Euclid, a great wit, according to Dryden's definition, 158. When instituted, ib. Quantity of liquors and tobacco consumed by it, 181. Four general Evremont, St. Monsr. his apology for Romish superstitions, 440. Exchange, a constant resort of the Spectator, 6. Exercise, necessary to our well being, 263. Its benefits illustrated in Exercise of the fan, taught, 238. Existence, the love of, a proof of the immortality of the soul, 255. 404. Experiment, a barbarous one, to exemplify parental love in animals, Eyes of a mistress compared to burning-glasses made of ice, 156. F. Fable of the boys and frogs, its application, 61. Of the countryman Fables, their antiquity, 353. Favourite compositions in all ages, ib. Face, a good one, a letter of recommendation, 451. Fair sex, why they prefer coxcombs to men of sense, 306. False humour, its genealogy, 86. False wit, when revived, 152. Consists in the congruity of words, Falsehood, the goddess, her territory, 161. Invaded by Truth and Fame, generally coveted, 182. Families, great ones, their ill-directed education of their sons, 250. Fan, an academy for training young women in its exercise, 238. Fantasque, a species of artist, described as a Venetian scaramouch, 196. Fashionable world, a reformation in, 269. Fat men, a club of, 28. Faustina, the younger, her levity, 306. Fear of death, often mortal, 64. Feasts, the gluttony of our modern ones, 407. Ferment, political, long in cooling, like a comet, 235. Feuds, of English and Scotch noblemen, occasioned the ballad of Finding a hare, a technical phrase, 249, note. Finishing stroke, a Vindication of the Patriarchal Scheme, recom- Fire, its qualities compared to those of love, 157. Always kept in, at Fishmonger, the Spectator's host, advertises him in the Daily Courant, 36. Florella inquires for books written against prudes, 216. Florio, the son of Eudoxus, educated by Leontine, 287. His passion happy union, 289. Flutter of the fan, its various kinds, 239. Fontanges, old fashioned head-dresses, 228. Fools, why subjects of laughter, 117, 118, 119. Fopperies, French, importation of them ought to be prohibited, 109. Forest of cedars, women's head-dresses compared to one, 229. Fortune, the most shining quality in the eye of the world, 447. Fox-hunting, a remedy for unrequited love, 264. France, distracted by factions for and against the League, 296. Friendship, its fruits, 166. Illustrated in the Wisdom of the son of Friezeland hen, compared to an old-fashioned lady, 309. Frugality in words, observable in the English language, 321. Fulvia, a character, 45. Future state, a prospect of it, the secret comfort of a virtuous soul, Gaming, the folly of it, 220. G. Gaper, a common sign in Amsterdam, 117. Genius, a character too indiscriminately given, 327. In what it con- Gentleman, the name given to the Spectator at his lodgings, 37. Giving and forgiving, two different things, 400. Glaphyra, daughter of king Archelaus, her dream, 254. Glass, to be read bottle, in Sir W. Temple's rule for drinking, 425. Goat, a perfumer's sign, 71. God, the soul of brutes, 276. Golden dreams, of Homer, compared with those of Nicholas Hart, Golden fleece, an improper subject for a Roman poet, 175. Good-breeding, revolutions in, 269, 270. Often an affectation of Good-fellow, Robin, his correction of Sir W. Temple's rule for drink- Good-luck, notions respecting, 402. Good-nature, more agreeable in conversation than wit, 353. To be Gosling, George, his letter on a lucky number in the lottery, 404. Goths, in poetry, 158. Governments, when prone to luxury, 126. Grave-digging, reflections on, 67. Gravitation in bodies, how accounted for, 276. Gravity, the gift of men, 304. Grecian law, prohibiting neutrality in political divisions, 49. Great book, a great evil, 290. Greek, an opera proposed in that language, 79. Greek mottos, in the Spectator, pleasing to the ladies, 452. Grief, easier to be diverted than conquered, 336. Grimace, the Spectator's meaning of the word, explained, 170, note. Grounding the fan, directions for, 238. Grub-street pens, employed in recording the dreams of a miraculous Guelfs and Ghibelines, distracted Italy by their factions, 296. Gypsies, adventure with a troop of them, 312. Spectator's and Sir H. Hag, Otway's description of one, 226. Halifax, the marquis of, his advice to his daughter on jealousy, 356. Handling the fan, directions for, 238. Handkerchief, a principal machine, in tragedy, for moving pity, 105. Happiness, true, its retired nature, 44. Rules for attaining it, less Hardness of heart, in parents to their children, inexcusable, 380. Head, the noblest part of the human figure, 229. Head-dress of a lady, the most variable thing in nature, 227. Its Health, the true mode of preserving, 64. Heart of a lover, compared to Etna, 157. Hector, his admonition to his wife, 133. Heirs and elder brothers, frequently spoiled in their education, 285. Hen, her sagacity and care of her young, 274. An ideot in other Herodotus, his account of the opinion of the Persians on parricide, Heroic poem, rule for its foundation, 175. History, imaginary, of the reign of Anne the First, 235. Honourable Hive, northern, of Goths and Vandals, 55. Hobbes, Mr. his observation on laughter, 117. Holiness, a title given to the Pope, 448. Holy officiousness, how recommended to us, 441. His Homer, with what view he planned his epic poem, 175. More sub- Honest mind, what its greatest satisfaction, 281. Honour, of men and women, in what consisting, 230. When to be Hoop-petticoat, made to keep the men at a distance, 302. Accessary Hopewell, Sam. his letter on his long courtship, 207. Horatii and Curiatii, a play of Corneille, a scene in it, criticised, Horrors of imagination, in children, to be guarded against, 38. Hours of a wise man and those of a fool, how lengthened, 226. Hudibras, ridicule in, on echo in poetry, 144. Admired for its dog- Human body, considered as an engine for the soul, 262. Human life, described by the emblem of a bridge, 324. Its cares and Human nature, the same in all reasonable creatures, 173. Hum-drum club, 29. Humour, a dangerous talent in an ill-natured man, 58. In writing, Humourists, false ones, described, 87. Husbands, their recommendations of books for the perusal of ladies, Hydaspes, his combat with the lion, how managed, 40. Hypocrites, political, how to be extirpated, 297. I. Iambics, in the Greek tongue, most proper for tragedy, 92. Of Si- |