ii. 437; his character, 438 ; his
Who, which, and that, rules for applying case that of many younger brothers,
those relatives, 307, note.

439; his rural politeness, 456 ; accom-
Whole Duty of Man, converted into .a panies Sir Roger and the Spectator to

parish libel, iv. 109, 110; the error cor- the assizes, 465; suspects the Spectator
rected, and the book proved to be writ- to be a fanatic, 481 ; and fears he has
ten against all the sinners in England, killed a man, 494.

Winchelsea, Charles, Earl of, v. 338; leto
Widow, the perverse, her cruelty to Sir ters to, ib.

Roger drives him to fox-hunting, ii. Winchester, bishopric of, not disposed of
450, 451.

for a time, and why, v. 352.

110.