tician, 243 Reasoning, Irish, 71 Reasons for want of principle, 26 -s of early life, 159 and gratitude, 14 Revenge, medical, 298 Rich's compliment to Garrick, 62 ambitious character of, 421 Rivarol and Mirabeau, 230 Rochester, Killigrew, and Charles II. 59 lord, embarrassment of,665 Romance of a stage-coach, 147 Rooke, Sir G. and Essex curate, 425 Rope, decisive character of, 203 privilege of using, 638 Religious professors, intolerance of, Rough roads, 159 Saint Michael's chair, 235 Patrick, ode to, written while Peter and the blacksmith, 502 Salvini the Spaniard, death of, 549 extraordinary, 137 of the tea table, 257 shots, 290 woman, adventures of a, 595 Scottish wives, 83 Scrapers and fiddlers, 365 Scribblerus club, history of, 32. Sculls, drinking, 37 Sculptor and cobbler, dispute of, 438 Sea-horse and the jockey, 53 Seamstress, amatory address to, 185 Secret, impossibility of a woman's the last and only one, 293 Sedley, sir Charles, and Charles II. 77 Selwyn, G. and French hangmen, 432 September the first, or cockney of, 400 sportsmen, diary Sermon on thievery, 636 Sermon on mortality, 328 unlucky exchange of, 40 Swift's general rules for, 578 Seven, No., Swift's respect for, 641 Sex, extinction of, 620 Shabby coat, impromptu on, 356 ed, 615 ages of man, 520 Shaving a conscience, 420 and voting, 356 and religion, 336 Sheep-shearing, clerical, 93 stealing, 78 Sight and speech, loss of, 302 Simple reply, 338 Split-farthing club described, 506 Simplicity and gratitude of a found- Sporting intelligence from the sca ling, 455 Sin, nice distinction in, 333 excellence in, 355 - wager, decision of, 399 Sir Roger de Coverley, 141 Six-foot suckling, by Churchill, 142 Shenstone's description of News- Skin and grief, 96 paper readers, 39 Shepherd, the holy, 137 Sheppy, isle of, religion in, 298 Sheridan and Shakspeare, 68 's ancestors, 530 sporting character of, 269 Shifts, how to make, 58 Shoes, professional expenses of, 266 Shop commissions, variety of, 521 sight and long nose, 635 wayman, 395 Slander, picture of, 83 and self-poisoning, 366 Sleeping at church, 34 side, 240 Sprete injuria formæ, 640 farce, 418 m.series, American, 459 Staines, sir W. and Wilkes, 23 rule, 122 Stars, the sailor's favourite, 64 Steam-boat company, 562 and Addison's friendship, 51 Sleepy chancellor of Cambridge, 354 Stella and her doctor, 341 Sloth the cause of ennui, 96 wager, 677 Smithfield club described, 508 genuine cause of, 453 Sots, a club of, 107 and Charles II. 34 Sow's revenge, or tithe in kind, 105 and the high- Spartan shield device, 232 Sic vita, or similes of life, 570 man and the friar, 401 Siddons, Mrs. her first appearance in Special juries, exposure of, 386 ready made, 221 Stocks, rate of, 355 jobbers described by Swift, 100 Story-telling, art and mystery of, 600 Straddle, the Birmingham man, 201 Strand tragedy, or the dream, 518 Strength, Sampson's, surpassed, 55 Strolling manager, miseries of, 625 Stuttering boy and magpie, 344 to trade, 333 extraordinary, 17 Suitor, undisguised, 102 Sally, duke of, and Henry IV. 171 grumbler, character of, 598 political argument of, 25 compliment to a beautiful wo- and the barber, 62 and the cross landlady, 196 definition of a critic, 430 miscellaneous thoughts on life postponement of eclipse 165 and his landlord, dialogue be- 678 and the eggs, 675 classification of readers, 676 Tailor, the holy, and Dean Swift, 353 Tandem driving, definition of, 216 Tartarus, voyage to, 571 picture of, 16 Ed-To-day and to-morrow, 361 King's cure for gaming, 534 Moor of Fleet-street, 475 Tasso, translation and murder of, 14 Tompion the watchmaker, 80 Taste, classic, 68 of royalty, 253 Tax gatherer's motto, 345 Taylor, John, and the duke of Rich- Tea-table chat, 252, 257 appropriate, 50 Thaddy, Malone, and Silvia Pratt, 155 hissing, varieties of, 618 sonable man, 596 of an unsea Thin legs, extempore on, 369 Thriving tradesmen, 151 Thynne, Tom, his hospitality, 56 nate, 446 and flies, 143 -'s glee, 663 Toping, advantages of, 175 for knave and fool, 208 rake, eloquence of, 650 Translation blunders, 336 disadvantages of, 476 by a Spani h poet, 109 Traveller and highwayman, 31 and painting, Pa conditieral, rape Jacek, IME Treble birth, 117 Trespassers, no joke for, 37 Trip to Paris, humours of, 183 Truism, or incontrovertible facts, 526 Trust and credit, bad characters, 252 -- sultan and his court, 474 'Twelve Jewish tribes, account of, 302 Twist, recreation on the verb, 262 137 strings to your bow, 296 thousand pounds, how to save, Volunteer field-day and sham fight, Tyburn tragedy, the, 020 Tythe arguments, 32 by instalments, 112 Vagaries of love, 82 Valour, English, Irish, & Scotch, 18 Van Tromp and Frenchman, 337 haunch of, and Irish stew, 226 Venetians at Versailles, 631 of Bray's creed, 361 in his cups, 670 and Moses, 554 and the devil, 93 Vices, operatic, 153 Village apothecary, miseries of, 582 politician, by Washington Ir- ving, 243 worthies, characters of, 212 Wager, trivial, 53 Wakes of Ireland described, 667 - Wall, giving and taking, 154 sir Robert, & his valet, 445 Warm compliment, 661 fiends, the, by Colman, 351 to wealth, or poor Richard's Weaver, reasons for hanging, 168 and its chances, 86 Welshman and his host, 53 pride, 55 traveller, 298 Westminster abbey, nabob's monu- ment in, 52 elector's heir-loom, 432 Weston the actor, 129 Wharton's grace before meat, 401 Which is the lady? 231 Whigs and George III. 111 and tories, 56 Unseasonable man, character of, 506 Whims, matrimonial, 173 Untimely demand, 412 Uprightness, danger of, 87 Wag, a stuttering one, 41 eleventh of philosophers, 144 Whist, Irish rubber of, 592 Whistling prayers, 689 Whitely the comedian's death, 453 Wholesale hospital practice, 384 Wife's affection at the loss of her hus of Bath, 245 1 Woman's wisdom, 350 four ages of, 213 delight, composed by her hus-Wisdom and sorrow, analogy of, 535 | Womanhood, imitated from Chaucer, obstinate, 513 choice of, by cheese, 123 a dear one, 204 band, 175 legaey to, 100 perennial, 207 qualities of a good one, 535 sorrow, 106 well matched, 200 complaint, 686 Wig-blocks, varieties of, 318 Wigs, eccentricities of, 173 forensic, varieties of, 304 and waggery of barristers, 218 at Dolly's chop-house, 81 Will of a convivialist, 025 of an earl of Pembroke, 570 William Rufus and the Jew, 392 336 clerical, 59 Wishes of a moderate man, 447 elegance of, 292 and honesty, 295 various tests of, 297 qualities of, 687 princely partiality to, 23 Witchcraft and confession, 638 Witlings, shallowness of, 576 Wits, travelling by, 122 Wives, of three benefits distinct, 483 Wounds of a coward, 57 the best of, 664 Wolsey Cardinal, on Lent. 303 's twins, 455 Woman, advice to, by Horace Wal- killed with kindness, 494 tongue, artillery of, 596 Wrinkleton Fidget on lodging-houses, 311 |