INDEX TO THE SPECTATOR. VOL. VI. A ACASTO, his agreeable character, No. 386. Acers, nis character, No. 422, Admiration, a pleasing motion of the mind, No. 413. Advice to a faulty friend, in what manner to be given, No. 385, Affectation, the misfortune of it, 404. Described, 460. Agreeable in company, the art of being so, No. 386. Alexander's complaint to Aristotle, No. 379. Allegories, like light to a discourse, No. 421. Eminent writers faulty in them, ibid. Allusions, the great art of a writer, No. 421. Almighty, his power over the imagination, No. 421. Amazons, their commonwealth, No. 433. How they educated their children, 434. Their wars, ibid. They marry their Americans used painting instead of writing, No. 416. Amity between agreeable persons of different sexes dangerous, No. 400. Amoret the jilt reclaimed by Philander, No. 401. Anne Boleyne's last letter to King Henry VIII. No. 397. Ancients in the east, their way of living, No. 415. Anthony (Mark) his witty mirth commended by Tully, No. 386. Applause (public) its pleasure, No. 442. April (month of) described, No. 425. Arabella, verses on her singing, No. 443. Architecture, the ancients perfection in it, No. 415. The great- the imagination in it, is either great, St. Asaph (the bishop of) his preface to his sermons, No. 384. Atticus, his disinterested and prudent conduct in his friendships, August and July (months of) described, No. 425. Babel, (Tower of) No. 415. B Bacon (Sir Francis) prescribes his reader a poem on prospect, as of Taste, 447• Bankruptcy, the misery of it, No. 428, 456. Bar oratory in England, reflections on it, No. 407. Basilius Valentinus, and his son, their story, No. 426. Baxter, (Mr.) his last words, No. 445. More last words, ibid. Bayle, (Mr.) what he says of libels, No. 451. The cheats of it, 449. Bear Garden, a combat there, No. 436. Beggars, the grievance of them, 430. Belus, Jupiter, Temple of, No. 415. Birds, how affected by colours, No. 412. Blast, (Lady) her character, 457. Bluemantle (Lady) an account of her, No. 427. Bribery the most prevailing way of making one's court, No. 394. Buffoonery Buffoonery censured, No. 443. Business (Men of) their error in similitudes, No. 421. C Cæsar lost his life by neglecting a Roman Augur's caution, No. 395 Cælia, her character, No. 404. Calisthenes, his character, No. 422. Calumny, the ill effects of it, No. 451. Camilla's Letter to the Spectator from Venice, No. 443. How applauded there, ibid. Candour, the consequence and benefit of it, No. 382. Cartesian, how he would account for the ideas formed by the fancy, from a single circumstance of the memory, No. 417. Casimere Liszynski, an atheist in Poland, the manner of his punishment, No. 389. Cataline, Tully's character of him, No. 386. Cato, the respect paid him at the Roman theatre, No. 446. Charles II. his gaieties, No. 462. Charms, none can supply the place of virtue, No. 395. When worse than folly or madness, ibid. The many advantages of a chearful temper, 387. Children, their duty to their parents, No. 426. Ill education of them fatal, 431.. Chinese laugh at our gardens, and why, No. 414. Church work slow work, according to Sir Roger, No. 383. Cicero, his genius, No. 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 person of a troublesome curiosity, No. 439. Cleanthes, his character, No. 404. Cleopatra, a description of her sailing down the Cydnos, N. 400. Colours, the eye takes most delight in them, No. 412. Why the Poets borrow most epithets from them, ibid. Only ideas in the mind, 413. Speak all languages, 416. Comedies, English, vicious, No. 446. VOL. VI. B b Common Commonwealth of Amazons, No. 433. Compassion civilizes human nature, No. 397. How to touch it, ibid. Company, temper chiefly to be considered in the choice of it, No. 424. Complaisance, what kind of it peculiar to courts, No. 394. Concave and convex figures in architecture have the greatest air, and why, No. 415. Confidence, the danger of it to the ladies, No. 395. Conversation an improvement of taste in letters, No. 409. Coquets, great coveys of them about this town, No. 390. Coverley (Sir Roger de) his adventure with Sukey, No. 410. His good humour, 424. His observations in his passage with the Spectator to Spring Garden, 383. In what manner affronted on that occasion, ibid. Country life, why the Poets in love with it, No. 414. What Courage wants other good qualities to set it off, No. 422. Court and city, their peculiar ways of life and conversation, 403. Creation, the contemplations on, a perpetual feast of delight to the mind of a good man, No. 393. Criticks (French) friends to one another, No. 409. Cuckoldom abused on the stage, No. 446. Curiosity (absurd) an instance of it, No. 439. Custom a second nature, No, 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 whimsically, 399. D Dacinthus, his character, No. 462.. Dainty (Mrs. Mary) her memorial from the Country Infirmary, No. 429. Damon and Strephon, their amour with Gloriana, No. 423. Dangers past, why the reflection of them pleases, No. 418. Day, the several times of it in several parts of the town, No. 454. Deluge, Mr. Wn's notion of it reproved, No. 396. Defamation the sign of an ill heart, No. 427. Papers of that kind a scandal to a government, 451. To be punished by good ministers, ibid. Denying, |