BACON, LORD, remarks of, 637. | BEAUCHAMP, RICHARD, Earl of
BADDELEY, the comedian, be-
quest of, 398. Bag-pipes, graziers' cattle feed- ing to the sound of, 393. Bahar Danush, extracts from,
considered by Southey to be a remarkable work, 213. BALDER, The Grave of, 27. BALGUY, burnt his sermons, why? 709.
Ballads, subjects for, 95. Bulm, great use of in Egypt, 180.
BALY or BELY, account of in
Hindoo Mythology, 251. Bamborough, story about, 367. Bampton, Oxon, custom of the vicars of, 395.
Banks, temples used as, 685. Bantams, the Javanese, nearly as large as a bustard, 367. BAPTISTA PORTA, observation of, 476. Baptists, why they seceded from the Evangelical Maga- zine, 410. BARBER,THE, his consequence,
Asker, An, i. e. a beggar, 364. Aspalax. See Schol. in Ly. cophr. v. 121, and Etymol. Mag. in v. Aristotle writes 'Aopala. Cf. Hist. Animal. lib. i. 1, 9. viii. 28, 433. Aspen-poplar, Tafod y Mirchens, or, Woman's Tongue, 172. Ass, singular taste of one for tobacco, 593. A student of philosophy, 368. Astraa, remarks on, 279. Astronomy, Turkish, 156. Hin. doo prolixity, 435. Atone, meaning of, 288. ATTILA, the sword of, 241. AUGUSTINE, saying of, 630. Anecdote of, unde? 436. Opi- nion of the human soul, 479. Aurora Borealis, Captain TBARRUEL, ABBE, extracts Southey's account of, 6, 162. North and South Indian's name for, Ed-thin, 168. AUSONIUS, beautiful epigram of, 456.
Avale, i. e. to descend, 89. Avarice ever finds in itself mat- ter of ambition, 637. Its own plague, 718. Awkwardness at Court, 44. AYSCOUGH, Sir Izaac Newton's uncle, his absence of mind, 713.
Bardsay, island of, 140. Barons, palace pomp of, 151. BARROW, extracts from, 626,
from, 381-383. Bartholomew-tide Sports, 118. Barton in the Beans, 341. Bashfulness-" rosy modesty,"
Bat, short and quick cry of, 201. Dips the breast like the swallow, 202. Proverb that the serpent eats one ere he comes to be a dragon, 710. Bath and Bristol, frightened by a prophet, 385. Battle, shades of, 241.
Birds, extracts relative to, 168.4 Brazil, thick heads in, 171.
Of the Bermudas that bur- row,592. Education of sing- ing birds, 510. BISHOP, SAMUEL, Poetical Works, 309. Shews in his domestic poems a very ami- able and happy feeling of du- ties and enjoyments, &c. ib. Bisk, i. e. to ink so as to be il- legible, 399.
Blackbird and Woodlark, notice of, 152.
Blame my Nose! softened im-
precation, 477. BLANCHARD ALAIN, 70. Blank Verse, Irregular, re- marks on, 1.// Blind, funds for, at Christ's Hospital, 387.
Blood, Circulation of? allusion to, in Eccles. xii. 546. Boar, a Norfolk one, ridden four and a quarter miles by his master, 415.
Boar's head, 174. Boat like an Eagle, 67. BODMER'S Noachid, a bad Poem, 2.
Book-keeper, correct and in- correct, P. Tompkin's, death of, 390. BOSWELL had a faculty for man-
ners, said Adam Smith, 617. Botany, Medical, extracts, 573. BOUCHET, Serées, 704. Bourg de Bar, le Capitaine, 170. BOVIUS, THOMAS, an Empiric, his Hercules and Aurum Po- tabile, 436. BOWDWOIN, JAMES, astrono- mical opinions of, 431. BOWLES CAROLINE, i. e. Mrs. Southey, remark of, 621. Bracha, Gallia Braccata, &c.40. Brama, how he first made man, 428. Bramins, 238.
Breath, Ill, strange cure for, 429.
Brick, custom of building with,
when introduced, 400. Brescia, Arnald of, 141. Bretagne, Traditions in, 240. BREUSE, The Lady, 174. Brianstone, Great Sergeanty Tenure of, 175. Bride Ale, 361.
Britain, the thirteen rarities of,
Bristol, H. Walpole not favour. ably impressed with, 392. Goodness of the water of, 426.
Broad-cloth, deterioration of by Devil's dust in Latimer's time, 610.
Broads, meaning of the term,
BROOKE, LORD, his Poems, re- marks on, 315. Extracts, 647-649, 691. Brougham Castle, fine ruin, 532,
537. LORD, 666, 688. Brough Bells, story of, and Bal- lad, 422.
BROUGHTON'S Dict. of all Re- ligions, extracts from, 121, 2. SIR THOMAS,tradition about, 535.
BROWN, JOHN, remarks on his Estimate, &c. 342. BROWNE, SIR T. favourite wri.
ter of Southey's, 334. BRUCE, The Heart of, 172. Ex-
tracts from "The," 217. Bruciad, not a good Poem, 633. Brute Creation, Apology for, Sermon by James Granger,
BRUYERE LA, extracts from, 645, 669.
Buck, St. Paul's, 120, 414.
Clubs of Bold Bucks, &c. 377. BUCKHURST, LORD, advice in Ferrex and Porrex, to settle the succession, 323. Bull-Baiting, Dr. Parr fond of, 585.
BUNYAN, JOHN, of his Pilgrim's Progress, 221. Remark of, on lies and slanders, 691. Burbolts, kind of fish, Gadus Lotæ, of Linnæus, 607. Burgess, curious custom of ta- king up the freedom of one at Alnwick, 419.
Burgomaster, strange mode of choosing, 454. BURGOINGNE, DUC DE, Lettres envoyées de, par le Roy d'An- gleterre au, 21. Charles the Warlike, Duke of, 104, 109, 115, 164.
Burial, Royal and Noble Modes of, 133.
Buried Money, story of, 426. Burke the miscreant, affrighted in his sleep, 708. BURKE, his admiration of Spen- ser, 312. Complimented by Lord G. Gordon, 689. His saying on Pitt's Economical Bill, 689. On the Growth of Atheism, 700. BURNET, SIR THOMAS, Son of Bishop, saying of, 350. BURNET'S Theoria Sacra, ad- mired by Southey and Wordsworth, 184. Burning, better than Inter- ment, 195.
Burrough, or Burgh, Hutchin- son's remark on name, 618.
BURTON, Anat. of Mel. ex-
tracts, 467-8, 473-4. BUSHELL'S Wells, account of at Enstone, 405. Butterfly, pretty lines of Hall Hartston's, 661.
Cader Idris, 242.
CECILIA, ST., 67; sermons preached on her day as late as 1713, 703. CAFFARELLI, the singer, his CALDERON, extracts, 468, 471, wealth, 433. 501, 640. 658. CALVERT, F. LORD BALTI- MORE, works of, 348. Calvinistic Teachers, 716. CALVIN'S Institutes, Boling. broke's remarks on, 410. CAMDEN, Gough's, quotations from, 57, 61, 62. Camel, called the Ship of the Land, 176; conveyors of souls, Ib.; taught to dance,
CAMILLUS Leonardus, Mirror of Stones, 46. CAMOENS, 627.
Canary Fanciers, pattern bird of, 433. CANOVA's genius first manifest- ed in modelling butter, 510.
Carnifex, an officer of great
dignity under our Danish Kings, 400.
CARRARA UBERTINO, his Co- lumbus, extracts from, 631,2. CARTE'S ORMOND, remarks from, 690. CARTWRIGHT, MAJOR, the sportsman, anecdotes of,- his Book &c., 515. Carwichet, what, 509, 705. CASTILLEJO, to the Author of a bad Poem, 634. Castor Church, Lincolnshire, irreverent custom at, 414. Cataract, dislodged by a fall from a horse, 589. CATESBY, THOMAS, Lord Pa- get, Essay on Human Life, 351.
Cat and Dog, instance of their travelling together, &c., 400. Cats, Madame de Custine's
Cathedra Stercoris, what? 401. CATO's Letters, extracts from,
Cattle, some account of, and of
grazier's terms, 401, 488. Cave, King Arthur's, 160. Cavern, strange, 76; wind- guarded, 138. CEIREOC, battle of, 108, Celebes, poisonous tree of, 243. Cemeteries at Hamburg, with- out the city, 579. Chafing, cured by the slime of the slug, 555. Chaises private, made war upon in 1733 by stages and hack- ney coaches, 377; curious
account of a chaise driver's last bequest, 418. CHALKHILL, JOHN, his Theal- ma and Clearchus, 630.
Chama Gigas, great shell, 7. CHAMBERLAYNE, author of the Anglia Notitia, vanity of,
CHANCELLOR, LORD, is his of fice compatible with Speaker of the House of Lords? 395. Charitable men, St. Chrysos- tom's character of, 626. CHARLEMAGNE and his Mis- tress, tale of, 71. CHARLES I., omens of his fate, 159; A Marvel's lines on death of, 635. CHARLES II., best likeness of,
according to H. Walpole, 620. Charleton, Leicestershire, 392,
CHAUCER, extracts relative to, 322, 634.
Charms from Ceylon, 609. Cheve, chevir, 91. Child-Murder, Indian woman's defence of, 276. Chili, Indians of, 114.
Chinese taste, increase of, 339. Chinon, situation of, Rabelais born there, 57. Chelmsford, antiquity of the Black Boy of, 392. CHENY, BP. his advice how to read the Scriptures, 639. Chestnut trees at Tortworth,
Chester, burial place of Henry, a Roman Emperor,-Harold
said to have retired there after the battle of Hastings, 406.
CHEVERNY,CHANCELLOR, pret- ty story of, 543. CHIABERRA, extracts, 497. Chimney-sweepers, women em- ployed as, 391. CHESTERFIELD's Letters, 716. Chivalry, stories connected with the manners of, 11; educa- tion of, 151; L'Amour de Dieu et des Dames, 152; chivalrous speech, 172. Choultries, account of, 238, 247. Christiad, the, poem by Robert Clarke, 537. Christian principles, duty of acting up to, 695. CHRISTINA, QUEEN, 158; Queen of Corinth intended for, 713.
Christmas Tale, ideas for, 275. CHRISTOPHER, ST., Buffalmac- co's painting of, 433.
Church of England, has re- nounced hidden things of darkness, 677. Church-Reformers,Sir G.Mack. enzie's remark upon, 384. Churches, want of in large towns, 419.
CHURCHILL, extracts from and remarks on, 335. Churchyards, Welsh, account of from Booker's Malvern,104; a lesson to be learnt from, 290; desecration of Wool- wich one by some drunken sailors, 386.
Ciborium, meaning of, 283. Cider, an African liquor? 709. Circassian Gentleman, 237. Circelliones, or, wandering monks, 675.
Cistern, Silver, at Belvoir Cas- tle, 373.
CLARA, the Beata of Madrid,
CLARENDON, LORD, honest ad- vice of, 687; his saying re-
lative to the want of Bishops in Reformed Churches, 687. CLARKE, ADAM, extracts from, 505, 707, &c.
CLARKE ROBERT, his Chris- tiad, 537.
CLAUDIAN, extracts from, 221. Clergy, a beggarly, says Ful- ler, the forerunner of a bank- rupt religion, 696. Clothes, in Edw. III.'s time,- a project to show men's birth, &c. 712. Clover, American, 537. CLOVIS, christening of, 71. Coals, some particulars about shipping of, 393.
Course expressions, instead of strong ones, 717.
Coat, rapidity with which one
was made from wool of the same day's shearing,395,482. Cod-fish, prolific milt of, 435. Cock, crowing of, the notice of ghosts to quit, 80. Cockatoo, unruly one, 389. Cock-crower, the king's, office of? 375.
Cockmate and Copesmate,query, the same, 299, 300. Cock-roaches, exorcised, 109, 535.
Coffin-rings, use of, 445. Coffins, cast iron ones, 386; Story of, 402, 403.
Colombiade La, extracts from,
Colours, the love language of, 88.
Cole's dog, Prov. 428, 676. Coltic Timber, what? 434. Columbia, i. e. Dr. Doveland, 584, 596. Comedy, writers of, 261. Comets, 396.
Con, the son of the Sun, 155. CONDER JOSIAH, stories by, 357.
Connoisseur, extracts from,338- 340.
Conqueror, duty of, 114. Contradiction, spirit of, 645. Consumption, certain messenger of death, 353. Cookery, old Scotch, 29. Cookoo, the, "ever telling of one tale," 288. Cooling Card, meaning of, 459. Copenhagen, anecdote at the siege of, 389. Copper, quantity of used in pin making, 467. Coracles, account of, 123. CORELLI, his enthusiastic ap.
pearance when playing the violin, 571. Cormorant, description of, 44. Corps' Candles, 160. Corwen, town of. 57. Corns, sprouts of rheumatism, 555; Ali Bey known by,
Cornagium, cornage tenure, 206, 456, 510. CORTEZ, censuring of, 260. COTTON, CHARLES, 306. COURTOYS GYRON LE, extracts
and remarks on, 280. COVERLEY, SIR ROGER DE, re-
marks of, 690, 707. Cowardice, what? 29. Cow-dung, water of, a purge, 554.
COWLEY, extracts, 627. COWPER, his taste-melancho- ly, &c. 322.
Cows, ladies drawn by, 108;
in the Alps, proud of their bells, 371; list of names of from a Shropshire Dairy, 388.
Cowslip water, good for the memory, 503. Crabs, shower of at Reigate in 1829, 469. Cramp-rings, blessing of, 511.
CRANMER, ABP., said by Ful- ler to have had an amiable eye, 647. Craw-fish, discharges its own stomach, curious fact in Na- tural History, 434. Credulity, effects of, 164; in- stances of English, 359. Cricket, merry as, Prov., 486. Cricket-match,between married women and maidens, 416; between Greenwich pension. ers with one arm and one leg, 418.
Crimes, duty of exposing, 51. CRISPIN, ST., his day much kept at Keswick, 531. Criticism, which corrupts writer and readers, 673. Crocodiles, the king of, 176; superstition relative to the Indian, 237. CROMWELL, the Devil shall have it sooner than, 426. Cross by the wayside, a memen- to! 357; some of the Fa- thers saw it in every thing,
DERMODY, THOMAS, account of, 516.
DERRICK, Johnson's saying of,
Desert, produce of, 224. DESPARD, COLONEL, 194. Despotism, Eastern, instance of, 498.
Δευτερόποτμοι, who, 431. Devil, hath not always had his due, 195; visit to St. An- thony, 196; original of the Devil's walk, 199; gran Fi- losofo, 443; ugliness of, 463; Scotch dislike to mentioning,
Devil's Dust, what? 610. Dew-water of Ferrea, 225; of St. John's night, has the vir- tue to stop the plague, 274. Der, the larva of a beetle, which
corroded the wood the Greeks used for seals, 431. Dhahi, statues in, 96. Diabolorum Regnum, applied to England, 353.
DIANA'S Chamber, near St. Paul's-her temple supposed to have been on the present site, 414. Jewel's Works, vii. 292. ed. Jelf. Diet, 599.
Dilapidations, friends of Bp. Kidder strangely sued for, 612.
Dirt, latent in frost, like vices and ill qualities in society,
Disangelicals, a name for whom? 603.
Diseases, Languis held all_to
be animalcular, 436; Dr. Hahnemann's notion of cho- leraic miasma, 439; effect of the Fall, 690.
Disports, master of merry, 115. Dissenting Churches, remark on, 693.
Divination by Torrent, or, Tag- hairn, 39.
Divine Right, remark on, 665. Dock, floating one of iron, ac- count of, 386. DOCTOR, THE, &c. Collections for, 427, &c. Dog-ribbed Indian Woman, ac- count of, 166. Dogs, know the dog-killer, ac- cording to Lord Bacon, 108; Mrs. Wilson's story of, 194; extracts relative to, 584;
Newfoundland dog's puppy inherited its mother's tricks, 593; church-going, 356; gone to heaven, story of, 363; hunt of wild one, 369; famished, 370; instinct, 371; over-tempted, 372; speaking one, 378; the pride of old Cole's, proverb, 428; sacri- ficed to the dog-star by the Romans, 443, 478, 482; af- fected by music, 573. Dollars, Spanish, wide spread of, 389.
Dolwyddelan Castle, 39. DOM DANAEL, the destruction of, 181.
Doncaster, collections about,
Dondego, what? 706. DONNE'S Letters, extracts from, 612, 620-1; poems, 647-8. Doome's-day, Lord Sterlinge's,
Doring or during, meaning of,
Dotterel catching, proverb,454. Double stars, 434.
Dragon, standard of, 132. DRAKE, SIR FRANCIS, tradi- tion of in Somersetshire, 424. Dramatist's English, extracts from, passim.
DRAYTON, remarks on, 291. Dreams, extracts relative to,
565; recurrence of, 566, 601. Drowned persons, Finlanders
said to recover after two or three days! 553. Druids, United Lodges of, ce- remonies at, 402. Drum, miraculous ones, 7; of captives' skins, 158. Drunkenness, Johnson's re- mark on, 624.
Druses, opinion of relative to transmigration, 586.
DRYDEN, remarks on, and ex• tracts relative to, 328; Charles, his eldest son, usher of the palace to Clement XI. drowned in Thames, 351. Ducking-stool, a legal punish- ment, 401. Duelling, effectual against, 492. Dulness, Triumph of, a poem, origin of, 714. DUNCOMBE, WILLIAM, notice of, 351.
Dwarfs, boys bred up for by
Eel, skinning of, barbarous story of, 356; how one came in at a bedroom window, 371; story of the man with eels in his inside, 402; mere so full of small eels as to supply eel-cakes, 409.
Eggs, hatched by a man, queer story, 416.
Egregori of the Book of Enoch, who? 122.
Egypt, night in, 223; their medicine wholly upon astro- logical or magical grounds, 547; leprosy and elephan- tiasis peculiar to, 551. Elden Hole, 243. Election trick, 392. Electricity, cure for agues, 436. Elephants, majestic bearing of,
ELIDORE, descent of, 139. ELIZABETH, sick exile cured for joy at her succession- Fuller knew his father" right
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