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-in wine, food, work, injurious, 203; premature old age,
203.

'Exercise,' a poem, 337-342; forming part of Arm-
strong's Art of Preserving Health. See Armstrong.
Exercise, 49, 254; in the garden recommended, 83;-
precepts respecting, 337-342; —various kinds recom-
mended, 337, 338;-angling, gardening, 338; - choose
that which is most agreeable, 338; effects of too sud-
den; cough, asthma, pneumonia, 338, 339; avoid tricks
of strength (tours de force), and exercise moderately,
339;best times for, 340;-winter requires much,
summer less, 340; cool of summer morning, 340; chilling
dews, 340; - promotes good sleep, 310; exercise not
upon meals, 341.

Exhalations, cause tempests, 146. Exile of Siberia, 403.
Exotics, arrangement of, in green-house, 85; a precarious
dependence, in gardening, 174; their fate on the Swale, a
tale, 174; - how to dispose of, 175; culture of encour-
aged, 272, 273.

Expense, useless, in landscape gardening, 161.
Experience, her gifts in farming, 380.

Extremes of moist or dry, avoid in a house-site.

Factionists are like weeds, 85.

Factories prevent beggary, 505.

Fairies, 151.

Fakenham Ghost: a ballad, by Bloomfield, 73, 74.

Fall of the leaf, meditations, 306.

Fallows, 208; rotation of crops, ashes, 208.

Falsehoods, monumental, 409, 410.

Families and men of West England, 382, 383.
Family estate, squandered; 'improved or spoiled, 86, 87.
Family gathering, 316.
Famine, 201. See Hunger.

Fancy, 152; poetic and artistic, invocation to, 161; tasked
to improve wet grounds, 162; -truth and memory form
the poet, 41.

Farm, buying of a, 55; — - utensils, 56;-winter the time
to choose one, 55; - described, by Dodsley, 57; - good
management of, 21; tastefully laid out, 63; walks, wall
fruits, esculents, 63; - ruined by sloth, 60, 61 ; — prod-
ucts of, 65-70; tools, described, 56; - Roman, 209;
ploughs, wagons, sled, tumbril, hurdles, flail, van, 209; —
farm-yard, described by Dodsley, 57; haystacks, wheat-
stacks, wood-piles, cattle, swine, 57.
Farm laborers, ploughmen, mower, thresher, shepherd,
girls, spinners, dairy-maids, etc., 56; how to hire, 56.
Farmer, trust and hope of, 42;-tools of, 56; - employ-
ments and enjoyments of, 57;- peace, health, serenity,
57; his sole enemies, fox, badger, kite, stote, weasel,
partridge, hare, otter, mole, 57, 58;his contented hap-
piness, 58; -rural independence, 58;- free from cer-
tain temptations, 58; his homestead, 58; - the young
farmer advised to frugality, temperance, industry, 55; -
foresight of, 193; - surveying his crops, 194;— gratitude
of, 194-exultation of, 194; -ripening crops of, 194;-
going to the harvest-field, 195; and his wife, evening
labors of, 210, 211; the cook, 211;-Roman farmer, his
social enjoyments, 221;- the Sabines; Romulus, Remus,
221; farmers congratulated on their happiness, did they
but know it, 219, 220; contrasted with the luxury of pal-
aces, 219, 220; joys of the farmer, 220, 221; the suc-
cessful farmer, 272;- life of, contrasted with that of the
sailor and soldier, 309, 310;-occupations, enjoyments,
and amusements, 375, 376;-'Farmer, The,' an ode,
by Thomas Herrick, 375, 376; hospitality, and happi-
ness, and temperance, 388;-fire of; wood, fireplace,
chimney, loft, plenteous kitchen, 446; the farmer and
his hands at the winter fireside, 446; his instructive con-
versation, 446, 447.

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Farmer-husband, the good, 372; more comfort than show,
372, 373; good farmer-wife, 373;- neither simperer nor
drudge, 373.

Farmer-boy and sailor-boy, their lots compared, 446.
Farmer's Boy, the, a poem, by Bloomfield, 41-44, 193-
197, 331-335, 445-449. See Bloomfield; Giles.
Farming art, worthy of poetry, 4; science and art of, 58;
its history and progress, 271; manuring, liming, marling,
mixing of soils, 271, 272; witchcraft, the, of spade and
plough, anecdote, 272; pursue approved methods, 272;
be wise as to novelties, 272.

Farming and poetry, 271.

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Fashionable country palaces, 86; follies, 459.
Fat, unhealthy, 199; fat-tailed sheep, 500.
Father Thames, his oration on peace (Pope), 294.
Fear, the worst of evils, 452; body diseased by ails of the
mind, 452; - vanishes before truth and innocence, 448.
Feast, at harvest home, 196; simple plenty, 196; frothing
ale, hazel-nuts, laughter, and song, 196; change in its
character, 197.

Feeding the young horse and bull, 224.
Fences, the art of making, 61, 62, 168; necessary defects,
168; sunken, how made, 169; for deer, for sheep, 169;
wire fence, string fence, elm and oak fence, 169; painted
fences, 169;-living, of children, 170. See Painted.
Ferme orné (French), an ornamented farm,' the result of
landscape gardening, 161–184.

Festival at shearing-time, 495; Welsh flower-festival, 496.
Festivals, negro, of the West Indies, 441.
Fever-and-ague, personified, 48.

Fevers, what localities produce them, 48.
Fiddler, of the May-day festival, 90.
Fiddler, bagpipe, December dances, 388.
Fidele's Tomb: a ballad, by William Collins, 290.
Field, summer preparation of; summer showers, 193, 194.
Fine arts, in the country, 267.

Fire, the origin of motion and form, note, p. 58.
Fishes, various, characterized by Browne, 156.
Fishing, a rural sport, 28, 29; bad habits in, 29.
Fireside, winter, 265;-cards, billiards, wine, reading
aloud, 265, the Happy, a ballad, 443.

First of December,' an ode 416.

Fish and oil, food of the Arctics, 202; no vegetables, 202.
Flail, 56.
Flax, British, 66.

Flies and fly-time, 195.

Fleece, the, a poem (three of the four books), by John Dyer,
489-509; Book I., Sheep, 489-496; Book II., Wool,
496-502; Book III., Woollens, 503-509.

Fleece, picking and sorting of the, 496, 497; moth, wool-
collectors, merchants, operatives, 497; fabrics of, 497; -
how to secure a clean and white, 226.

Flemish weavers, migrate to England, 507.
FLETCHER, GILES, son of Dr. Giles Fletcher, and author of a
fine poem called Christ's Victory and Triumph; born
1588, died 1623. Phineas Fletcher was his elder brother.
Their father, Dr. Giles, was also a poet.
FLETCHER, JOHN, born 1576, died 1625. He was celebrated
as a dramatist, and with Beaumont wrote plays. He was
cousin to Phineas and Giles.

FLETCHER, PHINEAS, born 1584, died 1650. He was a
clergyman of the Church of England, and wrote The
Purple Island,' a poetical allegory.

FLETCHER'S, JOHN, 'Shepherd's Eve,' an ode, 368.
FLETCHER'S, PHINEAS, 'Shepherd's Life,' an ode, 488.
Flocks, care of, 449; in winter, 398.

Flood. See Deluge.

Flora, bower of, 179; her statue, 179, 180; visit to it, 181;-
of the tropics, 142.

Flowers, forest, of spring, 132; wilted, 137; compared to a
fevered girl, 137.

Flower-festival of the Welsh sheep-shearing, 496.
Flowers of the Forest: a ballad of Flodden Field, 357.
Fly, artificial, and fly-fishing, 28, 29.
Foliage, in landscape gardening, 162, 163.
Folly, reproof of it little hopeful, 79; disgust, 80.
Folly of many desires, 263, 264.
Food, animal reprobated, 7; idiosyncrasies as to, 200; none
agrees with all, 200; experience a guide as to, 200; ani-
mals, 200; change of, 201; vegetable food of the tropics,
202; grapes, oranges, melons, cocoanuts, pine-apples,
acids, palms, plantains, 202.

Fools compared to dry clods, 194;-and bravoes, 195;
their savage jokes, 195.

Footman and farmer, 372; spruceness versus worth, 372.
Forbes, eulogized, 306.

Forcing process, of early vegetables, remarks on, 84.
Forenoon, in summer, 137.

Foresting, how managed in a landscape, 163-172; - not
sung by Virgil, 172, 173.

Forests, their use in correcting a too dry locality, 49; -
their renovation in spring, 131; - glooms of, haunts of
meditation, 140; bards and prophets, guardian angels,
140.

Forest Hymn, by W. C. Bryant, 39, 40.
Forest-trees, 248; their culture, 62; - description of
growth of, 62;-the various trees and their uses; beech,
box, yew, linden, birch, ash, osier, chestnut, 62 ; — colors
of; pine, poplar, beech, yew, fir, oak, 75; willow, poplar,
ash, elm, oak, maple, beech, lime, sycamore, 248.
Forest-trees, planting of, 272, 273; each exotic recalls its
native land, 272, 273; education of trees compared to
that of children, 273.

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Fossil impressions of plants, 278.
Foundling, the parish, 321, 322.

Fowling, described by Pope, 292; by Gay, 30; by Delille,
266; deprecated, 266.

Fox, the, and his victims, 43;-and stag-hunting, 30;-
chase of, 334, 353, 354 ; — revel after the hunt, 302.
Frailty and forced marriage, 259.

Freedom, British, eulogized, 183; patriot virtues, 183;-
true, 471, 474; use of, 472; struggles for liberty, 471.
See Liberty.

Freeholds, small, commended, 35.

'Freeze,' a stiff, 402; waterfall, brook, sheep, 402.
French and English gardening, 272.

Friend, the, in the country, 267; childhood's scenes re-
viewed, 267;-circle of cultivated friends on summer
evening, 148, 149.

Friendship, 247; necessary, 267;-in retirement, 365.
Frivolity, idleness, and the judgment-day, 364, 365.
Frost, its nature; frozen stream, 402; frostworks, 468.
Fruits, autumnal, 385; - cooling, of the tropics, 142; lem-
on, lime, orange, tamarind, fig, cedar, palmetto, cocoa,
palm, pomegranate, berries, pine-apples, 142; fruit-gath-
ering, 303.

Fuller's earth, British, 66, and note.

Funeral of the lady of quality, 409.

Fusca, the gypsy, in the May-day race, 98.

Future, thoughts of the, 365.

Gadfly, employed by Juno, precaution against, 223.

Gama, Vasco de, 145, and note.

Gambling, 86.

Gambols of animals, sympathy with, 44.
Game, murder of, reprobated by Cowper, 82.
Games of the May, 91; prizes, 91. See May Games.
GALLAGHER, WILLIAM D., one of the leading writers of the
west,' was born of Irish parents, in Philadelphia, in 1808.
His father emigrated in 1798. He edited successively, at
Cincinnati, the Mirror, Literary Journal, and Hesperian.
In 1835-7 he published Erato, and in 1841 edited Selec-
tions from the Poetical Literature of the West.
GALLAGHER'S Western Autumn, 343.
Ganges, the, 142.
Gauder, insolent, 195, 196.
Ganderetta, cousin of Hobbinol, childhood of, 89, 90; -her
dancing at the May, described, 91; its magnificent effect
on Hobbinol, 91;- parting with Hobbinol, 95 ; — beauty
of, described, 98; - prepares for the May race, 98 ; — her
triumph, 99; her escape from Mopsa, 100.
Garden, the, spring bloom of, 4 ;- finished, 8;
8; its roots and herbs best for health, 64; - trees of
the, how to be cared for, S3; should be first well
planned, 85; - Early, described by Street, 130; — Lord
Bacon's, described, 165; a sweet picture, 165; - of Eden,
165, 510; of Abdolonymus, 171.

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Garden, the English: a poem, by Mason, 161-184. See Ma-
son's English Garden.

Gardens supplying London, 61; -and Gardening, by Dods-
ley, 63, 64;- Genius of, apostrophe to, 64; and gar-
den philosophy of Epicurus, 64; - Dutch, stiffness and
angularity of, 64;— vulgar taste in, 85; exercise in,
healthful, 338.

Gardener, his happiness; friendly rivalries in his art, 238.
Gardening, landscape, -see Mason's English Garden, 161
-184;-unknown to Romans, 161;-simplicity is true
taste in, 161; Bacon's remarks, 161; expensive folly and
stiffness of old-fashioned gardens, yews, holly, box, ca-
nals, terraces, 164; the reformers of, 165; Addison,
Pope, Kent, Southcote, Shenstone, Brown, 165, 166; ex-
hortation to true taste in, 166; and painting compared,
175; growth changes, 175; -conversation on art as ap-
plied to, 181;-French and English compared, 272 ; —
-reform in, illustrated by the story of Alcander. See
Alcander.

Gargarus, a mountain in the north-west part of Asia Minor.
Garrick's idolaters and idolatry satirized, 482, 483.
GARTH, SIR SAMUEL, addressed by Pope, 198. He wrote
a poem called the Dispensary, and was a physician of
extensive influence.

Gay, who are truly so, 250.

GAY, JOHN, born in Barnstable, Devonshire, England, in
1688, and died December 4, 1732. Apprenticed to a silk-
weaver, he got a discharge, and in 1711 published Rural
Sports, 27-31. Next year he was made Secretary to the
Duchess of Monmouth. He next published The Shepherd's
Week, and got one thousand pounds. His 'Beggar's
Opera, a Newgate pastoral,' met with unbounded ap-
plause, had a run of sixty-three nights on the stage, and
gave rise to the English opera. Gay soon amassed fifteen
thousand dollars by his writings, and laid it by.
GAY'S Rural Sports, 27 31. See Rural Sports.

Gelons, a people of Scythia, who lived in a wooden city;
supposed to have been originally a Greek trading, priestly
colony.

Gems, embryo buds, or germs.
Gems, mineral, from heat, 137.
George II., eulogized, 70.

Georgics, Virgil's, by Dryden, 207-236.; Georgic I., farm-
ing, soils, weather, 207-213; Georgic II., trees and
vines, 213-221; Georgic III., farm animals, 221-229;
Georgic IV., bees, 229-236; — described, 29.
Gemenos valley and its happy winter clime, 274.
Generosity, incitements to, 268.

Genius of Britain, invocation to the, by Dodsley, 55.

Genius of the place to be consulted in landscape gardening,
167.

Genius, its spark to be cherished, 170.

Gentle Shepherd, the: a pastoral, by A. Ramsay, 103-128.
Geologists, satirized for conceit, 81.
Geraldine, 293.

Geranium, of the green-house, 85.

Ghost, the fancied, and Giles, 447, 448;- Fakenham: a
ballad, 73; stories of, forbidden, 270.

Giles, the farmer's boy, his joys, sorrows, and ideas, 44;
condition, 44; educated by nature, 44; his home and
master, 42; scenes of his boyhood, 42; engaged in har-
rowing and sowing, 42; his walk at dawn, 42; his ma-
tins, 42; companions, 43; sent for the cows, 43; a ser-
vant of all work, 43; a shepherd, 44; his sheep-feeding,
44; his pride, sympathy, philosophy, 44; reposing, 194;
- his harvest employments, 195; treading down the
mow, 195; his Crusoe hut and disappointed hospitality,
333; foddering and watering cattle, 445; - ghost, 447,
448. See Farmer's Boy; Bloomfield.

GISBORNE'S Forest Walk in Spring: a poem, 131-133.
Goat, the, devoted to Bacchus, and why, 218; -utility of;
milk, hair; winter browse for, 225; summer feed, 226;
goats and sheep, 225, 226; Lybian flocks, 226.
Gobelin manufactory, 498.

GOD Everywhere: an extract, Mrs. Barbauld; - how far
comprehensible, 81;-made the country, man the town,
252; in all things, 475; -is life, 478; - God's Uni-
verse, the inheritance of the good man, 474, 475.
Gods, rural, invocations of Virgil to, 207.
Gods of the world, pleasure and gain, 485.
Goe, widow, tale of, 408, 409.
Golden Age, 221, 309, 310, 311; - or Shepherd's Age, 495;
described by Hesiod, 19; by Mason, 168; by Browne,
311;-contrast of with ours, 168; incredible now, 462.
GOLDSMITH, OLIVER, Dr., born in Ireland, Nov. 10, 1728,
died 4th April, 1774. He was the sixth of the nine chil-
dren of Rev. Charles Goldsmith, a poor curate, who be-
came rector of Lissoy parish, Kilkenny West, and here
the poet was brought up, and found the materials for his
Deserted Village. Graduated at Dublin College, he tried
law and medicine, made the tour of Europe on foot, and
returned to live by his pen. After extreme poverty, his
income, in 1773, was five to nine thousand dollars; but
he died ten thousand dollars in debt, though his writings
have placed the world infinitely more in his own debt.
GOLDSMITH'S Deserted Village, 35-38.

Good feeding of slaves, 439; beans, rice, flour, cod, her-
rings, 439.

Good man, his quiet life and happy death, 486.
Gorgonius, his cudgel-play at May-day games, 95; defeat, 96.
Gossiping and idleness, dissuaded from, 22.
Gout, 246.

Government, formation of, 298.
Glades, wild-wood, of Great Britain, 164.
Glass bottles; glass-blowing, 387, 388.
Glatsurn, 66.

Gleaners, 194;-song, by Robert Bloomfield, 290.
Glib, Dr., supplants the midwife, 413; his plea, 413.
Glory, the field of, a pernicious school, 463.
Glossary, Scotch, 26, 336, 186, 540; Old English, 16, 34.
Glow-worm, 151.

GRACES, the, 8; three Grecian deities, daughters of Jupiter
and the ocean nymph, Euronyme, and named Brightness,
Joy, and Bloom. See note, p. 8.

Grafting (Virgil), 214; culture of wild trees; transplanting,
wild seedlings, 214; budding, 214.
Grafting apple-trees, ineyeing, &c. (Philips), 379, 380.
Grafton, in Suffolk, England, 42.
GRAHAME, REV. JAMES, born in Glasgow, in 1765, and died
14th Sept., 1811. He studied law, but afterwards became
a curate, till ill-health obliged him to give up his curacy.
He wrote Mary Queen of Scotland, Sabbath, Sabbath
Walks, Biblical Pictures, Birds of Scotland, and British
Georgics.

GRAHAME'S Poor Man's Sabbath, 330.
GRAINGER, DR. JAMES, born in England, 1721; died in the
West Indies, in 1766. He studied medicine in Edinburgh,
was in the army, and afterwards practised in London. He
published a poem on Solitude, in 1755; went to St. Chris-
topher's, W. I., in 1759, commenced practice there, mar-
ried a lady of fortune, and wrote his Sugar Cane, 417-442.
GRAINGER'S Sugar Cane: a poem, 417-442.

Grand Moguls, description of their vast hunts, 351-353.
GRANVILLE, Lord, addressed by Pope, 291; tribute to, 293.
Grape-pressing, time of, 23.

Grasshopper (cicada, screech-locust): an ode, translated
from the Greek of Anacreon, by Cowley, 262.

Gratitude of the farmer, 66.

Grave, flower planted, a Swiss custom, 267.
Gravedo, what site occasions it, 50.

Graves before and griefs behind, soliloquy, 373.

GRAVES, REV. RICHARD, born 1715, died 1804; wrote 'Spir-
itual Quixote,' &c. ;-his Ballad to the Birds, 129.
GRAY, THOMAS, born in London, Dec. 26, 1716; died May
31, 1771. After leaving Cambridge, he travelled over
Europe with Horace Walpole. In 1712 he took the degree
of Bachelor of Civil Law, at Cambridge, where he chiefly
resided during the rest of his life, devoting himself to
poetry. In 1750 he finished his Elegy; in 1757 refused
the office of poet laureate; and in 1768 was appointed,
without solicitation, to the professorship of Languages and
History, at Cambridge, with two thousand dollars salary.
He never read lectures, however, and this delinquency
wore upon his enfeebled health. He finished several of

his poems at Stoke, where is his tomb.
GRAY, monumental medallion of, note, p. 172;- Mason's
tribute to, 172;- the lines of Gray's Elegy alluded to at
p. 172, note, are not in the copy, pp. 237, 238; but appear
in Gray's first edition. They are as follows:

Here scattered oft, the loveliest of the year,

By hands unseen, are showers of violets found;
The redbreast loves to build and warble here,
And little footsteps lightly print the ground.
GRAY'S Elegy, 237, 238; epitaph, 238;- ode on the Spring,
101;-ode on Vicissitude, 16.

Great Britain, apostrophe to, on her products, 66; — a pan-
egyric on, 149-151; her great men, 149, 150; power
and glory, 390, 391. See Britain; British; England.
Great men, of Greece and Rome, 400. See Mighty Dead.
Greek Husbandry, ancient, 20-24; precepts for (Hesiod),
20;-worthies, 399, 400. See Mighty Dead.

GREENE, ROBERT, writer, dramatist, and poet; died 1592;
- Shepherd and his Wife, 510.

Greenhouse, the, described by Cowper, 84, 85.

Grief, soothed by the practice of beneficence, 183; - for the
dead, 260; a substitute, 260.

Grongar Hill, in the south of Wales, prospect from, 77 ;-
described by Dyer, 75, 76.

Grog-shops, their inmates; discord, profanity; why they
cannot be suppressed, 461, 462.

Grove, the ornamental, and its ruins, 63; — a solemn; for
contemplation, 141; - one described, and its trees, 156;
qualities of the trees, 156.

Groves, the Passion of the, of birds, 9.

Growth, how to be managed in landscape gardening, 175;
pruning and thinning, 175; changes should not discour-
age, 175.

Guardian Angels, 140.

Guinea slave-trade, 145.

Guava, 417.

Gunning, described by Gay, 30.
Gypsy, the: a ballad, by G. Crabbe, 392-394.
Gypsy camp, 250, 251; —arts, 251;-sloth, jollity, 251;
civilization, 251.

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Hades, the shades, the world of spirits, supposed by the
ancients to be under the earth.

Hæmus, the Balcan, a range of mountains between Thrace

and Moesia, five hundred miles long, from the Black Sea
to the Gulf of Venice.

Hagley Park, described, with note on, 12; by Dodsley, 64;
cut of, 190.

Hail and rain storm, in summer, 146; lightning, blasted
trees, cattle, tower, mountains; Scotch isles, 146.
Hale, Sir Matthew, eulogized by Cowper, 82.
Hales, Dr., his theory of nature, and note, 59.

Hall of Justice (or Gypsy): a ballad, by Crabbe, 392–394.

Ham, England, as a home, 48.
HAMILTON, WILLIAM, of Bangour, a Scotch gentleman of
education, rank, and accomplishments,' was born in Ayr-
shire, Scotland, in 1704, and died at Lyons, France, in
1754. He joined the Pretender, in 1745, celebrated the
battle of Gladsmuir, and was obliged to flee the country;
but was pardoned, and his paternal estate restored. His
Braes of Yarrow was the cause of Wordsworth's three Yar-
row poems.

HAMILTON'S Braes of Yarrow, 465, 466;-Love-song,' 188.
Hamlet, the, by Warton, 159.

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Happiness of the country life (Virgil), 219–221; — pursuit
of, 453.

Happy Fireside a ballad, 000; - marriages, 372, 373.
Happy Mean, the, by Cheetham, 324.
Harcourt, Earl of, address to (Philips), 384.
Hare, the, tamed by Cowper, 82;-described, 82; —morn-
ing, 136; her instincts, 348; hunting of the hare, 349
-351; preparations, 349; whipping in, throwing off,
putting on, full cry, 349; excitement; school-boy, trav-
eller, ploughman, shepherd, villager, 349, 350; shifts,
killed at last, 350, 351; Orpheus, 351, the hounds' per-
quisite, 351;-hunting, 29, 30; in Windsor Forest, 292.
Harebell, 132.
Harley, Robert, 383.

Harmony of styles in buildings, 181.
Harmonies and contrasts of nature, 278.
Harp of Prophecy, 483.

Harrowing, 194; and sowing, 42, 43; harrow, 56.
Harvest, 65, 66, 194, 195, 299; - tempest in, 211; - glean-
ers, 299; gathered; dance, cudgel-play, 308;-festival
of harvest-home, 65, 196; -harvest-field, 195; happy
groups in the, 195; - harvest-moon, 307;-harvest songs
lighten slave labor, 430; harvest-home festival, 65, 66.
Harvest-home feast, or the Horkey: a ballad, by R. Bloom-
field, 328, 329.

Haunts of meditation, 63; -- - solemn, of nature, 307.
Hawk's nest, 8; hawking, described by Gay, 30.
Hawthorn, spring revival of, 131; - blossoming, 444 ; —
how cultivated and defended, 61.

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Hay, how to protect it from wet, mow-burning, and sponta-
neous combustion, 65.

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nuts, 303.

Haying or Hay-making, described by Gay, 27 ; — by Dods-
ley, 65; by Thomson, 139.
Hazel and wild olive to be rooted up, 217;
Health: an eclogue, by T. Parnell, 254.
Health, Armstrong's Art of Preserving. See Armstrong.
Health, laws of, subject of the poem Art of Health, 47, &c.
See Armstrong ;- address to, 47; attributes and power
of Hygeia, or health, 47;-influence of moral causes
on, 451;-nice rules of are for the delicate, not the
strong, 337; of the laborer, 337; indifferent to changes,
337; general precepts suffice, 339.

Heartless obsequies, 409.

Heat, 139, 140; general effects of, 146; — effects of extreme,
141-146; drought, earthquakes, volcanoes, 146; heat-
lightning, 152.

HEATHCOTE, SIR JOHN, 503.
Heathenism, rebuked, note, p. 7.
Heaven, spring of, 405.

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Heberden, 362.

Hedges, sloe, holly, hawthorn, how to make, plant, and cul-
tivate, 61, 62; English hedges in spring, 44; - for West
India cane-fields; lemons, limes, oranges, logwood, cas-
tor-oil, acacia, privet, carnation; stone fences, cactus,
wild liquorice, myrtle, 422.
Hedgerow, birds and flowers, 61; crab-trees, use of, 62.
Hedging and ditching, 61, 63.
HELEN, HELENA, a proverb for beauty, daughter of Leda
and Jupiter, under the form of a swan. Besides being
carried off by Theseus, she had some thirty distinguished
princes, as suitors, one of whom, Menelaus, King of
Sparta, was her choice. The others, having agreed to
abide by and defend her choice, took up arms against
Troy, when Paris, the Trojan guest of Menelaus, eloped
with Helen to Troy. See Agamemnon.

HELLE, and her brother Phryxus, fled from Ino, their step-
mother, across the Dardanelles, on a golden-fleeced ram,
through the air. Helle fell into the Straits; hence the
Greeks called the Dardanelles Helle's Sea, Hellespont.
Helicon, the fount of the Muses, on Parnassus; deserted,
muddled, 77.

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HENRY, Don, of Portugal, gives impulse to navigation, 145,
and note.

Henry VI., 294; Henry VII., 390.

HERBERT, THE HON. AND REV. WILLIAM, published, in 1806;
translations from the Norse, Italian, Spanish, and Portu-
guese; and in 1838, Attila, an epic. He also wrote
Helga, a poem founded on Scandinavian history, from
which is the extract, p. 46.
HERBERT'S Northern Spring,' 46.

Herbs, their properties and virtues, 281; - botanizing,
Jussieu, 281, 282.

Hercules, god of physical strength, son of Jupiter and Alc-
mena. His exploits and twelve labors (see Eurystheus)
are a fruitful theme of mythical lore. Some consider Her-
cules to represent Moloch, the tutelar god of Tyre; and
his labors as her colonizations. See Tyre. Others refer
his exploits to the progress of the sun in the zodiac.
Herd, disturbed at noon; herds and flocks, group of, 140.
Herefordshire, praise of, and its products, 382.
HERMES, the Greek name for the Egyptian Thoth, and the
Latin Mercurius. In Egypt he was a god of knowledge,
wisdom, science, the interpreter of the gods; in Greece,
only their messenger, and the errand-boy of Jupiter par-
ticularly. From being protector of the desert caravans
of Egypt, he became, in Greece and Rome, the god of
trade, lying, fraud, travelling, thieving, money, and money-
getting. See Mercury.

Hermit, the, by James Beattie, 296.
Hero-worship, 296.

Heroes, good eating expedient for, 96.

Heroic Age, Hesiod's description of, 19, 20.

HERRICK, ROBERT, an exquisite lyric poet, born in London,
1591. Charles I. gave him the vicarage of Dean Prior,
from which civil war drove him; he, however, returned to
it at seventy years of age. Associating with jovial spirits,
he left off for a while his title of reverend. He asks God's
forgiveness for his light poetry, but reprints it!
HERRICK'S Farmer, 375, 376; Thanksgiving, 192.
Hertford, Countess of, complimented, 37, and note.
HESIOD, the famous Greek poet, born at Asera, in Boeotia;
murdered at Oenoë. His date is uncertain, some making
him previous to and others contemporary with Homer.
HESIOD'S Works and Days,' 19-24; Work,' abridged,
19-23; Days,' in full, 23, 24.

HESPER, the evening star, 25; hanging over Hesperia, the
West, a name the Greeks gave first to Italy, then to Spain.
HEYWOOD, JOHN; poet, jester, and playwright; died 1565.
HEYWOOD's Shepherd's Song, 130.

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'Hid from himself, now by the dawn: a song (XII.), 113.
High life, has its peculiar troubles, 259.
High tide, ruinous effects of, 256.

Highways and byways, of English woollen trade, 508.
Highway robbery, not so bad as political corruption, 87.
Hildebrand, hill-champion, at the May; his mishap, 93.
Hindoos and English, compared, as to manufactures, 507.
HIPPOCRATES, a famous physician, born B. C. 460, on the
island of Cos (Stanco). He claimed descent from Æscula-
pius, and was contemporary with Plato and Socrates.
HIPPOCRATES, his reasons for a water beverage, 202, 203.
HIPPODAME, wife of the King of the Lapitha, at whose wed-
ding the Centaurs were slain. See Centaurs.
History, its pretensions satirized, 80; false, inadequate, 81.
Hobbinol, or Rural Games: a burlesque poem, by W. Som-
erville, 89-100. See May-Games.

HOBBINOL, senior, a great man in his village, his pipe,
wicker-chair, sloth, and grandeur, 89; his only son
and family, 89, 90.

HOBBINOL (JR.), and his fair cousin Ganderetta, 90; see
Ganderetta ;-the valley champion, 91;- his leave-tak-
ing of Ganderetta, after the model of Hector towards An-
dromache, at Troy, 95; encourages Ganderetta to the
race, 97, 98;-king of the May, 99; - dismayed by
Mopsa; his sin finds him out, 99; — arrested, 100.
Hoe, 56;- -hoe-plough, use of, 60.

Hogs, feeding of, 43; in the woods, 331, 332.
Holland, labors of, 276.

Holidays, rural, recommended, 270.

Holly, spring revival of, 131.

HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, son of Rev. Dr. Holmes, born
at Cambridge, 1809; graduated at Harvard. Besides
variously employing his humorous pen, Dr. H. has long
practised medicine in Boston. In 1838 he became Pro-
fessor of Anatomy and Physiology at Dartmouth, and in
1847 at Harvard.

HOLMES'S Spring Scene,' 102.

Home, origin of, 152; the sweets of, 298;- of Thyrsis,
the herdsman, and Patty, the milkmaid, 69; best sites
for homes; bad localities for, 48. See Homestead.
Home-brewed ale, 195.

Homely picture of a sterile tract, 255, 256.
Homestead, sunny, of Dyer, 77; what site for one is to be
avoided, 48;-of Hobbinol, the country squire, 89.
Honest man, described by Philips; peace of, 384.
Honor, formerly and now, 80.

HOOD, THOMAS, the comic poet, and a prose writer of no
mean abilities. He was the son of a bookseller, and born
in London in 1798, where he died in 1855. Bred to en-
graving, he left it for poetry. His Whims and Oddities,
and Comic Annual, illustrated by original and peculiar
drawings of his own, placed him at the head of humorists.
HooD's Season,' 357;-Ruth,' 290; -Autumn,' 375.
Hope: a pastoral, by Shenstone, 154;- and fruition, a
simile, by Dyer, 76; - deferred, 333; an excellent
physician, 454.

Hops, British, 66.

HORACE, QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS, the famous Roman
poet, born B. C. 65. He died A. D. 8, a few weeks after
his friend Mæcenas, whom he declared he could not sur-
vive. Horace had sterling qualities, among them good
sense and tenderness. His philosophy was eclectic, and
his satire impartial.

HORACE, as a poet of nature, 284.

Horror, in landscape, changed to grandeur, 167.
Horse, the, in spring, 11; - his headlong passion, 11;-
his plunge in the river, 140; -rearing, breeding, and
care of the, 69, 70; cruelty to the, 69; various
breeds of, 69, 70; the British, excellence of, 345 ; —
dray-horse, roadster, hunter, race-horse, 69; war-horse,
69, 70; Virgil's account of the breeding, rearing, train-
ing, and kinds of the, 222-224; stud-horse, 222; war-
horse, 222; horse Cyllarus, 222; the old, worn-out horse,
222; blood-horse, 222, 223; chariot race, 223; horse-
breakers, 223; management of the horse, 223; breeding,
223; care of brood mares, 223; training the young horse,
war-horse, and racer, 224; description of the race-horse,
224; feeding, 224; force of physical love, in the horse,
225; effects of Swiss plague on, 228.

Horse-mill, 385; horse-ploughing, 42; horse-shoeing, 312.
Hospitality of the farmer; temperance, 388; - of the cane-
planter, 423;-to the living; to the dead, 267.
Hot-bed, for cucumbers, how made, 84.
Hot-house, 179;-culture, costliness of, 84.
Hounds, breeds and management of, 345, 348; - British,
excellent, 345; - kennel, its make and management, 346;

discipline, 346; dogs seek medicinal herbs; dreaming,
346; various uses of different species; good points in
a hound, 346, 347; how to model a pack, 347; otter-
hound, talbot, 347; scent and scenting, 347, 348.
HOURS, the (Hora), the Seasons or Hours who had charge
of the gates of heaven. Hesiod makes them daughters
of Jupiter and Themis, and names them, Order, Jus-
tice, Peace.
Others call them daughters of Time, or of
the year, and make their number seven, ten, or twelve.
They presided over the seasons and the hours of the day.
House, should be dry, 50; airy, with lofty ceilings, 50;
aspect of 50.

Housewife, the happy, and her husband, 69.

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How shall I be sad when a husband I hae?' a song (v.),
106.

HOWARD, 333.

Humanity, erring, sympathy with, enforced, 81.
Humber, and Cam rivers, 177.

Humidity, of a residence, dispelled by good fires, 49; -
effects of, on health, modified favorably by good wines,
roast meats, temperance, exercise, activity, 49; - of the
sea-shore, residence in unhealthy, 48.

Humility, the road to truth, 82.

Hunger, its first calls should be obeyed, 201; feast moder-
ately after famine, 201.

Hunting of the lion, wolf, boar, 301, 302; the Grand
Moguls' described; camp, army, 352–353.

Hunter, the, has no true enjoyment of nature, $2.
Hurricane, its effects, 279; of summer and harvest, 300;
- of the West Indies, 426, 427; preparation for the hur-
ricane season, 426;- compared with a volcano, 426;
preludes, calms, sea-swell, clouds, birds, shifting winds,
actions of cattle, 426; signs in the moon, sun, stars,
pools, forests, mountains, 426; the hurricane described,
426, 427; hurricanes, 145,- ox-eye, 145.
Husband and wife, the happy, 14.
Husbandry, ancient Greek, description of by Hesiod, 20-24;
- Roman, in the Georgics, by Virgil, 207-236; — Tus-

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HYGEIA, the goddess of health, invoked, 47. She was
daughter of Esculapius, and commonly worshipped in the
same temple. She was represented in a long robe, hold-
ing a cup in one hand and a serpent in the other, which
twines round her arm, and drinks from the cup.'
Hymettus, a mount, famous for its honey, near Athens.
Hymus of Praise, rural, for March, 39, 40; Hymn of Na-
ture, 59; Hymn of Praise, for December, 444; for Janu-
ary, 466; Hymn of the Seasons, by James Thomson, 514,
515. See Rural Hymns; Psalms.

Iber, river, the Ebro, of Spain, 294.
Icebergs, 404; fields of ice, ice-thaw, 405.
Ice-palace, Russian, 468, 469

Ida, a famous mountain of Crete (Candia), on which Jove
was educated; also a mountainous region back of Troy,
in Asia Minor.

Ideal, in landscape gardening, 164.

Idleness, 21.

Idolatry of nature, 478.

Idols, of men, 482, 483; political idols, 483.
Idumea, Edom, between the Dead and Red Seas.
Ignorance, its disadvantages, 278.

Il Penseroso (the thoughtful), a poem, by Milton, 240, 241.
Immigrants, how a blessing, 508.

Immigration, of weavers into England from Flanders, 507;
its effect on British fabrics and commerce, 508; employ-
ments for aliens, 508.

'Immortality,' an extract from the works of Edward
Young, 358.

Immortality, brought to light, 131; solves the problems of
time, 405.

Imprisonment for debt, 399.

Improvements, 380; of land, 61; of old family estates,
86, 87.

Incubation, of birds, 10.

Indian summer, the, 356, 344, 343.
Independence of the U. S., 442.

Indians (Hindoos), character of, 251; Indus, 143.

Indifference to human woes and progress, is inhuman, 81.
Indoor pleasures, 388; December; buxom dances, 388;
fiddler, bagpipe, 358.

Industry recommended, 21; - rural, 268 ; — the civilizer,
293;-gifts of to winter, spring, summer, autumn, 299.
Inequality of conditions, growing, 196.

Ineyeing fruit-trees, 380.

Infant, dispositions and abilities of, 269, 279; - reflections
on death of, 409.

Infidel, of the village, 322.

Influence, in a village, 268.

Innocence, sleeping in death, described, 157.

Insanity, general, of mankind, 80; — causes of, 482.
Insect-life, its infinitude, 138; in the fen, leaf, forest, boughs,
fruit, pool, air, liquids, 138; fate of, 138, 139; its won-
ders, 360. See Insects.

Insects, 194; habits of, 194;-north-born, dreadful rav-
ages of, 4; how to destroy them, 4; of summer, de-
scribed, 137, 138; fate of, 138, 139; - wonderful con-
trivances bestowed on them, 283;-destructive to cane,
425; remedies, 425, 426.

Inspiration of the rural author (Bloomfield), 41.
Instinct, of love, in spring, ascribed to the Creator, 11; —
of animals, explained (Virgil), 232;—that of the roe-
buck; of the hare, 348;- lessons from it, 482.
Intemperance and its curses, 203; the cruel curse of the
poor, 461;- some of its horrors, 389; quarrels, sickness,
gout, stone, atrophy, dropsy, 389; the Centaurs, 389;
patriotic prayer, 389.

Interest to rural pictures, how to give, 286, 287, 288.
Internal improvements, for trade, 509.

Inundation, 300.

Invocation to the powers of poetry, 314.

Iron Age, the, Hesiod's description of, 20.

Iron, British, 66; smelting of iron ore, 66.

Irrigation, 63; - of soils, 208; Mysia, Gargarus, 208; -
artificial, in dry climates, 274, 275 ; - of the earth, 305.
Irritable, cautions to the, 455.

Isis, a river flowing by Oxford, 198, 294.

Island of life, the, 360, 361.

Islander (Omai), of the South Seas, 251, 252.

Ismarus, a vine-covered mountain of Thrace.

Ister, the river Danube.

'Italian Cot: 'a sonnet, by Samuel Rogers, 324.
Italy, praises of, by Virgil, 215; its climate and products
preferred to all others, 215; its cities, seas, lakes, and
rivers, lauded, 215; its various races of men, 216; great
men, 216; apostrophe to, 216.

'I yield, dear lassie, you have won :' a song (vi.), 107, 108.
Jack, the Giant-killer, 316.

Jack, good-natured, but wild (Cowper), 364; Granby's offer,

364.

Jail committee, 399; imprisonment for debt, 399.
Jamaica lauded, 418; its red soil, 418.

James I. (VI.), 390; union of Scotland and England, 390.
Jaundice, localities favorable to, 48.

Jay, 132;-love-song of, 9.

Jealousy, torments of, described, 13, 14.

JENKS, W., REV. DR., Pindaric Ode on Winter, 456.

Job's comforters, modern, satirized, 362.

Jointing season of the cane, 421.

JONES, an American writer in the U. S. Literary Gazette.
JONES'S Autumnal Hymn, 358.

Jove, used for the rain,' 21. See Jupiter.

Joys of wedded love, 333.

Judgment day, pursuits of men in view of, 365.

Julius port. See Avernus.

June, the month of, by Thomson, 136.

Junio and Theana, story of, 427, 428.

JUSSIEU, the great French botanist, 281, 282; delights of,

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King and queen of the May, 99; their thrones, 99.
Kirk, gaffer Nathan, and his young nurse bride, 369.
Knaves, gentlemanly, caressed by society, 80; severity
to little, lenity to great, 252.
Knoll of flowers, 85.

Knowledge, human, has its assigned limits, 81.

Labor, 249; labor, war, peace, and commerce, 137, 138; -
labor leads art, in beautifying a desert, 162, 249; — its
dues and claims of, 196, 197; the source of wealth, 55;
a blessing, 249; labor, care, and piety, necessary to useful
results; weeds, darnel, birds, 209; ill-health, 256;
aches and ails attendant on toil, 256; exposure, 256; -
subdues waters and secures abundance, 276; - simplic-
ity, exercise, its rewards as to health, 337; honor to labor
anciently, 503.

Laborer, the, commended to governmental care, 55 ; — his
claims, 197; asleep, his happiness, 76; his digestion
good, 199; see peasant, 220; -true sympathy with
him, 255; - exposures of his health; overtasking of, his
manly pride, food, often stinted and unhealthy, 256; aged,
worn-out laborer derided, and his performances jeered at,
256; his despair, 257;- youthful, 256;-aged, 257;
-pauper, his despairing complaint, 257; burial of, 258;
--sympathy with the, 445-449;-lament of one, 197:
laborers should be looked after, 83; scanty comforts of,
in winter, 460, 461;-criminals and paupers often more
comfortable than the, 461.

Labyrinths, in gardening, reprobated, 166.
Laconia, Sparta, a Grecian state famous for the vigor of its
institutions, which gave it a life of 500 years.

Lady of quality, her burial; unused country mansion; stew-
ard; heartless obsequies; monumental falsehoods, 409.
Lakes of Italy, 215; Como, Garda, Lucrinus, Avernus, port
Julius, 215, 216; - ruin by outbursting of, 278.
L'Allegro (the merry): a poem, by Milton, 239, 240.
Lambkins, innocence, sympathy, 44; doomed to death, 44;
-treatment of, May-feeding, 492; care of new-dropped,
493.

Lambs, at play, 11, 44; the butcher, 44; -night-fallen,
care of, 448; bereaved ewes, how to assuage their grief,
448, 449. See Lambkins.

Landholders, exhorted to honesty and liberality with the
young farmer, 55; -address of the veteran hunter to,

345.

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