Ceremonies, taught in the academy for politics at Paris, 246. Charixus, brother of Sappho, perishes in the Lover's Leap, 23. China, the wall of, its immensity, 352. Chinese, their genius for gardening, 349. Christmas, Sir Roger's remark on that season, 211. Church of England, the Spectator's esteem for it, 222. Cicero, his remark on ill-natured criticism, 109. His remark on his dialogue on old age, 113. Recommended Pompey to the Ro- Cinædus, why not suffered to take the Lover's Leap, 24. Clarendon, Earl of, a character finely drawn by him, 390. Classics, new editions of, filled with various readings, 445. Claudian, more burlesque than sublime in his battle of the giants, Cleora, a widow of Ephesus, declines the Lover's Leap, and marries Club-law, or argumentum baculinum, 34. Coffee-house speculations on the King of France's death, 320. Con- Collier, Mr. extract from his essay on music, 281. Colly-molly-puff, a celebrated performer in the cries of London, 57. Compassion, refines and civilizes human nature, 312. Comptroller-general of the London Cries, a new office proposed, 55. Concave and convex, the most striking figures in architecture, 354. Conjugal harmony, finely pourtrayed in Adam's speech to Raphael, Constancy in sufferings, the excellence of it, 31. Constitution, English, contrasted with that of the Romans, 223. Consuls, Roman, their office, 224. Contemplation of the Deity a source of cheerfulness, 296. Controversy, books of, their tendency, 438. Conversation, how a means of improving our natural taste, 334. Coquette's heart, dissected, 219. Found to be light and hollow, 221. Cordeliers, their story of their founder St. Francis, 43. Cormorant, Satan's transformation into, on what founded, 142. Corruption, men liable to, unfit for office, 444. Cattilus, a fortune-hunter, 250. Cot-quean, account of one, 466. Cotton library, copy of Ann Boleyn's letter from, 313. Counsellor at Westminster-hall, thread of his discourse, pack-thread, 328. Country-life, most delightful to the imagination, 347. Courtship, the Spectator's failure in, 75. The pleasantest part of a Coverley, Sir Roger de, comes to town to see Prince Eugene, 209. His Cowards, the most impudent of all creatures, 20. Cowley, his comparison of a beautiful woman to a porcupine, 290. Creation of the World, Milton's account of it wonderfully sublime, Creation, works of, a perpetual feast to the mind of a good man, 311. 403. Critic, a true one, his duty, 109, note. Criticism, its requisites, 108. Criticisms of Longinus on a fragment of Sappho, 17. Critics, the best, a perusal of their works essential to the formation of 54. Cuckoldom, the basis of most modern plays, 403. Cunning, contrasted with discretion, 8. Curiosity, one of the strongest and most lasting appetites of our na- Custom, a second nature, 404. Its effects, 405. Moral hence dedu- Cynisca, wife of Æschines, cured of her passion for Lycus, by the D. Dangers past, why the reflection on them pleases, 366. Exhibited as Debate, several methods of managing one, 33. Defamatory pamphlets, scandalous to a government, 409. Pleasure Deluge, awfully described by Milton, 200. Denham, Sir John, beautiful lines from his poem on Fletcher's works, Depth of sense and perspicuity of style, merits of the Spectator, 433. Description, the most remote kind of representation, 356. Why pro- Despotism, its natural connection with barbarity, 225. Detraction, many passions and tempers of mind dispose us to it, 66. Diæresis, and lengthening of words, frequent in Milton, 105. Dial-plate of lovers, how to be improved, 39. Diana, for what celebrated by a heathen, 418. Dido, in the Æneid, an admirable character, 92. Difference of opinions on certain things, amusing, 462. Diffidence in public company, to what attributed, 18. Dionysius, his ear, 389. Discord, Homer's description of, celebrated by Longinus, 143. Discreet man, his character, 9. Discretion, the most useful quality of the mind, 8. Contrasted with Disputable, used for disputed, 429, note. Distressed Mother, Sir Roger de Coverley's remarks on seeing that Dionysius Halicarnasseus, his account of Æneas, 177. Doggett, how cuckolded on the stage, 403. Doodle, Timothy, his letters on innocent sports and pastimes, 44. Drama, originated in religious worship, 325. Dream, on the dissection of a beau's head and a coquette's heart, Drink, the effect it has on modesty, 424. Dry, Will, a man of method, 457. Dryden, said to have copied a fragment from Sappho in his love- 'Dying for love,' a metaphor, illustrated, 290. E. Each, ungrammatically used, 95, note. Earth, before it was curst, represented as an altar breathing incense, Editions of the Classics, their faults, 445. Edward the Confessor, Sir Roger de Coverley's remarks on, 263. Elisions, used by Milton, after what example, 106, note. Elizabeth, Queen, her medal on the defeat of the Armada, 233. Eloquence, an art most proper for the female sex, 47. Elzevir, the printer, more famous than any pensioner of Holland, 285. Emblematical descriptions in various poets, 371. Eminent persons, accounts of their death, instructive, 228. Employments, how changed into diversions, 405. Enemy, rule respecting our behaviour towards one, 7. English, allowed by foreigners to be naturally modest, 326. Prevail- Enmity, its good fruits, 317. Envy, the abhorrence of it, denotes a great mind, 58. Monuments Epaminondas, his remark on posthumous reputation, 273. Epic Poem, its three qualifications, 86, 87, 88. Requisites of the Epictetus, his rule for considering the reproaches of an enemy, 277. Episode, its use in epic poetry, 87, 90. Epitaph, on the Countess Dowager of Pembroke, 260. Erasistratus, his mode of discovering the passion of Antiochus for Erasmus, his remark on the Universities in his time, 34. His compa- Essays, the Spectator's mode of writing them, 455. Eunica, a maid of Paphos, takes the Lover's Leap a second time, and Euphrates, river contained in one bason, 351, Eve, exquisitely described in Paradise Lost, 145. Her speech to Evergreens, their use in gardens, 460. Evremond, (Mons. de St.) his remark on the death of Petronius Ar- Example, more improving than precept, 239. Expletives, their 'feeble aid' exemplified, 61. Ezekiel, his vision, of what use to Milton, 151. In poetical spirit, F. Fable of epic poem, divided into simple and implex, 111. Should Fable, Persian, of the drop of water and the oyster, 234. Of the Fair sex compared to basilisks and porcupines, 290. A hint to, 386. the ancients, 369. English poets much the best, 370. and confirming it, 438. Fall of the leaf, how a pun, 398. Fallen angels, seek a respite from their torments in metaphysical dis- Fame, the desire of it, an incentive to great actions, 63. Considered Fame, her palace as described by Ovid, 387. Fancy and imagination, loose sense of those terms in the English Felix, or Fortunate, a title of several Roman emperors, 231. |