them, ibid. more grand and auguft than those of art,
ibid.

Neceffary caufe of our being pleased with what is great,
new, and beautiful, N. 413.

New or uncommon, why every thing that is fo raises a
pleafure in the imagination, N. 411; what understood
by the term with refpect to objects, 412; improves
what is great and beautiful, ibil. why a fecret plea-
fure annexed to its idea, 413; every thing fo that
pleafes in architecture, 415.

News, how the English thirst after it, N. 452; project
for a fupply of it, ibid. of whifpers, 457.
NICODEMUNCIO's letter to Olivia, N. 433-
NICOLINI, his perfection of mufic, N. 405.
Night-walk in the country, N. 425.
November (month of) defcribed, N. 425.

ODE (Laplander's) to his mistress, N. 406.

Opinion (popular) defcribed, N. 460.

Oientation, one of the inhabitants of the paradife of
fools, N. 460.

OTWAY, his admirable defcription of the miferies of
law-fuits, N. 456.

OVID, in what he excels, 417; his defcription of the
palace of fame, 439.

P.

PAmphlets, defamatory, deteftable, N. 45 1.

Pantheon at Rome, how it ftrikes the imagination at
the first entrance, N. 415.

Paradife of foals, N. 460.

Paradife loft (Milton's) its fine image, N. 417.
Parents, their cares due to their children, N. 426.

Party not to be followed with innocence, N. 399.

Party prejudices in England,.432.

Paffions treated of, N. 408; what moves them in de-
fcriptions moft pleafing, 418; in all men, but appear
not in all, ibid. of hope and fear, 471.

Paffionate people, their faults, N. 438; Nat Lee's de-
fcription of it, ibid.

Peevish fellow defcribed, N 438.

Penferofo (poem of) by Milton, N. 425.
Perfecution in religious matters immoral, N. 459.

Perfian foldier, reproved for railing againft an enemy,

N. 427.

PHIDIAS, his propofal of a prodigious ftatue of Alexan-
ander, N. 415.

PHOCION's faying of a vain promifer, N. 448.

PHILOPATER's letter about his daughter's dancing, N.
466.

PHILIPS (Mr.) paftoral verfes of his, N. 400.

Philofophy (new) the authors of it gratify and enlarge
the imagination, N. 420.

Picture not so natural a reprefentation as a ftatue, N.
416; what pleafes most in ore, 418.
PINDAR'S faying of Theron, N. 467;

Pity, is love foftened by forrow, N. 397; that and
terror leading paffions in poetry, 418.

Places of truft, who most fit for them, N. 469; why
courted by men of generous principles, ibid.

Planets, to furvey them fills us with astonishment, N.

420:

Pleafant fellows to be avoided, N. 462.

Pleafantry in converfation, the faults it covers, N. 462.
Poems, feveral preferved for their fimiles, N. 421.
Poetry has the whole circle of nature for its proving,

N. 419.

Poets, the pains they fhould take to form the imagina-
tion, N. 417; fhould mend nature, and add to her
beauties, 418, how much they are at liberty in it,
ibid.
Polite imagination let into a great many pleasures the
vulgar are not capable of, N. 411.

Politics of St. James's coffee-houfe on the report of
the French king's death, N. 403; of Giles's, ibid. of
Jenny Man's, ibid. of Will's, ibid. the Temple, ibid.
Fish-treet, ibid. Cheapfide, ibid. Garraway's, ibid.
Poor, the fcandalous appearance of them, N. 430.
Poverty the lofs of merit, N. 464.

Praife, the love of it deeply fixed in mens minds, N.
467.

Precipice, diftant, why its profpect pleafes, N. 418.
Prejudice, a letter about it as it refpects parties in Eng-
land, N. 432.

Promifes (neglect of) through frivolous falfehood, N. 448.
Promifers condemned, N. 448.

Profpect, a beautiful one delights the foul as much as a
demonftration, N. 411; wide ones pleafing to the
fancy, ibid. enlivened by nothing fo much as rivers
and falls of water, 412; that of hills and vallies
foon tires, ibid

Proverbs (the 7th chapter of) turned into verfe, N. 41c.
Pfalm the 14th tranflated, N. 461.

Pfalmift, against hypocrify, N. 399; of providence,

441.

Punning, whofe privilege, N. 396; a pun of thought,
454:

Pyramids of Egypt, N. 415.

PYTHAGORAS, his precepts about the choice of a courfe
of life, N. 447.

QUACK bill, N. 444; Doctors, the cheats of

them, ibid.

Quakers, project of an act to marry them to the olive
beauties, N. 396.

QUIR (PETEK DE) his letter to the SPECTATOR about
puns, N. 396.

R.

RAillery in converfation, the abfurdity of it, N. 422.

Rainbow, the figure of one contributes to its magnifi-
cence, as much as the colours to its beauty, N.
415.

Ramble, from Richmond by water to London, and about
it, by the SPECTATOR, N. 454

RAPHAEL, the excellence of his pictures, N. 467.
READ (fir WILLIAM) his operations on the eyes, N.

472.

Reafon the pilot of the paffions, N. 408; a pretty nice
proportion between that and paffion, ibid.

Religion confidered, N. 459.

RENATUS VALENTINUS, his father and grandfather,
their story, N 426.

RENTFREE (SABINA) her letter about the green-fick-
nefs, N. 431.

Retirement, a drea 1 of it, N. 425.

RHUBARB (JOHN, Efq;) his memorial from the country
infirmary, N. 429.

Riches corrupt mens morals, N. 464.

Rich men, their defects overlooked, N. 464.
Ridicule put to a good ufe, N. 445.

Riding-drefs of ladies, the extravagance of it, N. 435.
ROBIN, the porter at Will's coffee-houfe, his qualifica-
tions, N. 398.

Rufticity shocking, N. 400.

RUSTY (SCABBARD) his letter to the SPECTATOR, N.
449.

S.

SALLUST, his excellence, N. 409.

Salutations in churches cenfured, N. 460.

Satires, the English, ribaldry and Billingsgate, N. 45.
Panegyrical on ourselves, 473.

Scales (golden) a dream of them, N. 463.
Scandal, to whom moft pleafing, N. 426;
ftrous it renders us, 451.

SCOT (Dr.) his Chriftian Life, its merit, N.

Scotch, a faying of theirs, N. 463.

how mon-

447.

Scribblers against the SPECTATOR, why neglected by

him, N. 445.

Seafons, a dream of them, N. 425.

SIDNEY, verses on his modefty, N. 400.

Self-conceit, one of the inhabitants of the paradife of

fools, N. 460.

SEMANTHE, her character, N. 404.

SEMIRAMIS, her prodigious works and power, N. 415.
SEMPRONIA the match maker, N. 437.

September (month of) described, N. 425.

Sexes, amity between agreeable perfons of different, dan-
gerous, N. 400; the advantages of it to each, 433.
SHAKESPEARE excels all writers in his ghofts, N.
4:9.
SHERLOCK (Dr.) improved the notion of heaven and
hell, N. 447.

Sight the most perfect fenfe, N. 411; the pleafures of the imagination arife originally from it, ibid. furnishes it with ideas, ibid.

Silk-worm, a character of one,

N. 454.

Similitudes, eminent writers faulty them, N. 421; the prefervation of feveral poems, ibid. an ill one in a pulpit, 455.

SIPPET (JACK) his character, N 448.

Snarlers, N. 438.

SOCRATES, why the oracle pronounced him the wifeft of men, 408.

Song with notes, N. 470.

Soul, its happiness the contemplation of God, N. 413; ftate of it after feparation, ibid.

Sounds, how improper for defeription, N. 416. SPECTATOR, his invitation to all forts of people to affift him, N. 442; about the ftamps, 445; guardian of the fair fex, 449; his advertisements, 461; about the price of his paper, ibid. put into the golden scales, 463 ; a fort of news letter, 468.

SPENCER, his whole creation of fhadowy perfons, N.

419.

Spirits, feveral fpecies in the world befides ourselves, N. 419.

Spring a defcription of it, N. 423; his attendants, ibid. Spies, not to be trusted, N. 439; despised by great men, ibid.

Stamps, how fatal to weekly historians, N. 445.

Stars (fixt) how their immenfity and inagnificence confound us, N. 420.

Statuary, the moft natural reprefentation, N. 416. STINT (JACK) and Will Trap, their adventure, N. 448. Stoics difcarded ali paffions, N. 397.

SUDDEN (THOMAS, Efq;) his memorial from the country infirmary, N. 429.

SU KEY's adventure with WIL HONEYCOMB and fir ROGER DE COVERLEY, N. 410.

Sun-rifing and fetting the most glorious show in nature,

N. 412.

Symmetry of objects, how it ftrikes, N. 411.

SYNCOPIUS the paflionate, his character, N. 438.