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To the Spectator: from J. R. complaining of his
neighbours, and the turn of their conversation in
the country..

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476

.... 480

From Dulcibella Thankley, who wants a direction to
Mr. Campbell, the dumb fortune-teller.....
From D. B. desiring the Spectator's advice in a
weighty affair..
From
containing a description of his garden 477
From A. B. with a dissertation on fashions, and a
proposal for a building for the use of them........ 478
From Monsieur Chezluy to Pharamond
To the Spectator, from
From
a clerk to a lawyer.. 480
being a lady married to a cot-quean.. 482
-, with a dissertation on modesty...
From
containing reflections on the powerful
effects of trifles and trifling persons...
From a handsome black man, two pair of stairs in the
Paper-buildings in the Temple, who rivals a hand-
some fair man up one pair of stairs in the same
buildings.

From

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From Robin Shorter, with a postscript

485

From

with an account of the unmarried
henpecked, and a vindication of the married
with an epigram on the Spectator by

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488

489

From
Mr. Tate.....
From
with some reflections on the ocean,
considered both in a calm and a storm, and a di
vine ode on that occasion ....
From Matilda Mohair, at Tunbridge, complaining of
the disregard she meets with, on account of her
strict virtue, from the men, who take more notice
of the romps and coquettes than the rigids...
From T. B. complaining of the behaviour of some fa-
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thers towards their eldest sous
From Rachel Shoestring, Sarah Trice, an humble ser-
...... 496
vant unknown, and Alice Bluegarter, in answer to
that of Matilda Mohair, who is with child, and has
crooked legs....

Letter from Mr. Pope, on the verses spoken by the Enge
Adrian upon his death-bed

From Dustererastus, whose parents will not let bun
choose a wife for himself....

From Penance Cruel, complaining of the behaves of
persons who travelled with her in a stage-coach sur
of Essex to London......

From Sharlot Wealthy, setting forth the hard can o
such women as are beauties and fortugrs..........
From Abraham Dapper wit, with the Spectator's
From Jeremy Combit, a grocer, who is in bapes
growing rich by losing his customers,
From Lucinda Parley, a coffee house ido
From C. B. recommending knotting as a proper
amusement to the beaux

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From Relicta Lovely, a widow.....
From Eustace, in love with a lady of eighteen, wh
parents think her too young to marry by three yac
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with a short critique on Spense.....
From Philo-Spec, who apprehends a dissolution of the
Spectator's club, and the ill consequences of ... 3
From Captain Sentry, lately come to the posarstaO, ET
Sir Roger de Coverley's estate..

From the Emperor of China to the Pope
From W. C. to the Spectator, in commeadebon
a generous benefactor...

From Charles Easy, setting forth the sovereign
of the Spectators in several remarkable instances...
From
—, on poetical justice
From Sir Andrew Freeport, who is retiring fan bas

ness......

From Philonicus, a litigious genticman, complute
of some unpolite law terms.

From T. F. G. S. J.T. E. T. 1

the Spectator......

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commendation

From the Bantam ambassador to his master, abuel

the English..

From the Dumb conjurer to the Spectator

From the Chit-chat club

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From Oxford, about his recovering his speech.
From Frank Townly

From Blank, about his family...........................................
About an angry husband

From Will Warley, about military education..
From an half-pay officer, about a widow,

From Peter Push, on the same subject.........
Against quacks

From the president of the Widows' club.

From a man taken to be mad for reading of poetry
aloud...

A second letter about the ubiquity of the Godar and
Several answered at once.......

From Constantio Spec.............................
From Amanda Lovelength......

From Shalum the Chinese to the Princess Halpa
fore the Flood.....

From Hilpa to Shalum.....

From John Shadow at Oxford, about retosing
night on past day's actions.

About a vision of hearts

About planting.....

From John Shadow, about dreams............
Of inconsistent metaphors.....

From Jeremy Joven ore, with an account at his file,
About making love

From Fanny Fickle..........

About the vanity of some clergymen wearing stat

trade..

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From Will Honeycomb, occasioned by two stories he
had met with relating to a sale of women in Persia
and China...

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513

-, with a vision of Parnassus........... 51¡
with two inclosed, one from a cele-
brated town-coquette to her friend newly married
in the country, and her friend's answer..
From Ed. Biscuit, Sir Roger de Coverley's butler,
with an account of his master's death

From an aunt, about her niece's idl-ness..

515

From Tom Nimble, about antipathies .......................
From Cicora against the ladies work.
From Lesbia, a deluded lady

517

From

condoling with hun on Su Roger's
death, with some remarkable epitaphs
From Tom Tweer, on physiognomy, &e
From F. G. a widower, with some thoughts on a
man's behaviour in that condition..
From- --, a great enemy to public report....... 521
From T. W. a man of prudence, to his mistress.....
To the Spectator, from B. Ta sincere lover, to the

......... 518
... 518

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sapie...

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From

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, dated trom Glasgow in Scotland, with
a vision ....
From Pliny to his wife's aunt Hispulla....
From Moses Greenbag to the Spectator, with a fur.
ther account of some gentlemen-brothers of the whip 526
From Phi'agnotes, giving an account of the ill effects
of a visit he paid to a female married relation...... 527
From
who had made his mistress a present
of a fan, with a copy of verses on that occasion.... 527
From Rachel Welladay, a virgin of twenty-three, with
a heavy complaint against th men
From Will Boneycomb, lately married to a coun-
try girl, who has no portion but a great deal of
viitue...

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530

About genealogy..

From Will Hopeless, about amb tion.......
From the Temple, about beggars' eloquence.
From Monimia, to recover a lost love
From a country wit, in the burlesque way.....
From a pedant, in his pedantic way, on the

ject.

About the styles of letters.........................................
Answers to several.............................

About flattery............

From the love casuist, about the widows' tenure, and
the black rata...

From the same, about love querics.....
From one who recommended himself for
monger...

About the force of novelty...................................
About a crossed lover....... .....................................
About eternity to come.................................
About church music.

About the Rattling club's getting into church
Letter-dropper of antiquity, who...

Levees of great men animadverted upon
Levity of women, the effects of it.....

Lewis of France compared with the Czar of Museny..
Libels, a severe law against them...

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Obscurity, the only defence against reproach..
Often more illustrious than granden.

Obsequiousness in behaviour considered..
Ode (Laplander's) to his mistress...

Economy, wherein compared to good breeding
Ogler: the complete orler.

Old maids generally superstitious

Old testament in a periwig....

Omniamante, her character...

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

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 yz.....
Orator, what requisite to form one

Orbicilia, her character.

Order, necessary to be kept up in the world....

Ostentation, one of the inhabitants of the parents of 12h 1
Otway commended and ensured..

His admirable description of the miseries of investe
Overdo, a justice at Epping, offended at the company d
strollers for playing the part of Clodpate, and tim
ing a mockery of one of the quorum.................
Ovid, in what he excels...

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Parties crept much into the conversation of the ladies.
An instance of the malice of parties.....
The dismal effects of a furious party-spir..........
It corrupts both our morals and judgment..........
And reigns more in the country tuma towa...
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 Wi
regulated by virtue...

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

The passions treated of..........

What moves them in descriptions most picas –
In all men, but appear not in all.

Of hope and fear.

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

Passions of the fan, a treatise for the use of the aut. k

scholars......

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

Patrons and clients, a discourse on thedi.........

Worthy patrons compared to guardian augris.
Paul Lorrain, a design of his....

Peace, some ill consequences of it....

Pedantic humour...

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...

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Penkethman, the comedian, his many qualifications.
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 then in the
Persian soldier, reproved for railing against all curar
Persians, their instruction of their youth..............................
Their notions of parricide......

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