him wonderfully pleased with so seasonable a treat, told him that the best part of his entertainment was to come, upon which he opened to him the whole history of what had passed. The king was at once astonished and transported at so strange a relation, and, seeing his brother enter the room with Balsora in his hand, he leaped off from the sofa on which he sat, and cried out, 'It is he! it is my Abdallah!'-Having said this, he fell upon his neck and wept. The whole company, for some time, remained silent, and shed tears of joy. The king at length, after having kindly reproached Helim for depriving him so long of such a brother, embraced Balsora with the greatest tenderness, and told her, that she should now be a queen indeed, for that he would immediately make bis brother king of all the conquered nations on the other side of the Tigris. He easily discovered in the eyes of our two lovers, that, instead of being transported with the offer, they preferred their present retirement to empire. At their request, therefore, he changed his intentions, and made them a present of all the open country so far as they could see from the top of mount Khacan. Abdallah continued to extend his former improvements, beautified this whole prospect with groves and fountains, gardens and seats of pleasure, till it became the most delicious spot of ground within the empire, and is therefore called the Garden of Persia. This Caliph, Ibrahim, after a long and happy reign, died without children, and was succeeded by Abdallah, a son of Abdallah and Balsora. This was that king Abdallah, who afterwards fixed the imperial residence upon mount Khacan, which continues at this time to be the favourite palace of the Persian empire. INDEX TO VOL. II. A. ALEXANDER the Great's letter to Aristotle, 146. Ancestry renders the good only illustrious, 191. To value Ancient authors, how distinguished in Strada's Prolusion, 181 to 190. Androcles, the story of him and the lion, 221. Ants, their way of nesting in Siam, 255. And elsewhere, Aristotle's contempt of censure, 205. Atalantis, author of, to whom a-kin, 130. Athaliah of Racine, some parts of it sublime, 166. Augustus, Virgil's praises of him, 218. Aurelia, a dream that she had a window to her breast, and Aurenge-Zebe's tragedy, its faults, 144. B. Bacon, Sir Francis, his character, 55. His Prayer or Psalm, Beauty at war with Fortitude, 229. Bias's saying of calumny, 204. Binicorn, Humphrey, his letter to the Guardian, 196. Bluff, Oliver, indicted in the court of honour, 48. Boileau's account of the sublime, 166. Bosoms, naked, a grievance, 164. The Pope's order against Browbeat, Benjamin, indicted in the court of honour, 48. Busy, Benjamin, indicted in the court of honour by Jasper Buzzard, Benjamin, indicted in the court of honour, 21. C. Callicoat, indicted in the court of honour, 19. Cambrick, indicted by the Lady Touchwood, 18. Censure despised by philosophers, 203, 207. Chaplains of people of quality to be respected, 282. One ill Charity schools recommended, 122. Charity, a virtue of the heart, 290. Nestor Ironside's in- tended charities, 291. Chastity in men a noble virtue, 191. China, Emperor of, honours none till they are dead, 86. Claudian, Strada's, 160, 185. Cleomenes, tragedy of, its faults, 141. Climate, the inconstancy of the British, 110. Club, the silent one, 177. Cold bath recommended, 112. Comet, the prodigious one in 1680, 116. Complaisance, the benefits of it, 278. Congreve's character of an ill critic, 160. Conscience to the soul, what health is to the body, 203. Coquette, how she should paint herself, 225. Courts of justice and honour, erected by Mr. Bickerstaffe, 17. Coxcombs dangerous in families, 287. Criticisms on several plays, 141. Critic, the severity of one upon the fire-works on the Thames, an ill one, 155. Cromwell, what M. Paschal says of his death, 208. Cunning opposed to wisdom, 229. D. Dædalus's letter about flying, 150. Dead men only have honours in China, 85. Death compared to Proteus, 208. Diogenes, what he said to one who slandered him, 205. Distresses, imaginary, the greatest part of man's affliction, 279. Ditton and Whiston, their letter about the longitude, 131. Dream of Aurelia, 125. Of a Spaniard concerning death, 208. Of the punishment of the idle in the infernal re- Dryden, a blunder of his, 141. Wrong in his sentiments, 143. E. Epictetus, what he said of censure, 205. Eve's treatment of the angel in Milton, 216. F. Figleaf, Leonilla, her letter about modesty-pieces, 170. Flambeau, Mrs. prosecuted in the court of honour by Lady Florella angry about the tucker, 137. Flying, art of, a humour in King Charles the Second's Foundlings, no due provision for them, 123. Fontainbleau palace described, 107. France, a tour there, 106. Court of, 120. French, their humanity, poverty, mirth, courtesy, and lo- G. Gallantry, a precaution against the low sort, 192. Gaming among the ladies, a grievance, 173. Il conse Goodenough, Ursula, indicted in the court of honour by the Guardian, the use of his paper, 94. H. Helim, the Persian, the great physician, 295. Honour opposed to pride, 230. A discourse upon true ho- Honours, the interest and duty of nations to bestow them on I. Idleness punished in the infernal regions, 261. Ironside, a-kin to the Bickerstaffes, 94. Nestor, Esq. a piece Justice, lord chief, his uprightness, 99. The greatest of all K. Knowledge, pursuits of it recommended to youth, 145. L. Learning, the source of wealth and honours, 147. Proper Leo X. his entertainment of the poets, 157. Leo II. his letter to the Guardian, 195. Letters. From Simon Softly, 90. From France, to the with the story of R. T. and his proud mistress, 265. |