women in Persia and China, 530, &c. From the Spectator's clergyman, being a thought in sickness, 537, &c. Libels, a severe law against them, 432. Those that write or read Liberty of the people, when best preserved, 236. Life, the present, a state of probation, 31. We are in this life no- Livy, in what he excels all other historians, 351, 391. London, the difference of the manners and politics of one part London, Mr. the gardener, an heroic poet, 484. Longinus, an observation of that critic, 171. Love, the mother of poetry, 308. The capriciousness of it, 476. 21. Lying, the malignity of it, 527, &c. Party-lying, the prevalency M. Man, the merriest species of the creation, 52. 80. Married preferable to a single state, 519. Termed purgatory, by Martial, his epigram on a grave man's being at a lewd play, 423. Method, the want of it, in whom only supportable, 479. The Milton's Paradise Lost, the Spectator's criticism and observations on 454. Mimickry, art of, why we delight in it, 376. Minister, a watchful one described, 408. Mirth distinguished from cheerfulness, 311. Modesty, a due proportion of it requisite to an orator, 18. The 447. Monuments raised by envy, the most glorious, 295. Monsters, novelty bestows charms on them, 359. Incapable of 384. Moorfields, by whom resorted to, 525. Morality, the benefits of it, 450. Strengthens faith, 463. More, Sir Thomas, his gaiety at death, to what owing, 291, 292. Motion of the gods, wherein it differs from that of mortals accord- Much cry but little wool, to whom applied, 58. Muley Moluch, Emperor of Morocco, his great intrepidity in his Music, church, of the improvement of it, 344. fused notions of things in the fancy, 376. N. It may raise con- Names of authors to be put to their works, the hardships and in- Nature, her works more perfect than those of art to delight the Nemesis, an old maid, a great discoverer of judgments, 493. News, how the English thirst after it, 434. Project for a supply Nicolini, his perfection in music, 344. Nightingale, its music highly delightful to a man in love, 318. 0. Ovid, in what he excels, 382. His description of the palace of P. Pamphlets defamatory, detestable, 430. Pantheon at Rome, how it strikes the imagination at the first Paradise Lost, Milton's, its fine images, 384. Party not to be followed with innocence, 338. Passions, the use of them, 65. What moves them in descriptions Persons, imaginary, not proper for an heroic poem, 201. Petticoat politicians, a seminary to be established in France, 259. Philosophy, new, the authors of it gratify and enlarge the ima- Picture not so natural a representation as a statue, 375. What Pin-money condemned, 250. Pity is love softened by sorrow, 332. That and terror leading Places of trust, who most fit for them, 468. Why courted by men Planets, to survey them fills us with astonishment, 391. Plutarch, for what reproved by the Spectator, 494. Poems, epic, the chief thing to be considered in them, 91. Poetry has the whole circle of nature for its province, 390. nature, and add to her beauty, 386. How much they are at Polite imagination lets into a great many pleasures the vulgar are Politics of St. James's coffee-house on the report of the French Poll, a way of arguing, 35. Poverty, the loss of merit, 458. Power, despotic, an unanswerable argument against it, 239. Prayers, Phænix's allegorical description of them to Achilles in Homer, 323. The folly and extravagance of our prayers in Precipice, distant, why its prospect pleases, 385. Prediction, the many arts of it in use among the vulgar, 524. Prosperity, to what compared by Seneca, 31. Providence, not to be fathomed by reason, 31. Prudence, the influence it has on our good or ill fortune in the Psalmist against hypocrisy, 339. His representation of Provi- Puzzle, Tom, a most eminent immethodical disputant, 481. Pythagoras's precept about the choice of a course of life, 427. Rack, a knotty syllogism, 35. R. Rainbow, the figure of one contributes to its magnificence, as Religion considered, 450. A morose melancholy behaviour, Riches corrupt men's morals, 459. Richlieu, (Cardinal,) his politics made France the terror of Europe, 258. Ridicule the talent of ungenerous tempers, 53. The two branches Sallust, his excellence, 351. S. Sappho, dies for love of Phaon, 2. Her hymn to Venus, 3. Satires, the English, ribaldry and Billingsgate, 432. Scales, golden, a dream of them, 455. Scandal, how monstrous it renders us, 430, &c. Scot, Dr. his Christian life, its merit, 429. Scotch, a saying of theirs, 456. Scribblers against the Spectator, why neglected by him, 420, 421. Sexes, the advantages of amity to each, 398. Sherlock, Dr. the reason his discourse of death hath been so Shows and diversions lie properly within the province of the . Sickness, a thought in it, 537. Sight, the most perfect sense, 354. The pleasures of the imagi- Similitudes, eminent writers faulty in them, 395. Slavery, what kind of government the most removed from it, Socrates, à catechetical method of arguing first introduced by Sorites, what sort of figure, 35. Soul, its happiness the contemplation of God, 363. State of it Sounds, how improper for description, 376. Spectator, his aversion to pretty fellows, and the reason of it, 80. Spenser, his whole creation of shadowy persons, 390. Spies, not to be trusted, 408. Despised by great men, 409. Spring, the pleasantest season in the year, 329. Spring Garden, a kind of Maohmetan paradise, 318. Stamps, how fatal to weekly historians, 418. Starch, political, its use, 261. Stars, fixed, how their immensity and magnificence confound us, 392. Statuary the most natural representation, 375. |