and Charles II., 77 and the royal thieves, 292 Killing lady, snares of, 659
no murder, 573-658 /
Killing time, 97
Kings, apology for, 455
and eggs, 95
and miller of Mansfield, 491 and caliphs, gratitude of, 231 evidence, roguery of, 293
bench practice illustrated, 335 King, qualifications of a good one, 567 Kingly government, trade and mys- tery of, 419
Kingston, duchess of, her valuables, 124
Kinsman, qualifications for, 67 Kirk, general, and James II. 52 Kiss, comedy of, 51.
Kissing and biting hands, 432 Kit-cat club, origin of, 506
Kitchen drawer, articles found in, 285 Knavery on both sides, 130
Kneller, sir Godfrey, and Jervais the painter, 56
Knights of the screw, an installation ode, 482
Knighthood of admiral Campbell, 155 Knots, Gordian, and Tyburn, 084 Knowing a man, true sense of, 277
La Fontaine's absence of mind, 447 case of mouth v. eyes,
681 Laconic charge to a jury, 364 grace, 389
the delay of, 268
Irish sketch of, 176, 54 nice distinction of, 146 privileges of, 78 profits of, 51
reports, poetical, 687
suit, simple decision of, 199 Lawyer and chimney sweep, 512 death-bed honesty of, 26 and client, 360 qualifications of a good one,
Likeness, unfavourable, 459 Lilly, the astrologer, wife of, 100 Limb of the law, 364
Lincolnshire confession, 485 Literary controversy, 264
Little mouths, a London fable, 669 Living in style, 250
too long, 302
the, and dead, 154 high, 303
Llandaff, bishopric of, 232 Lodgings for single men, 236 miseries of, 311
London clubs, in 1769, 306
heroics, 671
in summer, 118
microscopic view of, 495 described by Johnson, 444 newspapers, epitome of, 615 thieves, 33
Longing, mutual, 100
Lee's rhapsody, written on the walls Long stories, nuisance of, 669
of Bedlam, 472 Left-handed excuse, 29
witness, 209
Legacy to a wife, 99
task of distribution, 285
Lonsdale, lord, and John Kemble, 428
political ninepins, 405
Loose readings, research for, 535
a wife, consolation for, 629
Loss of memory, 28
the lucky one, 47 convenient, 56
Lost key, 399
leg, the, 291
Lothario, character of, 435 Lottery of wedlock, 86 Love and cookery, 364
among the law books, 326 and laudanum, horrors of, 628 and marriage, difference of, 594 and pride, remedies for, 215 conceited and aspiring, 82 consolation for rejected, 533 dialogue, 131 felony, 179
fits, Irish receipt to cure, 670 innocent character of, 394 oath, ceremony of, 280 rise and progress of, 658 two sorts of, 159
verdict on a suicide, 286 's bath, 264 Lovers, advice to, 104 Lovesick lady and her Abigail, 628 swain, 674
Louis VIII. death of, 87
XIV. and curtier, 65
and ma or of Beaune, 230 Loungers, theatrical, 103 Lounging in Edinburgh,luxuries of,195 Louse, adventures of, 608 Low prices, advantages of, 360 Lowe and Jenathan Tyers, 688 Loyal pair, the, 131
welcome to William III. 511
Lucky frolic, 355
prophecy, 432
Ludicrous man, the, 69 Lumps and bumps, craniological, 646 Lunacy, how to obtain a commission of, 598
Luther on Catholics, 145, 173 Luxuries of poverty, 302 Lying, excellence in, 333
varieties of, 337
dangerous extremes of, 452 Lyttleton, lord, and Garrick, 64
Magpie and stuttering boy, 34 Maiden speech, 119
dream, 342
's bloody garland, 630
Majesty dissected, 293
Marvellous story-telling illustrated, 669
Mask, the permanent, 293 Masquerade disguise, 446 Match-making, requisites for, 553 Match for the devil, 184 Matrimony, fatigues of, 304
nine lives of, 184 miseries of, 498, 594 and divorce, Indian law
objections to, by Dean
Matrimonial foibles and disputes, 495
dispute adjusted, 616 felicity and
Mail-coach adventures, 203
Malden, Bright, the fat grocer of, 154 Malherbe and bishop of Rouen, 660 on the wickedness of man, 63 Mallet, the poet, and his roguish ser- vant, 202
Malone, Thaddy, and Silvia Pratt, 155 Malt, sermon on, by Dr. Dodd, 291 Man about town, character of, 456 killing club described, 505 and wife, 28
his inherited wickedness, 63 in love, vagaries of, 483 sermon on, 330 Managers, consolation for, 508 Mansfield's, lord, wig, 456
miller of, and king, 401, lord, and coachman, 95 Mapp, Mrs. the bone setter, 674 Margaret of Austria, the maiden wife, 421
Margate donkies, 342 Margery, old, and her bottle, 146 Market-day in the country, 587 Marlborough, great duke of, 32
Sarah, duchess of, 90 Sarah, duchess of, and
duke of Somerset, 301 Marriage benefits, enumerations of,
regulations, 47
oversight, 445, 446 happiness, 432, 504, 577 signs and tokens, 340 creed, 339
Mayor, politeness of, 86 Measurement, accurate, 489 Meddling, unreasonableness of, 204 Medical examinations, effect of, 300 finesse, 548
nomenclature, 24 Meeting, unseasonable, 53 Melancholy of tailors described, 186 Member, the snoring, 126
Memory, count Grammont's, 446 Mendicity, dignity of, 232
Mercantile indigestions, prescrip- tions for, 547
Merchant tailors, motto of, 393 Merry man described, 481 Methodist sermon extraordinary, 403 Meurice's hotel, a day at, 650 Mice, extraordinary and gigantic, 232 Midas, second mistake of, 229 Mighty good kind of fellow, charac- ter of, 140
Military memoranda of a serjeant, 416 Millar, the bookseller, and Dr. John- son, 310
Miller, the comedian, vanity of, 418 Milton on tongues, 66 Mimicry, power of, 73 Ministers, requisites for, 114 Ministerial conscience, 75 Ministries, new, C83
Miracle enhanced, 95
policy of magnifying, 448 Miracles of transubstantiation, 268
Nash, Dr. and Mr. and Mrs. Foote,
National antipathy, force of, 464 valour, 18 complaints, 556
Native simplicity, 337 Nature and art, 24
true admiration of, 233 Natural acting, beauties of, 418 Nautical equivoque, 28, 120, 293 sermon, 341
Naval notions of happiness, 484 Neapolitan play, plot of, 434 Necessity a dull barrister, 646 Negro candour, 131
sermon, in Jamaica, 497 wit, 303
Nell Gwynne, anti-catholic prin- ciples of, 438
as an actress, 497
Nelson, lord, vanity of, 566
Oaths, English and Scotch, 156 Obstacle, lucky occurrence of, 233 Obstinacy in grain, 513 Oceans of punch, 515 Oculists and politicians, 235 Odd-fellows' club desribed, 652
Nethersole, Mr. Serjeant, and his Ode on the sun by various hands,
New churches, mania for, 527 Newcastle apothecary, the, 347
duke of, and George II.
his promises, 291
Office, in and out of, 231
O'Flaherty, major, murder of, 425 Old age, how to attain, 289
, unpalateable, 43
and young, 87
---) after Chaucer, 144
debts, new way to pay, 551 soldier, character of, 329
whig poet to his old buff' waist- coat, 577
wig, ode to, 389 Olden time, hospitalities of, 293 Oliver Cromwell, by Butler, 685 Opera, charms of the, 289
Optical deficiency explained, 217 Orange, prince of, and Dryden, 59 Orator Henley's eccentricities, 299 Oratory, universal and accommodat ing, 221
Packet, delights of, 648 Pains of pleasuring, 647 Paint and plaster rouge, 83 Painter's remedy for blunders, 210 of Florence, 215
- pots, and all, 303
Painting, concealment of, 320 misfortune of, 648
- and sculpture, anachron-
isms in, 413 Pair of shoes, impromptu on, 341 Palais de Justice at Paris, 577 Papal jurisdiction, limits of, 421 Parable travestie, 341 Parentage, pride of, 174 Paris, delights and luxuries of, 644 humorous description of, 183
Parish-clerk, address to, 95
feasting illustrated, 468 feeling, 29
repairs, 310
Parisian English, 199
hotel, picture of, 651
Parliament, fragile laws of, 154 Parliamentary management, 425 qualifications, 61 sleepers, 68
Parma, princess of, and Hen. VIII. 156 Parrot, the single speech, 94 Parson's bridle, the, 145
happy life of, in the coun-
and squire, fracas of, 511 squire, and spaniel, 453 Hyberdine's
gang of thieves, 636
Partnership account, feeling balance | Physiognomy, deceitful, 531
- barn, 57 Party-spirit, enthusiasm of, 403 Passion, fits of, 294 Passion-week and Lent, 96 Past cure, 129
Pat and the cook maid, 364
Doolan's pig, story of, 682
Paternal solicitude of Corneille, 636 Patience, two-fold virtue of, 409
and intellect, 182
test of, 110.
Pic-nic party, pleasures of 189 Pickpocket, novel, &c. 322
escape of, 448
Picture of slander, 83
dabbling dialogue, 200 Pies, Swift's variety of, 63 Piety and pleasure, 182 staunch, 52 involuntary, 473
Pig, domestic services of, 206 in a poke, 599
Pilgrim and the peas, 345
Paton, Miss, and stage-manager, 677 Pindar, Peter, and his bookseller, 37
Patriot's qualifications, 567
Patriotism, true, 39
Patronage and Dr. Johnson, 138 Pause, the longest on record, 73 Paying in perspective, 292 Payment at sight, 111
Pedant, inadvertent confession of, 687 Peer and pedlar, 289
Pell, Mr. Serj. and How v. Much, 188 Pembroke, lady, 570
Penlake, Rich. and St. Michael, 205 Pen-mending, 160 Pennant's tour through Chester, 182 Perfection, musical, 289
universality of, 448 Perryn, baron, and Foote, 145 Persecution prevented, 303 Persia, king of, and sir H. Jones, 214 Personalities, 79
Pestilent neighbour, character of, 675 Peterborough, lord, and drayman, 299 Petition, accommodating, 286 Petitions of who and which, 691 Petre, father, and the duke of Buck- ingham, 299
Petty larceny, dangers of, 230 Pharaoh in the Red Sea, 211 Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy, frolic of, 462
Philosopher's club, rules of, 309 outwitted, 63 whims of, 144
Philosophy and patience, 61 of laughter, 221 true, 111
Physic and pots, 96
farce of, 177
Physician par excellence, 637 consultation of, 433 practice, 361 qualifications of, 568 squabble of, 433
Piron, the poet, and the thistles, 231 Gallet and Colle,
Pitcairn, Dr. and parson, 36 Pitt and Dr. Paley, 412
and duchess of Gordon, 71, 486 -'s ministry, 120
Pizarro, st nzas on the play of, 24 Place-hunting, 31
of the damned, 403 Plain reasons for losing a battle, 455 truth, 30
Plan, Foote's old one, 65 Play-bill, attractive, 177 original, 680
Players, Hamlet's instructions to, 579 Pleasure and pain, impromptu on,
discrimination in, 639 Plebeian humour, 556 Plot and underplot, 522 Ploughboy, simplicity of, 25 Plucking for orders at Cambridge, 277 Pluralities of priestcraft, 233 Poet's address to his cat, 341
expectations from critics, 591 Poetical balancing, art of, 462 franking, 185
landlord at Seven Oaks, 554 Poetry and painting, analogy of, 557 choice specimens of, 354
Polite recollections, 86
robbery, correspondence, 210 Politeness and precedence, 299
universal test of, 449
Political, legacies, 556
Politics musical, 182
universal interest of, 25
Polly Sutton, acrostic on, 21
Pontignans, Mons. love and adven- tures, 693
Poor Richard's maxims, 408
Robin's prophecy, 549 scholars, sympathy for, 388 Pope, Alexander, veracity of, 52 his universal maxim, 39 last illness of, 433
's Wife of Bath, 246 Miss, he actress, retort of, 362 Popular numeral, 146 Popularity, requisites for, 418 Porson, professor, his scull, 29
's catechism for Hampshire men, 19
medical nomenclature, 24 Portrait painting, secret of, 654 Posthumous grief, by Philips, 413 Potatoes, ode in praise of, 454 Pot valour, 81
Poverty and poetry, evils of, 091 and plausibility, 277 a virtue, 322 desirable, 391 premeditated, 51
Fower of music over stones, 445 Praise, origin and definition of, 21 Prayers for the navy, 55
-the sailor's, 43
Praying and working, 90
Preaching and brewing, 294
varieties of, 671
forcibly illustrated, 461 and spelling, 539
Preadamite royalty, 635 Precaution, untimely, 664
Precedence, right of, at Tyburn, 420 Prejudice, English and Dutch, 26 Premature fruit, 619 Preparation for death, 28
Presbyterianism, blushes of, 401
Presents, appropriate, 102
acceptable, 296
Priest, only blessing of, 26
Printer's devils and devil's printers,25 rebuked by Swift, 486
Printing-office, scene from, 328
stanzas in praise of, 255 Priestcraft, conviviality of, 208
Irish, illustrated, 632 Priestly and Huntington's dispute,267 Prior, Mat. and Frenchman, 295 on the fair sex, 407
Prison, the world, 113 Prisoner's charge to a judge, 677
of a new actor, 522 to Barbarossa, 513
to the Busy Body 516 to Bon Ton, 606 the strollers, 592
to the Inconstant, 499 to the Rivals, 612
to the School for Scandal, 265 to the School for Rakes, 605 to the Trip to Paris, 597 to Wiater's Tale and Cathe- rine and Petruchio, 566 nautical, 676
Proof of brains, 73 Prophetic anticipation, 404 Prose v. Poetry, 288 Proverb, an old one, 56 travestied, 414
Providence, blessings of, 318 Prudent portrait, 413
resolve, 414
theatrical wife, 419
Public worship, zeal for, 298 Publican, Wilkes, and Middlesex justices, 416
Pudding, meditation on, 670 Pudicity, royal, 87
Pugilistic romance, 518 Pulpit call, 412
and stage, parallel of, 548 hint, 401
Pun, cracking of, 154
- legal and tolerable, 617 naval, 50
by D. Purcell, 54 Punch, inspiration of, 539
-- on a bowl of, 67, 68 seas of, 515
Punchinello, stanzas to, 531 Punctilio of the Japanese, 173 Punning on names, 155
Puppy, similitude of, 51 Puppyisin progress of 127
Quackery, advantage of, 361 Quaker answered, 480
and sailor on miracles, 341 -'s answer to excise commis sioner, 130
and parson, 29, 32 and his barn, 467 Qualifications, matrimonial, 178 Qualities of humour, 664 Qualms of conscience, 512 Quarrelsome rhyme, 200 Quarter-sessions, picture of, 86 Quarto, heads for writing, 647 Queen Bess and her enemies, 36 Mab, vagaries of, 587 Elizabeth at Coventry, 15 Querno, buffoon of Leo X. 242 Queries by Wilkes, 680 Query for the ladies, 188 Question and answer, 233
art of answering, 420 the critical, 144 untoward, 625
Quickly's, dame, history of the Boar's head tavern, 284 Quicksilver reply, 293 Quid pro quo, 333
or quaker's love, 573
Quin and Foote's shirt, 15 and the beau, 44
-'s bait for venison, 65 epicurism and coarse manners of, 478
on turtle eating, 37
's opinion of the Scotch, 136 soliloquy over the embalmed
body of duke Humphrey, 395
Quinsey, Radcliff's remedy for, 387
Rabelais' preparation for death, 28 Radcliff, Dr. and the pavior, 387 Radical reform, champion of, 243 Rain, prayer for, 302
Ramsgate 2nd Margate, 40 Rape of the Lock, new, 51 Razor seller and countryman, 318
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