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Temper, serious, the advantage of it....
Temperance the best preservative of health..
What kind of temperance the best...
Templar, one of the Spectator's club, his character..
Temple (Sir William), his rule for drinking...
Ten, called by the Platonic writers the complete number 221
Tender hearts, an entertainment for them
Tenure, the most slippery in England....
Terence, the Spectator's observations on one of his plays.. 502
Terror and pity, why those passions please..
Thales, his saying of truth and falsehood
Thames, its banks, and the boats on ic described.
That, his remonstrance.

627
623

418
524

454
80

Theatre (English), the practice of it in several instances

42. 44. 51

602

censured...

Of making love in the theatre
Themistocles, his answer to a question relating to the
marrying his daughter.....

No.

598

Theodosius and Constantia, their adventures.
Theognis, a beautiful saying of his....

Thimbleton (Ralph), his letter to the Spectator,
Thinking aloud, what

Thoughts, of the highest importance to sift them
Thrash (Will) and his wife, an insipid couple.
Thunder, of great use on the stage.......
Thunderer to the playhouse, the hardships put upon him,

and his desire to be made a cannon..
Tickell (Mr.), his verses to the Spectator

Tillotson (Archbishop), improved the notion of hea-
ven and hell

Time, our ill use of it....

The Spectator's direction how to spend it

How the time we live ought to be computed...
Title-page (Authony), his petition to the Spectator.
Titles. the significancy and abuse of them....
Tom Titt, to personate singing birds in the Opera..
Tom Touchy, a quarrelsome fellow..

Tom Trusty, a tender husband and careful father.
Tom Tulip, challenged by Dick Crastin.

Flies into the country.

Tom the Tyrant, first minister at the coffee-house be-
tween the hours of eleven and twelve at night.....
Tombs in Westminster Abbey visited by the Spectator...
His reflections upon them.......

Torre, in Devonshire, how unchaste widows are punished
there.

Torture, why the description of it pleases, and not the
prospect.

Townly (Frank), his letters to the Spectator.
Trade, the benefit of it to Great Britain

Trading and landed interest ever jarring..

The most likely means to make a man's private for-

tune...

Tradition of the Jews concerning Moses..

Tragedy: a perfect tragedy the noblest production of hu
man nature..

Wherein the modern tragedy exceeds that of Greece
and Rome..

Blank verse the most proper for English tragedy...
The English tragedy considered

Tragi-comedy, the product of the English theatre, a mon-

strous invention.

Transmigration, what

The transmigration of souls asserted by Will Honey.
comb......

How believed by the ancients'
Trap (Mr.), his letter to Mr. Stint

Travel, highly necessary to a coquette.

The behaviour of a travelled lady in the playhouse..
At what time travelling is to be undertaken, and the
true ends of it.......

Toper (Jack), his recommendatory letter in behalf of a
servant,

493

614

Travellers, the generality of them exploded..
Trees, more beautiful in all their luxuriancy than when.
cut and trimmed

Trimming, the Spectator unjustly accused of it
Trueby (Widow), her water recommended by Sir Roger
as good against the stone and gravel
Trucpenny (Jack), strangely good-natured
Trunk-maker, a great man in the upper gallery in the

playhouse.....
Truth, an enemy to false wit..

The everlasting good effect truth has even upon a

man's fortune and interest...
Always consistent with itself..
The excellence of it

Tryphidorus, the great lipograinmatist of antiquity

Tully praises himself

What he said of the immortality of the soul..

Of uttering a jest.

Of the force of novelty.

What he required in his orator..

Turner (Sir William) his excellent maxim.
Tyrants, why so called.

195

195

2

VAINLOVES, the family of

Valentinus (Basilius) and Alexandrinus, their story...

Valerio, his character
Valetudinarians in chastity.
Valetudinarians in society, who

311
164

464

432

211

399

522

44

36

532

447
93

93

316

304
480
5

122

479

91

91

49

26

20

418
560
69
174

283
237

39

39

39

39

40
211

343

408

448

45

45

364

474

414
445

329
82

235

63

352

352

507
59

562

Valetudinarians in society, not to be admitted into com
pany but on conditions.................
Vanity, the paradise of fools.

CA

A vision of her and her attendants..................
Vapours in women, to what to be ascribed.....
Variety of men's actions proceeds from the pants.....
Varilas, his cheerfulness and good humour nake hinge
nerally acceptable.....

Ubiquity of the Godhead considered.........
Further considerations about it..........
'Venice Preserved,' a tragedy, founded on a wrap.
Venus, the charming figure she makes in the first Eird.
An attendant on the spring..
Verses by a despairing lover
On Phebe and Colin......

Translation of verses pedantic out of Italian.
The Royal Progress

To Mrs.
, on her grotto.
Vertumnus, an attendant on the spring...
Ugliness, some speculations upon it..............
Vice as laborious as virtue..
Villacerfe (Madame de), an account of her death, and
the manner of it.

Vinci (Leonardo), his many accomplishments, and tech
able circumstance at his death.....................
Viner (Sir Robert), his familiarity with King Charles ..
Virgil, his beautiful allegories founded on the Plac
philosophy.....

Wherein short of Homer............

His fable examined in relation to Halicarnassus's to

tory of Æneas.

His genius......

Compared with Homer......

When he is best pleased.....

Virtue, the exercise of it recommended...

454

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To be esteemed in a foe....

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When the sincerity of it may reasonably be suspects
The way to preserve it in its integrity.
The use of it in our afflictions..
Virtues, supposed ones not to be relied on............
Vision of human misery.......

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Visit: a visit to a travelled lady, which she received in
her bed, described...
Vocifer, the qualifications that make him pass for a fe
gentleman..

Volumes: the advantage an author receives of publising
his works in volumes, rather than in single pieces.
Understanding, the abuse of it is a great evil........!
Wherein more perfect than the imagination........
Reasons for it..

Should master the passions.......

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Duty of widows in old times...

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A custom to punish unchaste ones in Berks
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Instances of their riding the black ram there...
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William and Betty, a short account of their am

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Her behaviour at the trial of her cause.........
Her artifices and beauty,

Too desperate a scholar for a country gentle..
Her reception of Sir Roger....

Whom she helped to some tansy in the eye of all
country...
Has been at the death of several foxes.

588
616

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Sir Roger's opinion of her, that she either desigts!
marry or she does not
626 Widows, the great game of fortune-hunters.......
Widows' club, an account of it.......

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