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THE

INDE X.

A Cademy

A.

Cademy for politics, Number 305. The regulati-
ons of it, &c. ibid.

Admiration, fhort-liv'd, N. 256.

Age. A comfortable old age, the reward of a well-spent
youth, N. 260.

Agreeable man, who, N. 280.

Ambition, never fatisfy'd, N. 256. The end of it,
N. 255. The effects of it in the mind, N. 256.
Subjects us to many troubles, N. 257. The true
object of a laudable ambition, ibid.

Appetites the incumbrances of old age, N. 260.
ARISTOTLE, his definition of an intire action of epic
poetry, N. 267. His fenfe of the greatness of the acti-
on in a poem ; his method of examining an epic poem,
N. 273. An obfervation of that critic's, ibid. One
of the best logicians in the world, N. 291. His divi-
fion of a poem, N. 297. Another of his obfervations,
ibid. His obfervation on the fable of an epic poem,

N. 315.

Art of criticifm, the SPECTATOR'S account of that
poem, N. 253.

Audiences, at prefent void of common fenfe, N. 290.
AUGUSTUS, his request to his friends at his death, N.
317.

BEAU'S

B.

EAU's head, the diffection of one, N. 275.

Beauty in a virtuous woinan makes her more virtuous,

N. 302.

Bills of mortality, the ufe of them, N. 289.

BOCCALINI, his animadverfions upon critics, N. 291.

CÆSAR

C.

ÆSAR (JULIUS) a frequent faying of his, N. 256. Calamities, the merit of suffering patiently under them, N. 312.

CAMILLUS, his deportment to his fon, N. 263.

Canidia, an antiquated beauty defcribed, N. 301. Capacities of children not duly regarded in their education, N. 307.

Cenfor of marriages, N. 308.

Charity-schools, great inftances of a public fpirit, N. 294.

CLAVIUS, proving incapable of any other ftudies, became a celebrated mathematician, N. 307.

Comparisons in Homer and Milton, defended by Monfieur Boileau against Monfieur Perrault, N. 303. Coquette's heart diffected, N. 281.

COVERLEY (fir ROGER DE) his return to town, and converfation with the SPECTATOR in Gray's-Inn walks, N. 269. His intended generofity to his widow, N. 295. Courtship, the pleasantest part of a man's life, N. 261. Credit undone with a whi'per, N. 320.

Criminal love, fome account of the state of it, N. 274 Critic, the qualities requifite to a good one, N. 291.

D.

DEATH: deaths of eminent perfons, the most im

proving paffages in hiftory, N. 289.

Decency, nearly related to virtue, N. 292.

Decency of behaviour, generally tranfgreffed, N. 292.
Delicacy; the difference betwixt a true and falfe delica-
cy, N. 286
The standard of it, ibid.

Dependents, objects of compaflion, N 282.

Diftreft Mother, a new tragedy, recommended by the SPECTATOR, N. 290.

EAtin

E.

Ating, drinking, and sleeping, with the generality of people, the three important articles of life, N. 317.

Education; whether the education at a public school, or under a private tutor, be to be preferred, N. 313. The advantage of a public education, ibid.

ELIZABETH, (queen) her medal on the defeat of the Spanish Armada, N. 293.

EMILIA, an excellent woman, her character, N. 302. Envy; the abhorrence of envy, a certain note of a great mind, N. 253.

Eyes; the prevailing influence of the eye inftanced in feveral particulars, N. 252.

FABLE

F.

ABLE of a drop of water, N. 293.

Fame, the difficulty of obtaining and preferving it, N. 255. The inconveniencies attending the defire of it, ibid.

Fop, what fort of perfons deserve that character, N. 280. Fortune often unjustly complained of, N. 282. To be controlled by nothing but infinite wifdom, N. 293.. Fortune-stealers, who they are that fet up for fuch, N. 311. Distinguished from fortune-hunters, ibid. Fribblers, who, N. 288.

G.

Gifts of fortune, more valued than they ought to be,

N. 294.

Government, what form of it the most reasonable, N.287. Gracefulness of action, the excellency of it, N. 292. Greeks and Romans, the different methods obferved by them in the education of their children, N. 313.

H.

HOMER's excellence in the multitude and variety of

his characters, N. 273. He degenerates fometimes into burlesque, N. 279.

HONEYCOMB (WILL) his great infight into gallantry, N. 265. His application to rich widows, N. 31. Hoods, coloured, a new invention, N. 265.

1.

JANE (Mrs.) a great pickthank, N. 272.

Idlenefs, a great diftemper, 316.

Jefuits their great fagacity in difcovering the talent of a
young ftudent, N. 307.

Indolence an enemy to virtue, N. 316.

Journal, a week of a deceased citizen's journal prefented
by fir ANDREW FREEPORT to the SPECTATOR'S
club, N. 317. The use of fuch a journal, ibid.
IRUS; the great artifice of Irus, N. 264.

K.

Knowledge, the main fources of it, N. 287.

LADYLOVE

L.

ADYLOVE (BARTHOLOMEW) his petition to the
SPECTATOR, N. 304.

Letters to the SPECTATOR; from Mary Heartfree, de-
fcribing the powerful effects of the eye, N. 252. From
Barbara Crabtree, to know if the may not make ufe of
a cudgel on her fot of a husband, ibid. from a lawyer
whofe wife is a great orator, ibid, from Lydia to Har-
riot, a lady newly married, N. 254. Harriot's anfwer,
ibid. To the SPECTATOR, from a gentleman in love
with a beauty without fortune, ibid. from Ralph
Crotchet for a Theatre of Eafe to be erected, N. 2.58.
from Mr. Clayton, &c, ibid. from Jack Afterday, an
old bachelor, who is growing dead to all other plea-
fures but that of being worth 50,000l. N. 260. from
a lover, with an inclofed letter to his humourfome
miftrefs, ibid. from a father difcourfing on the relative
duties betwixt parents and their children, N. 263.
from a mother to her undutiful fon, ibid. the fon's an-
fwer, ibid. To the SPECTATOR, from Richard Eft-
court, with one inclofed from fir ROGER DE COVER-
LEY, N. 264 from James Eafy, who had his nofe
abused in the pit, N. 268 from A. B. on the mercena-
ry views of perfons when they marry, ibid. from
Anthony Gape, who had the misfortune to run his
nofe against a poft, while he was flaring at a beauty,

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ibid. from about the new fashioned hoods, ibid.
from one at Oxford in love with Patetia, ibid. from
Tom Trippit, on a Greek quotation in a fornier SPEC-
TATOR, N. 271, from C. D. on fir ROGER's return
to town, ibid. from S. T. who has a fhow in a box
of a man, a woman, and a horse, ibid, from Clean-
thes, complaining of Mrs. Jane, an old maid, and a
pickthank, N. 272 from. with an inclosed letter
from a bawd to a noble lord, N. 274. from Frank
Courtly, reproving the SPECTATOR for fome free-
doms he had taken, N. 276. from Celia, incenfed at
a gentleman, who had nained the words lufty fellow'
in her prefence, ibid. from Pucella, kept by an old
bachelor, ibid. from Hezekiah Broadbrim, accufing
the SPECTATOR for not keeping his word, ibid. from
Teraminta on the arrival of a mademoiselle complete-
ly dreffed from Paris, N. 277. from Betty Crofs-fti:ch
the owner of mademoiselle, ibid. from a fhop-keep-
er whofe wife is too learned for him, N. 278. from
Florinda, who writes for the SPECTATOR's advice,
in the choice of a husband, after fhe is married, ibid.
from Clayton, &c. on the fame fubject with their for-
mer letter, ibid from Jenny Simper, complaining of the
clerk of the parish who has overdeckt the church with
greens, N. 282. from the clerk in his own juftificati-
on, N. 284. from-concerning falfe delicacy, N. 286.
from Philobrune of Cambridge, inquiring which is
the moft beutiful, a fair or a brown complexion, ibid.
from Melainia on male jilts, N. 288. from Peter Mot-
teux, who from an author is turned dealer, ibid. from
George Powel who is to play the part of Oreftes, in a
new tragedy called the Diftreft Mother, 290. from So-
phia, to know if the gentleman the faw in the Park
with a fhort face was the SPECTATOR, ibid. The
SPECTATOR'S anfwer, ibid. To the SPECTATOR from

Jezebel a woman poor and proud, N. 292. from Jofiah
Fribble on pin-money, N. 295. from J. M. advifing
the SPECTATOR to prefix no more Greek motto's to
his papers, N. 296. from Aurelia Carelefs, concerning
the ufe of the window in a beautiful lady, ibid. from
Euphues defiring the SPECTATOR's advice, ibid. from
Sufannah Lovebane, against lampooners, ibid. from

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