Northern Lights, 450. 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 Painting, Webb's Inquiry into the beauties of, 256;-Walpole's 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- 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, Pontifex, etymology of, 367. Pope, his epitaph on Gay borrowed, 242;-Warton's Essay on, Powdered, signification of the word, 108. Prayer, on the propriety of language in the Lord's, 70, 74. 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, 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 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. 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 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. Translation, observations on, 152 Translations of the Bible into English, 116;-translators of, 120. Turl, whence derived, 359. V. Vegetables, prolific nature of some, 419. Verbs, the tenses of, 58. Un, on the particle, 362. Virgil, critical remarks on passages in, 38, 47, 97, 104, 115, 151, W. Walpole, Strictures on his Anecdotes of Painting, 263. 256. Which, on the use of the pronoun, 73, 76. 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