well," 506; advised the
House of Commons to prefer
the most weighty matters
first, 718.
ELTON, OLIVER, story of, 9.
Enamorados de la Pena de los,
83.
Enchanter, cold-blooded, why?
243.
Encorema, what? 434.
England, should be the scene
of an Englishman's poem,
ideas relative to-why not
attempted, 17; charity of,
-"in the day of her visita-
tion may it be remembered,"
20; three names of, 46;
saying of M. de Custine's
about, 718.
ENGLISH LITERATURE AND
POETRY, &c. extracts rela-
tive to, 279, &c.
English, account of, from Mal-
colm's Manners and Customs
of London, 376.
EVTEλEXEía, Aristotle's use of,
434, 440.
Enthusiasm and Atheism, 689.
Envy, severely just vice, 626.
Epic writers, have usually been
deficient in learning,-sug.
gestions for epic poems, 11.
Epitaphs, 48, 50-52, 73; on
Richard I., Henry II., &c.
134; on Richard II., King
John, &c. 135; a true one
at Santarem, 633; of Thomas
Tryon, 634.
Ergot of Rye, poisonous though
used medicinally, 401.
Ermesia, ancient prescription,
Escape from drowning at sea,
extraordinary one, 485.
ESPINOZA, NICOLAS? a galley
slave once? 635-6.
ESPRIELLA, characteristic Eng. |
lish Anecdotes and Fragments
for, 352, &c.; projected con-
tents of, 419.
Esquimaux Female, awe of in
St. Paul's, 362; saying of in
the streets of London, 516.
Estrella de Venus, &c. 266.
Etymology, perversion of by
the Meccans, 225.
Eumenides, awful to name, like
the Fairies, 529.
Euphues, extracts from, 457-9,
680-1.
EURONYMUS, who? 227.
FLACCUS VALERIUS, extracts
from, 77, 80, 81, 220.
Flamborough Head, 161.
Faithlessness, Indian notion of Flamen Dialis, or, Priest of
European, 236.
Falcon, The Faery, 90.
Fame, 605.
Family Pride, 583.
Fancy A, called by Steele a
fantasque, 620; where situ-
ated, 548.
Farmer, small one, ought not
to keep a pig, 610.
Farthing, Queen Anne's, trial
about, 388.
Fashion, 596.
FASTOLF, Oath of, 66; bad cha-
racter of him by H. Wind-
sor, 72.
Fasts and Thanksgivings, in
New England, 148.
Fear, a bad guard, 659.
FEATLEY, extracts from, 445,
644, 661.
Feet-Metrical, twelve in the
English language, 1.
FELTHAM, OWEN, extracts
from, 81.
Jupiter, account of, 614.
Flamingos, flight of, 396.
Fleas, import of, 470.
FLETCHER, THE, remarks on,
Floating Island, Welsh one, 76.
Florida, custom there of sacri-
ficing the first-born male,
Florist's Feast at Bethnal
Green in George I.'s time,
Follies, no christian burial for,
when outlived, 616; hath
eagle's wings, but owl's eyes,
Dutch Prov. 644.
Fonthill, Garrard's description
of to Strafford, 408.
Food, extracts about, 558.
Fool, name for, original in
every language, 577; origin
of fools-to supply the want
of free society, 420; fools
and wise men, opposed, say- |
ing of Louis XII., 445 ; every
prince should have two, 503.
Forest, thoughts for inscription
in, 194.
Fortitude, a royal virtue, 625.
Fortunate, many, but few blest,
Fountains, Turkish, 74; of
Epirus, 240.
Fox, the Martyrologist, his
account of Latimer at the
stake, 192.
Fox, the Statesman, 195; in-
scription under bust of, Ib.
Fox, tamo one, story of, 370;
stewed, a remedy for palsy,
Fox-hunter, story of, 373.
Francus, etymology of, 70.
Freedom, noble burst relative
to in "The Bruce," 217.
French Wars, ruinous to the
English,56; history, its atro-
cious character, 275; in-
stance of their natural gaiety,
617; the people, great read-
ers, 376.
Friendship, should be slow of
growth, 192; staid thoughts
on, 440.
Frison Chief, story of, 674.
Frost, hard one of Jan. 1809,
when the rain froze as it
fell, 387.
Fubbs, name of Charles II.'s
yacht, 543.
FULLER, quotations from, 96,
221, 242; his remarks on
Speed, 316, 414-15; his vein
of wit, 475, 480-1,506-7, 673,
697, 707.
Funerals, form used at that of
Greek Emperors, 153; Mexi-
can, 154; North American
Indians, 230.
Furze pods, crackling of, on a
hot day, 6.
Futura, i. e. projects for future
productions. 273.
Gads-steel, 76.
Gallasses, what? 135.
GALLOYS, PERCEVAL LE, ex-
tracts and remarks on, 285.
GARASSE, Doctr. Curieuse, ex-
tracts from, 460-1, 463, 487,
495; his most uncharitable
writings belie his own na-
ture, 716.
GARCI, FERNANDES, murders |
his adulterous wife, and mar-
ries the servant who betrayed
her, 78, 275.
GARCILASSO,
Reales, quotations from, 158,
&c.
Gardens, Chinese, 600; in Cas-
tle Ditch at Exeter and Ec-
cleshall, 523.
GASCOIGNE, 289; extracts,
430.
Gebir, extracts from, 216.
Gems, virtues, of, 46
Genius, Good, fighting, 78.
GERALD, Epitaph for, 195.
Ghost-cry, The Sailor's, 241.
Giants, names of, 606.
Gibbet, health drunk under by
plunderers, 355.
GIBBON, extracts from, 177.
Giggleswick, ebbing and flow.
ing well of, 404.
GILPIN, RICHARD, that slew
the wild boar, 534.
Gilsland Wells, beauty of, and
romantic story of two boys,
Goat, efficacy of blood of, 453;
anciently thought to operate
upon themselves for cata-
ract, 589.
Gob and Gobbins, meaning of,
407.
GOBARUS, STEPHEN, opinion
of, 585.
God, easier pleased than man,
625.
Godam, "jurement Anglois,"
Godissours, i. e. jesters, gibers,
GOFF, THOMAS, extracts from,
301.
Gold-dust, used by the Mero-
vingian kings to powder their
heads and beards with, 597.
Golden legend, extracts from,
132, &c.
GOLDSMITH, O., remarks on-
told Cradock his Hermit
could not be amended, 343.
GOMBAULD, Endymion de, ex-
tracts, 628.
Gondibert, extracts from, 618-
9, 650.
GONGORA, Al Escorial, 627.
Good man, striking remark on,
637.
Good-nature, a thorough Eng-
lish expression, 384.
Gooseberry Pie, lyrical manner
described in an ode upon,
199; names of, 411.
Gothic Genius, 259.
GOUGH, the loss of, 538.
Gout, divers fantastic remedies
for, 556-7.
Government, proper object of,
GOWER, quoted, 146.
Grace, Heart of, 299.
GRAHAM, DR. half knave, half
enthusiast, 360.
Grandmother, a man that mar-
ried his, 419.
GRANGE, LADY, story of, 91.
GRAVES, RICHARD, why he
wrote his Columella, or the
Distressed Anchoret, 618;
Shenstone might sit for the
more amiable part of Colu
mella's picture, 338.
GRAY, extracts relative to, 343,
&c.
GREAAL SAINCT, remarks and
extracts, 282.
Greeks merry, proverb, 380.
GREEN, ROBERT, peculiar use
of "for to do" "for be-
cause," 322.
Green, pale translucent, of an
evening sky, 7.
Greta Hall, annals of, 448.
Gridiron, The, timbers laid for,
452.
GRIJALFAS' Treasure, inven-
tory of, 260. L
Gripe, story of spreading, 354.
Groaning-boards, wonder of, in
1682, 374.
Groaners, hired ones at the
Huntingdon Chapel, 363.
Groves, Egyptian, 181.
Ground that may be built on,
ideas, &c. 10.
GUESCLIN DU, 148.
Guernsey Lily, naturalized by
the shipwreck of a vessel
returning from Japan, of
which country it is a native,
Guitars, great run for, and
story of Kirkman the harp-
sicord maker, 435; poor
teacher of, 571.
Gule of August, 121.
Gulls, resolution of a flock of,
486.
GUNN, ADOLPHUS, good story
GUTHLAKE, ST., at Crowland,
Gyffydh, Rhees ap, Epitaph on,
GYTHA, the mother of Harold,
said to have retired to Steep-
Holme, 408.
H, power of the letter, 416.
HABINGTON, the purest writer
of his age, 305.
HACKET, BP., extracts from
and sayings of, 466, 510;
Christian consolations of,
547, 639.
HADINGUS, Descent of, 38.
Hair, long, Clovis' body, son
of Chilperic, known by, 271;
a single lock of seven feet
nine inches, 431; the juta of
the Synyasees, 435; dyed
yellow by Roman ladies, 436.
HALDANUS, Club of, 30.
HALL, BP., extracts from, 219;
indebted to Hugo de Animâ,
222, 565.
Huls, i. e. neck, "Hange myn
hoper at myn hals." Piers
Plowman v. 3918.
Sextus, 533.
Passus Herb, of Orpheus-that starves
HANDEL, anecdote of, 425, 472,
568.
Handfast, i. e. hold, 654.
Hankford's Oak, 156.
HANNAH, Lines, 53.
HANWAY, JONAS, Mrs. Car-
ter's remark on, 610.
Hure, that kennelled on the
hearth at Naworth, 406; re-
turns to its form to die, 543.
Hurp-strings, the bursting of,
HARVEY'S Prose, drunken or
maudlin, 340, 342.
HARUT and MARUT, 101.
HASAN CASA, The Seven Songs
of, 231-236.
Hats, a guess why beaver's fur
is used for, 509.
HAWKINS, SIR JOHN, History
of Music, 568-9, 570-1.
Hawks, of Noroega, 237.
Hawse, i. e. hals, q. v. 533.
HAYDN, his remark on the sing-
ing of the charity children
at St. Pauls, the most pow
erful effect he ever heard,
393.
Headless Men, account of, from
Herrera, 244.
Hear! Hear! quoth Southey,
Heart's hope, fine cottages of,
HEARNE'S Collection of Cu-
rious Discourses, &c. 133-4;
journey to the Northern
Ocean, extracts from, 167,
&c.
Hedgehog, Douza's pet one,462.
Heart of Mun, origin of Quarles'
Epigram, 219, triangular
architecture of, 346.
Heaven, 596.
Hell, extracts relative to, 591.
Marlow's works on, 651;
where? 504.
Hengst, Hengistus, 133.
Henbane, the cimex of, 546.
HENRY II., cruelty of, 173;
stript when dead-his epi
taph, 174.
HENRY III., his perjury, 141.
HENRY IV. of France, bad ac-
tion of, 73.
HENRY VIII., a saying of,
Hemp, thief's dislike to the
plant, 463.
tracts from, 303, &c.; no-
ticed more old customs and
vulgarsuperstitions than any
other of our poets, 305.
HESIOD, extracts from, 220.
Hexameters, New Testament
translated into, 713.
Hexameters, English, remarks
on, 1; hexameters and pen.
tameters composed by a ta-
ble, 339.
Hexham, Abp. of York's at
tempt to save at the sup-
pression of the religious
houses, and why, 403.
HIGGONS, SIR THOMAS, Cava-
lier, and Bevish Higgons,
his son, 348.
HILL, AARON, 398.
HIMILCON, the Carthaginian
general, story for monodra-
ma, 274.
Hindoo Mythology, extracts re-
lative to, 246.
Hindoos, remarks on, and cus-
toms of, 435; old families
respected by, 700; invoke
the manes of their ancestors
to be present at a marriage,
704.
HOBBES, extracts from, 410,
411-13, 560, 625; on mul-
titude of suits, 667; recom.
mends the Whole Duty of
Man, 705.
HOEL, character of, 107.
Holiday evenings, Summer, 119;
holidays originally humane,
Holiness, Christian, 694.
HOLINSHED, extracts from,174,
&c.
Holkham House, description of,
397.
HOLLAND, HENRY, 156.
Holly tree and leaves, 193, 200;
superstition about, in Wales,
on St. Stephen's day, 365;
at Furness, browse for sheep,
535.
Honey, formerly not sold, but
given, at Keswick, 537.
Hope, saying about, 616; Ha-
fiz remark on, 635.
Horns, girl with, 547.
Horse, The White, quære? 23;
White Horse of Swantowith,
27; Arabian horses, 109
Hengist's, 133. White horse
of royalty, 171; with a little
blood is best roadster, 624;
fierce one, story of, 372;
humane treatment of stage
ones, 389; names of, 472;
blind one, what, 512, 541;
flesh eater, 557; concert for,
Hospital, of Sultan Bayazed at
Adrianople, 437.
Horsham, maiden lady of, queer
story, 370.
Houd, Le Prophete, 98
Hour-Glass, ancient use of,
379, 471, 625; South, ii.
339.
HOUSSAIE, AMELOT DE LA,
642, 644.
HOWARD, EDWARD, Eighth
Earl of Suffolk, 349.
HOWES, EDMUND, curious par-
ticulars in his history, 51.
Howk, the, sound from, 6.
Human Being, annual con-
sumption of one (?) 390.
Human Nature, a generic term,
625.
Humphrey Hour," c
every one, 615.
Humility, Bp. Reynold's re-
marks on, 653.
Hungarian Woman, story of,
for Didrama, 196.
HUNTINGDON, S. S., story of,
357; a rogue, remarks on,
366.
Huntingfield, House of, in Suf-
folk, 416.
HURDI'S Favourite Village, ex-
tracts from, 297; imitated
Cowper, 298.
Hy Brasail, or, The Enchanted
Island, 169.
Hyrne, i. e. a corner, 306.
Indolence, I want not thee, but
thy sister Leisure, 198.
Infallibility, Jackson's remarks
upon, 671, 673.
Infants, their lot after death,
195; dead female one sent
to Dr. Pierce, Dean of Sa-
rum, 373.
Influenza, earliest account of,
1580, 433.
Indulgences, 685.
Indian, Old, plaint of, 173.
Inoculation, originated in su-
perstition, 576.
Insanity, remarks on, 696.
Inscription, mysterious, 76.)/
Insects and Animalculæ, 564.
Inserenda, curious extracts and
omissions, 607 &c.
Instrument, self-performing,
Insula Viventium, Giraldus' ac-
count of, 243.
Insurrection, duty of, €5.
JAMES I., saying of, “that
men had a salmon-like in-
stinct to visit the place of
their breeding, 639; extra-
ordinary elixir of, 554; say-
JAMES, ST, explanation of text
ing of, 686.
Japanese Penitents, 42.
in, 590.
Jaundice, The, lice a cure for,
439; recipe of the Jews,
485.
Jefr we Jame, the most cele
brated Work of Ali, 165, 183.
JEHANNE LA PUCELLE, 21,&c.;
capture of, 23; sentence of,
24; fate of Flavy, who be-
trayed her,-insults offered
to her in prison, 25, 56;
Charles convinced by,-fore-
told by a Nun, 64; fettered
-throws herself from a tow-
er-her favourite Saints, 65;
vision of Breaking her
Sword, 67; speech of, to the
children, 69; the Maid and
the Voice, 170; notes for,
202, &c.
JEFFRIES, CHANCELLOR, coffin
of, in Aldermanbury Church,
394.
Jemappe, story of, subject for
a war poem, 194.
JENKYNS, JUDGE, story of,-
his works should be col-
lected, 400.
JEROME, ST., absurd story of
his filing his teeth to pro-
nounce Hebrew, 443; say.
ing of, 455; remark on, 506;
admonishing St. Augustine,
Jesuits, vision of two, 237;
doctor of, 443.
JEWEL, his reply to Cole, 669.
Jews, journey of, after death,
85; discipline amongst, 390;
say that every individual of
the human race existed in
Adam, 501.
Jimmals, a ring of, 304.
JOHN ST. BAPTIST, vigil of,
116; account of, 149, &c.
JOHN ST. The Evangelist, Chant
for the Feast of, 63; disap-
pearance of, 131; and the
caldron of oil, 147.
JOHNSON, S. loved ratiocina-
tion in poetry, 322; formed
his style upon that of Sir W.
Temple, 325; sayings of,
638, 663, 666.
Jonah, in the Hebrew means,
A Dove, 481.
JONSON BEN, extracts from
and relative to, 325; a care-
ful reader of the Polyolbion,
-himself superintended the
first folio edit. 326; extracts
655-6, 462, &c. 465, 497.
499, 657, &c.
Jornett, Ital. giornata, une
verte militaire, 117.
Journey-Journals, 517.
Joya-jewel-gays, 456.
Juggernaut, processional music
of the Idol of, 246.
Jupiter, inhabitants of, 84;
image of, in Crete, without
ears, why? 667.
Kaba, black stone of, 112.
KALENDAR, sketches for poem
on, 210, 212.
King's Evil, touching for, Ful-
ler believed in, 707.
KNIGHTLEY CHETWOOD, pre-
fixed Dissertation to Dry-Leek
den's Virgil, 351.
Knowledge, imperfection of, in
the most learned men, 620.
Koran, extracts from, 213.
Koreish, The second flight of,
of a family, Scandinavian
saying? 432.
Leicestershire Proverb, 341.
Lent Fridays, 119.
LEONARDO, LUPERCIO, &c.
BARTOLOME, translations
from, 268-9, 272.
LEONNOYS MELIADUS DE, ex.
tracts, and remarks on, 281.
Letter,copy of a queer one, 114.
Letters, revival of, a conse.
quence that followed from,
701; the knowledge of, look-
ed upon by barbarians as
mean and disgraceful, 701.
Levites, A. D. 1781. Les der-
nières robes en vogue, 597.
Leyden, extracts relative to,
Liberty, remarks on, 685.
Lice, cure for the jaundice, 439;
used in choosing a burgo-
master, 454.
Lie, a, 678, 680.
Lightning, Welsh-Town de-
stroyed by, 76; Kalmuc su-
perstition of, 87; Bells, no
effectual charm against, 96;
a paralytic cured by, in Mexi-
co, 554.
LIGHTFOOT, sayings of, 450,
645, 672.
Lights, feast of, 121.
LILLY, his similies not to be
relied upon, 457.
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