Monaco, its harbour described by Lucan,
i. 360; garrisoned by the French, 361. Monarchs, the late British, their fickle and unsteady politics a source of dis- sension, iv. 401.
Monarchy, its genius attendant on liberty, ii. 140; unlimited, arguments for and against, iii. 298; absolute and limited, considered, iv. 390, 391. Money lowered and advanced at the will of the king of France, iv. 465. Money-bags, transformed to sticks and paper, ii. 239.
Monkey, letter respecting one, ii. 287, 288.
Monkeys, battles between, described by Tavernier, v. 83.
Monkish ignorance delighted in false wit, ii, 350.
Monmouth cock, still worn by country 'squires, ii. 490.
Monopoly, of snow at Naples, i. 441; of noses, ii. 216.
Monosyllables abounding in the English language, ii. 497.
Mons, the taking of, noticed, ii. 17. Montague, Mr., his poetry celebrated, i. 26; his poem to King William, an ex- cellent stroke in it, 148; dedication of Latin poems to, 232; advanced to the Treasury by King William, iv. 422. Montague, Charles. See Halifax, Lord. Montagu, Wortley, v. 331; proposal to relieve him at Constantinople by Mr. Stanyan, 492; letters to, 331, 335, 336, 369, 370, 372, 491.
Montagu, Lady Wortley, letter to Pope on Addison's appointment as Secretary of State, v. 437; her quarrel with Pope, 438.
Montaigne, a pattern for essay-writing, iii. 497; his egotism ridiculed by the younger Scaliger, iv. 99, 100.
Monte Circeio, why supposed by Homer to have been an island, i. 453; Æneas's passage near it described by Virgil, 454. Monte Fiascone, i. 488.
Monte Novo, thrown out by an eruption of fire, i. 438.
Monmouth's rebellion atrociously pun- ished, v. 14.
Monument, the fox-hunter's visit to, v. 71. Monuments, in Westminster Abbey, con- templated, ii. 283; remarkable ones, raised by Eastern nations, iii. 343. Moon, used as an emblem on medals, i. 305, 308; a new one, to be sold, ii. 4. Moore, Dr. his system of ethics unde- servedly neglected, ii. 401; his proof of a Providence in the formation of the mole, 463.
Moorfields, for what famous, iv. 24. Moors celebrated for their horsemanship, i. 424.
Mopsa, why in great danger of her life, ii. 100.
Moral inculcated in Paradise Lost, iii. 282. Moral papers, two, why as pleasing as any in the Spectator, though on the com- monest of all subjects, i. 123, note. Moral virtues tend to prenote public as well as private prosperity, iv. 502. Moral world of a mixed nature, iii. 430. Moral writers prescribe to their readers in the Galenic way, ii. 473.
Morality, discourses on, the best means of improving the mind, iii. 98; its pre- eminence to faith, 473; not perfect un- less supported by Christian faith, 474; strengthens faith, 484.
More, Sir Thomas, his gaiety in life and cheerfulness in death, iii. 340; his Latin verses on the choice of a wife, iv. 317. More preferable, a blunder not imputed to Mr. Addison, iii. 395, note.
Morge, a trading town on the lake of Ge- neva, its artificial port, i. 514. Morning hymn, in Paradise, iii. 232. Morocco, emperor of, 3000 dollars and £500 paid to him, v. 479.
Morpheus, a statue of him at Florence in touchstone, i. 497; why represented by ancient statuaries under the figure of a boy, ib.; in what manner addressed by Statius, 498.
Morphew, John, chamber-keeper to the Censor of Great Britain, ii. 142. Mortal, the epithet as applied to author very expressive, ii. 396, note. Mortality, a bill of, an argument for Pro- vidence, iii. 300; a bill of, on persons who died for love, 354, 355.
Mosaic, Roman, much improved, i. 485; of what composed, ib.
Moselle, a disputed boundary between France and the allies, i. 43.
Moses, his serpent compared to a well- written book, ii. 253; a Jewish tradition concerning him, iii. 130; certain pas- sages in his history copied by Milton, 278; in whose name sent to Pharaoh, iv. 146; his heroic patriotism, 414. Most preferable, a solecism, v. 96, note. Mother, a disconsolate one, with a child, often introduced in tragedies, ii. 315; letter from one, to a lord who had abused her daughter, iv. 245, 246. Motives to good actions ought to be en- couraged, iv. 308.
Motto, a handsome one, its effect, iii. 102; of a bishop in Charles II 's reign, v. 65, 66. Mountebanks, their artifices to insnare the vulgar, ii. 180.
Much Cry but Little Woel, to whom ap- plied, iii. 150.
Mucro, or point, of a coquette's heart, its qualities, iii. 294.
Mulberry-tr es, their various uses in Italy,
Muley Ishmael, emperor of Morocco, iv. 436; his cruelties, 437; his notion of
property, 438; and of justice, ib.; his reply to Sir Cloudesley Shovell, 439; his attachment to the French king, ib. Multicium, a Roman vest of fine tissue, i. 278.
Multos et fælices, the Roman birth-day salutation, v. 67.
Murder, in duelling, how to be defined, ii. 26.
Musæum, a street so called in honour of
the daughter of Pythagoras, iv. 321. Musæus makes a noble figure in the sixth Eneid, iv. 203.
Muscovy, news from, estimated, ii. 126. Musculi amatorii, or ogling muscles in a beau's head, iii. 291, 292.
Muse, Sappho called the Tenth, iii. 105. Muses, how represented by Homer and Hesiod, iii. 384.
Musgrave, Mr., his loss of a thousand pounds, v. 360.
Music, its charms, i. 22; Italian, its effect spoiled when applied to English_trans- lations, ii. 269; English, exploded by foreign, 271; recitative, rules respect- ing, 289; a religious art among the Jews, iii. 384; how cultivated among other ancient nations, ib.; strengthens devotion, 385; different nations have different tastes for it, v. 223. Musical apparatus, why introduced into the Vision of Mirzah, ii. 499, note. Musical instruments of the ancients con- sidered, i. 465.
Mutability of temper, the greatest weak- ness in nature, iii. 3.
Mutes, of the Turks, a wise institution, iv. 235.
Mutton-pie, the origin of the Kit-cat Club, ii. 251.
Myia, a daughter of Pythagoras, her works and history famous in Lucian's time, iv. 321; the street in which she lived called the Musæum, ib.
Mysticism of antiquaries exemplified, i. 270. Mythology, heathen, not admissible in modern poetry except in mock-heroics, iv. 45; by what substituted in Mr. Phillips's Pastorals, ib.
Nabopharzon, a tyrant, his punishment after death, ii. 129.
Naked bosoms of ladies, a Quaker's letter on, iv. 224.
Namby Pamby, origin of, v. 695.
Names of authors to their works, the in-
conveniences of, iii. 457. Namur, siege of, described, i. 6. Naples, i. 424; its religious ceremonies and representations in the holy week, ib.; miracle of St. Januarius's blood, a bungling trick, ib.; its many super- stitions, ib.; its delightful bay, 427; its pleasant situation, ib.; litigious temper
of the inhabitants, 428; different from what it was in Statius's time, 429; the people oppressed when governed by the Spaniards, ib.; severity of the taxes, ib.; why called by the ancients Parthe- nope, 430; described by Silius Italicus and others, ib.; the antiquities and natural curiosities about it, 431; the great alteration of the adjacent parts from what they were formerly, 432; its catacombs, 435; grotto del Cani, 436; Vesuvio, 438; manner of furnishing the town with snow, 441.
Naples, Milan, and Flanders, were rather ornaments than strength to Spain, iv. 345.
Nar, river, described, i. 29. Narborough, Lady, married Sir Cloudesley Shovell, v. 364.
Narcissus, the offspring of Cephisus and Liriope, i. 125; story of, 126; falls in love with his own image at a fountain, and turns into a flower, 129; statue of, 472; a fine statue at Florence, 497. Narni, celebrated for the ruins of Augus-
tus's bridge, i. 414; why so called, ib. Nassau, panegyric on that family, i. 31, 37. Nastiness, or slovenliness, exposed by La Bruyere, iv. 338.
Nathan, his fable of the poor man and his lamb, one of the oldest extant, iii. 45. Nation, which disregards justice hastens to ruin, iv. 176; a general decay of virtue shows a want of patriotism in its inhabitants, 411; flourishes in propor- tion to the prevalence of that principle, 413; none could be happy under a king of a contrary religion, v. 59; instance of Sweden, 59, 60.
Nationality of Homer's and Virgil's po- ems, a great charm to the Greeks and Romans, v. 221.
Natural history recommended as a sub- ject for the Guardian, iv. 306. Nature, full of wonders, ii. 155; distribu- tion of her blessings to encourage com- merce among mankind, 371; delights in simple diet, iii. 65; described as dis- turbed by the guilt of our first parents, 261; its works more delightful to the imagination than those of art, 403. Nature, animated, its gradations, iv. 42. Naval power of Great Britain nourished by commerce, v. 54.
N. B. of great use in advertisements, ii. 167. Neapolitans, their aversion to the king of
France, i. 375; their litigious character, 428; their laziness, 430; why addicted to pleasure, ib.
Neck and arms represented bare on old Roman statues, i. 461.
Necks, untuckered, roaring of the lion against, iv. 251; how displayed by the prevailing fashion, 252, their various lengths, 271.
Neckar, the arrival of Marlborough's
Needles, sympathetic, a means of corre- spondence, iv. 238, 239.
Negroes, two, a story of, iii. 96, 97. Negroes, their notion of a future state of happiness, iv. 40.
Neither, a disjunctive, improperly used, iv. 27, note.
Nemæan games, what was the reward of the victor, i. 329.
Nemesis, an old maid, a great discoverer
of judgments, iii. 508.
Nemeses, the two goddesses of Fortune, their office, i. 456.
Nemi, Lake, why so called, i. 485. Nemours, the Duchess of, succession to
her in the government of Neuf-Chatel disputed, i. 530.
Nepotism of the popes, conducive to the splendour of Rome, i. 421. Neptune, a candidate for the guardianship of Athens, rejected, v. 22; his curse, ib.; his trident, mystery of, i. 269. Nera, river, described, i. 413. Nero, explanation of the medal on his marriage with his sister Octavia, i. 306; represented on a medal, fiddling, 342; foundations of his port still visible, 455; bust of a young, in the Villa Borghese, 467.
Nerva, insolence of the Prætorian guards under, i. 315; his bust at Florence, 496.
Netheno, a town on the coast between Naples and Rome, for what remark- able, i. 455.
Netherlands, trade to, settled to the ad- vantage of the British merchants, v. 56. Neuf-Chatel, a dispute about the succes- sion to its government, i. 530. Neutral states, foreign troops in British pay to be raised from, iv. 355. Neutrality on certain opinions to be ob- served, ii. 452; when rebellion is going on, is criminal, iv. 448; law of Solon against it, ib.
New changes, an improper expression, i. 387, note.
New England, report on its trade to Ter- tuga for salt, v. 51, 52.
New Jersey, divisions and disorders in, v. 474.
New or uncommon, everything that is so, a source of pleasure to the imagination, iii. 398; what understood by the term with respect to objects, ib.; improves what is great and beautiful, ib.; why a secret pleasure annexed to ideas of it, 402; everything so that pleases in ar- chitecture, 410.
New River, a project for bringing it into the Opera-house, ii. 241.
Newberry, Mr., device to represent his name, ii. 348.
Newcastle, Duke of, nominated b the
king as godfather to the young prince. v. 507. Newcastle, Duke and Duchess of, a noble inscription on their monument, ii. 423. Newman, Richard his indictment in the Court of Honour, 1. 204.
News, a dialogue concerning, ii. 125; its publication, how to be regulated in the London cries, iii. 151; the general thirst of Englishmen for it remarkable, 461; inflamed by the late wars, ib.; food for newsmongers, ib.; ludicrous specimen of news, 463; of the battle of Chevy Chase, how received by the Scottish and English kings, ii. 376.
Newsmongers, a debate among, ii. 126; characterized, 254; haunted by lions, iv. 165.
Newspaper advertisements, humorously imitated, in praise of the Spectator, iv.74. Newspapers, abounding in French phrases, iii. 13; established in country towns, v.
93. News-writers, their principles rather than their veracity considered, v. 94. News-writers of Great Britain, v. 230. Newton, Sir Isaac, his calculations on the comet of the year 1680, ii. 426; an eu- logium on, iv. 71; calls infinite space the sensorium of the Godhead, 104. Nice, Sir Courtly, play of, divides the audience into Whigs and Tories, v. 25. Nicolini, his combat with a lion in the Haymarket, ii. 259; his friendship for his antagonist, 261; a model for acting to English tragedians, 262; the Spec- tator's regret on his leaving the opera, iii. 382.
Nightingale, its music delightful to a man in love, iii. 362; and the lutanist, the famous contest between, furnished a hint to Mr. Phillips in his Pastorals, iv. 239, 240.
Nigranilla forced by a pimple to patch on the Whig side, ii. 390.
Nile, described, i. 94; Ovid's noble verses on, 144; why represented by sculptors in black stone, 498.
Nisida, the isle of, described, i. 449. Nithisdale, Lord, a country gentlewoman taken for him, iv. 494; a farce now. writing on his escape, v. 26. Nobility consists in virtue, not in birth, iv. 260; a regard to ancestry and pos terity ought to excite us to virtue, 264. Nomenclators, their office, in old Rome, iv. 199.
Non-resistance, interpreted into either loy- alty or rebellion by a rebel chaplain, iv. 405; the doctrine of, misrepresented to the people, 435; its real meaning, ib. Nonsense, a panegyric on, iv. 385; two kinds of it, high and low, 385, 386. Nor, misused for but, 372, note. Norfolk gentleman run mad for the loss of his greyhound, ii. 100.
Norris, Sir John, sent Envoy Plenipoten- | tiary to the Czar of Muscovy, v. 466. Northern parts fruitful in bagpipes, ii.
Northey, Sir Edward, Attorney-general, v. 455.
Nosegay, its etymology, ii. 158, note. Noses, a dissertation upon them, ii. 213. Notes, on the story of Phaeton, i. 140- 145; on Europa's rape, 145; on the stories in the third book of the Meta- morphoses, 145-153.
Notre Dame, church, at Inspruck, erected in gratitude to the blessed Virgin, i. 536.
Notwithstanding, a distinction in the ap- plication of the word, i. 530, note. Nova Zembla, account of a thaw of words there, by Sir John Mandeville, ii. 195, &c.; a native of, his love for his coun- try, iv. 411.
Novel, an antediluvian one, iv. 137, 138. Novelty, a source of pleasure to the ima- gination, iii. 397.
November, for what remarkable in Eng- land, iii. 365.
Now, eternal, in Cowley's description of heaven, iv. 146.
N. R. a suitor for the post of outriding lion, iv. 230.
Numbers in the lottery, curious caprices respecting, iii. 61; premium advertised for one, ib.
Numidians celebrated for horsemanship, i. 325.
Nun, her assignation with a heathen god, at a masquerade, iv. 281.
Nutmeg of Delight, a title of the empe- ror of Persia, ii. 505.
Nyctimene, the owl, the bird of Minerva, i. 105.
Nyon, in Switzerland, supposed to have been the site of the colonia equestris, planted by Julius Cæsar, i. 515.
Oaken garland, on old medals, explained, i. 299; when distributed as a reward, ib.; a Roman reward for saving the life of a citizen, v. 82.
Oates, Dr. Titus, partiality of a lady to his cause, ii 342.
Oath, a hard thing that it should be a man's master, iv. 393.
Oaths, imply a most important obligation,
iv. 416; those who take them with men- tal reserves, are guilty of perjury, 417; how venerated by the heathens, 418; ought to make a still deeper impression on Christians, ib.; virtue of the Athe- nians in regard to them, 419. Obedience, impossible to state its mea- sure without settling the extent of power, iv. 391.
Obelisks in Rome charged with hiero- glyphics, i. 480.
Observator, The, expires, v. 363.
Obstinacy, in prejudices, not to be mis. taken for virtuous constancy, iv. 491. Ocean, how a contemplation of it affects the imagination, iv. 7.
Ocriculum, ruins of its castle, i. 414. Octavia, medal on her marriage with her brother Nero, i. 306.
October Club, ii. 251.
Ocyrrhöe, her prophecy concerning Æscu- lapius, i. 106; transformed into a mare, 107.
Ode to Venus, by Sappho, iii. 107; pre- served by a Greek critic as a perfect pattern, 108; specimen of an ode, with various readings, 489, 490; a divine one, on Providence, iv. 9, 10.
Oddly, Lady Mary, her marriage to Sir John Anvil, iii. 311.
Odium "laid at a man's door," iv. 382. Odyssey, represented in sculpture by an
aplustre, i. 473; styled by some ancient critics, a kind of fable, iii. 45.
Odyssey of Tryphiodorus, for what re- markable, ii. 347.
Edipus, tragedy of, a specimen of rant from, ii. 310; a story most proper for tragedy, iii. 199; his dying request, beautiful and pathetic, 271; lines from, on meteors of the night, iv. 187; his riddle to the Sphynx, 371; explained,
Of's, three coming together, spoil a fine sentence, 362, note.
Offences divided into those of omission and commission, iv 448.
Officiousness of a landlady, ii. 256. Ogler, in the Court of Honour, prosecuted, ii 221.
Oglers, or squint-eyed people, an assem- bly of them, iii. 351.
Ogling-master, his letter, ii. 325.
Old jokes, in conversation, how detected, iv. 101.
Old men, caution to such, ii. 60.
Old Testament, written in a full-bottomed periwig, ii. 345; has passages more sublime than any in Homer, 504. Old Whig, The, v. 236, 247, 284. Old woman chosen by Moliere as the critic on his comedies, ii. 374.
Old women, their fables, ill effects of them on young persons, ii. 257; in the coun- try, often reputed witches, 454; judged by Rhadamanthus, iv. 298, 299. Oldham, Mr., his raillery on chaplains, ii. 201.
Olivares, Count d', why disgraced at the court of Madrid, iii. 303.
Olives, abundance of them in Spain, i. 326. Olivia, her letter of thanks for the dis-
course on tuckers, iv. 206; her modesty the result of her complexion, 207. Olon, St., French envoy to Morocco, his account of the emperor, iv. 436. Olphis, a fisherman, cured by the Lover's Leap, iii. 123.
Olympiad, the 250th, number of persons who took the Lover's Leap in that period, iii. 124.
Olympic games, medals struck in honour of the winners at, i. 260. Omen, wittily broken, ii. 245. Omnipresence and omniscience of the Deity considered, iv. 104; a conscious- ness of them how affecting the condi- tion of intellectual beings, 113; a sub- ject which should always engage our meditations, 132.
One, the pronoun, Addison's use of, v. 734. Oneirocritic, or an interpreter of dreams, in Moorfields, iv. 23, 24.
Onslow, Tom, his motions on the pension list, v. 646, 650.
Opening of a dog, a cruel anatomical ex- periment. ii. 73.
Openings of the heart, in what persons laudable, iv. 99, note.
Openness of conduct, a remedy for jea- lousy, iii. 27.
Opera, its decorations criticised, ii. 240; - Italian, its progress on the English stage, 269; ill effect of translations, ib.; in- troduction of Italian actors, 270. Operas, Venetian, their absurdities, i. 392. Oporto Merchants, petition of the, v. 529. See Methuen.
Opposition against ministers, according to
some men, can never be wrong, iv. 75. Oppression, attendant on poverty, i. 141. Optics, a common experiment in, iii. 404. Or, a disjunctive, requires a verb in the singular number, iv. 244, note. Oracle, a remarkable one, on the war be- tween Athens and Lacedæmon, iii. 83. Orange-flower-men and their petitions, how treated, ii. 47.
Orators, female, several kinds of them de- scribed, iii. 143; English, use less ges- ture than those of other countries, 385; their gestures ridiculous, 387; ancient, their eloquence more relished by the ancients than the moderns, v. 222. Oratory, modesty how far requisite in, iii. 119.
Ordinary, why used for ordinarily, iv. 165, note.
Ordnance, Board of, letter to the, v. 485. Orestes, his revenge of his father's death, how contrived, ii. 317.
Origen, his remark of the charge of magic alleged by Celsus against the Chris- tians, v. 110; the most learned and able philosopher of his age, 118; appointed regent of the catechetical school of Alex- andria, 122; his observation on a pro- phecy of our Saviour, 133; on that which foretold the universal preaching of the gospel, 134; and the destruction of Jerusalem, 135; the dispersion of the Jews, 136; represents the power of Christianity in reforming mankind as miraculous, 138.
Orkney, Lord, Governor of Virginia, v. 359.
Orleans, Duke of, reported to be about to take the command of French army, v. 349.
Ormond, Duke of, succeeds Lord Whar- ton as Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, v. 397; Addison presented to him, 398; riot in London on his birthday, 433; expelled from France, 466; impeached, attainted, and his estates forfeited, 503; his death, ib.-accused by the Secret Committee, 653, 654, 657, 659, 669; or- ders and counter-orders sent to, 662, 663; Addison expresses his reluctance to vote on his impeachment, 671. Ormond Street, regulations of a club in, ii. 250.
Ornaments, fantastic, indications of vice, ii. 266
Oropeza, Count, v. 362.
Orpheus, the power of his lyre, i. 21, 82; transmigration of his soul into a swan, iii. 90; his wife an exemplary woman, iv. 318.
Orrery, Earl of, his taciturnity in parka. ment, v. 725; his comparison of Addi- son, Bolingbroke, and Swift, 731. See Boyle.
Orthography in Roman inscriptions, i. 263.
Os cribriforme of a beau's head described, iii. 291.
Osiris, a deity of the Egyptians, i. 324. Osnaburg, bishopric of, strengthened the interests of George I. in the empire, iv. 403. Ostentation in wealth, its tendency, iv. 333.
Ostia, the port of, a work of Claudius, i.
455; medal representing its former state compared with Juvenal's descrip- tion, 457.
Otho, the head of, an antiquary_used to swear by, i. 256; his bust at Florence, 496; two medals of his, 504.
Otricoli, a village near Narni, described, i. 414.
Otway, wherein excellent in tragedy, ii. 307; his description of an old hag, 453; his Monimia's tender complaint on her lover's absence, iii. 134.
Outriding lion proposed, iv. 230. Outvie, improper use of the word, i. 505, note.
Overwise, a gross tribe of fools so termed, iv 109.
Ovid, his Metamorphoses, the story of Phaeton from, i. 87; Phaeton's sisters transformed into trees, 96; transforma- tion of Cycnus into a swan, 98; story of Calisto, 99; story of Coronis and birth of Esculapius, 103; Ocyrrhöe trans- formed into a mare, 106; transforma- tion of Battus to a touch-stone, 107; story of Aglauros transformed into a
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