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 Hard Words, on the use of, iv. 355.

Harley, Mr. character as a minister, viii. 200.

Harleian Library, account of it, v. 180. plan of the catalogue, ibid. general use of catalogues, 182.

Harleian Miscellany, introduction to that work, v. 190.

Harmony, the end of poetical measures, ii. 422.

Harmony and friendship, by what methods maintained and secure, iii. 259.

Harrison's, Elizabeth, Miscellanies, review of, vi. 78.

Hawkesworth, Dr. inscription written by him, and put up at Rugby, to the memory of Joseph Cave and his two sons, vi. 433.

Hawkins, Captain John, his unfortunate expedition to Mexico, vi. 312.

Hawkins's Maiden Land. See Falkland islands.

Health, the necessity of it to the duties and pleasures of life, ii. 232. the folly and wickedness of squandering it, ibid. the anxious care of it in the valetudinarian, vain and ridiculous, ibid. the power of it in exalting the happiness of life, 233. neglected by the votaries of business and the followers of pleasure, 234. by what methods to be preserved, iii. 29.

Hearne, Mr. Thomas, the antiquary, his just reflections on the fragility of human life, ii. 336.

Heartless, Peggy, a young lady just married, her complaint of living in a second floor, when she came to London, because Mr. Quick found objections to all other lodgings, iv. 403.

Hebrides, Johnson's journey to, ix. 1. additional particulars of, i. 325.

Heedful, Sophia, her history, iv. 435.

Henry the second, story of the publication of his life, by lord Lyttelton, viii. 492.

Henry the fourth, observations on Shakespeare's plays of, v. 163.

Henry the fifth, observations on Shakespeare's play of, 165.

Henry the sixth, observations on Shakespeare's plays of, ibid. 166.

Henry the eighth, observations on Shakespeare's play of, 168.

Henry, king of France, observations on the epitaph on his heart, v. 263.

Hercules, his death cannot well be painted, iv. 283.

Hermeticus, his secret for detecting incontinence, iii. 426.

Hermit, history of an, i. 245. his directions for the choice of life, 246.

Hertford, countess of, obtains Savage's pardon for the murder of Sinclair, v. ii. 120.

Hesiod, his distribution of mankind into three classes, ii. 330.

Hesitation, the effect of indolence and divided attention, iii. 137.

Hickman, Miss, verses to her, playing on the Spinet, i. 136.

Highlands of Scotland, account of, ix. 39. journey to the Hebrides, passim.

Hill, Aaron, a friend to Savage, viii. 111. corrects Savage's tragedy of Sir T. Overbury, and writes the prologue and epilogue, ibid. encourages a volume of Savage's Miscellany of Poems, by publishing his story in the Plain Dealer, and by which seventy guineas were left for him in a few days, 112.

Hints, the folly of giving orders to servants by hints, iv. 285.

Hippocrates, sir R. Blackmore's censure of his Aphorisms, viii. 48.

Hirsutus, his character, iii. 331.

History, the writers of it often chargeable with the depravation of mankind, ii. 374. the difficulty of writing a good one, iii. 82. England remarkably barren of historical genius, ibid. not to be written in the style of poetry, iv. 383. presses on the mind with the weight of truth, 399. not so useful to make a man wise as biography, 398. many of the relations of historians would not be credited unless well authenticated, 406.

Hogarth, W. epitaph for him, i. 144.

Homer, the Iliad translated by Broome, Ozel, and Oldesworth, viii. 229. See Pope. Remarks on the propriety of Pope's versification, ii. 433, 434. 443, 445. why reckoned inferior to Virgil, by Scaliger, 440.

Honours, transitory, Cicero's reflections upon them, iii. 60.

Hope, the strong influence of it upon our resolutions and actions, ii. 7. of remote advantages should be indulged with caution, as it often vitiates the human understanding, 8, 9. frequently attended with discontent and impatience, 20. fallacious and afflictive, necessary, in some degree, in every condition of*