Vanity, unprofitable, i., 519

Venice, proposal for establishing the Pope in, ii., 54
Vice and Misery, connection between, ii., 197

Vigilantius, his condemnation of abuses in the Church of
Rome, i., 34, 36

* Villèle and Corbière, i.. 382

Vipsania and Tiberius, i., 313

-, the divorced wife of Tiberius, i., 313, note
Virgil, not free from trivial ideas, i., 14; compared with
Tasso, 96; his "Dido" true to nature, 102; compared
with other poets, 103; faults of, ii., 219
Virgin, worship of the, attacked by Cervantes, i., 53; its
effects on the people, 65; story of an offering to the, 111

*Tasso and Cornelia, ii., 182

compared with Virgil, i., 96; causes of his miseries,
ii., 185, note; ill treated by his countrymen, 236; his
"Gerusalemme" criticised, 237

Tax, new one proposed by Ferdinand of Spain, i., 436
Taxes, comparative rates between ancient and modern,
i.. 129

Terebinthus, remarkable one, i., 39

Ternerin de Gisors, story of, related by Petrarca, i., 414
Terni, the cataract of, described, i., 403
*Ternissa, Epicurus, and Leontion, i., 497
*Tersitza. Odysseus, Acrive, and Trelawny, i., 387
Texts, variance between, i., 274

Theatre, reason why women should visit it but rarely, i.,
507; strictures on the, 547

Theophrastus, his opposition to the doctrines of Epicurus,
i., 505, 506, 509; his style, 510
Thracians, their morality, ii., 94
Thucydides, his style, i., 366
*Tiberius and Vipsania, i., 313

his meeting with his divorced wife Vipsania, i.,
313; tendency of his family to insanity, ib., note
Tibullus, his style, i., 219

Titles, changes in, i., 1, note; their value, i., 28
*Timotheus and Lucian, ii., 17

Titian, character of his works, ii., 13

*Tooke, John Horne, and Samuel Johnson, i., 150, 193
and Johnson, attacks on the "Con-
versation" between, ii., 164
Tory and Whig, argument between, i., 143
Toussaint L'Ouverture, treatment of, by Napoleon, i., 335
Translation of Bishops, i., 33
Transubstantiation, doctrine of, when first established,
i., 33

Travel, foreign, effects of on female character, i., 55
Trees, old, their beauty and value, i., 39
Trelawny, Odysseus, Tersitza, and Acrive, i., 387

(the friend of Odysseus, the Kleptic chieftain), his
lines on Tersitza, i., 387; undertakes the defence of the
stronghold of Odysseus, 401; wounded, 402, note
Trial by jury, proposed abolition of, i., 258
Trojan war, doubts respecting, i., 172
Truth, Apologue of, by Critobulus, i., 250; not the object of
philosophers, 255; should be sought after by them, ii., 21;
prevails in argument, 235

*Tsing-ti and Emperor of China, ii., 117

-, an envoy sent by the Emperor of China to gather
information regarding England, ii., 117; his narration of
his mission, 118, et seq.; his remarks on France, 142,
et seq.

Turks, character of the, i., 399

his tragedies, ib; burlesque translation of the commence-
ment of his "Henriade," ib. ; his merit as a critic, 92;
as a writer of tales and a historian, ib.; character of his
wit, 255; his "Pucelle d'Orleans "censured, 257

*Wallace, William, and King Edward I., i., 448
-, his treatment when taken captive, i., 450
"Walton, Cotton, and Oldways, i., 572
visits Oldways at Ashbourne, i., 572; his lines on
Cotton, ib.
War, foreign, justifiable only in certain cases, i., 6; why
requisite, 10, 542, 555: occurs at regular periods, 130;
result of, 215; consequence of the last general, 396;
would seldom occur if the wiser and better governed,
519; evils of, ii., 43, et seq.; its glory should not be incul-
cated in childhood, ib.

Warton, faulty as a poet and critic, i., 101

Warwick, town of, well fitted for a central fortress, ii., 203
*Washington and Franklin, i., 124

Wax, suggestion for the use of, in restoring ancient sculp-
ture, ii., 56

*Wellington, Duke of, and Sir Robert Inglis, ii., 40

Whig, argument between a, and a Tory, i., 143; character
of the party, 201

Wicklif, his "Trialogue," i., 34 and note

Wilberforce and Romilly, ii., 197

William the Conqueror, reasons for his invasion of England,
i., 10

Wills, the right and expediency of making, considered, i., 24
Wilkes, Zachariah, his life saved by Paine during the
"reign of terror," i., 296 and note
*Windham and Sheridan, ii., 177
Wisdom does not lead to happiness, ii., 1
Wit, true character of, i., 189, et seq.

Wolfgang and Henry of Melctal, i., 315
Women, their treatment of silent lovers, i., 9; Plato's
system respecting, 228; their courage, ii., 37
Wordsworth, opinion entertained of him by Southey and
Porson, i., 11, et seq.; principal objection to his style, 16;
reason why he should not imitate the ancients, 17; criti-
cism on his "Laodamia," 19; criticism on his poems, 68,
et seq.; anecdote of, 182

X.

Xenocrates, estimate of his character, i., 225

faults in his "Cyropædia," i., 229; his style

criticised, 366

Y.

126

Tythes, i., 131; among the Jews, 241; exacted by
Pisistratus and Hiero, ib.; their original purpose, 549

Union, Irish. See Ireland

U.

Usurpers, should not be suffered to live, i., 359

V.

Z.

et seq.

the death of, ii., 76

A.

Allhallowmas eve, the day of the robbery in question, 266;
considered especially holy, 267

Atterend, Matthew, fought for the honour of Sir Thomas
Lucy, 277

Autographs, 259

B.

Bad men not always bad, 264

Barnett, Ephraim, employed to take down the examination

Bucks, swans, and herons, their knightly appurtenance, 276

Gentlemen, young, Dr. Glaston's admonition to, 286
Glaston, Dr., his sermon at St. Mary's, Oxford, 279-281,
284; his admonition to Shakspeare, 282; preachers, 285;
gentlemen, 286; his opinion on Greek and Latin poetry,
289; advises young men not to pursue poetry, 292, 295;
his story of John Wellerby, 295

Gough, Sir Silas, assists at the examination of Shak-
speare, 263; his skill in venison tested, ib.; threatens
Shakspeare with banishment, 264; his mistake, 265;
urgent for the prisoner's committal, 272, 276; jealous of
the reputation of his sermons, 281; his encounter of wit
with Shakspeare, 284; his affection for the temporalities
of the Church, 293, 294; quotes the Dean's song of the
"Two Jacks," 294; his opinion on epitaphs, 295; per-
suades Sir Thomas to oblige Shakspeare to abandon Han-
nah Hathaway, 298; visits Hannah Hathaway's mother,
300; threatens to force Shakspeare's father to prosecute
him for horse-stealing, ib.

Greene, Master, his opinion of Shakspeare, 261
Grief, couplet on, 266

J.

K.

King's Evil cured by the hand of a man recently hung, 271
and note

Thomas, ib.

L.

"Lament, the Maid's," by Shakspeare, 270; criticised by Sir
Lucy, Sir Thomas, his examination of Shakspeare, 263;
threatens to rid the country of him, 264; examines Joseph
Carnaby, a witness, 266, et seq.; commands the papers
taken from the prisoner to be read, and comments thereon,
269, et seq.; his opinion of poets, 269; his advice to Shak-
speare, 270; criticisms on the "Maid's Lament," ib.;
extent of his nautical knowledge, 271; misconstrues Shak-
speare's satirical dialogue between two shepherds, 272;
reason given by him why shepherds should be learned,
273; his exhortation to Shakspeare, ib. ; examines Euseby
Treen, a witness, 273; reproves the prisoner for perso-
nating royal characters, 256; expounds the dignity of
bucks, swans, and herons, 276; is minded to save Shak-
speare, 276, et seq.; good saying attributed to, by Shak-
speare, 277; reasons why he did not write to Dr. Glaston,
282; care taken of his education, 288; advises Shakspeare
to avoid tragedy and comedy, ib.; his verses on Chloe,
290; on the same, with a quince, 291; with a gillyflower,
ib.; compliment paid him by Queen Elizabeth on his
verses, 292; quotes Sir Everard Starkey's lines on Fanny
Carew, 294; his studies in poetry, 296; quotes Mistress
Nanfan's answer to his poetical address, 297; and his
reply, ib.; insists on Shakspeare's abandoning Hannah
Hathaway, 298; is disappointed, 299

A.

Age, the pleasures of, 425

Aglae, lines on her statue, 399

Alcæus, worthlessness of his character, 373; Ode of, 407
Alcibiades, sent by his cousin Pericles to assist Aspasia in
the theatre, 362, 363, and note; writes an answer to
Socrates' address to Aspasia, 366; attention paid to him
by the philosophers, 377; his friendship for Socrates, ib.;
his future character foreseen by Pericles, ib.; by the
advice of Pericles abandons the philosophers, 380; devotes
himself to mathematics and strategy, ib.; defends Socra-
tes, 383; his love-verses, ib.; censured by Pericles for
corrupting the Attic tongue, 416; his indignation at the
process against Aspasia, 423; raises a disturbance in the
city on the occasion, ib.; his character when grown up,
438; advice given to him by Pericles, ib.; joins the fleet
before Naupactos, 442; proceeds to Potidæa, ib.; wounded,
ib.; preserved by Socrates, ib.; his rashness rebuked by
Pericles, ib.; and by Aspasia, 443; confidence placed in
him by Pericles, 446; present at his death, 453; his ac-
count of the death of Cleone, 454

Aleman, lines by, 395

Aletheia, her Ode to Phraortes, 390
Anaxagoras, his remarks on Love, Religion, and Power,
379; controverted by Pericles, ib.; free from envy, 385
his opinion of Pericles, ib.; his opinion of Euripides and
Sophocles, 408; verses by, ib.; accused of impiety, 421;
sentenced to banishment, ib.; his advice to Aspasia, 425;
description of his residence at Lampsacos, 437; his lines
written at the approach of death, 443; his character, 447
Apollo, his temple at Athens, 382; character of the God dis-
paraged by Thraseas, ib.

Architecture, Greek, remarks on, 406
Aristides, his character eulogised, 438

Aristocracy and Democracy, the two forms of government
considered, 436

Aristophanes, his influence over the humours of the Athe-
nians, 364; ridicules Meton and Pericles in his comedy of
"The Birds," 389

Armlets, bad taste displayed in the use of, 372

and war, 424; proposes a visit to Tenos, 425; her
ideas regarding the true province of philosophy, 426;
remarks on poetry, 427; urges Anaxagoras to leave philo-
sophy for history, 428; leaves the city on account of the
pestilence, 434; her child, ib., 435; her reproof of Alci-
biades for rashness, 443; her dialogue between the shades
of Agamemnon and Iphigenia, 447; her "Death of Cly-
temnestra," 449; her " Madness of Orestes," 450; her love
for her child, 451

Athens, less beautiful than Miletus, 361; produced no
women of distinction, 370

Attica, less beautiful than Ionia, 361; over-peopled, 393

B.
Bacchus, the festival of, 361
Beauty, lines on, 434; reply to, ib.; no altar ever dedicated
to, 435
Birthdays, reasons for not celebrating, 405
Business, time lost in, 395

C.

Calendar, said to be reformed by Numa, 409; the Athe-
nian, ib.

Cimon, the erection of a statue to, proposed by Pericles,
391; invited to return to Athens by Pericles, 392
Cleobuline of Lyndos, verses by, 375
Cleone, the friend of Aspasia, 361; her grief at the death of
Xeniades, 368, 371; her remarks on absurdities in female
dress, 372; on the poems of Sappho, 373; on schools
of poetry, 375; on the customs of Thrace, 376; on educa-
tion, 377; on religion, 382; her interview with Thraseas,
ib.; her Epitaph on her nurse Demophile, 394; her
opinions on war, 398; her lines on youth, 401; her
account of abuses in Samos, 403; her remarks upon poets,
404; on the tendency of Æsop's Fables, 405; on the cha-
racter of Hephæstion, ib.; her remarks on the poetry of
Sappho, 416; her lines on Aspasia, 449; death of her
father, 452; proposes to visit Athens, ib.; arrives at Athens,
454; expires on the tomb of Xeniades, 454
"Clytemnestra, the Death of," a dramatic scene, 449
Comedy, true province of, 364; abuse of at Athens, 412;
prohibited, ib.; restored at Athens, 421

Corinna, her poetry superior to that of Hesiod or Myrtis,
369; her Ode on her native town, 372; the instructress of
Pindar, 370, 375

Cupid, lines on, 400

Cupid and Ligeia, an epigram, 418

D.

tween her and Aspasia, ib.

Artemidora, of Ephesus, lines on her death, 389
Asteroessa, Ode to, 405

Astronomy, its progress certain, 387
Aspasia, her visit to Athens, 361; adventure in the theatre
there, 362; attention paid to her by Pericles there, ib.;
her kind reception by her relation Epimedea, 363; her first
interview with Pericles, 364; accepts his proffer of love,
365; her poetical answer to the addresses of Socrates,
366; consoles her broken-hearted lover, Xeniades, 367;
visits Tanagra, the birthplace of Corinna, 368; her criti-
cisms on Pindar, 371; her apprehensions on account of
Pericles, 378; taxes Pericles with insincerity, 379; com-
mends the wisdom of Pericles, 380; urges him to be mind-
ful of his glory, 381; her lines on the death of Artemidora
of Ephesus, 389; remarks on some imperfections in Greek
poetry, 392; her love for the scenes of her youth, 394;
her verses on her nurse Myrtale, 395; old song quoted by,
396; her lines on war, 398; her reflection on the general
abuse of religion, 403; her opinion of a Persian custom,
407; her account of the foundation of Rome, 409, 410;
her opinion of Thucydides, 413; criticises his ste, 416;
her opinion of Euripides, 417; accused of impiety, and
as a corruptress of morals, 421; acquitted, 422; urges
Pericles to abandon power, 423; her reflections on peace

Deiopeithes, accuses Anaxagoras and Aspasia of impiety,
421

Democracies, their use, 366

Democracy and Aristocracy, the two forms of government
considered, 436

Demophile, the nurse of Cleone, her death, 394; her
Diana, her temple at Ephesus, 382
epitaph, ib.
Dirce, lines on, 451

Dissimulation, a feminine virtue, 362
Dress, remarks on that of the Grecian women, 372

E.

Ear-rings, worn by the women of Athens, 364; barbarism
of the custom, 372

Egyptians, stability of their public buildings, 381
Eloquence defined, 365
Elpenor, one of the leaders of the Samians, his character,
401, his behaviour at his son's funeral, ib.
Epimedea, Aspasia's relation, 361; her kind reception of
Aspasia, 363

Epimenides, invited to Athens by Solon to instruct the
people in religion, 426

Erinna, stories by, addressed to Leuconöe, 393; poetical
"Address" to, 443

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