September, month of, defcribed, Number 425.

Sexes, amity between agreeable perions of different, dangerous, N. 400. The
advantages of it to each, 433.

Shakespeare excels all writers in his ghofts, N. 419.

Sherlock, Dr. improved the notion of heaven and hell, N. 447.

Sight, the most perfect fenfe, N. 411.

The pleatures of the imagination arife

originally from it, ibid. Furnishes it with ideas, ibid.

Silk worm, a character of one, N. 454.

Similitudes, eminent writers faulty in them, N. 4:1. The prefervation of several
poems, ibid. An ill one in a pulpit, 455.

Sippet, Jack, his character, N. 448.

Snarlers, N. 438.

Socrates, why the oracle pronounced him the wifest of men, N. 408.

Song with notes, N. 470.

Soul, it's happiness the contemplation of God, N. 413. State of it after fepara-
tion, ibid.

Sounds, how improper for defeription, N. 416.

Spectator, his invitation to all forts of people to affift him, N. 442. About the
ftamps, 445. Guardian of the fair-fex, 449. His advertisements, 461. About
the price of his paper, ibid. Put into the golden fcales, 463. A fort of news-
letter, 468.

Spenfer, his whole creation of fhadowy perfons, N. 419.

Spirits, feveral fpecies in the world befides ourselves, ibid.
Spring, a defcription of it, N. 423. His attendants, ibid.

Spies, not to be trufted, N. 439. Defpifed by great men, ibid.

Stamps, how fatal to weekly historians, N. 445.

Stars, fixed, how their immenfity and magnificence confound us, N. 420.
Statuary, the moff natural repelentation, N. 416.

Stint, Jack, and Will Trap, their adventure, N. 448.

Stoics difcarded all paffions, N. 397.

Sudden, Thomas, Eiq. his memorial from the country infirmary, N. 429.

Sukey's adventure with Will Honeycomb and Sir Roger de Coverley, N. 410.
Sun-rifing and fetting, the most glorious fhow in nature, N. 412.

Symmetry of objects, how it ftrikes, N. 411.

Syncopius the paffionate, his character, N. 438.

TALE-bearers cenfured, N. 439.

'F.

Tate of writing, what it is, and how it may be acquired, N. 409.

The

perfection of a man's as a fenfe, ibid. Defined, ibid. That of the Eng-

lith, ibid.

Terror and pity, why thofe paffions pleafe, N. 418.

Thames, it's banks, and the boats on it defcribed, N. 454.

Theognis, a beautiful faying of his, N. 464.

Thimbleton, Ralph, his letter to the Spectator, N. 432

Thoughts, of the highest importance to fift them, N. 399.

Tillotson, Archbishop, improved the notion of heaven and hell, N. 447.

Torture, why the defcription of it pleafes, and not the profpect, N. 418.
Tranfmigration of fouls, how believed by the ancients, N. 408.

Trap, Mr. his letter to Mr. Stint, N. 448.

Trees, more beautiful in all their luxuriancy than when cut and trimmed, N. 414.
Trimming, the Spectator unjustly accufed of it, N. 445.

V.

VAINLOVES, the family of, N. 454.

Valentinus, Bafilius, and Alexandrinus, their ftory, N. 426.

Valerio, his character, N. 404.

Valetudinarians in chastity, N. 395.

Vanity, the paradife of fools, N. 460. A vifion of her and her attendants, ibid.

Variety of men's actions proceeds from the paffions, N. 403.

Venus, the charming figure the makes in the first Æneid, Number 417. An at-

tendant on the fpring, 425.

Vertumnus an attendant on the fpring, ibid.

Viner, Sir Robert, his familiarity with King Charles II. N. 462.

Virgil, his genius, N. 404. Compared with Homer, 417. When he is beft
pleafed, ibid.

Virtues, fuppofed ones not to be relied on, N. 399.

Understanding, wherein more perfect than the imagination, N. 420. Reasons
for it, ibid. Should mafter the paffions, 438.
Univerfe, how pleafing the contemplation of it, N. 420.

W.

WALL, the prodigious one of China, N. 415.

Wars, the late, made us fo greedy of news, N. 452.

Wealthy men fix the character of perfons to their circumstances, N. 469.
Weed, Ephraim, his letter to the Spectator about his marriages and estate, N. 450.
Whispering-place, Dionyfius the tyrant's, N. 439.

Whisperers, political, N. 457.

Wig, long one, the eloquence of the bar, N. 407.

Wit, falie, why it fometimes pleafes, N. 416. Nothing without judgment, 422.
Witchcraft general y believed by our forefathers, N. 419.

Women have always defigns upon men, N. 433.

Words, the pleasures proceeding to the imagination from the ideas raised by
them, N. 416.

Writer, how to perfect his imagination, N. 417. Who among the ancient poets
had this faculty, ibid.

Y.

YOUTH, inftructions to them to avoid harlots, N. 410.

Z.

ZEAL, intemperate, criminal, N. 399.

VOLUME THE

SEVENTH.

A.

ACTION, a neceffary qualification in an orator, Number 541. Tully's ob-

fervations on actions adapted to the British theatre, ibid.

Actor, abfent, who fo called by Theophrattus, N. 541.

Advice ufally received with reluctance, N. 512.

Afflictions, how to be alleviated, N. 501.

Allegories: the reception the Spectator's allegorical writings meet with from the
public, N. 501.

Anatomy; the Spectator's fpeculations on it, N. 543.

Arm, the, called by Tully the orator's weapon, N. 541.

Art, the defign of it, N. 541.

Audience, the grofs of an audience of whom compofed, N. 502. The vicious
tafte of our English audiences, ibid.

Auguftus, his reproof to the Roman bachelors, N. 528.

Authors, their precedency fettled according to the bulk of their works, N. 529.

B.

BA ACON, Sir Francis, his extraordinary learning and parts, N. 554.
Bamboo (Benjamin) the philofophical ufe he refolves to make of a fhrew of a
wife, N. 432.

7 T 2

Beauty,

Beauty, the force of it, Number 510.

Beings, the fcale of beings confidered by the Spectator, N. 519.

Bing, a kind of mongrel wit defcribed and exploded by the Spectator, N. 504.
Biton and Clitobus, their story related, and applied by the Spectator, N. 483.
Body, human, the work of a tranfcendently wife and powerful being, N. 543-

C.

CALAMITIES not to be diftinguished from bleffings, N. 483.

Campbell, Mr. the dumb fortune teller, an extraordinary perfon, N. 474-
Cato, the grounds for his belief of the immortality of the foul, N. 537.
Celibacy, the great evil of the nation, N. 528.

Charity, the great want of it among Chriftians, N. 516.

Chastity of renown, what, N. 480.

Children, a multitude of them one of the bleffings of the married state, N. 500.
Cicero, the great Roman orator, his extraordinary superstition, N. 505; and
defire of glory, 554.

Clarendon, Lord, a reflection of that hiftorian's, N. 485.

Clubs, the inftitution and ufe of them, N. 474.

Coffee houfe debates feldom regular or methodical, N. 476. Coffee-house liars,

two forts of them, 521.

Comfort an attendant on patience, N. 501.

Contemplation, the way to the mountain of the Mufes, N. 514.

Cot-queans defcribed by a lady, who has one for her husband, N. 482.

Coverley, Sir Roger de, an account of his death brought to the Spectator's club,
N. 517. His legacies, ibid.

Country-life, a fcheme of it, N. 474.

Country-wake, a farce, commended by the Spectator, N. 502.

D

D.

APPERWIT, Tom, his opinion of matrimony, N. 482. Recommended
by Will Honeycomb to fucceed him in the Spectator's club, 530.
Diagoras the atheift, his behaviour to the Athenians in a ftorm, N. 483.
Dionyfius, a club-tyrant, N. 508.

Dogget, the comedian, for what commended by the Spectator, N. 502.

Dreams, in what manner confidered by the Spectator, N. 487. The folly of
laying any ftrefs upon, or drawing confequences from our dreams, 505. The
multitude of dreams fent to the Spectator, 524.

Dry, Will, a man of a clear head, but few words, N. 476.

E MBELLISHERS, what perfons fo called, N. 521.

Epictetus the philofopher, his advice to dreamers, N. 524.

Ep ities recommendatory, the injuftice and abfurdity of mott of them, N. 493.
Ellays, wherein differing from methodical difcourfes, N. 476.

F.

F ABLES, the great usefulness and antiquity of them, N. 512.

Fairs for buying and telling of women customary among the Persians, N. 511.
Fancy the daughter of Liberty, N 514.

Fathons, the vanity of them, wherein beneficial, N. 478. A repository pro-
poled to be built for them, ibid. The balance of fashions leans on the fide of

France, ibid. The evil influence of fathion on the married state, 490.

Fafhionable toc ety, a board of directors of the, propoled, with the requifite qua-

1 fications of v members, N 478.

Fools natur-Hy fchievous, N. 485.

Frankai, Char. 5, a powerful and fuccessful speaker, N. 484.

Freeport, Sir Andrew, his reblution to retire from bufinefs, N. 549.

French much addicted to grimace, N. 481.

Fendthip, a nece uy ingredient in the married ftate, N. 490. Preferred by

Spenfer to love and natural affection, ibid.

GARDEN,

G.

GARDEN, the innocent delights of one, Number 477. What part of the
garden at Kensington to be moft admired, ibid. In what manner garden-
ing may be compared to poetry, ibid.

Gladness of heart to be moderated and reftrained, but not banished by virtue,
N. 494.

God, an inftance of his exuberant goodness and mercy, N. 519. A being of
infinite perfections, 513.

H.

HARRIS, Mr. the organ-builder, his pronofal, N. 552.
Heads, never the wifer for being bald, N. 497.

Heraclitus, a remarkable faying of his, N. 487.

Herodotus wherein condemned by the Spectator, N. 483.

Hobfon, Tobias, the Cambridge carrier, the first man in England who let out
hackney-horses, N. 509. His justice in his employment, and the fuccess of
it, ibid.

Honeycomb, Will, resolved not to marry without the advice of his friends, N. 475-
His tranflation from the French of an epigram, written by Martial in honour
of the beauty of his wife Cleopatra, N. 490. His letters to the Spectator,
N. 499, 511. Marries a country girl, 530.

Hope, the folly of it when mifemployed on temporal objects, N. 535. Inftanced
in the fable of Alnafchar the Perfian glafs-man, ibid.

Horace, his recommendatory letter to Claudius Nero in behalf of his friend Sep-
timius, N. 493.

Humanity not regarded by the fine gentlemen of the age, N. 520.

Husband, a fond one defcribed, N. 479.

Hymen, a revengeful deity, N. 530.

I.

EWS, confidered by the Spectator, in relation to their number, difperfion,
and adherence to their religion, N. 495. And the reafons affigned for it, ibid.
The veneration paid by them to the name of God, 531.

Independent minister, the behaviour of one at his examination of a scholar, who
was in election to be admitted into a college of which he was governor, N. 494.
Ingratitude, a vice infeparable from a luitful mind, N. 491.

Inftinet, the feveral degrees of it in feveral different animals, N. 519.

Invention, the most painful action of the mind, N. 487.

Justice, to be esteemed as the first quality in one who is in a poft of power and di-
rection, N. 479.

L.

LAUGHTER, the diftinguishing faculty in man, N. 494. Learning high-
ly neceffary to a man of fortune, N. 506.

Leo X. a great lover of buffoons and coxcombs, N. 497. In what manner re-
proved for it by a priest, ibid.

Letters to the Spectator. From J. R. complaining of his neighbours, and the
turn of their converfation in the country, N. 474. From Dulcibella Thank-
ley, who wants a direction to Mr. Campbell, the dumb fortune teller, ibid.
From B. D. defiring the Spectator's advice in a weighty affair, 476. From
containing a defcription of his garden, 477. From A. B. with a dif-
fertation on fashions, and a propofal for a building for the ufe of them, 478.
From Monfieur Chezluy to Pharamond, 480. To the Spectator from
a clerk to a lawyer, ibid. From being a lady married to a Cot-quean,
482. From
with a differtation on modefty, 484. From
taining reflections on the powerful effects of tries, and trifling perfons, 485.
From a handsome black man, two pair of flairs in the Paper Buildings in the
Temple, who rivals a handfome fair man up one pair of fairs in the fame build-
ing, 485. From Robin Shorter, with a pottfcript, ibid. From

con-

with

an account of the unmarried hen-pecked, and a vindication of the married,
Number

Number 486. From
From
with fome reflections on the ocean, confidered both in a calm
and a form, and a divine ode on that occafion, 489. From Matilda Mohair,
at Tunbridge, complaining of the difregard the meets with, on account of her
strict virtue, from the men, who take more notice of the romps and coquettes
than the rigids, 492. From T. B. complaining of the behaviour of fonie fa-
thers towards their eldeft fons, 496. From Rachael Shoeftring, Sarah Trice,
an humble fervant unknown, and Alice Bluegarter, in anfwer to that from
Matilda Mohair, who is with child, and has crooked legs, ibid. From Moles
Greenbag, the lawyer, giving an account of fome new brothers of the whip,
who have chambers in the Temple, 498. From Will Honeycomb, with his
dream, intended for a Spectator, 499. From Philogamus in commendation of
the married #tate, 500. From Ralph Wonder, complaining of the behaviour
of an unknown lady at the parish-church near the Bridge, 503. From Titus
Trophonius, an interpreter of dreams, 505. From complaining of the
oppreffion and injuftice obferved in the rules of all clubs and meetings, 508.
From Hezekiah Thrift, containing a difcourfe on trade, 509. From Will Ho-
neycomb, occafioned by two stories he had met with relating to a fale of women
in Perfia and China, 511. From the Spectator's clergyman, being a thought in
fickness, 513. From with a vifion of Parnaffus, 514. From
with two inclosed, one from a celebrated town coquette to her friend newly
married in the country, and her friend's anfwer, 515. From Ed. Biscuit, Si
Roger de Coverley's butler, with an account of his master's death, 517. From

with an epigram on the Spectator by Mr. Tate, 488.

condoling with him on Sir Roger's death, with fome remarkable epi-
taphs, 518. From Tom Tweer, on phyfiognomy, &c. ibid. From F. J. a
widower, with fome thoughts on a man's behaviour in that condition, 520.
From
a great enemy to public report, 521. From T. W. a man of
prudence, to his mistress, 552. To the Spectator, from B. T. a fincere lover,
to the fame, ibid. From - dated from Glafgow in Scotland, with a vifion,
524. From Pliny to his wife's aunt Hifpuila, 525. From Mofes Greenhag
to the Spectator, with a farther account of fome gentlemen brothers of the
whip, 526. From Philagnotes, giving an account of the ill effects of the vifit
he paid to a female married relation, 527. From who had made his
miftrefs a prefent of a fan, with a copy of verfes on that occafion, ibid. From
Rachael Welladay, a virgin of twenty-three, with a heavy complaint against
the men, 528. From Will Honeycomb, lately married to a country girl, who
has no portion, but a great deal of virtue, 530. From Mr. Pope, on the verses
fpoken by the Emperor Adrian upon his death bed, 532. From Dustererattus,
whofe parents will not let him chufe a wife for himtelf, 533. From Penance
Cruel, complaining of the behaviour of perfons who travelled with her in a
ftage coach out of Effex to London, ibid. From Sharlot Wealthy, fetting
forth the hard cafe of fuch women as are beauties and fortunes, 534. From
Abraham Dapperwit, with the Spectator's anfwer, ibid. From Jeremy Com-
fit, a grocer, who is in hopes of growing rich by lofing his customers, ibid.
From C. B. recommending knotting as a proper amufement to the beaus, 536.
From
a fhoeing horn, ibid. From Reli&ta Lovely, a widow, 539.
From Euftace, in love with a lady of eighteen, whofe parents think her too young
to marry by three years, ibid. From
complaining of a young divine,
who murdered Archbishop Tillotion's fermon upon evil-speaking, ibid. From
with a fhort critique on Spenfer, 540. From Philo-Spec, who appre-
hends a diffolution of the Spectator's club, and the ill confquences of it, 542.
From Captain Sentry, lately come to the poffeffion of Sir Roger de Coverley's
eltate, 544. From the Emperor of China to the Pope, 545. From W. C. to
the Spectator, in commendation of a generous benefactor, 546. From Charles
Eafy, feiting forth the fovereign ufe of the Spectators in feveral remarkable in-
itances, 547. From
on poetical justice, 548. From Sir Andrew
Freeport, who is retiring from bufinefs, 549. From Philonicus, a litigious
gentleman, complaining of fome unpolite law-terms, 551. From T. F. G. S.
J. T. E. T. in commendation of the Spectator, 553.
London, Mr. the gardener, an heroic poet, N. 477.