lake at Keswick when all was still, 7. Rainbow and Glow-worm, ef- fects of, 142; hints for Son- net on, 200.
Rain Stone, The Magic, 228. RAISCIAC and his Son, 115. Raisins, what tree meant by, in Tusser? 290.
RANDOLPH, extracts from,314, &c.
Ranelagh, Sunday Evening tea- drinkings at, 339. Rapperschweil, Count berg's story of, 274. Rats, Water, destroyed in Ame-
rica by tape-worm, 460; black ones tamed in Ger- many, 469; white rat of Greenland, Query? 535. REBOLLEDO, CONDE DE, trans- lations from, 271-2. Red-herring on horseback, Eas- ter-day dish, 373.
Reed, that discovers guilt, 161. Reformation in Denmark and
Sweden accomplished with- out a struggle, 683. RELIGION, Strada's remark on changes in, 639; and Mr. Hallam's, 683; scoffers at, never good statesmen, 687; a cheerful tone of, wanted as opposed to the sullen charac- ter of Calvinism, and the riot and license of Popery, 691; agriculturists prone to, 704; remark of Godfrey Higgins,
REMESAL, DOÑA ANA MARIA, story of, 194. Resurrection Plants, or Anas-
tatica, instances of, 432. Retainers, lowly, 339. Reticules, advantage of! 442. Revolution, The, the shock the monarchy received at, 664. REYNOLDS, BISHOP, his style has a resemblance both to Burton and Barrow, 322; extracts from, 454, 456, 680, 717.
Rhizomorpha, or phosphoric fungus, 711. Rhotacismus, what, 415. RICHARD II., when his queen died at Richmond, cursed the place, and pulled down the palace, 406. RICHARDSON, extracts relative to, 312, &c.
of, 367; queer one, ib.; ob- servations on the lettering on a coffin, 494. Salamander, deadly venom of, 242; being a long time nou- rished in the fire, at last quenched it, 301; Pliny's winged one, 467.
SALE, extracts from, 97, 101. Sullet, i. e. casque, or head- piece, 260.
Saltpetre, from churchyards, medicinal use of, 546. Saludadores, or Spanish quacks,
Sumiel, or Simoom, 110. Samoyedi, precocity of females amongst, 556.
SANCIE DE NAVARRE, story of,
Sand-sea, grants of, for making salt, 535. Sand-writing, of volcanic ori- ge, from the Canary Islands,
SANDS, DAVID, the Quaker, his fanaticism, 397.
Sarum, Old, its members, 197. SAVARY, extracts from, 179,
Saroy Marriages, put an end to, by the transportation of Wilkinson, and Greerson his curate, 563-4. SAXO GRAMMATICUS, quota- tions from, 26, 28, 30, 38. Science, not less vicious and
selfish than trade, hinted by Sir Humphrey Davy to Fa- raday, 608. Scorpion, superstitious notion about, from Pliny, 443. SCOTT, SIR WALTER, visit of Southey to, at Ashiestiel in 1805, 529.
SCOTT, J. his Christian Life, highly esteemed by Southey, 505, 542. Screaming, instead of singing, story of J. Wesley's, 672. Scripture Extracts, 165, 219, 668, 694, &c.; Texts for Sermons, 721; for Enforce- ment, 722, &c. Scriptures, advice how to read,
Sea-gull, hint for sonnet, 199. SEAFIELD, EARL OF, saying of, on signing the engrossed exemplification of the Act of Union, 684.
Seam, Priestesses of, 54. Seasons, alteration of, 165. Seat of honour, some thing
Sea-Weed, the cutting of, for kelp, injured the Scottish fisheries, 708.
SEDGWICK, DR. story of, 613. SENESINO and FARINELLI, a- necdote of, 572.
SENHOUSE, H. Esq. of Nether-
hall, Southey's old friend, colonized the Solway Frith with good oysters, and first sashed his windows in Cum- berland, 405. Sentence, most absurd of its kind, 690. Sentences, 44, 80. Sepulchre knocking, 244. Sermon, The, when it teaches
nothing else, teaches pa- tience, 642; remarks on, 445.
Serpent, the deaf one, 146; charmers of, 227. Servant burnt voluntarily with her mistress, 80. SEVIGNE, MADAME DE, ex- tracts, 644, 668. Sexton of Tunbridge, story of,
SHAFTESBURY, his remark,
that profound often leads to shallow thought, 466. Shakespeare, members sworn
on, in mistake for the Bible, 398; extracts from, passim. Shawl, Indian, curious one, price 500 guineas, 399. SHELDON, ABP., his desire for the gout as an antidote to apoplexy, 551.
Shells, rare specimens, 401. SHENSTONE, extracts from, and
remarks on, 335; his un- common felicity of attract ing the love of his readers, 338; imitated by Cunning- hame and Cowper, ib. Sherbet, or Sorbet, derivation of, 223. Shepherds, Guide, &c., curious
account of, 536. SHERLOCK, Vindication of the Trinity, South's remark on,
Ship returning to port, idea for Sonnet, 193. Shipping, Anglo-Norman, 26. Shoreditch Bells, and Queen
Elizabeth, 583; sermon an- nually preached at St. Leon- ard's on Botanical Philoso- phy, 575.
Shrove Tuesday, 119. SHUFFLEBOTTOM, ABEL, hints for Poems of, 196; amatory sonnets of, 199. SHYLOCK, story of, from G. Leti's Life of Sixtus V. 339. Siamese Heaven and Hell,- Hermits, 42.
Siberian earth, superstition re- lative to, 239. Side, left, why respectful to
take among the Germans,
SIDNEY, SIR PHILIP, Southey's Life of, 240; extracts rela- tive to, 321; saying of, that "he never found wisdom, where he found not courage,' 639; extracts, 456, 483. Sight, quickness of, 585; cu-
rious restoration of, by a cow's lacerating the eye, 552. Silence, extracts relative to, 577; good remark about, from Lady Pomfret's Let- ters, 620; saying of Am- brose, 626. Similies, 6, &c. 52, 260. Simples, 482.
Sion Chapel, Hampstead, great place for marriages about 1716, 377.
Sire, name by which the an-
cient Barons affected to be called, 270.
Skiddaw, view from the bottom of the first summit, 423. Slaves, learned ones of Greece, bought up by illiterate Ro- mans, who considered their learning as their own, 715. Sleeping naked, 164.
Slug, the slime of, a cure for chafing, and hence called the Doctor, 555.
Small Pox, American Indian's
name for, 228; increased in England by Inoculation, 377 infusion of juniper wood used against, in the Island of Skie, 548; New England preserved from by strict laws vigilantly en- forced, ib.; originally occa sioned, Dr. Lister thought, by the bite of some venom. ous creature, 551.
Soles, require prawns and shrimps for their production, 446.
SOLOMON, reported by Suides and Cedrenus to have written of the remedies of all dis- eases, 549. SOMERSET, The
Protector, omen of his fate, 160. Sommona Codom, Siamese dei ty, 40.
Son of Man, and Sons of men, Luther's remark, 415. SONNERAT, extracts from, 246, &c.
Sonnet, by B. W. H. 46; un- less strikingly good, imme diately forgotten,-likeness of, to Greek Epigram, 258. Sophonisba, drinking the Poi- son, a Monodrama, 193. Sorrow, Steele's remark on,
Souls, descent of fallen, com- pared to the Fall of the Ganges, 42; St. Evremond's remark on the immortality of, 637; extracts relative to, 560.
Sounds, Evening, the harshest harmonized by distance, 200; remarks on, 572. SOUTH, extracts and sayings, 640-2; horrid passage con- cerning original sin, 667.
SOUTHCOTT, JOANNA, her cra- dle, 391, 393. SOUTHEY, ROBERT, Verses on the first day of his residence in London, 38; easily and painfully affected, 195; his belief that spirits of good men behold the earth, 198. SOUTHEY, THOMAS, Captain, R.N., acute observer of na- ture, 4, 186.
Sow, Mayor chosen by, 341. Sow's ears may prove good
sauce albeit no silken purse, saying of Strafford's, 675. Spaniels, story of the late Duke
of Norfolk relative to the St. James's, 479. Spaniard, swallowed up like Amphiaraus, 77. Speech, Isaac Vossius, remarks
Spectacles, reason for wearing,
SPEED'S Works, the world in. debted to Sir Fulk Greville for, 316.
SPENSER, remarks on, and ex- tracts relative to, 310-312. SPENCE, JOSEPH, amiable man,
the Phesoi Ecneps of Tales of Genii, 351. Sphinx, or Singh, Hindoo su- perstition of, 255. Spirits, extracts relative to,
541, 603; three orders of, Cardan's notion, 460. Spirits, Ardent, formerly used as cordials, 552. Spleen, all distempers attribut- ed to, 1662, 556. Springs, sacred, South's re- mark, 357.
SPURTZHEIM, DR., shews there
is a great difference between the skulls of men and wo- men, 433. Squirrel, formerly might have gone from Crow Park to Wytheburn Chapel,-shew- ing the quantity of woodland,
Staggers, extraordinary cure for, 554.
Stags, a herd led by music, 570. Star-shoot, i.e. Tremella Nos- toc, 546. Stars, Paracelsus' notion of tenebriferous ones, which bring on the night, 510. Statutes, a head for, "Capo da |
far statuti.". Ital. Prov. 638.
Steinkirk, muslin neckcloth, why so called, 261; the bat- tle alluded to was fought the beginning of August 1692. STERLINGE, LORD, his Poem on Doom's-day, 16, 214; re- marks on, 328; extracts, 631.
STERNE, L., remarks on, 341; question as to the reason of his wife and daughter's re- tiring to France, 342. Stinkard, old appellation of the rabble, 709.
STEVENSON, MATTHEW, au- thor of Norfolk drollery, 347. Stiper-stones, burst on, 394. STILLINGFLEET, BENJAMIN, notice of, 350. STOKES, CAPTAIN, stories of, his superstition, 361. STONE, that produces water, 86; field of, in Shropshire, 241; omen of the coronation stone, ib.; with smell of corpse, 242; Battle-Stone field, ib.; thrust down the throat of a New Zealand babe, to give him a stony heart, 599; conjoined with St. John's Gospel, virtue of, 646; warming stones, 433; in bladder, immense one,
Sweet Johns, and Sweet Wil- liams, 38. Swimming women, 180; pranks in, by Galup, a Catalan, 371. Sword-dance, Italians had one. Chiaberras' Sonnet, 462. Sycamore Fig-tree of Egypt, 180, 228. Sycamore-seeds, quantities that sprung up during the mild winter of 1819, on the green at Greta Hall, 535. Symbols, Christian, 148.
Taghairn, or Torrent Divina- tion, 39.
Tailor, determination to be one, and nothing else, 452. TALASSI ANGELO DI FERRARA, story of on being refused an interview with Cottle, 517. TALBOT'S Sword, 135. TANSILLO, extracts, 469. Taste, not confined to the mouth. See Arist. Eth. Nic. 446.
TAYLOR, JEREMY, extracts from, 625, 645. TCHINTSONG, Emperor of Chi- na, and the Book, story of, 714.
Tea, how taken on its early
introduction, 402. Tea-Green, how proved by Dr. Lettsom to be unwholesome, 610. Tears, Ali's remarks on, 651. Teeth-cutting, death from, at the age of 96, 444. TEMPLE, SIR W. formed his style upon Sandys' View of State and Religion, 325; say- ings and remarks of, 637; his heart buried at Moor Park, near Farnham, 405. Tench, the Doctor fish, 555. Tenderness, 54.
Testicles pulverized, virtue of,
THALABA, original sketch of, 181; alterations, 189; notes for, 212.
Theatre, remarks on, 561; Bishop Hacket's remark, 562.
THEOCRITUS, story of, 613. THERESA, ST. 142.
Thieves, adroitness of, in 1717, 376.
Thinking of nothing, good re-
mark on the phrase, 611; "close and thick," a saying of Eachard's, 637. Thistle, grounds laid out in the shape of, hugest absurdity, 618; why Southey might have taken it for his motto, 693.
THORKILL, Voyage of, 31. THOMSON, the Poet, passage
omitted in the Seasons, 346. THORN, JOSEPH, who? 298.
Thunder-storm at Cintra, eagles scared by the lightning, 5; Turkish idea of Novogorod, god of thunder, 47. THURCILLUS, vision of, 130. Till to, i.e. to set, to prepare,
A. S. 523. TILLOTSON, ABP. story of, 406. Tilts, Water, at Easter, 119. Timanthes, death of, 226. Tipis, efficacy of the water of,
Titicaca, Peruvian lake, 176. Tixal Poetry, extracts from,
Toad in a stone, happiness and tranquillity of! 195; call him ugly and useless, quo- tha! 199; remarks, and ex. tracts on, 429; in fountain,
Tobacco, extracts relative to, 593; prevents worms and greasy heels, and creates a fine coat in horses, 594; Captain William Myddleton, the first who smoked to- bacco in London, 595; Adam Clarke's l'amphlet against, 385. TOBY PHILPOT, the original
of, Mr. Paul Parnell, 392. TOOKE, HORNE, request rela- tive to, 580.
TOON, Lord Liverpool's tailor,
story of his honesty, 367. Tootia Flower, gathered by oculists at Eyesti as a grand specific for diseases of the eye, 574. Tortoise-shell shields, 16. Toulon, story at the evacuation of, 194.
Trade without restriction, re- marks on, 689. Tradesmen, retired, stories of, 354; repeated by an over- sight, 422. Traditions, &c. 240. Translation, remarks on by S. T. Coleridge, 609. TRAPP, JOSEPH, first Profess or of Poetry at Oxford, 349. Traveller, cast on his own re- sources, compared to a bear in winter sucking his paws,
Travelling, Sir Hildebrand Ja- cob's way of, in 1735, 355. Trees, extracts concerning, 167; felling of, in token of grati-
tude as we should pist one, story of, 543; Eur pean dwindle in tropical cli mates, like men, 702. Trepanning, remarks un, 588. Triad, Welsh, 45. Tribes, The Ten, their locality in the "mountaynes of Cas pyé," 89.
Tribby, an American abbrevia- tion, 480.
Trinity, revilers of, effect of Mr. W. Smith's bill for re pealing the laws in force against, 384. Trichomata Parastasis! 176. 1 Trim, Corporal, the name pro bably borrowed by Sterne, from the Funeral, 612. TRISTAN, Romance of, 282. Truth, all necessary truth le gible and plain, 625. TRYON, THOMAS, epitaph on,
Vaccination, insisted on by the Bavarian and Danish govern- ments, 394, 412. Vaches, Ranz de, cet air, si chéri
des Suisses, 264.
Vude, always used by Lyly for fade, 300.
Vale of St. John, great beauty of, 532. VALENTIN, French Dancing Master, story of, 604. VALENTINE, BP. 135; number of letters on his day, 354. Valley of Stones, near Linton, account of, 520. Valour, True, 658. Vanini, question of his Athe- ism, 429.
Vaudoisie, what? 712. VAUGELIN, NICHOLAS, his ro- mantic notion of a pastoral life, 430.
VEGA LOPE DA, 629. Velhy, an interjection of sur-
prise,-Valho me Dios, is the Portuguese exclamation,326. Vellum, the best material for!
VOLTAIRE, did he speak of the Church of Rome as the whore? 383.
Volutella, simile of, 52; extra. ordinary plant, 111.
Wad, i. e. black-lead, 531. Wadham College, altar-piece at, how wrought, 425. Wager, queer one, 378. WAKEFIELD, GILBERT, his in-
flexible honesty, 190. Wales, description of, from the Polycronicon, 136, &c.; wars in, 154; warning against, 169.
WALLER, the Poet, 308. WALLIUS, his manner of bor- rowing from the ancient, like Ebenezer Elliot's from the moderns, 706.
WALPOLE, H. extracts and re-
marks, 619, 620; striking saying of, 621-2; remarks on Gray, 344; his disap- pointment as to making folly wiser, 720.
Wandering Jew, suggestion of, 9; story of one who set up for, 360.
Wannion, query? meaning of,
WARBURTON, his saying, that the people are much more reasonable in their demands on their patriots than mi- nisters, 636. War-engine, Archidamas' ex-
clamation on, 164. War-Pole of the North Ame-
rican Indians, 199, 229. Warriors, (North American
Indian's) rejoicing Day, 230. WARWICK, SIR PH. sayings of, 640.
Wasps, mischief done by, 352. Waste, great, of good advice
and good intentions, 613. Wasters, i. e. cudgels, 88. Water, boring the earth for,
wamefou' is a wamefau." St. Ronan's Well, vol. 33, p. 174. Weapon-salve, principal ingre dient in, moss of a dead man's skull, 551. WEBSTER, fine instance in his Appias and Virginia of the passionate use of familiar expressions, 315; extracts, 648, 505.
Wedding, Welsh, invite to,361. Weeds, how accounted of, 673. Weeping Cross, 300.
Weird Sisters, query? 715. Well, The Boiling, near Bristol, 6; St. Winifred's, 62; of Zemzem, 112; St. Keyne's, 154; the boiling, 275; the wishing, 406; at Brough, 422; of Cumberland have each a Saint or Patron, 536. Welsh Manners, 39; lances, 140; raggedness, 172; Monk- hatred, 175; superstition of offering an enemy, 375. Wemme, what? 260. WENIFREDE, ST. 58; well of,
WESLEY, JOHN, story of, and kindly disposition, 472. WHALLEY, Jerusalem, why so called, 375.
Wharling in the throat, habit of the people of Charleton in Leicestershire, 393, 415. Wheatears, abundance of, on the South Downs. 407. Whigs, Bottomless, a saying of Johnson's, 666; Swift's re- mark on, 667. Whiskey and Earth, given to infants by Scotch midwives,
White Boys, Busby's name for his favourite scholars, 239. White-Circle, Indian supersti tion of, 229. WHITE, JOSEPH, wealthy mer- chant of Poole, story of, 361.
WHITESIDE, MR. Dissenting Minister of Yarmouth, who destroyed himself, lines found in the pocket of, 92. WHITTINGTON's epitaph, 119. WICLIFFE, the virtue of his dust, 242.
Wigs, remarks on, 512, 582; clever observation of Cum-
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