Northern Lights, 450.
Nuge Venales, 209.

O.

Oh! on the use of the interjection, 341.

Old Nick, origin of the name, 215.

Old persons, on the stature and figure of, 502.

On, use of the preposition, 74.

Optical phenomena, solution of, 400.

Originality, remarks on, 357.

Ormesta, the meaning of the word, 223.

Orphreys, what, 109, note.

Ovid, 269, 270, 272, 353.

Oxford, fossils in the vicinity of, 468.

P.

Packington, lady, supposed to be the author of the Whole Duty of
Man, 80.

Painting, Webb's Inquiry into the beauties of, 256;-Walpole's
anecdotes of, 263.

Parallel passages, 320.

Parochial Antiquities, 113.

Parr, curious account of the dissection of, 499.

Passions, mixed, on the expression of, 266.

Paterculus, critical remarks on a passage in, 174.

Paul, St. his Conversion, a mistake of painters, in their representa-
tion of, 138.

Pen, on the word, 366.

Persius, explanation of a passage in, 87.

Perspiration of plants, 475.

Petronius, critical remarks on a passage in, 176, 358.

Phaeton, story of, 96,

Phenomena optical solution of, 400.

Philemon, 328.

Phrases, obscure, explained, 88;-origin of some common, 142,

143, 357.

Pierce Plowman's Visions, 345.

Plagiarisms, 357.

Plants, Chaucer's description of the sleep of, 110;-perspiration

of, 475.

Plautus, observation on a passage in, 158.

Pliny, his observations relative to painting, 258.

Poems, manuscript, 32.

Poetry, union of Imagination and Judgment required in, 351,
Polyænus, 462.

Pontifex, etymology of, 367.

Pope, his epitaph on Gay borrowed, 242;-Warton's Essay on,
245;-instance of his irritability, 248;-Critical remarks
on his Homer, 273;-his imitations of our early poets,
324; confusion of metaphors in, 355 ;-imitation of Silius
Italicus, 363.

Powdered, signification of the word, 108.

Prayer, on the propriety of language in the Lord's, 70, 74.
Pregnant women, effects of imagination on, 395.

Proverbial sayings, 64, 66, 68.

Proverbs, Greek and Latin, 162, 199.

Psallere, signification of, 47.

Psalters, Manuscript, 21.

Pugna Porcorum, 209.

Purpureus, critique on the word, 269.

Quarles, 327.

Q.

Quem Jupiter vult perdere, &c. illustrated, 162.

R.

Rain, quantity that falls annually, 480.

Rattle-snake, 471.

Ray, Mr. letter to, from Sir Hans Sloane, 514.

Rebus, the antiquity of, 40;-different kinds of, 43;-the mo-

dern, 43.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, on mixed passions, 267.

Rubens, 256.

Russel, on the Arabian Nights Entertainments, 382.

Salt cat, whence derived, 67.

S.

Scaliger, his character of Silius Italicus, 169, 366.

Sea water, the resplendency of, in the night time, 434.

Secker, Archbishop, his death, 494.

Seneca, critical remarks on the tragedies of, 172, 239.

Senses, the accommodation of them to our situation, 246.

Serpent destroyed by Regulus, 511.

Shakespeare, remarks on passages in, 90, 127, 128, 154, 170, 182,
188, 192, 195, 212, 478;-Parallel passages and remarks
on, 282, et seq.

Sicily, separation of, from Italy, 279.

Sight, deception of, 262.

Signification of words varied, 35.

Silius Italicus, critical observations on a passage in, 164, 166;-his
character as a poet, 169, note ;-passages from, 363, 366.

Sloane, Sir Hans, letter from, to Mr. Ray, 514.

Sodbury, natural curiosities found at, 458

Solecisms, in the works of English Authors, 374.

Sorcery, the pretended power of, over the winds, 126.
South, Dr. 55.

Spenser, 321.

Spick and span new, 88.

Statius, observations on a passage in, 159, 189, 269.

Stone-eater, description of, 500.

Stones not hurtful to land, 510.

Stonesfield, fossils found at, 468.

Sylvester, his translation of Du Bartas, 317.

Syrinx, the ancient, as described in Virgil's Eclogues, 47;-whence
the name, 96.

T.

Tarantula, bite of, cured by music, 408;-description of, 408,

note.

Tasso, his description of Night, 191.

Tea-tree, 515.

Tenses of verbs, 58.

Terence, 329.

Text, meaning of the word, and whence derived, 461

Theobald, 239.

Theophrastus, 414.

Thomson, 311.

Tibullus imitated by Hammond, 243.

Tongue, account of a woman who spoke though she had lost it, 404.
Topographical histories, 24.

Translation, observations on, 152

Translations of the Bible into English, 116;-translators of, 120.
Trees, on promoting the growth of, 417;-on the prodigious
growth of, 492;-on the process of their vegetation, 505.
Turberville, 35.

Turl, whence derived, 359.

V.

Vegetables, prolific nature of some, 419.
Vegetation, on the process of, in trees, 505.

Verbs, the tenses of, 58.

Un, on the particle, 362.

Virgil, critical remarks on passages in, 38, 47, 97, 104, 115, 151,
164, 190, 240, 269, 271, 279, 328, 340, 352, 373, 374.

W.

Walpole, Strictures on his Anecdotes of Painting, 263.
Warton, J. observations on his Essay on Pope, 245, 355.
Warton, T. remarks on his edition of Milton's Poems, 302.
Webb, remarks on his Inquiry into the Beauties of Painting, &c.

256.

Which, on the use of the pronoun, 73, 76.
Who, on the use of the pronoun, 73, 76,
Whole Duty of Man, on the author of, 80.

Winds, the pretended power of witchcraft on the, 126;-effects
of pestilential, 506.

Women, pregnant, effects of imagination on, 395.

Words, sameness of certain dissimilar, 224;-which have lost
their original meaning, 35, 357.

Writing, Astle on, 281.

Wyrley, his Survey, 379, 380, note.

Y.

Year, ancient, Sir I. Newton on the, 82.
Young, his description of Night, 185.

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