Letter-dropper of antiquity, who, N. 59.
Library, a lady's library defcribed, N. 37.
Life, the duration of it uncertain, N. 27.
Lindamira, the only woman allowed to paint, N. 41.
Lion in the Haymarket occafioned many conjectures in the
town, N. 13. very gentle to the Spectator, ibid.
London, an emporium for the whole earth, N. 69.
Love, the general concern of it, N. 30.

Love of the world, our hearts mifled by it, N. 27.
Luxury, what, N. 55. attended often with avarice, ibid. a fa-
ble of those two vices, ibid.

Loungers, a new fect of philofophers in Cambridge, 54.

MA

AN a fociable animal, N. 9. The lofs of publick
and private virtues owing to men of parts, N. 6.
Malquerade, a complaint against it, N. 8. The design of
it, ibid.

Mazarine, (Cardinal) his behaviour to Quillet, who had re-
flected upon him in a poem, N. 23.

Merchants of great benefit to the publick, N. 69.
Mixt wit defcribed, N. 62.

Mixt communion of men and fpirits in Paradife, as defcrib
ed by Milton, N. 12.

Mode, on what it ought to be built, N. 6.

Modefty the chief ornament of the fair fex, N. 6.

Moliere made an old woman a judge of his plays, N. 70.
Monuments in Westminster Abbey examined by the Spectator,
N. 26.

Mourning, the method of it confidered, N. 64. Who the
greateft mourners, ibid.

Alufick banished by Plato out of his commonwealth, N. 18.
Of a relative nature, N. 29.

N.

Eighbourhoods, of whom confifting, N. 49.
Newberry, (Mr.) his rebus, N. 59.

New-River, a project of bringing it into the playhouse, 5.
Nicolini, (Signior) his voyage on pafteboard, N. 5. His
combat with a lion, N. 13. Why thought to be a sham
one, ibid. An excellent actor, ibid.

OATES, (Dr.) a favourite with fome party ladies, 57.
Ogler, the complete ogler, N. 46.

Old

Old maids generally fuperftitious, N. 7.
Old teftament in a periwig, N. 58.

Opera, as it is the prefent entertainment of the English ftage,
confidered, N. 5. The progrefs it has made on our
theatre, N. 18. Some account of the French opera, N. 29.
Otway, commended and cenfured, N. 39.

Overdo, a juftice at Epping, offended at the company of ftrol-
lers for playing the part of Clodpate, and making a mockery
of one of the Quorum, N. 48.

Oxford fcholar, his great difcovery in a coffee-houfe, N. 46.

PAL

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 mifcarry, 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
wifdom, ibid.

Philautia, a great votary, N. 79.

Philofophy, the ufe of it, N. 7. faid to be brought by So-
crates down from heaven, N. 10.

Phyfician and furgeon, their different employment, N. 16.
The phyficians a formidable body of men, N. 21. com-
pared to the British army in Cefar's time, ibid. Their
way of converting one diffemper into another, N. 25.
Pits, what women fo called, N. 41. No faith to be kept
with them, ibid.

Pinkethman to perfonate King Porus on an elephant, N. 31.
Players in Drury-Lane, their intended regulations, N. 36.
Poems in picture, N. 58.

Poet, (English) reproved, N. 39, N. 40. their artifices, N.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 fkill in motions, N. 14. His per-
formance referred to the Opera of Rinaldo and Armida, ibid.
Praife, the love of it implanted in us, N. 38.

2

Pride

Pride a great enemy to a fine face, N. 33.
Profeffions, the three great ones overburdened with practi-
tioners, N. 21.

Projector, a fhort defcription of one, N. 31.
Profper, (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.

Q.

UALITY no exemption from reproof, N. 34.

Quixote (Don) patron of the Sighers Club, N. 30.

R.

ANTS confidered as blemishes in our English trage

R dies, N. 49.

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

Reafon, inftead of governing paffion, is often fubfervient to it, N. 6.

Rebus, a kind of falfe wit in vogue among the ancients, N. 59. and our own countrymen, ibid. A Rebus at Blenbeim-Houfe condemned, ibid.

Recitativo, (Italian) not agreeable to an English audience, N. 29. Recitative mufick 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, 5.
Royal Exchange, the great refort to it, N. 69.

S.

SALMON, (Mrs.) her ingenuity, N. 28.
Sanctorius, his invention, N. 25.

Scholar's egg, what fo called, N. 58.

Sempronia, a profelt admirer of the French nation, N. 45. Senfe; fome men of sense more despicable than common beggars, N. 6.

Sentry, (Captain) a member of the Spectator's Club, his character, N. 2.

Sextus Quintus, the Pope, an inftance of his unforgiving temper, N. 23.

3

Shadows

Shadows and realities not mixed in the fame piece, N. 5. Shovel, (Sir Cloudefley) the ill contrivance of his monument in Westminster Abbey, N. 26.

Sidney, (Sir Philip) his opinion of the fong of Chevy-Chace, N. 70.

Sighers, a club of them in Oxford, N. 30. Their regulations, ib. Sign-pofts, the abfurdities of many of them, N. 28.

Socrates, his temper and prudence, N. 23.

Solitude; an exemption from paffions the only pleasing solitude, 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, N. 3. His entertainment at the table of an acquaintance, N. 7. His recommendation of his Speculations, N. 10. Advertised in the Daily Courant, N. 12. His encounter with a lion behind. the fcenes, N. 13. The defign of his writings, N. 16. No party-man, ibid. A little unhappy in the mold of his face, N. 17. His artifice, N. 19. His defire to correct impudence, N. 20. And refolution to march on in the cause of virtue, N. 34. His vifit to a travelled lady, N. 45. His Speculations in the first principles, N. 46. An odd accident that befel him at Lloyd's coffee-houfe, ibid. His advice to our English Pindarick writers, N. 58. His examen of Sir Foppling Flutter, N. 65.

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

Statira, in what proposed as a pattern to the fair fex, N. 41.
Superftition, the folly of it defcribed, N. 7.

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

T.

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

TE

That, his remonstrance, N. 80.

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

Thunder, of great ufe on the ftage, N. 44.

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

Tom Titt to perfonate finging birds in the opera, N. 5.
Tom the Tyrant, firft minilter of the coffee-houfe between

the

the hours of eleven and twelve at night, N. 49. Tombs in Ieminfter visited 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 most 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 neceflary to a Coquette. N. 45. The behaviour of a travelled lady in the Playhouse, ibid.

Truth an enemy to falfe wit, N. 63.

Triphiodorus, the great lipogrammatift of antiquity, N. 59.

U.

VENICE Preferved, a tragedy founded on a wrong

plot, N. 39.

Uglinefs, fome Speculations 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 is a great evil, N. 6.

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

W.

WHO and Which, their petition to the Spectator, 78. Wit, the mifchief of it when accompanied with vice, N. 23. very pernicious when not tempered with virtue and humanity. ibid, turned into deformity by affectation, N. 38. Only to be valued as it is applied, N. 6. The hiftory of falfe wit, ibid. Every man would be a wit if he could, N. 59. The way to try a piece of wit, N. 62. Mr. Locke's reflection on the difference between wit and judgment, ibid. The god of wit defcribed, N. 63.

Women the more powerful part of our people, N. 4. Their ordinary employments, N. 10. Smitten with fuperficials, N. 15. Their ufual converfation, ibid. Their strongest pasfion, N. 33. Not to be confidered merely as objects of fight, ibid.

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

Y.

Yarice, the ftory of her adventure, N. 11.