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stages cf, 369
degrees of, 360

Drunken captain, death of, 642
Dry humour, or the fast day, 200
Dryden, John, and his wife, 297
's character of Settle, 433
the cele-
brated duke of Buckingham, 434
Dubois, cardinal, and swearing by
proxy, 204

Ducks and chickens, 338
Duels, charms of, 576

, code for regulating, 642

Duke Humphrey, Quin's soliloquy
over, 395

Dulness, remedy for, 546

palpable excuse for, 686
spirited remedy for, 447

Dull reading, remedy for, 616
Dumb e'oquence, beauties of, 637
Dunmow, oath of, 98

Dunning, Mr. Serjeant, 351-353
Duties, professional, 50

Du Val the highwayman's epitaph, 29
Dying in peace, 453

father and his sons, 406

Ear rings, pair of musical, 207

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Epigram on one who was ruined Uy
gaining a lawsuit, 111

on an awkward musician,118
on a ruined horse-racer, 123
on the statue of George II.
on Bloomsbury spire, 182
on avarice, 182

on a Cantab who was pluck-

ed for orders, 277

on elegant wit, 292

on an old maid, 297

on Miss Fury, 297

on a forgetful man, 302

on miser and mouse, 310

on two bad writers, 326
on true wit, 333

on Pope's maxim,39

-, definition of one, 361

on female charms, 362

on a foppish bookseller, 397
rare virtues, 390
Adam's sleep, 399

Job's wife, 403

a rapid fortune, 405

tion, 188

Dr. Goodenough's promo

the monument, 212

on lord Ellenborough term-
ing adultery a venial offence, 503
on a deacon's epigrams, 527
on a fat man, 571

on the marriage of Miss
Black and Mr. White, 576

on a pennyless rake, 654
on a deformed peer, 659
on Lucan, 659

on inn-window rhymes, 684
on false appearances, 675
on write injuries in dust, 675
:n Southampton canal, 21
on the Temple crest, 690
on John Dennis, 330
on a clerical gainester, 668
on a modern belief, 668
on my laundress, 19

on a notorious liar, 668
on two bad writers compli
menting each other, 326
Epilogue to Tyranuic Love, 497
the Lying Valet, 538
Barbarossa, 544
the Liar, 601

Episcopal bargains, 467
Epitaph on Du Val the highway-

max. 29

on a can and his wife, 49

Epitaph on a glutton, 42

Dr. Mead, 59

Epitaph on a Spitalfields weaver, 662 | Family affairs, Irish, 138
on two twin sisters, 670

anatomical, on an invalid, 73 Epitaphs, locomotive, 369
on Captain James, 94
on a traveller, 124

on a marshal of the King's-

bench, 133

nominal, by Dr. Walker
on mar. of Anglesea's leg,679
on Dr. Franklin, 696
on judge Boat, 676
on a physician, 97

on a postilion, 166
- on a parish priest, 167
on a locksmith, 171

on capt. Thomas Stone, 173
on Foote the comedian, 182
on a watchmaker, 226
on Dr. Johnson, 227
on an ale drinker, 230
on a Mr. Moore, 236
on Matthew Prior, 241
on an Irish miser, 268

on a talkative old maid, 292
on Charles 11. 301

on a lawyer, by Moore, 355
on a scold, 360

on a woodman 362

on a barren woman, 369
on a landlady, 397
on an infant, 405

intended for Dryden, 188
on a tailor, 196

on an undertaker, 198
on a waggoner, 199
on Mr. Speid, 213
on a contented fellow, 222
on a troublesome tailor, 224
on Cooke the comedian, 413
on a cowardly officer, 421
on Wilson, sailor, 427
on Mrs. Death, 454
on three infants, 455

on a wife, 481, 517

on Dolly's charms, 489

on a tailor and barber, 516
family, 518

on fat and lean, 527
on a sporting physician, 552
on Frank Row, a parish-

clerk, 582

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Epithets, discriminative, 57
Equitable adjustment, 31
Equivocation, or priestly taste, 120
Equivoque, fair, 33

, practical, 65
Erasmus and Sir Thomas More, 477
Errata, effectual correction of, 205
Erratum corrected, 85
Error in grain, 292
Erskine and Jekyll, 145

Erskine and witness Lincoln, 388
Esquire, English, definition of, 638
Etiquette, juridical, 297

Ettrick shepherd, Bacchanalian ode
to, 171

Etymological punning,recreations in,

216

Etymology and law, 312
Eugene's, prince, tie wig 674
Evasions, ingenious, at Bow street,

45

Eve, curiosity of, 85

Even-handed justice, 366
Everlasting club described, 507

attainments, 13

Family epitaph, 245

feeling of a tailor, 661
furniture, 309

jars, advertisement ot, 400
piety, beauties of 539
wit, 304

Farewell, the patient's, 112
Farinelli, knighthood of, 233
Farmer and counsellor, 464

572

-'s lawsuit, or bull and boat,

Farren's, Miss, ugly dispute, 361
Fashionable bottle packing, 447
resorts, luxury and en-

nui of, 528

revenge, system of, 643
routs, 351

Fashion's sake, 45

Fast enough and slow enough, 431
Fasting, various kinds of, 68
Fat folks, extraordinary, 445
Faulkner and dean Swift, 480
Fault, choice of, 293

Faustas, John, his adventures with
the devil, 185

Every-day pedants, character of, 694 Fear, clerical, at sea, 52

Evidence, Norfolk, 40

Evil, one etter than two, 62
Evils, choice of, 155
Evils, less of two, 137
Examination and cross-examination,

179

of an apothecary, 500
Exchange, advantageous, 324
no robbery, 429

Exciseman, antidote to, 362
and supervisor, 86
in hell, 187

Facilis descensus Averni, 171.
Fair bargain, the, 131, 564
frolic, 16
offer, 90

play, equality of, 574
-in dueling, 401
Faithful miniature, 575
Falstaff's catechism, ib.

sir John, character of, 552
and dame Quick-

ly, 281
Fame, emptiness and folly of, 595
preservation of, 360
Familiarity and reserve, extremes
of, 575

Feasts, corporation, 49

Fellow-feeling, 32

Felony, literary, 154

Female apparel, transparent, 264
intellectual club, 506

microcosm, 206

vanity, 320

virtues, Swift's enumeration

of, 518

frailty, distinctions in, 674
Fever and thirst, cures for, 433
Fiddler, address to a bad one, 39

-'s duel, or music and arms, 207
Fiddling, paradox on, 68
Fidelity, conjugal, reparation of, 104
Field preaching, 33

the player, equivoque of, 680
Fig, the other, 91

Figaro, marriage of, 153

Fighting and painting, 178

Filial affection and family pride, 412
good wishes, 277

Fine arts, judgment of, 438
Fire-armis, uselessness of, 235
Fire and water, 421

irons, or family disputes, 616
Fireworks, manufactory of, 96
First come first served, 486

First-floor lodger, letter from, 311
Fish and flesh, 303

and sance, 42

Fisherman, the holy, GO
Fishing for a dinner, 90
Flat refusal, 519

Fiatterer, despicable character of, 600
advocated, 692

Flattery, puoning, 72
Flesh and bone, 504

blood, and bones, privileges
of, 419

Fletcher, bishop of Nismis, and the
proud duke, 198

Flint soup, receipt for, 35
Floating credit, 324

Flogging, unaccommodating, 440

Fly and flying, 232

Flying colours, beauty and advan-
tage of, 509

froin church, 303

Folly, the last, 294

Follies and foibles, English, 213
Fontenelle, hint of, on death, 356
Fool, description of and his moraliz.
ing, 515

Fools, establishment of, 301
Fool, impossible to screen, 139
-s, majority of, in the world, 222
wit, 81

Foot and toe, rivalry of, 288

captain and Miss Patten, mar-
riage of, 452
Foote's account of a duke's hospita-
lity, 412

and the cook at Dover, 146
and Falkner, 73

and Garrick, 73

and the Quaker, 333

's early performances, 60
epitaph, 40

satire on, 432

-'s timely fear, 206

wife, 683

Footman's account of his hypochon-
driac master, 657

Footman and lottery prize, 333
Fop, Hotspur's description of a, 373
Foppery, gradations of, 427
Forbearance, polite, 289

Force of friendship illustrated, 212
Forestalling a stable, 404

Forgetfulness and self-respect, 234
Fortune, dangers of, 304

Forty five, age of, 673

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Garrett and Chambers, 37
Garrick's avarice, 335
and Quin, 79

and his lawyer, 494

and puppet showman, 145
and George II. 179

's eye, 679

parsimony, 72

satire, 61

Garrow, Mr. and witness, 87, 130
judge, and the female wit-

ness, 230

Garrulity of women, 349

Garth, Dr. and the duchess of Marl-
borough, 84

sir Samuel and Irishman, 452
Gazetted and in the Gazette, 270
Genealogy of Sir W. W. Wynne, 27
Genius, definition of, 490
whitewashing, 53
universal fate of, 486
Genteel economy, 309

Gentle giantess of Oxford, adventures
of, 197

Gentle hint, 397
Gentlemen of the cloth, 32
Genuine miracle, 393
Geoffin, Madam, 107
George II. at Dettingen, 443
and his mistresses, 233
George III. description of, 74

and Mr. Day, 65-at Wey-

mouth, 112

father of, 234

and his card-maker, 290
and his librarian, 350
at Salisbury cathedral, 455

Frolicsome duke, or tinker's good! George's club described, 597

fortune, 462

Fruit basket of a family, 427
Funeral, decent comforts of, 622
Fun-lover, physiognomy of, 480
Future prospects, 433

Gaffer Gray, by Holcroft, 390
Gain and glory, 391
Galla's fine hair, 54
Gallant mourning, 205
Gallantries of Talleyrand, 97
Gallantry, aged, 299
Gambling, true spirit of, 45
Game of life, 644

Gaming and fighting extremes, 398
remarkable cure for, 534
Gammer Gurton's needle, 100

Forty-shilling voters in Ireland, 654 Gardner's harmony of nature, 511

German clown and bishop, 104
Getting into debt, 335
Ghost story explained, 215

of a scrag of mutton, 225
or the question solved, 418
Giant angling, 165

Gibbets, advantages of, 72
Gibbon and duke of Cumberland, 277
Giblets, stylish family of, 250
Gift horse, the, 78

Gill, alderman, and his wife, 112
Gilpin, John, history of, 126
Gimlet eye, 679

'Ginrerack,

will of, 417

Nicholas, the virtuoso,

Gin and chemistry, 163

Gloves and arms, value of, 463
Gloves and lining, 336

Gloves and spectacles, utility of, 633 | Greenwich pensioner's equivoque, Hectic fever, 171
Glutton, epitaph on, 42

Gold and greatness, 556

v. Gould, 71

Golden goose, 300

harvest, 111

112

Grimaldi, 37

lament on his retirement
from the stage, 280
Grose, judge, 71

Goldsmith's advice to a poor gentle- Grumbling man, miseries of, 598

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Goody Grim versus Lapstone, 603
Goose's reason, 298
Gossiping about town, 596

women, a match for the

devil, 184
Gourmand, glory of, 545
Gout and rheumatism, 68

cause of, discovered, 199
Gouty hands, benefit of, 634
Grace mal apropos, 466
Grafton, duke of, and quaker, 298
Grammatical and clerical parody, 601
-learning, 22

Grammont's, count, age, 421

Gratitude, eccentric, 300

parliamentary, 53

Guinea note, 677

Guise, duke of, his parsimony, 96
Gull's hornbook, extract from, 606
Gunpowder miracles, 538
Guzzler, how to defeat, 97

H, on the letter, 338
Habit, procreative force of, 26
Hackney-coachman's adjustment, 31
Halfpenny, the witness, and Mr. Cur-
ran, 429

Half-way and back, 161
Hamlet, ghost of, and tub of spirits,447
instructions to the players,

576

on Yorick's scull, 533
Handel and the opera singer, 365
Handling a foot, 196
Hanging in chains, benefit of, 209
inconveniences of, 583
varieties of, 294
Happiness, portraiture of, 447

naval definition of, 25
Harborough, lord, his idiotcy, 67
Hard at the bottom, 67
Hardinge and his booksellers, 449
Hardwick, Bess, countess of, 116
lady, and her bailiff, 414

Hard master, the, 102
Harmonical society described, 308
Hat and wig, loss of, 135
Haunted chamber, the, 367
Havard, Billy, and Garrick, 686
Hayman, Frank, and marquis
Granby, 178

of

and tipsy porter, 345
Hayward, Sir J. and lord Bacon, 154
Hazlitt and Gifford, prose and poetry

of, 288

Head, Steevens's definition of, 443

Grattan, and Egan the odd fish, 575 Health, preservatives of, 177

Grave-digger's bill, 43

Grave reproof, 360

Gravity affected, 564

Great book a great evil, 277

Greece, misfortunes of, explained,354
Greek alphabet, 235
Greenwich and Dulwich, 159

fair, humours of, 152

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Hissing at theatres, on the custom
of, 617

Hoax extraordinary, 402
Hobson's choice, 96

Hoc and hujus, 68

Hock and soda-water, luxury of, 589
Hodge and the doctor, 65

and his landlord, 290

Hogg, James, address to, 171
Hogs in the parson's cellar, 110
Holcroft's, captain, whiskers, 536
Holiday maker, miseries of, 661
Holland. description of, 108
Holt, chief justice, and the prophet,54
Holt's, lord chief justice, cure for
witchcraft, 353
and the

Sussex attorney, 398
Home argument, 292
truths, 151
Honesty, and its relation, 49
shades of, 169
shining, 295

and truth, rarity of, 399
Honey and harvest moons, 111
Hopes and fears, 60

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Human frailty, 298

life, miseries of, 573

negro's epitome of, 497

Humane juryman, 494
Humanity, cautious, 86
Humbugs on and off the stage, 330
Humdrum club described, 507
Humour, composition of, and substi
tute for, 664

Humorous man, eccentricities of, 540
Humours of a village fair, 320
Huntington's degree, 265

& Priestley's dispute,267
leather breeches, 271

Husband, a doating one, 48
the hen-pecked, 42
purchase of one, 47
the silent, 107

Hutchinson, Heely and Marq. Towns-
hend, 63

Hypochondriacs, cure for, 655
Hypochondria, ludicrous fit of, 255

I, petition of, by Dr. Hill to Garrick,

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Income, how to outrun, 302
tax, Horne Tooke on, 96
Incurious bencher, 75
Indolent man, journal of, 416
Infant love; 394

Ingenious charge and defence, 677
Ingratitude of Cumberland, the dra-
matist, 454.

Inner Temple gate, inscription for,

331

Innocence, vindication of,-636.
Innovation, effects of, 406.
Inns for all classes, 683
Inn window rhymes 684
Innumerabilia, 61

Ins and outs of life, 554
Insanity, proof of, 96.
Inscription on inscriptions, 429
Inside and outside, 565.
Insolvency, questionable, 57
Instructions to servants, by Dean
Swift, 578
Intermarriage, singular relationships

of, 484

Interpretation and application, 630
Intoxication classified by Nash, 522
Invisible hair, treasure of, 640
Invitation declined, 527
eccentric, 305

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sorrow, 120
whist-players, 593

wakes, conviviality of, 60T
Ironical advice, 334

Irving, Vashington's, account of the
Boar's head tavern, 57
Islington worthies, catalogue of 185
Italian play and barber surgeon, 549

James I. and his horse, 47

439

and loyal Weishman, 337
and Dr. Buchanan, 411
and Shrewsbury address,

Jealousy, good preventive of, 482
Jefferies, judge, on beards and com-
sciences, 420

speech to the mayar
and aldermen of Bristol, 117
lord, and the witness, 50

Jerry White and O. Cromwell, 426
Jervais aad Kneller, 56

Jesters of the court, 527

-death-bed, 176

Jew and Christian, 392

beginning the world again, 350
-'s expostulation, 538

journal of a week, 478
Job's comforter, 227

Jockeying and preaching, 438
John the Baptist's head, 639
John Buil, national character of, 441
Johnson, Dr., on the luxuries of pnd-
ding, 670

on music, 289
and the wit, 97
and the Scotch, 14

Irish acquaintance, difficulty of re- Johnsonian compliment, 123

cognising, 200

bill for a pair of shoes, 266
courage, 297

dreaming, 94

eating-house, bill of, 223

evidence, specimens of, 662
excise petition, 209

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maxims, 489

Jonah's soliloquy from the whale's
belly, 227

the priestly, 107

Jonas, the Jew conjuror, feats of, 498
Jonathans, family of, 674

Journey downhill, 59

to Tartarus, by an excise-

man, 187

Judge, a hanging one, 66

buried in his own cellar, 255
the better, 61

Judgment day, 688

Judicial inadvertence, 696
Justice, accurate worth of, 639

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