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 Seduction of innocence, a detail of the infamous arts and gradations by which it is often effected, iii. 303.

Seged, his history, iii. 444.

Self-conceit, the strong disposition of many to indulge it, ii. 357. how easily promoted, ibid. by what artifices men of this quality delude themselves, 360.

Self-denial, thoughts on, iv. 302.

Self-knowledge, its great importance, ii. 117. iii. 234. a happy preservative against indiscretion and vice, ii. 137. frequently obstructed by partiality and self-love, iii. 234. the deplorable folly of opposing our own convictions, 236.

Serenus, his history, iv. 35.

Serge, Dick, his history, iv. 28.

Sermon, an annual one at Huntingdon, in commemoration of the conviction of the witches of Warbois, v. 57.

Sermons, by Dr. Johnson, ix. 289.

Serotinus, his quick rise to conspicuous eminence, iii. 279.

Servants, the importance of a wise regulation of our conduct towards them, ii. 324. their praise of their superiours the highest panegyric of private virtue, ibid. the danger of betraying our weakness to them one motive to a regular life, 325. the folly of giving them orders by hints only, iv. 285. their custom of receiving money from strangers condemned by Savage, in his poem on Publick Spirit, viii. 157.

Settle, Elkanah, supported himself by standing elegies and epithalamiums, iv. 187. his character by Dryden, vii. 253. remarks on his play of the emperess of Morocco, ibid. writes a vindication, with a specimen, 260. protected by the earl of Rochester, 274. attacks Dryden on his medal, 277. made city poet, ibid. spent his latter days in contriving shows for fairs, and died in an hospital, ibid.

Shadwell succeeds Dryden as poet laureate, vii. 233.

Shaftesbury, lord, account of him by Mr. Gray, viii. 481.

Shakespeare, William, proposals for printing his dramatick works, 1766, v. 95. difficulties in explaining the original meaning of the author, 96. preface to the edition of his works, 1768, 103. his eminent success in tragicomedy, iii. 242. only two editions of his works from 1623 to 1664, vii. 108. his Tempest altered by Dryden and Davenant, 252. his plots in the hundred novels of Cinthio, 258. Dryden's Troilus and Cressida altered from Shakespeare, 265. an edition of his works, in six quarto volumes, published by Pope, in 1721, viii. 271. the deficiencies of this edition detected by Theobald, 272. merits of Pope's edition, ibid.

Shenstone, William, his life, viii. 408. born at Leasowes, in Hales Owen, Shropshire, 1714, ibid. entered of Pembroke College, Oxford, 1732, ibid. published a volume of Miscellanies, 1737, his Judgment of Hercules, 1741, his Schoolmistress, 1742, 409. wanders about to acquaint himself with life, ibid. delights in rural elegance, ibid. died 1763, 411. his character, ibid. Gray's account of him, 412. account of his works, ibid.

Shiels, Robert, the writer of the Lives of the Poets, commonly attributed to Cibber, viii. 90. some account of him, ibid.

Shifter, Dick, his history, iv. 358. disappointed in the pleasures of a country life, 359.

Sicily, island of, supplied the Romans with corn, v. 311.

Sidney, lady Dorothea, addressed by Mr. Waller under the name of Sacharissa, vii. 180. marries the earl of Sunderland, 181. Waller's repartee to her, ibid.

Simile, what it should be, viii. 329.

Sinclair, James, account of his being killed by Savage and his companions, viii. 115.

Singularity, in general displeasing, iv. 136. instances in which it is praiseworthy, 138.

Skating, two translations of lines under a print of persons skating, i. 145.

Skinner, (the grammarian) account of his writings, v. 29.

Sky, islands of, ix. 45.