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Acrostics, 328.

A.

INDEX.

Act of Settlement, 112; of Toleration,
ib.; of Uniformity, ib.

Action, unnatural to English speakers,
294.

Advice, paper on, 456.

Æthiopia, 456.

African tribe, their notion of heaven,

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Baxter, Richard, 98, 431.
Bayle, quoted, 135, 437, 446.
Betterton, the actor, 252.
Bion, saying of, 215. .
Black Prince, the, 58, 389.
Blast, I.ady, 300.

Blenheim, battle of, 389
Blenheim House, 325.

Boileau, 292; his account of wit, 336,
338; on Virgil and Tasso, 353; 376;
quoted, 392.

Bonosus, a drunkard, 212.

Books, list of, in the Lady's Library,
246; recommended by correspond-
ents, 249.

Bossu, 349.

Bouhours, Père, 337.

Bouts Riméz, 329.

Boyle, quoted, 143, 439.

Bribery, a way of reasoning, 446.

Brown, Thomas, 311.

Brown, Sir T., quotations from his
Rel. Med., 159, 462.

Buda, siege of, 283.
Budgell, Eustace, 32, 65.
Bullock, the actor, 371.
Burlesque, kinds of, 346.
Burnet, Bishop, quoted, 83.
Busby, Doctor, 57.

Button's coffeehouse. See Coffeehouse.

C.

Cæsar, story of, 131, 182, 324.
Cairo, 401.

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Camilla, opera of, 358.

Caravansery, 184.

Cardan, Jerome, 438.
Cartesian philosophy, 448.
Cato, 181, 308.
Catullus, 336.

Chaplain, Sir Roger de Coverley's, 19,

29; his style of preaching, 20.
Characters of women, 126 seq.
Chardin, Sir John, his travels, 184.
Charity, 159.

Charles I., picture of, at Oxford, 322.
Cheerfulness, paper on, 188.
Chevy Chase, ballad of, 378-387;
design of the poem, 397; analysis
of, 380 seq.; noble simplicity of,
384.
Child's coffeehouse. See Coffeehouse.
Children in the Wood, ballad, 431.
Chremylus, story of, 419.
Christianity attested, 466.
Christmas in the country, 53.
Chronograms, 328.

Church-service, how conducted in
Worcestershire, 27.

Church of England, act for securing,
54.

Cicero, 119; quoted, 134, 137, 437,

440; 295, 325, 331, 349.
Clergy, classes of the, 235.
Clergyman, the, 9, 14, 65, 74, 106;

his character, 9.

Club, the Spectator, account of its
members, 4; discussion in, 12; dis-
solution of, 71; plan of a new one,
73.

Club law, 444.

Clubs, paper on, 229; the Kings, the

George, the Humdrum, &c., 230.
Cocoa-tree coffeehouse. See Coffee-
house.

Coffeehouse, Button's, 108; Child's,

3, 108; the Cocoa-tree, 3; Garra-
way's, 294, 301; Giles's, 292; the
Grecian, 3; Jonathan's, 3, 108;
Lloyd's, 81; the Rainbow, 232;

the Rose, 6; St. James', 3, 292;
the Smyrna, 300; Will's, 4, 292,
301; Squire's, 54.

Comedy, a definition of, 346.
Comic artifices, 371.

Commerce, eulogy of, 117, 238.
Committee, The, play of, 59.
Commodes, 266, 268, 299.
Composition, paper on, 458.
Congreve, W., his tragedy, 365.
Connecte, Father Thomas, 261.
Conquest of Mexico, a play, 367.
Constitution, the British, praise of, 118.
Contentment, paper on, 213.
Conversation, polite, paper on, 308.
Converts, 150.
Coquettes, 448.

Corneille, 292; his play of Les Horaces,
369.

Cornwall, 267, 268.

Coronation chair, the, 57.

Country manners, papers on, 263-268.
Coverley, Sir Roger de, 4, 13, 45, 84,
106, 247, 274, 433; his character,
5, 264; his courtship of the widow,
5, 21, 31, 55, 60; his life in the
country, 18-51; his goodness of
heart, 19; his behaviour in church,
28; a great sportsman, 31; his
visit to Moll White the witch, 34;
at the county assizes, 37; the Sara-
cen's Head, 38; has his fortune told
by gipsies, 47; he comes up to town
to see Prince Eugene, 52; goes to
Squire's coffeehouse, 54; visit to
Westminster Abbey, 56; he goes to
the play, 59; visits Vauxhall, 62;
his death, 65; stories of, 297, 298.
Cowley, quoted, 222, 258, 399; 287,
317, 336, 378; eulogised, 337.
Creation, immensity of, 208.
Cries, the London, paper on, 274.
Critics, celebrated, 376.
Cumberland, 268.

D.

Daciers, the, 349, 376.
Dampier, Captain, 437.
Dawkes, Mr., 300.
Dawson, Bully, 5.
Death, papers on, 182-188.

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Diodorus Siculus, quoted, 44
Dionysius the tyrant, 204.

Disobedience, filial, abhorred in China,

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Distressed Mother, the, 59-62.

Doggett, T., the actor, 373.
Dorset, Lord, 432.
Douay, 460.

Drawcansir, 234.

Dreams, paper on, 461.

Dress, extravagance in, paper on, 296.
Drunkenness, paper on, 211.
Dry, Will, 460.

Dryden, quoted, 152, 157, 322, 338;
336, 432; his Sir Martin Mar-all,
352; his tragedies, 365, 366.
Dubartas. See Sylvester.
Dulness, the god of, 340.
Durfey, Tom, his Tales, 246.
Dyer, Mr., 300.

E.

Eaton, or Eton, 22.

Echos, a kind of false wit, 326.
Effeminacy, 253.

Egg, poem in the shape of, 321.
Eloquence, 447.

English language, remarks on, 269
Englishman, the, a Whig paper, 108.
Englishmen, taciturnity of, 268; mo-
desty of, 294.
Enville, Sir John, 282.
Envious criticism, 376.
Epaminondas, story of, 186.

Epictetus, 89; quoted, 177.
Epicurean philosophy, 167.
Erasmus, quoted, 326, 445.

Essay on criticism, by Pope, remarks

on, 392.

Eternity, 218; paper on, 219; 417.

Etherege, Sir George, 5.

523

Eudoxus and Leontine, a tale, 398.
Eugene, Prince, 52, 54.

Evremont, de St., quoted, 186.
Examiner, the, a Tory paper, 108.
Exercise, good effects of, 30.

Fables;

F.

of Jupiter and the country-
man, 241; of Menippus. 413.
Fashions, frivolity of, 232; invasion

of French, 250.

Female vanity, 126.

Fletcher, John, the dramatist, 392.
Florus, quoted, 183.

Fortune hunters, paper on, 285.
Freelove, Jack, 453.

Freeport, Sir Andrew, 6, 13, 45, 54,
65, 67, 71, 74; his character, 6, 56,
68, 71; his letter on retiring from
the club, 72; his remarks on trade,
117.

French manners, paper on, 250, 299.
Friendship, essay on, 137.
Fuller's Book of Worthies, 94.
Funnell, Will, 211.

Future state, paper on, 224.

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Hammond, Dr. H., story of, 216.
Handel, 352.

Haymarket theatre, 256.
Head-dresses, paper on, 260.

Health, paper on the undue care of,
238.

Hen, instinct of the, 435, 437.
Heraclitus, saying of, 463.
Herbert, George, 322.

Hermit, repartee by a, 217.
Herod the Great, 411.

Herodotus, quoted, 170; story of
Cleobis and Biton, 200.
Hilpa, a love story, 421.
Hogue, Cape La, battle of, 63.
Homer, passim; his design in writing
the Iliad, 379.

Honeycomb, Will, 8, 13, 15, 69, 74,
106, 251, 255, 275, 287, 307, 452;
his character, 8, 457; his past life,
16; his letters, 51, 69; his mar-
riage, 70.

Honour, paper on the love of, 175.
Horace, 336; quoted, 371; his Art of
Poetry, 392.

Hoyden, account of a, 254.

Hudibras, 270, 287, 326, 330, 346,

387, 445, 449.

Huguenot refugees, 445.
Human life, allegory of, 403.
Humour, paper on, 316.

Hunting, 31, 32.

Hush, Peter, 300.
Huygens, quoted, 208.

Hydaspes, opera of, 354, 355.
Hypocrisy, 194.

I.

Ichneumon, the, 44.

Immortality, arguments for, 147.
Inconstancy, 150.

Independents, gloomy piety of, 201.
Indian kings, 395, 427; diary of one
of them, 427.
Indians, 398.
Infidelity, 167.

Ingratitude, filial, 170.

Instinct, papers on, 433-440; myste-
rious nature of, 436.

Italian writers, florid style of, 353.

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Lacedemonians, the, 173.
Lampoons, censure of, 130.
Languages, remarks on, 271.
Laughter, remarks on, 344.
Lawyers, 236, 356.
League, the, 42.

Lecompte, Father, 170.

Lee, E., his tragedies, 365, 366.
Leonora, her library, 245; history of,
247.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger, quoted, 132;

his phonetic way of writing, 270.
Letters; from Will Wimble, 22; from
Will Honeycomb, 51, 69; from Sir
Roger's butler, 66; from Sir A.
Freeport, 72; from R. G., 83; from
an Irish gentleman, 83; about a
whistling match, 90; from Philo-
Spec., 106; from the clergyman,
165; from an angry father, 168;
on the diffidence of actors, 178;
from Charles Lillie, 235; from a
Valetudinarian, 238; about sign
boards, 242 about a rope-dancer,
244; from Leonora, 248; from a
lawyer on circuit, 266; from Ralph
Crotchet on the London cries, 275;
from Josiah Fribble, Esq., 278;
from Sir John Enville, 282; from

INDEX.

Tim. Watchwell, 285; on whims
and practical jokes, 288; about
scandal and scandal-mongers, 299;
from a young lady on knotting,
305; on catspaws, or 'shoeing-
horns,' 306; from the ambassador of
Bantam, 309; describing the battle
of Blenheim, 390; from Æsculapius,
441; from Athenais, 442; from
Davyth ap Shenkyn, 442; about
transmigrations, 453; from a young
lady asking advice, 458.
Libellous writing censured, 133.
Liberty, fruits of, 121.

Library, a lady's, papers on, 245-250.
Lions (on the stage), 355, 356.
Lipogrammatists, the, 324.
Lipsius. 232.

Little Britain, 4.

Livy, 348.

Lloyd's coffeehouse. See Coffeehouse.
Locke, quoted, 25, 144, 438.
Logic Lane, 445.

London, cries of, 275; difference be-

tween court and city, 291.
London Prentice, the, 357-
Longinus, 393.

Louis XIV, report of his death, 292;

his support of M. Mesnager, 303;
his ratio ultima,' 445.

Love for Love, Congreve's play of, 169.
Lover's Leap, the, 441.
Lowndes, M., 300.
Lucian, 346.

Lucretius, his belief in apparitions, 28;
336.

Lully, Sig. Baptist, 362.

M.

Macbeth, tragedy of, 252.

Mahometans, charity of, to animals,453.
Malebranche, quoted, 144.
Mall, the, 108.

Mariamne, story of, 411.
Marraton, a tale, 395.
Marriage, paper on, 450.
Marriage-hater Match'd, The, play of,
70.

Martial, quoted, 139, 241, 336, 378.
Matthews, John, 28.

Mazarin, Cardinal, his generosity, 131.

Ménage, quoted, 330.
Menippus, 413.

Mesnager, Monsieur, 303.
Method, benefits of, 459.

525

Military terms, imported from France,
388.

Milton, passim; quoted, 346.
Mirth, 188.

Mirzah, Vision of, 401.
Modesty, paper on, 178.
Mogul, the Great, 115.
Mohocks, the, 59.

Mole, natural history of the, 438.
Molière, story of, 378; his Misan-
thrope, 432.

Moll White, 34, 35; her death, 53.
Monks, English, their chronicles, 199.
Monmouth, Duke of, 8.
Montaigne's Essays, 459.

Morality, of supreme obligation, 195.
More, Sir Thomas, his noble behaviour,
187.

More, Dr. Henry, quoted, 438.
Mottos, the Spectator's use of, 91;
Latin mottos popular, 93.
Muly Moloc, story of, 187.
Music, English, 360, 362; French, 362.

N.

Namur, taking of, 273, 291.
Newberry, Mr., 325.

Newcastle, 268.

Newton, Sir Isaac, saying of, 210.
Nicolini, Signor, 351, 354-356, 373.
Nonjurors, 232, 293.

Norfolk Street, 59.

Norris, the actor, 371.

0.

Oates, Dr. Titus; story of a female
admirer of, 255.

Edipus, play of, quoted, 366.
Ogling, 83.

Old Bachelor, Congreve's play, 69.
Opera, the, 351; decorations of, ib.;
sparrows for, ib.; history of the Ita-
lian, 357; English, 360.
Otway, T., quoted, 33; his tragedies,
365, 367.

Ovid, quoted, 326, 449; 336.
Oxford, 445.

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