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,
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.
Cæsar, story of, 131, 182, 324. Cairo, 401.
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;
Club, the Spectator, account of its members, 4; discussion in, 12; dis- solution of, 71; plan of a new one, 73.
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.
Daciers, the, 349, 376. Dampier, Captain, 437. Dawkes, Mr., 300. Dawson, Bully, 5. Death, papers on, 182-188.
Diodorus Siculus, quoted, 44 Dionysius the tyrant, 204.
Disobedience, filial, abhorred in China,
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.
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
Eternity, 218; paper on, 219; 417.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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