Letter-dropper of antiquity, who, N. 59. Love of the world, our hearts mifled by it, N. 27. Loungers, a new fect of philofophers in Cambridge, 54. MA AN a fociable animal, N. 9. The lofs of publick Mazarine, (Cardinal) his behaviour to Quillet, who had re- Merchants of great benefit to the publick, N. 69. Mixt communion of men and fpirits in Paradife, as defcrib 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. Mourning, the method of it confidered, N. 64. Who the Alufick banished by Plato out of his commonwealth, N. 18. N. Eighbourhoods, of whom confifting, N. 49. New-River, a project of bringing it into the playhouse, 5. OATES, (Dr.) a favourite with fome party ladies, 57. Old Old maids generally fuperftitious, N. 7. Opera, as it is the prefent entertainment of the English ftage, Overdo, a juftice at Epping, offended at the company of ftrol- Oxford fcholar, his great difcovery in a coffee-houfe, N. 46. PAL P. AINTER and Tailor often contribute more than the Parents, their taking a liking to a particular profeffion, often Parties crept much into the converfation of the ladies, Particles, English, the honour done to them in the late Paffions, the conqueft of them a difficult tafk, N. 71. Peepers defcribed, N. 53. Pharamond, memoirs of his private life, N. 76. His great Philautia, a great votary, N. 79. Philofophy, the ufe of it, N. 7. faid to be brought by So- Phyfician and furgeon, their different employment, N. 16. Pinkethman to perfonate King Porus on an elephant, N. 31. Poet, (English) reproved, N. 39, N. 40. their artifices, N.44. Powell, (fenior) to act Alexander the Great on a dromedary, Powell, (junior) his great fkill in motions, N. 14. His per- 2 Pride Pride a great enemy to a fine face, N. 33. Projector, a fhort defcription of one, N. 31. 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. S. SALMON, (Mrs.) her ingenuity, N. 28. 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. 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. Statira, in what proposed as a pattern to the fair fex, N. 41. 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. 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. |