drink-April fools, epigram on, 539 Architect, the illustrious, 116 Argumentum ad hominem, 631 Arrests, anagrams on the pains of,
All Saints' church in Langham place,
All Saints' day,& day of all Saints, 447 Almack's on Friday, 523
Alphabet, Irish mode of teaching, 363 Amateur theatricals, 161
executioners, 432 Ambiguous robbery, 234 Ambition boundless, 63 Amende honourable, specimens of, 416, 485
American and Scotchman, dialogue between, 239
new world, 186 oddities, 208
Anachronisms in the arts, 413 Anacreontic, or the returned
Anagrams, ne plus ultra of, 235 Analogy sympathetic, 117 Ancestry, pride and folly of, 109, 183,
Ancestors, grammatical, 124 Ancestral enormities, 569
Age, characteristics of the present, Animal and vegetable life, 184
Answer, an idiot's, 115 Anticipation of curses, 54
Artemisia, the blue stocking, 263 Artillery of hell against heaven, 647 Ascension day, 653
Assault, extraordinary case of, 665 Assembly at New York, humorous description of, 237 Ash-stripping, felony of, 22 Assistance, unlooked for, 135 Assize town described, 677 Astrology defined, 567 Astronomer, appointment of, to view an eclipse, 494
Astrononier's room described, 78 Asylum for lunatics, 235
Athanasian creed, merits of, 347 Attainments, superfluous and se- cond-rate, 639
Atterbury, bishop, and lord Conings- bury, 119
Barry the painter and the duke of Billiards, a scene from Night.nare Norfolk, 61
Barrymore and Bannister, 399 Bashful man, confessions of, 163 Bassompiere, marshal, and spy, 395 Bath remedies, 64
tale, or fashionable duel, 342 wife of, gallantries of, 246
of love, 264
Beacon and bacon, 56 Bear and stake, si
Beatitudes, enumeration of, 234 application of, 631 Beau Nash's method of telling story, 396
's head, dissection of, 115 Tibbs, 324
Beauty, amatory address to, &14 balance of, 65 discovery of, 71 everlasting, 112
universal adoration of, 532
Beautiful colours, 30, 33 maid, the, 179
Bed, paradoxes of, 166 Bedford, old duchess of, and George III., 220
Bedmakers at Cambridge, 270 Beer-working on the sabbath, 167 Begging, modesty in, 56 Begone dull care, 486
Behaviour, indigent philosopher's rules for, 278
Bell-hanger's handbill, 25 Bell-ringing, predilection for, 465 team, Irishman's, 30 Bencher, the incurious, 75 Benefit, medicinal and moral, 84 -s of marriage, in twelve argu- ments, 270 Ben Jonson, a bricklayer, 203
and his vintner, 112 and Devil's tevern, 521 -'s grace before king
James, 444. Bequeathing a blessing, 209 Berkshire publican, 102 Best stock of life, 655
and Scarlett, characters of, 017 of a bad job, 365, 684
Bill of an Irish eating-house, 223 Billy Tailor, adventures of, 167 Biped thief detected, 463 Bipeds, 18
Birch, stanzas on, 46
Birmingham man in America, 262 Bishop and his coachman, 368 and peasant, IC5
's blessing, true worth of, 399 credit, state of, 32 Neville's feast, 682 -s, the seven, 59
Biter bit, 53-56
Biting and kissing hands, 83 Black eyes of love & vengeance, 445 Blacket, widow, of Oxford, 197 Black footman, retort of, 153 Blacksmith, the tippling, 87
Blaize, Mrs. Mary, elegy on, 340 Bleeding, effects of, 119
Blessed spot, epigram on, 680
Blessings of man enumerated and disposed of, 420
Blood, merit of, 222
Blue-bottle fly, fable of, 396
devils, original of, 431
stocking, or learned lady, ca prices of, 594
-stocking, vices of, 262
Blunders, remedy for, 195
of translators, 336
Blunderton's (Dr.) early account of Chiswick, 214
Boar's head tavern, the, 58, 280 Bodily infirmities, 79 Boisrobert's death, 36
Bolingbroke, Mallet, & Johnson, 617 Booksellers, grace of, 310
Bore, character and definition of, 267 Borrowed countenance, 397 Bosom of love, 209 Botheration, IGS
Bottle conjuring, wonders of, 417 pleasures of the, 175
-s, flying, 36
Bottom to the last, 176
Boulter, the highwayman, 392 Bowels of an attorney general, 145 of compassion, 467 Boxing, noble, 299
Better bargain, 672 Betterton and Tillotson, 548 Bettesworth, Mr. sergeant, and Dean Box-lobby loungers, 108
Betting and praying, 545 Biblical fop described, 397 Bigamy & trigamy distinguished, 480
Boyd, Hugh, and flying bottles, 36 Brains, art of living without, 420 Bransley the comedian's acting by rote, 482
Brutus the second, 296
Bruyere's absent man, 101 Bubb Doddington's apology, 72 Buckingham, duke of, his character, by Dryden, 434
and father Fitz- gerald on transubstantiation, 258 -'s epigram on the monu
ment, 212 Bucks have at ye all, 268 Buffon, dullest chapter of, 230 Bulkeley, lord, and Duke of Dorset,
Bulls, epistolary, 138
parliamentary, 97
Bullum versus Boatum, 572
Bumper, origin of, 548
Canning's friend of humanity and knife grinder, 438 Canon and vicar, 39 Cantab and Cambridge mayor, 304 Cantabrigian analogy, 117
degree qualification, 273 Capability Brown on servants, 452 Captain Godolphin's exploits, 635 Captain's whiskers, a tale, 536 Capuchins of Burgundy, 168 Card-playing, Irish, 592
Cards and chess, invention of, 490 Card tricks of a Jew conjurer, 498 Care, antidote to, 486 Caroline, queen of George II., 467 Carpenter, country, equivoque of, 33
Bung-hole and spigot proverb, illus- Carriages, appropriate, 39
Cases, two different, 295
Cat, on the death of a lady's, 60 Catch, musical and legal, 532 Catching an accent, 576
Catherine Hays, ballad on, 620 Catholic convent, 339 Catholics, Luther's anathema of, 445 Catholicism and Protestantism, 679 Cause and effect, discovery of 489 Causes, good and bad, 53 Celebrity and not riety, 80 Celerity and ambition, 619 Celia and Damen, 36 Cerberus's successor, 126 Ceremony, ridicule of, 300 Chains, hanging in, 294 Chalk and cheese, 298 afflictions of, 84
bankrupt, 374 catholic, 378 cheat, 373
churchwarden, 382 clown, 381
degenerate noble, 371 epigrammatist, 384 herald, 383
huffing courtier, 372 jealous man, 384 justice of peace, 381 knave 374
new зmonger, 370 an obstinate man, 377 a philosopher, 384 play writer, 370 popish priest, 380 proud man, 376 quaker, 378 ranter, 379
Chester showman and his black Clerical linguist, excuse of, 640 servant, 194
Pennant's tour thro', 182 Chesterfield, lord, petition of, 286 and Johnson, 138 's test of polite- -on true nobility,670 age of, 663
Children of peasants and nobles, 233 Chimney-sweep and clergyman, 32 China collector disappointed, 401 China mug, on the breaking of a, 632 China and crockery, 67
Chinese maxim, 98
monopoly exposed, 632 preferment, 335
sin of overreaching, 473 Clifford, countess of Dorset, laconic refusal of, 511
Clifton Hot Wells, fatality of, 393 Cloncartie, carl of, and chaplain, 171 Clonmel, lord, his precaution, 70 Clothes, folly and vanity of, 608 Clubs, humours and characters of, 132 of epigrammatists meeting, 513 of odd fellows, 652 fat and lean, 445 origin of, 504
Chiswick, etymology and origin of, Coach, new name of, 163
Chivalry and priesteraft, 421
Choice company, bill of, 550, 212
of a wife, 345
spirits, club of, 306
Coachmen, importunity of, 402 Coachman and dairymaid, 30 's prayers, 131
Cobbler, the philosophic, 134
eccentric amours of, 440
Christening, or Peter and Joseph, 130 Cockle, sergeant, and countryman, 42
Christian forgiveness, 304
Church livery, 683
preferment, road to, 526
Churchill and the critics, 304
-'s character of Lothario,435 -s parallel between, 286 Churchwarden, or feast of a child,
Church-yard reckoning, 292 Cibber the comedian's infirmities, 79 Citizen at the opera, 60
dying farewell of a, 294 journal of, 114
City sportsmen, diary of, 400, 589 City wit, choice specimen of, 562 Civic conundrum, 203
dinner and guests, 522
Civil-list peace establishment, 84 Civility, ill-timed, 298 Civilities, costly, 218 Civil law, 333
Clapham academy, ode to, 665 Claret, Johnson and Burke on, 479 match, decision of, 482
Classic translation, true idioma of, 402 Clearing a title, 682
Clergyman, to a foppish, 156 Clerical calls, purity of, 526
chastisement,.511
comforts, catalogue of, 201 compliment, 535 gallantry and cariosity, 395 gormandizing, 682 learning, 391
Committal, the double, 130 Companion, patient, 97 Companionship, pleasures of, 399 Companions in exit, 66 Company dull at court, 63 Complaints on both sides, 64 Complaisant man, character of, 602 Compliment, uncourteous,
returned, 429 Composer, a great one, 94 Compulsory grief, 473 Compunction of creeds, 392 Conclusion, peremptory and justifi- able, 640
Concord, matrimonial, 53 Condemned sweep and highwayman, dispute between, 429 Conduct, diplomatic change of, 234 Confession, royal 35
of a jovial priest, 208 and disclosure, 230
Confessions of a bricklayer, 201
of the inconveniences of being hanged, 583 Conjugal love, 684
penetration, want of, 630 Connoisseurship, folly and affecta- tion of, 464, Conquest, the only, 94 Conscience, rates of, 347
specimen of a tailor's, 486
Consciences and beards, 59
Consequence, how to assume, 28 Consolation for a spendthrift, 20 matrimonial, 27
of the world, 227
Constantia Philips and her two hus- bands, 365
Consultation, medical, 77 Contentment and repose, 660
humour, secrets of, 541 Contraband intellect, 302 Contradiction, spirit of, 341 Conversation, art and finesse of, 546 Conversion, the Otaheitan, 107
royal attempts at, 392 Convivial souls, club of, 422 Conviviality, apology for, 111 Cook, the travelling, 146 Cooke, George, 466 Cookery, last c Shik:
Cool retort, 3; Copper and L
Coquette, the old one, 107 to an old one, 431 dialogue of, 13
Coquetry and gallantry, 179 Corkscrew, the lost, 472
Cornet and the farmer's wife, 289 Cornish curate and lawyer, 171 Correction, benefit of, 655
Cotton the Jesuit and Henry IV. 233 Counsels' opinion, taking, 448 Counsellor defeated, 494
Country commissions, 521
justice, duties of, 552
theatre, humours and ec-
centricities of, 479 Countryman and razor-seller, 348 Couple, the careless, 146 Couplet on a pane of glass, 318 Court and city fools, 106 Court and city gaieties, 524
fools, services of, 527 Courtship and marriage, distinction of, 495
Coventry, mayor of 15, 86
Cowper's case of Nose & Eyes, 328 Coxcombry reproved, 174 Craniology outwitted, 29
of humps & bumps, 646 lecture on, 647
Creditor, grievances of, 511 Crim. con. novel, 289
Critic, address to, 406
disappointed, 124
Currency, importance of 425 Curses, price of, 387
simultaneous, 293 Curtis's, sir William toasts, 35 Cutting, variety and art of, 278 mistake, 304
Dagger Mar and Garrick, 416 Dainty criminal, 434 Damnation, victims to, 403 Damned authors, club of, 619 Soul, Italian play of, 549 Dancing card, extraordinary, 122 Daniel v. Dishclout, 567 D'Avenant, sir W. 29 David Jones, 391
Dancourt, the playwright, 16 Day, on Mr., who ran away from his landlord, 122
definition of, by Swift, 430, 681 Debt, advantages of being in, 108 Criticism defined by Swift, 684 Critics, their favours, 29
author's expectation from, 591 in black, or lisping lady, 203
Crooked words, 29
Cross readings in verse, 353 Crossing proverbs, 414
Crow, Dr. and Isaac Shove, 360 Crowns, various, 50
Crucifixion, illustration of the, 292 Cuckolds counting, 90 Cucumber forcing, new method of,675 Cumberland, duke of, at battle of Dettingen, 78
Debts, methods of contracting, 335 Debtor and creditor, sympathy be- tween, 44
-'s anxiety, remedy for, 474 Decanter, address to, 178 Decency and danger, 445 Deception, laudable, 61 Deficiency, mutual, 55 Defunct insolvent, letter from, 449 Deicides, English, 233 Dejeuné, description of, 622 Delay, prudent and profitable, 49 Deluge, reasons for crediting, 485 Democritus and Heraclitus, 280 Dennis, John, criticism of, 230
Cunningham on sabbath breaking, 90 Dermody's expostulation to a tailor,
Curacy, weekly journal of, 407
Curate and rector, 154
Despotism, true spirit of, 637 Deserter, novel, 24 Dettingen, battle of, 78 Devil, biography of, 687
buying and selling the, 391
between an Irish innkeeper and Englishman, 411 Diamond cut diamond, 299 Diary of a man of fashion, 300 Difficult task, 28
Difficulties, equality of, 20 Digression from an argument, 345 Dilatory inclinations, 20 Dilemma, difficult, 76
Dinner, economical and genteel, 309 in the steam-boat, 561
party of fashionables, 535 and philosophy, 349
Discovery, unfortunate, or the watch- man's mistake, 420
Discipline, military and moral, 51 Dispute, the hungry, 300 a family one, 30 Dissipation, cure for, 292 Divine, qualifications of a good one,
Divines of the 17th century 243 Divinity, best body of, 646
Do as other folks do, 654
Do as other people do, a maxim, 510 Dobbs, Mrs. and her tea party, 252 Doctor and captain, 342
Doctors Cheyne and Winter, 135 Doctrine,wholesome & efficacious,301 Dodd, the comedian, entertaining stories of, 413
-'s sermon on malt, 291 Dog latin, 300
Doldrum, Curran's explanation of,48] Dorinda, amours of, 145 Doris, frolics of, 20 Double confession, 158 defeat, 421
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