Basso relievos, resemblance found in many of them, i. 473. Bateman, Sir James, Lord Mayor of Lon- Bathurst, Alleyn, afterwards Baron Ba- Balts, a sort of maskers, why so called, v. Battus, transformed into a touchstone, i. Bavius and Mævius, why the calumni- Baxter, a page of his found under a Christ- Bay of Naples described, i. 427. B. D., her letter to the Spectator about Beans, used by the Athenians in voting Bear, the device of the town and abbey of Bear-baiting, Claudian's description of it, Beau contrasted with a Quaker, ii. 266. Beau's head dissected, iii. 290; history of the person to whom it belonged, 292. Beauty, masculine, in what consisting, according to the ancients, i. 461; a feast of the gods on her birth, ii. 23; a celebrated one, her bed-chamber described, 182; its duration much shorter than the term of life, 403; a source of pleasure to the imagination, iii. 399; final cause 1 of this pleasure, 402; nothing bestows so much on a woman as modesty, iv. 181; destroyed by gaming, 233; a commander of the female auxiliaries in the war of the sexes, 274. Beaux, or women's men, employment pro- Becket, a relic of, in the great church of Milan, i. 369; a tooth of that saint given by an Irish priest to the Pretender, v. 33. Bee. the best species of females formed from it, iii. 88. Bees, Virgil's direction concerning the management of, i. 1; difference of aspect in their kings, 13; herbs and plants in which they delight, 14; their nature and habits, ib.; slavish attachment to their prince, 17; symptoms of disease described, 18; mode of breeding them from the putrid carcase of a bull, 20; in the fourth Georgic a favourite subject with Virgil, 160. Beef and mutton, the diet of our ancestors, ii. 106. Beef-eaters, the order of them, ii. 107. Beelzebub, described with wonderful ma jesty, iii. 213; his moderation in debate, 214. Beetle, valued at twenty crowns, ii. 156. Behaviour, childish, in ladies, to be ac quired by travel, ii. 321; equable, a requisite in friendship, 369. Bel Esprit, meaning of the French term, ii. 504. Belial, how characterized, iii. 212. iii. 77; a critique on a song on her, 490. Benacus, Lake, now called Lago di Garda, described, i. 376. Benchers, superannuated, how treated by the censor, ii. 55; of the Inns of Court, characterized, ii. 272. Benedictines convent at Ravenna, said to contain the ashes of Valentinian, Honorius, and Placidia, i. 401. Benevolence, degrees of it, iv. 412. Berkley's bombardment of the coast of France, i. 8. Berne, the canton of, style of its proclamation relating to the lake of Geneva, i. 510; its town and arsenal described, 518, 519; well furnished with water, 519; military strength and riches of the canton, 520. Beroe, comparison of Ovid's with that in the fifth Æneid, i. 149. Bias, his way to silence calumny, iv. 254. Bible, a spurious edition of, supposed to be extant, iv. 126. Bickerstaffe, Isaac, the name affixed by Steele to his papers in the Tatler, v. 380. Bickerstaffe (Isaac), the history and genealogy of his family. ii. 7; his court day for hearing petitions, 43; his reception at the playhouse, 85; advice to an audience, ib.; speech to Poverty, 92; his trial of the wine-brewers, 93; his entertainment at a friend's house, who "eats well," 108; his maxim, 109; his reasons for assuming the office of censor, 142; his remark on Ned Softly's sonnet, 146; his adventures in a journey to the Land's End, 152; his answer to a conceited critic, 175; a professor of physic, 178; his recipe, 180; use he made of Gyges's ring, 182; erects the Court of Honour, 188; his charge to the jury, 192; the first who undertook to instruct the world in single papers, iv. 172; by whom succeeded, ib.; abused and imitated by the Examiner, 375. Bienséance, meaning of the French term, in composition, ii. 505. Biffy, Andrew, his sculptured history of our Saviour and the Virgin in the great church of Milan, i. 369. Bigotry, a phantom in the hall of Public Credit, ii. 239; in atheists and infidels, iii. 53; its evil tendency, 378. Bilboa, British merchants trading there, their treaty with the magistrates of St. Ander, v. 52; confirmed and ratified by his present Majesty, 53. Bill for the abolition of party-rage among females, v. 39. Bill, of costs in courtship, a copy of one, iv. 171; of mortality from the country, 258, 259. Billet-doux, antediluvian, the only one extant, iv. 139, 140. Bilton, an estate there purchased by Addison, v. 424; his residence there, 512. Biographers of Grub Street compared to undertakers, v. 29. Biography, remarks on writing, v. 29. Bion, his saying on care and happiness, iv. 118. Bipennis, or securis, a weapon of the Amazons, i. 334. Birds, a cage full for the opera, ii. 240; the principle which directs each kind in the structure of their nests, 458; the male only supposed to have voices, 485; how affected by colours, iii. 411; their language, how to be learnt, iv. 33. Biron (Mareschal de), beheaded for treason by Henry IV. of France, v. 11. Birth, due honours to be ascribed to it, iv. 260. Birth-day, an endless source of female conversation, ii. 263; of the Princess of Wales, how celebrated, iv. 474; his Majesty's reflections on it, v. 68. Biscuit, Edward, Sir Roger de Coverley's butler, his letter, giving an account of the knight's illness and death, iv. 38, 39; a little vanity in the apology made for it, 30, note. Biters, a race of wags so called, ii. 327. Biton and Clitobus, story of, iii. 511. Blackmore, Sir R., observes that raillery and satire do not reclaim vice and folly, v.64; mentioned, 319, 321; accustomed to write poems in his carriage, 336, 345; with Hughes establishes The Lay Monastery, 411, 414. Black Palace of Persia described, iv. 327. Black Prince, a professed lover of the brisket, ii. 106; a truly Christian conqueror, v. 80. Bladen, Martin, Esq., v. 281. Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, v. 111. Blemishes in Mr. Addison's style, corrected, ii. 13, note. Blenheim, battle of, described, &c., i. 50; the French cavalry routed at, by the British, iv. 351. Blenheim House, device there of a lion tearing to pieces a cock, ii. 348. Blessings, a tun of, presented by the Destinies to Jupiter, ii. 101; their various effects on mankind, 102. Blois, Addison's mode of passing his time there, v. 330. Bloodshed, exhibition of, on the English stage, censured, ii. 316. Blow of flowers, remarks on the expression, i. 14, note. Blown upon, a metaphor well applied, iii. 479, note. Blue ribbon, great battles gained under its auspices, iv. 443. Bluff, Oliver, indicted for going to fight a duel, ii. 223. Boadicea, her memorable saying to her troops, iv. 427. Boccalini, his story of Apollo and the critic, iii. 198; his fable of the traveller and the grasshoppers, 344; weighs France and Spain in a political balance, and finds them nearly equal, 345. Bodily labour of two kinds, ii. 448. Body-politic, prescribed for, ii. 180. Boeotia, why so called, i. 114. Boileau, his imitation of the delicacy of Horace, i. 281; his preference of Virgil to Tasso, i 242; his remarks on wit, 362; a fault observable in his satires on the female sex, iii. 88; his translation of a fragment from Sappho, 116; his remark on fine writing, 154; answer to Perrault on Homer's similitudes, 210; his notion of the sublime in writing, iv. 226; Addison introduced to him, v. 332 Boleyn, Ann, her last letter to King Henry, iii. 374, 375. Bolingbroke, Lord, letter to Mr. Prior, v. 418; removed from office, 421; recommended to the protection of the French Regent, 482; impeachment, 662-668. Bolonia, described, i. 503; school of the Lombard painters, ib. Bolsena, its lake described, i. 488; its floating islands mentioned by Pliny, ib.; Book, a well-written one, compared to Books, recommended from various quarters to the perusal of ladies, ii. 409; the legacies of a great genius to mankind, iii. 16. Boon, Lady Mary, anagram on her by her lover, ii. 350. Borromé, St. Charles, his chapel in the great church of Milan, i. 368. Bosoms, naked, of ladies, ought to be covered, iv. 224. Bossu supposes the action of the Æneid to begin in the second book, iii. 235; his opinion on the moral of epic poetry, 282. Bottle-conversation infested with lies, iv. 25. Bouhours, his remarks on wit, ii. 360; his rule in writing alluded to by Mr. Addison, iv. 45, note; asks whether a German can be a wit, 507. Bourbon family, their possession of Spain inimical to the safety of Europe, iv. 345. Bourdeaux wine, made from sloes, ii. 92. Bourgeois, the principal Swiss, their dress, i. 527. Bouts Rimés, a favourite poetical amusement of the French, ii. 51. Bowling-green, party-humour exhibited on one, ii. 481. Boyle, his remark on the degree of sight given to the mole, ii. 463. Boyle, Charles, Earl of Orrery, v. 319, 321. Boyle, Henry, Lord Carleton, v. 384; his appointment to office and dismissal, 394. Boyne, an obscure river in Ireland, how rendered famous, i. 31. Boys and Frogs, a fable, its application, ii. 278. Brain of a beau, for what remarkable, iii. 292. Brand, Mr., his Majesty's Writer and Embellisher, v. 450. Brandenburg, elector of, a good patient to the quacks, ii. 180. Brandy, quantity drunk by the Everlasting Club, ii. 380. Brass, ancient, distinguished from modern by the taste, i. 340. Bread and butter, abandoned by some young ladies for the sake of the Spectator, iv. 5. Freeches, a modern pair of, likely hereafter to occasion a schism in the learned world, i. 261. Bremen,acquisition of that duchy, strength ened the interests of George I. in the empire, iv. 403; considered a grievance by the Pretender, 432. Brenta, river, passage on from Padua to Venice, i. 385. Brescia, town and province of, famous for iron works, i. 376; why more favoured by the Venetians than any other of their dominions, ib. Briant, his combat with his brother Philip, iv. 191; how they were rewarded by King Edward, ib. Bribery, a solicitor in the Temple of Ava rice, ii. 91; presents of liquor not to be so considered, iv. 307. Bribes offered for the places of several of the old members of the club. iv. 80; the Spectator's plan of election, 81. Bridewell Hospital, how to be encouraged, ii. 247. Bridge, built at Rimini, by Augustus and Tiberius, i. 402; of Augustus at Narni, 414; of human life, ii. 501; flights of birds hovering over it, 502. Bridges of Venice without fence on either side, i. 388. Bristol, Petition of the Merchants, Masters of Ships, and Traders of, referred to the Commissioners of Trade, v. 452. Britain, the Isle of, sacred to liberty, i. 36; the guardian of the continent, 44 how represented on medals, 328; de. scribed by the ancient poets, 329; why in a natural state of war with France, iv. 342; the present war of the greatest consequence to the kingdom, ib.; necessity of disuniting France and Spain, 343; the woollen manufacture, 344; the Levant trade, ib.; causes which straiten her commerce will enlarge that of the French, ib.; what to be the basis of a general peace, 347; her forces have been victorious in all the seats of war, ib. ; means of separating France from Spain, 348; her superiority to the enemy in military force, 351; conduct of the war, how defective, 353; how to be improved, ib.; foreign troops in her pay should be raised in neutral countries, 355; commercial spirit a disadvantage, ib.; case of French invasion considered. ib; standing army obnoxious, 356; cautions respecting the king of Sweden, 357; has the greatest share in the war of all the confederates, 359; arguments on the poverty of the nation answered, 360; rich in comparison with other states, 361; united strength of the whole island to be put forth, 362; happy nature of her constitution, 397; act for the encouragement of loyalty in Scotland, 398; patriotism and virtues of the reigning king, 400, 401; ladies, most eminent for virtue and sense, on the side of the present government, 407; why they should be averse to Popery, 409; the finest women in Britain are Whigs, 426; Declaration of the Female Association, 428; of the freeholders in answer to that of the Pretender, 429; view of the present rebellion, 436; contest not now between Whigs and Tories, but between loyalists and rebels, 449; Habeas Corpus act suspended, 457; expense during the rebellion computed at near a million, 471; her wealth renders her formidable to foreign potentates, 474; evils attending the fickle temper of the English in politics, 489; safe from future rebellion, 499; can never be ruined but by itself, v. 24; impossible for it to be quietly governed by a Popish sovereign, 30; decay of piety observable, 34; traced to the Puritans and the libertines of Charles II.'s reign, ib.; acts for making elections less frequent, 36; commerce encouraged by various sovereigns, 49; treaties of Madrid and Utrecht compared, 50; report concerning ships fetching salt from Tortuga, taken by the Spaniards, 51; necessity and advantages of trade to the British nation, 54; its prosperity secured by his present Majesty, 57; that to the Netherlands equally benefited, 56, 57; evils which would have arisen from the Pretender's success, 58; taste of the people for wit and humour, 66; considerations on the treatment his Majesty has received from some of his disaffected subjects, 68, 69; almost every man in the nation a politician, 75; first monarch of a new line always received with opposition, 76; reflections on the thanksgiving day, 78; the common people become a by-word throughout Europe for their ridiculous feuds and animosities, 84; the ecclesiastical and civil constitution preferable to any other, 86, 87; formerly a nation of saints, now a nation of statesmen, 92; divided almost wholly into Whigs and Tories, 95; their principles contrasted, 96, 97; still agitated with the remains of the rebellion, 100. British Common, the sea so called by Sir Andrew Freeport, ii. 234. British Enchanters, epilogue to, i. 82. British nation afflicted with the cacoethes scribendi, iv. 132. Britons, formerly accessory to their own disgrace, iii. 13; all honest ones agree in points of government, iv. 435; their defect in the studies of peace, v. 322. Brittle, Barnaby, his letter, comparing his wife to a mare, iii. 91. Bromley, William, fictitious Table of Contents to his Travels, v. 347. Broughton, Andrew, his epitaph, i. 514. Browbeat, Benjamin, indicted in the Court of Honour for going to fight a duel, ii. 223. Bwn, Sir Thomas, his opinicn of a proverb of Solomon, iii. 36. Brown, Tom, the first who introduced an enigmatical way of writing in satires, iv. 106. Brunswick, instances of hereditary courage in that family, iv. 402. Brutes, guided by instinct, ii. 459. Brutus the younger, a silver medal of him at Bolonia, i. 503. Brutus, his exclamation before his death, iii. 304; a saying of his on denying, 470; his remark on the egotism of Cicero, iv. 99; his example misconstrued by regicides, v. 85. Bruyere, his character of a sloven, iv. 338. Bubb, Mr., letter to Addison, v. 491; his memorial on the expedition to Sardinia, 495; his report as to valuations of English goods in Spain, 500. Bubnelia, her invective against the discourse on tuckers, iv. 204. Bucephalus to be represented in an opera by a dromedary, ii. 293. Buckingham (Duke of), his mode of converting a malcontent, iv. 463. Buckinghamshire alderman, who gets drunk in praise of aristocracy, v. 92. Buckley's, Mr., in Little Britain, the address of the Spectator, ii. 232. Buffon, his system of natural history animadverted on, ii. 464, note. Buffoonery, the offspring of false humour, ii. 300. Bull, an emblem of agriculture, i. 321; of the pope, acts in concert with Mr. Ironside's lion, iv. 225. Bulla, a part of the dress of the Romans, i. 261; its form various, 467. Bulleyn, Ann, King Henry the Eighth's letter to her in the Vatican library, i. 481. Bullion, want of, experienced in Britain, iv. 344. Bullock, Mr., his degree of rank among the players, iv. 49. Bullock and Norris, differently habited, prove great helps to a silly play, ii. 318. Bully Dawson kicked by Sir Roger de Coverley, ii. 232. Bunyan has as many readers as Tillotson, iv. 375. Burchett, Josiah, Esq., letter from Temple Stanyan to, v. 508. Burgundy, the great Duke of, destroyed in battle by the Swiss, i. 519. Burgundy wine made from water, ii. 94. Burlesque, of two kinds, iii. 148; in the Iliad, 188. Burnett, D. Tho., sacræ theoriæ telluris autorem, Poema, ad, i. 251. Burnt-offering of Shalum on the day of his nuptials, iv 142. Busby, Dr., Sir Roger de Cverley's remark on him, iii. 330. Business, of mankind in this ife, is rather to act than to know, iii. 128; men of, their familiar metaphors, 428; public, advantage of employing men of learning in, 488. Busts of Roman emperors and empresses at Florence, i. 496, 497. Busy, Benjamin, indicted in the Court of Honour, by Jasper Tattle, ii. 222. But, licentiously used for than, ii. 501, note; repeated in a sentence, redundant, iii. 174, note; for than, iv. 88, note, 91; a disquisition on the use of that particle, 57, 58, note. Butcher, in Clare-market, his bribe to Mr. Bickerstaffe, ii. 106. Button's coffee-house, skin of a dead lion to be hung up there in terrorem, iv. 165, 166; happy project of opening the lion's head for intelligence, 175; But'ton's name Daniel, a good omen for the lion, 269. Butts, in conversation, ii. 328. Buzzard, Ben., Esq., indicted in the Court of Honour, ii. 213. Bysshe, Dr. Philip, Bp. of St. David's, v. 390. C., speculations so marked, ascribed to the clergyman, iii. 103. Cacoethes scribendi, an epidemic disease, iv. 132. Cacus, comparison of Sappho to him, by Plutarch, iii. 105; the story of, in Virgil, probably founded on an old local tradition, v. 220. Cadaval, Duke of, v. 358. Cadiz, letters concerning affairs of trade there, v. 443. Cadmus, founds Exotia, i. 115; slays a dragon, 117; sows a field with its teeth, which grow into armed men, 118. Cadogan, Brigadier, succeeds General Churchill at the Tower, v. 357. Caduceus, on old coins, an emblem of peace, i. 300. Cæsar, his reverse an elephant, and why, ii. 347; his character contrasted with that of Cato, iii. 20; his remedy for baldness, 121; a noble saying of his, 162; his magnanimous saying on hope, 492; cultivated the arts and sciences, iv. 211; thought nothing done while aught remained undone, 348; his observation on the ancient Britons, v. 55; why murdered by Brutus, 86. Cæsar's Commentaries, new edition of, an honour to the English press, iii. 349. Cæsarini, Prince, his palace at Jensano, i. 485. Cairo, for what purpose visited by the Spectator, ii. 230; Oriental manuscripts picked up there by the Spectator, 499. Cajeta, a rock of marble at, said to have been cleft by an earthquake at the crucifixion, i. 453; why so called, 454. Calabria, celebrated for honey. i. 326. Calais, candestine trade of French packetmasters there, v. 498. Calamities, a tun of, presented by the Destinies to Jupiter, ii. 101; their various effects on mankind, 102; in the language of the gods, blessings, iii. 478. Calf's Head Club, hymns and devotions made for it by a pious Tory, iv. 424. Caligula, his bust at Florence, i. 496; its rarity, ib.; his inhuman wish, ii. 267. Calisto, story of, i. 99; turned into a bear by Juno, is placed among the constellations by Jupiter, 102. Callicoat, Edward, indicted in the Court of Honour, and why acquitted, ii. 212. Calliope, her station on the floating Par nassus, iv. 222. Calumny, best answered by silence, ii. 98; the offspring of party-spirit, 476; why difficult to be restrained, iii. 458; how to be silenced, iv. 254. Calvin, his dying advice to the Genevois, i. 528. Cambrai, archbishop of, his Telemachus considered, ii, 128; styled the French Homer, ib., note. Cambric, Charles, a linen-draper, indicted by the Lady Touchwood, ii. 211. Camden, quotation from his History of Queen Elizabeth, v. 24. Camel, mention of the, by Persius, i. 336. Camilla, the actress, her distresses and exit from the theatre, ii. 2; her character, by Virgil, 265; her message to Turnus, and heroic death, 377. Campaign, The, a poem to the Duke of Marlborough, i. 42; the execution better than the plan, ib., note; occasion of its composition, v. 346; Addison's reward for writing it, 420. Campania of old Rome, more populous than all modern Italy, i. 419; its bad air to what attributable, 487. Canal, from Leghorn to the Arno, i. 491. Candish, Mrs. Heneage, her marriage with Lord Huntingtower, v. 354. Candle-snuffer, at the opera, plays the part of the lion, ii. 260. Candour, distinguishes a critic from a cavalier, iv. 207. Canes, licences for wearing, ii. 44. Cani, the Grotto del, near Naples, described, i. 436. Canticles written in a noble spirit of Eastern poetry, iii. 231. Cap worn by the Eastern nations, i. 312. Capitaneos, chief officers of the commonwealth of St. Marino, i. 405. Caprea, isle of, described, i. 427; its fruitful soil, 443; ruins of its Pharos, 445. scene of the brutal pleasures of Tiberius, 446; account of medals found there, 447, 448. Caprice. her station in the Temple of Duiness, ii. 363; often acts in the place of reason, iii. 61. |