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Marcia's prayer in Cato...
Mariamne, the fine dancer...

Marlborough (John Duke of), took the French lines with-
out bloodshed......

Marriage: those marriages the most happy that are pre
ceded by a long courtship

Unhappy marriages, from whence proceeding.
Marriage-life, always a vexatious or happy condition..
Married condition rarely unhappy but from want of judg-
ment or temper in the husband...

479

The advantages of it preferable to a single state. 479, 500
Termed purgatory by Tom Dapper wit,
The excellence of its institution.

482

490

The pleasure and uneasiness of married persons, to
what impated..

The foundation of community.......

For what reason liable to so much ridicule.

Dangerous to the ladies..

Described.

506
522

522

Some further thoughts of the Spectator on that subject 525
Mars, an attendant on the spring...

425

Martial, an epigram of his on a grave man's being at a
lewd play....

446

8

Masquerade, a complaint against it..
The design of it......

8

Master, a good one, a prince in his family.

107

A complaint against some ill masters...

137

Matter, the least part of it contains an unexhausted fund 420
The basis of animals.
519

May, a month extremely subject to calentures in women 365
The Spectator's caution to the female sex on that
account.......

Metamorphoses (Ovid's), like enchanted ground.
Metaphor, when noble, casts a glory round it
Metaphors, when vicious...

An instance of it...

Mazarine (Cardinal), his behaviour to Quillet, who had
reflected upon him in a poem....

Meanwell (Thomas), his letter about the freedoms of mar-
ried men and women..

430

Memoirs of a private country gentleman's life ..... 622
Meniory, how improved by the ideas of the imagination.. 417
Men of the town'rarely make good husbands.
Merab, her character.....

522
145

Merchant, the worth and importance of his character.... 428
Merchants of great bencfit to the public..
69, 174

456

Mercy, whoever wants it has no taste of enjoyment....
Merit, no judgment to be formed of it from success..
Valuable, according to the application of it..

Merry part of the world amiable,
Messiah, a sacred eclogue......

The Jews' mistaken notion of the Messiah's worldly
grandeur...

Mirth in a man ought always to be accidental..
The awkward pretenders to it..

Distinguished from cheerfulness..

Mirza, the visions of......

No.

593

Mischief rather to be suffered than an inconvenience.
Misfortunes, our judgments upon them reproved
Mixt wit described.

Mixt communicu of men and spirits in Paradise, as de.

460

scribed by Milton...
Mode, on what it ought to be built....

139

261

268

149

Method, the want of it, in whom only supportable.

The use and necessity of it in writings
Seldom found in coffee-house debates
Military education, a letter about it..
Mill to make verses,

Miller (James), his challenge to Timothy Buck

Milton's Paradise Lost: the Spectator's criticisms and
observations on that poem, 267, 273, 279. 285, 291, 297,
303, 309, 315, 321
His subject conformable to the talents of which he

A standing mode of dress recommended
Moderation a great virtue

Modesty, the chief ornament of the fair sex
In men to ways acceptable to the ladies..
Self-denial and modesty frequently attended with un-
expected blessings.....

Vicious modesty, what....

The misfortunes to which the mosiest and innocent
are often exposed.
Distinguished from sheepishness..
The definition of modesty.

365

395
425

23

was master

His fable a master-piece.

A continuation of the Spectator's criticism on 'Para-
dise Lost'.... 327. 333, 339, 345, 351. 357, 363, 369
The moral of that poem, and length of time contained
in the action....

The vast genius of Milton.

His poem of Il Penseroso'

His description of the archangel and the evil spirits

addressing themselves for the combat.
Mimicry (art of), why we delight in it...
Mind (human), the wonderful nature of it.
Minister, a watchful one described.
Minutius, his character......

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378

610

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421

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476

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Modesty the contrary of ambition

206
206

A due proportion of inodesty requisite to an orator.. 31
The excellency of it....

231

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129
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Names of authors to be put to their works, the hardships
and inconveniences of it..
Nature, a man's best guide

The most useful object of liuman reason.

Her works more perfect than those of art to delight
the fancy

412

413

418

562

562

Mouse Alley doctor

Much cry but little wool, to whom applied...

Muly Moluch, Emperor of Morocco, his great intrepidity
in his dying moments

Music banished by Plato out of his commonwealth

Of a relative nature......

29

Music (church), of the improvement of it...

405

It may raise confused notions of things in the fancy.. 416
Recommended..
Musician (burlesque), an account of one.

6.30
570

437

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444
251

His combat with a lion......

Why thought to be a sham one...

An excellent actor.......

Night, a clear one described

Whimsically described by William Ramsay..

414

Yet the more pleasant the more they resemble them.. 414
More grand and august than those of art...
Necessary cause of our being pleased with what is great,

414

new, and beautiful ....
Needlework recommended to ladies

413
606
609
49

A letter from Cleora against it..........
Neighbourhoods, of whom consisting..
Nemesis, an old maid, a great discoverer of judgments.. 483
New or uncommon, why every thing that is so raises a

pleasure in the imagination...

411

What understood by the term with respect to objects 41?
Improves what is great and beautiful...
Why a secret pleasure annexed to its idea

412

413

Every thing so that pleases in architecture
Newbery (Mr.), his rebus

415
59

5

New-river, 4 project for bringing it into the playhouse.
News, how the English thirst after it..

Project for a supply of it

Of whispers...

The pleasure of news.

Newton (Sir Isaac), his noble way of considering infiuite

349

18

451
401

408

452

452

457

625

564

184

433

405

5

13

13
13
565
582

425

Night-walk in the country....
Nightingale, its music highly delightful to a man in love 383
Nigranilla, a party-lady, forced to patch on the wrong

side.....

81

No, a word of great use to women in love matters.. 625
Novels, great inflamers of women's blood.
Novcity, the force of it........
November (month of), described...
Nurses: the frequent inconveniences of hired nurses.... 45
Nutmeg of delight, one of the Persian emperor's titles... 160

365
626
246

OATES (Dr.), a favourite with some party ladies........ 57
Obedience of children to their parents, the basis of all

government

.... 189

Obscurity, the only defence against reproach......
Often more illustrious than grandens.
Obsequiousness in behaviour coundered........
Ode (Laplander's) to his mistress..................
Economy, wherein compared to good breedingð
Ogler: the complete ogler

Old maids generally superstitious...............
Old testament in a periwig......
Omniamante, her character

Op ra, as it is the present entertainment of the Engli
stage, considered....

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The progress it has made on our theatre..........
Some account of the French opera......
Opinion (popular) described......
Opportunities to be carefully avoided by the four st
Orator, what requisite to form one .................
Orbicilla, her character.......

Order, necessary to be kept up in the worl............
Ostentation, one of the inhabitants of the parauiter of food
Otway commended and censured..
...the 1

His admirable description of the miserits of lowes
Overdo, a justice at Epping, offended at the company
strollers for playing the part of Clodpate, and mu
ing a mockery of one of the quorum...
Ovid, in what he excels....
His description of the palace of fame...............
His verses on making love at the theatre, translated
by Mr. Dryden

3

How to succeed in his manner....
Qutrageously virtuous, what women so called.......... 5
Oxford scholar, his great discovery in a coffer-house........... ♦
PAINTER and tailor often contribute more this te
poet to the saccess of a tragedy.....
Pamphilio, a good master........
Pamphlets, defamatory, detestable...............................................
Pantheon at Rome, how it strikes the imagination a
first entrance.
Paradise of fools
'Paradise Lost' (Milton's). its hae ingeha
Parents, their taking a liking to a particular prof
often occasions their sons to miscarry
Naturally fond of their own children......
Too mercenary in the disposal of their childr
marriage.........

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Too sparing in their encouragement to busters ar
the well educating their children...
Their care due to their children..............
Parnassus, the vision of it.....
Particles (English), the honcur doce to them in the latt

324

Patience, an allegorical discourse upon it.......
Her power....

operas
Parties crept much into the conversation of the ladies.
An instance of the malice of parties.............
The dismal effects of a furious party-spirit......
It corrupts both our morals and judgment........
And reigns more in the country than tow........
Party zeal very bad for the face....
Party patches.....

Party scribblers reproved.......
Party not to be followed with innocence.....
Party prejudices in England..
Passion relieved by itself.....
Passionate people, their faults....

Nat. Lee's description of it...........
Passions, the conquest of them a difficult task...
The various operations of them.....
The strange disorders bred by our passions vies i
regulated by virtue....

It is not so much the business of religion to
guish, as to regulate our passions.......

The use of the passions......
The passions treated of.

What moves them in descriptions most pleasi~~-~

In all men, but appear not in all......

Of hope and fear.......

The work of a philosopher to subdue the pas
Instances of their power......

Passions of the fan, a treatise for the use of the a

scholars......

Patrons and clients, a discourse on the

Worthy patrons compared to guardisu augrb..........
Paul Lorrain, a design of his...
Peace, some ill consequences of it.........
Pedantic humour....

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Pedants, who so to be reputed...

The book-pedant the most sapportable.................
Pedants in breeding as well as learning......
Peepers described......

Peevish fellow described.....
Penelope's web, the story of it........
Penkethman, the comedian, his many qualificatis....
• Penseroso (poem of), by Milton............
People, the only riches of a country......
Pericles, his advice to the women...........
Persecution in religious matters immoral................................
Persian children, what learnt by them in their schools
Persian soldier, reproved for railing against an emray...
Persians, their instrucuon of their youth

Their notions of parricide..........e it

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derson, the word defined by Mr. Locke....

578

577

Persons, imaginary, not proper for an heroic poem....... 357
Petition of John a Nokes and John & Stiles......
3.32% Petition from a cavalier for a place, with his pretensions to it 629
Petronius and Socrates, their cheerful behaviour during
their last moments grounded on different motives.. 349
Tiga Petticoat, a complaint against the hoop petticoat
Several conjectures upon it....

rad...

127
147

127

Compared to an Egyptian temple........
Petticoat politicians, a seminary to be established in France 305
Pharamond, memoirs of his private life....
TARA! His great wisdoin.

70
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Phebe and Colin, an original poem by Dr. Byrom...
www.Phidias, his proposal for a prodigious statue of Alexander 415
Philautia, a great votary....

Philips (Mr.), pastoral verses of his..

79
400

528

466

His pastorals recommended by the Spectator.
Philopater's letter about his daughter's dancing.
Philosophers, why longer lived than other men.
Philosophy, the use of it...

195

Said to be brought by Socrates down from heaven....
The use of natural philosophy.
The authors of the new philosophy gratify and enlarge
the imagination..

The boast of pagan philosophers that they exalt hu-

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Some account of him and his favourite
His edict against duels....

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Phocian, his behaviour at his death..

His notion of popular applause.

His saying of a vain promiser...

Physic, the substitute of exercise or temperance.........
Physician and surgeon, their different employment.
The physicians a formidable body of men..

Compared to the British army in Cæsar's time....
Their way of converting one distemper into another..
Physiognomy, every man in some degree master of that art
Picts, what women so called........

No faith to be kept with them..

Picture not so natural a representation as a statue..

What pleases most in one....

Pictures, witty, what pieces so called,

Piety an ornament to buman nature.

His description of the Supreme Being

His saying of labour....

Players in Drury Lane, their intended regulations..

Wherein to be condemned

The precedency settled among them....
Playhouse, how improved in storms.
Pleaders, few of them tolerable company
Pleasant fellows to be avoided

Picasantry in conversation, the faults it covers...
Pleasure, when our chief pursuit, disappoints itself

The deceitfulness of pleasure..

7

Pindar's saying of Theron...
Pin-money cundemued

Pinkethman to personate King Porus on an elephant....
Pisistratus, the Athenian tyrant, his generous behaviour
on a particular occasion..
Pitch-pipe, the invention and use of it....
Pittacus, a wise saying of his about riches......
Pity, is love softened by sorrow....

That and terror leading passions in poetry
The reasonableness of pity......

Place and precedency more contested among women of
an inferior rank than ladies of quality
Places of trust, who most fit for them

469

Why courted by men of generous principles........
The unreasonableness of party-pretences to places... 629
Planets, to survey them fills us with astonishment.
Planting recommended to country gentlemen..
Plato, his notion of the soul.....

420
583, 589

90

Wherein, according to him and his followers, the pu-
nishment of a voluptuous man consists...
His account of Socrates's, behaviour the morning he
was to die....

10

393

420

634

133

188

448

195

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21

21

25
86

41
41

416

418
244

201

467

295

31

527

228

574

397

418

588

119
469

90

183
507

624

36

502

529

502

197
462

462

151

151

Pleasure and Pain, a marriage proposed between them,

and concluded...

183

Pliny, the necessary qualifications of a fine speaker ac-
cording to that author.....

484

525

His letter to his wife's aunt, Hispulla...
Plutarch, for what reproved by the Spectator..
Foems in picture.

483
58
267
421

The chief things to be considered in an epic poem
Several poems preserved for their similes.
Poetesses (English), wherein remarkable

51

Poetry has the whole circle of nature for its province.... 419
Poets (English), reproved..

Their artifices

39, 40
44
253
314

Bad poets given to envy and detraction...
The chief qualification of a good poet.

The pains they should take to form the imagination.. 417
Should mend nature, and add to her beauties
How much they are at liberty in it....

418
416

Polite imagination let into a great many pleasures the

vulgar are not capable of
Politicians, the mischief they do....

Some at the Royal Exchange..
Politics of St. James's coffee house, on the report of the

French king's death.......
Of Giles's......

411
556
568

403
403

Politics of Jenny Man's
Of Will's

Of the Temple,
Of Fish-street.
Or Cheapside.
Of Garraway's..
Poll, a way of arguing

239

280

Polycarpus, a man beloved by every body
Pontiguan (Monsieur), his adventure with two women... 90
Poor, the scandalous appearance of them.

430

Pope (Mr.), his miscellany commended by the Spectator 523
Popular applause, the vanity of it....
Posterity, its privilege......

188

101

Poverty, the inconveniences and mortifications usually
attending it.........

The luss of merit..

Powell (senior), to act Alexander the Great on a drome-
dary.

His artifice to raise a clap

Powell (junior), his great skill in motions...

14

His performance referred to the opera of Riualdo and
Armida...

14

Power, despotic, an unanswerable argument against it... 287
Practice and example, their prevalency on youth.
Praise, the love of implanted in us....

337
38, 467

238
349
551

A generous mind the most sensible of it...
Why not freely conferred on men till dead.
When changed into fame...
Prayers, Phoenix's allegorical description of them to
Achilles in Homer..

391

The folly and extravagance of our prayers in general,
inake set forms necessary....

Precipice, distant, why its prospect pleases....

301
418

Prediction, the many arts of it in use among the vulgar.. 505
Prejudice, the prevalency of it......
101

A letter about it, as it respects parties in England.. 432
Prerogative, when and how to be asserted with honour.. 480
Pride, a great enemy to a fine face...........

33
201

A man crazed with pride a mortifying sight..
A chief spring of action in most men..

394

Printing encouraged by the politest nations in Europe... 367
Procrastination, from whence proceeding.
Procuress, her trade.....

151
205

183

Prodicus, the first inventor of fables......
Professions, the three great oues overburdened with prac-
titioners

21
32

Projector, a short description of one.
Promisers condemned.

448

Promises (neglect of) through frivolous falsehood.

Pronunciation necessary to an orator..

448
541

Proper (Will), an honest tale bearer

Prospect, a beautiful one, delights the soul as much as a

19
411

411

No.

403

403

403

403

403

403

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Doctors, the cheats of them.

An essay against quacks by Dr. Z. Pearce
Quakers, project of au act to marry them to the olive
beauties
Qualities, what are truly valuable.
Quality no exemption from reproof,
Is either of fortune, body, or mind.
Queries in love answered.....

Question, a curious one started by a schoolman about the
choice of present and future happiness and misery... 575
Quidnunc (Thomas), his letters to the Spectator about news 625
Quir (Peter de), his letter to the Spectator about puns... 396
Quixote (Don), patron of the Sighers' club..

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306
340

34
219
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RABELAIS, his device

Rack, a knotty syllogism.

Raillery in conversation, the absurdity of it..
Rainbow, the figure of one contributes to its magnifi-
cence, as much as the colours to its beauty.
Rake, a character of one..
Raleigh (Sir Walter), Dis opinion of woman-kiud......... 510
Ramble, from Richmoud by water to London, and about
it, by the Spectator

415
576

451

Ramsey (William), the astrologer, his whimsical descrip-
tion of night.....

582

40

Rants considered as blemishes in our English tragedies..
• Rape of Proserpine,' a French opera, some particulars in it 29
Raphael's cartoons, their effect upon the Spectator.. 226, 241
The excellence of his pictures
Rattling club got into the church..

467
630

472

Read (Sir William), his operations on the eyes....
Readers, divided by the Spectator into the mercurial and
saturnine.....

Reason, instead of governing passion, is often subservient

....

to it..............

Not to be found in brutes..

The pilot of the passions..

A pretty nice proportion between that and passion..
Rebus, a kind of false wit in vogue among the ancients..
And our own countrymen..

No.
983

239

422

59

A rebus at Blenheim-house condemned
Recitative (Italian), not agreeable to an English audience 29
Recitative music in every language ought to be adapted
to the accent of the language,
Recreation, the necessity of it
Religion, the greatest incentive to good and worthy actions 356
Considered.

258

459

A morose melancholy behaviour, which is observed
in several precise professors of religion, reproved by
the Spectator

The stability of it, if well founded

Retirement, the pleasure of it where truly enjoyed....

A dream of it..........

The true spirit of religion not only composes, but
*... 494
cheers the soul.......

494
Renatus Valentinus, his father and grandfather, their story 426
Rentfree (Sabina), her letter about the green sickness.... 451
Repository for fashions, a building proposed and described 487
The usefulness of it...

487

Reproof, when justly deserved, how we ought to behave

under it...

Reputation, a species of fame

382
218

218

4

425

Revelation, what light it gives to the joys of heaven.... 600
Revenge of a Spanish lady on a man who boasted of her

611

favours....

Rhubarb (John, Esq), his memorial from the country in-

nrmary....

Rich (Mr.), would not suffer the opera of Whittington's
Cat' to be performed in his house, and the reasonfor it
Rich to be rich. the way to please.

The advantages of riches.

The art of growing rich

The proper use of riches.

The defects of rich men overlooked.

Richelieu (Cardinal), his politics made France the terror
of Europe.....

Romans; an instance of the general good understanding
of the ancient Romans..

Rosalinda, a fainous Whig partisan, her misfortune..
Rosicrucius. the story of his sepulchre..

A pretended discovery made by a Rosicrucian
Rowley (Mr.) his proposals for a new pair of globes
Royal Exchange, the creat resort to it

Royal Progress,' a poem.

Rusticity shocking

179

6
120

408

408

59

50

Riches corrupt men's morals...

Ridicule, the talent of ungenerous tempers....

The two great branches of ridicule in writing..
Put to a good use.......

305
464
249
249
445
115
415
91

Riding, a healthy exercise.
Riding-dress of ladies, the extravagance of it..
Rival mother, the first part of her history
Robin, the porter at Will's coffee-house, his qualification. 398
Romau and Sabine ladies, their example recommended to

the British...

SAINT Paul's eloquence.....

Salamanders, an order of ladies described
Sallust, his excellence.

Salmon (Mrs.), her ingenuity
Salutation, subject to great enormities.
Salutations in churches censured.

Sanctorius, his invention
Santer (Mis), a great suuff-taker
Sappho, an excellent poetess.

Dies for love of Piaor.

20

Her hymn to Venus...

A fragment of Sappho's translated into three different

languages...

Satire, Whole Duty of Man' turned into one.
Satires, the English, ribaldry and Billingsgate

Panegyrical on ourselves.

429
5
280
281

283

204

464

81

502

81
379

57 +

552

69
620

Rusty (Scabbard), his letter to the Spectator.....
Rynsault, the unjust governor, in what manner punished
by Charles, Duke of Burgundy, his sovereign.

.... 491

400
44)

Satirists best instruct us in the manners of their respective
times.....

Scandal, to whom most pleasing...................
llow monstrous it renders US...
Scales (golden), a dream of them........................
Scaramouch, an expedient of his at Paris....
Scarves, the vanity of some clergymnon's wearing ...
Scholar's egg, what so called...

Schoolmasters, the ignorance and want of duermest is
the generality of them
1991
Schoolmen, their ass case..
How applied....

Scipio, his judgment of Marius when a bog
Scornful Lady,' the Spectator's observations as that phy
Scot (Dr.), his Christian life, its merits.....
Scotch, a saying of theirs...
Scribblers against the Spectator, why neglected by him.
The most offensive....

969

5043

451

473

Seasons, a dream of them........
Self-conceit, one of the inhabitants of the paradise of foes
Self-denial, the great foundation of civil virtue......
Self love transplanted, what..............

............ &

The narrowness and danger of self-love.......
Semanthe, her character...........
Semiramis, her prodigious works and powers........
Sempronia, a professed admirer of the French nat
The match-maker..................................
Seneca, his saying of drunkenness.........
Sense; some men of sense more despicable than com
beggars....

The different degrees of sense in the several dif
species of animals.....
Sentry (Captain), a member of the Spectator's club,
character...

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His excellence....

30

Shalum the Chinese, his letter to the Princess Hap
fore the Flood......
Sherlock (Dr.), the reason his discourse of death bath
so much perused......

Improved the notion of heaven and hell.......
Shoeing-horns, who, and by whom employed.......
Shovel (Sir Cloudesley), the ill contrivance of his mons

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nient in Westminster Abbey.
Shows and diversions lie properly within the proce
the Spectator....
Sickness, a thought on it..

Sidney (Sir Philip), his opinion of the song of Chery

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Sign-posts, the absurdity of many of them.
Silk-worm, a character of oue.......
Similitudes, eminent writers faulty in them..............
The preservation of seye:al poems...........
An ill one in a puipit....
Simonides, his satire ou women.
Sincerity, the great want of it in conversation......
The advantages of it over dissimulation and cer
The most compendious wisdom............
Singularity, when a virtue.

633
198
400
28

An instance of it in a north-country gentlem
259 Sippit (Jack), his character.......
400

25
341

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Slavery, what kind of government the most repre
Sloven, a character affected by soned for w
The folly and antiquity, of it...
2.3 Sly, the haberdasher, his advertisement to young
men in the last year of their uppirations
23 Sly (John), the tobacconist, his representaday

223

Spectator.

His minute....

Smithfield bargain, in marriage, the tuhumanity of .... M
Shape (Dr.), a quotation from his charity stribou --
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phocles, his conduct in his tragedy of Electra'
...rites, what sort of figure...

500

558

His saying of misfortunes.
Sliers, when men of sense, of an agreeable conversation 152
litude: an exemption from passions the only pleasing
solitude..

4

Few persons capable of a religious, learned, or phi-
losophic solitude....
264
Solomon's Song,' a paraphrase on the second chapter... 38
ng, with notes..

470

44
239

was now, the outward signs of it very fallacious....

95

ul, the immortality of it evidenced from several proofs 111
Its happiness the contemplation of God.

State of it after separation.

413
413

The excellency of it considered in relation to dreams 487
unds, how improper for description
Spaccia della Bestia triomphante,' a book sold at an

416

auction for thirty pounds..

Some account of that book..

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Canarkish (Will), a modish husband

parrows bought for the use of the Opera.....
Harlan virtue acknowledged by the Athenians.

partan justice, an instance of it....

partans, the method used by them in the education of
their children

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crates, his temper and prudence

His behaviour at his execution.

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His speech to his judges...

His notion of pleasure and pain

The effect of his temperance...

His instruction to his pupil Alcibiades in relation to
prayer......

207

A catechetical method of arguing introduced first by

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Instructed in eloquence by a woman.

Why the oracle pronounced him the wisest of meu
Head of the sect of the hen-pecked.

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The effect a discourse of his on marriage had with
his audience...

pectator (The). his prefatory discourse..

His great taciturnity.

llis vision of public credit....

His entertainment at the table of an acquaintance...

His recommendation of his speculations
Advertised in the Daily Courant..

His encounter with a lon behind the scenes.

pace, infinite, Sir Isaac Newton's noble way of consider-
ing it.

The design of his writings

No party-man .....

A little unhappy in the mould of his face.
His artifice

His desire to correct impudence

And resolution to march on in the cause of virtue..
His visit to a travelled lady.....

His speculations in the first principles.

An odd accident that befel him at Lloyd's coffee-
house..

His advice to our English Pindaric writers

His examen of Sir Fopling Flutter

His inquisitive temper...

His account of himself and his works to be written
300 years hence.

No.

138
28

133

146

His great modesty

He accompanies Sir Roger de Coverley into the

country....

This exercise when young..

He goes with Sir Roger a hunting

And to the assizes...

His adventure with a crew of cipsies..

The several opinions of him in the country

His return to London, and fellow-travellers in the

stage-coach

Ilis soliloquy upon the sudden and unexpected death
of a friend...

183

195

His comparison of the world to a stage..

He accompanies Sir Roger to Spring-garden......
His zeal for the Hanover succession

230

247

408
479

486

389
389

564

479

5

6

564

307

I

1

3

7

10

12

45

46

46

58

65

85

101

101

132

133

179

a

218

His artifice to engage ins different readers.
The character given of him. in his own presence, at
coffee-house near Aldgate......
flis aversion to pretty fellows, and the reason of it.. 261
llis acknowledgments to the public.

His advice to the British ladies

262
265
266

289

His adventure with a woman of the town...
His description of a French puppet newly arrived.... 277
His opinion of our form of government and religion.. 287
Sometimes taken for a parish sextou, and why.....
His reflections upon Clarinda's journal...
Accompanies Sir Roger to Westminster Abbey.
His sacrifices to humanity...

323

329
355

His behaviour under reproach, and reasons for uot re
turning an answer to those who have animadverted
ou his paper...

His contemplations on Good-Friday.

The benefits accruing to the public from his specula-
tions....

367

His papers much sought for about Christmas by all
his neighbours....

320

419

439

439

389

110

419
53
558

393

423

13

423

16 Spring-garden, a kind of Mahometan paradise..

383

15

Spy, the mischief of one in a family....

202

17

Squeezing the hand, by whom first used in making love.. 109

19

Squires (rural), their want of learning..

529

20 Stamps, how fatal to weekly historians.

31

Starch, political, its use

Starers reproved.

Stars (fixed), how their immensity and magnificence con.
found us....

No.

Spectator (The), his invitation to all sorts of people to
assist him...

355

356

About the stamps..
Guardian of the fair sex..
His advertisements...

About the price of his paper.
Put into the golden scales

A sort of news-letter....

Ilis account of a coffee-house debate, relating to the
difference between Count Rechteren and Monsieur
Mesnager

367

370

383

384

The great concern the city is in upon his design of
laying down his paper...

He takes his leave of the town
Breaks a fifty years silence....
How he recovered his speech....
Ilis politics..
Loquacity
Of no parts

A calamity of his
Critics upon him

He sleeps as well as wakes for the public.
His dream of Trophonius's cave...
Why the eighth volume published.
Speech, the several organs of it...

Spenser, his advice to young ladies under the distress of
defamation.....

481

488

The different sense of his readers upon the rise of his
paper, and the Spectator's proposals upon it...
Ilis observatious on our modern poems...
His edict.........

523

523

The effects of his discourses on marriage.

523

His deputation to J. Sly, haberdasher of hats and to-
bacconist..

526

The different judgments of his readers concerning his
speculations...

542

His reasons for often casting his thoughts into a letter 542
His project for the forming a new club.
Visits Mr. Motteux's warehouses..

550

552

ffis whole creation of shadowy persons..

Spies, not to be trusted

Despised by great men...

Spirit, an high one, a great enemy to candour..
Spirits, the appearance of them not fabulous..

Several species in the world besides ourselves
Spleen, a common excuse for dulness...

Its effects

Spring, the pleasantest season of the year

A description of it......

Ifis attendants

A contemplation of the stars....

State (future), the refreshments a virtuous person enjoys
in prospect and contemplation of it.

442

445

449

461

461

463

468

Defined
That of the English.

Tears, not always the sign of true sorrow..

553

555

556

556

556

Statira, in what proposed as a pattern to the fair sex
Statuary the most natural representation....
Stint (Jack) and Will Trap, their adventure.
Stoics discarded all passions..

397

Stores of Providence, what.

248

106

138

Story-tellers, their ridiculous punctuality...
Strife, the spirit of it...

115

197

116

479

Stripes, the use of them on perverse wives.
Stroke, to strike a bold one, what meant by it..
130 Sublime in writing, what it is

122

319

592

131

Sudden (Thomas, E-q.), his memorial from the country
jufirmary
Sukey's adventure with Will Honeycomb and Sir Roger
de Coverley

429

Sun, the first eye of consequence..

410
250

Sun-rising and setting, the most glorious show in nature.. 412
Superiority reduced to the notion of quality

To be tounded only on merit and virtue.
Superstition, the folly of it described..

An error arising from a mistaken devotion.
Has something in it destructive of religion
Surprise, the life of stories

'Susanna, or Innocence Betrayed,' to be exhibited by
Mr. Powell, with a new pair of Elders..
Sweaters, a species of the Mohock club...

Swingers, a set of familiar romps at Tunbridge..
Symmetry of objects, how it strikes.
Syncopists, moderu ones.....

492
411

Syncopus, the passionate, his cuaracter

567
438

Syracusan prince jealous of his wite, how he served her.. 579

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556

556

558

568

599

599

632

231

445
305

20

420

565

186

41

416

448

219

202
7
201
213
538

TALE BEARERS censured.....

439

Talents ought to be valued according as they are applied 172
Taste (corrupt) of the age, to what attributed. ..... 140, 08
Taste of writing, what it is, and how it may be acquired.. 409
The perfection of a man's taste as a sense..

409
400

402

95

14
332

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