INDE X. The Roman Numerals refer to the Volume, and the A.. ABERBROTHICK, account of the town of, viii. 212. Of Aberdeen, account of, viii. 217. Dr. Johnson meets with an old Abouzaid, the dying advice of Morad his father to him, vi. 289. Abyssinia, preface to the translation of Father Lobo's voyage to, Academical education, one of Milton's objections to it, ix. 89. Achilles, his address to a Grecian prince supplicating life, im- Action (dramatick), the laws of it stated and remarked, vi. 97. Action (in oratory), the want of, considered, vii. 361. Tends Actions, every man the best relater of his own, vii. 259. The Adam unparadised, a MS. supposed to be the embryo of Para- Adams, Parson, of Fielding, not Edward, but William Young, xi. 341. Addison, Joseph, supposed to have taken the plan of his Dialogues GG 2 His life, x.74. Born at Milston, in Wiltshire, May 1. 1672, 74. The various schools at which he received instruction, 75. Cultivates an early friendship with Steele, 76. Lends 100l. to Steele, and reclaims it by an execution, 77. Entered at Oxford, 1687, 77. Account of his Latin poems, 78. Account of his English poems, 78. On being introduced by Congreve to Mr. Montague, becomes a courtier, 79. Obtains a pension of 300l. a year, that he might be enabled to travel, 80. Publishes his travels, 82. Succeeds Mr. Locke as Commissioner of Appeals, as a reward for his poem The Battle of Blenheim, 83. Went to Hanover with Lord Halifax, 83. Made Under-secretary of State, 83. Writes the opera of Rosamond, 83. Assists Steele in writ ing the Tender Husband, 84. Goes to Ireland with Lord Wharton as Secretary, 84. Made Keeper of the Records in Birmingham's Tower, 84. The opposite characters of him and Wharton, 84. His reason for resolving not to remit any fees to his friends, 85. Wrote in the Tatler, 85. Wrote in the Spectators, 86. His tragedy of Cato brought on the stage, and supported both by the Whigs and Tories, 92, 95, Cato warmly attacked by Dennis, 95, Observations on his tragedy of Cato, 96. Other honours and enmities shewed to Cato, 97. Cato translated both into Italian and Latin, 97. Writes in the Guardian, 97. His signature in the Spectator and Guardian, 98. Declared by Steele to have been the author of the Drummer, with the story on which that comedy is founded, 99. Wrote several political pamphlets, 99. Appointed Secretary to the Regency, 101. In 1715 publishes the Freeholder, 102. Marries the Countess of Warwick, Aug. 2. 1716, 102. Secretary of State, 1717, but unfit for the place, and therefore resigns it, 103. Sir J. Hawkins's Defence of the Character he had given of Addison in his History of Musick against the author of the Biog. Brit. 104. Purposes writing a tragedy on the Death of Socrates, 104. Engages in his Defence of the Christian religion, 104. Had a design of writing an English dictionary, 105. His controversy with Steele on the Peerage Bill, 105. During his last illness sends for Gay, informs him that he had injured him, and promises, if he recovered, to recompence him, 109. Sends for the young Earl of Warwick, that he might see how a Christian ought to die, 109. Died June 17. 1719, 110. His character, 110. The course of his familiar day, 113. His literary character, 115. Account of his works, 117. Extracts from Dennis's Observations on Cato, 124. Considered as a critick, 141. Commended as a teacher of wisdom, 144. Character of his prose works, 144. A conversation with Pope on Tickell's translation of Homer, 274. Becomes a rival of Pope, xi. 95. Supposed to have been the translator of the Iliad, published under the name of Tickell, 99. His critical capacity remarked, v. 91. 140. 143. Admiration, and ignorance, their mutual and reciprocal operation, Adventurer, No. xxxiv. iii. 109. No. xlv. 129. No. 1. 135. No. lxvii. 162. No. lxix. 170. No. lxxiv. 177. No. lxxxi. 183. No. lxxxiv. 190. No. xcv. 212. No. cviii. 238. No. cxi. 244. No. lxxxv. 197. No. xcii. 203. No. xcix. 218. No. cii. 225. No. cvii. 232. No. cxv. 250. No. cxix. 257. No. cxx. 263. No. cxxvi. 269. No. cxxviii. 275. No. cxxxi. 282. No. cxxxvii. 288. No. cxxxviii. 295. Adversaries, the advantage of contending with illustrious ones, xii. 194. Adversity, a season fitted to convey the most salutary and useful instruction to the mind, vi. 58. The appointed instrument of promoting our virtue and happiness, 60. Advertisements, on pompous and remarkable, vii. 160. Advice, good, too often disregarded, v. 97. The causes of this assigned, 98. Vanity often the apparent motive of giving it, 99. When most offensive and ineffectual, vi. 90. Affability, the extensive influence of this amiable quality, vi. 2. Affectation, the vanity and folly of indulging it, iv. 131. 133. Wherein it properly differs from hypocrisy, 134. The great absurdity of it exposed in the character of Gelasimus, vi. 228. Afflictions, proper methods of obtaining consolation under them, iv. 113. 332. Inseparable from human life, vi. 268. The benefits of, 270. Africa, progress of the discoveries made on that coast by the Portuguese, ii. 217. Age, the present an age of authors, iii. 251. Agriculture, its extensive usefulness considered, vi. 28. Thoughts on, both ancient and modern, ii. 384. Productions of, alone sufficient for the support of an industrious people, 384. In high consideration in Egypt, 385. The many ancient writers on that subject, 388. The enrichment of England, 389. A proper subject for honorary rewards, 391. Superior to trade and manufactures, 392. Danger to be apprehended from the neglect of, 397. An art which government ought to protect, every proprietor of lands to practise, and every enquirer into nature to improve, 397. Account of, at Raasay, one of the Hebrides, viii. 279. Bad state of, at Ostig, in Sky, 301. The raising of the rents of estates in Scotland considered, 322. Ajut, his history, vi. 267. 276. Akenside, Dr. Mark, his opinion of Dyer's Fleece, xi. 277. His life, 357. Son of a butcher at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, born 1721. Designed for a dissenting minister, but turns his mind to physick, 357. Pleasures of Imagination published, 1744, 358. Studies at Leyden, and becomes M. D. 1744, 358. An enthu siastick friend to liberty; and a lover of contradiction, 359. Practises physick at Northampton and Hampstead, 360. Settles at London, 360. Allowed 300l. a year by Mr. Dyson, 360. By his writings obtains the name both of a wit and 'scholar, 361. Died 1770, 361. Character of his works, 362. Alabaster, Roxana, commended, ix. 87. GG 3 Alacrity, the cultivation of it the source of personal and social Albion in lat. 3, account of the friendly inhabitants found there Alexandrian Library, its loss lamented, vii. 263. Aliger, his character, vi. 354. Allen, Mr. of Bath, praised by Pope in his Satires, xi. 135. Almamolin, the dying speech of Nouradin, his father, to him, Altilia, her coquetry described, vi. 246. Amazons, observations on the history of the, vii. 351. Old maids Amazons, of the Pen, iii. 252. Ambition, generally proportioned to capacity, xii. 17. A quality America, Taxation no Tyranny, or, an answer to the Resolutions v. 231. Amoret, Lady Sophia Murray celebrated by Waller under that Amusements, by what regulations they may be rendered useful, Anacreon, Ode ix. translated, i. 351. Anatomy, cruelty in anatomical researches reprobated, vii. 66. education there for a scholar of the highest class, for the term Angelo, Michael, observations on his style of painting, vii. 318. Animal food, on the choice and rejection of various sorts of, viii. 277. 276. Anoch, account of, viii. 244. Consists only of three huts, 244. Anson, Lord, little advantage to have been expected, had his Antony and Cleopatra, observations on Shakspeare's play of, ii. 158. Archery, the importance of, in former times, xii. 314. Arches, considerations on elliptical and semicircular, which is Architecture, the degenerate state of, at Rome, ii. 380. Ariosto, some lines of, from which Pope seems to have borrowed Aristophanes, licentiousness of his writings exorbitant, iii. 3. The Armidel, in the Isle of Sky, account of, viii. 262. Arms of the Highlanders, account of, viii. 347. Army, causes of the superiority of the officers of France to those Art, terms of, the necessity of, vii. 280. Ascham, Roger, his life, xii.308. Born at Kirby Wiske, near North |