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 Life, country, the busy scenes of it described in the character of lady Bustle, ii. 245.

Life, fashionable, or modish, disgraced by numerous and detestable follies, iii. 50.

Light, the poetical propagation of, vii. 26.

Lilinet the fairy, story of, ix. 176.

Linger, Dick, the story of, iv. 210.

Listlessness characterized, in the story of Dick Linger, iv. 210.

Literary Magazine, Johnson's connexion with, v. 351. writings in, vi. 9, &c. preface to, v. 363.

Literary property, the villany of piracy in, vii. 240. never heard of but in England, ibid. stupidity the surest title to an author's writings, ibid.

Literature, the manufacturers of it, account of their characters, iii. 191.

Lobo, father, preface to the translation of his Voyage to Abyssinia, v. 255. account of it, i. 7.

Lochbuy, account of, ix. 150, 153.

Lofty, lady, her character, ii. 57.

London and Bristol, delineated by Savage, viii. 183. happiness of the great on their return to London, iv. 386. happiness of virgins going there to try their fortunes, 387. their happiness generally ends in disappointment, 388. a poem, in imitation of the third satire of Juvenal, i. 1.

London Chronicle, preliminary discourse to it, January 1, 1757, v. 206.

Longueville, William, some account of, vii. 143.

Longitude, account of an attempt to ascertain, v. 295.

Lottery, the life of multitudes compared to it, iii. 350. the passionate and ensnaring hopes of gain by them, 346, 347. most commonly visionary and fallacious, ibid. the imaginary prospects of fortuitous riches injurious to trade, and the sources of perpetual delusion, 348, 349.

Love, metaphysically described, vii. 20. in geographical poetry compared to travels through various countries, 20. described according to the laws of augury, 21. a lover neither dead nor alive, 25. a lover's heart, a hand grenado, 26. a mistress beloved is fairer in idea than in reality, ibid. meditations of a lover, 27. described by Dryden, 339. man inspired to honour and glory by it, i. 114. the universal agent of the stage, except in Shakespeare, v. 107. success in it most easily obtained by indirect approaches, ii. 3.

Love of excellence, natural, vii. 5.

Love's Labour Lost, observations on Shakespeare's comedy, v. 158.

Love's Riddle, written by Cowley, when at school, vii. 3.

Lough Ness, account of, ix. 25.

Louisbourg, the English and French account of the capture of it, contrasted, iv. 207.

Lucan, his Pharsalia translated by Christopher Pitt, before he was twenty years of age, viii. 363.

Lucas family, all the brothers valiant, all the sisters virtuous, iv. 186.

Lucifer, described by Cowley, vii. 43.

Lucretius, remarks on his system, ii. 253.

Luxury, united with indolence produceth the most pernicious effects, ii. 163. the veterans of it strongly addicted to sallies and excess of resentment and fury, iii. 30. its fatal effects exemplified in the history of Hacho, king of Lapland, iv. 430.

Lyce, an elderly lady, verses to, i. 129.

Lycidas, written by Milton, in 1637, vii. 72. character of that poem, 119.

Lyttelton, George, lord, his life, viii. 488. son of sir Thomas Lyttelton, of Hagley, Worcestershire, born 1709, ibid. educated at Eton, and removed to Christ Church, ibid. an early writer both in verse and prose, ibid. leaves Oxford, 1728, and travels through France and Italy, ibid. an opponent in parliament to sir R. Walpole, ibid. secretary to the prince of Wales, 489. introduces Thomson and Mallet into the suite of the prince of Wales, ibid. lord of the treasury, 1744, ibid. writes observations on the conversion of St. Paul, 1747, 490. his father's letter to him on that publication, ibid. succeeds*