OTWAY, commended and censured, N. 39.
OVERDO, a justice at Epping, offended at the company
of ftrollers for playing the part of Clodpate, and mak-
ing a mockery of one of the Quorum, N. 48.

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

Painter

P.

Ainter and tailor often contribute more than the
poet to the fuccefs of a tragedy, N. 42.

Parents, their taking a liking to a particular profeffion
often occafions their fons to mifearry, N. 21.

Parties crept much into the converfation of the ladies,
N. 57. Party-zeal very bad for the face, ibid.
Particles English, the honour done to them in the late
operas, N. 18.

Paffions, the conqueft of them a difficult tafk, N. 71.
Peace, fome ill confequences of it, N. 45.
Peepers defcribed, N. 53.

PHARAMOND, memoirs of his private life, N. 76. His
great wisdom, ibid.

PHILAUTIA, a great votary, N.

79.

Philofophy, the ufe of it, N. 7. said to be brought by
Socrates down from heaven, 10.

Phyfician and Surgeon, their different employment,
N. 16. The physicians a formidable body of men, 21.
compared to the British army in Cæfar's time, ib.
Their way of converting one diftemper into ano-
ther, 25.

Picts, what women fo called, N. 41. No faith to be
kept with them, ib.

PINKETHMAN to perfonate king Porus on an elephant,
N. 31.

Players in Drury-Lane, their intended regulations,
Ń. 36.

Poems in picture, N. 58.

Poets (English), reproved, N. 39, 40. their artifices, 44.
Poeteffes (English), wherein remarkable, N. 51.
POWELL (fenior), to act Alexander the Great on a
dromedary, N. 31. His artifice to raise a clap,

N. 40.

POWELL (junior) his great skill in motions, N. 14. His performance referred to the opera of Rinaldo and Armida, ibid.

Praife, the love of it implanted in us, N. 38.
Pride a great enemy to a fine face, N. 33.

Profeffions, the three great ones overburdened with practitioners, N. 21.

Projector, a fhort defcription of one, N. 31.
PROSPER (WILL) an honeft tale-bearer, N. 19.
Punchinello, frequented more than the church, N. 14-
Punch out in the moral part, ibid.

Punning much recommended by the practice of all ages, N. 61. In what age the pun chiefly flourished, ibid. a famous univerfity much infefted with it, ibid. why banished at prefent out of the learned world, ibid. The definition of a pun, ibid.

QUALITY

UALITY no exemption from reproof, N. 34. QUIXOTE (Don) patron of the fighers club, N. 30.

R.

RANTS confidered as blemishes in our English tra

gedies, N. 40.

Rape of Proferpine a French opera, fome particulars in it, N. 29.

Reafon, instead of governing paffion is often subservient to it, N. 6.

Rebus, a kind of false wit in vogue among the ancients, N. 59, and our own countrymen, ibid. A rebus at Blenheim house condemned, ibid.

Recitativo, (Italian) not agreeable to an English audience, N. 29. Recitative mufic in every language ought to be adapted to the accent of the language, ibid.

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

RICH (Mr.) would not fuffer the opera of Whittington's cat to be performed in his houfe, and the reafon for it, N. 5.

Royal Exchange, the great refort to it, N. 69.

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S.

SALMON (Mrs.) her ingenuity, N. 28.

SANCTORIUS, his invention, N. 25.
Scholar's egg, what fo call'd, N. 58.

SEMPRONIA, a profeffed admirer of the French nation,

N. 45

Senfe fome men of sense more despicable than com-
mon beggars, N. 6.

SENTRY, (captain) a member of the SPECTATOR'S
club, his character, N. 2.

SEXTUS QUINTUS, the pope, an inftance of his un-
forgiving temper, N. 23.

Shadows and realities not mixed in the fame piece, N. 5-
SHOVEL (fir CLOUDESLEY) the ill contrivance of his
monument in Weftminfter-abbey, N. 26.

SIDNEY (fir PHILIP) his opinion of the fong of Chevy
Chafe, 70.

Sighers, a club of them in Oxford, N. 30. Their re-
gulations, ibid.

Sign-pofts, the absurdities of many of them, N. 28.
SOCRATES, his temper and prudence, N. 23.

Solitude; an exemption from paffions the only pleafing
folitude, N. 4.

SOPHOCLES, his conduct in his tragedy of Electra, N.

44.

Sparrows bought for the ufe of the opera, N. 5.
Spartan virtue acknowledged by the Athenians, N. 6.
SPECTATOR (the) his prefatory difcourfe, N. 1. His

great taciturnity, ibid. His vifion of public credit, 3.
His entertainment at the table of an acquaintance, 7.
His recommendation of his fpeculations, 10. Ad-
vertised in the Daily Courant, 12. His encounter
with a lion behind the scenes, 13. The defign of his
writings, 16. No party-man, ibid. A little unhap-
py in the mold of his face, 17. His artifice, 19.
His defire to correct impudence, 20. And refolution
to march on in the caufe of virtue, 34. His vifit to
a travelled lady, 45. His fpeculations in the first
principles, 46. An odd accident that befell him at
Lloyd's coffee-houfe, ibid. His advice to our English
Pindaric writers, 58. His examen of fir Fopling
Flutter, 65.

Spleen, a common excufe for dulness, N. 53.
Starers reproved, N. 20.

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

Superftition, the folly of it defcribed, N. 7.

SUSANNA, or innocence betray'd, to be exhibited by
Mr. POWELL, with a new pair of elders, N. 14.

T

T.

EMPLAR, one of the SPECTATOR's club, his cha-
racter, N. 2.

THAT, his remonftrance, N. 80.

Theatre (English) the practice of it in several inftances
cenfured, N. 42, 44, 51.

Thunder, of great use on the stage, N. 44.

Thunderer to the playhouse, the hardships put upon
him, and his defire to be made a cannon, N. 36.
Tom Tits to perfonate finging birds in the opera, N. 5.
Toм the tyrant, firft minifter of the coffee-houfe, be-
tween the hours of eleven and twelve at night, N. 49.
Tombs in Weftminster vifited by the SPECTATOR, N.
26. his reflection upon it, ibid.

Trade, the benefit of it to Great Britain, N. 69.
Tragedy; a perfect tragedy the nobleft production of
human nature, N. 39. Wherein the modern tragedy
excels that of Greece and Rome, ibid. Blank verfe
the moft proper for an English tragedy, ibid. The
English tragedy confidered, ibid.

Tragi-Comedy, the product of the English theatre, a
monftrous invention, N. 40.

Travel, highly neceffary to a coquette, N. 45. The
behaviour of a travelled lady in a play-houfe, ibid.
Truth an enemy to false wit, N. 63.

TRYPHIODORUS, the great Lipogrammatift of antiqui-
ty, N. 59.

U.

VENICE preferv'd, a tragedy founded on a wrong

plot, N. 39.

Uglinefs, fome fpeculations upon it, N. 32.

Vifit; a vifit to a travelled lady, which the received in
her bed, defcribed, N. 45.

Understanding, the abuse of it a great evil, N. 6. VOCIFER, the qualifications that make him pass for a fine gentleman, N. 75.

Wi

W.

Ho and WHICH, their petitions to the SPECTATOR, N 78. Wit, the mischief of it when accompanied with vice, N. 23. very pernicious when not tempered with virtue and humanity, ibid. turned into deformity by affectation, 38. Only to be valued as it is applied, Ñ. 6. Nothing fo much admired and fo little understood, 58. The hiftory of falfe 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, N. 4. Their ordinary employments, 10. Smitten with fuperficials, 15. Their ufual converfation, ibid. Their ftrongeft paffion, 33 Not to be confidered meerly as objects of fight, ibid.

Woman of quality, her drefs the products of an hundred climates, N. 69.

Y.

YARICO, the ftory of her adventures, N. 11.

THE END OF THE FIRST VOLUME.