celebrated for the gentleness of its course, i. 422.
Garrets, inhabited by statesmen who watch over the liberties of their country, iv. 85.
Garter, king at arms, his remark on a marriage in the Bickerstaffe family, ii. 8. Garter, the dropping of one, the greatest blow the French nation ever received, iv. 443.
Garth, Dr., his epilogue to the tragedy of Cato, i. 226; called by a conceited critic the brother of the Tatler, ii. 176; his poem, annotations of the Examiner on, criticised, iv. 370, 371; Addison's phy- sician, v. 365, 394; his infidelity, 736. Gaul, defiance of her arts and arms, i. 37; aggrandizement of, prior to the Duke of Marlborough's campaign, i. 43. Gaul, St., the great apostle of Germany, story of his interview with a bear, i. 225; the abbot of, extent of his territo- ries and manner of his election, 522; linen manufacture, 523; dispute be- tween the town and the abbey, 523, 524; pension from France, 525.
Gaurus, Mount, near Naples, become bar- ren, i. 433.
Gay, Mr., his zeal for Addison, v. 410;
his Pastorals owing to the management of Philips, 415; notices, 736, 737. Genealogy of the house of Bickerstaffe, ii. 7; of an illegitimate family, iii. 74. Generalissimo, a cant term for command- er-in-chief, ii. 112, note.
Generals, in the grand alliance against France, the greatest of the age, iv. 352. Genesis, a passage in, its effect on a great man in the Romish church, iii. 301. Geneva and its lake described, i. 509; re- semblance of the latter to a sea, 510; situation of the town described, 515; importation of its manufactures pro- hibited by the emperor, 516; considered as the court of the Alps, 528; adminis- tration of affairs relating to public grana- ries, ib.; custom respecting inherit- ance, 529.
Genitive cases, a succession of, gracefully introduced, iv. 122, note. Genius, a character too indiscriminately given, ii. 504; in what it consists, ib.; the first class, 505; the second not in- ferior to the first, 506; sometimes wasted on trifles, ib.; the discovery of, among his countrymen, a source of de- light to the Spectator, iv. 44; often de- viates from the rules of criticism, 149; none but a man of genius should call himself a critic, 240.
Genoa, its Gulf, i. 360; its noble appear- ance, 362; its fine churches, 363; its bank no burden to the Genoese, ib.; bad policy of the republic, ib; its former greatness by sea, 364; why incapable of being made a free port, 493.
Genoese, cunning, industrious, and hardy, i. 361. Gentleman, the name given to the Spec-
tator at his lodgings, ii. 257.
George, St., the bank of, at Genoa, i. 363; its importance to the government, ib.; church of, at Verona, adorned by a painting by Paul Veronese, represent- ing the martyrdom of the saint, 378. George I., not willing to have a single slave in his dominions, iv. 398; regards our civil liberties as the natural rights of mankind, 400; his consistency and firm- ness of mind, and attachment to Great Britain, 401; his martial achievements, ib.; his family distinguished for courage and fortitude, 402; his constant good fortune, ib.; interposition of Providence in favour of him, 403; has an undoubt- ed title to our duty and obedience, 415; was considered, before he was king, one of the greatest princes in Christen- dom, 421; his zeal for the security of the established church, 423; great-grand- son of James I., and nearest to the crown of the Protestant blood, 429; ex- horts his subjects to assert the liberties of their country, 435; suspends the Habeas Corpus Act during the rebellion, 457; his wise conduct during this pe- riod, 460; blest with heirs male in two direct descents, 476; how supported and strengthened by alliances, 486; his chief strength lies in his own kingdoms, ib.; confidence of foreign potentates in his firmness and integrity, 489; the re- bellion a means of trying the principles of his subjects, 500; his moderation in punishing the rebels, v. 4; shows his inclination to rule without a standing army, 15; his zeal for the church, ib.; alteration of triennial elections neces- sary for settling him on his throne, 36; his exertions for the advancement of trade, 50; treaties of Madrid and Utrecht compared, ib.; his regulations in the West India and Spanish trade, 52; stipulates for the rights and privileges of the latter trade as established in 1667, 53; advantages procured by him for the trade to the Austrian Low Countries, 56; considerations on his birth-day, 67; cruel treatment he has met with from the tongues and pens of some of his disaffected subjects, 68; an ill requital for his love and regard for the consti- tution, 69; mildness of his reign, 90; firm adherence of the Whigs to his cause, 98; words of Cicero on Cæsar's conduct towards his enemies applied to his Majesty, 101; Addison attends Lord Halifax to present the garter to him, 347; his objection while Elector of Hanover to the doctrine of Hereditary Right, 395; his arrival in England, 418, 421; ceremonial for his entry, 421.
George, Prince, of Denmark, his resent-
ment agt. Lord Molesworth, v. 245. Georgic, Virgil's fourth, a translation of, i. 10.
Georgics of Virgil, essay on, i. 154; de- finition of, 155; character of the several books, 159, 161; compared with the Eneid, 161; afford a collection of most beautiful landscapes, iii. 417; the re- mark more applicable to his Bucolics, ib., note.
German and Portuguese, a story, iv. 242. German counts, their habits at Blois, v. 330.
German princes, their policy in hiring out their troops, iv. 354.
Germans, their language characteristic of their national humour, ii. 499; consider- ed dull and heavy by the French, iv. 508; their opinion of the French, ib. Gesture, essential to oratory, iii. 386. Geta, his bust at Florence, i. 496. Gex, the country of, belonging to France, i. 504.
Ghost, a suit of clothes for one, to be sold,
ii. 5; of Anticlea, mother of Ulysses, 111. Ghost-scene, in Hamlet, a master-piece in its kind, ii. 314.
Ghost-stories, their pernicious effect on young persons, ii. 257, 258. Ghosts, of beauties, ii. 112; of the damn- ed, 114; of heroes, &c., 123; of ty- rants, 129, 130; of good princes, 131; the belief in, common to all nations, 441; what they say should be a little discoloured, iii. 422; description of them pleasing to the fancy, ib.; why we in- cline to believe in them, 423. Gibbon, Mr., his satirical remark on Mr. Addison's work on the Christian re- ligion answered, v. 106, 107, note. Gibbons, Dr. William, v. 319, 321. Giles Gorgon, a cobbler, the winner at a grinning-match, iii. 33.
Giles's Coffee-house, discussions of French gentlemen there on their monarch's death, iii. 380.
Gimcrack, Nicholas, a virtuoso, his will, ii. 156.
Giving and forgiving, two different things,
Gladiator, a famous statue at Florence, i.
497; female, a proper subject for ridi- cule, v. 38.
Gladiators, figures of, in Cardinal Chigi's cabinet, i. 467.
Glaphyra, daughter of King Archelaus, her dream, ii. 442.
Glass, to be read bottle, in Sir. W. Tem- ple's rule for drinking, iii. 80. Glory, the attendant of virtue, i. 274; the love of, danger in extirpating it, v. 40. Glow-worm, Martha, recommends the Spectator's Essay on Modesty as an in- fallible beautifier, iv. 75.
Gluttony, how to be prevented, iii. 66. Goat, a perfumer's sign, ii. 286. God, the soul of brutes, ii. 461; the being of, one of the greatest of certainties, iii. 358; the complex idea of, examined by Mr. Locke, iv. 53.
Godolphin, Lord, "officially encourages Addison to commemorate the battle of Blenheim, v. 346; makes him Commis- sioner of Appeals, 420. Gold-miners, converted into stones, iv. 241.
Golden dreams of Homer compared with those of Nicholas Hart, iii. 50. Golden fleece, an improper subject for a Roman poet, ii. 375.
Good, why mixed with evil in our present condition, iii. 366.
Good actions, every principle which prompts them ought to be encouraged, iv. 308.
Good and evil, difficulties in accounting for their distribution, iii. 128. Good-breeding, revolutions in, ii. 455; often an affectation of good-nature, iii.
Goodenough, Ursula, indicted in the Court of Honour, ii. 212.
Good-fellow, Robin, his correction of Sir W. Temple's rule for drinking, iii. 80. Good-humour, on a journey, how spoiled, ii. 152.
Good-luck, notions respecting, iii. 61. Good-nature, more agreeable in conversa- tion than wit, iii. 19; to be improved, but not produced by education, ib. ; ex- amples in the character of Cyrus and Cæsar, 20; considered as a moral vir- tue, 34; rules for its exercise, 35; ex- emplified, ib.; the great ornament of virtue, 138.
Good-natured men, not always men of the most wit, iii. 20.
Good-sense, the foundation of poetry, ii. 178; the father of wit, 298.
Good-will, an emblem of it on a medal, i. 301.
Gordianus Africanus the elder, his bust in alabaster at Florence, i. 496.
Gordon, Major, information respecting, v. 497.
Gortz, Baron, v. 460, 463, 464, 467, 469. Gosling, George, his letter on a lucky number in the lottery, iii. 62. Gospel gossips, described, ii. 324. Gospel, written, the same with that de- livered by tradition, v. 127; our Sa- viour's prophecy on its propagation ac- complished, 134.
Gossip, in politics, is a slattern in her family, iv. 492.
Gossips, a class of female orators, iii. 144. Gothic architecture characterized, i. 489. Goths, in poetry, ii. 361.
Gouldvell, Thomas, inscription on his picture at a convent in Ravenna, i. 401.
Government, which form of it most rea- sonable, iii. 290; wild and absurd opi- nions on, prevailing, iv. 417; why in- stituted, 443; as great a blessing in society as rebellion is an evil, 444; none can flourish which does not propa- gate religion and morality, 501. Government of the tongue, an excellent
treatise recommended to ladies, v. 485. Governments when prone to luxury,ii. 133. Gracchi, their mother, an accomplished woman, iv. 318.
Graces, why represented naked, and knit together in a dance, i. 269. Græcisms, frequent in Milton's style, iii.
Grafton, Duke of, v. 433; letter to, ib. Grammar, reformed by the Quakers, ii. 208; political, to be taught by a Jesuit, iii. 316.
Grammars, defective in their account of verbs active, iv. 502, note.
Granaries, public, how regulated at Ge- neva, i. 528.
Grantham, Earl of, Prince and Princess of Wales go from St. James's to his house, v. 508.
Granville, Sir Bevil, his death, v. 349. Gratian, his maxim for advancement at court, iii. 303; his recommendation of fine taste, 387; one of his maxims for raising a man to greatness, v. 27. Gratias, commercial indulgences of the king of Spain, explained, v. 50. Gratitude, to heaven, as a habit of the mind, how to be cultivated, iii. 373; a most pleasing exercise of the mind, 464; hymn on it, 466.
Grave-digging, reflections on, ii. 282, 283. Gravitation in bodies, how accounted for, ii. 460.
Gravity, the gift of men, ii. 484.
Great Britain, fruitful in religions, ii. 205. Great book, a great evil, ii. 472. Great minds, most actuated by ambition, iii. 156; superior to the censures and applauses of the multitude, 158. Great-grandmothers, in Queen Elizabeth's time, their dress, iv. 170. Greatness, a source of pleasure to the imagination, iii. 397; final cause of this pleasure, 401; in works of architecture, how to be considered, 407; of manner, 408; a main source of pleasure to the imagination, iv. 7.
Grecian general, denies fortune to have
had any share in his victories, iii. 305. Grecian law, prohibiting neutrality in political divisions, ii. 267. Greece, its former and present state con- trasted, iii. 299; the example of its states, wherein to be imitated, v. 86. Greek, an opera proposed in that lan- guage, ii. 293.
Greek epigram on a figure of Cupid, i. 458; epigram on Venus, 499.
Greek manuscript, a translation of one announced, iii 114.
Greek mottos in the Spectator, pleasing to the ladies, iii. 103.
Greek priest, story of a, buying pictures, i. 352.
Greek tongue, most conducive to expec- toration, iv. 125.
Greeks, their silent march to battle de- scribed by Homer, ii. 96; must have been charmed by the local descriptions of Homer, v. 219.
Green, why the prevailing colour of ve- getation, iii. 363.
Greenhat, Obadiah, distinguishes the dif- ferent nations of which Britain is com- posed, ii. 10.
Greenland trade encouraged by the fash- ion for hoop-petticoats, ii. 66.
Gregory, St., his punishment of the writ- ers and readers of calumnies, iii. 460. Grideline, a character in the opera of Ro- samond, i. 60.
Grief, easier to be diverted than conquer- ed, iii. 5; has a natural eloquence, 374. Grievances enumerated by the Pretender answered, iv. 431, 433.
Grimace, the Spectator's meaning of the word explained, ii. 371, note; political, where taught, iii. 315.
Grinning-match, advertised, iii. 31; ac- count of one, 32.
Grisons, the, treaty with, confirmed by Queen Anne, v. 361.
Grotto del Cani, near Naples, experi-
ments made in it, i. 436; conjecture re- specting, ib.
Grotto Ferrate, the site of Cicero's Tus- culum, i. 484.
Grotto oscuro, in the isle of Caprea, de- scribed, i. 446.
Grounding the fan, directions for, ii. 429,
Grub-street biographers, v. 29.
Grub-street patriot, his passion for free- dom arises from fear of a gaol, iv. 396. Grub-street pens employed in recording the dreams of a miraculous sleeper, iii. 50.
Guardian, the part Mr. Addison took in it, to what owing, iv. 159; dropped, soon after Mr. Addison took his leave of it, 331, note (see Ironside); projected by Steele, v. 405; dropped, 411. Guelfs and Ghibelines, distracted Italy by their factions, ii. 477.
Guelphus, Duke of Bavaria, how he re- gained the favour of the Emperor Con- rad III., iv. 16.
Guilt, a sense of it destroys cheerfulness, iii. 357.
Gules, Thomas, his indictment of Peter Plumb at the Court of Honour, ii. 201. Gulf of Genoa, remarkable for tempests, and scarcity of fish, i. 360.
Gustavus Adolphus, inscription from a
medal of, i. 346; chronogram of, on a medal, 349, ii. 350.
Gusto, in Michael Angelo's works, whence arising, iii. 115.
Gusto grande, specimen of, in architec- ture, i. 478; of the Italians, what, iv. 150.
Guy, Earl of Warwick, known to have
eaten a dun cow of his own killing, ii. 106.
Guy, the tradition of, might have formed a pleasing episode to Prince Arthur, v. 220.
G. W., a nobleman's chaplain, his letter to Mr. Ironside, iv. 316.
Gyges's ring, the use Mr. Bickerstaffe has made of it, ii. 182.
Gyllenborg, Count, v. 460, 463, 464, 467, 469. Gypsies, adventure with a troop of them,
ii. 491; Spectator's and Sir Roger's for- tune told, ib.; Sir Roger's pocket picked, 492; story of a child stolen by one, ib.; innumerable in Great Britain, iv. 23.
Habeas Corpus Act suspension, during the rebellion, its expediency shown, iv. 457; precedents, 459; its good consequences,
460. Habits, good and evil, their respective tendency, iii. 45.
Hackney-writers, for so much a sheet, an abuse on the public, iv. 339. Halifax, Lord, letter to, from Italy, i. 29; his advice to his daughter on jealousy, iii. 21; his compliment to Mr. Addison, v. 150; impeached, 334; brings Addi- son into public employment, 346; sent on a mission to Hanover, 347; his letter to Mr. Robethon, 348; attacked by gout, 354; Mr. Stepney's legacy to him, 363; invited by Duchess of Marlborough to dine, 365; Macky's and Swift's charac- ter of him, 377; letter to Swift, 379; his desire to promote Addison, and disap- pointment, 418, 421, 424; with Addison meets George I. on his arrival, 421; his death, 422; letters to, 321, 323, 328, 334, 377, 423, 426, 429.
Hall, in the Tirol, its mint and salt-works, with the method of propagating them, i. 536. Hamilton, Col. Walter, Governor of the Leeward Islands, v. 475. Hamilton, Lord Archibald, Addison's in- struction to Commissioners of Trade re- specting him, v. 478; his Memorial to the King, 487; letter to him from Mr. Bernard, 489; from Mr. Page, 490. Hamlet, his address to the ghost, quoted, ii. 315.
Hammond (Dr.), an example of content- ment, iv. 119.
Handling the fan, directions for, ii. 429. Handkerchief, a principal machine, in tragedy, for moving pity, ii. 315. Hands, two, joined, emblems of fidelity,
i. 301; giving of, expresses good will, ib. Hanmer, Sir Thomas, pleaded the cause
of Goodman Fact against Count Tariff, iv. 366; reported likely to succeed Mr. Mansel, v. 361.
Hannes, D. D., ad, insignissimum medi- cum et poetam, i. 248; mentioned, v. 319, 320, 321.
Hannibal, his march described by Silius Italicus, i. 501; indignant at the Roman historians, appeals to Polybius to intro- duce him to the Temple of Fame, ii. 15; story of one of his Roman prisoners punished for prevarication, iv. 418. Hanover, the court of, allowed to be one of the politest in Europe, iv. 421; the second Protestant state in Germany, 433.
Hans Carvel's finger, where lost, iv. 374. Happiness represented on a medal by a ship under sail, i. 293; true, its retired nature, ii. 264; rules for attaining it, less necessary than those for supporting affliction, iii. 4; incompatible with the desire of fame, 163; of a future state, in what likely to consist, iv. 154, 155; arguments from revelation, 156. Happy settlement, a paper in honour of it, v. 81, note.
Harcourt, Sir Simon, Attorney-general, v. 395.
Hard words, how to be used by ladies, ii. 321.
Hardness of heart, in parents to their
children, inexcusable, iii. 42; argument against it, 43; exemplified in a letter, 58. Harlequin, a standing character in Vene- tian comedy, i. 394; taken by a Whig for a Highlander, v. 25.
Harley, Mr., his "Essay on Credit," v. 394; Earl of Oxford and Lord Trea- surer, 407; impeached, 664-671. Harlots, their joyful reception of the re- bels, iv. 405.
Harmony of numbers, in Mr. Addison's style, iii. 389, note; nothing so much ravishes and transports the soul, iv. 130. Harpath, marries Hilpa, iv. 138; is drown- ed, ib.
Harpsichords, persons of extraordinary ta-
lents in conversation so termed, ii. 118. Hart, Nicholas, a periodical sleeper, iii. 49; his journal, ib.
Hasael, his interview with the prophet Elisha, iv. 414.
Hatching, more curious than any chemi- cal operation, ii. 460.
Hate, why a man ought not to hate even his enemies, ii. 476.
Haunted house, how exorcised, ii. 441. Head, the noblest part of the human figure, ii. 421.
Head-dress of a lady, the most variable thing in nature, ii. 419; its extravagance in the fourteenth century, 420; with
what success attacked by a monk in
that age, 421. Head-dresses of the ladies, considered, iii. 174; a group compared to a bed of tulips, ib.; Whig and Tory colours, 175. Health, the true mode of preserving, ii. 281.
Heart of a lover, compared to Ætna, ii. 359.
Heathen deities, resemblance between
their statues and the descriptions of the Latin poets, i. 459.
Heathens, their notion of an unbodied
soul, ii. 112; their just sense of the crime of perjury, iv. 418. Heaven, its gate described in Paradise Lost, iii. 233; the revolt and war there, finely described, 235; the Deity essen- tially present there, iv. 128; its glory considered, 129; its sabbath, 131; no- tion of it entertained by the Africans, 153.
Heavens, the glory of, a hymn, iii. 485. Heavings of the ocean, a well-chosen word, iv. 7, note.
Hebraisms, sometimes occurring in Mil- ton's poetry, iii. 192; their good effect in the English tongue, 383.
Hecatæus, a Greek historian, why sup- posed by his countrymen to be a Jew,
Hector, his admonition to his wife, ii. 339. Heedless, Henry, indicted in the Court of Honour, ii. 221.
Hegesippus, his writings on the history of Christianity now lost, v. 128.
Heirs and elder brothers, frequently spoil- ed in their education, ii. 468. Helim, story of, from an Arabian manu- script, iv. 325.
Heliogabalus, a medal of his, explained, i. 277.
Hell, as described by Milton, a proof of his fertile invention, iii. 197; the several circumstances finely imagined, 215; de- scription of the gates very poetical, 216. Hellenisms, Horace's and Virgil's poetry replete with them, iii. 192.
Hemistic, at the close of a tragic speech, its happy effect, ii. 305.
Hen, her sagacity and care of her young, ii. 459; an idiot in other respects, 460; instance of one followed by a brood of ducks, 461.
Hendel, Mynheer, called the Orpheus of the stage, ii. 242.
Henpeck, Josiah, his letter, comparing his wife to a cat, iii. 91.
Hen-pecked, several admonitions from that fraternity, iii. 505, 506. Henry II., a character in the opera of Rosamond, i. 57, 66; his vision, 74; his lamentation on the death of Rosa- mond, 77.
Henry VIII., his letter to Ann Boleyn in
the Vatican library, i. 481; church
weather-glass invented in his reign, ii. 162; Ann Boleyn's last letter to him, iii. 374, 375.
Henry IV. of France, his treatment of conspirators, v. 11; found it impracti- cable for a Protestant to reign in France, 30.
Henry V., his public devotions at the be- ginning of his reign, and at the battle of Agincourt, v. 80, 81.
Henry VII., called the English Solomon, advanced commerce, v. 49.
Hensberg, siege of, affords an instance of the affection of wives to their husbands, iv. 16.
Heraclitus, a saying on sleep ascribed to him by Plutarch, iv. 3.
Hercules lifting Antæus from the earth, a statue at Florence, i. 495; his labours painted in fresco in the great hall at Inspruck, 533; placed among the fabu- lous heroes in the Temple of Fame, ii. 17; his choice, an allegory, 27. Hercules Farnese, represented on medals, i. 266; described on coin, 475. Herefordshire, value of land raised in, by the French war, ii. 94.
Heresies, maintained at the university for argument's sake, iv. 84.
Hermaphroditus and Salmacis, story of, i. 136.
Hermit, reply of one to a lewd young fel- low, iv. 120.
Hermitage, a curious one, near Fribourg, i. 517.
Hermitage wine, made from water, ii. 94. Hero, in modern tragedy, the ordinary method of making one, ii. 312.
Herod and Mariamne's story, from Jose-
phus, iii. 28, 29, &c.; his slaughter of the innocents mentioned by Macrobius, v. 108. Herodotus, his account of the opinion of the Persians on parricide, iii. 60; a superstitious propensity of his, 509; an English book, according to Will. Honey- comb, iv. 28; Addison's translation of Polymnia, v. 319; of Urania, 321; pro- jected translation by Addison and several friends, ib.
Heroic poem, rule for its foundation, ii. 375.
Heroic poems, the three great ones, built on slight foundations, iii. 255. Heroic poets, precedency disputed be- tween them and tragic poets, iv. 49. Hertford, Algernon Earl of, v. 341. Hesiod, inferior to Virgil in his Georgics, i. 154; his character and writings con- sidered, 157; plan and style of his work, 159; his scale of the ages of animals, 286; a remarkable allegory in his works, iii. 239; his observations on labour and virtue, 455. Hesperus, a young man of Tarentum, drowned by the Lover's Leap, iii. 123.
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