Fiction, the advantage writers of it have to please the imagination Fine men, in English comedy, their accomplishments, 404. Fine writing, in what the mystery of it consists, 331, note. Fish-street politician, his remark on the French king's death, 322. Food for newsmongers, 414. Fool, difference between him and the wise man, 7. Forms of Prayer, an argument for them, 308. Fortune, good, why considered a merit among the Romans, 231. Fortune-stealers, a letter respecting, 248. Distinguished from fortune- Fox-hall, visited by the Spectator and Sir Roger de Coverley, 298. 320. Francis, St. a curious instance of his simplicity, 43. Freart, Mons. extract from his parallel on ancient and modern archi- Freelove, Jack, his letter from Pug the monkey to his mistress, 269. French nation, its character, 386. French truth and British policy, make a conspicuous figure in nothing, 247. Fribble, Josiah, his letter to the Spectator on his wife's pin-money, 235. Future state, its happiness, in what likely to consist, 29. Its infelicity G. Gabriel, his discovery of Satan, finely imagined, 143. Gallantries of Paradise, 145. Games, the book of, in the Iliad and Æneid, why introduced, 89. Gardens, English, why not so entertaining to the fancy as those of Genesis, a passage in, its effect on a great man in the Romish church, 228. Georgics, of Virgil, afford a collection of most beautiful landscapes, Ghosts, what they say should be a little discoloured, 368. Description Giles's coffee-house, discussions of French gentlemen there on their God, the being of, one of the greatest of certainties, 295. Good and evil, difficulties in accounting for their distribution, 30. Good-nature, the great ornament of virtue, 42. Gossips, a class of female orators, 48. Government, which form of it most reasonable, 222. Grammar, political, to be taught by a Jesuit, 246. Græcisms, frequent in Milton's style, 104. Gratian, his maxim for advancement at court, 231. His recommen- Gratitude, to heaven, as a habit of the mind, how to be cultivated, Great minds, most actuated by ambition, 63. Superior to the censures Greatness, a source of pleasure to the imagination, 340. Final cause Grecian general, denies fortune to have had any share in his victories, Greece, its former and present state contrasted, 226. Greek manuscript, a translation of one announced, 14. Gregory, St. his punishment of the writers and readers of calumnies, 412. Grief, has a natural eloquence, 313. Grimace, political, where taught, 245. Guilt, a sense of it, destroys cheerfulness, 294. Gusto, in Michael Angelo's works, whence arising, 15. H. Habits, good and evil, their respective tendency, 408. Head-dresses of the ladies considered, 83. A group compared to a Heaven, its gate described in Paradise Lost, 151. The revolt and war Heavens, the glory of, a hymn, 441. Hebraisms, sometimes occurring in Milton's poetry, 104. Their Hell, as described by Milton, a proof of his fertile invention, 110. Hellenisms, Horace's and Virgil's poetry replete with them, 104. Heroic poems, the three great ones, built on slight foundations, 176. Hesperus, a young man of Tarentum, drowned by the Lover's Leap, 24. Hipparchus consults Philander on a love affair, and kills him for his Hipparchus dies in the Lover's Leap, 24. Historian, what his most agreeable talent, 371. Homer, his admirable description of Sisyphus rolling the stone, 61. Honeycomb, Will, prefers the cries of London to the music of the Hoods of ladies, used as signals, 84. Hope, its influence on the mind, 449. Its advantages, ib. Moral of Horace, precepts in his art of poetry to be found in Aristotle, 60. Horizon, a spacious one, an image of liberty, 340. Hudibras an effectual cure for the extravagances of love, 14. Com- Hush, Peter, an agent for the Whisper news-letter, 422. Hyacinth, St. his long work excelled by a single paper of Mr. Addi- Hymn to Venus, by Sappho, translated, 5. Of gratitude, 419. On 396, note. That kind by which a man I. Ideas, how a whole set of them hang together, 360. Idiomatic style, in epic poetry, how to be avoided, 103. Iliad, its action short, but extended by episodes, 90. Its effect on Imaginary persons, how introduced by Homer and Virgil, 191. Impudence, no creature has more than a coward, 20. Inaccuracies in Mr. Addison's style. See notes in pp. 93. 101. 134. Inferior, a comparative, 407, note. Infirmary, for the cure of ill-humour; 391. Influence-with, a hard expression, 188, note. Innocence, when mixed with folly, an object of mirth and pity, 42. Invocation, in Paradise Lost, very proper, 118. Irishman, his thought on the loquacity of a female orator, 49. J. James's, (St.) coffee-house, discussions there on the French king's Jesuits, their famous rabbinical secret, 246. Jewish tradition concerning Moses, 32. Jews, cultivated music as a religious art, 325. Their excellence in Jingle of words in Milton's style, 116. Journal, of a sober citizen, 253. Other journals enumerated, 256. Judas Maccabeus, allusion to a dream of his, 159. Judgment; one human being cannot judge of another, 72. Judgments, follies of ascribing them to particular crimes, 470. K. Kensington gravel-pit, a work of genius in gardening, 459, Knowledge, the main sources of it, 225. L. Labour, why placed by the gods before virtue, 407. Lake, artificial one, at Babylon, 351. Language of an heroic poem, its requisites, 101, 103. Landscape, a beautiful one, in a camera obscura, described, 348. Last words of authors, 397. Of Mr. Baxter, 398. Latimer, his behaviour in the conference of Papists and Protestants, Latin critics, their manner of writing where to be found beautifully Latin lines, very beautiful, certainly Mr. Addison's, and why, 343, note. Latinisms, frequent in Milton's style, 104. Laugh, only one in the whole Æneid, 100. Laughing, a mataphor applied to trees and fields, common to all lan- Laughter, its effects on the mind and body, 51. An attribute of Ve- Lazar-house, described by Milton, 198. Learning, without discretion is pedantry, 8. Universal, necessary to Legerdemain, of state, where taught, 245. Letters, on the Lover's Leap, from Esculapius and Athenais, 12, 13. |