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Library, a Lady's library described, No. 37.
Life, the duration of it uncertain, No. 27.

Lindamira, the only woman allowed to paint, No. 41.
Lion in the Hay-market, occasioned many conjectures in the
town, No. 13-Very gentle to the Spectator, ib.
London an emporium for the whole earth, No. 69.
Love, the general concern of it, No. 30.

Love of the world, our hearts misled by it, No. 27.

Luxury, what, No. 55-attended often with avarice, No. 27-
a fable of those two vices, ib.

Loungers, a new sect of Philosophers in Cambridge, No. 54.

M.

MAN a sociable animal, No. 2-The loss of public and pri-
vate virtues owing to men of parts, 6.

Masquerade, a complaint against it, No. 8-The design of
it, ib.

Mazarine (Cardinal) his behaviour to Quillet, who had re-
flected upon him in a poem, No. 23.

Merchants of great benefit to the public, No. 69.

Mixed wit described, No. 62.

Mixed communion of men and spirits in paradise, as describ-
ed by Milton, No. 12.

Mode, on what it ought to be built, No. 6.

Moliere made an old woman a judge of his plays, No. 70.
Modesty the chief ornament of the fair sex, No. 6.

Monuments in Westminster-Abbey examined by the Specta-
tor, No. 26.

Mourning, the method of it considered, No. 64Who the
greatest mourners, ib.

Music banished by Plato out of his commonwealth, No. 18-
Of a relative nature, 29.

N.

NEIGHBOURHOOD, of whom consisting, No. 49.
Newberry (Mr.) his rebus, No. 59.

New-River, a project of bringing it into the playhouse, 5.
Nicolini (Signior) his voyage on pasteboard, No. 5-His
combat with a lion, 13-Why thought to be a sham one,
ibid-An excellent actor, ibid.

O.

OATES (Dr.) a favourite with some party ladies, No. 57.
Ogler, the complete ogler, No. 46.

Old maids generally superstitious, No. 7.
Old Testament in a perriwig, No. 58.

Opera, as it is the present entertainment of the English stage,
considered, No. 5-The progress it has made on our the-
atre, 18-Some account of the French opera, 29.
Otway commended and censured, No. 39.

Overdo, a Justice of Epping, offended at a company of strol
lers, for playing the part of Clodpate, and making a moc-
kery of one of the Quorum, No. 48.

Oxford scholar's great discovery in a coffee-house, o. 46.

P.

PAINTER and Taylor often contribute more than the Poet
to the success of a tragedy, No. 42.

Parents: their taking a liking to a particular profession often
occasions their sons to miscarry, No. 21.

Parties crept much into the conversation of the ladies, No. 57
-Party zeal very bad for the face, ibid.

Particles English, honour done them in operas, No. 18.
Passions, the conquest of them a difficult task, No. 71.
Peace, some ill consequences of it, No. 45.

Peepers described, No. 53.

Pharamond: memoirs of his private life, No. 76—His great
wisdom, ibid.

Philautia, a great votary, No. 79.

Philosophy, the use of it, No. 7-said to be brought by So-
crates down from Heaven, 10.

Physician and Surgeon, their different employment, No. 16-
the physicians a formidable body of men, 21-compared
to the British army in Cæsar's time, No. 21-their way of
converting one distemper into another, 25.

Picts, what women so called, No. 41-no faith to be kept
with them, ibid.

Pinkethman, to personate King Porus on an elephant, No. 31.
Players in Drury-Lane, their intended regulations, No. 36.
Poems in picture, No. 58.

Poets (English) reproved, No. 39, 40-Their artifices, 44.

Poetesses (English) wherein remarkable, No. 51.

Powell (senior) to act Alexander the Great on a dromedary,
No. 31-His artifice to raise a clap, 40.

Powell (junior) his great skill in motions, No. 14-His per-
formance referred to the opera of Rinaldo and Armida, ib.
Praise, the love of it implanted in us, No. 38.

Pride, a great enemy to a fine face, No. 33.

Professions: the three great ones overburdened with practi-
tioners, No. 21.

Projector, a short description of one, No. 31.
Prosper (Will) an honest tale-bearer, No. 19.

Punchinello frequented more than the church, No. 14-Punch
out in the moral part, ibid.

Punning much recommended by the practice of all ages, No.
61-In what age the pun chiefly flourished, ibid-A famous
university much infested with it, ibid-Why banished at
present out of the learned world, ibid-The definition of a
pun, ibid.

Q.

QUALITY no exemption from reproof, No. 34.
QUIXOTE (Don) patron of the Sighers club, No. 30.

R.

RANTS considered as blemishes in our English tragedies,
No. 30.

Rape of Proserpine, a French opera, some particulars in it,
No. 29.

Reason instead of governing passion, is often subservient to it,
No. 6.

Rebus, a kind of false wit in vogue among the ancients, Mo.
59-and our own countrymen. ibid-A Rebus at Blenheim
House condemned, ib.

Recitativo (Italian) not agreeable to an English audience, No.
29--Recitative music in every language ought to be adapt-
ed to the accent of the language, ib.

Retirement, the pleasure of it, where truly enjoyed, No. 4.
Rich (Mr.) would not suffer the Opera of Whittington's Cat
to be performed in his house, &c. No. 5.

Royal Exchange, the great resort to it, No. 69.

S

SALMON (Mrs.) her ingenuity, No. 28.
Sanctorius, his invention, No. 25.

Scholar's egg, what so called, No. 58.

Sempronia a professed admirer of the French nation, No. 45:
Sense some men of sense more despicable than common
beggars, No, 6.

Sentry (Captain) a member of the Spectator's club, his cha-
racter, No. 2.

Sextus Quintus, the Pope, an instance of his unforgiving tem-
per, No. 23.

Shadows and realities not mixed in the same piece, No. 5.
Shovel (Sir Cloudesly): the ill-contrivance of his monument
in Westminster-Abbey, No. 26.

Sidney (Sir Philip): his opinion of the song of Chevy-Chase,
No. 70.

Sighers, a club of them in Oxford, No. 30-Their regulati-
ons, ib.

Sign-posts, the absurdities of many of them, No. 28.

Socrates, his temper and prudence, No. 23..

Solitude: an exemption from passions the only pleasing soli
tude, No. 4.

Sophocles, his conduct in his tragedy of Electra, No. 44..
Sparrows bought for the use of the Opera, No. 5.
Spartan virtue acknowledged by the Athenians, No. 6.
Spectator (the) his prefatory discourse, No. 1-His great ·
taciturnity, ibid-His vision of the Public Credit, 3-His
entertainment at the table of an acquaintance, 7-His re--
commendation of his speculations, 10-Advertised in the
Daily Courant, 12-His encounter with a lion behind the
scenes, 13-The design of his writings, 16-No party-man,
ibid-A little unhappy in the mould of his face, 17-His ar-
tifice, 19-His desire to correct impudence, 20-And reso-
lution to march on in the cause of virtue, 34-His visit to
a travelled lady, 45-His speculations in the first principles,
46-An odd accident that befel him at Lloyd's coffee-house,
ibid-His advice to our English Pindaric writers, 58-His
examen of Sir Fopling Flutter, 65.

Spleen, a common excuse for dulness, No. 53.
Starers reproved, No. 20.

Statira proposed as a pattern to the Fair Sex, 41.
Superstion, the folly of it described, No. 7..

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Susannah, or Innocence Betrayed, to be exhibited by Mr.
Powell, with a new pair of Elders, No. 14.

T.

TEMPLAR, one of the Spectator's club, his character, No. 2.
That, his remonstrance, No. 80.

Theatre (English) the practice of it in several instances cen-
sured, No. 42, 44, 51.

Thunder of great use on the stage, No 44.

Thunderer to the playhouse, the hardships put upon him, and
his desire to be made a cannon, No. 36.

Tom-tits to personate singing-birds in the opera, No. 5.
Tom the Tyrant, first minister of the coffee-house, between
the hours of eleven and twelve at night, No. 49.

Tombs in Westminster Abbey visited by the Spectator, No. 26
-His reflection upon them, ib.

Trade, the benefit of it to Great Britain, No. 69.

Tragedy, a perfect tragedy the noblest production of human
nature, No. 39-Wherein the modern tragedy excels that
of Greece and Rome, ibid-Blank verse most proper for
English tragedy, &c. ibid.

Tragi-comedy, the product of the English theatre, monstrous
invention, No. 40.

Travel highly necessary to a coquette, No. 45—The behaviour
of a travelled lady, in the play-house, ibid.

Truth, an enemy to false wit, No. 63.

Tryphiodorus, the great lipogrammatist of antiquity, No. 59.

V. U.

VENICE Preserv'd founded on a wrong plot, No. 39.

Ugliness: some speculations upon it, No. 32.

Visit: a visit to a travelled Lady, which she received in her
bed, described, No. 45.

Understanding: the abuse of it is a great evil, No. 6.

Vocifer; the qualifications that make him pass for a fine gen-
tleman, No. 75.

W.

WHO and Which, their petition to the Spectator, No. 78.

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