The Biglow Papers

by James Russell Lowell

• Van Buren fails of gaining Mr. Sawin's confidence, [116]
  • —his son John reproved, [ib.]
• Van, Old, plan to set up, [115].
• Venetians, invented something once, [101].
• Vices, cardinal, sacred conclave of, [24].
• Victoria, Queen, her natural terror, [50].
• Vratz, Captain, a Pomeranian, singular views of, [10].

• Walpole, Horace, classed, [75]
  • —his letters praised, [76].
• Waltham Plain, Cornwallis at, [14].
• Walton, punctilious in his intercourse with fishes, [25].
• War, abstract, horrid, [79]
  • —its hoppers, grist of, what, [94].
• Warton, Thomas, a story of, [38].
• Washington, charge brought against, [109].
• Washington, city of, climatic influence of, on coats, [44]
  • —mentioned, [55]
  • —grand jury of, [62].
• Washingtons, two hatched at a time by improved machine, [109].
• Wate, Taunton, proverbially weak, [117].
• Water-trees, [100].
• Webster, some sentiments of, commended by Mr. Sawin, [113].
• Westcott, Mr., his horror, [61].
• Whig party, has a large throat, [35]
  • —but query as to swallowing spurs, [114].
• White-house, [81].
• Wife-trees, [100].
• Wilbur, Rev. Homer, A. M., consulted, [2]
  • —his instructions to his flock, [12]
  • —a proposition of his for Protestant bombshells, [24]
  • —his elbow nudged, [26]
  • —his notions of satire, [27]
  • —some opinions of his quoted with apparent approval by Mr. Biglow, [31]
  • —geographical speculations of, [32]
  • —a justice of the peace, [ib.]
  • —a letter of, [33]
  • —a Latin pun of, [ib.]
  • —runs against a post without injury, [34]
  • —does not seek notoriety (whatever some malignants may affirm), [36]
  • —fits youths for college, [ib.]
  • —a chaplain during late war with England, [38]
  • —a shrewd observation of, [40]
  • —some curious speculations of, [52], [54]
  • —his martello-tower, [53]
  • —forgets he is not in pulpit, [62], [86]
  • —extracts from sermon of, [64], [70]
  • —interested in John Smith, [74]
  • —his views concerning present state of letters, [74], [77]
  • —a stratagem of, [82]
  • —ventures two hundred and fourth interpretation of Beast in Apocalypse, [83]
  • —christens Hon. B. Sawin, then an infant, [86]
  • —an addition to our sylva proposed by, [100]
  • —curious and instructive adventure of, [101], [102]
  • —his account with an unnatural uncle, [103]
  • —his uncomfortable imagination, [104]
  • —speculations concerning Cincinnatus, [106]
  • —confesses digressive tendency of mind, [123]
  • —goes to work on sermon (not without fear that his readers will dub him with a reproachful epithet like that with which Isaac Allerton, a Mayflower man, revenges himself on a delinquent debtor of his, calling him in his will, and thus holding him up to posterity, as "John Peterson, The Bore"), [125].
• Wilbur, Mrs., an invariable rule of, [37]
  • —her profile, [ib.]
• Wildbore, a vernacular one, how to escape, [54].
• Wind, the, a good Samaritan, [86].
• Wooden leg, remarkable for sobriety, [88]
  • —never eats pudding, [90].
• Wright, Colonel, providentially rescued, [18].
• Wrong, abstract, safe to oppose, [46].

• Zack, Old, [110].

THE END.