RAT'S History of the Royal Society, 337-339
his aversion to Milton, 424

STEELE, his paradoxical character, 168
satirized by Swift, 429-431
why he wrote a laughable comedy after his "Christian Hero", 169
his ill choice in a wife of an uncongenial character, 170
specimens of his "Love Despatches," _n._ _ib._
finely contrasts his own character with that of Addison, _n._
172
introduces Pope to Addison, 314
manages a friendly interview between them after a long disseverance,
319
his political creed loses him Addison's friendship, 433

STEEVENS, G., satirizes Sir John Hawkins, 535

STILLINGFLEET, Bishop, his end supposed to have been hastened by
Locke's confutation of his metaphysical notions, _n._ 140

STOCKDALE, Perceval, his character an extraordinary instance of the
illusions of writers in verse, 218
draws a parallel between Charles XII. and himself, 224

STOWE, the chronicler, petitions to be a licensed beggar, 29

STRUTT, the antiquary, a man of genius and imagination, 86
his spirited letters on commencing his career of authorship, 88

STUART, Dr. Gilbert, his envious character; desirous of destroying
the literary works of his countrymen, 131
projects the "Edinburgh Magazine and Review;" its design, _ib._
his horrid feelings excited by his disappointments, 132
raises a literary conspiracy against Dr. Henry, 135
dies miserably, 139

STUBBE and his attacks on the Royal Society, 346
his early history, 347
influenced by Dr. Fell in his attacks, _n._ 350
specimens of them, 356

SYSTEMS of Opinions, often fallacies in practice, 461

SUBSCRIPTIONS once inundated our literature with worthless works,
29

TEMPLE, Sir W., Essay on Learning, 378

THEOBALD, his payments from, and literary arrangements with Lintot,
331-332

TICKELL'S Homer, 316

TOLAND, a lover of study, 157
defends himself from the aspersion of atheism or deism, 150
accused of an intention to found a sect, 159
had the art of explaining away his own words, _ib._
a great artificer of title-pages, 160
his "Pantheisticon", 161
projects a new office of a private monitor to the minister, 163
of the books he read and his MSS. _n._ 166
his panegyrical epitaph composed by himself, 167
Locke's admirable foresight of his character, 168
the miserable paymen