Samuel Bickerstaff, esqr. is so happy, as that by several legacies from distant relations, deaths of maiden sisters, and other instances of good fortune, he has, besides his real estate, a great sum of ready money. His son at the same time knows he has a good fortune, which the father cannot alienate, though he strives to make him believe he depends only on his will for maintenance. Tom is now in his nineteenth year, Mrs. Mary in her fifteenth. Cousin Samuel, who understands no one point of good behaviour, as it regards all the rest of the world, is an exact critic in the dress, the motion, the looks and gestures of his children. What adds to their misery, is, that he is excessively fond of them, and the greatest part of their time is spent in the presence of this nice observer. Their life continued constraint. The girl never turns her head, but she is warned not to follow the proud minxes of the town. The boy is not to turn fop, or be quarrelsome; at the same time not to take an affront. I had the good fortune to dine with him to-day, and heard his fatherly table-talk as we sat at dinner, which, if my memory does not fail me, for the benefit of the world, I shall set down as he spoke it, which was much as follows, and may be of great use to those parents who seem to make it a rule that their children's turn to enjoy the world is not to commence, till they themselves have left it. "Now, Tom, I have bought you chambers in the ❝inns of court. I allow you to take a walk once or "twice a day round the garden. If you mind your ❝ business, you need not study to be as great a lawyer as Coke Littleton. I have that that will upon "keep you; but be sure you keep an exact account of your linen. Write down what you give out to your "laundress, and what she brings home again. Go as "little as possible to the other end of the town; but "if you do, come home early. I believe I was as sharp ' as you for your ears, and I had my hat snatched off "my head coming home late at a stop at St. Cle“ment's Church, and I do not know from that day to "this who took it. I do not care if you learn to fence a "little, for I would not have you be made a fool of. "Let me have an account of every thing every post; "I am willing to be at that charge, and I think you "need not spare your pains. As for you, daughter "Molly do not mind one word that is said to you in London, for it is only for your money." THE INDEX TO THE THIRD VOLUME. A PAGE. ABSURDITY, its importunity and folly Absurdity resembles impudence Advertisement, of a play, called, Love for Love, to be acted 297 ibid. About New Bedlam To all such as delight in soft lines To some midnight rakes ibid. 142 143 About ladies wrought shoes and slippers 144 148 Cornhill 152 Of the sale of a Bass-Viol, by way of lot- tery 253 staff Of walking pictures, sold by auction Aeneas, his descent into the empire of death 254 272 318 343 192 Aeneas, his adventures there PAGE. 192 13 Aesop, a fable of his, applied upon the receipt of a letter sent to Mr. Bickerstaff Age, the glory of the present age, in relation to England Allegories profitable to the mind, in the same manner as hunt- 183 81 41 158 · Application of an allegorical fable out of Homer ibid. Ambition, what age on man most addicted to it In the good it becomes true honour The effects of it The foundation of it Anticyra, an island, assigned by the Romans as an habita- tion for mad-men The product of it Compared to Montpellier Antiochus, in love with his mother-in-law Apology for great men in the conferring of their favours Arthur, (King) the first that ever sat down to a whole roast- ed ox Athenians, an instance of the public spirit, and virtue of that people Avarice, what age of man most devoted to it Its region described Its temple, attendants and officers An effect of the author's discourse upon it Audience, what ought to be the behaviour of an audience at the representation of a play Autumn (Lady) her behaviour at church B Bagpipe, to what persons applied in conversation A club of bagpipes Bacon (Sir Francis) his legacy Balance, a merchant, his treatment of a young lawyer that endeavoured to debauch his wife Barbarity, an attendant on tyranny Barnes (Joshua) his new edition of Homer Bass-Viol, the part it bears in conversation Where most likely to be found With what other instrument to be matched Baubles, by whom brought first to perfection |
