THE IN D E X. DE 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. Applaufe (public) its pleasure, N. 442. 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.. 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. 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. 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. Defire, when corrected, N. 400. Devotion, the nobleft buildings owing to it, N. 415. Dionyfius's ear, what it was, N. 439. Difcourfe in converfation not to be engroffed by one Distracted perfons, the fight of them the moft mortify. Dogget, how cuckolded on the stage, N. 446. An ill Drefs, the ladies extravagance in it, N. 435. Drink, the effects it has on modefty, N. 458. E. EAST COURT (Dick) his character, N. 468. Emblematical perfons, N. 419. Employments, whoever excels in any, worthy of praife, Emulation, the use of it, N. 432. Enemies, the benefits that may be received from them, N. 399. |