Fortunatus the trader, his character, Number 443.

Freart, Monfieur, what he fays of the manner of both ancients and moderns in
architecture, N. 415.

French, their levity, N. 435.

Friends kind to our faults, N. 399.

GA

G.

ARDENING, errors in it, N. 414. Why the English gardens not fo en-
tertaining to the fancy, as thofe in France and Italy, ibid. Obfervations
concerning it's improvement both for benefit and beauty, ibid. Applied to
education, 455.

Georgics, Virgil's, the beauty of their fubjects, N. 417.

Getture, good in oratory, N. 407.

Gholts, what they fay fhould be a little difcoloured, N. 419. The defcription
of them pleafing to the fancy, ibid. Why we incline to believe them, ibid. Not
a village in England formerly without one, ibid. Shakespeare's the bett, ibid.
Gladiators of Rome, what Cicero fays of them, N. 436.

Gloriana, the defign upon her, N. 423.

Goats milk, the effect it had on a man bred with it, N. 408.
Good fenfe and good nature always go together, N. 437.

Grace at meals practifed by the Pagans, N. 458.

Grandeur and minutenefs, the extremes pleafing to the fancy, N. 420.

Gratitude, the most pleasing exercise of the mind, N.453. A divine poem upon
it, ibid.

Greatness of objects, what understood by it, in the pleasures of the imagination,

N. 412, 413.

Green-fickness, Sabina Rentfree's letter about it, N. 431.

Guardian of the fair-fex, the Spectator fo, N. 449.

H.

HAMLET's reflections on looking upon Yorick's skull, N. 404.
Harlot, a description of one out of the Proverbs, N. 410.

Health, the pleasures of the fancy more conducive to it than thofe of the under-
ftanding, N. 411.

Heaven and Hell, the notion of, conformable to the light of nature, N. 447-
Heavens, verfes on the glory of them, N. 465.

Hebrew idioms run into English, N. 405.

Heliod's faying of a virtuous life, N. 447.

Hiftorian, his most agreeable talent, N. 420.

How history pleases the imagina

tion, ibid. Defcriptions of battles in it scarce ever underflood, N. 428.

Hockley in the Hole gladiators, N. 436.

Homer's defcriptions charm more than Ariftotle's reafoning, N. 411. Compared

with Virgil, 417. When he is in his province, ibid.

Honeftus the trader, his character, N. 443.

Honeycomb, Will, his adventure with Sukey, N. 410.

Hope, paffion of, treated, N. 471.

Horace takes fire at every hint of the Iliad and Odyffey, N. 417.

Hotfpur, Jeffrey, Efq. his petiton from the country infirmary, N. 429.

Human nature the beft ftudy, N. 408.

Humour, good, the best companion in the country, N. 424.

Huth, Peter, his character, N. 457.

Hymn, David's paftoral one on Providence, N. 441. On Gratitude, 453. On

the Glories of the Heaven and Earth, 465.

Hypocrify, the various kinds of it, N. 399. To be preferred to open impiety, 458.

I.

ID DEAS, how a whole fet of them hang together, N. 416.

Idiot, the ftory of one by Dr. Plot, N. 447.

Idle and innocent, few know how to be fo, N. 411.

Jilt, a penitent one, N. 401.

Iliad, the reading of it like travelling through a country uninhabited, Number 415.
Imaginary beings in poetry, N. 419.

Intances in Ovid, Virgil, and Miten, ibid.

Imagination, it's pleafures in fome refpects equal to thofe of the understanding, in
fome preferable, N. 411. Their extent, ibid. The advantages of them, ibid.
What is meant by them, ibid. Two kinds of them, ibid. Awaken the fa-
culties of the mind, without fatiguing or perplexing it, ibid. More conducive
to health than thofe of the understanding, ibid. Raifed by other fenfes as well
as the fight, 412. The caule of them not to be affigned, 413. Works of art
not so perfect as thofe of nature to entertain the imagination, 414. The
fecondary pleafures of the fancy, 416. The power of it, ibid. Whence it's
fecondary pleasures proceed, ibid. Of a wider and more univerfal nature than
thofe it has when joined with fight, 418. How poetry contributes to it's plea-
fures, 419. How hiftorians, philofophers, and other writers, 420, 421. The
delight it takes in enlarging itself by degrees, as in the furvey of the earth, and
the univerfe, ibid. And when it works from great things to little, ibid.
Where it falls fhort of the understanding, ibid. How affected by fimilitudes,
421. As liable to pain as pleasure. How much of either it is capable of, ibid.
The power of the Almighty over it, ibid.

Imagining, the art of it in general, N. 421.

Impertinent and trifling perfons, their triumph, N. 432.

Impudence mistaken for wit, N. 443.

Infirmary, one for good-humour, N. 429, 437, 440. A further account out of
the country, ibid.

Ingoltfon, Charles, of Barbican, his cures, N. 444.

Invitation, the Spectator's, to all artificers as well as philosophers to assist him,
N. 428, 442. A general one, ibid.

Jolly, Frank, Efq. his memorial from the country infirmary, N. 429.

Iras, her character, N 404.

Irony, who deal in it, N. 438.

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

June, month of, defcribed, N. 425.

K.

KNOWLEDGE of one's felf, rules for it, N. 399.

Latimer the martyr, his behaviour at a conference with the papifts, N. 465.
Law-fuits, the mifery of them, N. 456.

Leaf, green, fwarms with millions of animals, N. 420.

Learning, men of, who take to bufinefs, beft fit for it, N. 469.

Letters from Cynthio to Flavia, and their answers to the breaking off their amour,
N. 398.

Letters from Queen Ann Boleyne to Henry VIII. N. 397. From a bankrupt to
his friend, 456. The answer, ibid. From Lazarus Hopeful to Bafil Plenty, 472.
Letters to the Spectator. From Peter de Quir, of St. John's College in Cam-
bridge, N. 396. From a penitent jilt, 401. From a lady importuned by her
mother to be unfaithful to her husband, 402. From a married man who out of
jealoufy obftructed the marriage of a lady to whom he was guardian, ibid.
From a lady whofe lover would have abufed her paffion for him, ibid. From a
young uncle on the difobedience of his elder nephews and nieces, ibid. About
a city and country life, 406; with a tranflation of a Lapland ode, ibid. On
the paffions, 408. Concerning Gloriana, 423. Of good-humour, 424. Of
the country infirmary, 429. Of common beggars, 430. Of charity- fchools,
ibid. The freedoms of married men and women, ibid. From Richard and

Sabina Rentfree, Number 431. About prejudice and emulation, 432. Naked
fhoulders, 437. A country fociety and infirmary, ibid. From Camilla, 443-
From an Exchange man, ibid. About buffoonery, ibid. From Ephraim
Weed, 450. From a projector for news, 452, 457. About education, 455-
From one who had married a fcold, ibid. From Pill Garlick, ibid. About
the use and abufe of fimilies, ibid. Salutations at churches, 460; with a
tranflation of the 114th Pfalm, 461. About the advance on the paper for the
ftamps, ibid. About King Charles the Second's gaieties, 462. About danc-
ing, 466. About fight, 472. About panegyrical fatires on ourselves, 473.
From Timothy Stanza, ibid. From Bob Short, ibid.

Libels, a fevere law against them, N. 451. Thofe that write or read them ex-
communicated, ibid.

Light and colours only ideas in the mind, N. 413.

Livy, in what he excels all other hiftorians, N. 409, 420.

Loller, Lady Lydia, her memorial from the country infirmary, N. 422.

London, the differences of the manners and politics of one part from the other,
N. 403.

M.

MAN, the middle link between angels and brutes, N. 408. What he is, con-
fidered in himself, 441. The homage he owes his Creator, ibid.

Manilius, his character, N. 467.

March, month of, described, 425.

Mariamne the first dancer, N. 466.

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

Martial, an epigram of his on a grave man's being at a lewd play, N. 446.`
Machiavel, his obfervation on the wife jealoufy of ftates, N. 408.

Matter, the least particle of it contains an unexhausted fund, N. 320.

May, month of, dangerous to the ladies, N. 395. Defcribed, 425.

Meanwell, Thomas, his letters about the freedoms of married men and women,

N. 430.

Memory, how improved by the ideas of the imagination, N. 417.

Merchant, the worth and importance of his character, N. 428.

Mercy, whoever wants it has a taste of no enjoyment, N. 456.
Metamorphofes, Ovid's, like enchanted ground, N. 417.
Metaphor, when noble, cafts a glory round it, N. 421.

Miller, James, his challenge to Timothy Buck, N. 436.

Milton, his vaft genius, N. 417. His poem of Il Penferofo, 425.

His defcrip-

tion of the archangel and the evil spirit's addressing themselves for the combat,
463.

Mimickry, art of, why we delight in it, N. 416.

Minifter, a watchful one defcribed, N. 439.

Minutius, his character, N. 422.

Modesty, falfe, the danger of it, N. 458. Diftinguished from the true, ibid.
Monsters, novelty beftows charms on them, N. 412. Incapable of propagation,
413. What gives fatisfaction in the fight of them, 418.

Money; the Spectator propofes it as a thefis, N. 442.

The love of it very commendable, ibid.

The power of it, 450.

Morality, the benefits of it, N. 459. Strengthens faith, 465.

Moufe-Alley doctor, N. 444.

Mufic, church, of the improvement of it, N. 405. It may raife confufed notions
of things in the fancy, 416.

NAKED fhouldered, N. 437,

N.

Names of authors to be put to their works, the hardships and inconveniencies
of it, N. 451.

Nature, a man's best guide, N. 404. The most useful object of human reafon,
408. Her works more perfect than thofe of art to delight the fancy, 414.
Yet the more pleafant the more they refemble them, ibid. More grand and
auguft than thofe of art, ibid.

Neceffary

1

Neceffary caufe of our being pleased with what is great, new, and beautiful,
Number 413.
New or uncommon, why every thing that is fo raifes a pleasure in the imagination,
N. 411. What understood by the term with respect to objects, 412. Improves
what is great and beautiful, ibid. Why a fecret pleasure annexed to it's idea,
413. Every thing fo that pleafes in architecture, 415.

News, how the English thirst after it, N. 452. Project for a supply of it, ibid.
Of whifpers, 457.

Nicodemuncio's letter to Olivia, N. 433.

Nicolini, his perfection of mufic, N. 405.
Night-walk in the country, N. 425.
November, month of, defcribed, N. 425.

0.

ODE, Laplander's, to his miftrefs, N. 406.

Opinion, popular, defcribed, N. 460.

Oftentation, one of the inhabitants of the paradife of fools, N. 460.
Otway, his admirable defcription of the miferies of law-fuits, N. 456.
Ovid, in what he excels, 417. His description of the palace of Fame, 439.

P.

PAMPHLETS, defamatory, deteftable, N. 451.

Pantheon at Rome, how it ftrikes the imagination at the firft entrance, N. 415.
Paradife of fools, N. 460.

Paradife Loft, Milton's, it's fine image, N. 417.

Parents, their care due to their children, N. 426.

Party not to be followed with innocence, N. 399.

Party prejudices in England, N. 432.

Paffions treated of, N. 408. What moves them in defcriptions most pleafing,
418. In all men, but appear not in all, ibid. Of hope and fear, 471.
Paffionate people, their faults, N. 438. Nat. Lee's defcription of it, ibid.,
Peevith fellow defcribed, N. 438.

Penferofo, poem of, by Milton, N. 425.

Perfecution in religious matters immoral, N. 459-

Perfian foldier, reproved for railing against an enemy, N. 427.

Phidias, his propofal of a prodigious ftatue of Alexander, N. 415,

Phocion's faying of a vain promifer, N. 448.

Philopater's letter about his daughter's dancing, N. 466.

Philips, Mr. paftoral verfes of his, N. 400.

Philofophy, new, the authors of it gratify and enlarge the imagination, N. 420.
Picture, not fo natural a reprefentation as a ftatue, N. 416. What pleases most
in one, 418.

Pindar's faying of Theron, N. 467.

Pity is love foftened by forrow, N. 397. That and terror leading paffions in
poetry, 418.

Places of truft, who moft fit for them, N. 469. Why courted by men of generous
principles, ibid.

Planets, to furvey them fills us with aftonishment, N. 430.

Pleafant fellows to be avoided, N. 462.

Pleafantry in converfation, the faults it covers, N. 462.

Poems, feveral preferved for their fimilies, N. 421.

Poetry has the whole circle of nature for it's proving, N. 419.

Poets, the pains they should take to form the imagination, N. 417. Should mend
nature, and add to her beauties, 418. How much they are at liberty in it, ibid.
Polite imagination let into a great many pleasures the vulgar are not capable of,

N. 411.

Politics of St. James's Coffee-houfe, on the report of the French King's death,
N. 403. Of Giles's, ibid. Of Jenny Man's, ibid. Of Will's, ibid. The Tem-
ple, ibid. Fish-treet, ibid. Cheapfide, ibid. Garraway's, ibid.
Poor, the fcandalous appearance of them, N. 430%

Poverty,

Poverty the lofs of merit, Number 464.

Praife, the love of it deeply fixed in men's minds, N. 467 •

Precipice, diftant, why it's profpect pleafes, N. 418.

Prejudice, a letter about it as it refpects parties in England, N. 432.

Promifes, neglect of, through frivolous falfhood, N. 448.

Promifers condemned, N. 448.

Profpect, a beautiful one delights the foul as much as a demonftration, N. 411.
Wide ones pleafing to the fancy, ibid. Enlivened by nothing fo much as rivers
and falls of water, 412. That of hills and vallies foon tires, ibid.

Proverbs, the 7th chapter of, turned into verfe, N. 410.

Pfalin the 114th tranflated, N. 461.

Pfalmift, against hypocrify, N. 399. Of providence, 441.
Punning, whofe privilege, N. 396. A pun of thought, 454.

Pyramids of Egypt, N. 415.

Pythagoras, his precepts about the choice of a courfe of life, N. 447.

Q

Doctors, the cheats of them, ibid.

UACK-bill, N. 144.
Quakers, project of an act to marry them to the olive beauties, N. 396.
Quir, Peter de, his letter to the Spectator about puns, N. 396.

R.

RAILLERY in converfation, the abfurdity of it, N. 422.

Rainbow, the figure of one contributes to it's magnificence, as much as the
colours to it's beauty, N. 415.

Ramble, from Richmond by water to London, and about it, by the Spectator,
N. 454.

Raphael, the excellence of his pictures, N. 467.

Read, Sir William, his operations on the eyes, N. 472.

Reafon the pilot of the paffions, N. 408. A pretty nice proportion between that
and passion, ibid.

Religion confidered, N. 459.

Renatus Valentinus, his father and grandfather, their story, N. 426.

Rentfree, Sabina, her letter about the green fickness, N. 431.

Retirement, a dream of it, N. 425.

Rhubarb, John, Efq. his memorial from the country infirmary, N. 429.

Riches corrupt men's morals, N. 464.

Rich men, their defects overlooked, N. 464.

Ridicule put to a good ufe, N. 445.

Riding-drefs of ladies, the extravagance of it, N. 435.

Robin, the porter at Will's Coffee-house, his qualifications, N. 398.

Rufticity fhocking, N. 400.

Rufty, Scabbard, his letter to the Spectator, N. 449.

SALLUST, his excellence, N. 409.

S.

Salutations in churches cenfured, N. 450.

Satires, the English, ribaldry and Billing gate, N. 451. Panegyrical on ourselves,

473.

Scales, golden, a dream of them, N. 463.

Scandal, to whom moft pleafing, N. 426. How monftrous it renders us, 451.
Scot, Dr. his Chriftian Life, it's merit, N. 447.

Scotch, a faying of theirs, N. 463.

Scribblers against the Spectator, why neglected by him, N. 445.

Seafons, a dream of them, N. 425.

Sidney, verfes on his modefty, N. 400.

Self-conceit, one of the inhabitants of the paradife of fools, N. 460.

Semanthe, her character, N. 404.

Semiramis, her prodigious works and
Sempronia, the match-maker, N. 437.

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N. 415.

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