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A.

CETUS, his character, Number 422.

Admiration, a pleafing motion of the mind, N.

413.

Affectation, the misfortune of it, N. 404. Defcribed, 460.

Almighty, his power over the imagination, N. 421. Ariftotle's faying of his being, 465.

Allegories, like light to a difcourfe, N. 421. Eminent writers faulty in them, ibid.

Allufions, the great art of a writer, N. 421.

Amazons, their commonwealth, N. 433. How they educated their children, 434. Their wars, ibid. They marry their male allies, ibid.

Americans ufed painting instead of writing, N. 416. Amity between agreeable perfons of different fexes dangerous, N. 400.

Amoret the jilt reclaimed by Philander, N. 401.
Anne Boleyne's laft letter to King Henry VIII. N. 397.
Ancients in the East, their way of living, N. 415.
Appearances. Things not to be trufted for them, N.
464.

Applaufe (public) its pleasure, N. 442.
April (month of) defcribed, N. 425.
Arabella, verfes on her finging, N. 443.
Architecture, the ancients perfection in it, N. 415.
The greatness of the manner how it ftrikes the fan-
cy, ibid. Of the manner of both ancients and
moderns,

moderns, ibid. The concave and convex figures have the greatest air, ibid. Every thing that pleases 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 likenefs to thofe 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 pleasures of tafte, 447• Bankruptcy, the mifery of it, N. 428, 456.

Bar oratory in England, reflections on it, N. 4076 Bafilius, Valentinus, and his fon, their ftory, N. 426. Baxter (Mr.) his laft words, N. 455. more laft words,

ibid.

Bayle (Mr.) what he fays 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,. ibid. Every fpecies of fenfible creatures has diffe rent 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.

Blast (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 learning fitteft for it, 469.

Buffy d'Amboife, a ftory of him, N. 467.

C.

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 applauded there, ibid.

Cartefian, how he would account for the ideas formed by the fancy, from a single circumstance of the memory, N. 417.

Cato, the refpect paid him at the Roman theatre, N. 446.

Chamont's faying of Monimia's misfortunes, N. 395.
Charity fchools 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, 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 person of a troublefome curiofity, N. 439.

Cleanthes, his character, N. 404.

Cleopatra, a description of her failing down the Cydnos, N. 400.

Cloe, the ideot, N. 466.

Colours, the eye takes moft delight in them, N. 412. Why the poets borrow moft epithets from them, ibid. Only ideas in the mind, 413. Speak 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

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 taste in letters, N. 409.

Country life, why the poets in love with it, N. 414. What Horace and Virgil say of it, ibid.

it, 424.

Rules for

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.

Cuckoldom abused on the stage, N. 446.

Curiofity (abfurd) an inftance of it, N. 439.
Cuftom, a fecond nature, N. 437.

The effect of it,

ibid. How to make a good use of it, ibid. Cannot make every thing pleafing, 455..

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

D.

DAcinthus, his character, N. 462.

Dainty (Mrs. Mary) her memorial from the country infirmary, 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 pleases, N.418. Day, the feveral times of it in feveral parts of the town, N. 454.

Deluge, Mr. Wn'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, fometimes a virtue, N. 458.

Deportment (religious) why fo little appearance of it in England, N. 448.

Defcrip

Defcriptions come short of ftatuary and painting, N.
416. Pleafe fometimes more than the fight of
things, ibid. The fame not alike relished by all,
ibid. What pleafes in them, 418. What is great,
⚫furprising and beautiful, more acceptable to the ima-
gination 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.

Distracted perfons, the fight of them the moft mortify.
ing thing in nature, N. 421.

Dogget, how cuckolded on the stage, N. 446.
Domeftic life, reflections concerning it, N. 455.
Deris, Mr. Congreve's character of her, N. 422.
Drama, its first original a religious worship, N. 405.
Dream of the feafons, N. 425. Of golden fcales,
463.

An ill

Drefs, the ladies extravagance in it, N. 435.
intention in their fingularity, ibid. The English
character to be modest in it, ibid.

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

E.

EAST COURT (Dick) his character, N. 468.
Editors of the clafficks, their faults, N. 470.
Education of children, errors in it, N. 431. A letter
on that fubject, N. 455. Gardening applied to it,
ibid.

Emblematical perfons, N. 419.

Employments, whoever excels in any, worthy of praife,
N. 432.

Emulation, the use of it, N. 432.

Enemies, the benefits that may be received from them,

N. 399.

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