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ESAR loft his Life by neglecting a Roman Au.
gur's Caution, 395.

Calia, her Chara&er, 404..

Calisthenes, his Chara&er, 422.

Calumny, the ill Effects of it, 451.

Camilla's Letter to the Spectator from Venice, 443. How
applauded there, ibid.

Cartefian, how he would account for the Ideas formed
by the Fancy from a fingle Circumftance of the Me-

mory, 417.

Cato, the Refpe&t paid him at the Roman Theatre, 446.
Chamont's Saying of Monimia's Misfortune, 395.
Charity Schools to be encouraged, 430.
Charles II. his Gayeries, 462.

Charms, none can supply the place of Virtue, 395.
Children, their Duty to their Parents, 426. Ill Educa
tion of them fatal, 431.

Chinese laugh at our Gardens, and why, 414.
Chremylus, his Character out of Aristophanes, 464.
Cicero, his Genius, 404. The Oracle's Advice to him,
ibid. What he says of Scandal, 427. of the Roman
Gladiators, 436.

Clarendon (Earl of) his Character of a Perfon of a trou-
blefome Curiofity, 439.

Cleanthes his Character, 404.

Cleopatra, a Description of her failing down the Cyd

nos, 400-

Cloe, the Ideot, 466.

Colours, the Eye takes moft delight in them, 412. Why
the Poets borrow moft Epithets from them, ibid.
Only Ideas in the Mind, 413. fpeak all Languages,
416.

Comedies (English) vicious, 446.

Commonwealth of Amazons, 433.

Compaffion civilizes humane Nature, 397. How to
touch it, ibid.

Company, Temper to be chiefly confidered in the
Choice of it, 424.

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Concave and Convex Figures in Architecture have
the greatest Air, and why, 415.

Confidence, the Danger of it to the Ladies, 395.
Coverley (Sir Roger de) his Adventure with Sukey, 410.
His good Humour, 424.

Converfation an Improvement of Taste in Letters,
409.

Country Life, why the Poets in Love with it, 414.
What Horace and Virgil say of it, ibid. Rules for it,

424.

Courage wants other good Qualities to set it off, 422.
Court and City, their peculiar Ways of Life and Con-
verfation, 403.

Criticks (French) Friends to one another, 409.
Cuckoldom abused on the Stage, 446.

Curiofity (abfurd) an Instance of it, 439.

Custom a second Nature, 437. The Effect of it, ibid.
How to make a good use of it, ibid. Cannot make
every thing pleasing, 455.

Cynthio and Flavia break off their Amour very whim-
fically, 399.

D.

DAcinthus, his Character, 462.

Dainty (Mrs. Mary) her Memorial from the
Country Infirmary, 429.

Damon and Strephon, their Amour with Gloriana, 42 3.
Dancing difplays Beauty, 466. on the Stage, faulty,
ibid. The Advantages of it, ibid.

Dangers paft, why the Reflection of 'em pleases, 41 8.
Day, the feveral Times of it in feveral Parts of the
Town,454.

Deluge, Mr. Wn's Notion of it reproved, 396.
Defamation the Sign of an ill Heart, 427. Papers of
that kind a Scandal to a Government, 451. To be
punished by good Minifters, ibid.

Denying, fometimes a Virtue, 458.

Deportment (religious) why lo little Appearances of
it in England, 458.

Defcriptions come fhort of Statuary and Painting, 416.

Pleafe

Pleafe fometimes more than the Sight of Things, ibid. The fame not alike relished by all, ibid. What pleafes in them, 418. Of what is great, furpriz ing and beautiful, more acceptable to the Imagination than what is little, common or deformed, ibid.

Defire, when corrected, 400.

Devotion, the nobleft Buildings owing to it, 415. -Diana's cruel Sacrifices condemned by an ancient Po et, 453.

Dionyfius's Ear, what it was, 439.

Difcourfe in Converfation not to be engrofs'd by one Man, 428.

Diftracted Perfons, the Sight of them the most mortifying thing in Nature, 421.

Dogger, how cuckolded on the Stage, 446.
Domeftick Life, Reflections concerning it, 455.
Doris, Mr. Congreve's Character of her, 422.
Drama, its first Original a religious Worship, 405.
Dream of the Seasons, 425; of golden Scales, 463.
Drefs, the Ladies Extravagance in it, 435. An ill In
tention in their Singularity, ibid. The English Chas
racter to be modest in it, ibid.

Drink, the Effects it has on Modesty, 458.

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Aftcourt (Dick) his Character, 468.

Editors of the Clafficks, their Faults, 470. Education of Children, Errors in it, 431. A Letter on that Subject, 455. Gardening apply'd to it, ib. Emblematical Perfons, 419.

Employments, whoever excel in any, worthy of Praise, 432.

Emulation, the Ufe of it, 432.

Enemies, the Benefits that may be receiv'd from them, 399.

English naturally modeft, 407, 435; thought proud by Foreigners, 432.

Enmity, the good Fruits of it, 399.
Epictetus's Saying of Sorrow, 397.

Equestrian

Equeftrian Ladies, who, 435.

Error, his Habitation describ'd, 460; how like to
Truth, ibid.

Effay on the Pleasures of the Imagination, from 411.

to 42 1.

Ether (Fields of) the Pleasures of surveying them,
420.

Ever-Greens of the fair Sex, 395.

Euphrates River contain'd in one Bafin, 415.
Exchange (Royal) defcrib'd, 454.

F.

AIRY Writing, 419. The Pleafures of Imagina-
Ftion that arife from it, ibid. More difficult than

any other, and why, ibid. The English the beft Po-
ets of this Sort, ibid.

Faith, the Benefit of it, 459. The Means of confirm-
ing it, 465.

Fame a Follower of Merit, 426; the Place-of, de-
fcrib'd, 439. Courts compar'd to it, ibid.
Familiarities indecent in Society, 429.

Fancy, all its Images enter by the Sight, 411.
Fashion, a Description of it, 460.

Father, the Affection of one for a Daughter, 449.

Favilla, fpoilt by a Marriage, 437.

Faults (fecret) how to find 'em out, 399.

Fear (Paffion of) treated, 471.

Feeling not fo perfect a Senfe as Sight, 411.
Fiction, the Advantage the Writers in it have to please
the Imagination, 419. What other Writers please

it, 420.

Fidelia, her Duty to her Father, 449.

Final Caufes of Delight in Objects, 413. Lie bare and
open, ibid.

Flattery defcrib'd, 460.

Flavia's Character and Amour with Cynthio, 398.
Flora, an Attendant on the Spring, 42 5.

Follies and Defects mistaken by us in our felves for

Worth, 460.

Fortius, his Character, 422.

Fortu-

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Fortunatus the Trader, his Character, 443

Freart (Monfieur) what he fays of the Manner of both Antients and Moderns in Architecture, 415. French, their Levity, 435.

Friends kind to our Faults, 399.

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Gardening, Errors in it, 414. Why the English

Gardens not fo entertaining to the Fancy, as thofe in France and Italy, ibid. Obfervations concerning its Improvement both for Benefit and Beauty, ibid. apply'd to Education, 455.

Georgicks (Virgil's) the Beauty of their Subjects, 417.
Gefture, good in Oratory, 407.

Ghofts, what they fay fhould be a little difcolour'd,
419. The Defcription of them pleafing to the Fan-
cy, ibid. why we incline to believe them, ibid. not
a Village in England formerly without one, ibid.
Shakespear's the beft, ibid.

Gladiators of Rome, what Cicero says of 'em, 436.
Gloriana, the Defign upon her, 423.

Goats-milk, the Effect it had on a Man bred with
it, 408.

Good Senfe and good Nature always go together, 437.

Grace, at Meals, practis'd by the Pagans, 458. Grandeur and Minutencfs, the Extreams pleafing to the Fancy, 420.

Gratitude, the most pleasing Exercise of the Mind,
453. Divine Poem upon it, ibid.

Greatnels of Objects, what understood by it, in the
Pleasures of the Imagination, 412, 413.

Green-Sickness, Sabina Rentfree's Letter about it, 431.
Guardian of the fair Sex, the Spectator fo, 449.

H.

AMLET's Reflections on looking upon Yorick's

H Skull, 404.

Harlot, a Description of one out of the Proverbs, 410. Health, the Pleasures of the Fancy more conducive to it, than thofe of the Understanding, 411.

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