Music banished by Plato out of his commonwealth, N. 18. Of a relative nature, N. 29.
NEIGHBOURHOODS, of whom consisting, N. 49. Newberry, (Mr.) his rebus, N. 59.
New river, a project of bringing it into the playhouse, 5. Nicolini, (fignior) his voyage on pasteboard, N. 5. His com- bat with a lion, N. 13. Why thought to be a sham one, ibid. An excellent actor, ibid.
OATES, (Dr.) a favourite with some party ladies, N. 57. Ogler, the complete ogler, N. 46. Old maids generally superftitious, N. 7. Old testament in a periwig, N. 58.
Opera, as it is the present entertainment of the English stage, confidered, N. 5. The progress it has made on our theatre, N. 18. Some account of the French opera, N. 29.
Otway commended and cenfured, N. 39.
Overdo, a justice at Epping, offended at the company of strol- lers for playing the part of Clodpate, and making a mockery of one of the quorum, N. 48.
Oxford scholar, his great discovery in a coffee-house, N. 46.
PAINTER and tailor often contribute more than the poet to the success of a tragedy, N. 42.
Parents, their taking a liking to a particular profeffion, often occafions their sons to miscarry, N. 21.
Parties crept much into the conversation of the ladies, N. 57. Party-zeal very bad for the face, ibid.
Particles, English, the honour done to them in the late operas,
Paffions, the conquest of them a difficult task, Ν. 71. Peace, some ill consequences of it, N. 45.
Peepers described, N. 53.
Pharamond, memoirs of his private life, N. 76. His great wisdom, ibid.
Philautia, a great votary, N. 79.
Philosophy, the use of it, N. 7. said to be brought by Socrates down from heaven, N. 10.
Physician and surgeon, their different employment, N. 16. The physicians a formidable body of men, N. 21. compared to the British army in Cæfar's time, ibid. Their way of converting one distemper into another, N. 25.
Picts, what women so called, N. 41. No faith to be kept
Pinkethman to perfonate King Porus on an elephant, N. 31. Players in Drury-lane, their intended regulations, N. 36. Poems in picture, N. 58.
Poet, (English) reproved, N. 39. N. 40. their artifices, N. 44. Poetesses, (English) wherein remarkable, N. 51. Powell, (senior) to act Alexander the Great on a dromedary, N. 31. His artifice to raise a clap, N. 40. Powell, (junior) his great skill in motions, N. 14. His per- formance referred to the opera of Rinaldo and Armida, ibid.
Praise, the love of it implanted in us, N. 38. Pride, a great enemy to a fine face, N. 33. Profeffions, the three great ones overburdened with practi- tioners, N. 21.
Projector, a short description of one, N. 31. Profper (Will) an honest tale-bearer, N. 19. Punchinello, frequented more than the church, N. 14. Punch out in the moral part, ibid.
Punning much recommended by the practice of all ages, N. 61. In what age the pun chiefly flourished, ibid. A famous university much infested with it, ibid. Why banish- ed at present out of the learned world, ibid. The definition of a pun, ibid.
QUALITY no exemption from reproof, N. 34. Quixote, (don) patron of the Sighers club, N. 30.
RANTS confidered as blemishes in our English tragedies, Ν. 40.
Rape of Proferpine, a French opera, some particulars in it, Ν. 29.
Reason, instead of governing passion, is often subservient to it, N. 6.
Rebus, a kind of false wit in vogue among the ancients, N. 59. and our own countrymen, ibid. A rebus at Blenheim-house condemned, ibid.
Recitativo, (Italian) not agreeable to an English audience, N. 29. Recitative music in every language ought to be adapted to the accent of the language, ibid. Retirement, the pleasure of it, where truly enjoyed, N. 4. Rich, (Mr.) would not fuffer the opera of Whittington's Cat to be performed in his house, and the reason for it, N. 5. Royal Exchange, the great refort to it, N. 69.
SALMON, (Mrs.) her ingenuity, N. 28. Sanctorius, his invention, N. 25.
Scholar's egg, what so called, N. 58.
Sempronia, a profest admirer of the French nation, N. 45. Sense; some men of sense more despicable than common beg-
Sentry, (Captain) a member of the Spectator's club, his cha- racter, N. 2.
Sextus Quintus, the pope, an instance of his unforgiving temper, N. 23.
Shadows and realities not mixed in the same piece, N. 5. Shovel, (fir Cloudesley) the ill contrivance of his monument
in Westminster abbey, N. 26.
Sidney, (fir Philip) his opinion of the song of Chevy Chace, Ν. 70.
Sighers, a club of them in Oxford, N. 30. Their regulations, ibid.
Sign-posts, the absurdities of many of them, N. 28.
Socrates, his temper and prudence, N. 23.
Solitude; an exemption from paffions the only pleasing soli- tude, N. 4.
Sophocles, his conduct in his tragedy of Electra, Ν. 44. Sparrows bought for the use of the opera, N. 5. Spartan virtue acknowledged by the Athenians, N. 6. Spectator, (The) his prefatory discourse, N. 1. His great taciturnity, ibid. His vision of public credit, N. 3. His entertainment at the table of an acquaintance, N. 7. His recommendation of his speculations, N. 10. Advertised in the Daily Courant, N. 12. His encounter with a lion behind the scenes, N. 13. The design of his writings, N. 16. No party-man, ibid. A little unhappy in the mould of his face, N. 17. His artifice, N. 19. His defire to correct impu- dence, N. 20. And resolution to march on in the cause of virtue, N. 34. His visit to a travelled lady, N. 45. His fpe- culations in the first principles, N. 46. An odd accident that befel him at Lloyd's coffee-house, ibid. His advice to our English pindaric writers, N. 58. His examen of Sir Fop- pling Flutter, N.65.
Spleen, a common excuse for dulness, N. 53. Starers reproved, N. 20.
Statira, in what proposed as a pattern to the fair sex, N. 41. Superftition, the folly of it described, N.7.
Susanna, or Innocence Betrayed, to be exhibited by Mr. Powell, with a new pair of elders, N. 14.
TEMPLAR, one of the Spectator's club, his character, N. 2. That, his remonstrance, N. 80.
Theatre (English) the practice of it in several instances cen- fured, N. 42, Ν. 44, Ν. 51. Thunder, of great use on the stage, N. 44. Thunderer to the playhouse, the hardships put upon him, and his defire to be made a cannon, N.36. Tom Titt to perfonate singing birds in the opera, N. 5. Tom the Tyrant, first minifter of the coffee-house between the hours of eleven and twelve at night, N. 49. Tombs in Westminster visited by the Spectator, N. 26. His reflection upon them, ibid.
Trade, the benefit of it to Great Britain, N. 69. Tragedy; a perfect tragedy the noblest production of human nature, N. 39. Wherein the modern tragedy excels that of Greece and Roine, ibid. Blank verse the most proper for an English tragedy, ibid. The English tragedy confi dered, ibid.
Tragi-comedy, the product of the English theatre, a monstrous invention, N. 40.
Travel highly necessary to a coquette, N. 45. The behaviour of a travelled lady in the playhouse, ibid.
Truth an enemy to false wit, Ν. 63. Triphiodorus, the great lipogrammatist of antiquity, N. 59.
VENICE Preserved, a tragedy founded on a wrong plot, Ν. 39.
Ugliness, some speculations upon it, N. 32. Vifit; a vifit to a travelled lady which she received in her bed, described, N. 45.
Understanding, the abuse of it is a great evil, N. 6. Vocifer, the qualifications that make him pass for a fine gen- tleman, N. 75-
Wно and Which, their petition to the Spectator, N. 78. Wit, the mischief of it when accompanied with vice, N. 23. Very pernicious when not tempered with virtue and hu- manity, ibid. Turned into deformity by affectation, N. 38. Only to be valued as it is applied, N. 6. The hiftory of false wit, ibid. Every man would be a wit if he could, N.59. The way to try a piece of wit, N. 62. Mr. Locke's reflection on the difference between wit and judgment, ibid. The god of wit described, N. 63.
Women the more powerful part of our people, N. 4. Their ordinary employments, N. 10. Smitten with superficials, N. 15. Their usual conversation, ibid. Their strongest paffion, N. 33. Not to be confidered merely as objects of fight, ibid.
Woman of quality, her dress the products of an hundred climates, N. 69.
YARICO, the story of her adventure, N. 11.
THE END OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
T. Bensley, Printer, Bolt Court, Fleet Street.
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