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Sanazarius, his lines on the City of Venice, i. 217.
Santieul, and the French porter, ii. 126.

Schiller, his childhood, i. 78.

contempt of nobility, iii. 210.

Scott, Sir Walter, his lines in the Album of Bell-rock Light-
house, i. 115.

French accounts of, ii. 204.

his "Helvellyn," also the circumstances

on which it is founded, ii. 240.

iii. 196.

incapability of writing verse, iii. 51.

residence at Abbotsford described,

Settle, Elkanah, Dryden's character of, i. 207.
Seward, Miss, her poetical enigma, ii. 57.

Shakspeare, his birth-day, how this anniversary should be
spent, i. 52.

Jubilee, account of, i. 243.

resemblance of some passages in "Gerard

Brandt" to, iii. 148.

Shenstone, his kindness and generosity, ii. 180.
Sidney, Sir Philip, character of his poetry, i. 143.
his death, i. 146.

--, poetry by, ii. 203.

Simonides, his avarice, ii. 224.

Skulls, as drinking cups, poetical notices of, iii. 236.
Smith, George Henry, his "Tribute to the Memory of
Bloomfield," iii. 116.

"Sortes Virgilianæ," singular adventure of Charles I. at
the, iii. 152.

Southern, Thomas, his ludicrous stanzas addressed to the
Duke of Argyle, i. 18.

Southwell, Rev. R., slight account of, ii. 267.

poetry by, ii. 269.

Spenser, Edmund, his account of the Irish Bards in the
time of Queen Elizabeth, i. 4.

and the Earl of Southampton, i. 206.
Suckling, Sir John, account of the death of, ii. 117.
Surville, Madame De, account of her poems, iii. 77.

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her biography, iii. 79.-

, poetry by, iii. 82.

Swift, Jonathan, and Ambrose Phillips, their opinion of

Julius Caesar, i. 117.

his last lines, i. 204.

Swift, Jonathan, and the beadle of St. Patrick's Cathedral,

ii. 13.

curious trick played upon, ii. 121.

Symmons, Caroline, slight sketch of, iii. 288.

Taunahill, Robert, his biography, ii. 244.

~, poetry by, ii. 248.

Tarlton, Richard, the jester, anecdotes of, iii. 185.
-, poetry concerning, iii. 190.
"Tasso," translation of, by Hoole, i. 81.

Fairfax, i. 85.

-, anecdotes of, i. 195, 208, 237.

poetry by, i. 196.

and the robber's captain, i. 282.
bis death, i. 283.

and his friend Manso, ii. 237.
Teonge, Henry, slight account of, iii. 51.
poetry by, iii. 53.
Thomas, the Rhymer, history of, ii. 30.

Thomson, his "Winter," Mitchell's couplet on, and Thom-
son's reply, i. 204.

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and Sir Gilbert Elliot, ii. 235.

recollections of, ii. 286.

Tighe, Mrs., her poetry, iii. 21.

Troubadours, account of the Satires of the, ii. 18.
Turberville, his singular stanzas, i. 151.

Tusser, Thomas, his biography, i. 24.

-, specimens of his poetry, i. 27.

Vida, his elegy on the death of his parents, iii. 282.
Vidal Pierre, a Troubadour, singular adventures of, i. 149.
Virgil, account of the supernatural powers ascribed to, i. 12.
Vicar's translation of, ii. 215.

Phaer and Stanyhurst's trauslations of, iii. 275.
Voltaire, his transaction with the Earl of Peterborough, i. 22.
Pope's mother, ii. 8.

and the King of Prussia, ii. 129.

his opinion of Racine's poetry, ii. 168.

residence at Ferney, ii. 184.

- opinions of the translations of Shakspeare, iii. 88.
punishment received by, for an epigram on the

King of Prussia, iii. 272.

Vondel, Joost Van Den, biography of, ii. 103.

-, poetry by, ii. 106.

INDEX.

Wachter, and King Frederick II., iii. 195.
Waller, Edmund, his death-bed, i. 272.

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conversation with King James II, ii. 127.
reply to King Charles II., ii. 179.

Warton, Dr., bis interview with Pope's cousin, i. 33.
White, Henry Kirke, poetry by, iii. 291.

Wolcot, Dr., his trickery played off on the booksellers, i. 238.
"Ode to my Barn,” i. 290.

ton, ii, 202.

death, i. 209.

poetical correspondence with Dr. Harring

and the Stock Broker, ii. 228.

Wolfe, General, epitaph on, ii. 88.

་་ 'World," the, a club so called, account of, ii. 116.
Wycherley, William, account of his marriage, iii. 23.
his singular memory, iii. 274.
Wynne, I. H., his facility of poetic composition, ii. 229.
Young, Dr., Tonson, and Lintot, ii. 7.

his "Night Thoughts," some account of the

translator of, into French, ii. 129.

and the Duke of Wharton, ii. 160.

elegant impromptu of, ii. 182.

his couplet addressed to Voltaire, iii. 191.

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