fpeech of Eve, in particular, is dreffed up in fuch a foft and natural turn of words and fentiments, as cannot be fufficiently admired. I shall close my reflections upon this book, with obferving the masterly tranfition which the poet makes to their evening worship in the following lines. Thus at their fhady lodge, arriv'd, both flood, The God that made both sky, air, earth, and heav'n, Moft of the modern heroic poets have imitated the ancients in beginning a speech without premifing, that the perfon faid thus or thus; but as it is eafy to imitate the ancients in the omiffion of two or three words, it requires judgment to do it in fuch a manner as they fhall not be miffed, and that the speech may begin naturally without them. There is a fine inftance of this kind out of Homer, in the twenty-third chapter of Longinus. L THE INDE X. A Academy for politics, Number 305. The regulations of it, ibid. Admiration, fhort-liv'd, N. 256. Age. A comfortable old age, the reward of a well-spent Youth, N. 260. Agreeable man, who, N. 280. Ambition, never fatisfy'd, N. 256. The end of it, N. 255. The effects of it in the mind, N. 256. Subjects us to many troubles, N. 257. The true object of a laudable ambition, ibid. Appetites the incumbrances of old age, N. 260. Ariftotle, his definition of an intire action of epic poetry, N. 267. His fenfe of the greatnefs of the action in a poem; his method of examining an epic poem, N. 273. An obfervation of that critic's, ibid. Ône of the best fogicians in the world, N. 291. His divifion of a poem, N. 297. Another of his obfervations, ibid. His obfervation on the fable of an epic poem, N. 315. Art of criticism, the Spectator's account of that poem, N. 253. Audiences, at prefent void of common fenfe, N. 290. Auguftus, his request to his friends at his death, N. 317. B B EAU's head, the diffection of one, N. 275. Beauty in a virtuous woman makes her more vir tuous, N. 302. Bills of mortality, the ufe of them, N. 289. Boccalini, his animadverfions upon critics, N. 201. Cafar, C C Æfar, (Julius) a frequent faying of his, N. 256. Camillus, his deportment to his fon, N. 263. Canidia, an antiquated beauty, defcribed, N. 301. Cenfor of marriages, N. 308. Charity-Schools, great inftances of a public fpirit, N. Clavius, proving incapable of any other ftudies, became Comparisons in Homer and Milton, defended by Monfieur Coverley (Sir Roger de) his return to town, and converfa- Criminal love, fome account of the ftate of it, N. 274. D Eath, deaths of eminent perfons, the most improv- Ding paffages in hiftory, N. 289. Decency, nearly related to virtue, N. 292. Decency of behaviour, generally tranfgreffed, N. 292. Dépendents, objects of compaffion, N. 282. Diftreft Mother, a new tragedy, recommended by the E Ating, drinking and fleeping, with the generality of Elizabeth, Elizabeth, (Queen) her medal on the defeat of the Spanish Armada, N. 293. Emilia, an excellent woman, her character, N. 302. Envy; the abhorrence of envy, a certain note of a great mind, N. 253. Eyes; the prevailing influence of the eye inftanced in feveral particulars, N. 252. F Able of a drop of water, N. 293. Fame, the difficulty of obtaining and preferving it, N. 255. The inconveniences attending the defire of it, ibid. Fop, what fort of perfons deferve that character, N. 283. Fortune often unjustly complained of, N. 282. To be controlled by nothing but infinite wifdom, N. 293. Fortune-ftealers, who they are that fet up for fuch, N. 311. Diftinguished from fortune-hunters, ibid. Fribblers, who, N. 288. G Ifts of fortune, more valued than they ought to be, GN. 294 Government, what form of it the moft reasonable, N. 287. Gracefulness of action, the excellency of it, N. 292. Greeks and Romans, the different methods obferved by them in the education of their children, N. 313. H Omer's excellence in the multitude and variety of his characters, N. 273. He degenerates fometimes into burlefque, N. 279. Honeycomb (Will) his great infight into galantry, N. 265. His application to rich widows, N. 311. Hoods, coloured, a new invention, N. 265. I' ANE (Mrs.) a great pickthank, N. 272. Jadenets, a great Jefuits their great fagacity in discovering the talent of a young ftudent, N. 307. Indolence an enemy to virtue, N. 306, Journal, Journal, a week of a deceafed citizen's Journal prefented by Sir Andrew Freeport to the Spectator's club, N. 317. The ufe of fuch a journal, ibid. Irus; the great artifice of Irus, N. 264. K Knowledge, the main fources of it, N. 287. L Adylove (Bartholomew) his petition to the Spectator, N. 334. Letters to the Spectator; from Mary Heartfree, defcribing the powerful effects of the eye, N. 252. From Barbara Crabtree, to know if she may not make use of a cudgel on her fot of a husband, ibid. from a Lawyer whofe wife is a great orator, ibid. from Lydia to Harriot, a Lady newly married, N. 254. Harriot's answer, ibid to the Spectator, from a Gentleman in love with a beauty without fortune, ibid. from Ralph Crotchet for a Theatre of Eafe to be erected, N. 258. from Mr. Clayton, &c. ibid. from Jack Afterday, an old bachelor, who is grown dead to all other pleasures but that of being worth 5c,00cl. N. 260. from a lover, with an inclofed letter to his humourfome mistress, ibid. from a father difcourfing on the relative duties betwixt parents and their children, N. 263. from a mother to her undutiful fon, ibid, the Son's anfwer, ibid. to the Spectator, from Richard Eftcourt, with one inclofed from Sir Roger de Coverley, N. 264. from James Easy, who had his nofe abufed in the pit, N. 258. from 4. B. on the mercenary views of perfons when they marry, ibid. from Anthony Gape, who had the misfortune to run his nofe against a poft, while he was ftaring at a beauty, ibid. from about the new-fashioned hoods, ibid. from one at Oxford in love with Patetia, ibid. from Tom Trippit, on a Greek quotation in a former Spectator, N. 271. from C. D. on Sir Roger's return to town, ibid. from S. T. who has a Show in a box of a man, a woman, and a horfe, ibid. from Cleanthes, complaining of Mrs. Jane, an old maid, and a pickthank, N. 272. from-with an inclofed letter from a bawd to a noble Lord, |