W.

W——, vi. 456.

—— (Lady), vi. 461.

—— (Mrs), vi. 406.

Wadd, Mr (in Pigeons and Crows), viii. 469.

Wade, William, xi. 283.

Wages, Essay on (Macculloch’s), xii. 412.

Wagram, iii. 112.

Wainewright, Thomas Griffiths, vi. 160, 483; viii. 453, 454.

Waister, Henry, ix. 265.

Waithman, Robert, iv. 366; vi. 112, 480; ix. 246; xi. 348, 474; xii. 275.

Waitwell (Congreve’s Mourning Bride), viii. 75.

Wakefield, Gilbert, ii. 171, 202, 225, 227.

—— (in Holcroft’s Hugh Trevor), ii. 137.

Walcheren, iii. 132, 261; x. 123.

Waldegrave, Lady, x. 170.

Waldron, Francis Godolphin, ii. 170.

Wales, ii. 279; iii. 394; vi. 34, 186; xi. 249, 252.

Wales, Prince of (George IV.), vii. 88; ix. 472.

—— Princess of, xi. 470.

Walham Green, xii. 50.

Walker, Sarah, ii. 436; vi. 235, 305, 311, 495; vii. 501; x. 403.

Walkers of Manchester, The, ii. 199.

Wall (in Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream), viii. 276.

Wallace, Robert, iii. 356, 361, 372, 381; iv. 9, 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 23, 28, 157, 291, 292, 293, 294.

—— (a tragedy), viii. 453, 480.

Wallack, James William, viii. 240, 244, 247, 249, 253, 280, 369, 370, 479, 480, 484; xi. 379, 393.

Wallenstein (Schiller’s), v. 363; x. 119.

Waller, Edmund, iii. 396; v. 83, 371, 372; vii. 322; viii. 70.

Wallis, Miss, xii. 198 n.

Walpole, Horace, ii. 201, 272, 273; iii. 408, 409; v. 359; vi. 209; x. 159; xi. 487, 488.

—— Letters of Horace, x. 159.

—— Sir Robert, ii. 359; iii. 389, 405, 410, 413, 415; vi. 521; viii. 17; xi. 336.

Walsall, ii. 14, 69, 70.

Walter (in Morton’s The Children in the Wood), viii. 229, 388.

—— Earl (in Holcroft’s Noble Peasant), ii. 110.

—— John, iii. 159, 194; x. 217.

—— John (the second), viii. 513.

Walton, I., iv. 277; xii. 177.

—— Miss (in Mackenzie’s Man of Feeling), vii. 227; viii. 105.

Walworth, vi. 257.

Wamba the jester (Scott’s Ivanhoe), iv. 251; viii. 426.

Wanderer, The (Miss Burney’s), viii. 125; x. 25, 43.

Wandering Jew, iii. 141; xii. 31, 115, 116.

Wandesford, Christopher, iii. 394.

Wantley, Dragon of, vii. 481.

Wapping, vi. 510; vii. 92, 457; ix. 480.

War, Art of (Fawcett’s), ii. 171 n.; xii. 152 n.

—— On the Late, iii. 96.

—— Eclogues (Tyrtœus), iii. 319.

—— and Taxes, On the Effects of, iii. 243.

Warbeck. See Perkin Warbeck.

Warburton, William, vi. 368; x. 18.

Ward, James, ix. 121, 123.

—— Ould Joe, the pugilist, ii. 205.

—— William, vii. 268.

Warde, James Prescott, xi. 381.

Wardour Street, xii. 363.

Ware, The great bed of, viii. 69.

Warens, Madame, i. 90; v. 103; vi. 24; vii. 365, 366, 367, 369, 372; ix. 9; xii. 329.

Warminster, Miss, vi. 200.

Warren, Dr Richard, ii. 174, 175.

—— Mr (in Holcroft’s The Road to Ruin), ii. 123.

—— the widow (in Holcroft’s Road to Ruin), ii. 123.

Warrock Wood, viii. 146 n.

Warsaw, iii. 12, 56.

Wart (Shakespeare’s Second Henry IV.), i. 11; vii. 263; viii. 33, 151.

Warton, Thomas, ii. 200; v. 120, 123, 376; vi. 175; viii. 160; ix. 49, 399, 474; x. 138.

Warwick, ii. 14.

—— Earl of, xii. 330.

—— Lane, the Dispensary in, xii. 23.

Warwickshire, ii. 14.

Washington, George, x. 236, 251.

—— Arms, The (Rotterdam), ix. 301.

Wat Tyler (Southey’s), iii. 192, 200; also referred to in i. 388; iii. 211, 212, 215, 218, 224, 258; iv. 266, 329; v. 164; vi. 434; vii. 16.

—— —— and Mr Southey, x. 403.

Watchman, The, iii. 139; v. 167; x. 131, 135, 145, 149; xi. 516.

Waterfall (Ruysdael’s), ix. 22.

Watering Place (P. H. Rogers’s), xi. 247.

—— —— (Rubens’), vi. 74.

Waterland, Bishop, vi. 76.

Waterloo (Antoine), iv. 277.

Waterloo, iii. 110, 113, 132, 177, 229, 246; iv. 324; vi. 190; ix. 122, 401 n.; x. 249, 328; xi. 362; xii. 18 n., 204, 283.

—— Sonnet on Battle of (Wordsworth’s), i. 429.

—— Exhibition, i. 150.

—— Place, ix. 299, 325.

Water-Mill (Hobbima’s), ix. 22.

Wathen, Mr, ii. 195, 197.

Watkinson, Mr (actor), viii. 319, 533.

Watling Street, iv. 365.

Watson, John, ii. 28–32, 36–41, 46–9, 51, 53, 55.

—— Richard (Bishop of Llandaff), iii. 276.

—— Tom, ii. 32, 41, 49, 51.

Watt, James, vi. 456.

Watteau, Antoine, vi. 437; viii. 70; ix. 22, 23; x. 409; xi. 240.

Watts, Dr Isaac, vi. 338.

—— Mr, ii. 170, 174, 195, 196, 198, 222.

Waverley (Scott’s), ii. 370, 413; iii. 32; iv. 243, 247, 418; vi. 65, 421, 426; vii. 5, 17, 99, 220, 344; viii. 128, 130; x. 330; xii. 65, 66, 114 n., 255, 372, 375, 389.

Way of the World (Congreve’s), viii. 31, 37, 71, 72, 74, 251, 555.

Weathercock, Janus (T. G. Wainewright), vi. 160, 483; viii. 453, 454, 478.

Webb, Mr, ii. 170.

Weber, Veil, ii. 222.

Webster, John, v. 223; also referred to in v. 176, 181, 193, 234, 243, 247; vi. 192, 218 n.; vii. 122, 320; x. 205; xii. 34.

Wedding, Ballad on a (Suckling’s), v. 83.

Wedding Day, The (a play), i. 325.

Wedgewood, Josiah, ii. 203.

—— Thomas, ii. 212; xii. 149, 264, 265.

Weenix, Jan, ix. 111.

Weidemann, Mr (a composer), ii. 90.

Weird Sisters, The (in Shakespeare’s Macbeth), viii. 206; xi. 315.

Weld, Mr, ii. 169, 173, 174, 190, 196, 198, 199, 200, 208, 214, 218, 222.

Wellborn (in Massinger’s New Way to Pay Old Debts), v. 267 n., 269 n.; viii. 274.

Wellesley, Marquis of, iii. 47; also referred to in xii. 375.

—— Rev. Gerard Valerian, i. 366.

Wellington, Duke of, i. 425; iii. 47, 53–5, 97, 106, 110, 112, 121 n., 125, 175, 183, 185, 187, 295; vi. 111, 304; vii. 99, 156 n., 215, 293 n., 340; viii. 267, 284, 322; ix. 203, 299, 352, 465, 491–2; xi. 480, 548 n., 551; xii. 253, 383.

Wells Cathedral, x. 335.

—— Charles Jeremiah (W.), vi. 200, 201.

—— Mrs, vi. 417.

Wem (Shropshire), vi. 258, 283, 497; viii. 406; xii. 259.

Wendoll (in Heywood’s Woman Killed with Kindness), v. 212, 213.

Wendover, iii. 421.

Wensley, Miss, viii. 401.

Wentworth, Thomas (Earl of Strafford), iii. 396.

—— William (second Earl Fitzwilliam), ii. 169.

Werther (Goethe’s), i. 70, 76; v. 363; vi. 6 n.; vii. 303, 313; x. 118; xii. 67, 277, 281.

Wesley, John, iii. 448; x. 357.

Wesley, Samuel, x. 357.

West, Benjamin, i. 78, 148; ii. 208; v. 33; vi. 171 n., 296, 302, 340, 358, 375, 388, 406, 438, 509; vii. 90, 92, 94–5, 103, 203; ix. 37, 46, 55, 137, 318, 320, 407, 408, 420, 471, 478 n., 479, 490; x. 194, 199; xi. 190, 255, 519, 550; xii. 221.

—— Mrs, viii. 399, 400, 426, 450, 460.

—— Indian (Cumberland’s), viii. 166, 406, 511.

—— Indies, iii. 240; iv. 194; vi. 446; xii. 349.

—— Thurrock (a town), ii. 245.

West’s Man on a Black Horse, ix. 322.

—— Picture of Death on a Pale Horse, v. 33; vi. 290 n.; ix. 318.

Westall, Richard, i. 139; iv. 244; v. 155; vi. 186, 430–2; vii. 164; ix. 333, 472, 490; xi. 225.

—— William, xi. 248.

Westbourn, Mr (actor), viii. 464.

Westburn Flat (Scott’s), iv. 251.

Western (in Fielding’s Tom Jones), viii. 151.

—— Charles C., Esq., M.P., The Speech of, iii. 127, 132.

—— Dispensary, vii. 82.

Westminster, ii. 212; iii. 424; iv. 44 n., 189, 190; vii. 180, 457; ix. 283, 284; xii. 202.

—— Abbey, i. 9; ii. 79; iii. 415; iv. 262; v. 347; vi. 358, 401, 509; vii. 67, 77, 89, 249; xiii. 90, 99; ix. 156, 164, 334; x. 335; xi. 455, 473.

—— Bridge, xi. 281.

—— Hall, iv. 199; viii. 472.

—— Magazine, ii. 87.

—— Review, vi. 356; vii. 183, 184, 381, 495; ix. 202 n.

—— School, iii. 416; vi. 294, 342.

—— —— of Reform, xii. 181.

Westmorland, iv. 57; ix. 216, 393; xi. 200, 311, 512.

Weston, Thomas, i. 157; ii. 76, 368; vi. 418; viii. 173; xii. 33.

Wewitzer, Ralph, ii. 102; viii. 250, 388.

Wexford, ii. 172, 173.

Whackum (Butler’s Hudibras), viii. 65; xi. 478.

Wharton, Philip, Duke of, iii. 408; vii. 168; xii. 388.

What d’ye Call It (Gay’s), viii. 158.

—— is the People? iii. 283.

—— Next? (Dibdin’s), viii. 528.

—— you Will (Marston’s), v. 225.

What’s a Man of Fashion? (Reynolds), viii. 262.

Wheel of Fortune, The (Cumberland’s), ii. 206; v. 363; viii. 166, 376.

Wheeler, Mr, ii. 221.

Wheelock (a village), ii. 166.

Where to find a Friend (Leigh’s), viii. 258.

Whether the Friends of Freedom can entertain any sanguine hopes of the favourable results of the ensuing Congress?, iii. 103.

—— genius is conscious of its Powers?, vii. 117.

Whig, Defoe’s definition, x. 362.

Whitbread, Samuel, iii. 99, 308, 374; iv. 3, 4, 5, 6, 25, 33; viii. 168; xi. 418, 469, 470.

Whitchurch, xii. 260.

White-conduit House, ii. 88; iv. 108; vii. 70.

—— Devil (Webster’s), v. 240, 241, 245.

—— Doe (Wordsworth’s), x. 417.

—— Horse Cellar, The, xii. 3.

—— —— Hotel, Brighton, ix. 89.

—— Jem, vii. 37.

—— Lion Inn, The, ii. 19.

—— Mr (a lawyer), ii. 147, 150.

Whitechapel, iv. 44 n.; vi. 159, 379; viii. 454; xii. 13.

Whitefoord, Caleb, vi. 354.

Whitehall, ii. 194; vi. 423; vii. 68, 96; ix. 157, 355, 387.

Whitehall Evening Post, ii. 56, 87.

—— Stairs, xii. 32.

Whitehead, William, iii. 113; v. 122; viii. 160.

Whitfield, George, i. 60; v. 94; vii. 116.

Whitgift, John, vi. 76.

Whitlocke, Bulstrode, iii. 397.

Whittington and his Cat, iii. 225; iv. 365; vii. 69, 254.

Whittle, Dr (Dr L.), vi. 196 n., 489.

—— Mrs (Mrs L.), vi. 196 n., 489.

Who wants a Wife? (a farce), viii. 529.

Who’s the Dupe? (Mrs Hannah Cowley), ii. 85; viii. 163.

—— Who? or, The Double Imposture (a farce), viii. 525.

Whole Duty of Man, The (Anon), i. 235; ii. 43; iii. 111; viii. 186; xi. 344, 375.

Wickliffe, John, iii. 279; iv. 250.

Wicklow, ii. 176.

Widow Blackacre (in Wycherley’s Plain Dealer), viii. 78, 472, 506; xi. 404.

—— Brady (in Garrick’s Irish Widow), viii. 316.

—— Cheerly (in Cherry’s Soldier’s Daughter), xi. 297.

—— Wadman (Sterne’s Tristram Shandy), i. 429; vi. 65; viii. 121; x. 39.

—— of Watling Street, The, or, The Puritan, i. 356; v. 289.

—— to her Hour-glass, The (Bloomfield’s), xii. 53.

Widow’s Choice, The (Fielding’s), viii. 159.

—— Stratagem. See Smiles and Tears.

—— Tears, The (Chapman’s), v. 234.

Widrington (prize-fighter), xii. 12 n.

Wieland (boy actor), xi. 364.

Wife of Bath (Chaucer’s), i. 422; iv. 102; v. 22, 24, 32, 370; x. 75, 76; xi. 274 n.; xii. 30.

Wife for a Month, A (Beaumont and Fletcher’s), v. 261; vii. 229.

—— On his deceased (Milton’s), vi. 179.

Wiggins, Mr (in a play), viii. 433.

Wilberforce, Sam, xii. 140 n.

—— William, iv. 325; also referred to in iii. 121, 122, 123, 124, 126; iv. 227; vii. 82, 257; xi. 474, 475.

Wilbury (a town), ii. 271.

Wilcox, Miss, vi. 418.

Wild Gallant, The (Etherege’s), viii. 68.

—— Goose Chase, The (Beaumont and Fletcher’s), v. 261; viii. 48.

—— Man of France, or, Valentine and Orson, v. 361; vii. 215; viii. 236, 241.

—— Oats (O’Keefe’s), ii. 194; viii. 316, 465; xi. 367.

Wilford (G. Colman the younger’s Iron Chest), viii. 241, 344.

Wilfred (in L. Bonaparte’s Charlemagne), xi. 232.

Wilful (in Farquhar’s Recruiting Officer), viii. 286.

Wilkes, John, iii. 418, 422; iv. 233, 235, 237; viii. 103; xi. 221.

Wilkie, David, i. 148; v. 122, 141; vi. 270, 346, 421, 517; vii. 97; viii. 139, 140, 141, 428, 434; ix. 15, 29, 36, 359, 389, 406, 427, 435; x. 196; xi. 249, 255, 324, 590; xii. 255.

Wilkie’s Pictures, On Mr, xi. 249.

Wilkinson, Tate, viii. 331, 412, 464.

Wilks, Robert, i. 157, 158; viii. 160.

Will-making, On, vi. 113.

Will, Barnes (Fielding’s Tom Jones), viii. 114.

—— Cloudesley (Holcroft’s Noble Peasant), ii. 110.

—— Honeycomb (in the Spectator), i. 9, 12; vii. 37; viii. 98, 151.

Will Rash (in Cooke’s Greene’s Tu Quoque), v. 290.

—— Wimble (in the Spectator), i. 9; vi. 234; viii. 98, 229; xii. 19.

—— The (F. Reynolds), viii. 252, 463.

Will’s, i. 8; viii. 96.

Will, Treatise on the (Edward’s), x. 315.

William “our waiter,” vi. 194 n.

—— III., iii. 114, 402; v. 106, 108; vii. 373; x. 358, 371, 372–3, 378; xi. 275, 318.

Williams, James, ix. 97.

—— Dr John, iii. 394; viii. 98.

—— Hugh, viii. 469; ix. 324.

—— Master (boy-actor), viii. 292.

Williams’s Views In Greece, On, ix. 324.

Willich, A. F. M., xi. 168.

Wilmot (in Lillo’s Fatal Curiosity), ii. 212.

—— (in Holcroft’s Hugh Trevor), ii. 89, 95, 137.

Wilson (in Smollett’s Humphrey Clinker), xii. 64.

—— (in Fielding’s Tom Jones), viii. 115; x. 33, 34.

—— the Black, ix. 330.

—— Daniel, xii. 285.

—— J., xi. 247.

—— Richard, ii. 165, 189, 196, 197, 198, 221; vi. 8, 17, 270, 379, 380, 438, 458; vii. 55, 56, 65, 114; ix. 25, 60, 317, 389, 392, 395, 409, 411, 476 et seq.; x. 194; xi. 198, 202, 248; xii. 327, 349, 350.

—— Sir Robert, iii. 157.

—— Walter, x. 355.

Wilson’s Landscapes at the British Institution, xi. 198.

Wilton House, iii. 395; v. 121; vi. 14; ix. 55, 56, 473 n.; xii. 429.

—— —— Sonnet on (Warton’s), ix. 49; xii. 202.

—— Stourhead, etc., Pictures at, ix. 55.

Wiltshire, iii. 394; ix. 54, 158.

Wimbledon, iv. 233, 325; vii. 198; xii. 345.

Winborn (a town), iii. 400.

Winchester, vii. 253.

Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, x. 190.

Windermere, ix. 262.

Windham, William, ii. 156, 158, 159 n., 169, 201, 205; iii. 61, 224, 409, 424; iv. 239; vi. 33, 146; vii. 265, 267, 272–3, 376 n.; xii. 14, 15, 294, 363.

Windsor, v. 118; vi. 200, 276 n., 441; vii. 12; ix. 36, 37, 157.

—— Earl of, xii. 56.

—— Castle, Pictures at, ix. 36.

—— Forest (Pope’s), v. 373; ix. 37.

Winifred Jenkins (in Smollett’s Humphrey Clinker), viii. 117; x. 35.

Winter (Thomson’s Seasons), v. 89.

—— (a sonnet), ii. 224.

Winter’s Tale, The (Shakespeare’s), i. 324; also referred to in i. 35, 106, 176; v. 87, 98; vii. 327; viii. 305, 376; xi. 206; xii. 339.

Winterslow, i. 421; vi. 90; vii. 121.

Winzingerode, Baron, xi. 197.

Wirgmann (A. Goldsmith), vi. 474.

Wisbeach Fair, ii. 9.

Wisdom of the Ancients, Treatise on the (Lord Bacon’s), i. 211.

Wishwell (in Cibber’s Double Gallant), viii. 361.

Wit and Humour, On, viii. 5.

—— Definition of, xii. 445.

Wit’s Magazine, The, ii. 112.

Witch, The (Middleton), v. 218.

—— of Atlas (Shelley’s), x. 264–6.

—— of Micklestane Moor, The (in Scott’s Black Dwarf), viii. 129.

Witch’s Son (Spenser), v. 38.

Witches (Michael Angelo’s), ix. 363 n.

Witches (in Shakespeare’s Macbeth), xi. 506. See also under Weird.

Witham-common, vi. 185.

Wither, George, v. 84, 98, 371; vi. 45; xi. 284.

Wittenberg, v. 48; vii. 344.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig Adolf (Graf von), xi. 197.

Witwoud (Congreve’s Way of the World), v. 231; viii. 37, 73, 74, 76.

Woden, xii. 251.

Wolcot, John. See Pindar, Peter.

Wolfe, General James, vi. 358, 509; ix. 419; x. 199; xi. 546.

Wolsey, Cardinal, iii. 278; vi. 86.

Wolstonecroft, Mary, iv. 212; vii. 41, 234; xi. 420; xii. 264, 347.

Wolverhampton, ii. 14.

Woman, Essay on (Wilkes), iii. 423.

—— Keeps a Secret, A. See Wonder.

—— Killed with Kindness (Haywood’s), v. 212, 213.

—— taken in Adultery (Pordenone’s), ix. 35.

—— —— (Rembrandt’s), ix. 13.

—— —— (Titian’s), ix. 54.

—— never vexed, A (Rowley’s), v. 214.

Women Beware Women (Middleton’s), v. 214.

Wonder, The, or, A Woman keeps a Secret (Mrs Centlivre’s), viii. 332; xi. 401; also referred to in viii. 155, 156, 513.

Wonder of a Kingdom (Dekker’s), v. 234.

Wonderful Magazine, The, vii. 149.

Wood (actor), xi. 388.

—— Alderman Sir Matthew, vi. 63, 386; xi. 474, 555.

Woodcock, John, ii. 24, 26, 29.

Woodfall, William, x. 215.

Woodman, The (Gainsborough’s), vi. 438; ix. 395; xi. 204.

Woodstock (Scott’s), vi. 409, 410.

—— (town), iii. 398.

Woodward (a racquet player), vi. 88.

Woody Scene (Gainsborough’s), xi. 203.

Woollett, William, vi. 358, 509.

Woolmar (in Beaumont and Fletcher’s Beggars’ Bush), viii. 265, 266.

Worcester, ii. 66, 196; iii. 411; xii. 268.

—— The Bishop of. See Stillingfleet.

Word for Nature (Cumberland’s), ii. 206.

Wordsworth, William, iv. 270; xi. 411; xii. 328; also referred to in i. 40, 45, 46, 84, 92–3, 120, 152, 250, 319, 391, 394, 425, 429; ii. 328; iii. 116, 120, 142, 157, 172, 192, 206, 281, 311, 444, 448; iv. 201, 244, 257, 258, 268, 276; v. 63, 118, 128, 129, 130–2, 154–6, 161, 180, 247, 369, 369, 377; vi. 43–5, 65, 68, 87, 152, 176, 224, 336, 457, 481; vii. 41, 61, 76, 102, 104, 105, 196, 203, 228, 231, 303, 310, 320, 374, 429; viii. 303, 420, 421; ix. 152, 431; x. 135, 142, 150, 154, 162, 244, 264, 410, 417; xi. 284, 327, 334, 422, 452, 454, 457, 500, 512, 536, 544, 546, 572, 605, 608; xii. 39, 57, 236, 264, 268, 269, 270, 271, 273, 307, 326.

Wordsworth’s Poem The Excursion, Observations on, i. 111, 120.

—— New Poem The Excursion, Character of, xi. 572.

—— Sonnets, xii. 171.

World, The (a newspaper), vii. 226; viii. 21, 104.

—— —— (Kenney’s), viii. 229.

Worthies (Fuller’s), iv. 365; vii. 229, 255.

Worthing, xiii. 354.

Wosely Bridge (Staffordshire), ii. 13.

Wounded Cupid (Herrick’s), v. 312.

Wouverman, Philip, ii. 189, 228; ix. 21, 60, 111.

Wrath (in Spenser), v. 39.

Wray, Sir John, iii. 396.

Wrekin, The, viii. 89, 287.

Wrench, Benjamin (actor), viii. 315, 327; xi. 369, 370, 375.

Wrexham, vi. 186.

Writers and Speakers on Old English, vii. 311.

Writing and Speaking, On the Difference Between, vii. 262.

Wroth, Sir Robert, Address to (Ben Jonson’s), v. 307.

Wroughton, Richard, viii. 184, 241; xi. 192.

Wyatt, Benjamin Dean, vi. 278 n.

—— Sir Thomas, v. 34.

Wyche, Andrew, ix. 271.

Wycherley, William, i. 13, 313; v. 231; vii. 212 n., 322; viii. 10, 14, 29, 35, 70, 152, 153, 510, 552, 554–5; x. 118, 205; xi. 276–7, 311 n., 346, 383, 404.

—— Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar, On, viii. 70.

Wyclif. See Wickliffe, John.

Wycombe, Lord, ii. 212, 217, 220, 221, 224, 227.

Wylie, Sir Andrew (Galt’s), vii. 105, 134.

Wyndham, Sir William (see also Baron Grenville), xii. 50.

Wynne, Sir Watkin Williams, iii. 213, 233, 413; vi. 442.

—— Mr C., vii. 279 n.; xi. 476.