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"Amidst the din of all things fell and vile,

Hate's yell, and envy's hiss, and folly's bray, Remember me; and with an unforced smile See riches, baubles, flatterers, pass away.

"Yes: they will pass away; nor deem it strange:
They come and go, as comes and goes the sea:
And let them come and go: thou, through all change,
Fix thy firm gaze on virtue and on me.”

INDEX.

INDEX.

ΑΙ

ABB

BBÉ and Abbot, difference between, v.
639.
Abingdon, James Bertie, Earl of, i. 462.
Deprived of the Lord Lieutenancy of
Oxfordshire, ii. 131. Proposed for the
Chancellorship of the University of
Oxford, 206. Joins William of Orange,
266.
Abjuration Bill, iii. 248, 249.

Debate

upon, in the Lords, 251, 252.
Absalom and Achitophel of Dryden, cha-
racter of it, v. 120.

Absolute Government, theory of, v. 310.
Absolute Rulers, v. 280.

Academy, character of its doctrines, vi. 207.
Academy, the French, its services to litera-
ture, vii. 577.

Act of Grace, iii. 252. Exceptions to,
253. Was the act of William III.
alone, 253, 254.

Adam, Robert, court architect to George
III., vi. 231.

Adda, Ferdinand, Count of, Papal Nuncio
in England, i. 538. Advises James II.
to proceed legally, and with modera-

tion, 563 and note. Consecrated at St.
James's Palace, ii. 87. Procession in
honour of, at Windsor, 88. His report
of the acquittal of the bishops, 179
note. His escape from England, 316.
Addington, Henry, formation of his ad-
ministration, vii. 399. His position as
Prime Minister, 399. Resigns, 404.
Raised to the peerage, 406.
Addison, Joseph, i. 374 note. His picture

of a Dissenting minister, ii. 475 note.
Review of Miss Aikin's life of him, vii.
52-122. His character, 53, 55. Sketch
of his father's life, 54. His birth and
early life, 55, 56. Appointed to a
scholarship in Magdalene College, Ox-
ford, 56. His classical attainments, 56,
58. His Essay on the Evidences of
Christianity, 58, 115. Contributes a
preface to Dryden's Georgics, 61. His
intention to take orders frustrated, 62, 64.
Sent by the government to the Conti-
nent, 65. His introduction to Boileau,

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His

Leaves Paris and proceeds to
Venice, 69. His residence in Italy,
69-72. Composes his Epistle
Montague (then Lord Halifax), 72.
His prospects clouded by the death of
William III., 72. Becomes tutor to a
young English traveller, 73. Writes
his Treatise on Medals, 73. Repairs to
Holland, 73. Returns to England, 73.
His cordial reception and introduction
into the Kit Cat Club, 73. His pecu-
niary difficulties, 73. Engaged by Go-
dolphin to write a poem in honour of
Marlborough's exploits, 75. Is appointed
to a commissionership, 76. Merits of
his "Campaign," 76. Criticism of his
Travels in Italy, 57, 79. His opera of
Rosamond, 79. Is made Under Secre-
tary of State, and accompanies the
Earl of Halifax to Hanover, 81. His
election to the House of Commons, 81.
His failure as a speaker, 81.
popularity and talents for conversation,
82, 84. His timidity and constraint
among strangers, 84. His favourite
associates, 84-87. Becomes Chief Se-
cretary for Ireland under Wharton,
87. Origination of the Tatler, 89, 90.
His characteristics as a writer, 89-92.
Compared with Swift and Voltaire as a
master of the art of ridicule, 90, 91.
His pecuniary losses, 93. Loss of his
Secretaryship, 95. Resignation of his
Fellowship, 95. Encouragement and
disappointment of his advances towards
a great lady, 95. Returned to Parlia-
ment without a contest, 95. His Whig
Examiner, 93. Intercedes with the
Tories on behalf of Ambrose Phillipps
and Steele, 96. His discontinuance of
the Tatler and commencement of the
Spectator, 96. His part in the Spec-
tator, 96. His commencement and dis-
continuance of the Guardian, 100. His
Cato, 69, 100. His intercourse with
Pope, 102, 104. His concern for Steele,
104. Begins a new series of the Spec-
tator, 104. Appointed Secretary to the

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