sage, and poet, 264; -active pleasures of; health, 265;
-its rural sports, 28;-coming of, described, 42; —
coming forth, 44; -its amusements, 265; - bird-life in,
132, 133; the smile of God, 11; effects of, on man,
12-14; on the benevolent, sick, pious, 12; - forest-
flowers of, 132; - early, capricious, care of buds in, 83.
Spring: Anacreon's ode to, by T. Moore, 102; ode on, by
Mrs. Barbauld, 41; song of, by Dawes, 101; ode on, by
Gray, Lo where,' &c., 101; Voice of Spring: ode by
Hemans, 52; Spring-scene, by O. W. Holmes, 102; — Me-
leager's ode on, by Buckminster, 46; Spring Musings:
an ode, by Clare, 53;- an ode, by Percival, 52; -Thom-
son's poem of, 3-14.

Springs, medicinal, 280; their visitors, 280.
Squire Hobbinol, 89. See Country Squire.

Squirrel, 479; and boys in chase, 313.

Stag-hunt, 266, 292, 301; at bay, 266. See Hunt.
Stagnant waters, avoid drinking till boiled, 203.
Stanley, a beatified spirit, addressed, 141.

Stallions, good points in, 222.

Stars, comets, 151;-in winter, 402; - apostrophe to, 475.

State drudge, 363; shepherd boy, freedom, 363.

Statesman, disappointed, seeks rural retirement, 363.

'Statute,' in England, note describing it, 56.

St. Christopher (Kitts'), W. I., described, 417, 418.

Steer, breaking to the yoke, 223;-and Swiss plague, 228.
Stirom cider, apt to be heady; consequences, 388.

St. John's College, 177, and note.

Stock-dove, love-song of, 9;-plaint of, 141.

Stock-flower, 8.

Stone, product of Britain, 66.

Stones, origin of man from, 218. See Deucalion.
Storm, signs of a; see Signs;- winter, northern, described,

22.

Storms of tropical oceans, 145; — of winter described, 396,
397; signs of, 396; freshet, 396.

Stowe, the seat of Cobham, described, 307.

Stream, compared to an unsuccessful author, 156; tor-
mented, 157; in spring; fish, alders, trouts, angler, 131,
132;-to be curbed, 276.

Stranger on the Door-sill: an ode, by T. B. Read, 416.
Strata, deposits of, from solutions, 278.

'Street' of hamlet; scold, smugglers, prostitutes, 316, 317.
STREET'S August,' 262;-Early Garden,' 130.
String-fences, their advantages and disadvantages, 169.
Stripping the cane-plants, 423.

Strymonian, from the Strymon, now Karasou river, Turkey
in Europe.

Stuart (Queen Anne), compliment to one, 291.
Stud-horse, good points in, 222.

Study, as influencing health, 451; -midnight, reprobated,

341.

Style of building should not jumble temples, tents, pyra-
mids, circles, 181.

Suburban residences satirized, 364; 323; taste in, 365.
Suffolk, in England, note, p. 44; -skim-milk cheese, 43, 44.
Sugar, boiling, granulating, explosions, lime, 430, 432, 433.
Sugar Cane: a poem, by J. Grainger, 417-442; book I.,
cane-planting, 417-423; book II., evils affecting the
cane, 423-429; book III., cropping, making, 429-435;
book IV., negroes, 435-442. See Cane; Negroes..
Suicide's grave, 151.

Sultanas of Aurengzebe, sue for mercy to the chase, 353.
Summer: a poem, by Thomson, 135-152; — a poem, by
Bloomfield, 193-197;- an eclogue, by Pope, 198.
Summer, 265; -the Second of the Seasons, 135-192; ·
personified, by Dodsley, 59; its approach, 135;
heats, of Greece; effects; refreshment, 23;-day, de-
scribed, by Thomson; dawn, sunrise, 136; forenoon, 137;
noon, 139, afternoon, 148; sunset, evening, 151; night,
151, 152;-noon, preparations for, 137; flocks, cows,
daw, rook, magpie, shade of oaks, fowls, house-dog,
greyhound, insects, 137, 138; noon, blaze of light and
heat, silence, quiet, 139; shade, scenes, cattle, slumber-
ing herdsman, 140; insects, 138; 194; their variety
and beauty; of the water, wood, flowers, house, 138; -
in the torrid zone, 141-146;-tempest, described, 146;
clouds, fruits ripening, evening walk; circle of friends,
148, 149; - evening, 238; - described; shadows, breeze,
quail, wafted seeds, 151;-night; glow-worm, evening-
star, 151; midnight, tempest of the; dread; elm;
house-dog, 196; insect life; habits of the beetle, moth,
grasshopper, 194; - employments, and winter pleasures,
211; praise of;moonlight, 265; drinks, 386;

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Indian, 343, 344; 356.

Summer Months: an ode, by Motherwell, 160;- Insects:
an ode, by Clare, 262;- Wind: by Bryant, 206.

Sun, the medium of physical life; eloquent description of
its uses, 50; apostrophized in a hymn, by Thomson;
its functions, 136; - pernicious effects of, 378; - in win-
ter, 403; apostrophe to, 431; — - the, in the signs. See
Zodiac.

Sunday, about the country chapel, 332. See Sabbath.
Sunk fences, good for deer and sheep, 169.
Sunlight, requisite to animal and vegetable health, 50,-
effects of on streams, rocks, ocean, 137; God the source
of light, 137;-of December; dismal day declining,
396.

Sunrise, by Dyer, 76;-in summer, 136; — in winter;
Cowper's shadow, 467.

Sunset, described, 28;-by Dyer, 77 ; -
Sunshine after a shower, 147.

- of Summer, 151.

Swiss epidemic among animals, 227, 228; see Epidemic;
plague; avalanches, 399.

Tabitha, competitress in the race, 98.

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Taburnus, a lofty mountain of the Samnites, south of Rome,
whose southern slope was covered with olives, and ended
at the Caudine Pass.

TACITUS, the Roman historian, 94.

Talking party, of women, in the country, 373.
Talbot-hound; used in hunting moss-troopers, 347.
Talents, diversified; use for mutual aid, 132.
Talgol, his exploits at the May-day riot, 93.
Tamarind-walk, 423.

Tamarisk, a shrub prized for long spikes of pink flowers.
Tanks, canals, terraces, in gardening, satirized, 176.
TANTALUS. See Pelops.

Tapestries, Blenheim, 508.

Tartar army-hunt described, 351-353.

Taste should preside over rural labors, 85; — vulgar, in
gardening, 85; true, in gardening, Bacon its prophet,
Milton its herald, 165; - not inconsistent with thrift; -
exhortation to; Reynolds, Garrick, 166;-not to be
taught by rules, 175; to be curbed by reason, 172.
Tempe, 12, a vale of Thessaly, about five miles long, through
which flowed the Peneus, from Mt. Pindus. It was and
is a proverb for beauty.

Temperance, 389; 49;-recommended to the young farm-
er, 55; inculcated by Epicurus, 64;—is true luxury,
200.

Temperate zone, the, pictured, 286.

Tempest, 300; ravages of in harvest, 65; of summer,
146, 147; mineral exhalations; clouds, preceding calm;
birds, raven; cattle; thunder and lightning, 146;- at
night, wholesome awe from, 196; -- in harvest; floods,
thunder and lightning, fright, noises, 211; - winter;
signs of on ocean; on land, 396, 397.

TEMPLE, SIR WILLIAM, his idea of a garden, 165. Born
1628, died 1700; ambassador to Holland, secretary of
state, and an eminent statesman. At his country-seat,
Surry, he was often visited by Charles II., James II.,
and William III.
Temptation, 374; 86; - of the farmer, not ambition, ava-
rice, or luxury, 58;-nobly and triumphantly resisted,
374.

Tenglio river, 404, and note.

TERPSICHORE, inventress and muse of dancing; imaged
holding music and crowned with laurel. See Muses.
TETHYS, wife of Oceanus (ocean), and daughter of Uranus
and Terra (heaven and earth), mother of the rivers and
three thousand ocean-nymphs. See Nymphs.
THALIA, muse of comedy; also of husbandry and planting.
Thanksgiving Hymn of the Farmers: by Jones, 358.
Thames, the, good example compared to, 260; — appears

with his tributary rivers in pageantry, to honor Queen

Thaw, south wind; freshets, polar ice, 405.
Theana and Junio, a West India tale, 427, 428.
Theatre, unnecessary, 459 ; — private theatricals out of ; —
place in the country; corrupting; cause jealousy, quar-
rels, neglect of children; make mimics, buffoons, 264.
'The bonny, gray-eyed morn begins to peep: 'a song (XX.),
124.

"The dorty will repent: a song (.), 106.

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'The laird who in riches and honor: a song (v.), 109.
THEOCRITUS, a Greek, the father of pastoral poetry. He
was born in Syracuse, flourished under Ptolemy Phila-
delphus, King of Egypt, 270 B. C., and Hiero II., King
of Syracuse, by whom he is said to have been strangled
on account of some satires.
THEOCRITUS's idyls: by Chapman, ' Daphnis,' 17, 18; 'Sing-
ers of Pastorals,' 253, 254.
THOMSON, JAMES (1700-1748), born at Ednam, Scotland,
where his father was minister. He studied for the church
at Edinburgh, but started for London with his poem,
'Winter,' in his pocket, and got for it, of a bookseller,
fifteen dollars! Obtaining a place as tutor, he published
Summer,' and 'Spring,' during the next two years,
1727-8, and Autumn' being added, the four Seasons'
came out together, in 1730. He now travelled and wrote
for the stage; the Prince of Wales gave him a trifling
pension, and in 1745 Lord Lyttelton gave him an office
worth fifteen hundred dollars a year.

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THOMSON'S Seasons, 3, 135, 297, 395; see Seasons;
Hymn of the Seasons, 514, 515.
Thracia, 22; perhaps Pieria, the native country of the
Muses, north of Thessaly. Thrace was an ancient em-
pire between the Archipelago, Black Sea, and Balkan
mountains. The god of Thrace' is Bacchus.
Thresher, 249.

Threshing, 446; in ancient Greece, 23;-floor in South
Europe, how to make, 209.

Thrift, not inconsistent with taste, 166.

Throckmorton, J. C., his estate; avenues of trees, 248 249.
Thrush, love-song of, 9; morning orisons of, 43.
THUANUS, the famous and excellent French statesman, De
Thou, 94.

Thule, an unknown island in the north, variously identified
with the Shetland Isles, Iceland, Scandinavia, Tylemark,
in Norway, and Lapland.

Thunder-storm, tropical, 143; in summer, 146, 147; -
and lightning, 143, 146, 211; fright, noises, 211.
Thyme, grows on healthy localities, 49; savory, rose-
mary, for bees. See Bees.

Thyrsis, the herdsman; his family and home, 69;-and
Patty, their love, employments, marriage, and house-
keeping, 56, 57.

TICKELL, THOMAS, born near Carlisle, educated at Oxford.
He wrote in the Spectator and Guardian, and published
a translation of the Iliad, which Addison preferred to
Pope's, published at the same time; hence a bitter quar-
rel. His Lucy and Colin is worth all his other works.'
TICKELL'S Lucy and Colin, 73.

Tillage, Tull's, theory of rejecting manure, 60.
Timber, when to fell it, 20, 21;

raise the best, 62.

cultivation of; - how to

Time, mellows the harshness of art; ruins, 164; -eternity,
winter, spring, 405; -to reap, sow, sail, 210.
Tin, British, 66.

Tisiphone, 229; one of the three Furies, sprung from Night,
who were imaged as brandishing snakes in one hand,
and a torch in the other.

TITAN, the sun; which was so called as being offspring of
Hyperion, one of the Titans who warred against Saturn,
as the Giants afterwards did against Jupiter.
Tithes, danger of withholding; miser's fate, 386.
Tityrus and Melibus: a bucolic of Virgil, by Dryden, 45, 46.
Tivoli, near Rome, with gardens and a waterfall.
Tmolus, high and broad mountains in Lydia, Asia Minor.
Tobacco, praise of, 380.

Toil and care the price of property and comforts, 208, 209;
- a blessing; healthy old age; ease, 249; — and be
strong, 337.

Tonsorio, his exploits in the May-day riot, 92, 93.
Tools, farmers', 56;- ancient Greek, 21.

Toughening, 339.

Town and country contrasted, by Gay, 27; as to amuse-
ments, by Goldsmith, 37; — and country, compared, 86.
Towy river, in the south of Wales, note, p. 75.

Trade, its empire transitory, 38;-winds and monsoons
described, 141, and note; — eulogium, on; Tyre, 502.
Training the young horse, 224; calves, 223.
Transitoriness of power and wealth, 75.

Transplantation of nursery forest trees;- of vines; depth
of planting, 217.

Traveller, lost in snow-storm; his home and friends, 398;
- of taste, addressed, 161;- and teaming, in winter,
460.

Treasures, earthly and heavenly, 410.

Trees and their qualities, 156; elm, cypress, alder, plane,
oak, ebony, cedar, box, olive, vine, lotus, juniper, pine,
yew, tamarisk, birch, servis, walnut, mulberry, maple,
ash, laurel, myrtle, ivy, date, fir, beech, 156; — caution
as to felling; ill-placed, 163; uses of; wild, and
bushes, 219; cedar, pine, cypress, willow, elm, myrtle,
cornel, yew, box, linden, alder, &c., 219; culture of
and causes for, 62;-love of and care for; trimraing of,
83; origin of; modes of propagating;-culture of;
olive, vine, hazel, ash, arbute; budding, grafting, inocu-
lation, 214; - - varieties, appropriated to different coun-
tries; ebon, balm, silk, citrons, tall trees, 215; -culti-
vation of, grafting, sap, 281.

Trevor, Lady; Philips's nurse in sickness, 383.
Trifles, disregard not, in matters of health; epidemics, 342.
Trimming out of trees, 83.

TRITON, son of Neptune and Amphitrite, and trumpeter to
his father. Tritons are imaged with fish bodies from the
waist down.

Triumph, insolent, of the victors in May-day wrestling, 92;
- of British navigation, 294.

Troglodytes, dwellers in caves and cellars underground ; —
their winter, 226.

Trophy to Cæsar, imagined, 221.

Tropics, scenery and flora of, 141, 142, 285; Orinoco, Ama-
zon, La Plata, Andes, 282; - cooling fruits, trees of, 141,
142; bright birds of, contrasted with the nightingale;
- solitudes of, awful; crocodile, hippopotamus, 142;
tremendous showers of; man of the, 143; without
arts, science, poetry, freedom, 143, 144; serpents, tiger,
leopard, hyena, lion, 144.

Troubles of wedded life, cured by reason, patience, piety,
and time, 373.

Trouncer, the fox-hound; his death and epitaph, 334.
Trout-fishing, 7; directions; description of, 7.

Troy, a city founded by a colony, which had established
itself so as to command the trade of the Egean Sea, and
the Dardanelles, the outlet of the Black Sea. Greeken-
terprise' destroyed this powerful city, after ten years'
siege, in 1182 B. C.

True love, 14.

Truth, what it is, and how to be sought, 82; — wanderings
and inhospitable reception of, 311, 312; — alone makes
free, 474; — and poetry, 256, 257.

Trust in Providence, its favorable effect on health, 452.
Tulip, 8.

Tull's theory of vegetation; his farm, 60.

TULLY; CICERO, whose name was Marcus Tullus Cicero.
Tunnelling for irrigation; effects, 274, 275.

Turkey, the, and young, 11; turkey-cock, 57.
Turnip-sowing, 193; turnips as winter feed, 445.
Tusculum, a town twelve and a half miles from Rome.
TUSSER, THOMAS, the British Varro,' born Essex Co., Eng-
land, in Henry Eighth's reign, in 1523, or 1515, and died
1580. After leaving Cambridge, he was employed about
court, in a musical capacity; he was also a retainer of
Lord Paget; but, disgusted with the vices and contentions
of courtiers, he married, and went to farming, at Kat-
wade, in Suffolk, where he wrote his Husbandry, first
published in 1557. He first yoked the English muse to
the plough.

TUSSER'S Husbandry, 449. See Husbandry.
TWANGDILLO, the fiddler, described; his skill, 90; mishap;
lament for his fiddle, 96.

Twilight, by Bloomfield; western summer clouds at even-
ing, 196.

Typhoons, or tiffoons, 145.

Tyrants, invention of, 470.
Tyre, 502; note describing, 502.

Tyrian dye, 502.

Tyrrhene; Tuscan, the sea that laves the coast of Tuscany.
Unexpressive, inexpressible, 444.

Union, dependence and sympathy, mutual, of the several
classes of society, 268.

Universal Order, 296,- from Pope's Essay on Man.
Universal Prayer (Pope's), 134.

URANIA, the muse of astronomy; imaged with a globe and
a rod. See Muses.

Use an element of true taste; use and beauty inseparable,
166; and pleasure, limits of in gardening, 168; thrift
and beauty, 168; - of Nature's various forces, 274; ne-
cessity, labor, skill, 274; - of uncultivated trees, 219 ; —
of cedar, pine, &c., 219.

Usefulness, of the retired, 485; -to others the best aim, 83.
Vaga, the Wye, a stream of Herefordshire, England, 89.
Vale, wet, art leads labor in beautifying it, 162;— what
scenery possible in, 162; Ruisdale, 162; -prospect not
to be expected, 162; favorable to seclusion, 162; — deep,
unhealthy, 50.

Vanities of science and learning, 81;- of earthly things,
82; of human pursuits, 397; all is vanity except vir-
tue, 405.

Varieties of trees; lotus, willow, elm, vine, apple, 215;
variety and freedom to be studied; - Nature's expedients
to give, 167; art, 167; - scorns the cube and cone, 164;
- of nature, endless, 250; —too great, at a meal, con-
demned; gradual change commended, 200; - a perpetual
charm, in landscape, 76;— the perpetual charm of, in
nature; year's changes, 264; — of vegetation, 5; diet, 6.
VASCO DE GAMA, 145. VASHTI, 86.

Vatican, the name of the Pope's palace, with its splendid
library, built on the hill of old Rome, called Vaticanus.
VAUGHAN'S ode on Early Prayer, 244.

Vegetables, variety, 5;-succulent, best on a dry locality,
49; chemistry, 59; early and rare, difficulty and cost
of raising, 84; —succulent, when to use, 201.
Vegetation, philosophy of, 58;- Tull's theory of, 60 ; — the
sun the parent of, 136;-its infinitude, 173.
Venice, rise of, 499.
Venus dei Medici, 148.

Venus, the evening star, 151.
Venus, the celestial, recommended by Epicurus, 64, 65.
VENUS, the classic goddess of love and beauty; in Greek,
Aphrodité. She was fabled to have sprung from the foam
of the sea, and first approached the isle of Cythera, and
thence went to Cyprus. Vulcan was her husband, and
she intrigued with Mars, Anchises, Adonis, and Diomede.
Her embroidered girdle had the power of inspiring love
and desire by one who wore it. Swans, doves, swallows,
and sparrows, were sacred to her; and her chariot was
drawn by swans, sometimes by sparrows.
myrtle were her favorites.

Rose and

Verdure, revived, 4; — approach of, 42.
Vermin, in sheep, cured with lime, 67.
Vernon's fleet, epidemic in, at Carthagena, 145.
VERTUMNUS, a Tuscan and Roman deity, presiding over the
seasons and their productions, hence over the changes
and exchanges of merchandise.

Verulam, the title of Lord Bacon, 150. See Bacon.
VESTA, the goddess of chastity, called by Greeks HESTIA
(hearth), the sanctity of the domestic hearth being under
her protection. She had at Rome a temple, on whose
altar was a fire, never suffered to go out, in charge of
six Vestal Virgins.

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Vice, essentially low and vulgar; on the bench, 259.
Vicissitude: an idyl, by T. Gray. Vicious poor, 316, 317.
Village, the: a poem in 2 books, by George Crabbe, 255-260;
-alehouse, by Goldsmith, 37;-belle, Phebe Dawson,
her pitiful story, 370, 371; - belles, 476;- Blacksmith:
by Longfellow, 514; — dissimulation, detraction, 258,
259; life, its brighter hues, 258; Sunday, 258; - its
evils, 256;-maids, 332; - infidel, the, 322; - pastimes
of Auburn, 35; - parson, described by Goldsmith; his
guests; consolations, 36; at church, 36;-parsons; see
Parsons; riots on the village green, 259;scaudal,
258,259;-schoolmaster (Goldsmith), 36, 37;-school-
master (Delille); the birch, 269;-sounds at evening, 36.
Villas, suburban, satirized; educated taste as to, 361.
Vine, culture of, 217-219; pruning, 23; preparation of the
soil; transplanting vine-stocks; distance of; like an
army; depth of planting; destroying fires; times for
ploughing, 217; precautions against wet and drought;
keep the soil free; training of vines; pruning; protection
against cattle, &c., 218; dressing of vines, 218, 219; mel-
lowing the soil; vine-dressing, vintages, pruning, weeding;
large and small vineyards; labors of vine-culture perpetual,
219; varieties of; fourteen kinds enumerated, 215.
Vineyard and vintage, 23; 217-219; 303, 304. See Vine.
VIRGIL PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO, the famous Latin poet;

born, Mantua, B. C. 70; died, Naples, B. C. 18. He
wrote Eclogues, Georgics, and an Epic, all models in
their kind.

Virtue, in rural retirement, 36;-manly, its empire endur-
ing, 38; -alone blooms perennially, 82; -- necessary to
content, 263;-prayer for, 397;-majesty of; God's
best gift, 453; - and retirement, types of heaven, 485.
Virtues, the rural, exiled, 38; — that the farmer needs, 56;
- prayers for, for one's country, 151;- patriotic, 183,
184; rustic, of the old Romans, 221.

Virtuous man, employed in doing good, 384; as Virgil, Ho-
mer, Spenser, Milton, 384; — more felt than seen, 485.
Voice of Spring: ode, by Mrs. Hemans, 52.
Volcanic eruptions, effects, 279; attributed to heat, 146.
Voyages and travels at home, 458.

Vulgar ignorance, its disadvantages, 278.
Walk, rural, of wedded lovers, 12; - at dawn, of the farm-
er's boy, 42; companions of it, 43;- Forest, in Spring:
by Gisborne, 131-133; - evening, 148, 149; ramble of
lovers, 149; - rural; sheep, lunch, hips, and berries;
the school-boy's ramble, 246; - embowered, in winter,
477; the poet's; children gathering flowers; hare,
stockdove, squirrel; sympathy with happiness of ani-
mals; fawn, colt, frisking cattle, 479; - best hours for,
in summer, 148, 149; Cowper's Winter Walks, 467–486.
See Winter.
Wall-fruits, 63; 83.
Walnut-tree, uses of, 62.
WALPOLE, HORACE (1717-1790), a placeman, with $30,000
per annum; younger son of Robert, the prime minister;
retired to Strawberry Hill, as a poet and man of letters.
He wrote the Castle of Otranto, and was the friend of
Gray. He became Earl of Orford at the age of 74.
War, horrors of; drags nations to ruin, 213; - rural, 57,
58; a royal plaything; the war passion; covetousness
the mother of war, 469.

War-horse, described, 69, 70; 222; cavalry charge, 70.
Warmth, effects of returning, in spring, 3.
Warrior infant, simile of, 163;-god, Mars. See Mars.
WARTON, DR. JOSEPH, elder brother of Thomas (below), and
like him. Born 1722, died 1800. He was a schoolfellow
of Collins, graduate of Oxford, curate of Basingstoke, after
his father; head master of Winchester, prebend of St.
Paul's and Winchester; wrote Ode to Fancy; edited
Pope, and was intimate with Johnson.

WARTON, THOMAS (1728-1790), the historian of English
poetry, succeeded his father as Professor of Poetry, at
Oxford; he was also curate of Woodstock and rector of
Kideriston, and in 1785 Professor of History and Poet
Laureate. He wrote the Hamlet, and First of April.
WARTON'S, (THOMAS) Hamlet, 159; ode on First of April, 54.
Washing and shearing of sheep, 68, 494. See Sheep.
Wasps on apple-trees, 381.

Water, management of in landscape gardening, 175, 176; 63;
- falls, mountain, 141; garden, 63, 176;-its powers,
praises; its lessons of gratitude, benevolence, humility,
industry, and freedom, 177;-praises of; cold water,
best of drinks; Golden Age, 202; reasons of Hippo-
crates in favor of water as a beverage, 202, 203; — drink-
ing, 339; - benefits from, 274, 275;-staguant, drink
not, unless boiled, 203; — courses of, 280; how to regu-
late, 275.

Watering-places, variety of visitors; naiads hackneyed, 280.
Watling-street, an old Roman way, running diagonally across
England, from sea to sea. It was crossed by another, the
Fosse; so that soldiers and trade could pass from Dover
to Chester, from Bath to London and Lincoln.
Wayfarer, lost in snow; his home, &c., 398.
Weakness of any organ, how to give it strength, 338.
Wealth apt to crowd out poverty, 37; its oppressive tres-
passes on poverty, 65; - how to use it in the country,
266, 267, 268; made a blessing in the country;-
should cherish religion, 268; its use and end is, to
build character, 453; - when ruinous to states, 502.
Wealthy, the, invited to agriculture, 58; - heir, his discon-
tented shifts between town and country, 263; — clown,
in the country, 263; couple; bridegroom's reluctance;
trapper entrapped; impolitic gloom, 371.

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Weather, wet, dry, signs by sun, moon, 212, 213; see Signs;
house, a toy, 247;signs, clearness, fowler, wood-
cock, 386;-winter, storms, 396, 397.

Weaver, young; weaving, 504; - Flemish, in England, 507.
Weeding the cane, hoeing into trenches, 423.
Weeds, likened to factionists, 85; - the effects of sloth, 61;
- of the cane-fields, 524, 425; remedies against poisons;

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use of yellow thistle, knot-grass, cow-itch, vervain, wild-
liquorice, 425.

Wedding, compelled; misery and sin, 370.

"Well I agree, ye 're sure of me: a song (XIV.), 116.
Wells, oriental, 494.
Welsh rivers, 496.

'Were I assured you'll constant prove: 'a song (xm.), 116.
West England, its scenery, products, and families, 382.
Western Autumn: by William D. Gallagher, 343.
W. India luxuries, 435.
Wey, river, 294.
Weymouth, Earl of, 383.

Wheat, feeding down; draining; geese, cranes; weeds, suc-
cory, in, 208;-harvest; tempest during; sheafs, 65,
66; ripening, 194.

When first my dear laddie gaed to the green hill:' a song
(x.), 111, 112.

When hope was quite sunk in despair :' a song (XVIII.), 122.
White-throat, matins of the, 42.

WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF, born of a Quaker family, on
the Merrimac, in 1808. He did a little shoemaking till he
was eighteen. He published, in 1831, Legends of New
England; 1847, Supernaturalism in N. E.; 1836, Mogg
Megone; 1850, Voices of Freedom; 1853, Songs of Labor,
&c.; 1856, the Panorama. He is also corresponding
editor of the National Era, at Washington.
WHITTIER'S Huskers: a corn-harvest idyl, 356, 357.
Wicker chair, Hobbinol's, 89; the May-queen's throne, 90.
Wicked, disquiet and fears of the, 473.

Widow, forlorn, 36; — Goe, the thrifty, 408, 409.
Wield, 66, and note.
Wild ducks, 331.

Wild beasts, effects of love on, 11;- of the hot countries;
tiger, lion, hyena, leopard, 144;-cowed' in the 'tin-
chel' of the Mogul's army of huntsmen; slaughter of,
352; some allowed to escape, 353.

Wild-wood glades of Britain; poetic sanctity, 164.
William I., introduced the regular chase, 345 ; — I. and II.;
connection of with Windsor forest; depopulated 60 or 70
villages to make it; fatal to the family, 291.
Will-o'-the-wisp, 308.

Willoughby, Sir Hugh, his fate in the Polar Sea, 404.
Willow, uses of, 62; spring revival of, 131.
Wilmington, Earl of, address to (Thomson), 395, 396.
Winchcomb, Miss E., tribute to, 378.

Wind, south and north-east, character, use, effects, 4, 5; —
utility of; oak gets strength by resisting, 249; - benefits
of, 386; -falls, 385; - flower, anemone, 132.
Windsor, Eng., as a home, 48; described, 49; — Castle, its
heroes, 293, 294; Edward, Henry, Charles I., Anne;
Peace, 294; — forest, 63;- Forest: a poem, by Pope,
291-295; - landscape, described; Eden; oaks; Olym-
pus, Pan, Pomona, &c., 291; rural beauty, gradual cul-
tivation, 291, 292; spring in; angling, fowling, hunting,
292; competence, study, quiet; the herbalist, astronomer,
scholar, sage, 293. See William I.

Wine, good, recommended, temperately, 49;-how, when,
and where to indulge in; use of, 203.
Winter, the Fourth of the Seasons, 395-515; - reluctant
retreat of, 3;-a Grecian, described by Hesiod; food
for house and barn; rains, 22; - out-door work of, 211;
-of North Europe, frozen wine, herds buried (Virgil),
226; pleasant scenes of; town; fireside; sports,
games, gamester; pleasures, 265; wheat, 332;-in-
door enjoyments of (Philips), 388; - horrors of, snow,
melancholy, storms, cattle, tempest, 396, 397; storm with-
out, peace within, 460;-homestead, location, 399; -
retirement, favorable to historical studies, 399, 400; phi-
losophy, social virtues, 401; - evenings, 399; 458; 401;
villagers' amusements, ghost-stories, jokes, dancing; city
in winter; news, dissipation, balls, fop; drama, 401;
frolics, tops, skating, sleighs, 402; Dutch, Russians, Swiss,
402, 403; days, clear, nitrous, bracing, frosty, 402;
short days; game, 403;-renovates nature, 402; - of
Time; Heaven its Spring, 405; — feed, turnips, 445 ; -
unknown in the West Indies; January welcome there,
429; fireside of the farmer, ploughmen, Giles, master,
446;-
evening, family employments and enjoyments,
458, 459; departure of; primrose, 448;
-noon, bril-
liant, 477.

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Winter: a poem, by Thomson, 395-405; a poem, by
Bloomfield, 445-449;-a Pindaric ode, by William Jenks,
D.D., 456; - Evening: a poem, from the Task, by Cow-
per, 457-464; Morning Walk: a poem, by Cowper,
467;- Noon Walk: a poem, by Cowper, 476.

Wire fence, hill-side path; deer fence, 169.
Wisdom, best found in quiet, 83; and love of God, 152;
-in life, the heavenly, 360.

Wish, the: an idyl, by Dr. Aikin, 88; the poet's, 289.
Witches, belief of, in Scotland, note upon, 110.
Woad; wield, 66. See Dyestuffs.

Wolves, winter, 399; exterminated by Edgar, 353.
Woman, to be beloved, not adored, 362;-love and friend-
ship of, 383;-sphere of, the chase unfit, 302, 303.
Women, of Britain, eulogized, by Thomson, 150, 151; of
Herefordshire, praised by Philips, 383.

Wonders of cultivation, 271; — of insect life, 360 ; — of na-
ture, 477.

Wood Notes, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 244; - flowers in
spring; anemone; orchis, sorrel, spurge, 132; wood-
land retreat, 139, 140; woodman, 468; woodpecker, 132,
133; woods in spring, 131-133.

Wooing, song of: by Bryant, 159.

Wool, British; the origin of British commerce, 68; its
importance to Britain, 139; - warm climates unfavorable
to, 490; - good, advantages of England for raising, 491;
-countries, anciently, 499;-how to keep it growing
through winter; common fields bad for, 497; non-British
wools; pastures affect color of wool; Syrian wool; Tyr-
ian dyes, 498; wool-growing districts of Britain; best
English, 500;combing, 501, 502; bleaching, 501; dye-
ing; various dyes; British dye-stuffs, 502; carding,
spinning, 503.

Woollens, fabrics, 497; manufactures of, 503-509; manu-
facture, superior to others, 506, 507; woollen trade, 508,
509.

Word of God, the lamp to Nature, 475.
Work for rainy weather, holidays, evenings; for each sea-
son, 210, 211;-houses, 505; - hours, for slaves, 439.
Works and Days, Hesiod's, 19-24.
World, the, its misery, selfishness, and wrong; law, fash-
ion, politeness, 484; - the visionary, 140.
Worm-bait, how to use, 28;-cruelty of, 7.

Wounded spirit, Nature cannot, God alone can cure, 262.
WOUVERMANS, PHILIP, a famous Dutch painter, especially
of horses. Born at Haerlem, where he died in 1688, aged 68.
Wray and Royston, address to (Dyer), 496.
Wreckers, 256.

Wrens, fledgling, simile of, 311.

Wrestling-match, at May-day Games, 92.
Wretchedness, various forms of, 398; sympathy, 399.
Wryneck, 133.

Year, the, its changes; morning of the year, 264.
YOUNG, EDWARD, author of Night Thoughts; born at Up-
ham, in Hampshire, where his father was rector. Edu-
cated at Oxford, he commenced courtier and poet in 1712,
and continued both till his death, at eighty-four years of
age, in April, 1765.

YOUNG, EDWARD, on 'Immortality,' 358.

Young Husband, and Old Wife; steady wind and safe
Voyage, 369.

Youth, warned against love, especially lawless love, 13;-
the breeding season of cattle, 222; — elasticity, and mel-
low age, 246, 247; and love, 90.
ZEUS, Jupiter, note, p. 26. See Jupiter.
ZEUXIS, 284; the famous Greek painter; born B. C. 400.
ZODIAC, the sun enters its signs on the following days:
Aries, the Ram, March 20; Taurus, the Bull, April 19;
Gemini, the Twins, May 21; Cancer, the Crab, June 22;
Leo, the Lion, July 23; Virgo, the Virgin, August 23;
Scorpio, the Scorpion, October 23; Sagittarius, the Ar-
cher, November 22; Capricornus, the Sea-Goat, Decem-
ber 22; Aquarius, the Waterer, or Water-bearer, January
19; Pisces, the fishes, February 18.
Zone, the torrid, 141-146; Virgil's five zones, 210.
Zoological collection, 282.