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Anne Boleyne's last letter to king Henry VIII.

397

Ancients in the east, their way of living.

415

Appearances. Things not to be trusted for them....... 464

Applause (public) its pleasure.

442

April (month of) described

425

Arabella, verses on her singing.

443

Architecture, the ancients' perfection in it......

415

The greatness of the manner how it strikes the

fancy

415

Of the manner of both ancients and moderns

415

air...

The concave and convex figures have the greatest

Every thing that pleases the imagination in it, is
either great, beautiful, or new

415

415

No

Art (works of) defective to entertain the imagination 414

Receive great advantage from their likeness to

those of nature

414

August and July (months of) described.

425

BABEL, (Tower of)

415

Bacon (Sir Francis) prescribes his reader a poem or

prospect, as conducive to health

Bankruptcy, the misery of it.......
Bar-oratory in England, reflections on it.....
Basilius Valentinus, and his son, their story.

411

What he says of the pleasure of taste.

447

428, 456

407

426

Baxter (Mr.) his last words..

445

More last words....

445

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Nothing makes its way more directly to the soul.. 412

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Belvidera, a critique on a song upon her.

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Buck (Timothy) his answer to James Miller's chal-

lenge.......

436

Buffoonery censured...

443

Business (men of) their error in similitudes.

421

Of learning fittest for it.....

469

Bussy d'Amboise, a story of him.....

467

CÆSAR lost his life by neglecting a Roman augur's cau-

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Cartesian, how he would account for the ideas formed

by the fancy, from a single circumstance of the

memory

Cato, the respect paid him at the Roman theatre

Chamont's saying of Monimia's misfortunes.

Charity schools to be encouraged.

No.

417

446

395

430

Charles II. his gaieties....

462

Charms, none can supply the place of virtue.

395

Children, their duty to their parents...

426

Ill education of them fatal....

431

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Clarendon (Earl of) his character of a person of a

troublesome curiosity...

439

Cleanthes, his character...

404

Cleopatra, a description of her sailing down the Cyd-

nos..

400

Colours, the eye takes most delight in them

412

Why the poets borrow most epithets from them.. 412

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Company, temper chiefly to be considered in the choice

of it...

424

Concave and convex figures in architecture have the

greatest air, and why.

415

Confidence, the danger of it to the ladies....

395

Coverley (Sir Roger de) his adventure with Sukey.

410

His good humour....

424

Conversation, an improvement of taste in letters....... 409

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Country life, why the poets in love with it....

Courage wants other good qualities to set it off...
Court and city, their peculiar ways of life and conver-

Critics (French) friends to one another...

414

414

424

422

403

409

446

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DACINTHUS, his character.....

462

Dainty (Mrs. Mary) her memorial from the country

infirmary

429

Damon and Strephon, their amour with Gloriana.

423

Dancing displays beauty..

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On the stage faulty.

466

The advantages of it.

466

Dangers past, why the reflection of them pleases....... 418

Day, the several times of it in several parts of the

town....

454

Deluge, Mr. Wn's notion of it reproved..

396

Defamation, the sign of an ill heart.

427

Papers of that kind a scandal to the government.. 451

To be punished by good ministers

451

Denying, sometimes a virtue

458

Deportment (religious) why so little appearances of it

in England

448

Descriptions come short of statuary and painting....... 416
Please sometimes more than the sight of things... 416

The same not alike relished by all......

416

What pleases in them

418

What is great, surprising, and beautiful, more ac-
ceptable to the imagination than what is little,

common, or deformed.

418

Desire, when corrected.

400

Devotion, the noblest buildings owing to it.............. 415
Diana's cruel sacrifices condemned by an ancient poet 453

Dionysius's ear, what it was

439

Discourse in conversation not to be engrossed by one

man

428

Distracted persons, the sight of them the most morti-

fying thing in nature...

421

Dogget, how cuckolded on the stage...

446

Domestic life, reflections concerning it..
Doris, Mr. Congreve's character of her.

455

422

Drama, its first original a religious worship.

405

Dream of the seasons

495

Dream of golden scales
Dress, the ladies extravagance in it...

An ill intention in their singularity.
The English character to be modest in it....

No.

463

435

435

435

Drink, the effects it has on modesty..

458

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Emblematical persons.

419

Employments, whoever excels in any, worthy of praise 432

Emulation, the use of it..

432

Enemies, the benefits that may be received from them 399

English naturally modest

407, 435

Thought proud by foreigners.

432

Enmity, the good fruits of it ..

399

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Essay on the pleasures of the imagination, from 411 to 421
Ether (fields of) the pleasures of surveying them.

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The pleasures of imagination that arise from it.... 419
More difficult than any other, and why..........

The English are the best poets of this sort...

Faith, the benefit of it.....

The means of confirming it.

Fame a follower of merit....

The palace of, described
Courts compared to it......

Familiarities indecent in society.
Fancy, all its images enter by the sight

Fashion, a description of it.

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

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