THE INDEX. A ACETUS, his character, Number 422. Admiration, a pleasing motion of the mind, N. 413. Affectation, the misfortune of it, N. 404; described 460. Almighty, his power over the imagination, N. 421; Aristotle's Allegories, like light to a discourse, N. 421; eminent writers. Allusions, the great art of a writer. N. 421. Amazons, their commonwealth, N. 433; how they educated Americans used painting instead of writing, N. 416. Amity between agreeable persons of different sexes dangerous, Amoret, the jilt reclaimed by Philander, N. 401. Ann Boleyn's last letter to King Henry VIII, N.397. April (month of) described, N. 425. Arabella, verses on her singing, N. 443. Architecture, the ancients perfection in it, N. 415; the great- Art, (works of) defective to entertain the imagination, N. 414;; August and July (months of) described, N. 425.. B BABEL, (Tower of) N. 415. Bacon (Sir Francis) prescribes his reader a poem or prospect, as Bankruptcy, the misery of it, N 428, 456. Bar oratory in England, reflection on it, N. 407. Basilius Valentinus, and his son, their story, N. 426. Baxter, (Mr.) his last words, N. 445; more last words, ibid. Bear-Garden, a combat there, N. 436; the cheats of it, 449. Beauty of objects, what understood by it, N. 412; nothing males Beggars, the grievance of them, N. 430. Belvidera, a critique on a song upon her, N. 470. Belus, Jupiter, (Temple of) N. 415. Birds, how affected by colours, N. 412. Blast, (Lady) her character, N. 457. Bluemantle, (Lady) an account of her, N. 427. Buck, (Timothy) his answer to James Miller's challenge, N, Buffoonery, censured, N. 443. Business (men of) their error in similitudes, N. 421; of learn- Bussy d'Amboise, a story of him, N. 467. C CAESAR lost his life by neglecting a Roman augur's caution, Cælia, her character, N. 404. Calisthenes, his character, N. 422. Camilla's letter to the Spectator from Venice, N. 433; how ap- Cartesian, how he would account for the ideas, formed by 417. Cato, the respect paid him at the Roman theatre, N. 446. Charles II. his gaieties, N. 462. Charms, none can supply the place of Virtue, N. 395. Chinese laugh at our gardens, and why, N. 414. Chremylus, his character out of Aristophanes, N. 464. Cicero, his genius, N. 404; the oracle's advice to him, ibid. Clarendon (Earl of) his character of a person of a troublesome Cleanthes, his character, N. 404. Cleopatra, a description of her sailing down the Cydnos, N. Cloe, the idiot, N. 466. Colours, the eye takes most delight in them, N. 412; why the Comedies, (English) vicious, N. 446. Commonwealth of Amazons, N. 433: Compassion civilizes human nature, N. 397; how to touch it, Company, temper chiefly to be considered in the choice of it, N. Concave and convex figures in architecture have the greatest air, Confidence, the danger of it to the ladies, N. 395. Coverley (Sir Roger de) his adventure with Sukey, N. 410; Conversation, an improvement of taste in letters, N. 409. Courage wants other good qualities to set it off, N. 422. Critics (French) friends to one another, N. 409. Cuckoldom abused on the stage, N. 446. Curiosity (absurd) an instance of it, N. 439. Custom a second nature, N. 437; the effect of it, ibid. how to Cynthio and Flavia break off their amour very whimsically, N. $99. D DACINTHUS, his character, N. 462. Dainty, (Mrs. Mary) her memorial from the country infirmary, N. 429. Damon and Strephon, their amour with Gloriana, N. 423. Dancing displays beauty, N. 466; on the stage faulty, ibid. the Dangers, past, why the reflection of them pleases, N. 418. Deluge, Mr. W........n's notion of it reproved, N. 396. Defamation, the sign of an ill heart, N. 427; papers of that kind Denying, sometimes a virtue, N 458. Deportment, (religious) why so little appearance of it in England, Descriptions come short of statuary and painting, N. 416; Desire, when corrected, N. 400. Devotion, the noblest buildings owing to it, N. 415. Diana's cruel sacrifices condemned by an ancient poet, N. Dionysius's ear, what it was, N. 439. Discourse in conversation not to be engrossed by one man, N. 428. Distracted persons, the sight of them the most mortifying thing Dogget, how cuckolded on the stage, N. 446. Domestic life, reflections concerning it, N. 455. Dress, the ladies extravagance in it, N. 435; an ill intention in.. Drink, the effects it has on modesty, N. 458.. E EASTCOURT, (Dick) his character, N. 468. Education of children, errors in it, N. 431; a letter on that sub- Emblematical persons, N. 419. Employments, whoever excels in any, worthy of praise, N. Emulation, the use of it, N. 432. Enemies, the benefits that may be received from them, N. 399. Enmity, the good fruits of it, N. 399. Epictetus's saying of sorrow, N. 397. Error, his habitation described, N. 460; how like to truth,ibid. Euphrates river contained in one bason, N. 415. Exchange (Royal) described, N. 454. F FAIRY writing, N. 419; the pleasures of imagination that Faith, the benefit of it, N. 459; the means of confirming it, Fame, a follower of merit, N. 426; the palace of it described, Familiarities indecent in society, N. 429. Fancy, all its images enter by the sight, N. 411. Fashion, a description of it, N. 460. Father, the affection of one for a daughter, N. 449. Flavilla spoiled by a marriage, N. 437. Faults (secret) how to find them out, N. 399. Fear (passion of) treated, N. 471. Feeling, not so perfect a sense as sight, N. 411. Fiction, the advantage the writers have in it to please the imagina- Fidelia, her duty to her father, N. 449. Final causes of delight, in objects, N. 413; lie bare, and open, |