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 Translations, observations on, iv. 350. a production of moderns, ibid. the progress of, 351. early cultivated in England, 353. its progress in England, ibid. the progress of, viii. 334. unknown in Greece, ibid. not much read in Italy, 335. state of, in France, ibid.

Translator, character of a good translator, vii. 417.

Trapp's Sermons, case of the abridgment of, v. 462.

Travels, directions for writing works of, iv. 406. specimen of the common method of writing journals of travels, 433.

Treacle, Zachary, complaint against his idle wife, iv. 193. his wife's answer and complaints against her husband, 231.

Trees, the want of, in a good part of Scotland, ix. 7.

Troilus and Cressida, observations on Shakespeare's play of, v. 172.

Trumbull, sir William, Pope's epitaph on him, viii. 350.

Truth, its high original and vast importance, ii. 455. its easy entrance into the mind when introduced by desire and attended with pleasure, iii. 278. a steady regard to the lustre of moral and religious truth, a certain direction to happiness, 345. the crime of the violation of, iv. 206. the want of it in historians lamented, ibid. exemplified in an Englishman's and a Frenchman's account of the capture of Louisburg, 207. how far ridicule the test of it, viii. 470.

Trypherus, his character, ii. 466.

Tucker, Dr. his proposals concerning America considered, vi. 259.

Turenne, marshal, his saying of the importance of immediately correcting our mistakes, ii. 158.

Turk, characterized as a husband, i. 114.

Turpicola, her history, iii. 382.

Twelfth Night, observations on Shakespeare's comedy of, v. 161.

Two Gentlemen of Verona, observations on Shakespeare's comedy of, v. 155.

Tyrconnel, lord, takes Savage into his house, and promises him a pension of two hundred pounds a year, viii. 124. his quarrel with Savage, 132.

Tytler's Historical Inquiry concerning Mary Queen of Scots, review of, vi. 80.

Vafer, his character of an insidious flatterer, iii. 268.

Vagario, his character, ii. 133.

Vagulus, his account of Squire Bluster, iii. 175.

Valdesso, his excellent remark upon resigning his commission, ii. 141.

Vanessa, her unhappy partiality for Swift, and death, viii. 209. by her will orders the poem of Cadenus and Vanessa to be published, 210.

Van Homrigh, Mrs. See Vanessa.

Vanity of authors, represented in the case of Misellus, ii. 78. excessive, exemplified in the character of Mr. Frolick, 290. its tendency to idleness, iii. 231.

Venice, account of the quarrel between that state and Paul the fifth, vi. 267.

Venustulus, the manner of his addresses to Tranquilla, iii. 66. his unmanly and timid conduct exposed, 98.

Verecundulus, the infelicities he sustained through his habitual bashfulness and timidity, iii. 245.

Versification, remarks on its rules, ii. 404, 413. the peculiarity of Milton's, in his Paradise Lost, 414. See Virgil.

Vice, the descriptions of it in writing should be always calculated to excite disgust, ii. 20. the essence of, considered, vi. 71.

Vitious intromission, case of, v. 470.

Victoria, her letter on the foolish anxiety to excel merely in the charms of external beauty, iii. 116. on the mortifications arising from the loss of it, 130.

Vida, his remarks on the propriety of Virgil's versification, ii. 434. his Art of Poetry translated by Christopher Pitt, vi. 71.

Vines, first planted by Noah, v. 312. progress of the cultivation of, ibid. ordered to be destroyed by an edict of Domitian, ibid. of France, superiour to the vines of America, 319.

Virgil, in what respect superiour in pastoral poetry, ii. 181. remarks on the judicious propriety of his versification, 183. why preferred to Homer by Scaliger, ii. 440. the plan of his Æneid formed upon the writings of Homer,*