Hobb's, Mr. his observation upon laughter, 121.

Honeycomb, Will. his knowledge of mankind, 252. His letter to
the Spectator, 333.

Honour, wherein commendable, and when to be exploded, 242,&c.
Honours in this world under no regulation, 474.

Human nature, the same in all reasonable creatures, 182.

Humour to be described only by negatives, 87. The genealogy
of true and false humour, 88.

I.

Iambic verse, the most proper for Greek tragedies, 95.
Ichneumon, a great destroyer of crocodile's eggs, 313.
Idiots in great request at most of the German courts, 122.
Idolatry, the offspring of a mistaken devotion, 439.1
Idols, who of the fair sex so called, 192.

Jealousy described, 374. How to be allayed, 379.
Ill-nature, an imitator of zeal, 413.

Imma, the daughter of Charles the Great, her story, 401.
Immortality of the soul, arguments in proof of it, 267, &c.
Impudence gets the better of modesty, 9.

Indian kings, some of their observations during their stay here,
125, &c.

Indiscretion more hurtful than ill-nature, 62.

Infidelity, another term for ignorance, 416.

Injuries, how to be measured, 59.

Innocence, and not quality, an exemption from reproof, 85.

Instinct, the power of it in brutes, 287.

Interest, often a promoter of persecution, 412.

Italians, their writers florid and wordy, 18.

Jupiter Ammon, an answer of his oracle to the Athenians, 451.

K.

Knowledge, the pursuits of it long, but not tedious, 233. The
only means to extend life beyond its natural dimensions, 237.

L.

Labour, bodily, of two kinds, 274.

Lacedemonians, a form of prayer used by them, 451.

Lady's library described, 91, &c.

Lampoons writ by people who can't spell, 48. Witty ones inflict
wounds that are incurable, 58. The inhuman barbarity of the
ordinary scribblers of them, 61.

Language, the English much adulterated during the war, 363.
Latin of great use in a country auditory, 477.

Laughter, the provocations to it, 121.

Lawyers, the peaceable and litigious described, 55.

Lear, king, a tragedy suffers in the alteration, 101.
Lee, the poet, well turned for tragedy, 98.

Leonora, her character, 93. Description of her country seat
ibid.

Leontine and Eudoxus, their great friendship and adventures,
300, &c.
Letters. To the Spectator, complaining of the masquerade, 25.
From Charles Lillie, 50. From a valetudinarian, 63. From
one who would be inspector of the sign-posts, 71. From the
master of the show at Charing-Cross,_74. From a husband
plagued with a Gospel gossip, 120. From an ogling-master,
121. From Sam Hopewell, 217. From Leonora, reminding
the Spectator of the catalogue, 225. From the master of the
fan exercise, 249. From Will Wimble to Sir Roger de Co-
verley, with a jack, 260. To the Spectator, from

com-

plaining of the new petticoat, 316. From a lawyer on the cir
cuit, with an account of the progress of the fashions in the
country, 324. From Will Honeycomb, 333. From Leonora,
who had just lost her lover, 352. From a young officer to his
father, 364. To the Spectator, from with an account of

a whistling match at Bath, 396. From, who had married
without her father's consent, 398. From, concerning
Nicholas Hart, the annual sleeper, 408. From a father to his
son, 420. From George Gosling, about a ticket in the lottery,
425. From a bastard, complaining of his illigetimacy, 443.
To the Spectator, from Belvidera, complaining of a female se-
ducer, 445. From a country clergyman, against affected sing-
ing of psalms in churches, 447. From Robin Goodfellow, con-
taining the correction of an errata in Sir William Temple's
rule for drinking, 448. From Melissa, who has a drone to her
husband, 461. From Barnaby Brittle, whose wife is a filly,
462. From Josiah Henpeck, who is married to a grimalkin,
ibid. From Martha Tempest, complaining of her witty hus-
band, ibid.

Letter-droppers of antiquity, 148.

Library. A lady's library described, 91.

Life in what manner our lives are spent, according to Seneca,
228, &c. A survey of it in a vision, 340. To what compared
in the Scriptures and by the heathen philosophers, 474, 475.
Lion in the Hay-market, occasions many conjectures in the town,
39. Very gentle to the Spectator, 40.

London, an emporium for the whole earth, 178,

Lottery, some discourse on it, 423.

Luxury described with its attendant avarice, and a fable of those
two vices, 130. Of our modern meals, 429.

M.

Males among the birds have only voices, 320.

Man a sociable animal, 27. Variable in his temper, 348.

Maple, Will, an impudent libertine, 441.

Masquerade, a complaint against it, 25. The design of it, 26.
Mazarin, his behaviour to Quillet, who had reflected on him in a
poem, 60.

Merchants of great benefit to the public, 181.

Mixt wit described, 163, &c.

Mixt communion of men and spirits in Paradise, as described by
Milton, 38.

Mizran, the visions of, 338.

Mode, a standing mode or dress recommended, 323.

Moliere made an old woman a judge of his plays, 182.
Money-bags transformed to sticks and paper, 14.

Monuments in Westminster-Abbey examined by the Spectator,

67,

&c.

Motto, the effects of a handsome one, 477.

Music banished by Plato from his commonwealth, 54.

Of a re

lative nature, 77.

N.

Newberry, Mr. his rebus, 150.

New-river, a project to bring it into the playhouse, 17.
Nicholas Hart, the annual sleeper, 408.

Nicolini, Signior, his voyage on pasteboard, 15. His combat with
a lion, and why thought to be a sham one, 39, &c.

An excellent actor, 42.

Nutmeg of delight, one of the Persian emperor's titles, 345.

0.

Oates, Dr. a favourite with some party ladies, 142.

Obedience of children to their parents the basis of all govern-
ment, 422.

Obscurity the only defence against reproach, 245.

Ogler. The complete ogler, 121.

Old maids generally superstitious, 21. Testament in a peruke, 146.
Opera, as it is the present entertainment of the English stage,
considered, 16, &c. The progress it has made on our theatre,
51, &c. Some account of the French opera, 77, &c.
Opportunities to be carefully avoided by the fair sex, 433.
Order necessary to be kept up in the world, 475.

Otway commended and censured, 98.

Oxford scholar, his great discovery in a coffee-house, 119.

P.

Painter and taylor often contribute to the success of a tragedy
more than a poet, 106.

Parents, their taking a liking to a particular profession, often oc-
casions their sons to miscarry, 57.

Particles, English, the honour done to them in the late operas, 52.
Parties crept much into the conversation of the ladies, 140, &c.
An instance of their malice, 307. The dismal effects of a
furious party spirit, 308. It corrupts both our morals and judg-
ment, 309. And reigns more in the country than town, 315, 316.
Party zeal, very bad for the face, 141.

Party scribblers reproved, 310.

Passions of the fan, a treatise for the use of the author's scho
lars, 252.

Passions, their various operations, 468. The strange disorders
they breed in the mind when not regulated by virtue, 470.
Peace with France, some ill consequences of it, 113, &c.
Pedants, their several classes, 21. Who so to be reputed, 454.
The book pedant the most supportable, 255.

Persians, their institution of their youth, 243. Their notion of
parricide, 442.

Petticoat, hoop, complaint against it, 316. Several conjectures
upon it, 317. Compared to an Egyptian temple, 319.
Philosophers, why longer lived than other men, 431.

Philosophy, the use of it, 22. Said to be brought by Socrates
down from heaven, 32.

Physic the substitute of exercise or temperance, 429.

Physicians and surgeons, their different employment, 48. The
physicians a formidable body of men, compared to the British
army in Cæsar's time, 56, 57. They convert one distemper
into another, 63.

Piety, an ornament to human nature, 439.

Pinkethman to personate King Porus upon an elephant, 80.
Place and precedency more contested by those of inferior rank
than ladies of quality, 283.

Plato, his notion of the soul, 220. Wherein, according to him.
and his followers, the punishment of a voluptuous man consists,
221. His account of Socrates's behaviour the morning he was
to die, 405.

Pleasure and pain, a marriage between them, 406.

Poems in picture, 144.

Poets, English, reproved, 96, &c. Their artifices, 107, &c.
Pontignan, M. his adventure with two women, 222, &c.

Posterity, its privilege, 245.

Powel, Senior, to act Alexander the Great on a dromedary, 80.

His artifice to raise a clap, 102.

Prejudice, the prevalency of it, 246.

Pride, a man crazed with it a mortifying sight, 437.

Procuress, her trade, 446.

Prodicus, the first inventor of fables, 404.

Professions, the three great ones overburdened with practitioners,

55, &c.

Projector, a short description of one, 79, &c.

Providence, demonstrative arguments for it, 285.

VOL. I.

K k

Punning, much recommended by the practice of all ages, and in
what age it chiefly flourished, 157. A famous university much
infested with it, 158. Why banished at present out of the
learned world, ibid, &c. Definition of a pun, 158.

Q.

Quality, no exemption from reproof, 85. Is either of fortune,
body, or mind, 472.

R.

Rants considered as blemishes in our English tragedy, 102.
Rape of Proserpine, a French opera, 78.

Readers divided into the mercurial and saturnine, 394.

Reason not to be found in brutes, 286.

Rebus, a kind of false wit in vogue amongst the ancients and our
own countrymen, 149, 150. A Rebus at Blenheim-house con-
demned, 150.

Recitative music in every language ought to be adapted to its ac-
cent, 75.

Recitativo, Italian, not agreeable to an English audience, 74, &c.
Rich, Mr. would not suffer the opera of Whittington and his Cat
to be performed in his house, and why, 19.

Riding a healthy exercise, 277.

Royal Exchange, the great resort to it, 178.

S.

Salamanders, an order of ladies described, 432.

Salmon, Mrs. her ingenuity, 72.

Sanctorius's invention, 63.

Satirists best instruct us in the manners of their respective times

455.

Scholar's egg, what so called, 144.

Schoolmen, their ass-case, 423. How applied, ibid.

Sempronia, a professed admirer of the French nation, 144.

Sentry, Captain, a member of the Spectator's club, 8.

Sextus Quintus, the pope, an instance of his unforgiving temper,60.
Shadows and realities not to be mixed in the same piece, 16.
Shovel, Sir Cloudesley, the ill contrivance of his funeral monu-
ment, 69.

Sidney, Sir Philip, his opinion of the song of Chevy-chase, 183.
Sign-posts, the absurdities of many of them, 71, &c.
Simonides, his satire on women, 456,

Socrates, his temper and prudence, 59, 60. His notion of pleasure
and pain, 405. The effect of his temperance, 430. His in-
structions to his pupil Alcibiades, in relation to prayer, 449.
Sophocles, his conduct in the tragedy of Electra, 110.
Soul, its immortality evidenced from several proofs, 267, &c.