of lovers, 58; from Anna Bella, ibid.; from a splenetic gentleman, ibid.,
from a reformed Starer, complaining of a Peeper, ibid.; from king La-
tinus, ibid.; from a gentleman at Cambridge, containing an account of a
new sect of philosophers called Loungers, 54; from Celimene, 66; from
a father complaining of the liberties taken in country-dances, ibid.; 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 catalogue
of books for the female library, ibid.; from Rosalinda, with a desire to
be admitted into the Ugly club, 87; from T. T. complaining of the idols
in coffee-houses, ibid.; from Philo-Britannicus, on the corruption of ser-
vants, 88; from Sam Hopewell, 89.
Letter-dropper of antiquity, who, 59.
Library, a lady's library described, 37.
Life, the duration of it uncertain, 27.

Lindamira, the only woman allowed to paint, 41.

Lion in the Haymarket occasioned many conjectures in the town, 13; very
gentle to the Spectator, ibid.

London, an emporium for the whole earth, 69.

Love, the general concern of it, 30.

Love of the world, our hearts misled by it, 27.

Luxury, what, 55; attended often with avarice, ibid.; a fable of those two
vices, ibid.

Loungers, a new sect of philosophers in Cambridge, 54.

Mahometans, a custom among them, 85.

Man, a social animal, 9; the loss of public and private virtues owing to
men of parts, 6.

Masquerade, a complaint against it, 8; the design of it, ibid.

Mazarine, Cardinal, his behaviour to Quillet, who had reflected upon him
in a poem, 23.

Merchants of great benefit to the public, 69.

Mixed wit described, 62.

Mixed communion of men and spirits in Paradise, as described by Milton,

12.

Mode, on what it ought to be built, 5.

Modesty the chief ornament of the fair sex, 6.

Moliere made an old woman a judge of his plays, 70.

Monuments in Westminster-abbey examined by the Spectator, 26.

Mourning, the method of it considered, 64; who the greatest mourners, ibid
Music banished by Plato out of his commonwealth, 18; of a relative nature,

29.

Neighbourhoods, of whom consisting, 49.

Newberry, Mr. his rebus, 59.

New-river, a project of bringing it into the playhouse, 5.

Nicolini, Signior, his voyage on pasteboard, 5; his combat with a lion, 13;
why thought to be a sham one, ibid.; an excellent actor, ibid.

Nigranilla, a party lady, forced to patch on the wrong side, 81.

Oates, Dr. a favourite with some party ladies, 57.
Ogler: the complete ogler, 46.

Old maids generally superstitious, 7.

Old Testament in a periwig, 58.

Opera, as it is the present entertainment of the English stage, considered,
5; the progress it has made on our theatre, 18; some account of the
French opera, 29.

Otway commended and censured, 39.

Overdo, a justice at Epping, offended at the company of strollers for play-
ing the part of Clodpate, and making a mockery of one of the quorum,

48.

Oxford scholar, his great discovery in a coffee-house, 46.

Painter and tailor often contribute more than the poet to the success of a
tragedy, 42.

Parents, their taking a liking to a particular profession, often occasions

their sons to miscarry, 21.

Parties crept much into the conversation of the ladies, 57.

Party-zeal very bad for the face, 57.

Party patches, 81.

Particles, English, the honour done to them in the late operas, 18.

Passions, the conquest of them a difficult task, 71.

Peace, some ill consequences of it, 45.

Peepers described, 53.

Pericles, his advice to the women, 81.

Pharamond, memoirs of his private life, 76; his great wisdom, ibid.;
some account of him and his favourite Eucrate, 84.

Philautia, a great votary, 79.

Philosophy, the use of it; 7; said to be brought by Socrates down from
heaven, 10.

Physician and surgeon, their different employment, 16; the physicians a
formidable body of men, 21; compared to the British army in Cæsar's
time, ibid.; their way of converting one distemper into another, 25.
Physiognomy, every man, in some degree, master of that art, 86.
Picts, what women so called, 41; no faith to be kept with them, ibid.
Pinkethman to personate King Porus on an elephant, 31.

Plato, his notion of the soul, 90; wherein, according to him and his fol
lowers, the punishment of a voluptuous man consists, ibid.

Players in Drury-lane, their intended regulations, 36.

Poems in picture, 58.

Poet, English, reproved, 39, 40; their artifices, 44.

Poetesses, English, wherein remarkable, 51.

Pontignon, his adventure with two women, 90.

Powell, senior, to act Alexander the Great on a dromedary, 31; his artifice
to raise a clap, 40.

Powell, junior, his great skill in motions, 14; his performance referred to
the opera of Rinaldo and Armida, ibid.

Praise, the love of it implanted in us, 38.

Pride, a great enemy to a fine face, 33.

Professions, the three great ones overburdened with practitioners, 21

Projector, a short description of one, 31.

Prosper, Will, an honest tale-bearer, 19.

Punchinello, frequented more than the church, 14; punch out in the
moral part, ibid.

Punning, much recommended by the practice of all ages, 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 exception from reproof, 34.

Quixote, Don, patron of the Sighers club, 30.

Rants considered as blemishes in our English tragedies, 40.

Rape of Proserpine, a French opera, some particulars in it, 29.

Reason, instead of governing passion, is often subservient to it, 6.
Rebus, a kind of false wit in vogue among the ancients, 59; and our own
countrymen, ibid.; a rebus at Blenheim-house condemned, ibid.

Recitativo, Italian, not agreeable to an English audience, 29; recitative
music in every language ought to be adapted to the accent of the lan-
guage, ibid.

Retirement, the pleasure of it, where truly enjoyed, 4.

Rich, Mr. would not suffer the opera of Whittington's Cat to be performed
in his house, and the reason for it, 5.

Roman and Sabine ladies, their example recommended to the British, 81.
Rosalinda, a famous whig partizan, her misfortune, 81

Royal Exchange, the great resort to it, 69.

Salmon, Mrs., her ingenuity, 28.

Sanctorius, his invention, 25.

Scholar's egg, what so called, 58.

Sempronia, a profest admirer of the French nation, 45.

Sense: some men of sense more despicable than common beggars, 6.
Sentry, Captain, a member of the Spectator's club, his character, 2.
Servants, the general corruption of their manners, 88; assume their mas
ter's title, ibid.

Sextus Quintus, the pope, an instance of his unforgiving temper, 23.
Shadows and realities not mixed in the same piece, 5.

Shovel, Sir Cloudesley, the ill contrivance of his monument in Westmin-
ster-abbey, 26.

Sidney, Sir Philip, his opinion of the song of Chevy Chace, 70

Sighers, a club of them in Oxford, 30; their regulations, ibid.

Sign-posts, the absurdities of many of them, 28.

Socrates, his temper and prudence, 23.

Solitude: an exemption from passions the only pleasing solitude, 4.

Sophocles, his conduct in his tragedy of Electra, 44.

Sparrows bought for the use of the opera, 5.

Spartan virtue acknowledged by the Athenians, 6.

Spectator, The, his prefatory discourse, 1; his great taciturnity, ibid.; hie
vision of public credit, 3; his entertainment at the table of an acquaint-
ance, 7; his recommendation of his speculations, 10; advertised in the
Daily Courant, 12; his encounter with a lion behind the scenes, 13; the
design of his writings, 16; no party-man, ibid.; a little unhappy in the

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mould of his face, 17; his artifice, 19; his desire to correct impudence,
20; and resolution to march on in the cause of virtue, 34; his visit to a
travelled lady, 45; his speculations in the first principles, 46; an odd
accident that befel him at Lloyd's coffee-house, ibid.; his advice to our
English Pindaric writers, 58; his examen of Sir Fopling Flutter, 65;
his inquisitive temper, 85.

Spleen, a common excuse for dulness, 53.

Starers reproved, 20.

Statira, in what proposed as a pattern to the fair sex, 41.

Superstition, the folly of.it described, 7.

Susanna, or Innocence Betrayed, to be exhibited by Mr. Powell, with a
new pair of elders, 14.

Templar, one of the Spectator's club, his character, 2.

That, his remonstrance, S

Theatre, English, the practice of it in several instances censured, 42, 44,

51.

Thunder, of great use on the stage, 44.

Thunderer to the playhouse, the hardships put upon him, and his desire
to be made a cannon, 36.

Tom-tits to personate singing birds in the opera, 5.

Tom the Tyrant, first minister of the coffee-house between the hours of
eleven and twelve at night, 49.

Tombs in Westminster-abbey visited by the Spectator, 26; his reflection
upon them, ibid.

Trade, the benefit of it to Great Britain, 69.

Tragedy; a perfect tragedy the noblest production of human nature, 39;
wherein the modern tragedy excels that of Greece and Rome, ibid.;
blank verse the most proper for an English tragedy, ibid.; the English
tragedy considered, ibid.

Tragi-comedy, the product of the English theatre, a monstrous invention,

40.

Travel highly necessary to a coquette, 45; the behaviour of a travelled
lady in the playhouse, ibid.

Truepenny Jack, strangely good-natured, 82.

Truth an enemy to false wit, 63.

Triphiodorus, the great lipogrammatist of antiquity, 59.

Venice Preserved, a tragedy founded on a wrong plot, 39.

Ugliness, some speculations upon it, 32.

Virgil, his beautiful allegories founded on the Platonic philosophy, 90.
Visit; a visit to a travelled lady, which she received in her bed, de-
scribed, 45.

Understanding, the abuse of it is a great evil, 6.

Vocifer, the qualifications that make him pass for a fine gentleman, 75.

Who and Which, their petition to the Spectator, 78.

Wit, the mischief of it when accompanied with vice, 23; very pernicious
when not tempered with virtue and humanity, ibid.; turned into defor.

mity by affectation, 38; only to be valued as it is applied, 6; the his-
tory of false wit, ibid.; every man would be a wit if he could, 59; the
way to try a piece of wit, 62; Mr. Locke's reflection on the difference
between wit and judgment, ibid.; the god of wit described, 63.
Women the more powerful part of our people, 4; their ordinary employ-
ments, 10; smitten with superficials, 15; their usual conversation,
ibid.; their strongest passion, 33; not to be considered merely as ob
jects of sight, ibid.; the English excel all other nations in beauty, 81.
Woman of quality, her dress the products of an hundred climates, 69.
Yarico, the story of her adventure, 11.

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