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 *yer, 216. lends money to the poor without interest, but requires the repayment without charity, ibid. his continual, increasing asperity, 217. his giddiness and deafness increase, ibid. always careful of his money, 218. Polite Conversation, published 1738, ibid. directions for servants, soon after his death, ibid. loses his mental powers, ibid. dies in October, 1744, in his 78th year, 219. his powers as an author, ibid. dictated political opinions to the English, ibid. delivered Ireland from plunder and oppression, ibid. Irish may date their riches and prosperity from his patronage, 37. remarks on his works, ibid. deserted the whigs, when they deserted their principles, 221. his character as a churchman, ibid. his person, temper, and economy, 222. story of Gay and Pope visiting him after they had supped, 223. his character by Dr. Delany, 224. promotes the subscription for Pope's translation of the Iliad, 267. joins with Pope in publishing three volumes of Miscellanies, 275. published the first volume of the Memoirs of Scriblerus, in conjunction with Pope and Arbuthnot, 298. narrowness of mind in his letters, 317. the report of Pope having written a defamatory life of him groundless, 318.

Sycophants, their infamous character, ii. 494.

Sydenham, Thomas, his life, vi. 405. born at Winford Eagle, in Dorsetshire, 1624, ibid. entered commoner of Magdalen hall, Oxford, 1642, 406. bachelor of Physick, 1648, ibid. did not take up the practice of physick without having qualified himself for it, as was reported, 407. practises physick in Westminster, 411. died 1629, 412. his character ibid.

Symerons, or fugitive Negroes, enter into treaty with sir Francis Drake, vi. 320.

Talbot, miss, a writer in the Rambler, ii. 150.

Talisker in Sky, account of, ix. 71.

Taming of the Shrew, observations on Shakespeare's, v. 160.

Tasso, represents spirits as promoting or obstructing events by external agency, vii. 47. represents the pleasures and splendours of heaven, 48.

Taste, low, censured, iii. 331.

Tate, Nahum, died in the Mint, in extreme poverty, vii. 412.

Tatler, notes of some of the writers, vii. 427. designed to divert the attention of people from publick discontent, 430.

Taxation no Tyranny, an answer to the resolutions and address of the American Congress, 1775, vi. 224.

Tea, review of Mr. Hanway's Essay on, vi. 20.

Tears, the true taste of, vii. 28.

Tediousness in a poet, the most fatal of all faults, viii. 18. characterized, ibid.

Temper, good, by what means it is frequently vitiated, ii. 350.

Temperance, the cause of, iv. 412.

Tempest, general observations on Shakespeare's, v. 155.

Tempest, Tom, a friend of the house of Stuart, history of, iv. 180.

Temple, Rev. Mr. his character of Gray, viii. 480.

Temple, sir William, patronises Swift, viii. 193. leaves his manuscripts to Swift, 196.

Templeman, Geographia Metrica, Latine, i. 191.

Temptations to vice, the motives to resist them, with the difficulty attending that resistance, ii. 332.

Terms of art, the necessity of, iv. 357.

Ternate, account of the king and inhabitants of, vi. 368.

Tetrica, a lively example of habitual peevishness, ii. 350.

Thales, the departure of, from London, i. 1.

Theatre, Greek, general conclusion to Brumoy's, v. 414.

Theobald, observations on his edition of Shakespeare, v. 100, 137, 173. exposes the deficiencies of Pope's edition of Shakespeare, viii. 272. celebrated by Pope in the Dunciad, 276.

Theocritus, Excerpta of, i. 190.

Theodore, the Hermit of Teneriffe, the vision of, ix. 162.

Thrilby, Mr. assists Pope in the notes to the Iliad, viii. 254.

Thomson, James, his life, viii. 366. son of a minister at Ednam, in Roxburgh,*