manner of both ancients and moderns, ibid. the concave and
convex figures have the greatest air, ibid. every thing that
pleafes the imagination in it, is either great, beautiful, or
new, ibid.

Art, (works of) defective to entertain the imagination, N.
414; receive great advantage from their likeness to those of
nature, ibid.

Auguft and July (months of) defcribed, N. 425.

B.

BABEL, (Tower of) N. 415.

Bacon (Sir Francis) prefcribes his reader a poem or profpect,
as conducive to health, N. 411; what he fays of the pleasure
of taste, 447.

Bankruptcy, the mifery of it, N. 428, 456.

Bar oratory in England, reflection on it, N. 407.

Bafilius Valentinus, and his fon, their story, N. 426.
Baxter, (Mr.) his laft words, N. 445; more laft words, ibid.
Boyle, (Mr.) what he says of libels, N. 451.

Bear-Garden, a combat there, N. 436; the cheats of it, 449.
Beauty heightened by motion, N. 406.

Beauty of objects, what understood by it, N. 412; nothing
makes its way more directly to the foul, itid. every species
of fenfible creatures has different notions of it, ibid. a fecond
kind of it, ibid.

Beggars, the grievance of them, N. 430.

Belvidera, a critique on a fong upon her, N. 470.

Belus, Jupiter, (Temple of) N. 415.

Birds, how affected by colours, N. 412.

Blaf (Lady) her character, N. 457.

Bluemantle (Lady) an account of her. N. 427.

Buck (Timothy) his anfwer to James Miller's challenge, N. 436.
Buffoonry, cenfured, N. 442.

Bufinefs (men of) their error in fimilitudes, N. 421; of learn
ing fittest for it, 469.

Buffy d'Amboife, a story of him, 467. ̧

C.

CESAR loft his life by neglecting a Roman augur's caution,

N. 395.

Calia, her character, N. 404.

Califthenes, his character, N. 422.

Calumny, the ill effects of it, N. 451.

Camilla's letter to the Spectator from Venice, N. 443. how ap-
plauded there, ibid.

Cartefian, how he would account for the ideas formed by the
fancy, from a fingle circumftance of the memory, N. 417.
Cato, the refpect paid him at the Roman theatre, Ñ. 446.
Chamont's faying of Monimia's misfortune, N. 395.
Charity schools to be encouraged, N. 430.

Charles II. his gaieties, N. 462.

Charms, none can fupply the place of virtue, N. 395.
Children, their duty to their parents, N. 426; ill education of
them fatal, N. 431.

Chinese laugh at our gardens, and why, N. 414.

Chremylus, his character out of Ariftophanes, N. 464.

Cicero, his genius, N. 404; the oracle's advice to him, ibid.
what he fays of fcandal, 427; of the Roman gladiators, 436.
Clarendon (Earl of) his character of a perfon of a troublesome
curiofity, N. 439-

Cleanthes, his character, N. 404.

Cleopatra, a description of her failing down the Cydnos. N.

400.

Cloe, the idiot, N. 466.

Colours, the eye takes moft delight in them, N. 412; why the
poet's borrow moft epithets from them, ibid. only ideas in the
mind, 413; fpeak all languages, 416.

Comedies, English, vicious, N. 446.

Commonwealth of Amazons, N. 433.

Compaffion civilizes human nature, N. 397; how to touch it,
ibid.

Company, temper chiefly to be confidered in the choice of it,

N. 424.

Concave and convex figures in architecture have the greatest air,
and why, N. 415.

Confidence, the danger of it to the ladies, N. 395.

Coverley (Sir Roger de) his adventure with Sukey, N. 410;
his good humour, 424.

Converfation an improvement of tafte in letters, N. 409.
Country life, why the poets in love with it, N. 414; what Ho-
race and Virgil fay of it, ibid. rules for it, 424.

Courage wants other good qualities to fet it off, N. 422.

Court and city, their peculiar ways of life and converfation, N.
403.

Critics (French) friends to one another, N. 409.

Cučkoli

Cuckoldom abufed on the stage, N. 446.

Curiofity (abfurd) an inftance of it, N. 439.

Custom, a fecond nature, N. 437; the effect of it, ibid. How to
make a good ufe of it, ibid. cannot make every thing pleafing,
455.

Cynthio and Flavia break off their amour very whimfically, N.
399..

D.

DACINTHUS, his character, N. 462.

Dainty (Mrs. Mary) her memorial from the country in-
firmary, N. 429.

Damon and Strephon, their amour with Gloriana, N. 423.
Dancing difplays beauty, N. 466; on the ftage faulty, ibid. the
advantages of it, ibid.

Dangers paft, why the reflection of them pleafes, N. 418.
Day, the feveral times of it in feveral parts of the town, N.
454.

Deluge, Mr. W- —n's notion of it reproved, N. 396.
Defamation, the fign of an ill heart, N. 427; papers of that
kind a fcandal to the government, 451; to be punished by
good minifters, ibid.

Denying, fonetimes a virtue, N. 458.

Deportment (religious) why fo little appearance of it in Eng-
land, N. 448.

Defcriptions come fhort of ftatuary and painting, N. 416;
please fometimes more than the fight of things, ibid. the
fame not alike relifhed by all, ibid. what pleafes in them, 418;
what is great, furprifing and beautiful, more acceptable to
the imagination than what is little, common, or deformed,
ibid.

Defire, when corrected, N. 400.

Devotion, the nobleft buildings owing to it, N. 415.

Diana's cruel facrifices condemned by an ancient poet, N. 453.
Dionyfius's ear, what it was, N. 439.

Difcourfe in converfation not to be engroffed by one man, N.
428.

Diftracted perfons, the fight of them the most mortifying thing
in nature. N 421.

Dogget, how cuckolded on the ftage, N. 446.
Domeftic life, reflections concerning it, N. 455.
Doris, Mr. Congreve's character of her, N. 422.
Drama, its first original a religious worship, N. 405.

Dream

Dream of the seasons, N. 425; of golden fcales, 463.
Drefs, the ladies extravagance in it; N. 435; an ill intention
in their fingularity, ibid. the English character to be modest
in it, ibid.

Drink, the effects it has on modefty, N. 458.

E.

EASTCOURT (Dick) his character, N. 468.

Editors of the claffics, their faults, N. 470.

Education of children, errors in it, N. 431; a letter on that
fubject, 455; gardening applied to it, ibid.
Emblematical perfons, N. 419.

Employments, whoever excels in any, worthy of praise, N. 432.
Emulation, the use of it, N. 432.

Enemies, the benefits that may be received from them, N. 399.
English naturally modeft, N. 407, 435; thought proud by fo
reigners, N. 432.

Enmity, the good fruits of it, N. 399.
Epictetus's faying of forrow, N. 397.
Equestrian ladies, N. 435.

Error, his habitation defcribed, N. 460; how like to truth, ibid.
Effay on the pleasures of the imagination, from N. 411 to 42 £.
Ether (fields of) the pleasures of furveying them, N. 420.
Evergreens of the fair-fex, N. 395.

Euphrates river contained in one bafon, N. 415.
Exchange (Royal) described, N. 454-

F.

FAIRY writing, N. 419; the pleafures of imagination that
arife from it, ibid. more difficult than any other, and why,
ibid. the English the best poets of this fort, ibid.

Faith, the benefit of it, N. 459; the means of confirming it,

465.

Fame a follower of merit, N. 426; the palace of, described,

439; courts compared to it, ibia.

Familiarities indecent in fociety, N. 429.

Fancy, all its mages enter by the fight, N. 411.

Fahion, a defcr ption of it, N. 460

Father, the affection of one for a daughter,

N. 449.

Feat

Flavilla, fpoiledy a marriage, N. 437
Faults (fecret) how to find them out, N. 399-

Fear (paffion of) treated, N. 471.

Feeling not fo perfect a fenfe as fight, N. 411.

Fiction, the advantage the writers have in it to please the imagi-
nation, N. 419; what other writers please in it, 420.

Fidelia, her duty to her father, N. 449.

Final caufes of delight, in objects, N. 413; lie bare, and open,

ibid.

Flattery defcribed, N. 460.

Flavia's character and amour with Cynthio, N. 398..

Flora, an attendant on the spring, N. 425.

Follies and defects mistaken by us in ourselves for worth, N. 460.
Fortius, his character, N. 422.

Fortunatus the trader, his character, N. 443.

Freart (Monfieur) what he says of the manner of both ancients
and moderns in architecture, N. 415.

French, their levity, N. 435.
Friends kind to our faults, N. 399.

G.

GARDENING, errors in it, N. 414; why the English gar
dens not so entertaining to the fancy, as thofe in France
and Italy, ibid. obfervations concerning its improvement both
for benefit and beauty, ibid. applied to education, 455.
Georgics (Virgil's) the beauty of their subjects, N. 417.
Gesture, good in oratory, N. 407.

Ghofts, what they fay fhould be a little difcoloured, N. 419;
the defcription of them pleafing to the fancy, ibid. why we
incline to believe them, ibid. not a village in England former-
ly without one, ibid. Shakespear's the beft, ibid.

Gladiators of Rome, what Cicero fays of them, N. 436.
Gloriana, the defign upon her, N. 423.

Goats-milk, the effect it had on a man bred with it, N. 408,
Good fenfe and good nature always go together, N. 437-
Grace at meals practifed by the Pagans, N. 458.

Grandeur and minutenefs, the extremes pleafing to the fancy,

N. 420.

Gratitude, the most pleafing exercife of the mind, N. 453; a
divine poem upon it, ibid.

Greatnefs of objects, what understood by it, in the pleasures of

the imagination, N. 412, 413.

Green-ficknefs, Sabina Rentfree's letter about it, N. 431.

Guardian of the fair-fex, the Spectator so, N. 449.

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