Whipple, on an affectation of dignity, 67; of the mother of Thomas a Becket, 212. Wilberforce, and Owen's scheme of reform, 92; and Wendell Phillips, 237. Willemson, Richard, martyrdom of, 51. Wilson, Prof., to the Ettrick Shepherd, 10; thought to be a madman in Glasgow, 145; the idea of the Noctes not his, 255; tete-a-tete with the poet Campbell, 267; contest for the professorship, 287; first lecture in the university, 288; achievements in running, leaping, etc., 289; encounter with a pugilist, 289; pedestrian feats, 290; scene in an Edinburgh street, 291; interferes at a prize-fight, 292; describes a fairy's funeral, 293; his relations with Dr. Blair, 310. Witchcraft, Sir Matthew Hale's belief in, 57; Sir Thomas Browne's opinion of, 57; terrible punishment of, 57; John Wesley's belief in, 59; Richard Baxter a believer in, 59; a passage from Lowell on, 61. Wither, George, wrote his Shepherd's Hunting in prison, 136. Wolsey, credulity of, 224. Woman, characterized by Burns, 3; reply of a good, 377. Woodworth and his famous song, 248. Woolman, John, eulogium upon, and passage from, 370. Wordsworth, his care in composition, 128; his reply to Rogers, 137; Tobin's advice to, 148; origin of the Ancient Mariner, 149; thought to be a fool by some of his neighbors, 155; his defense of the church, and his opinion of the clergy, 257; his man-servant James, 351; lines by, 352; what he said of Mrs. Barbauld's stanza on Life, 356. World, the, 19; on reforming it, 90; it cannot keep quiet, 109. Wotton, Sir Henry, his reply to a bigot, 372. Wycherley, on reproving faults, 364. Ximenes, Cardinal, a story told of, 167. York minster, not appreciated by Coleridge, 196. Youatt, differences in flocks of sheep, 11. Young, Mr., the prototype of Parson Adams, 285. Young, an incident of Swift, related by, 214; gayety of, 245. Young, Dean, passages from his sermons, 366, 372. Zeal, a violent, that we must correct, 363. Zenobia, temple of, idealized by La Bruyere, 219.