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Eubulus, his character, No. 49.

Eucrate, the favourite of Pharamond, No. 76.

Eudosia, her behaviour, No. 79.

F

FABLE of the lion and the man, No. 11. Of the children and frogs,

23. Of Jupiter and the countryman, 25.

Falsehood (the goddess of), No. 63.

False wit, the region of it, No. 25.

Falstaff (Sir John), a famous butt, No. 47.

Fame, generally coveted, No. 73.
Fashion, the force of it, No. 64.

Fear of death often mortal, No. 25.

Fine gentleman, a character frequently misapplied by the fair sex,
No. 75.

Flutter (Sir Foppling), a comedy, some remarks upon it, No. 65.
Fools, great plenty of them the first day of April, No. 47.
Freeport (Sir Andrew), a member of the Spectator's Club, No. 2.
French poets, wherein to be imitated by the English, No. 45.
Friendship, the great benefit of it, No. 68. The medicine of life,
ibid. The qualifications of a good friend, ibid.

G

GALLANTRY; wherein true gallantry ought to consist, No. 7.
Gaper; the sign of the gaper frequent in Amsterdam, No. 47.
Ghosts warned out of the playhouse, No. 36. The appearance of a

ghost of great efficacy on an English theatre, 44.

Gospel gossips described, No. 46.
Goths in poetry, who, No. 62.

H

HANDKERCHIEF, the great machine for moving pity in a tra
gedy, No. 44.

Happiness (true), an enemy to pomp and noise, No. 15.

Hard words ought not to be pronounced right by well bred ladies,

No. 45.

Heroes in an English tragedy generally lovers, No. 40.
Hobbes (Mr) his observation upon laughter, No. 47.

Honeycomb (Will), his character, No. 2. His discourse with the
Spectator in the playhouse, 4. His adventure with a Pict, 41.

Throws his watch into the Thames, 77.

Human nature the same in all reasonable creatures, No. 70.

Humour to be described only by negatives, No. 35. The genealogy
of true humour, ibid. and of false, ibid.

I

IAMBIC verse, the most proper for Greek tragedies, No. 39.
James, how polished by love, No. 71.

Idiots in great request in most of the German courts, No. 47.

Idols, who of the fair se so called, No. 73.

Impudence gets the better of modesty, No. 2. An impudence com
mitted by the eyes, 20. The definition of English, Scotch, and
Irish impudence, ibid.

Indian kings, some of their observations during their stay here, No.

50.

Indiscretion, more hurtful than ill-nature, No. 23.

Injuries, how to be measured, No. 23.

Inkle and Yarico, their story, No. 11.

Innocence and not quality, an exemption from reproof, No. 34.
Jonson (Ben), an epitaph written by him on a lady, No. 33.

Italian writers, florid and wordy, No. 5.

K

KIMBOW (Tho.) states his case in a letter to the Spectator, No. 24.
Kissing-dances censured, No. 67.

L

LADY's library described, No. 37.

Lætitia and Daphne, their story, No. 33.

Lampoons written by people that cannot spell, No. 16. Witty lam-
poons inflict wounds that are incurable, 23. The inhuman bar-
barity of the ordinary scribblers of lampoons, ibid.

Larvati, who so called among the ancients, No. 32.

Lath (Squire) has a good estate which he would part withal for a
pair of legs to his mind, No. 32.

Laughter (immoderate), a sign of pride, No. 47. The provocations
to it, ibid.

Lawyers divided into the peaceable and litigious, No. 21. Both
sorts described, ibid.

Lear (King), a tragedy, suffers in the alteration, No. 40.

Lee the poet well turned for tragedy, No. 39.

Learning ought not to claim any merit to itself, but upon the ap-
plication of it, No. 6.

Leonora, her character, No. 37. The description of her country-
seat, ibid.

Letters to the Spectator; complaining of the masquerade, No. 8.
from the opera-lion, 14. from the under sexton of Covent Garden
parish, ibid. from the undertaker of the masquerade, ibid. from
one who had been to see the opera of Rinaldo and the puppet-
show, ibid. from Charles Lillie, 16. from the President of the
Ugly Club, 17. from S. C. with a complaint against the starers,
20. from Tho. Prone, who acted the wild boar that was killed
by Mrs Tofts, 22. from William Screne and Ralph Simple, ibid.
front an actor, ibid. from King Latinus, ibid. from Tho. Kimbow,
24. from Will Fashion to his would-be acquaintance, ibid. from
Mary Tuesday on the same subject, ibid. from a Valetudinarian
to the Spectator, 25. from some persons to the Spectator's cler-
gyman, 27. from one who would be inspector of the sign-posts,
28. from the master of the show at Charing-Cross, ibid, from a
member of the Amorous Club at Oxford, 30. from a member of
the Ugly Club, 32. from a gentleman to such ladies as are profes-
sed beauties, 33. to the Spectator from T. D. containing an in-
tended regulation of the playhouse, 36. from the playhouse thun-
derer, ibid. from the Spectator to an affected very witty man, 38,
from a married man with a complaint that his wife painted, 41.
from Abraham Froth, a member of the Hebdomadal meeting in
Oxford, 43. from a husband plagued with a gospel-gossip, 46.
from an ogling master, ibid. from the Spectator to the President
and Fellows of the Ugly Club, 48. from Hecatissa to the Specta
tor, ibid. from an old beau, ibid, from Epping, with some account
of a company of strollers, ibid. from a lady complaining of a pas-
sage in The Funeral, 51. from Hugh Goblin, President of the
Ugly Club, 52. from Q. R. concerning laughter, ibid. the Specta-
tor's answer, ibid. from R. B to the Spectator, with a proposal re-
lating to the education of lovers, 53. from Anna Bella, ibid. from
a splenetic gentleman, ibid. from a reformed starer, complaining
of a peeper, ibid. from King Latinus, ibid. from a gentleman at
Cambridge, containing an account of a new sect of philosohpers
called Loungers, 54. from Celimene, 66. from a father, complain-
ing of the liberties taken in country-dances, 67. from James to
Betty, 71. to the Spectator from the Ugly Club at Cambridge,
78. from a whimsical young lady, 79. from B. D. desiring a cata-
logue of books for the female library, ibid.
Letter-droppers of antiquity, who, No. 59.-
Library, a lady's described, No. 37.
Life, the duration of it uncertain, No. 27.

Lindamira, the only woman allowed to paint, No. 41.

Lion in the Hay-Market occasioned many conjectures in the town,
No. 13. very gentle to the Spectator, ibid.

London an emporium for the whole earth, No. 69..
Love, the general concern of it, No. 30.

Love of the world, our hearts misled by it, No. 27.

Luxury, what, No. 55. attended often with avarice, ibid. a fable of
those two vices, ibid.

Loungers, a new sect of philosophers in Cambridge, No 54.

M

MAN a sociable animal, No. 9. the loss of public and private virtues
owing to men of parts, 6.

Masquerade, a complaint against it, No. 8. The design of it, ibid.
Mazarine (Cardinal), his behaviour to Quillet, who had reflected

upon him in a poem, No. 23.

Merchants of great benefit to the public, No. 69.
Mixt wit described, No. 62.

Mixt communion of men and spirits in paradise, as described by

Milton, No. 12.

Mode, on what it ought to be built, No. 6.

Modesty, the chief ornament of the fair sex, No. 6.

Moliere made an old woman a judge of his plays, No 70.

Monuments in Westminster-Abbey examined by the Spectator, No.

26.

Mourning, the method of it considered, No. 64. Who the greatest
mourners, ibid.

Music banished by Plato out of his commonwealth, No. 18. Of a
relative nature, 29.

N

NEIGHBOURHOODS, of whom consisting, No. 49.

Newberry (Mr), his rebus, No. 59.

New-River, a project for bringing it into the playhouse, No. 5.
Nicolini (Signior), his voyage on paste-board, No. 5. His combat
with a lion, 13. Why thought to be a sham one, ibid. An excel-
lent actor, ibid.

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OATES (Dr), a favourite with some party ladies, No. 57.

Ogler, the complete ogler, No. 46.

Old maids generally superstitious, No. 7.

Old Testament in a peruke, No. 58.

Opera, as it is the present entertainment of the English stage, con-
sidered, No. 5. the progress it has made on our theatre, 18. some
account of the French opera, 29.

Otway commended and censured, No. 39.

Overdo, a justice at Epping, offended at the company of strollers
for playing the part of Clodpate, and making a mockery of one of
the Quorum, No. 48.

Oxford scholar, his great discovery in a coffee-house, No. 46.

P

PAINTER and Tailor often contribute more than the poet to the
success of a tragedy, No. 42.

Parents, their taking a liking to a particular profession, often occa-
sions their sons to miscarry, No. 21.

Parties crept much into the conversation of the ladies, No. 57.

Party zeal very bad for the face, ibid.

Particles (English), the honour done to them in the late operas,
No. 18.

Passions, the conquest of them a difficult task, No. 71.

Peace, some ill consequences of it, No. 45.

Peepers described, No. 53.

Pharamond, memoirs of his private life, No. 76. his great wisdom,

ibid.

Philautia a great votary, No. 79.

Philosophy, the use of it, No. 7 said to be brought by Socrates
down from heaven, 10.

Physician and Surgeon, their different employments, No. 16. the
physicians a formidable body of men, 21. compared to the British
army in Cæsar's time, No. 21. their way of converting one dis-
temper into another, 25.

Picts, what women so called, No. 41. no faith to be kept with
them, ibid.

Pinkethman to personate King Porus on an elephant, No. 31.
Players in Drury Lane, their intended regulations, No. 36.
Poems in picture, No. 58.

Poets (English) reproved, No. 39, 40. Their artifices, 44.
Poetesses (English), wherein remarkable, No. 51.

Powell (senior) to act Alexander the Great on a dromedary, No.31.
his artifice to raise a clap, 40.

Powell (junior), his great skill in motions, No. 14. His performance
preferred to the opera of Rinaldo and Armida, ibid.

Praise, the love of it implanted in us, No. 38.

Pride, a great enemy to a fine face, No. 33.

Professions, the three great ones overburdened with practitioners,

No. 21.

Projector, a short description of one, No. 31.
Prosper (Will), an honest tale-bearer, No. 19.

Punchinello frequented more than the church, No. 14. Punch out
in the moral part, ibid.

Punning much recommended by the practice of all ages, No. 61.
In what age the pun chiefly flourished, ibid. a famous university
much infested with it, ibid. why banished at present out of the
learned world, ibid. the definition of a pun, ibid.

QUALITY no exemption from reproof, No. 34.
Quixotte (Don), Patron of the Sighers Club, No. 30.

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RANTS considered as blemishes in our English tragedies, No. 40.
Rape of Proserpine, a French opera, some particulars in it, No. 29.
Reason, instead of governing passion, is often subservient to it, No. 6.
Rebus, a kind of false wit in vogue among the ancients, No. 59. and
our own countrymen, ibid. A rebus at Blenheim-house con-
demned, ibid.

Recitativo (Italian), not agreeable to an English audience, No. 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, No. 4.
Rich (Mr) would not suffer the opera of Whittington's cat to be
performed in his house, and the reason for it, No. 5.

Royal Exchange, the great resort to it, No. 69.

S

SALMON (Mrs), her ingenuity, No.28.

Sanctorius, his invention, No. 25.

Scholar's egg, what so called, No.58.

Sempronia, a professed admirer of the French nation, No. 45.

Sense: some men of sense more despicable than common beggars,

No. 6.

Sentry (Captain), a member of the Spectator's Club, his character,
No. 2.

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