147; under-secretary to Addison, 329; his translation of 1st book of the Iliad, 423; his Life of Addison, 432; his verses on Addison's marriage, 434; letter (for Addison) to Vice-Admiral Cornwall, 458; his translation of Homer, 542; referred to, 701-703; his notices of Addison's Cato, 715; his elegy on Addison, 745. Tickell, Richard, appointed a clerk in Addison's office, v. 508.
Tide, observable in the Adriatic from Ve- nice to Ancona, i. 397; of Eternity, ii. 500.
Tillotson, his remark on King William's
wound at the battle of Boyne, i. 5; his widow's dowry raised on the sale of his writings, ii. 38; his opinion on Provi- dence, iii. 305; his improved notion of heaven and hell, 456; extract from an elegant sermon of his, iv. 86; deserved- ly called the great British preacher, ib., note; his remark on the happiness of the blessed, 154; advanced by King William to the highest station in the church, 422; his friendship and cor- respondence with Lord Somers, v. 42. Timavus described by Claudian, i. 377. Timbrel of the Egyptians, i. 323. Time, how represented on ancient medals,
i. 287; exhibited as retouching the works of the great painter, ii. 395; its shortness unjustly complained of, 412; methods of employing it to advantage, 412, 413; measured by the succession of ideas, 416; compared to an ocean, iii. 105; seldom affords sufficient employ- ment to the mind, 491; has mellowed and given grace to the writings of anti- quity, v. 227.
Times of disorders and tumults fullest of instruction, iv. 498.
Timogenes, a man of false honour, iv. 311. Timoleon, referred all his successes to Providence, iv. 227; his extraordinary deliverance from a conspiracy, ib. Tintoret, Tom, a wine-colourer, ii. 94. Tiresias, his sexual transformation, i. 124, his advice to Ulysses, ii. 111. Tirol, the territory of, described, i. 533; its government, privileges, &c., 538. Titan, description of, in Claudian, i. 307. Titanius ales, i. 285.
Titian, a painting of, story respecting, i. 352; vision of his pictures, ii. 394. Titles, an intimation of some particular merit, iii. 99; a death-bed shows their emptiness, 100; among the common- wealth of males, 432.
Tittle, Sir Timothy, a critic, ii. 150; his behaviour at a friend's house, ib.; dis- putes with his mistress, 151. Titus, one of his medals explained, i. 331; his arch, 480; could not prevent the de- struction of the temple of Jerusalem, v. 136.
Tivoli, described, i, 483. VOL. V.
Toad, valued at a hundred crowns, ii. 156. Tobacco, quantity smoked by the Ever- lasting Club, ii. 380.
Toga, of the Romans, i. 261.
Toleration Act, hung up in the hall of Public Credit, ii. 237.
Tom, cousin to the Lizards, his charac- ter, iv. 312.
Tom-tits, to personate singing-birds in an opera, ii. 243.
Tombs contemplated, ii. 283, 284. Tonon, a town on the lake of Geneva, be- longing to Savoy, i. 510; its wholesome fountain of water, 511.
Tonson, Mr. Jacob, jun., recommends Bayle's dictionary to the ladies, ii. 409; his behaviour to Sir R. Steele, respect- ing the Drummer, v. 142; letters to, 319, 320, 321, 434; probably founder of the Kit-cat Club, 343; assignment with him by Addison for volume of Spectator, 524; anecdote of him, as secretary of the Kit-cat Club, 677; his profits from Milton's Paradise Lost, 695. Tooke, Ben, Swift's bookseller, v. 380. Topknot, Dr., iv. 224.
Torcy, Marquis de, to be president of the political academy at Paris, iii. 314; ple- nipotentiary from the King of France, iv. 662, and note; Bolingbroke's corres- pondence with, v. 653; Bolingbroke im- peached for betraying instructions to, 662; and holding a private correspond- ence with, relative to the Pretender, 663.
Toricellius, inventor of the weather-glass, ii. 162.
Tories, described as monsters, ii. 331; called by the Examiner the whole body of the English nation, iv. 377; their absurd and wretched attempts to ca- lumniate King William and the house of Hanover, 421; actuated by a pre- tended concern for religion, 423; their emissaries diligent in spreading ridicu- lous fictions, 424; forced to borrow toasts from their antagonists, 426; their political faith, 451; their credenda, 452; reasons why they resort to libel and ridicule, 468; some of them scandalized at such measures, 470; driven by de- spair to the comfort of old women's tales, 487; absurdly arrogate the name of the church, 593; call royalty repub- licanism, and rebellion passive obedi- ence, ib.; impose on the ladies, by re- presenting all the rebels as handsome men, v. 19; represent the Whigs as aiming to retrench the privileges of the fair sex, ib.; deceive them by reports of prodigies, 20; and of the danger of the church, ib.; their favourite charac- ter in the play of Sir Courtly Nice, 25; the avowed friends of the French, 98; Addison's intimacy with the, 695. Tortuga, report concerning the capture of 3 1
British ships fetching salt thence, v.
Tory foxhunter, humorous account of one, iv. 478; meets with the Freeholder in the Park, v. 61; his whimsical adven- tures with the batts, 62; his remarks on the masqueraders, 62, 63; his pocket picked by a cardinal, 64; converted into a good subject to King George, 70; motives which led to this change, 71; his resolution to convert his neighbour, 74.
Tory foxhunters, ii. 480.
Tory patches worn by the ladies, ii. 389. Tory principles weighed against those of a Whig, iii. 479.
Tory scheme, why inferior to that of the Whigs, v. 96; its origin, and evil tend- ency of its principles, 96, 97.
Touchwood, Lady Penelope, indicts Cam- bric, a linen-draper, in the Court of Honour, ii. 211.
Touchy, Col., indicts Mr. Heedless in the Court of Honour, ii. 221.
Touchy, Tom, a litigious country 'squire, ii. 465.
Toulon, how lost to the Duke of Savoy, iv. 354.
Tower-lions, judges of the title of our British kings, v. 71.
Town, infested by lions, iv. 162. "Town-talk," a letter in, answering the Pretender's declaration, commended, iv. 428, 429.
Town-woman, to be regarded as a Syren, ii. 217.
Townly, Lady, her action of debt against
Mrs. Flambeau, ii. 220. Townshend, Lord Viscount, secretary of state, and afterwards lord-lieutenant of Ireland, Addison's memorial to, v. 632, 633.
Trabea, (Italie,) a vestment of the Ro- mans, i. 261.
Trade, has given additional empire to Britain, ii. 373; a foxhunter's invectives against, iv. 481; how encouraged by various English sovereigns, v. 49; essen- tial to the safety, strength, and pros- perity of this nation, 54; Council of, Addison's letters to, 419; Lords Com- missioners of, letters to, 443, 448, 452, 465, 474, 475, 486, 500; Addison one of the Lords of, 745.
Trades and professions, in what originat- ing, ii. 332.
Tradewell, his remark on his wife's china, iv. 332, 333.
Trading nation, its advantages, ii. 274. Tradition of the Indians respecting souls, ii. 336.
Traerbach relieved by the British army, i.
Tragedy, perfect, the noblest production of human nature, ii. 304; English, wherein excellent, 305; poetical justice,
a fallacious doctrine, 308; disregarded in the best English tragedies, 309, Rants, 310; false artifices to excite ter- ror and pity, 311; certain incidents to be told, not represented, 313; often more indebted for success to the tailor and the painter than the poet, ib.; ter- ror produced by thunder, lightning, and spectres, 314; frequent murders on the English stage censured, 316; tragic occurrence in one of the Leeward Islands, iii. 96; writers of, take precedence of those of Comedy, iv. 49; defective in proper sentiments, 207; an unpublish- ed one attributed to Addison, v. 746. Tragedy-writers, wherein defective, iii. 97. Tragi-Comedy, a monstrous invention, iii. 309.
Trajan, an act of his tribuneship comme- morated on coin, i. 263, 264; medal on his victory over the Daci, 309; repre- sented as the deliverer of Rome, 315; his triumphal arch at Ancona, 407; a curious medallion of his, 474; his pillar the noblest in the world, 478; martyr- dom of Simeon in his reign, v. 125. Tranquillina, her bust at Florence, i. 500. Translation of Italian operas into English,
spoils the effect of the music, ii. 269. Translations of Greek and Roman au- thors have improved our language, v.
48. Translators, Horace's rule for, iv. 336, 337; difference between putting an au- thor into English and translating him, 339. Transmigration, of liquors, subterraneous philosophers employed in, ii. 92; expe- riments, 94; the doctrine of, consi- dered, iii. 89; of souls, Will. Honey- comb's opinion respecting, 335; letter from Pug the monkey to his mistress, 336.
Trapp, Dr., his remark on Pope's Satire on Addison, v: 700.
Travelling, of what use to ladies, ii. 319, 321; behaviour of a travelled lady at the play-house, 321; what good for, ac- cording to the fox-hunter, iv. 480. Travels of Mr. Addison in Italy, how cha- racterized, i. 358, note; his publication of, v. 347.
Treason, the grove of, in the Highlander's Vision, iv. 496; punishments for it, why particularly necessary, v. 7; general charges of, against certain personages, 650, 652, 653, 656-668 (see Secret Com- mittee); charges of, against Lord Bo- lingbroke, 662; and the Earl of Oxford, 664, 665.
Treasury, Lords of the, letters to, v. 450, 451, 468, 479, 480, 483, 499, 503, 504. Treatall, Timothy, indicted by ladies in the Court of Honour, ii. 218; his sen- tence, 219.
Tree, genealogical, of an illegitimate issue
iii. 74; with black and white leaves, an enigma, iv. 463.
Tree of dreams in the Highlander's Vision, iv. 497.
Trees, more beautiful in all their luxu- riancy than when cut and trimmed, iii.
Trekschuyt, from Leyden to Amsterdam, an adventure in, ii. 492.
Tremble, Tom, a Quaker, his letter to Mr. Ironside on naked bosoms, iv. 224. Treves relieved by the British army, i. 53. Trial of wit, a safe one proposed, iv. 173.
Trial and conviction of Count Tariff, iv. 364.
Tribunes, Roman, their share in the go- vernment, iii. 297.
Trident of Neptune, mystery of its three prongs, i. 268.
"Tried to out-rival," a bad expression, iv. 265, note.
Triennial Act, alterations in the, v. 36. Triennial Parliaments, Addison's argu- ments respecting, v. 614, nole. Trimming, the Spectator unjustly accused of it, iii. 449.
Trinity College, Dublin, Library, petition to the House of Commons in aid of, v. 484; address of the Irish House of Com- mons for the same object, 505; grant made, ib.
Tripodes of Homer, how ridiculed by Scaliger, iii. 233.
Trippet, Tom, his letter to the Spectator on Greek quotations, iii. 287, 288. Trippit, Simon, his petition to Mr. Bick- erstaffe, ii. 44.
Trippitt, William, Esq., his action against Lady Prudely in the Court of Honour, ii. 219.
Triton, figure cf a, common to ancient vessels, i. 295.
Triumphal arch of Constantine at Rome, i. 480.
Triumphal arches, how distinguished from
honorary arches erected to emperors, i.
Triumvirate, Roman, their debate com- pared with that of the Spectator's club, ii. 297.
Troilus, his letter to the Spectator on the Greeks and Trojans of the university, iii. 142.
Trojan fleet, transformed into water- nymphs, a tradition, iii. 257.
Trojans, remarks on their dress, i. 303; their clamour on advancing to the enemy compared to the cackling of cranes, ii. 96.
Tron, Signor Nicolo, Venetian ambassa- dor, v. 450.
Trophies of Sir Roger's fox-hunting, ii. 450.
Trophonius's cave, its properties describ- ed, iv. 152.
Troubled ocean, creates an agreeable hor-
ror in the mind, iv. 7.
Trowser, the old British, a subject for fu-
ture antiquaries, i. 261.
Troy, Horace's Ode upon Augustus's de- sign to rebuild it, i. 83.
True-lover's knot, made of a lady's hair, a great consolation to her absent lover, iii. 141.
Trueby, (widow,) her water recommended by Sir Roger de Coverley, iii. 329; his commendation of her, ib.
Truelove, Mrs., her zeal in the cause of Dr. Titus Oates, ii. 342.
Truelove, Tom, his sensible mode of mak- ing love, iv. 217; his success, 218. Trumbull, Sir William, his letter detailing the reception of Addison's Cato, v. 717. Trumpets, what sort of men are such in conversation, ii. 116; where to be met with, 118.
Truncheon, Mr. Alexander, foreman of the jury on the Court of Honour, ii. 191. Trunk-maker, in the upper gallery, a per- son at the theatre so called, iii. 125; of great use there, ib.; the means of sav- ing a good play, or bringing a good actor into notice, 126; a successor to him proposed, 127.
Trust in the Supreme Being, a duty, how recommended, iii. 445.
Trusty, Sir, a character in the opera of Rosamond, i. 59.
Truth, her mirror in the hand of Justice, ii. 32; the founder of a family and the father of good sense, 298; accompanied by wit, invades the region of falsehood, 365; her triumph, 366; the natural food of the understanding, iv. 25; nothing so delightful as hearing or speaking it, 85. Tryphiodorus, a lipogrammatist, his Odys- sey, ii. 347; his phantom at a ball in the temple of Dullness, 364.
Tucker, a female ornament, lately laid aside, iv. 178; married women mostly the leaders of this fashion, 180; re- proaches and applauses on the discourse against them, 204, 205; reformation at Rome, 225; letter to the pope upon it, 271.
Tugghe, Sieur, v. 533, note.
Tullia, an accomplished woman, iv. 318. Tully exposes a precept delivered by the ancient writers, iii. 109; his thoughts on the beauty of virtue, 137. (See Cicero.)
Tumults and riots lead to a civil war, iv. 499.
Tunica of the Romans, i. 261.
Turkey, larded, mistaken for a roasted porcupine, ii. 108; custom there of blackening the houses of liars, iv. 401. Turkey-merchant, his letter on fashion- able nakedness, iv. 251, 252.
Turkish emperor, his gratitude to his horse, ii. 84.
Turkis. tale, of Sultan Mahmoud and his vizier, iv. 32, 33.
Turkish tales, a story from, ii. 417, &c. Turks, formidable to the Venetians, i. 390; all their commands performed by mutes, iv. 235; their women happy if they can get a twelfth share of a husband, 408. Turnus, his death less heroic than that of Earl Douglas in Chevy Chase, ii. 378. Tuscany, the grand duke of, his immense revenues from Leghorn, i. 490; his schemes to prevent the pope from mak- ing Civita Vecchia a free port, 492; his animosity against Lucca, whence aris- ing, 493; childless, and living separate from his duchess, 500.
Tusculum of Cicero, where situated, i. 484. Tutchin, Mr. John, v. 363. Tutor, Addison as a, v. 675. Twickenham, Pope's villa at, v. 703. Two-penny club, its rules, ii. 252. Tychius, an honest cobbler, how compli- ted by Homer, v. 215.
Tyers, Jonathan, first establishes Spring Garden, afterwards Vauxhall, v. 689. Typhæus, where placed by the ancient poets, i. 451.
Tyranny, described as leading an army against Liberty, ii. 141; a phantom in the Hall of Public Credit, 239; in what consisting, iii. 296.
Tyrants and flatterers always exist toge- ther, iii. 394.
Tyre, its strength and commercial pros- perity, to what owing, v. 54.
Ulme opens her gates to the Duke of Marlborough, i. 51.
Ulpian collected all the imperial edicts against the Christians, v. 106. Ulysses, his conversations with the dead supposed to have been in Narbon Gaul, i. 359; his voyage undetermined among the learned, ib.; his voyage to the regions of the dead, ii. 110; his adven- tures there, ib., &c.; his bow, the Guardian's papers compared to, iv. 173. Unanimity recommended to the Whigs, iv. 504.
Uncharitableness, a species of, iii. 508. Uncommon, a source of pleasure to the imagination, iii. 397.
Understanding, wherein more perfect than the imagination, iii. 427.
Understands a critic, the expression cor- rected, iii. 195, note.
Undertakers, at Rome, who dig for an- tiquities, i. 470.
Unfortunate and imprudent, considered by Richelieu synonymous, iii. 303. Unfurling the fan, directions for, ii. 429. Unhappy marriages, a particular occasion of them, iv. 217.
Unicorn's head, to be erected for the la- dies, iv. 220; likely to prove a cornu- copiæ, 248.
Uniformity Act, hung up in the Hall of Public Credit, ii. 237.
Union, of the French and Spanish mon- archies, advantageous to France and injurious to Great Britain, iv. 340; of the two kingdoms, called by the Pre- tender a grievance, iv. 430; chiefly con- ducted by Lord Somers, v. 41.
Union, Scottish, feelings of the people respecting it, v. 350, 352, 353, 357; ra- tified by Scottish parliament, 353; arms conjoined with those of England, 360; thanksgiving-day for, 361.
United Provinces, their public debt, iv.
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Universities, formerly carried on their de- bates by syllogism, iii. 131; divided into Greeks and Trojans, ib. Unlearned, account of their works, a pro- jected monthly pamphlet, iii. 469. Upholders, a new company, ii. 47, 52; their civility to Bickerstaffe, 85. Upholsterer, Mr. Bickerstaffe's neighbour, a great newsmonger, ii. 125; his con- versation with Mr. Bickerstaffe in the park, ib.; his early visit to Mr. Bicker- staffe, 135; his reason for it, 136; the host of the four Indian kings, produces their manuscripts, 329.
Urganda, an enchantress, allusion to, i. 83.
Uriel's passage on a sunbeam, a pretti- ness in Milton, iii. 227.
Usurer, grieves at the shortness of time, ii. 412.
Utica, scene of the tragedy of Cato, i. 172. Utrecht, treaty of, how interrupted, iii.
503; treaty of commerce compared with that of Madrid, v. 50.
Vaillant, Mons., produced a chronicle of the kings of Syria from a collection of medals, i. 263.
Valentinian and Valens, emperors, their law of libel, iii. 459.
Valetudinarian, a letter from, ii. 278, 279; Italian epitaph on one, 280.
Vallesins, inhabitants of a district in Swit- zerland, i. 513.
Valley of Misery, ii. 500.
Valour, personified in the Highlander's Vision, iv. 497.
Vanbrugh, a member of the Kit-cat Club, v. 676, 677.
Vauburgh, Mr., Clarenceux king at arms, v. 348.
Vandeput, Mrs., Steele's landlady, who sued him, v. 373.
Vandyke complimented by Waller, ii. 248.
Vanity, her temple, described in a vision, ii. 89; described as a French painter, 393; the support of infidelity, iii. 55; a life of, described in the Wisdom of Solomon, 101; the natural weakness of an ambitious man, 158; described as a weight in the vision of the scales, 478; of human wishes, exposed in a fable, 367, &c.; of a man's valuing himself on his ancestors, iv. 259, 260.
Vapours in women, to what to be ascribed, ii. 449.
Variety, charming to the imagination, iii. 398; of happiness in a future state, iv. 155; the notion confirmed by revelation, 156; variety studied by the Guardian in his daily dissertations, 263. Various readings, in the classics, humor- ously exemplified, iii. 490.
Varro, his rules of husbandry less pleas- ant than those of Virgil, i. 156. Vatican library, a letter of Henry VIII. to Ann Bulleyn in it, i. 481. Vauban calculates the reduced popula- tion of France at the peace of Ryswick,
Vaud, the country of, belonging to the canton of Berne, i. 509; the country of, the most cultivated and fruitful part of the Alps, 514.
Vauxhall, first established as Spring Gar- den, v. 689.
Veal, a modern diet, ii. 107.
Vehemence of action, used by Latin ora- tors, iii. 386.
Veii, ruins of their capital city, i. 487; its desolation foretold by Lucan, ib. Velini rosea rura, why so called by Vir- gil, i. 412.
Velino, river, its cascade, i. 411; falls into the Nera, 413.
Venetians, their aversion to the king of France, i. 374; their thirst after con- quest on Terra Firma prejudicial to the commonwealth, 389; the republic in a declining condition, ib.; on what terms with the emperor, the Turks, the pope, and the Duke of Savoy, 390; their se- nate the wisest council in the world, 391; refined policy and secrecy in state matters, with an instance of it, ib.; number of their nobility and operas, ib.; a custom peculiar to the Venetians, 395; a show particular to them exhi- bited on Holy Thursday, described by Claudian, ib.
Venice, its strength, owing to its situa-
tion in the sea, i. 386; its convenience for commerce, 387; its manufactures of cloth, glass, and silk, formerly the best in Europe, ib.; its buildings, bridges, &c., 388; its celebrated painters, ib.; moisture of its air, ib.; its arsenal, 389; its republic declining in power, ib.; secrecy of its councils, 390; pride of its nobility, 391; carnival, with the
necessity and consequences of it, 392; character of its dramatic poetry, 393; comedies, ib.; custom among the com- mon people of singing verses from Tasso, 395; no mention of the city made in the old poets, 396; lions at, iv. 162; one erected by Mr. Ironside at Button's, in imitation, 175; the com- monwealth of, maintains spies on all its members, v. 89; affront offered to Earl of Manchester at, 369; Venetian am- bassador complains of the arrest of one of his domestics, 509.
Venice Preserved, a fine scene in, ii. 98; its plot censured, 307; artful effect of the clock striking, 314.
Venture, a neutral verb, misapplied in
Venus, chamber of, described, i. 434; her statues at Florence, 499; numerous copies of the Venus de Medicis, 472; presents her cestus to Juno to charm Jupiter, ii. 104; story of her amour with Mars burlesqued, 214; Sappho's hynn to her translated, iii. 107; a pretty cir- cumstance in it, 108; described by the poets as delighting in laughter, 148; the charming figure she makes in the first Æneid, 417; how reproved by Ju- piter for mixing in a war, v. 37, 38. Venus semireducta, iv. 181.
Venus of Medicis, represented on medals, i. 266.
Vermin, feeding on the Tatler, noticed, ii. 172.
Vernal delight, described by Milton, iii. 371; how to be improved into a Chris- tian virtue, 372.
Vernon, Mr., speech of, v. 667. Verona, its amphitheatre described, i. 377; its other antiquities, and churches, 378. Versailles, the palace of, described, iv. 182, 183; letter respecting, v. 326. Verse, blank, versus rhyme, v. 695. Verses, by Mr. Tickell to the author of
Rosamond, i. 55; to the author of Cato, by Sir Richard Steele, 162; by Mr. Hughes, ib.; by Dr. Young, 163; by Mr. Eusden, 164; by Mr. Tickell, 165; by Mr. Digby Cotes, 167; left with the printer by an unknown hand, (G. Jeffe- reys, Esq.,) 168; by Mr. Ambrose Phi- lips, 170; to the Princess of Wales with the tragedy of Cato, 227; to Sir Godfrey Kneller on his picture of the King, 229; occasioned by Mr. Addison's treatise on medals, 253; to the Countess of War- wick, by Mr. Welsted, v. 155. Versoy, a town in the canton of Berne, the retreat of Ludlow, i. 513. Vertot, (the Abbot de,) his account of the death of Muly Moluc, iii. 341. Verulam, (Lord,) sunk under an impeach- ment of the House of Commons, v. 44. Vervins, treaty, saying of Henry IV. of France on signing it, v. 11.
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