made advantageous even to the meanest capacities, N. 353. Leopold, the last emperor of that name an expert joiner, N. 353. Letters to the Spectator, from O&avia married to an ungrateful husband, N. 322; from Clarinda, with her journal, 323; from Philanthropos, with an account of the Moboc club, 324; from a countryman to her he very much refpects, Mrs. Margaret Clark, ibid. from R. T. to the Spelator upon a paffage in Milton, 325; from a country gentleman lying under the misfortune of having a very fine park, and an only daughter, 326; from Mrs. Mary Comfit at Mile End Green, ibid. from T. B. complaining of his wife's expenfive longings during her pregnancy, ibid. from a married gentleman who is in a fair way of being undone by his virtuous lovely wife, 328; from S. B. recommending the patronage of young modeft men to fuch as are able to countenance and introduce them into the world, 330; from James Difcipulus, complaining of the nearness of his father as a great difcouragement to him in the courfe of his ftudies, ibid. from Jack Lightfoot, containing an account of his fweaters, 332; from three country virtuous virgins, who are ambitious of the 'characters of very good wives, ibid. from the author of the hiftory of dancing, 334 from a young man complaining of an ill cuftom he has obferved among old men, 336; from Rebecca the diftreffed, complaining of a club of female rakes, ibid. from. with fome other thoughts on education, 337 and 353; from Phyfibulus, occafioned by the epilogue to the Diftreft Mother, 338; from Philomeides, in anfwer to the foregoing letter, 341; from an officer concerning Sylvana's conduct in the absence of her husband, 342; from Jack Freelove to his miftrefs, written in the perfon of a monkey, 343; to the Spectator from Epicure Mammon, a great trencherman, 344; from complaining of an extravagant cuftom among fome women of taking snuff, ibid. from Taw Waw Eben Zan Kaladar emperor of the Mobocs, with a manifefto, 347; from Mary, against detraction, 348; from Hotspur, with the desciption of a devotée, 354; from Sophrofunius, complaining of the impudent behaviour of people in the streets, ibid. from in behalf of a genteel drefs, 360; from John Shallow, who had lately been at a concert of cat-calls, 361; from Tom Pottle, in commendation of Brooke and Hellier, 362; from Will Cymon, with an account of the improvements wrought in him by love, and the character of his mistress, ibid. from Philip Homebred, upon travel, 364; from Robin Bridegroom in Birchin-Lane, complaining of a set of drums that awakened him with their thunder the morning after he was married, ibid. from Altamira, a prude, ibid. from with the from tranflation of a Lapland song, 366; from Conftantia Comb-Brufh, complaining that her miftrefs gives her caft-off cloaths to others, ibid. from Paul Regnaud to his friend, on the death of Madam de Villacerfe, 368; to the Spectator on whims and humorifts, 371; from Ralph Belfry, in commendation of Mr. Powell, mafter of the motion, 372; from Humphrey Transfer, on a moving club of parith clerks, ibid. from H. R. complaining of the lawyers club, ibid. from Michael Gander, on the city watchman and his goofe, 376; from Richard Watchful, on dancing, ibid. from Myrtilla, defiring the Spectator's advice in relation to her lover, 380; from J. S. animadverting on fome perfons behaviour at church, ibid. from T. B. on vanity and the abundance of it in the female fex, ibid. from Betty Lemon, who had been prefented with a guinea by a few, ibid. from the' Sexton of St. Bride's on a new charity-school of fifty girls, erected in that parish, ibid. from a gentleman in Denmark, 393. Liberality, the true bafis of it, N. 346. Lillie, (Charles) his prefent to the Spectator, N. 358. Longings in women, the extravagancies of them, N. 326. Longinus, an obfervation of that critic, N. 339. Love, in what manner difcovered to his mistress by one of Will Honeycomb's acquaintance, N. 325; the mother of poetry, 377 MAY, caution to the female fex on that account, ibid Merit, valuable, according to the application of it, N. 340. Meffiah, a facred eclogue, N. 378. Milton's Paradife Loft, a continuation of the Spectator's criticism on that poem, N. 327, 333, 339, 345, 351, 357, 363, 369; the moral of that poem, and length of time contained in the action, 369. Mirth, the awkward pretenders to it, N. 358; diftinguished from chearfulness, 381. Modefty diftinguished from fheepishnefs, N. 373; the definition of it, ibid. wherein it confifts, 390; modeft affurance, what, 373. Mobor, the meaning of that name, 324; feveral conjectures concerning the Mobocs, 347. Monuments raifed by envy, the moft glorious, N. 355. More (Sir Thomas), his gaiety at his death, to what owing, N. 349. Mortality, the lover's bill of, N. 377. Motion of the Gods, wherein it differs from that of mortals, according to Heliodorus, N. 369. Mully Mol.ch Emperor of Morocco, his great intrepidity in his dying moments, N. 349. N. wich, giving an account of an engagement between a French privateer and a little veffel be longing to that place, N. 350; his reflection on that action, ibid. Sincerity, the advantages of it over dishimulation and deceit, N. 352; the most compendious wifdom, ibid. Solomon's fong, a paraphrafe on the fecond chapter, N. 388. Spaccia della Beftia triomphante, a book fold at an auction for 301. N. 389; fome account of that book, ibid. Spectator, his reflections upon Clarinda's journal N. 323, accompanies Sir Roger de Cloverley to Westminster-Abbey, 329; his facrifices to hamanity, 355; his behaviour under reproach, and reafons for not returning an anfwer to thofe, who have animadverted on his paper, ibid. his contemplations on Good-Friday, 356; the benefits accruing to the public from his fpeculations, 367; his papers much fought for about Chrifimas by all his neighbours, ibid. his comparison of the world to a ftage, 370; he accompanies Sir Roger to Spring-Garden, 383; his zeal for the Hanover fucceffion, 384. Spenfer, his advice to young ladies under the dif trefs of defamation, N. 390. Nightingale, its music highly delightful to a Spirit, an high one a great enemy to candour, N. 383. 382. Novels, great inflamers of womens blood, N. Spring, the pleasanteft feafon of the year, N. 365. 339. Spring-Garden, a kind of Mahometan Paradife, N. 383. Sweaters, a fpecies of the Moboc club, N. 332. A. ACETUS, his character, Number 422. Admiration, a pleafing motion of the mind, N. 413. Affectation, the misfortune of it, N. 404; defcribed, 460. Almighty, his power over the imagination, N. 421; Ariftotle's faying of his being, 465. Allegories, like light to a difcourfe, N. 421; eminent writers faulty in them, ibid. Allufions the great art of a writer, N. 421. Amazons, their commonwealth, N. 433; how they educated their children, 434; their wars, ibid. they marry their male allies, ibid. Americans ufed painting instead of writing, N. 416. Amity between agreeable perfons of different fexes dangerous, N. 400. Amoret (the jilt) reclaimed by Philander, N. 401. Ann Boleyn's last letter to King Henry VIII. N. 397. Ancients in the Eaft, their way of living, N. 415. Appearances, things not to be trufted for them, N. 464. Applaufe (public) its pleasure, N. 442. April (month of) defcribed, N. 425. Arabella, verfes on her finging, N. 443. Architecture, the ancients perfection in it, N. 415. The greatnefs of the manner how it ftrikes the fancy, ibid. Of the manner of both ancients and moderns, ibid. the concave and convex figures have the greatest air, ibid. every thing that pleases the imagination in it, is either great, beautiful, or new, ibid. Art, (works of) defective to entertain the imagination, N. 414; receive great advantage from their likeness to those of nature, ibid. Auguft and July (months of) defcribed, N. 425 B. BABEL, (Tower of) N. 415. Bacon (Sir Francis) prescribes his reader, a poem or profpect, as conducive to health, N. 411; what he fays of the pleasure of taste, 447. Bankruptcy, the mifery of it, N. 428, 456. Baxter (Mr.) his laft words, N. 445; more last words, ibid. Bayle (Mr.) what he fays of libels, N. 451. Bear-Garden, a combat there, N. 436; the cheats of it, 449. Beauty heightened by motion, N. 406. Beauty of objects, what understood by it, N. 412; nothing makes its way more directly to the foul, ibid. every fpecies of fentible creatures has different notions of it, ibid. a fecond kind of it, ibid. Beggars, the grievance of them, N. 430. Buffoonry, cenfured, N. 442. Bufinefs (men of) their error in fimilitudes, N. 421; of learning fitteft for it, 469. Buffy d' Amboife, a story of him, N. 467. C. CESAR loft his life by neglecting a Reman augur's caution, N. 395. Celia, her character, N. 404. Cartefian, how he would account for the ideas formed by the fancy, from a fingle circumftance of the memory, N. 417. Cato, the respect paid him at the Roman theatre, N. 446. Chamont's faying of Monimia's misfortunes, N. 395. Charity fchools to be encouraged, N. 430. 395. Children, their duty to their parents, N. 426; ill education of them fatal, 431. Chinese laugh at our gardens, and why, N. 414. Chremylus, his character out of Ariftophanes, N. 464. Cicero, his genius, N. 404; the oracle's advice to him, ibid. what he fays of scandal, 427; of the Roman gladiators, 436. Clarendon (Earl of) his character of a perfon of a Cloe, the idiot, N. 466. Colours, the eye takes moft delight in them, N. 412; why the poets borrow moft epithets from them, ibid. only ideas in the mind, 413; speak all languages, 416. Comedies, English, vicious, N. 446. Company, temper chiefly to be confidered in the choice of it, N. 424. Concave and convex figures in architecture have the greatest air, and why, N. 415. Confidence, the danger of it to the ladies, N. 395. Coverley (Sir Roger de) his adventure with Sukey, N. 410; his good humour, 424. Converfation DAcinthus, his character, N. 462. Dainty (Mrs. Mary) her memorial from the country infirmary, N. 429. Damon and Strephon, their amour with Gloriana, Dancing difplays beauty, N. 466; on the ftage Day, the several times of it in several parts of the town, N. 454. Deluge, Mr. Wn's notion of it reproved, N. 396. Defamation, the fign of an ill heart, N. 427; papers of that kind a fcandal to the government, 451; to be punished by good ministers, ibid. Denying, fometimes a virtue, N. 458. Deportment (religious) why fo little appearance of it in England, N. 448. Defcriptions come fhort of ftatuary and painting, N. 416; please fometimes more than the fight of things, ibid. the fame not alike relished by all, ibid. what pleases in them, 418; what is great, furprising and beautiful, more acceptable to the imagination than what is little, common, or deformed, ibid. Defire, when corrected, N. 400. Devotion, the noblest buildings owing to it, N. 41.5. Diana's cruel facrifices condemned by an ancient poet, N. 453. Dionyfius's ear, what it was, N. 439. Difcourfe in converfation not to be engroffed by one man, N. 428. Distracted perfons, the fight of them the most mortifying thing in nature, N. 421. Dogget, how cuckolded on the stage, N. 446. Employments, whoever excels in any, worthy of praife, N. 432. Emulation, the use of it, N. 432. Enemies, the benefits that may be received from them, N. 399. English naturally modeft, N. 407, 435; thought proud by foreigners, N. 432. Enmity, the good fruits of it, N. 399. Error, his habitation described, N. 460; how like to Truth, ibid. Effay on the pleasures of the imagination, from N. 411, to 421. Ether (fields of) the pleasures of furveying them, N. 420. Ever-greens of the fair-fex, N. 395. Euphrates river contained in one bason, N. 415. Exchange (Royal) described, N. 454. FA F. AIRY writing, N. 419; the pleasure of imagination that arife from it, ibid. more difficult than any other, and why, ibid. the Englib the best pets of this fort, ibid. Faith, the benefit of it, N. 459; the means of confirming it, 465. Fame a follower of merit, N. 426; the palace of, defcribed, 439; courts compared to it, ibid. Familiarities indecent in fociety, N. 429. Fancy, all its images enter by the fight, N. 411. Fashion, a description of it, N. 465. Father, the affection of one for a daughter, N. 449 399. Faults (fecret) how to find them out. N. Fear (paffion of) treated, N. 471. Feeling not fo perfect a fenfe as fight, N. 411. Fiction, the advantage the writers have in it to please the imagination, N. 419; what other writers please in it, 420. Fidelia, her duty to her father, N. 449. Final causes of delight, in objects, N. 413; lie bare, and open, ibid. Flattery defcribed, N. 460. Flavilla, fpoiled by a marriage, N. 437. Fortius, his character, N. 422. Fortunatus, the trader, his character, N. 443. French, their levity, N. 435. G. Gloriana, the defign upon her, N. 423. Geats milk the effect it had on a man bred with it, N. 408. Good fense and good nature always go together, N. 437. Grace at meals practifed by the Pagans, N. 458. Grandeur and minutenefs, the extremes pleating to the fancy, N. 420. Gratitude, the most pleafing exercise of the mind, N. 453; and a divine poem upon it, ibid. Greatness of objects, what understood by it, in the pleafures of the imagination, N. 412, 413. Green-fickness, Sabina Rentfree's letter about it, N. 431. Guardian of the fair fex, the Spectator fo, N. 449. H. HAmlet's reflections on looking upon Yorick's fcull, N. 404. Harlot, a defcription of one out of the Proverbs, N. 419. Health, the pleafures of the fancy more conducive to it, than thofe of the understanding, N. 411. Heaven and hell, the notion of, conformable to the light of nature, N. 447. Heavens, verfes on the glory of them, N. 465. Hebrew idioms run into English, N. 405. Herod's faying of a virtuous life, N. 447. Hiftorian, his most agreeable talent, N. 420; how biftory pleafes the imagination, ibid. defcriptions of battles in it fcarce ever understood,' N. 428. Hockley in the bole gladiators, N. 436. Homer's defcriptions charm more than Ariftotle's Hotfpur (Jeffrey, E;) his petition from the country infirmary, N. 429. Human nature the beft ftudy, N. 408. Humour (good) the beft companion in the country, N. 424. Hah (Peter) his character, N. 457. Hymn, David's paitoral one on providence, N. 441; on gratitude, 453; on the glories of the heaven and earth, 456. Hypocrify, the various kinds of it, N. 399; to be preferred to open impiety, 458. I. Deas, how a whole fet of them hang together, Triot, the ftory of one by Dr. Plot, N. 447. ad, the reading of it like travelling through a country uninhabited, N. 417. Imaginary beings in poetry, N. 419. Imitances in Ovid, Virgil, and Milton, ibid. Imagination, its pleasures in fome refpes equal to thofe of the understanding, in fome preferable, N. 411; their extent, ibid. the advantages of them, ibid. what is meant by them, ibid. two kinds of them, ibid. awaken the faculties of the mind, without fatiguing or perplexing it, ibid. more conducive to health then thofe of the understanding, ibid. raifed by other fenfes as well as the fight, 412; the caule of them not to be affigned, 413; works of art pot to perfect as thofe of nature to entertain 7 the imagination, 414; the fecondary pleasures of the fancy, 416; the power of it, ibid. whence 'its fecondary pleasures proceed, ib, of a wider and more univerfal nature than thofe it has when joined with fight, 418; how poetry contributes to its pleafures, 419; how hiftorians, philofophers, and other writers, 420, 421; the delight it takes in enlarging itfelf by degrees, as in the furvey of the earth, and the universe, ilid. and when it works from great things to little, ibid. where it falls fhort of the underftanding, ibid. how affected by fimilitudes, 421; as liable to pain as pleasure; how much of either it is capable of, ibid. the power of the Almighty over it, ilid. Imagining, the art of it in general, N. 421. Impertinent and trifling perfons, their triumph, N. 4%. Imprudence miftaken for wit, N. 443. 440; a further account out of the country, ibid. Ingoltfon (Charles of Barbican) his cures, N. 444. Invitation, the Spectator's, to all artificers as well as philofophers to affift him, N. 428, 442; a general one, ibid. Jolly (Frank, Efq;) his memorial from the country infirmary, N. 429. Iras, her character, N. 404. K. Knowledge of one's felf, rules for it, N. 399. L. LAniikip, a pretty one, N. 414. Language (licentious) the brutality of it, N. 400. Languages (European) cold to the oriental, N. 405. Latimer, the martyr, his behaviour at a confer- Learning (Men of) who take to business, best fit for it, N. 469. Letters from Cynthio to Flavia, and their answers to the breaking off their amour, N. 398. Letters from Queen Ann Boylene to Henry VIII. N. 397; from a bankrupt to his friend, 456; the answer, ibid. from Lazarus Hopeful to Bafil Plenty, 472. Letters to the Spectator; from Peter de Quir of St. John's college in Cambridge, N. 396; from a penitent Jilt, 401; from a lady importuned by her mother to be unfaithful to her husband, 402: from a married man who out of jealousy obftructed the marriage of a lady to whom he was guardian, ibid. from a lady whofe lover would have abufed her paffion for him, ibid. from a young uncle on the difobedience of his elder nephews and nieces, :bid. about a city and country life, 406; with a tranflation of a Lapland ode, ibid. on the paffions, 408; concerning Gloriana, 423; of good humour, 424; of the country infirmary, 429; of common beggars, 430; of charity-fchools, ibid. the freedoms of married men and women, ibid. from Richard and Sabina Rentfree, 431; about preju dice and emulation, 432; naked fhoulders, a country fociety and infirmary, ibid. from Camilla, 443; from an exchange man, ibid. about buffoonry |