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 *iii. 77. account of the Sortes Virgilianæ, vii. 6. specimen of sir John Denham's translation, 63. Milbourne's criticisms on Dryden's translation, 333. vain attempts to translate Virgil by Brady, 336. Æneid, translated by Christopher Pitt, viii. 364. this translation contrasted with Dryden's, ibid.

Virtue, to be pursued by virtuous means, i. 71. the various attacks on it, 20. such conduct not to be repented of for the event, iv. 273. the representations of it in works of fancy should be always exact and pure, ii. 20. the difference between speculative and practical virtue, 68. the errour of substituting single acts of it for habits, 138. obstructed by confounding the praise with the practice of goodness, 139. united with industry supplies the genuine sources of hope, 493. virtue and truth often defeated by pride and obstinacy, 411. the constant pursuit of it the highest excellence, iii. 365. the danger of mistaking the love for the practice of virtue, exemplified in Savage, viii. 144.

Virtuoso, his character distinctly drawn, ii. 385. the advantages he is capable of communicating to others, 391. his excessive fondness for curiosities often the evidence of a low genius, 392.

Visionary schemes, the effects of, i. 292.

Vivaculus, his letter on Virtuosos, iii. 329.

Ulinish, account of, ix. 67.

Ulva isle, account of, ix. 138. the mercheta mulicrum paid there, 139.

Ulysses, the discovery of, improper for a picture, iv. 283.

Uneasiness of mind, often relieved by comparing our lot with that of others, iii. 367.

Union, the difficulty of, either between nations or smaller communities, iv. 16.

Universities, the superiority of the English, to their academies, and foreign universities, iv. 248.

Universal History, writers of, i. lix.

Voltaire, his visit to Congreve, viii. 30. pays a visit to Pope, 274. Young's epigram on him, 435.

Vossius, Isaac, delighted in having his hair combed for many hours together, vii. 229.

Voyages, introduction to the World Displayed, a collection of, v. 210. abstract account of, in search of new countries, vi. 180.

Upton, Mr. observations on his critical observations on Shakespeare, v. 142.

Usefulness, publick, should be the object of our diligent endeavours, iii. 112, 115.

Wainscot, Tom, complaint of his son's becoming a fop, and neglecting business, iv. 428.

Waller, Edmund, his life, vii. 178. born at Colshill, in Hertfordshire, March 3, 1605, ibid. his father left him three thousand five hundred pounds a year, ibid. educated at Eton, and removed to King's college, Cambridge, ibid. returned to parliament in his eighteenth year, ibid. wrote his first poetry in his eighteenth year, 179. wrote poetry almost by instinct, ibid. marries Mrs. Banks, a great heiress, ibid. loses his wife, who leaves one daughter, ibid. addresses lady Dorothea Sidney, under the name of Sacharissa, who rejects his addresses, ibid. celebrates lady Sophia Murray, under the name of Amoret, 181. supposed to have taken a voyage, ibid. marries a lady of the name of Bresse, or Breaux, by whom he has five sons and eight daughters, 182. being returned to the parliament of 1640, makes a noisy speech on imaginary grievances, ibid. no bigot to his party, 184. his speech on episcopacy, ibid. sends 1000 broad pieces to the king when he set up his standard, 186. continues to sit in the rebellious conventicle, and to speak against their proceedings, 187. nominated one of the commissioners to treat with the king at Oxford, ibid. engaged in a plot against parliament, ibid. the manner in which the plot was discovered, 189. he and Tomkyns taken up, both of whom confess the whole plot, 190. a day of thanksgiving appointed for deliverance from the plot, 191. earl of Portland and lord Conway taken up, on the declaration of Waller, for being concerned in the plot, are examined several times by the lords, and admitted to bail, ibid. Tomkyns and Chaloner executed for the plot, 193. tried and condemned, and, after a year's im-*