INDEX TO VOL. III. A. ABBREVIATIONS of English proper names, 320. Abstinence, the benefit of it, 408. Academy for the exercise of the fan, 238. Accent in the speech of every nation different, 74. Acosta, his answer to Limborch, on Jewish ceremonies, 440. Acrostic, a piece of false wit, divided into simple and compound, 147. Actions, classed into good, evil, and indifferent, 439. Acts of parliament, in favour of public credit pointed out, 14. Advertisement, for finding the Spectator, 36. Respecting Mr. Powell, Advice: no order of persons too great to be advised, 82. Æneas, his lamentation over Lausus whom he had slain, 179. Æneid, turned into Latin rhymes, 145. Ægyptian temple, compared to a hoop-petticoat, 303. Ægyptians, worship the crocodile, 298. Aflictions, remedies for, 336. Devotion, a principal one, 337. Agamemnon, transmigration of his soul into an eagle, 437: Ajax, transmigration of his soul into a lion, 436. Alabaster, Dr. a rabbinical divine, his mysterious text, 454. Alcibiades the second, Plato's dialogue on prayer, so entitled, 426. Alcoran, a famous passage in it respecting time, 223. Ale, quantity drank by the everlasting club, 181. Alexander the Great, his expedition, an opera projected on it, 77. His Allegory of Luxury and Avarice, 127. On Wit, 160. In the style of Alpheus, river, in the French opera, appears in a periwig, 76. Altar, a species of minor Greek poetry, 139. VOL. III. 2 H Ambition the occasion of factions, 296. Most men subject to it, 447. Americans, their belief that all creatures have souls, 128. Exemplified Amorous men, most susceptible of jealousy, 358. Amusements of life, when innocent, necessary, and allowable, 220. 'Anagram of a man,' 146. Anagrams, an invention of the monkish ages, 146. A regiment of, in Anarchy, a phantom in the hall of Public Credit, 16. Animals, the different make of every species, 272. The instinct of Anne the First, idea of an imaginary historian describing her reign, 235. Antanaclasis, a species of pun, 151. Ape, a species of female formed from it, 434. Apollodorus, a saying of his, on cats and whore-masters, 419. Apology, an artful one, for an hyperbole, 229, note. Apothecary, his employment, 406. Apparitions, the creation of weak minds, 251. Appetites, lust and hunger the most violent in all creatures, 272. April, the first of, the merriest day in the year, 118. Arabian Nights' Tales, story of the king and physician from, 405. Argentre, Monsieur d', notices the extravagant head-dresses of the Arguments for the immortality of the soul, 255. Aristenætus, his description of a beautiful woman applied to wit, 153. Aristophanes, his ridicule of Socrates, 59. Aristus and Aspasia, their characters, 307. Their virtues blended in Armida, an Amazonian enchantress, 19. Arrow, its path, an emblem of life, 66. Arsinoe, the first opera that gave us a taste for Italian music, 50. Art, its productions perishable, 350. Artifice, an ill contrived one, in a tragic poet, for moving pity, 102. - Artist, wherein he has the advantage of an author, 350. As in præsenti, a fund of quotations for sermons, 452. that Ass, between two bundles of hay, a case put by the schoolmen, 401. Ass-races, at Coleshill, 367. Assembly, an irregular one, information against, 25. Association of honest men, proposed, to neutralize party-spirit, 296. Associations of ideas instanced from Mr. Locke, 252. Atheism, a phantom in the hall of Public Credit, 16. Atheists, great zealots and bigots, 392. Their opinions downright Aulus Gellius, an heathen saying on religion quoted by him, 416. Author, necessity of the reader's knowing his size, temper, and com- Avarice, its temples, adherents, attendants, officers, &c. 127. Operates 128. Avarice, described as a painter, 197. Ax, a species of Greek poem so called, 139. B. Bacon, Sir Francis, his observation on a well-written book, 33. Be- Badinage of Mr. Addison, never detracts from the dignity of his cha- Bags of money suddenly transformed into sticks and paper, 16. Ball, a great help to female conversation, 44. Bank, the Spectator's visit to it, 14. Baptist Lully, his prudent management, 75. Barbarity arising from unbridled passions, 445. Battles, in tragedy, better told than represented, 102. Baxter, a page of his found under a Christmas pye, 199. Raillery on that subject, how tempered, 200, note. Bayle, his opinion on the soul of brutes, 276. Beau, contrasted with a Quaker, 47. Beauty, its duration much shorter than the term of life, 208. |