Mazarine, (Cardinal) his behaviour to Quillet, who had reflected upon him in a poem, N. 23.

Merchants of great benefit to the publick, N. 69.
Mixt wit described, N. 62.

Mixt communion of men and spirits in paradise, as defcribed by Milton, N. 12.

Mode, on what it ought to be built, N. 6.

Modesty the chief ornament of the Fair Sex, N. 6. Moliere made an old woman a judge of his plays, N. 70. Monuments in Westminster-Abbey examined by the Spectator, N. 26.

Mourning, the method of it confidered, N. 64. Who the greatest mourners, ibid.

Mufick banished by Plato out of his commonwealth, N. 18. Of a relative nature, 29.

N.

Neighbourhoods, of whom confifting, N. 49.

Newberry, (Mr.) his Rebus, N. 59.

New-River, a project of bringing it into the playhouse,

N. 5:

Nicolini (Signior) his voyage on pasteboard, N. 5. His combat with a lion, 13. Why thought to be a fham one, ibid. An excellent actor, ibid.

O.

Ates (Dr.) a favourite with fome party Ladies, N. 57.
Ogler, the complete ogler, N. 46.

Old maids generally fuperftitious, N. 7.
Old teftament in a periwig, N. 58.

Opera, as it is the prefent entertainment of the English ftage, confidered, N. 5. The progress it has made on our theatre, 18. Some account of the French opera, 29. Otway, commended and cenfured, N. 39.

Overdo, a juftice at Epping, offended at the company of ftrollers for playing the part of Clodpate, and making a mockery of one of the Quorum, N. 48.

Oxford fcholar, his great discovery in a coffee-house, N. 46.

Pint

P.

Ainter and Tailor often contribute more than the poet to the fuccefs of a tragedy, N. 42.

Parents, their taking a liking to a particular profeffion often occafions their fons to miscarry, N. 21.

Parties

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, N. 18.

Paffions, the conqueft of them a difficult task, N. 71. Peace, fome ill confequences of it, N. 45.

Peepers described, N. 53.

Pharamond, memoire of his private life, N. 76. His great wifdom, ibid.

Philautia, a great votary, N. 79.

Philofophy, the ufe of it, N. 7. faid to be brought by Socrates down from heaven, 10.

Phyfician and Surgeon, their different employment, N. 16. The Phyficians a formidable body of men, 21. compared to the British army in Cæfar's time, ibid. Their way of converting one diftemper into another, 25. Picts, what women fo called, N. 41. No faith to be kept with them, ibid.

Pinkethman to perfonate King Perus on an elephant, N. 31.

Players in Drury-Lane, their intended regulations, N. 36. Poems in picture, N. 58.

Poet, (English) reproved, N. 39, 40, their artifices, 44. Poeteffes (English) wherein remarkable, N. 51.

Powell (fenior) to act Alexander the Grect on a dromedary, N. 31. His artifice to raise a clap, N. 40. Powell (junior) his great fkill in motions, N. 14. His performance referred to the opera of Rinaldo and Armida, ibid.

Praife, the love of it implanted in us, N. 38.
Pride a great enemy to a fine face, N. 33.

Profeffions, the three great ones over-burdened with practitioners, N. 21.

Projector, a fhort defcription of one, N. 31.
Profper (Will) an honeft tåle-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 univerfity much infefted with it, ibid. why banished at prefent out of the learned world, ibid. The definition of a Pun, ibid.

Q. Quality

Q

R

Uality no exemption from reproof, N. 34.
Quixote (Don) patron of the Sighers club, N. 30.

R.

Ants confidered as blemishes in our English tragedies, N. 40.

Rape of Proferpine a French opera, fome particulars in it, N. 29.

Reason, instead of governing paffion is often fubfervient
to it, N. 6.

Rebus, a kind of falfe wit in vogue among the ancients,
N. 59. and our own countrymen, ibid. A Rebus at
Blenheim-Houfe condemned, ibid.

Recitativo, (Italian) not agreeable to an English audience,
N. 29. Recitative mufick 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 reafon for
it, N. 5.

Royal Exchange, the great refort to it, N. 69.

S.

Almon (Mrs.) her ingenuity, N. 28.
Sanctorius, his invention, N. 25.

Scholar's egg, what fo called, N. 58.

Sempronia, a profeffed admirer of the French nation, N. 45. Senfe; fome men of fenfe more despicable than commo beggars, N. 6.

Sentry (Captain) a member of the Spectator's club, hi character, N. 2.

Sextus Quintus, the Pope, an inftance of his unforgiving temper, N. 23.

Shadows and realities not mixed in the fame piece, N. 5.
Shovel, (Sir Cloudesly) the ill contrivance of his monu-
ment in Westminster-Abbey, N. 26.

Sidney (Sir Philip) his opinion of the fong of Chevy-
Chafe, N. 70.

Sighers, a club of them in Oxford, N. 30. Their regu-
lations, ibid.

Sign-pofts, the abfurdities of many of them, N. 28.
Socrates, his temper and prudence, N. 23.

Solitude; an exemption from paffions the only pleafing

folitude, N. 4.

Sophocles

Sophocles, his conduct in his tragedy of Electra, N. 44.
Sparrows bought for the ufe of the opera, N. 5.
Spartan virtue acknowledged by the Athenians, N. 6.
Spectator (the) his prefatory difcourfe, N. 1. His great
taciturnity, ibid. His vifion of Publick Credit, 3. His
entertainment at the table of an acquaintance, 7. His
recommendation of his speculations, to. Advertised in
the Daily Courant, 12. His encounter with a lion be-
hind the scenes, 13. The defign of his writings, 16.
No party-man, ibid. A little unhappy in the mold of
his face, 17. His artifice, 19. His defire to correct
impudence, 20. And refolution to march on in the
cause of virtue, 34. His vifit to a travelled Lady, 45.
His fpeculations in the firft principles, 46. An odd ac-
cident that befel him at Lloyd's coffee-house, ibid. His
advice to our English Pindarick writers, 58. His examen
of Sir Fopling Flutter, 65.

Spleen, a common excufe for dulnefs, N. 53.
Starers reproved, N. 20.

Statira, in what propofed as a pattern to the Fair Sex,
N. 41.

Superftition, the folly of it defcribed, N. 7.

Sufanna, or innocence betrayed, to be exhibited by Mr. Powell, with a new pair of elders, N. 14.

T.

Emplar, one of the Spectator's club, his character,
N. 2.

That, his remonftrance, N. 80.

Theatre (English) the practice of it in feveral inftances cenfured, N. 42, 44, 51.

Thunder, of great ufe on the ftage, N. 44.

Thunderer to the playhoufe, the hardships put upon him, and his defire to be made a cannon, N. 36. Tom Tits to perfonate finging birds in the opera, N. 5. Tom the tyrant, first minister of the coffee-house, between the hours of eleven and twelve at night, N. 49. Tombs in Westminster vifited by the Spectator, N. 26. his reflection upon it, ibid.

Trade, the benefit of it to Great-Britain, N. 69. Tragedy; a perfect Tragedy the nobleft production of human nature, N. 39. Wherein the modern tragedy excels that of Greece and Rome, ibid. Blank verse the moft proper for an English tragedy, ibid. The English tragedy confidered, ibid.

Tragi

Tragi-Comedy, the product of the English theatre, a
monftrous invention, N. 40.

Travel, highly neceffary to a coquette, N. 45. The be-
haviour of a travelled Lady in the playhouse, ibid.
Truth an enemy to false wit, N. 63.

Tryphiodorus, the great lipogrammatift of antiquity,N. 59.

U.

́Enice Preferv'd, a tragedy founded on a wrong
plot, N. 39.

VE

Uglinefs, fome fpeculations upon it, N. 32.

Vifit; a vifit to a travelled Lady which the received in
her bed, described, N. 45.

Understanding, the abufe of it is a great evil, N. 6.
Vocifer, the qualifications that make him pafs for a fine
Gentleman, N. 75.

W

W.

HO 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 humanity, ibid. turned into deformity by affec-.
tation, 38. Only to be valued as it is applied, 6.
The hiftory of falfe wit, ibid. Every man would be a
wit if he could, 59. The way to try a piece of wit, 62.
Mr. Locke's reflection on the difference between wit
and judgment, ibid. The god of wit defcribed, 63.
Women, the more powerful part of our people, N. 4.
Their ordinary employments, 10. Smitten with fuper-
ficials, 15. Their ufual converfation, ibid. Their
ftrongeft paffion, 33. Not to be confidered merely as
objects of fight, ibid.

Woman of quality, her dress the products of an hun-
dred climates, N. 69.

ས.

Tarico, the ftory of her adventure, N. 11.

The END of the FIRST VOLUME.