female fex, Number 380.

a guinea by a Jew, ibid.

From Betty Lemon, who had been prefented with
From the fexton of St. Bride's on a new charity.
fchool of fifty girls, erected in that parifh, ibid. From a gentleman in Den
mark, 393.

Liberality, the true bafis of it, N. 346.

Lillie, Charles, his prefent to the Spectator, N. 358.

Longings in women, the extravagancies of them, N. 326.

Longinus, an observation of that critic, N. 339..

Love, in what manner difcovered to his mistress by one of Will Honeycomb's ac
quaintance, N. 325. The mother of poetry, 377.

M.

MAY, a month extremely fubject to calentures in women, N. 365. Thẻ
Spectator's caution to the female fex on that account, ibid.

Merit, valuable, according to the application of it, N. 349.

Meiliah, a facred eclogue, N. 378.

Milton's Paradife Loft, a continuation of the Spectator's criticism on that poem,
N. 327, 333, 339, 345, 351, 357, 363, 369. The moral of thrat poem, and
length of time contained in the action, 369.

Mirth, the aukward pretenders to it, N. 358. Diftinguished from chearfulness,
381.

Modefty diftinguished from theepifhnefs, N. 373. The definition of it, ibid.
Wherein it confifts, 390. Modest affurance, what, 373.

Mohoc, the meaning of that name, N. 324, Several conjectures concerning the
Mohocs, 347.

Monuments raifed by envy, the moft glorious, N. 355.

More, Sir Thomas, his guety at his death, to what owing, N. 349.

Mortality, the lover's bill of, N. 377.

Motion of the gods, wherein it differs from that of mortals, according to Helio
dorus, N. 369.

Maly Moluch, Emperor of Morocco, his great intrepidity in his dying moments,
N. 349.

N

N IGHTINGALE, it's mufic highly delightful to a man in love, N. 38
Novels, great enfiamers of women's blood, N. 365.

OBSEQUIOUSNESS in behaviour confidered, N. 386.
Orbicilia, her character, N. 390.

..P.

PAUL Lorrain, a defign of his, N. 338.

Penkethman, the comedian, his many qualifications, N. 3796
Perfian children, what learnt by them in their fchools, N. 337.
Perfons, imaginary, not proper for an heroic poem, N. 357.

Perfius the fatirift, the affected obfcurity of his stile, N. 379.

Petronius and Socrates, their chearful behaviour during their laft monients ground
ed on different motives, N. 349.

Philofophy, natural, the ufe of it, N. 393.

Practice and example, their prevalency on youth, N. 337.

Praife, why not freely conferred on men till dead, N. 349.

Prayers, Phoenix his allegorical description of them to Achilles in Homer, N. 391.
The folly and extravagance of our prayers in general make fet forms necef-
fary, ibid.

Pride, a chief fpring of action in most men, N. 394.'

Printing encouraged by the politeft nations in Europe, N. 367.

Q

QUALITIES. What qualities truly valuable, N. 349.

RELIGION

R.

RELIGION, the greatest incentive to good and worthy actions, Number 356.
Reproof, when justly deserved, how we ought to behave ourselves under it,
N. 382.

Roficrufius, the ftory of his fepulchre, N. 379.

S.

SANTER, Mrs. a great fnuff-taker, N. 344.

Sentry, Captain, receives a letter from Ipfwich, giving an account of an en-
gagement between a French privateer and a little veffel belonging to that place,
N. 350. His reflection on that action, ibid.

Sincerity, the advantages of it over diffimulation and deceit, N. 352. The most
compendious wisdom, ibid.

Solomon's Song, a paraphrafe on the fecond chapter, N. 388.

Spaccia della Beftia Triomphante, a book fold at an auction for 30l. N. 389. Some
account of that book, ibid.

Spectator, his reflections upon Clarinda's journal, N. 323. Accompanies Sir
Roger de Coverley to Weftminster Abbey, 329. His facrifices to humanity,
355. His behaviour under reproach, and reafons for not returning an answer
to those who have animadverted on his paper, ibid. His contemplations on
Good-Friday, 356. The benefits accruing to the public from his fpeculations,
367. His papers much fought for about Christmas by all his neighbours, ibid.
His comparison of the world to a fage, 370. He accompanies Sir Roger to
Spring-Garden, 383. His zeal for the Hanover fucceffion, 384.

Spenfer, his advice to young ladies under the distress of defamation, N. 390.
Spirit, an high one a great enemy to candour, N. 382.

Spring, the pleasanteft feafon of the year, N. 339.
Spring-Garden, a kind of Mahometan paradife, N. 383.
Sweaters, a fpecies of the Mohoc club, N. 332.

T.

TRANSMIGRATION of fouls afferted by Will Honeycomb, N. 343.
Travel, at what time to be undertaken, and the true ends of it, N. 364.
Trueby, Widow, her water recommended by Sir Roger as good against the stone.
and gravel, N. 329.

Truth, the everlasting good effect it has even upon a man's fortune and interest,
N. 352. Always confiftent with itfelf, ibid.

V.

VILLACERFE, Madam de, an account of her death, and the manner of

it, N. 368.

Virgil, his fable examined in relation to Halicarnaffeus's history of Æneas, N. 351.
Virtue, the way to preferve it in it's integrity, N. 394.

W.

WRITING unintelligibly, the art of it much improved, N. 379.

Woman, the utmost of her character, wherein contained, N. 342. The
notion fome women have of virtue and vice, 390.

Words, the abuse of them demonftrated in feveral inftances, N.
World, the, confidered both as ufeful and entertaining, N. 117.

Z.

373-

ZOILUS, the pretended critic, had a very long beard, N. 331.

VOLUME THE SIXTH.

A.

ACETUS, 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 inftead of writing, N. 416.

Amity between agreeable perfons of different fexes dangerous, N. 400.

Amoret the jilt reclaimed by Philander, N. 401.

Ann Boleyn's laft letter to King Henry VIII. N. 397.

Ancients in the East, their way of living, N. 415.

Appearances, things not to be trufted for them, N. 464.
Applaufe, public, it's pleafure, N. 442.

April, month of, defcribed, N. 425.

Arabella, verfes on her finging, N. 443.

Architecture, the ancients perfection in it, N. 415. The greatness of the manner
how it likes the fancy, ibid. Of the Manner of both ancients and moderns,
ibid. The concave and convex figures have the greatest air, ibid. Every
thing that pleates the imagination in it, is either great, beautiful, or new, ibid.
Art, works of, defective to entertain the imagination, N. 414. Receive great ad-
vantage from their likeness to thofe of nature, ibid.

Auguft and July, months of, defcribed, N. 425.

B.

B

ABEL, Tower of, N. 415.

Bacon, Sir Francis, prefcribes his reader a poem or prospect, as conducive to
health, N. 411. What he fays of the pleasure of taste, 447.

Bankruptcy, the mifery of it, N. 428, 456.

Bar oratory in England, reflection on it, N. 407.

Bafilius Valentinus, and his fon, their ftory, N. 426.

Baxter, Mr. his laft words, N. 445. 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 it's way more
directly to the foul, ibid. Every fpecies of fenfible creatures has different no-
tions 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.

Belus, Jupiter, temple of, N. 415.

Birds, how affected by colours, N. 412.

Blatt, Lady, her character, N. 457.

Bluemantle, Lady, an account of her, N. 427.

Buck, Timothy, his anfwer to James Miller's challenge, N. 436.

Buffoonery, cenfured, N. 442,

Bulinels, men of, their error in fimilitudes, N, 421. Of learning fittest for it, 469.
Buify d'Amboife, a ftory of him, N. 467.

CÆSAR

C.

CESAR loft his life by neglecting a Roman augur's caution, Number 395.

Cælia, her character, N. 404.

Calisthenes, 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
circumftance of the memory, N. 417.

Cato, the respect paid him at the Roman theatre, N. 446.
Chamont's faying of Monimia's misfortunes, N. 395.
Charity-fchools to be encouraged, N. 430.

Charles II. his gaieties, N. 462.

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.

Chloe, the idiot, N. 466.

Chremylus, his character out of Aristophanes, 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.

· 439.

Clarendon, Earl of, his character of a person of a troublesome curiofity, N. 4
Cleanthes, his character, N. 404.

Cleopatra, a defcription of her failing down the Cydnos, N. 400.

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.
guages, 416.

Comedies, English, vicious, 446.

Commonwealth of Amazons, N. 433.

Speak all lan-

Compassion civilizes human nature, N. 397. How to touch it, ibid.
Company, temper chiefly to be confidered in the choice of it, N. 424.

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 tafte in letters, N. 409.

Country life, why the poets in love with it, N. 414. What Horace and Virgil
fay of it, ibid. Rules for it, 424.

Courage wants other good qualities to fet it off, N. 422.

Court and city, their peculiar ways of life and conversation, 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.

Custom, a fecond nature, N. 437. The effect of it, ibid. How to make a good
ufe 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 stage faulty, ibid. The advantages
of it, ibid.

Dangers paft, why the reflection of them pleafes, 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.

Defcriptions come fhort of ftatuary and painting, N. 416. Pleafe fometimes more

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than

than the fight of things, Number 416. The fame not alike relished by all, ibid.
What pleafes in them, 418. What is great, furprising, and beautiful, more
acceptable to the imagination than what is little, common, or deformed, ibid.
Defire, when corrected, N. 400.

Devotion, the noblest buildings owing to it, N. 415.

Diana's cruel facrifices condemned by an ancient poet, N. 453.

Dionyfius's ear, what it was, N. 439.

Difcourfe in converfation not to be engroffed by one man, N. 428.

Diftracted perfons, the fight of them the moft mortifying thing in nature, N.421.
Dogget, how cuckolded on the stage, N. 446.

Domeftic life, reflections concerning it, N. 455.
Doris, Mr. Congreve's character of her, N. 422.

Drama, it's firft original a religious worthip, N. 405.

Dream of the feasons, N. 425. Of golden fcales, 463.

Drefs, the ladies extravagance in it, N. 435. An ill intention in their fingularity,
ibid. The English character to be modeft in it, ibid.
Drink, the effects it has on modeity, N. 458.

E.

FASTCOURT, Dick, his character, N. 468.

Editors of the claffics, their faults, N. 470.

Education of children, errors in it, N. 431. A letter on that subject, 455. Gar-
dening applied to it, ibid.

Emblematical perfons, N. 419.

Employments, whoever excels in any, worthy of praife, N. 432.

Emulation, the ufe of it, N, 432.

Enemies, the benefits that may be received from them, N. 399.
English naturally modeft, N. 407, 435.
Enmity, the good fruits of it, N. 399.
Epictetus's faying of forrow, N. 397.
Equeftrian ladies, who, N. 435.
Error, his habitation defcribed, N. 460.
Effay on the pleasures of the imagination,
Ether, fields of, the pleasures of furveying them, N. 420.
Ever-greens of the fair-fex, N. 395.

Thought proud by foreigners, N. 432.

How like to Truth, ibid.
from N. 411, to 421.

Euphrates river contained in one bafon, N. 415.
Exchange, Royal, described, N. 454.

F.

The pleafures of imagination that arife from it,
any other, and why, ibid. The English the best

FAIRY writing, N. 419.
ibid. More difficult than
poets of this fort, ibid.
Faith, the benefit of it, N. 459.

The means of confirming it, 465.

Fame a follower of merit, N. 426. The palace of, defcribed, 439. Courts com-

pared to it, ibid.

Familiarities ind cent in fociety, N. 429.

Fancy, all it's images enter by the fight, N. 411.

Fashion, a defcription of it, N. 460.

Father, the affection of one for a daughter, N. 449.

Flavilla, spoiled by a marriage, N. 437.

Faults, fecret, how to find them out, N. 399.

Fear, paffion of, treated, N. 471.

Feeling not fo perfect a fenfe as fight, N. 411.

Fiction, the advantage the writers have in it to pleafe the imagination, N. 419.

What other writers pleafe in it, 420.

Fidelia, her duty to her father, N. 449.

Final caufes of delight, in objects, N. 413. Lie bare, and open, ibid.

Flattery defcribed, N. 465.

Flavia's character and amour with Cynthio, N. 398.

Flora, an attendant on the fpring, N. 425.

Follies and defects mistaken by us in ourfelves for worth, N. 460.

Fortius, his character, N. 422.

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