- His observation on the fable of an epic poem, m (the) called by Tully the orator's weapon, t of Criticism, the Spectator's account of that poem, nature, The design of it. tillery, the invention and first use of it, to whom ascribed heis, an enemy to cheerfulness of mind, Two unanswerable arguments against it, In what manner atheists ought to be treated, and bigots, Their opinions downright nonsense, ships, At war with luxury, Its officers and adherents, ugustus, his request to his friends at his death, His reproof to the Roman bachelors, His saying of mourning for the dead, uthor, the necessity of his readers being acquainted with his size, complexion, and temper, in order to read his His opinion of his own performances, The expedient made use of by those who write for the In what manner one author is a mole to another, Their precedency settled according to the bulk of their BABEL (Tower of), Prescribes his reader a poem or prospect, as conducive to health, What he says of the pleasure of taste, His extraordinary learning and parts, A combat there, The cheats of it, No. 267 Beauties, whether male or female, very untractable, his aver, the haberdasher, a great politician, auties, when plagiaries, The true secret how to improve beauty, Then the most charming when heightened by virtue, 273 273 291 297 297 315 128 18 253 414 141 414 13, 290 Blanks of society, who, second kind of it, Beggars, Sir Andrew Freeport's opinion of them, Beings, the scale of beings considered by the Spectator, 333 Belvidera, a critique on a song upon her, 166 Belus (Jupiter), temple of, 384 Beneficence, the pleasure of it, A discourse on it, 126 381 Bicknell (Mrs. for what commended by the Spectator, 389 Bill proposed by a country gentleman to be brought into the 185 Birds, a cage full for the opera, 185 titled to it, 607 3 Several demands for it, Baptist Lully. his prudent management, Bawdry, never writ but where there is dearth of invention, ness but stratagem, More last words, What a blessing he had, ayle (Mr.), what he says of libels, eards in former ages a type of wisdom, Instances of the homage heretofore paid to beards, At what time the beard flourished most in this na- Impertinent and disagreeable, The efficacy of beauty, 411 447 554 Beauty in a virtuous woman makes her more virtuous, Of objects, what understood by it, Nothing makes its way more directly to the soul, Spectator, 55 Blackmore (Sir Richard), his observation, 502 Blank, his letter to the Spectator about his family, 502 Bank verse proper for tragedy, 55 Biton and Clitobus, their story related, and applied by the 55 425 Blast (Lady), her character, 317 Bluemantle (Lady), an account of her, How affected by colours, Bion, his saying of a greedy search after happiness, 55 Biting, a kind of mongrel wit described and exploded by the 55 504 528 Board wages, the ill effects of it, 575 Boccalini, his animadversions upon erities, 15 His fable of a grasshopper applied to the Spectator, Body (human), the work of a transcendently wise and power- Bohours (Monsieur), a great critic among the French, 4 1 51 Bonosus, the drunken Briton, a saying of him after he had 124 166 Books, reduced to their quintessence, 166 The legacies of great geniuses, 355 Breeding, fine breeding distinguished from good. Bribery, the most prevailing way of making one's court, Brunetta and Phillis, their adventures, His reproof to an ill reader, A frequent saying of his, His Commentaries, the new edition of it 190 445 His activity and perseverance, 445 Lost his life by neglecting a Roman angur's caution, 451 331 Caligula, his wish, tion, 331 The ill consequence of introducing it amongst us at 331 present, A description of Hudibras's beard, 331 argarden, the Spectator's method for the improvement of it, Calisthenes, his character. honour to the The great offence of calumny, Rules against it by the fathers of La Trappe, Camilla, a true woman in one particular, 449 49 Camillus, his deportment to his son, 275 Campbell (Mr.), the dumb fortune-teller, an extraordinary 4 person, 33 Candour, the consequence and benefit of it, 32 Camdia, an antiquated beauty described, 415 Bruvere (Monsieur), his character of an absent man, 19 Buck (Timothy), his answer to James Miller's challenge, Bullock and Norris, differently habited, prove great helps to Burlesque authors the delight of ordinary readers, 44 Business (men of), their error in similitudes, 459 467 175 47 Bussy d'Amboise, a story of him, Butt: the adventure of a butt on the water, The qualification of a butt, 557 CACOETHES, or itch of writing, an epidemical distemper, 582 404 156 Cæsar (Julius) his behaviour to Catullus, who had put him into a lampoon, 407 No. 141 141 412 412 510 232 430 519 28 28 95 203 470 415 598 601 601 370 326 289 474 144 3002 401 412 412 483 457 427 83 291 569 124 166 60 23 367 312 483 558 451 594 543 41 80 77 Charles 1. a famous picture of that prince, Charles the Great, his behaviour to his secretary, who had debauched his daughter, Charins, none can supply the place of virtue, Cheerfulness of temper, how to be obtained and pre- state, Children in the Wood, a ballad, wherein to be commended Why the Chinese laugh at our gardens, Chremylus, his character out of Aristophanes, Christian religion, the clear proof of its articles, and excel- Christianity, the only system that can produce content Chocolate, a great heater of the blood in women, Church-yard, the country 'Change on Sunday, The entertainment found in bis philosophical writings, The oracle's advice to him, Of the Ronan gladiators, His extraordinary superstition, Clarendon (Earl of his character of a person of a trouble- some curiosity, INDEX. No. A reflection of that historian, Clarinda, an idol, in what manner worshipped, Clavius, proving incapable of any other studies, became a ce- Cleanliness, the praise of it, Cleanthes, his character, Cleopatra, a description of her sailing down the Cydnos, Clergymen one of the Spectator's club, Clergymen, the vanity of some in wearing scarves, Club: the She Ro up club, Methods observed by that club, The Mohoek club, The design of their institution, 307 191 52 144 383 61 61 404 404 427 436 505 554 417 614 served, Wherein preferable to mirth, The many advantages of a cheerful temper, Children, wrong measures taken in the education of the British children, The unnaturalness of mothers in making them suck a Consciousness, when called affectation, The duty of children to their parents, 436 Il education of children fatal, A multitude of them one of the blessings of the married 431 Contentment, the utmost good we can hope for in this lift, 439 307 400 21 2 609 217 217 324 324 386 446 Club-law, a convincing argument, 537 557 Several names of clubs, and their originals, 96 Rules prescribed to be observed in the Two-penny 157 198 167 Coach (stage), its company, 361 An account of the Ugly club, The Sighing club, The Fringeglove club, The amorous club, The Hebdomadal club: some account of the member of 4 1 Some account of the Everlasting club, The difficulties met with in erecting that club, 181 How to touch it, 395 Complaisance, what kind of it peculiar to courts, 1 579 480 Concave and convex figures in architecture have the great € est air, and why, " 35 143 Condé (Prince of), his face like that of an eagle, 381 Connecte (Thomas), a monk in the 14th century, a zealo 600 2 3 Coquettes, the present numerous race to what owing, 96 Cordeliers, their story of St. Francis, their founder, 574 perance, 634 Cot-queans described by a lady who has one for her bus His Country Coffee-house debates seldom regular or methodical, Country Coffee-house liars, two sorts of them, Why the poets borrow most epithets from them, Wha Courage re 516 of it, 294 Comparisons in Homer and Milton defended by Monest T 430 58 Compassion, the exercise of it would tend to lessen the mir 402 骂 Civilizes human nature, band, 1 Coverley (Sir Roger de), a member of the Spectator's clu 338 his character, His opinion of men of fine parts, Is something of a humorist, His choice of a chaplain, His management of his family, An improvement of taste in letters, Is forced to have every room in his house exorcised by A great benefactor to his church in Worcestershire, In which he suffers no one to sleep but himself, He gives the Spectator an account of his amours, and the 213,5 character of his widow, The trophies of his several exploits in the country, An instance of his good-nature, His aversion to confidants, The manner of his reception at the assizes, where le whispers the judges in the ear, Rarely sports near his own seat, A dispute between him and Sir Andrew Freeport, His return to town, and conversation with the Spect tor in Gray's Inn Walks, His intended generosity to his widow, His reflections upon visiting the tombs in Westminster Abbey, A great friend to beards, 點 EN Coverle His His An elo One or Courage an tion. Courtship, Cowards na Cowley (Ma His ma His op: His des His sto Crab, of Ki Credit, a be A grea Credit unde Credulity in Critic, the c as M Cyneas, Py firmar A neces On the s Danges as that p R:con us, Deaths in Listr The effect of it, How to make a good use of it, Cannot make every thing pleasing, that prince, Cyrus, how he tried a young lord's virtue, DACINTHUS, his character, Dainty (Mrs. Mary), her memorial from the country in- Damon and Strephon, their amour with Gloriana, A necessary accomplishment, The disadvantages it lieth under, to what owing, On the stag faulty, The advantages of it, angers past, why the reflection of them pleases, Recommended by Will Honeycomb to succeed him in ay, the several times of it in several parts of the town, No. Death: the benefit of death, Decency of behaviour generally transgressed, 410 424 414 Denying, sometimes a virtue, 414 Dependants, objects of compassion. 424 Deportment (religious) why so little appearances of it in 474 England, Papers of that kind a scandal to the government, Definitions, the use of them recommended by Mr. Locke, 517 Delicacy; the difference between a true and a false deli- The standard of it, 128 Delight and surprise, properties essential to wit, Descriptions come short of statuary and painting, The same not alike relished by all, 99 What is great, surprising, and beautiful, more accept- 99 152 Detraction, the generality of it in conversation, 583 622 502 422 Devotee, the description of one, 350 Devotion, the great advantage of it, 394 403 231 us, The contemplation of it affords a delight mixed with in history, 409 592 530 454 133 Socrates's model of devotions, 114 The noblest buildings owing to devotion, 339 Diagoras, the atheist, his behaviour to the Athenians in a 590 storm, 610 Diana's cruel sacrifices condemned by an ancient poet, 613 Dick Crastin challenges Tom Tulip, 32 446 The most natural relief in our afflictions, A man is distinguished from brutes more by devotion than reason. 128 Dignitaries of the law, who, Dionysius's ear, what it was, 78 Dionysius, a club tyrant, 577 339 320 190 Dissenters, their canting way of reading. 251 Dissimulation, the perpetual inconvenience of it, 274 Distempers, difficult to change them for the better, why, The errors into which it often leads us, The notions the most refined among the heathens had 452 Disappointments in love, the most difficult to be conquered Discontent, to what often owing, 393 Discourse in conversation not to be engrossed by one man, 3 Distinguished froni conning, Absolutely necessary in a good husband, Distracted persons, the sight of them the most mortifying Divine nature, our narrow conceptions of it, Divorce, what esteemed to be a just pretension to one, 437 439 Dogget, the comedian, how cuckolded on the stage, 453 Dorigny (Monsieur), his piece of the Transfiguration excel- 180 Doris, Mr. Congreve's character of, 755 No. 199 292 188 398 Dream of the Seasons, 564 Of golden scales, Dreams, in what manner considered by the Spectator, The folly of laying any stress upon, or drawing conse- 429 The multitude of dreams sent to the Spectator, 423 A discourse on dreams, 334 334 Dress, the advantage of being well dressed, 370 The ladies' extravagance in it, An ill intention in their singularity, 466 The English character to be modest in it, Drums, customary, but very improper instruments in a mar- is a monster, 7 Drunkenness, the ill effects of it. What Seneca and Publius Synes said of it. His happy turn for prologue or epilogue, His translation of lapis's cure of Encas out of Virgil, Drama, its first original a religious worship, 286 286 62 396 282 448 416 416 451 373 17 416- 418 418 400 348 354 93 163 201 201 62 572 427 451 207 207 415 483 453 364 569 435 435 435 458 195 439 163 214 147 599 505 599 360 91 21 428 225 225 607 Dryden (Mr.), his translation of Æneas's ships being turned His cock's speech of Dame Partlet, Pharamond's edict against it, Their inquiries are not for information but exercise, Different beings may entertain different notions of the Dutch more polite than the English in their buildings, and Their saying of a man that happens to break, Epigram on Hecatissa, Epistles recommendatory, the injustice and absurdity of most Epistolatory poetry, the two kinds of styles, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke, Equanimity, without it we can have no true taste of life, Its origin. Equipages, the splendour of them in France, Erratum, a sad one committed in printing the Bible, No. Estcourt, the comedian, his extraordinary talents, 84 97 43 43 43 94 26 174 43 493 618 177 94 387 468 317 605 470 181 562 562 615 293 Speech in Cato on eternity, translated into Latin, Ever-greens of the fair sex, ต 20 The singularity of his remarks, Eucrate, the favourite of Pharamond, Her character, 157 Euphrates river contained in one basin, a 313 Exercise, the great benefit and necessity of bodily esercie, 337 39 The prevailing influence of the eye instanced in sever Eudoxus and Leontine, their friendship and education of ther 431 Eyes, a dissertation on them, 455 455 FABLE of the lion and the man, Of Jupiter and the countryman, The great usefulness and antiquity of fables, 324 Eugenius, appropriates a tenth part of his income to clari Persians, 432 399 407, 435 # Eugene (Prince), the Spectator's account of him, \ The pleasures of imagination that arise from it, More difficult than any other, and why, The English are the best poets of this sort, The means of confirming it, Counts compared to it, 133 in 557 Falsehood, the goddess of, 557 Falsehood in man a recommendation to the fair sex 135 T petual, Falstaff (Sir John), a famous butt, Divided into three different species, Difficulty of obtaining and preserving fame, The inconveniences attending the desire of it, A follower of merit, The palace of Fame described, 11 Familes: the ill measures taken by great families in the ed cation of their younger sons, 132 Fancy, all its images enter by the sight, 53 397 Fashion, the force of it, 524 Men of fashion, who, 52 A society proposed to be erected for the inspection d fashions, The daughter of Liberty, The character of Fancy, A description of fashion, 26 Fashions, the vanity of them wherein beneficial, 143 61 104 15 Faustina, the Empress, her notions of a pretty gentle 239 man, 579 Fear, how necessary it is to subdue it, How like to truth, Fear of death often mortal, Errors and prepossessions difficult to be avoided, 460 Feasts, the gluttony of modern ones, rity, kind, 222 Female literature in want of regulation, Flattery Hot Part, Flavills Spo Flors, al 'Flaner Flatter c Foible S Fooks gr Fop, sh Fortune, To b Fortune Distil Che Fritilla's Frolic, wh The t GALLAN Gaming, Gaper, the What In wha Gardening Obery Applies Generosity Genius, wh lish th Why we Gifts of fort Gipsies: an No. 241 Gladio's dream, 336 81 419 420 449 392 413 413 Gladness of heart to be moderated and restrained, but not O * Glaphyea, her story out of Josephus, In what the perfection of it consists, Goat's-milk, the effect it had upon a man bred with it, An instance of his exuberant goodness and mercy, A being of infinite perfections, 75 A contemplation of his omnipresence and his omni- 460 He cannot be absent from us, 621 Considerations on his ubiquity, 398 Good-breeding, the great revolution that has happened in 344 437 Good-humour, the necessity of it, 425 Good-nature more agreeable in conversation than wit, 65 102 Born with us, 190 A moral virtue, 460 An endless source of pleasure, 576 Good-nature and cheerfulness the two great ornaments of 47 virtue, 485 Good sense and good-nature always go together, 231 Gospel gossips described, 422 Goths, in poetry, who, 443 Government, what form of it the most reasonable, 282 Grace at meals practised by the pagans, 293 Gracefulness of action, the excellency of it, 311 Grammar-schools, a common fault observed in them, 484 Grandmother, Sir Roger de Coverley's great, great, great 415 2 pot, 126 Gratitude, the most pleasing exercise of the mind, 232 Great men, the tax paid by them to the public, Not truly known till some years after their death, 599 288 Greeks and Trojans, who so called, 399 Green, why called in poetry the cheerful colour, 68 Green-sickness, Sabina Rentfree's letter about it, Į 68 Grinning: a grinning prize, 68 Grotto, verses on one, 494 110 423 139 139 172, 218 513 481 Greeks, a custom practised by them, 435 Greeks and Romans, the different methods observed by 45 419 Henpecked husband described, 294 Heraclitus, a remarkable saying of his, Hercd and Mariamne, their story from Josephus, No. 197 Described by Mr. Cowley, The notions several nations have of it, What Dr. Tillotson says of it, Heaven and hell, the notions of, conformable to the light of nature, 44 419 Heavens, verses on the glory of them, 419 Hebrew idioms run into English, 419 Heirs and elder brothers frequently spoiled in their educa- 419 565 412, 413 385 Guardian of the fair sex, the Spectator so, 449 385 Gyges and Aglaüs, their story, 610 385 Gymnosophists (Indian), the method used by them in the 490 337 119 169 169 169 177 196 243 437 372 46 62 287 458 292 353 420 109 453 453 101 101 313 387 431 173 632 197 589 404 44 144 15 45 181 410 552 100 125 98 98 98 497 411 587 150 580 590 600 600 447 405 123 179 487 575 171 483 |