Lime, two kinds of, in the neigh- bourhood of Doncaster, 607. Lame-trees, first pianted in Eng.
Lines, to D. P. 52; to M. C. 63. LINGUET, extracts from, 639,
LITERARY COMPOSITION, &c. Ideas for &c. 1. &e. Llanrust, epitaph at, 526. Llys Bradicen, 39. Loaves, horse, 710. Locrine, 242.
Locust, hieroglyphic on the forehead of, 228; why so numerous? 336; queer no- tion about, 463. Locust Bird, or Samarman, ac- count of, 110. Lodges, Masonic, made use of by the Jacobites, 383. Ligonomie, Gill's, 705. London, Fire of, notion that it
was purposely kindled by the government to annihilate the
plague, 378; Hobbes' opi-
Longerity in the Vale of Gul-
brand, in Norway, 544.
Lotus, account of,- Duppa's work on, 179.
Lore, extracts about, 474. 578. Louver-Holes, what, 373. Love of God, 62.
Lucar, Por la plaça de San. Lu-
LUTHER, Colloquia Mensalia,
extracts from, 156, &c.; says that demons dislike music, 569; remarks of, on the evil of writing, 624; fondness for the lute, 570; his saying that every man had a Pope in his belly, 693.
Lycians, governed by women,
559. LYLY, JOHN, extracts from his Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit, &c.; Euphues and his England, 298, 301. LYTTLETON, THOMAS LORD, story of his death believed in the family, 350.
Machinery, creates enormous wealth for few individuals,
665. MACKENZIE, SIR GEORGE, ex- tracts from, 476, 646.
Mackerel, their food, 401. Madman, story of, 358. Madness, increase of, 384; re- marks on, 470-1, 482; poli- | tical excitement the cause of its increase in America, 706.
Manoc, notes for, 15; parti- culars relative to, 45; sketch of, 204-210.
Magazine St. James's, extracts,
MALCOLM, murderers of, 153. Maldive Ingenuity, 246; cus- tom if one dies at sea, 375; astonishment of a prince of the, 428. Malta, knights of, unable to write, 710.
“Malum benè positum non est morendum," saying of Sir Ph. Warwick's, 640. MAMBRUNI, CONSTANTINUS, Idololatria Debellata, 627. Man, condition since the fall, 658.
Man, Isle of, extracts relative to, 320.
Mandrakes, origin of, 243. MANGO CAPAC, Southey could
not identify Madoc with,- some account of, 3, 4. Manipa, Priest of, 43. Manners, corruption of, 678;
censores morum, wanted, 686. Mantras, or, Charms from Cey- lon, book of obtained by Adam Clarke, 699. Manufacturers, seditious when provisions are dear, 667. Manure and Dunghills, re- marks on, 493.
Marathon, sounds on the plains of. 225.
Mareb, reservoir of, 104. MARGARET, ST., 69. Margites, character of, suits many, 678.
MARIATALE, account of, in Hindoo mythology, 253. Marine, on board the Roval George, story of, for ballad,
Marriage Act, proof of the ne- cessity of, 396; ill effect of. 699. Marriage, extracts relative to, 598, 605; better a relative marry than a friend, why? 614; saying of Plymouth sailors about, 363, 563. Marriage apportionment, Mar- tin Heemskerke's 239. Martinist, lodge of at Avignon, 381-2.
Martingale, who sent you to London without one? 356. MARULLE of Stalimine, story of, 196.
MARVELL, ANDREW, lines on Charles I.'s death, 635. MARY, QUEEN, the days of,
sketch of, poem, 190. MASCARENHA, ANDRE DA SIL VA, and BRAS GARCIA, 629, 630.
Masonry, curious trial about. 374; derived from the Tem plars? 383. MASON, the poet, notes and ex- tracts relative to, 294-296; manliness of his moral poems, 295; last book of the Garden miserably bad, 296. MASSENGER, extracts from, and remarks on, 331, 473. Mass, horrors of, 674. Mast, reflection of on a river at evening, one of the most beautiful images Southey ever saw, 201; hollow iron ones, 386. Mastiff, Lyly's derivation of the word, 301. Materialism, 595. Mathematics, and absence of mind running in a family, 713. Mathraral, 54, 57. MATTHEW OF WESTMINSTER,
extracts from, 124, 138. MATTHEW OF PARIS, extracts from, 130, 131.
MAURICE OF SAXONY, Jack- son's remark on his quick- ness, 645. Maxims, Oriental, 101. MAY, the translator of Lucan,
anecdote of, 312. May-day in the Highlands, ac- count of, 92, 116. MAZARIN, saying of, 439. Mecca, 177.
Mechanical notions, 359. Medicines, Lord Bacon's re- mark on, 698.
Medical Facts, &c. 437-8-9, 474, 476. Meer-stone, 481.
Melancholy, 436, 461, 473. Melrose, the wonderful beauty of, 529.
Memory, loss of, 460; how to increase, 509. MENU, offspring of, 246; how poets ranked in, 634. Mercy-knives, 23. MERLIN, 54.
Merriment, morality and duty of, 449.
Merthyr Tydvil, story of the
forgemen and the devil, 358. MESSIAH, Jewish ideas of, 102. METASTASIO, extracts relative to, 328, 469, 656. Methodists, church government among, 363; hell, no place for, 374; in agricultural countries attached to the church, not in manufactur- ing ones, 682. Metrical Memoranda, 2. Mexican Gods, account of, 142,
Minehead, account of, and of the borough, 519.
Mines, Irish gold and silver,
169; at Keswick, 537. Mirror of Magistrates, extracts,
Misfortune, technical sense of,
Misjed, or, Place of Prayer, 175.
Missionary Poems, subjects for, 278.
Mitrum — nitrum, St. Peter v.
Salt-Peter, 372.
MOALLAKAT, extracts from, 106-7.
Mob, the, Sheridan's opinion of, 689.
Modernity at Gloucester cathe- dral, 392.
MOHAMMED, intended poem, 18; sketch of, 19; Turpin's account of the image of Ma- homed, 26; flight of, 177; arrival at Medina, 178; flight of, 224. Monastic Life, 141. MONBODDO, LORD, opinion on four distinct minds in man, 586.
Monk, mad one of Heidelberg,
470; to be guarded against on all sides, 674. Monkey, the primitive, 96; monk and fish mortality, 244; sayings of Rabelais about, 638. MONSTRELLET, quoted, 21, 55, 66; reports that the sons of the kings of France are made knights at the font when baptized, 712. MONTAIGNE, sayings of, 626-7. Montargis, battle of, 108. MONTLUC, extracts from, 626, 638.
Moon, man in, dream of the death of, 274; extension of, 275; women of lay eggs, ac- cording to Neocles of Croto- na, 613.
MOORE, HANNAH, affected at the death of Mason, 294; her strange remarks on Sir Phi- lip Sydney's Arcadia, 322; her friendship with Beattie, 334; saying of H. Walpole's to, 620. Moorish Princesses converted, 82; customs after meat, 231; just, 241; remark of a Moor
on English places of worship,
Morals, no man's religion ever survived, saying of South,
Moravian Hymn, extract from, 385.
MORE, SIR T., no one put to
death for heresy when he was chancellor, 664. MORLEY, JOHN, sometime butcher, story of, 618. Moro Alcayde, original and translation of, 265.
Moseley, ruin of, sonnet on, 93. Moss-cups, specific for hooping cough, 548.
Mother, one at the age of sixty- two, 398.
Mourning Ale, 700. Mousell for Melastmus, &c. 714. Muck, the mother of the meal chest, 675.
MULEY, ISHMAEL, saying of,
Nequity, i.e. no equity. We | NORDEN, extracts from, 228, | want the word, 681. Newcastle, privilege of the town
NIQUEA, FLORIZEL DE, and the
latter books of Amadis, ex- tracts from, 317, &c. Nispolas Las, con tiempo se ma-
duran, Spanish Proverb, 676. Nir, the water-spirit, 157. No, only to be said to the devil, Turkish saying, 613. No-name Lake, 606. NOAH, of all subjects the most magnificent, the one on which Southey would have introduced hexameters into our language, 2; ideas of it, ib.; Noah's Ark, remnant of, on Mount Ararat, 76; why he lived longer than Adam,
Nonsense, philosophy of, 577; the sense of, and Orator Hen- ley's remark on, 601; no- thing, say musical compos- ers, so melodious as, 372; a Puritan saying about, 686; talked methodically by the English, 689.
NORRIS, J. remarks of, 491,
NORTH, LORD KEEFER, his love for music, without which he could not have mastered the drudgery of law, 573. Northern Lights, 162. Norwegian Brothers, in the tor- rent circled island, 27. Notched Bridge, beautiful one
over the Teign, 522. Number Two, extracts about,
Nuns, formerly confessed by
some Abbesses,―the custom put a stop to owing to their curiosity, 432; at Ghent, amused themselves with country dances, 568. Nurse, affection of a, 714.
Ouded, i.e. woaded, 286. Oaks, Hankford's, 156; of the forest, and of our fathers, 197. Oaths, extracts relative to, 591. OBEYDALLA THE MOOR, Chris-
tian princess married to, 79.
Obituary Anecdotes, proposed chapter of, 419. Objects, Inanimate, feeling to- wards, 543.
Observations, Literary, 258. Ocean-shells, the murmur of,
OFFA, apparition of, 75. Offices, Good, requisites for,
Ossetes, Caucasian tribe, ssid be under the government women, 480. Ostrich, the intense sva "the mother ostrich fixes a her egg," Thalaba, p. 238.
Otaheite, superstitions of, 25. Othomacas, one of the rudes i the Orinois tribes; sapp themselves descended fra pile of stones, 663. Ottery, St. Mary, the birth place of Gower, and Brow the Pastoral Poet, and Cole ridge, 522.
Outcast, is the word any wṬ
traceable to Hindustan, 29. OVID wrote Getic verses in La- tin measure, 346. Owl, no worshipper of the ligh 592; the egg of, accorg to Pliny, a cure for a drunk- ard, 400.
Ox-eye, i.e. a silver cup, 425. Oxford, notes relative to, 425. Oysters, Mr. Senhouse cl nized the Solway Frith with,
Peacocks, varied plumage of, in the sun, 257. Pearls, Mineral, query? 301. PEDEGACHE, MADAM, her quickness of sight, 555. PEDRO THE JUST, sketch of poem, 189.
PEELE, GEORGE, extracts from and relative to, 323. Peeler, what? 307. Pelican, account of, 101. Penitentiary, Female, remarks on, 402.
PENN, WILLIAM, no Cross no Crown, 288.
Penniless Bench, 300. Pendulum, isochronism of, Ga- lileo led to the discovery of from observing the vibration of the lamps in the Cathe- dral of Pisa, 701. Pennyll, what? 40. Penryn, in Cornwall, story of a party of Spaniards who landed at, 405. Penshurst, inscription for, 193. Perch, first appearance of, in Ireland? 611.
Perenuth, Horse of the Idol of,
PHILIP, AUGUSTUS, reconciled to his Queen, 74. Philosophers, no absurdity un- said by, 453-4. PHILOSTRATUS' Blount's, ex- tracts, 511, 565, 568. PHIPSONS of Colgarth, their covetousness, and the end thereof, 426. Phosphorus, discovery of, 436, 489, 508.
Physic, extracts relative to,
Physicians, Chinese, the skill of, 547; praise of in Moliere, 550; bad ones purged and vomited in the next world,
Picts' Wall, visited by Scotch empirics for vulnerary plants, 353.
Piebald horse, he that rides has a remedy for the king (?chin) cough, 531.
Pig, i. e. an apple puff, 417. Pig, hints for colloquial poem on, 197; ringing his nose, 198; not to be kept by small farmer, 610; notions about, in the Society Islands, 481 extracts about, 498; Bowles' love for, 514. Pigeon, curious one, story of, 360; corrected one? 445; organ in stomach for secret- ing milk, 469; voracious vermin, 493. Pigeon fancier, Herod one, 619. Pigeon dung, set fire to the
great Church at Pisa, 509. Pilgrim, letters conveyed by,
Plane-trees, Hortensius irri- gated with wine, 430. Plants insipid to the taste and smell, generally of little vir- tue, and vice versâ, 574; Rousseau's remark on the study of, 575. Pleasure, masculine sense of, defined, 624. Plinlimon and Severn, 57. Plough, spoken of by a Nor-
wegian as she, 544; Van- couver's remark on, 719. Plural Number, Cæsar the first person ever addressed in, 609. PLUTARCH, his remark on men of desperate fortune, 719. POCOCKE, extracts from, 113. Podagric ointment of Fr. Jos.
Borrhi, how composed, 546. Poemlings, Sketches for, 20, 192-200.
POEMS, notanda for, 181-192, 195, 210.
Poetical Ornaments, not e- nough, 258; Recreations, extracts from, 296. Poetry, Collections for English Literature and, 279. Poets, ranks of, &c. 133; how called by Davenant, 634; re- marks on from Mirror of Magistrates, 643; unbaked poetry, 652.
Policy, overfine, Bacon's re- mark on, 637. Political Economy, German no tion of, 690. Polycronicon, account of Wales from, 136, &c.; character of Clerkes of Irelonde, 634. Pomarium, what, 713. Pontificia Potestas, cardo et fundamentum fidei Christi- anæ, 670. Poor, condition of, must be bettered, 694.
POPE, WALTER, notice of, 357. Popery makes infidels, and is the worst enemy of Christi anity, 670. Popish Superstition and Barba rity, 581. Population, remarks on, 695,
Porlock Bay, Should Old Eng- land betray, Mother Skipton's prophecy, 520.
Port de Français, on the N. W.
coast of America, 114; a su-
blime picture of, in Perouse's Voyage, 182.
PORTES, i.e. PHILIP DE POR- TES, the French Poet, 292. Porting, i. e. carrying, used by Ben Jonson, 327.
PORTLAND, DUKE OF, gallery in the stables of, that the horses might have a concert once a week, 571; the Au- thor of the Caxton Family has made use of this anec- dote, vol. 1, 252. Portugal Delivered, projected Poem, 273.
Potatoes, introduced into Ben- gal by the Dutch,-how cul- tivated, 387; love the taste of new ground, 492; frozen ones? 710.
Poultry, how fed for the Lon. don market, 493. Prawn or Shrimp, necessary to
the production of soles, 446. Prayer, expressed and con- cealed, difference between, 633.
Preachers, Young, remarks on,
Presbyterian, a staunch one, al- ways Roman Catholic in his liquor, 617.
Presents, King's, 261. PRESTON, the M. P. edifying account of, 403. PRIOR, Queen Anne doubted if
his birth would entitle him to the office of envoy, 309. Prisoner, Royal Privilege of purchasing one in France,
Private Spirit, Hobbes' re- marks on, 410. Processions, children in, as an- gels, 685.
Prodigals, their estates, like those of lunatics, put in charge of guardians by the Flemings, 616; the same thing proposed in that very sensible tract called Eng- lund's Wants, 667. Progressive Life, 585. Pronunciation, English, diffi- culty and looseness of, 397. Prostitution, sad details, 387. Protestants, why they turn Pa- pists, 674,
Provence Rose, origin of, 422. Proverb, Fuller's definition of,
Puberty, age of, dangerous b colonies and individuals, 56! Publications, Periodical, re,
marks on, 690. Pudding, one of nine hundres, pounds weight, 377. Pulpit, position of, and a re mark, 420.
Pumpkins and melons, food in Camels, 112; degenerate. grown near squashes, 43! Punishment, Eternal, extrac relative to, 586; perhaps Southey's opinion was n dissimilar to that of Origes 588.
PURCHAS, quotations from, & 85, 159. Purgatory, Mahommedan, 10"; St. Patrick's, extracts aboci from Matthew Paris, Ee 130, 132, 140; from St. Ber nard, 142.
Purl, and purled, what? 305 Pyramids, bold hypothesis a bout, 608.
Quadrille, Freemasons, 713. Quaintologia, i. e. quaint
queer extracts, 103, 368. Quaker, and the Snorer, story of, 404.
QUARLES, extracts from, 222. 286, &c. 631. Quatrain, remarks on, 340. Quatted, i.e. satiated, glutted,
Quetzalcoatl, 154.
Quilt, patchwork one at Seat- oller, and Lord Carrick's re- mark, 531.
Quipos, what? 487.
Quop and quop,— meaning of, 329.
Rabbi's, sayings of, 449, 451,
Rain, remarkable sound of a heavy shower falling on the
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