Blame my Nose! softened im- precation, 477. BLANCHARD ALAIN, 70. Blank Verse, Irregular, re- marks on, 1.
Blind, funds for, at Christ's Hospital, 387.
Blood, Circulation of? allusion to, in Eccles. xii. 546. Boar, a Norfolk one, ridden four and a quarter miles by his master, 415.
Boar's head, 174. Boat like an Eagle, 67. BODMER'S Noachid, a bad Poem, 2.
BOLINGBROKE, remark
Calvin's Institutes, reported through Madan, 410. Bombast, Spanish, 259. Bonaparte and Dr. Solomon, confusion of, 365. Bone Manure, 388. Bonfires, Festival, 116. Book, occupations necessary
to produce one, 450. When new, 692. A friend, 725. Bons Esprits, and beaux esprits,
Book-keeper, correct and in- correct, P. Tompkin's, death of, 390. BOSWELL had a faculty for man-
ners, said Adam Smith, 617. Botany, Medical, extracts, 573. BOUCHET, Serées, 704. Bourg de Bar, le Capitaine, 170. BOVIUS, THOMAS, an Empiric, his Hercules and Aurum Po- tabile, 436. BOWDWOIN, JAMES, astrono- mical opinions of, 431. BOWLES CAROLINE, i. e. Mrs. Southey, remark of, 621. Bracha, Gallia Braccata, &c.40. Brama, how he first made man,
Breath, Ill, strange cure for,
Brick, custom of building with,
when introduced, 400. Brescia, Arnald of, 141. Bretagne, Traditions in, 240. BREUSE, The Lady, 174. Brianstone, Great Sergeanty Tenure of, 175. Bride Ale, 361.
Britain, the thirteen rarities of,
Bristol, H. Walpole not favour- ably impressed with, 392. Goodness of the water of, 426.
Burgomaster, strange mode of choosing, 454. BURGOINGNE, DUC DE, Lettres envoyées de, par le Roy d'An- gleterre au, 21. Charles the Warlike, Duke of, 104, 109, 115, 164.
Burial, Royal and Noble Modes of, 133.
Buried Money, story of, 426. Burke the miscreant, affrighted BURKE, his admiration of Spen- in his sleep, 708. ser, 312. Complimented by Lord G. Gordon, 689. His saying on Pitt's Economical Bill, 689. On the Growth of Atheism, 700.
Broad-cloth, deterioration of by BURNET, SIR THOMAS, Son of
Devil's dust in Latimer's time, 610.
Broads, meaning of the term,
BROOKE, LORD, his Poems, re-
marks on, 315. Extracts, 647-649, 691. Brougham Castle, fine ruin,532,
537. LORD, 666, 688. Brough Bells, story of, and Bal- lad, 422.
Bishop, saying of, 350. BURNET'S Theoria Sacra, ad- mired by Southey and Wordsworth, 184. Burning, better than Inter- ment, 195.
Burrough, or Burgh, Hutchin-
son's remark on name, 618.
BURTON, Anat. of Mel. ex- tracts, 467-8, 473-4. BUSHELL'S Wells, account of at Enstone, 405.
BROUGHTON'S Dict. of all Re- ligions, extracts from, 121, 2. SIR THOMAS, tradition about, Butterfly, pretty lines of Hall
BROWN, JOHN, remarks on his
Estimate, &c. 342. BROWNE, SIR T. favourite wri- ter of Southey's, 334. BRUCE, The Heart of, 172. Ex-
tracts from "The," 217. Bruciad, not a good Poem, 633. Brute Creation, Apology for, Sermon by James Granger,
BRUYERE LA, extracts from, 645, 669.
Buck, St. Paul's, 120, 414. Clubs of Bold Bucks, &c. 377. BUCKHURST, LORD, advice in Ferrex and Porrex, to settle the succession, 323. Bull-Baiting, Dr. Parr fond of,
BUNYAN, JOHN, of his Pilgrim's Progress, 221. Remark of, on lies and slanders, 691. Burbolts, kind of fish, Gadus Lota, of Linnæus, 607. Burgess, curious custom of ta- king up the freedom of one at Alnwick, 419.
Cader Idris, 242.
CECILIA, ST., 67; sermons preached on her day as late as 1713, 703. CAFFARELLI, the singer, his wealth, 433.
CALDERON, extracts, 468, 471,
501, 640. 658. CALVERT, F. LORD BALTI- MORE, works of, 348. Calvinistic Teachers, 716. CALVIN'S Institutes, Boling- broke's remarks on, 410. CAMDEN, Gough's, quotations from, 57, 61, 62. Camel, called the Ship of the Land, 176; conveyors of souls, Ib.; taught to dance,
CAMILLUS LEONARDUS, Mirror of Stones, 46. CAMOENS, 627.
Canary Fanciers, pattern bird of, 433. CANOVA's genius first manifest ed in modelling butter, 510.
Carnifex, an officer of great dignity under our Danish Kings, 400.
CARRARA UBERTINO, his Co- lumbus, extracts from, 631,2. CARTE'S ORMOND, remarks from, 690. CARTWRIGHT, MAJOR, the sportsman, anecdotes of,- his Book &c., 515. Carwichet, what, 509, 705. CASTILLEJO, to the Author of a bad Poem, 634. Castor Church, Lincolnshire, irreverent custom at, 414. Cataract, dislodged by a fall from a horse, 589. CATESBY, THOMAS, Lord Pa-
get, Essay on Human Life,
Cat and Dog, instance of their travelling together, &c., 400. Cats, Madame de Custine's praise of, 490.
Cathedra Stercoris, what? 401. CATO's Letters, extracts from,
Cattle, some account of, and of
grazier's terms, 401, 488. Cave, King Arthur's, 160. Cavern, strange, 76; wind- guarded, 138. CEIREOC, battle of, 108, Celebes, poisonous tree of, 243. Cemeteries at Hamburg, with- out the city, 579. Chafing, cured by the slime of the slug, 555. Chaises private, made war upon in 1733 by stages and hack- ney coaches, 377; curious
account of a chaise driver's last bequest, 418. CHALKHILL, JOHN, his Theal- ma and Clearchus, 630.
Chama Gigas, great shell, 7. CHAMBERLAYNE, author of the
Anglia Notitia, vanity of,
CHANCELLOR, LORD, is his of fice compatible with Speaker of the House of Lords? 395. Charitable men, St. Chrysos- tom's character of, 626. CHARLEMAGNE and his Mis- tress, tale of, 71.
CHARLES I., omens of his fate, 159; A Marvel's lines on death of, 635.
CHARLES II., best likeness of,
according to H. Walpole,620. Charleton, Leicestershire, 392,
Chester, burial place of Henry, a Roman Emperor,-Harold said to have retired there after the battle of Hastings, 406.
CHEVERNY, CHANCELLOR, pret ty story of, 543. CHIABERRA, extracts, 497. Chimney-sweepers, women em- ployed as, 391. CHESTERFIELD's Letters, 716. Chivalry, stories connected with the manners of, 11; educa- tion of, 151; L'Amour de Dieu et des Dames, 152; chivalrous speech, 172. Choultries, account of, 238, 247. Christiad, the, poem by Robert Clarke, 537.
Christian principles, duty of acting up to, 695. CHRISTINA,
QUEEN, 158; Queen of Corinth intended for, 713.
Christmas Tale, ideas for, 275. CHRISTOPHER, ST., Buffalmac- co's painting of, 433.
Church of England, has re- nounced hidden things of darkness, 677. Church-Reformers,Sir G.Mack- enzie's remark upon, 384. Churches, want of in large towns, 419.
CHURCHILL, extracts from and remarks on, 335. Churchyards, Welsh, account of from Booker's Malvern,104; a lesson to be learnt from, 290; desecration of Wool- wich one by some drunken sailors, 386.
Ciborium, meaning of, 283. Cider, an African liquor? 709. Circassian Gentleman, 237. Circelliones, or, wandering monks, 675.
Cistern, Silver, at Belvoir Cas- tle, 373.
CLARA, the Beata of Madrid,
CLARENDON, LORD, honest ad- vice of, 687; his saying re- lative to the want of Bishops in Reformed Churches, 687. CLARKE, ADAM, extracts from, 505, 707, &c.
CLARKE ROBERT, his Chris- tiad, 537.
CLAUDIAN, extracts from, 221. Clergy, a beggarly, says Ful- ler, the forerunner of a bank- rupt religion, 696. Clothes, in Edw. III.'s time,— a project to show men's birth, &c. 712. Clover, American, 537. CLOVIS, christening of, 71. Coals, some particulars about shipping of, 393.
Course expressions, instead of strong ones, 717. Coat, rapidity with which one
was made from wool of the same eday's shearing,395,482. Cod-fish, prolific milt of, 435. Cock, crowing of, the notice of ghosts to quit, 80. Cockatoo, unruly one, 389. Cock-crower, the king's, office of? 375.
Cockmate and Copesmate,query, the same, 299, 300. Cock-roaches, exorcised, 109, 535.
Coffin-rings, use of, 445. Coffins, cast iron ones, 386; Story of, 402, 403.
Colombiade La, extracts from, | CRANMER, ABP., said by Ful-
Colours, the love language of,
Cole's dog, Prov. 428, 676. Coltic Timber, what? 434. Columbia, i. e. Dr. Doveland, 584, 596. Comedy, writers of, 261. Comets, 396.
Con, the son of the Sun, 155. CONDER JOSIAH, stories by, 357.
Connoisseur, extracts from,338- 340.
Conqueror, duty of, 114. Contradiction, spirit of, 645. Consumption, certain messenger of death, 353. Cookery, old Scotch, 29. Cookoo, the, "ever telling of one tale," 288. Cooling Card, meaning of, 459. Copenhagen, anecdote at the siege of, 389.
Copper, quantity of used in pin making, 467.
Coracles, account of, 123. CORELLI, his enthusiastic ap-
pearance when playing the violin, 571. Cormorant, description of, 44. Corps' Candles, 160. Corwen, town of. 57. Corns, sprouts of rheumatism, 555; Ali Bey known by,
Cornagium,- cornage tenure, 206, 456, 510. CORTEZ, censuring of, 260. COTTON, CHARLES, 306. COURTOYS GYRON LE, extracts and remarks on, 280. COVERLEY, SIR ROGER DE, re- marks of, 690, 707. Cowardice, what? 29. Cow-dung, water of, a purge,
COWLEY, extracts, 627. COWPER, his taste-melancho- ly, &c. 322.
Cows, ladies drawn by, 108; in the Alps, proud of their bells, 371; list of names of from a Shropshire Dairy,
Cowslip water, good for the memory, 503. Crabs, shower of at Reigate in 1829, 469.
Cramp-rings, blessing of, 511.
ler to have had an amiable eye, 647. Craw-fish, discharges its own stomach, curious fact in Na- tural History, 434. Credulity, effects of, 164; in- stances of English, 359. Cricket, merry as, Prov., 486. Cricket-match,between married women and maidens, 416; between Greenwich pension.
ers with one arm and one leg, 418.
Crimes, duty of exposing, 51. CRISPIN, ST., his day much kept at Keswick, 531. Criticism, which corrupts writer and readers, 673. Crocodiles, the king of, 176; superstition relative to the Indian, 237. CROMWELL, the Devil shall have it sooner than, 426. Cross by the wayside, a memen- to! 357; some of the Fa- thers saw it in every thing,
Crows, dutiful children, 109; curious account of a tame one, 411; caught in Italy with bird-limed hoods, 418. Crowthers, i. e. black pigs, ori- gin of the name, 498. Croyland, first ring of bells at, in England, 425. Crune, or Croon, to bellow like a disquiet ox, 422. Cuckoo, stuttering one? 535. Cucupha, quilted cap with ce- phalic powder in, 436. CUENCA LA BEATA DE, account of, 384.
Culm, small coal not exceeding
two inches in diameter, 393. Cumbrian Customs, 531. CUMMING, G. R., quare, as to the veracity of his adven- tures, 256.
Customs, good old, the cause of
religion and order, 195. CUTTS, Lord JOHN, why called a salamander by Marlboro',
CYNETHA, 107. Cypresses, duration of, 74. CYVEILIOC, OWEN, 107; ex- communicated, 140.
DERMODY, THOMAS, account of, 516.
DERRICK, Johnson's saying of,
Desert, produce of, 224. DESPARD, COLONEL, 194. Despotism, Eastern, instance of, 498. Δευτερόποτμοι, who, 431. Devil, hath not always had his due, 195; visit to St. An- thony, 196; original of the Devil's walk, 199; gran Fi losofo, 443; ugliness of, 463; Scotch dislike to mentioning,
Devil's Dust, what? 610. Dew-water of Ferrea, 225; of
St. John's night, has the vir- tue to stop the plague, 274. Dex, the larva of a beetle, which corroded the wood the Greeks used for seals, 431. Dhahi, statues in, 96. Diabolorum Regnum, applied to England, 353.
DIANA'S Chamber, near St. Paul's-her temple supposed to have been on the present site, 414. Jewel's Works, vii. 292. ed. Jelf. Diet, 599. Dilapidations, friends of Bp. Kidder strangely sued for,
Dirt, latent in frost, like vices and ill qualities in society,
Disangelicals, a name for whom? 603.
Diseases, Languis held all to
be animalcular, 436; Dr. Hahnemann's notion of cho- leraic miasma, 439; effect of the Fall, 690.
Disports, master of merry, 115. Dissenting Churches, remark on, 693.
Divination by Torrent, or, Tag- hairn, 39.
Divine Right, remark on, 665. Dock, floating one of iron, ac-
count of, 386. DOCTOR, THE, &c. Collections for, 427, &c. Dog-ribbed Indian Woman, ac- count of, 166. Dogs, know the dog-killer, ac- cording to Lord Bacon, 108; Mrs. Wilson's story of, 194; extracts relative to, 584;
Newfoundland dog's puppy inherited its mother's tricks, 593; church-going, 356; gone to heaven, story of, 363; hunt of wild one, 369; famished, 370; instinct, 371; over-tempted, 372; speaking one, 378; the pride of old Cole's, proverb, 428; sacri- ficed to the dog-star by the Romans, 443, 478, 482; af- fected by music, 573. Dollars, Spanish, wide spread of, 389.
Dolwyddelan Castle, 39. DOM DANAEL, the destruction of, 181.
Doncaster, collections about,
Dondego, what? 706. DONNE's Letters, extracts from, 612, 620-1; poems, 647-8. Doome's-day, Lord Sterlinge's,
Doring or during, meaning of,
Dotterel catching, proverb, 454. Double stars, 434.
Dragon, standard of, 132. DRAKE, SIR FRANCIS, tradi- tion of in Somersetshire, 424. Dramatist's English, extracts from, passim. DRAYTON, remarks on, 291. Dreams, extracts relative to, 565; recurrence of, 566, 601. Drowned persons, Finlanders
said to recover after two or three days! 553. Druids, United Lodges of, ce- remonies at, 402. Drum, miraculous ones, 7; of captives' skins, 158. Drunkenness, Johnson's re- mark on, 624.
Druses, opinion of relative to transmigration, 586. DRYDEN, remarks on, and ex- tracts relative to, 328; Charles, his eldest son, usher of the palace to Clement XI. drowned in Thames, 351. Ducking-stool, a legal punish- ment, 401. Duelling, effectual against, 492. Dulness, Triumph of, a poem, origin of, 714. DUNCOMBE, WILLIAM, notice of, 351.
Dwarfs, boys bred up for by
Eel, skinning of, barbarous story of, 356; how one came in at a bedroom window, 371; story of the man with eels in his inside, 402; mere so full of small eels as to supply eel-cakes, 409.
Eggs, hatched by a man, queer
story, 416. Egregori of the Book of Enoch, who? 122.
Egypt, night in, 223; their medicine wholly upon astro- logical or magical grounds, 547; leprosy and elephan- tiasis peculiar to, 551. Elden Hole, 243.
Election trick, 392. Electricity, cure for agues, 436. Elephants, majestic bearing of,
ELIDORE, descent of, 139. ELIZABETH, sick exile cured for joy at her succession- Fuller knew his father"right
well," 506; advised the House of Commons to prefer the most weighty matters first, 718.
ELTON, OLIVER, story of, 9. Enamorados de la Pena de los,
Enchanter, cold-blooded, why? 243.
Eneorema, what? 434. England, should be the scene of an Englishman's poem,- ideas relative to-why not attempted, 17; charity of, -"in the day of her visita- tion may it be remembered," 20; three names of, 46; saying of M. de Custine's about, 718.
ENGLISH LITERATURE AND POETRY, &c. extracts rela- tive to, 279, &c. English, account of, from Mal- colm's Manners and Customs of London, 376. EVTEλEXEía, Aristotle's use of, 434, 440.
Enthusiasm and Atheism, 689. Envy, severely just vice, 626. Epic writers, have usually been
deficient in learning,-sug- gestions for epic poems, 11. Epitaphs, 48, 50-52, 73; on Richard I., Henry II., &c. 134; on Richard II., King John, &c. 135; a true one at Santarem, 633; of Thomas Tryon, 634.
Ergot of Rye, poisonous though used medicinally, 401. Ermesia, ancient prescription,
Escape from drowning at sea,
extraordinary one, 485. ESPINOZA, NICOLAS? a galley slave once? 635-6. ESPRIELLA, characteristic Eng. lish Anecdotes and Fragments for, 352, &c.; projected con- tents of, 419. Esquimaux Female, awe of in
St. Paul's, 362; saying of in the streets of London, 516. Estrella de Venus, &c. 266. Etymology, perversion of by the Meccans, 225. Eumenides, awful to name, like the Fairies, 529. Euphues, extracts from, 457-9,
EUSTACHIO MANFREDI, son- net of, 49.
EUTHYMUS, story of from Pau- sanias, 226.
Evangelicals, 603; Magazine,
EVANS, ABEL, who, 349. EVELYN, JOHN, 348. Evergreens, Christmas, 115. Excrements, eating of, 249. Executioner's Falchion, self-re- moval of, 242.
Exeter, account of, 522. Exorcism, effect of, 238. Expenditure, Public, increases wealth, 688.
EXUPERIUS, ST. how sainted,
Extracts, &c. 77, 215, &c. 270, &c.
Eyes, artificial, made by Juan Gonzalez, a Catalan optician, 615.
Faggots, of human bones, 226. Fairies, fountain of, 43; tree of at Dompré, 64; Indian's name for, 168, 346. Fairy- rings, 358. Extracts relative to Scottish superstition, 529. Fairs, the two great ones in Edward VI.'s time were St. James' at Bristol, and Bar- tholomew's in London, 405. Faithlessness, Indian notion of European, 236. Falcon, The Faery, 90. Fame, 605.
Family Pride, 583. Fancy A, called by Steele a fantasque, 620; where situ- ated, 548.
Farmer, small one, ought not to keep a pig, 610. Farthing, Queen Anne's, trial about, 388. Fashion, 596. FASTOLF, Oath of, 66; bad cha- racter of him by H. Wind- sor, 72.
Fasts and Thanksgivings, in New England, 148. Fear, a bad guard, 659. FEATLEY, extracts from, 445, 644, 661.
Feet-Metrical, twelve in the English language, 1. FELTHAM, OWEN, extracts from, 81.
Femmes couvertes, remarkable story, 396.
FERGUS, murder of, 166. Fern male, root of, good against tape-worm, 575. FERRAN GONZALEZ, account of, 8.
FERRIS, RICHARD, adventure of him and his wherry, 355. Festivals, Church, remarks on,
Feverfew, Sweet, Matricaria Suaveolens, medicinal pro- perties of, 575. Fez, sword of, 26. Fidelity, animal, 140. Fiddlers of Ambleside, their custom on Christmas Day, 531.
Fig-dates, i. e. figs, 706. FILICAJA VINCENZO DE, Son- nets from, 48, 49, 50, 82, 87, 97.
Fingers, art of conversing with and counting by, 431. Fire, Defensive, 173. Fire-Fly, ominous one, 160,276. Fish, plan for naturalizing salt- water ones in ponds, 372; extraordinary price of, in Billingsgate, Jan. 4, 1809, 387; affection for each other,
541. FLACCUS VALERIUS, extracts from, 77, 80, 81, 220. Flamborough Head, 161. Flamen Dialis, or, Priest of Jupiter, account of, 614. Flamingos, flight of, 396. Fleas, import of, 470. FLETCHER, THE, remarks on, 291.
Floating Island, Welsh one, 76. Florida, custom there of sacri-
ficing the first-born male, 181. Florist's Feast at Bethnal Green in George I.'s time,
Follies, no christian burial for, when outlived, 616; hath eagle's wings, but owl's eyes, Dutch Prov. 644. Fonthill, Garrard's description of to Strafford, 408. Food, extracts about, 558. Fool, name for, original in every language, 577; origin of fools-to supply the want of free society, 420; fools
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