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The most agreeable talent of an historian,
How history pleases the imagination,

Descriptions of battles in it scarcely ever understood,

History, secret, an odd way of writing one,
Hobbes (Mr.), bis observations on laughter,

His notions debase human nature,

Hobson (Tobias), the Cambridge carrier, the first man in
England who let out hackney-horses,

His justice in his employment, and the success of it,
Hockley in the hole gladiators.

Homer: his excellence in the multitude and variety of his
characters,

He degenerates sometimes into burlesque,

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His descriptions charm more than Aristotle's reason.
ing,

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His observation upon the corruption of the age,

352

He gives the club's brief account of his amours and dis-
appointments.

359

His adventure with Sukey,

410

Resolved not to marry without the advice of his
friends,

475

His translation from the French of an epigram written
by Martial, in honour of the beauty of his wife Cleo-
patra,

490

His letters to the Spectator,

499, 511

Honour to be described only by negatives,

His boasts,

His artifice,

Marries a contry girl,

The genealogy of true honour,

And of false honour,

Wherein commendable,

And when to be exploded,

Honours in this world under no regulation,

Hoods, coloured, a new invention,

Hope, passion of, treated,

The folly of it when misemployed on temporal objects,
Instanced in the fable of Alnaschar, the Persian glass-

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Husband, an Ileustom among them,

Rules for marrying them by the Widow's club,
Quatres necessary to make good ones,

Hush (Peter), his character,

Hymen, a revengeful deity,

Hynin, David's pastoral one on Providence,
On gratitude,

On the glories of the heaven and earth,

Hypocrisy, the honour and justice done by it to religion,
The various kinds of hypocrisy.

To be preferred to open impiety,

IAMBIC vers, the most proper for Greek tragedies,
James, how polished by love,"

Jane (Mrs.), a great pickthank

lapis's cure of Eneas, a translation of Virgil, by Mr.

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The advantages of the pleasures of imagination,
What is meant by them,

Two kinds of them,

Awaken the faculties of the mind, without fatiguing or
perplexing it,

More conducive to health than those of the understand

ing,,

Raised by other senses as well as the sight,

The cause of them not to be assigned,

Works of art not so perfect as those of nature to enter

tain the imagination,

The secondary pleasures of the fancy,
The power of it,

Whence its secondary pleasures proceed.

Of a wider and more universal nature than those it has
when joined with sight,

How poetry contributes to its pleasures,

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How historians, philosophers, and other writers,
The delight it takes in enlarging itself by degrees, as in
the survey of the earth, and the universe,

When it works from great things to little,
Where it falls short of the understanding,
How affected by similitudes,

As liable to pain as pleasure; how much of either it
capable of,

The power of the Almighty over it,
35 Imagining, the art of it in general,

35 Imma, the daughter of Charles the Great, her story,
35 Immortality of the soul, arguments in proof of it,
99 The benefits arising from a contemplation of it,
99 Impertinent and trifling persons, their triumph,
219 Impertinents, several sorts of them described,
265 Impudence gets the better of modesty,
An impudence committed by the eyes,
The definition of English, Scotch, and Irish impudence,
Recommended by some as good breeding,
Distinguished from assurance,

471

535

535

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417

493

The most proper means to avoid the imputation of it,
Mistaken for wit,

Independent minister, the behaviour of one at his examina
tion of a scholar, who was in election to be admired
into a college of which he was governor,
429 Indian kings, some of their observations during their stay

334

408

here,

Indifference in marriage not to be tasted by sensible p

rits,

520 Indigo, the merchant, a man of prodigious intelligence,
424 Indiscretion, more hurtful than ill-nature,

617 Indisposition; a man under any, whether real or imaginary,
ought not to be admitted into company,
617 Indolence, what,

616

116 An enemy to virtue,

583 Infidelity, another term for ignorance,
178 Infirmary, one for good humour,

561 A farther account of it from the country,
607 Ingolstan (Charles), of Barbican, his cures,
457 Ingratitude, a vice inseparable from a lustful mind,
530 Initial letters, the use party writers make of them.
An instance of it,

441

453 Criticisms upon it,

465 Injuries, how to be measured,

243 Inkle and Yar'co, their story,

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399 Innocence, and not quality, an exemption from reproof,

458 Inquisitive ten pers exposed,

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Instiner, the power of it in brutes.

The several degrees of it in several different animal,
71 Integrity, great care to be taken of it,

272 Interest, often a promoter of persecution,

The ready way to promote our interest in the world,
572 Intrepidity of a just good man taken from Horace,
126 Invention, the most painful action of the mind,
416 Invitation, the Spectator's, to all artificers as well as philoso

447

phers, to assist him,

47 A general one,

411 John a Nokes and John a Stiles, their petition,
624 Jolly (Frank, Esq.), his memorial from the country infire

316

ary.

87 Jonson (Ben), an epitaph written by him on a lady,
211 Journal: a week of a deceased citizen's journal presented
by Sir Andrew Freeport to the Spectator's club,
The use of such a journal,

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From a projector for news,

Letter about education,

From one who had married a scold,
From Pill Garlick,

455

455

About the use and abuse of similes,

455

Salutations at churches,

460

With a translation of the 114th Psalm,

461

About the advance on the paper for the stamps,

461

About King Charles the Second's gaieties,

462

About dancing,

466

About sight,

472

About panegyrical satires on ourselves,

473

From Timothy Stanza,

473

From Bob Short,

473

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455 Letter from Mr. Pope, on the verses spoken by the Emper
Adrian upon his death-bed,

From Dustererastus, whose parents will not let h
choose a wife for himself,

From Penance Cruel, complaining of the behaviour of
persons who travelled with her in a stage-coach out
Essex to London,

From Sharlot Wealthy, setting forth the hard case

such women as are beauties and fortunes,
From Abraham Dapperwit, with the Spectator's answer
From Jeremy Comfit, a grocer, who is in hopes of grow

ing rich by losing his customers,

From Lucinda Parley, a coffee-house idol,

From C. B. recommending knotting as a properame
ment to the beaux,

a shoeing horn,

From Relicta Lovely, a widow,

From Eustace, in love with a lady of eighteen, whe
parents think her too young to marry by three yea
complaining of a young divine,
murdered Archbishop Tillotson's sermon upon e
speaking,

From

with a short critique on Spenser,
From Philo Spee, who apprehends a dissolution of
Spectator's club, and the ill consequences of it,
From Captain Sentry, lately come to the possessin
Sir Roger de Coverley's estate,
From the Emperor of China to the Pope,
From W. C. to the Spectator, in commendation da
generous benefactor,

From Charles Easy, setting forth the sovereign
the Spectators in several remarkable instances,
From

From Sir Andrew Freeport, who is retiring from bu

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with an account of the unmarried hen-

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pecked, and a vindication of the married,

486

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with an epigram on the Spectator by

Mr. Tate.

488

From

with some reflections on the ocean, con.
sid red both in a calm and a storm, and a divine ode
on that occasion,

From Matilda Mohair, at Tunbridge, complaining of the
disregard she meets with, on account of her strict vir-
tue, from the men, who take more notice of the romps
and coquettes than the rigid,
From T. B. complaining of the behaviour of some fathers
towards their eldest sons,

From Rachel Shoestring, Sarah Trice, an humble ser
vant unknown, and Alice Bluegarter, in answer to
that of Matilda Mohair, who is with child, and has
crooked legs,

From Moses Greenbag, the lawyer, giving an account
of some new brothers of the whip, who have chambers
in the Temple,

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From Hezekiah Thrift, containing a discourse on
trade,

From Titus Trophonius, an interpreter of dreams,
From, complaining of the oppression and in-
justice observed in the rules of all clubs and meet-
ings.

on past day's actions,

508

About a vision of hearts,

About planting,

509

From Will Honeycomb, occasioned by two stories he
had met with relating to a sale of women in Persia
and China,

Of inconsistent metaphors,

511

About making love,

From the Spectator's clergyman, being a Thought on
sickness,

From Fanny Fickle,

513

From an aunt, about her niece's idleness,

From

From

-, with a vision of Parnassus,
-, with two inclosed, one from a celebrated
town-coquette to her friend newly married in the
country, and her friend's answer,

514

From Tom Nimble, about antipathies,

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From Cleora, against the ladies' work,

From Ed. Biscuit, Sir Roger de Coverley's butler, with
an account of his master's death,

About genealogy,

517

From Tom Tweer on Physiognomy, &c.

From -, condoling with him on Sir Roger's death,
with some remarkable epitaphs,

From Will Hopeless, about ambition,

From the Temple, about beggar's eloquence,

518

518

From F. G. a widower, with some thoughts on a man's
behaviour in that condition,

520

From

From T. W. a man of prudence, to his mistress,
To the Spectator, from B. T. a sincere lover, to the

—, a great enemy to public report,

521

522

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From Monimia, to recover a lost love,
From a country wit, in the burlesque way,

From a pedant, in his pedantic way, on the same s

ject,

About the styles of letters,

Answers to several,

About flattery,

From the love-casuist, about the widow's tenure, and the

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