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SPECTATOR.

No, 162.

CONTENTS.

VOL. V.

No.

HISTORICAL and Biographical Pre-

face.-Original Dedications.

1. The Spectator's Account of himself... ADDISON

2. Of the Club-Sir Roger de Coverley

-the Templar-Sir Andrew Free-

port-CaptainSentry-Will Honey-

comb-the Clergyman...

3. Public Credit, a Vision.....

4. Advantages of the Spectator's Taci-

STEELE

ADDISON

turnity-Care of the Female Sex... STEELE

5. On the Absurdities of the Modern

Opera.......

6. Preference of Wit and Sense to Ho-

nesty and Virtue......

7. Popular Superstitions..

8. Letters on Masquerades....

9. Account of various Clubs

10. The Uses of the Spectator.....

11. Character of Arietta-the Ephesian

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Matron-Inkle and Yarico........... STEELE

12. Custom of telling Stories of Ghosts to

Children.....

No.

13. Conduct of the Lions at the Opera-

Merit of Nicolini.......................

...... ADDISON

14. Letters from the Lion-from an Un-

der-sexton on the Masquerade-

Puppet Show......

.....

STEELE

15. Story of Cleanthe-on Happiness, ex-

emplified in Aurelia-Fulvia... ADDISON

16. Various Articles of Dress-Lampoons

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Scandal-Politics-Letter from

Charles Lillie.................

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.. ADDISON

17. Account of the Ugly Club.................................. STEELE

18. History of the Italian Opera..........

19. On Envy........

20. Impudence-the Starers

... STEELE

21. Divinity, Law, and Physic overbur-

thened with Practitioners....

22. Absurdities of the Opera exemplified
in Letters from the Performers of
Beasts

23. Ill-natured Satire.....

.........

ADDISON

STEELE

24. Complaint of Thomas Kimbow-im-

pertinent Acquaintance-Letter from

Mary Tuesday..

25. Letter from a Valetudinarian-Excess
of Anxiety about Health....

....

26. Reflections in Westminster Abbey

27. Resolutions to quit the World-Letter

to a Clergyman....

28. Project of an Office for the Regulation

of Signs-a Monkey recommended

for the Opera.......

29. Italian Recitative-Absurdities of the

Opera Dresses......

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ADDISON

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30. Club of Lovers established at Oxford STEELE

31. Project of a new Opera.......

.............. ADDISON