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Dignitaries of the law, who, Number 21.

Divorce, what esteemed to be a juft pretenfion to one, N. 41.

Donne, Dr. his defcription of his mistress, N. 41.

Dryden, his definition of wit cenfured, N. óz.

Dull fellows, who, N. 43. Their enquiries are not for information but exercife,
ibid. Naturally turn their heads to politics or poetry, ibid.

Dutch more polite than the English in their buildings, and monuments of their
dead, N. 26.

Dyer, the news-writer, an Ariftotle in politics, N. 43.

E

E.

NVY: the ill state of an envious man, N. 19. His relief, ibid. The way
to obtain his favour, ibid.

Ephefian matron, the ftory of her, N. 11.

Epictetus, his obfervation upon the female fex, N. 53.

Epigram on Hecatiffa, N. 52.

Epitaphs, the extravagance of fome, and modesty of others, N. 26. An epitaph
written by Ben Jonson, 33.

Equipages, the fplendour of them in France, N. 15. A great temptation to the
female fex, ibid.

Etherege, Sir George, author of a comedy, called, She Would if the Could, re-
proved, N. 51.

Eubulus, his character, N. 49.

Eucrate, the favourite of Pharamond, N. 76.

Eudofia, her behaviour, N. 79.

F.

FABLE of the Lion and the Man, N. 11. Of the Children and Frogs, 23.

Of Jupiter and the Countryman, 25.

Falfhood, the goddefs of, N. 63.

Falfe wit, the region of it, N. 25.

Falstaff, Sir John, a famous butt, N. 47.

Fame, generally coveted, N. 73.

Fashion, the force of it, N. 64.

Fear of death often mortal, N. 25.

Fine Gentlemen, a character frequently mifapplied by the fair-sex, N. 75.
Flutter, Sir Fopling, a comedy; fome remarks upon it, N. 65.

Fools, great plenty of them the first day of April, N. 47.

Freeport, Sir Andrew, a member of the Spectator's club, N. 2.

French poets, wherein to be imitated by the English, N. 45.

Friendfhip, the great benefit of it, N. 68. The medicine of life, ibid. The qua
lifications of a good friend, ibid.

G.

GALLANTRY; wherein true gallantry ought to confift, N. 7.
Gaper; the fign of the Gaper frequent in Amfterdain, N. 47.

Ghofts warned out of the playhouse, N. 36. The appearance of a ghost of great
efficacy on an English theatre, 44.

Gofpel goffips defcribed, N. 46.

Goths in poetry, who, N. 62.

H.

HANDKERCHIEF, the great machine for moving pity in a tragedy,

N. 44.

Happiness, true, an enemy to pomp and noife, N. 15.

Hard words ought not to be pronounced right by well-bred ladies, N. 45.
Heroes in an English tragedy generally lovers, N. 40.

Hobbes, Mr. his obfervation upon laughter. N. 47.

Honeycomb, Will, his character, N. 2. His difcourfe with the Spectator in the
playhoufe, 4. His adventure with a Pict, 41. Throws his watch into the
Thames, 77.

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Human

Human nature, the fame in all reasonable creatures, Number 70.

Honour to be defcribed only by negatives, N. 35. The genealogy of the true
honour, ibid. and of falfe, ibid.

I.

IAMBIC verfe the most proper for Greek tragedies, N. 39.
James, how polifhed by love, N. 71.

Idiots, in great requeft in most of the German courts, N. 47.
Idols, who of the fair-fex fo called, N. 73.

eyes, 20.

Impudence gets the better of modefty, N. 2. An impudence committed by the
The definition of English, Scotch, and Irish impudence, ibid.
Indian kings, fome of their obfervations during their stay here, N. 50.
Indifcretion, more hurtful than ill-nature, N. 23.

Injuries, how to be measured, N.

.23.

Inkle and Yarico, their story, N. 11.

Innocence, and not quality, an exemption from reproof, N. 34.
Jonfon, Ben, an epitaph written by him on a lady, N. 33.
Italian writers, florid and wordy, N. 5.

K.

KIMBOW, Tho. ftates his cafe in a letter to the Spectator, N. 24.
Kiffing-dances cenfured, N.,67.

LADY's library defcribed, N. 37.

L.

Lætitia and Daphne, their story, N. 33.

Lampoons written by people that cannot fpell, N. 16. Witty lampoons inflict
wounds that are incurable, 23. The inhuman barbarity of the ordinary fcrib-
blers of lampoons, ibid.

Larvati, who fo called among the ancients, N. 32.

Lath, Squire, has a good eftate, which he would part withal for a pair of legs to
his mind, N. 32.

Laughter, immoderate, a fign of pride, N. 47. The provocations to it, ibid.
Lawyers divided into the peaceable and litigious, N. 21. Both forts defcribed,

ibid.

King Lear, a tragedy, fuffers in the alteration, N. 40.

Lee, the poet, well turned for tragedy, N. 39.

Learning ought not to claim any merit to itself, but upon the application of it,

N. 6.

Leonora, her character, N. 37. The defcription of her country-feat, ibid.
Letters to the Spectator; complaining of the mafquerade, No. 8. From the opera-
lion, 14. From the under-fexton of Covent Garden parifh, ibid. From the
undertaker of the masquerade, ibid. From one who had been to fee the opera
of Rinaldo, and the puppet-fhow, ibid. From Charles Lillie, 16. From the
president of the Ugly Club, 17. From S. C. with a complaint against the
Starers, 20. From Tho. Prone, who acted the wild boar that was killed by
Mrs. Tofts, 22. From William Screne and Ralph Simple, ibid. From an
actor, ibid. From King Latinus, ibid. From Tho. Kimbow, 24. From
Will Fafhion to his would-be acquaintance, ibid. From Mary Tuesday on
the fame fubject, ibid. From a Valetudinarian to the Spectator, 25. From
fome perfons to the Spectator's Clergyman, 27. From one who would be in-
fpector of the fign-poits, 28. From the matter of the show at Charing Cross,
ibid. From a member of the Amorous Club, at Oxford, 30. From a member
of the Ugly Club, 32. From a gentleman to such ladies as are profeffed beau-
ties, 33. To the Spectator from T. D. containing an intended regulation of
the play-house, 36. From the play-houfe Thunder, ibid. From the Spectator
to an affected very witty man, 38. From a married man, with a complaint
that his wife painted, 41. From Abraham Froth, a member of the Hebdoma-
dal Meeting in Oxford, 43. From a husband plagued with a gofpel-goffip, 46.

From

From an ogling-master, Number 46. From the Spectator to the prefident and fel-
lows of the Ugly Club, 48. From Hecatiffa to the Spectator, ibid. From an old
beau, ibid. From Epping, with fome account of a company of strollers, ibid.
From a lady, complaining of a paffage in the Funeral, 51. From Hugh Gob-
lin, prefident of the Ugly Club, 52. From Q. R. concerning laughter, ibid.
The Spectator's anfwer, ibid. From R. B. to the Spectator, with a propofal
relating to the education of lovers, 53. From Anna Bella, ibid. From a sple-
netic gentleman, ibid. From a reformed Starer, complaining of a Peeper, ibid.
From King Latinus, ibid. From a gentleman at Cambridge, containing an
account of a new fect of philofophers called Lowngers, 54. From Celimene, 66.
From a father, complaining of the liberties taken in country-dances, ibid. From
James to Betty, 71. To the Spectator from the Ugly Club at Cambridge, 78.
From a whimsical young lady, 79. From B. D. defiring a catalogue of books
for the female library, ibid.

Letter-dropper of antiquity, who, N. 59.
Library, a lady's library defcribed, N. 37.
Life, the duration of it uncertain, N. 27.

Lindamira, the only woman allowed to paint, N. 41.

Lion in the Haymarket occafioned many conjectures in the town, N. 13. Very
gentle to the Spectator, ibid.

London, an emporium for the whole earth, N. 69.

Love, the general concern of it, N. 30.

Love of the world, our hearts mifled by it, N. 27.

Luxury, what, N. 55. Attended often with avarice, ibid. A fable of those two
vices, ibid.

Lowngers, a new feet of philofophers in Cambridge, N. 54.

M

M.

AN a fociable animal, N. 9. The lofs of public and private virtues owing
to men of parts, 6.

Mafquerade, a complaint against it, N. 8. The design of it, ibid.

Mazarine, Cardinal, his behaviour to Quillet, who had reflected upon him in a
poem, N. 23.

Merchants of great benefit to the public, N. 69.

Mixt wit defcribed, N. 62.

Mixt communion of men and fpirits in Paradife, as defcribed by Milton, N. 12.
Mode, on what it ought to be built, N. 6.

Modefty the chief ornament of the fair-fex, N. 6.

Moliere made an old woman a judge of his plays, N. 70.

Monuments in Westminster Abbey examined by the Spectator, N. 26.

Mourning, the method of it confidered, N.'64. Who the greatest mourners, ibid.
Mufic banished by Plato out of his commonwealth, N. 18. Of a relative na-
ture, 29.

N.

NEIGHBOURHOODS, of whom confifting, N. 49.

Newberry, Mr. his Rebus, N. 59.

New River, a project of bringing it into the play-house, N. 5.

Nicolini, Signior, his voyage on pafteboard, N. 5. His combat with a lion, 13.
Why thought to be a fham one, ibid. An excellent actor, ibid.

0.

OATES, Dr. a favourite with fome party ladies, N. 57.

Ogler, the compleat ogler, N. 46.

Old maids generally fuperftitious, N. 7.

Old Testament in a periwig, N. 58.

Opera, as it is the prefent entertainment of the English ftage, confidered, N. 5.
The progrefs it has made on our theatre, 18. Some account of the French

opera, 29.

Otway, commended and cenfured, N. 39.

Overdo,

Overdo, a juftice at Epping, offended at the company of ftrollers, for playing the
part of Clodpate, and making a mockery of one of the quorum, Number 48.
Oxford Scholar, his great difcovery in a coffee-house, N. 46.

P.

PAINTER and Tailor often contribute more than the poet to the success of
a tragedy, N. 42.

Parents, their taking a liking to a particular profeffion often occafions their fons
to mifcarry, N. 21.

Parties crept much into the converfation of the ladies, N. 57. Party-zeal very
bad for the face, ibid.

Particles, English, the honour done to them in the late operas, N. 18.

Paffions, the conqueft of them a difficult talk, N. 71.

Peace, fome ill confequences of it, N. 45.

Peepers defcribed, N. 53.

Pharamond, memoirs of his private life, N. 76. His great wisdom, ibid.
Philautia, a great votary, N. 79.

Philofophy, the use of it, N. 7. faid to be brought by Socrates down from hea-

ven, 10.

Phyfician and Surgeon, their different employment, N. 16. The Phyficians a
formidable body of men, 21. Compared to the British army in Cæsar's time,
ibid. Their way of converting one diftemper into another, 25.

Picts, what women fo called, N. 41. No faith to be kept with them, ibid.
Pinkethman to perfonate King Porus on an elephant, N. 31.
Players in Drury Lane, their intended regulations, N. 36.

Poems in picture, N. 58.

Poets, English, reproved, N. 39, 40. Their artifices, 44.
Poeteffes, English, wherein remarkable, N. 51.

Powell, fenior, to act Alexander the Great on a dromedary, N. 31. His artifice
to raise a clap, N. 40.

Powell, junior, his great fkill in motions, N. 14. His performance referred to

the opera of Rinaldo and Armida, ibid.

Praife, the love of it implanted in us, N. 38,

Pride a great enemy to a fine face, N. 33.

Profeffions, the three great ones overburdened with practitioners, N. 21.
Projector, a fhort defcription of one, N. 21.

Profper, Will, an honeft tale-bearer, N. 19.

Punchinello, frequented more than the church, N. 14. Punch out in the moral
part, ibid.

Punning much recommended by the practice of all ages, N. 61. In what age the
Pun chiefly flourished, ibid. A famous univerfity much infested with it, ibid.
Why banished at prefent out of the learned world, ibid. The definition of a
Pun, ibid.

QUALITY

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no exemption from reproof, N. 34.
Quixote, Don, patron of the Sighers Club, N. 30.

R.

RANTS confidered as blemishes in our English tragedies, N. 40.

Rape of Proferpine, a French opera, fome particulars in it, N. 29.
Reafon, inftead of governing paffion, is often fubfervient to it, N. 6.
Rebus, a kind of falfe wit in vogue among the ancients, N. 59. and our own
countrymen, ibid. A Rebus at Blenheim House condemned, ibid.
Recitativo, Italian, not agreeable to an Englifh audience, N. 2
mufic in every language ought to be adapted to the accent of the language, ibid,

Retirement, the pleafare of it, where truly enjoyed, N. 4.

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Recitative

Rich, Mr. would not fuffer the opera of Whittington's Cat to be performed in

his house, and the reafon for it, N. 5.

Royal Exchange, the great refort to it, N. 69.

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S.

SALMON, Mrs. her ingenuity, Number 28.

Sanctorius, his invention, N. 25.

Scholar's egg, what fo called, N. 58.

Sempronia, a profeffed admirer of the French nation, N. 45.

Senfe, fome men of fenfe more defpicable than common beggars, N. 6.
Sentry, Captain, a member of the Spectator's club, his character, N. z.
Sextus Quintus, the Pope, an inftance of his unforgiving temper, N. 23.
Shadows and realities not mixed in the fame piece, N. 5.

Shovel, Sir Cloudefly, the ill contrivance of his monument in Westminster-
Abbey, N. 26.

Sidney, Sir Philip, his opinion of the fong of Chevy-Chace, N. ༡༠.

Sighers, a club of them in Oxford, N. 30. Their regulations, ibid.

Sign-pofts, the abfurdities of many of them, N. 28.

Socrates, his temper and prudence, N. 23.

Solitude, an exemption from paffions the only pleafing folitude, N. 4.
Sophocles, his conduct in his tragedy of Electra, N. 44.

Sparrows bought for the ufe of the opera, N. 5.

Spartan virtue acknowledged by the Athenians, N. 6.

Spectator, the, his prefatory difcourfe, N. 1. His great taciturnity, ibid. His
vifion of Public Credit, 3. His entertainment at the table of an acquaintance, 7.
His recommendation of his fpeculations, 10. Advertised in the Daily Cou-
rant, 12. His encounter with a lion behind the fcenes, 13. The defign of
his writings, 16. No party-man, ibid. A little unhappy in the mould of his
face, 17. His artifice, 19. His defire to correct impudence, 20. And refo-
lution to march on in the caufe of virtue, 34. His vifit to a travelled lady, 45.
His fpeculations in the first principles, 46. An odd accident that befel him at
Lloyd's Coffee-houfe, ibid. His advice to our English Pindarick writers, 58.
His examen of Sir Fopling Flutter, 65.

Spleen, a common excufe for dulnefs, N. 53.

Starers reproved, N. 20.

Statira, in what proposed as pattern to the fair-fex, N. 41.

Superftition, the folly of it defcribed, N. 7.

Sufanna, or Innocence Betrayed, to be exhibited by Mr. Powell, with a new pair
of elders, N. 14.

T.

TEMPLAR, one of the Spectator's club, his character, N. 2.

THAT, his remonstrance, N. 80.

Theatre, English, the practice of it in feveral inftances cenfured, N. 42, 44, 51.
Thunder of great use on the stage, N. 44.

Thunderer to the playhouse, the hardfhips put upon him, and his defire to be made
a cannon, N. 36.

Tom Tits to perfonate finging-birds in the opera, N. 5.

Tom the tyrant, first minister of the coffee-house, between the hours of eleven and
twelve at night, N. 49.

Tombs in Westminster vifited by the Spectator, N. 26. His reflection upon them,
ibid.

Trade, the benefit of it to Great Britain, N. 69.

Tragedy; a perfect tragedy the nobleft production of human nature, N. 39.
Wherein the modern tragedy excels that of Greece and Rome, ibid. Blank
verfe the most proper for an English tragedy, ibid. The English tragedy con-
fidered, ibid.

Tragi- Comedy, the product of the English theatre, a monstrous invention, N. 40.
Travel, highly neceffary to a coquette, N. 45. The behaviour of a travelled lady
in the playhoufe, ibid.

Truth, an enemy to falfe wit, N. 63.

Tryphiodorus, the great lipogrammatift of antiquity, N. 59.

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