Said to have learnt eloquence from Aspasia, 47. His firmness in
death, whence resulting, 274. Inquiries from one of the Henpeck-
ed respecting him, 465.

Sorites, what sort of figure, 35.

Soul, how affected by the passions, 62. Its happiness in the contem-
plation of God, 344. State of it after separation, 346.

Sounds, pleasing to the imagination, 343. How improper for descrip-
tion, 357.

Southern, humorous circumstance in his play of the Fatal Marriage,
462.

Spanish Friar,' the beauty of its double plot, 88.
Spartans, their law respecting punishment of theft, 247.

Spectator, his aversion to pretty fellows, and the reason of it, 76.
His gratitude to the public for the reception of his paper, 78. Rea-
sons for its success, 80. His care in avoiding personality and
animadversions on public characters, ib. His criticisms how in-
fluenced, 81. His advice to British ladies, 85. His interview with
Sir Roger de Coverley just come to town, 209. Double advantage
he derives from correspondents, 212. His attachment to the reli-
gion and government of England, 222. Reads the bills of mortality
at a coffee house, 227. Taken for a parish sexton, ib. His remark
on Clarinda's journal, 260. Accompanies Sir Roger de Coverley
to Westminster Abbey, 262. Goes with him to the play, 265.
His motives for refraining from satire and invective, 276. His reply
to animadversions on his paper, 278. Two public benefits accruing
from his speculations, 283. Various uses of the papers, 284. Goes
to Spring Garden with Sir Roger de Coverley, 297. His thoughts
on the new stamp-duty, 399. His remark on various accusations,
ib. Grateful to the public for the reception of his papers, 400.
Weighs one of his papers in the golden scales, 434. His advice to
Will Honeycomb, 453. His account of a coffee-house debate relat-
ing to Count Rechteren, and Monsieur Mesnager, 462, &c.
Speculations of the Spectator, why compared to old plate, 385.
Spenser, his talent for personification, 371.

Spots in the sun, faults of Milton's poem compared to them, 117.
Spirits, several species in the world besides ourselves, 369.

Spring, the pleasantest season in the year, 309.

Spring-garden, visited by the Spectator and Sir Roger de Coverley,
299. Why compared to a Mahometan paradise, ib.

Spy, an infamous calling, 388. Anecdote of one, ib.

Squire, a country one, his courtship broken off by pin-money, 238.
Stage, English, strictures on, 401.

Stage Morality, a system of Ethics proposed, 404.

Stammerers, a meeting of a body of them at dinner, 287.

Stamp-duty, new, alluded to, 397. How fatal to weekly historians, ib.

Starch, political, its use, 246.

Stars, fixed, their immensity and magnificence, 373.

Statuary, the most natural kind of representation, 356.

Statue, a maimed one at Rome, which Michael Angelo studied, 15.
Stoicism, the pedantry of virtue, 41.

Stoics, disapproved of pity, 312. Disregarded all passions, ib.
Story-tellers, dull, humorously reformed, 289.

Strada, his account of a correspondence by means of a loadstone, 38.
Stratonice, Antiochus's passion for her, how discovered, 17.

Style, its requisites, 331.

Style, political, where to be taught, 245.

Sublimity, requisite in the language of an epic poem, 103. Instances,
of the false sublime, ib.

Success, not always a criterion of merit, 232.

Such, when joined to an adjective, how to be succeeded, 116, note.
Such like, now redundant and tautologous, 356, note.

Suetonius, his history an argument against despotic power, 224.
Suffenus, a fortune-hunter, 250.

Suicide, why suggested by Eve, and disapproved by Adam, 191.
Summer, in England, pleasanter than elsewhere in Europe, 309.
Sun-rising and setting, the most glorious show in nature, 343.
Supreme Being, alone, can rightly judge of our own actions, 72, 73.
Or esteem us according to our merits, 74.

Swearers in discourse, happily ridiculed, 288.

Sylla, the dictator, sirnamed Felix or Fortunate, 231.

Syllogisms, invented by Aristotle, 33.

Symmetry of objects, how it strikes, 338.

Syntax violated in Paradise Lost, 101.

Tale-bearers, censured, 389.

T.

Talents, without discretion, useless, 8.

Tasso imitated by Milton, 208.

Taste, fine, the perfection of an accomplished man, 329. In writing
rules for acquiring it, 330, 331. Of the English, 335.
Tautology, 406, note, 407, note.

T. B. his letter on the consolations of absent lovers, 45.
Tea, ten different sorts distinguished by the taste, 329.
Technical words, in Milton's style, a fault, 116.
TEKEL, dubious application of the word in a vision, 434.
Tempers, disparities in, make marriages unhappy, 77.
Tender, a kind of writing so called by the French, 188.
Terror and pity, excited by poetry, why pleasing, 366.
Tettyx, a dancing master, crippled by the Lover's Leap, 24.
Thammuz, account of him, finely romantic, 121.

Theatre, how it may contribute to the reformation of the age, 401.
Theft, when punished by the Spartans, 247.

Themistocles, his reply to a question on marriage, 249.

Theocritus, describes a despairing shepherd addressing his mistress,

11.

Theognis, a saying of his on virtue and vice, 435.

Thinking aloud, what, 7.

Thoughts, of the highest importance to sift them, 319.

Tillotson (Dr.) his opinion on Providence, 233. His improved notion
of Heaven and Hell, 408.

Time, compared to an ocean, 3. Seldom affords sufficient employ-
ment to the mind, 448.

Titles among the commonwealth of males, 380.

Torcy (Marquis de) to be president of the political academy at Paris,
243.

Tongue of females, compared to a race-horse, 49. And to a musical
instrument, 50. How to be tuned, ib.

Torture, a notable way of managing a controversy, 35. Why the de-
scription of it pleases, and not the prospect, 366.
Tory-principles, weighed against those of a whig, 434.
Tragedy, whence originating, 125.

Transmigration of souls, Will Honeycomb's opinion respecting, 268.
Letter from Pug the monkey to his mistress, 269.

Trees, more beautiful in all their luxuriancy than when cut and trim-
med, 350.

Tribunes, Roman, their share in the government, 224.
Trimming, the Spectator unjustly accused of it, 399.
Tripodes of Homer, how ridiculed by Scaliger, 151.

Trippet, Tom, his letter to the Spectator on Greek quotations, 213.
Troilus, his letter to the Spectator on the Greeks and Trojans of the
university, 46.

Trojan fleet, transformed into water-nymphs, a tradition, 178.

Trueby, (widow) her water, recommended by sir Roger de Coverley,
261. His commendation of her, 262.

True lover's knot, made of a lady's hair, a great consolation to her ab-
sent lover, 46.

Trunk-maker, in the upper gallery, a person at the theatre so called,
26. Of great use there, 27. The means of saving a good play,

or bringing a good actor into notice, 28. A successor to him pro-
posed, 29.

Trust, in the Supreme Being, a duty, how recommended, 395.
Tully exposes a precept delivered by the ancient writers, 7. His
thoughts on the beauty of virtue, 40. (See Cicero).
Tyranny, in what consisting, 223.

U.

Uncharitableness, a species of, 467.

Uncommon, a source of pleasure to the imagination, 340.
Understanding, wherein more perfect than the imagination, 374.
Understands a critic; the expression corrected, 107, note.

Unfortunate and imprudent, considered by Richelieu synonymous,

231.

Unity of action, how preserved by Homer and Virgil, 86. And by
Milton, 87.

Universe, how pleasing the contemplation of it, 372.

Universities, formerly carried on their debates by syllogism, 33. Di-
vided into Greeks and Trojans, 34.

Unlearned, account of their works, a projected monthly pamphlet, 423,
Uriel's passage on a sun-beam, a prettiness in Milton, 144.

Utrecht, treaty of, how interrupted, 462.

V.

Valentinian and Valens, emperors, their law of libel, 412.

Vanity, the natural weakness of an ambitious man, 64. Described as
a weight in the vision of the scales, 432.

Vanity of human wishes, exposed in a fable, 305.
Variety, charming to the imagination, 341.

Various readings, in the classics, humorously exemplified, 446, 447.
Vehemence of action, used by Latin orators, 327.

Venus, Sappho's hymn to her translated, 5. A pretty circumstance
in it, 6. Described by the poets as delighting in laughter, 53. The
charming figure she makes in the first Æneid, 362, 363.

Vernal delight, described by Milton, 310. How to be improved into a
christian virtue, 311.

Vertot (the Abbot de) his account of the death of Muly Moluc, 275.
Vice, its own tormentor, 408.

Virgil, falls short of Homer in the characters of his poem, 92. Excels
in the propriety of his sentiments, 97. Inferior to Homer in the
sublime, 98. Indebted to Homer for sublimity, 163. His fable
considered with relation to the real history of Æneas, 177. His
epithets generally mark out what is agreeable, 362.

Virtue, its beauty and loveliness considered, 40. Its charms in the
fair sex, 41. Several kinds of virtue more lovely than others, 41.
Cheerfulness and good nature, its great ornaments, 42. To be
esteemed in a foe, ib. How to be established in the soul, 318.
Habits of, why necessary to be acquired in this life, 408. Produces
its own heaven, ib.

Virtues, many of them, incapable of outward representation, 72. Sup-
posed ones, not to be relied on, 318.

Virtuosos, an assembly of, 215.

Vision, of the golden scales, 432. Of the history of mankind in Pa-
radise Lost, why objectionable, 202.

Vulgar thoughts to be avoided in epic poetry, 99.

W.

War, its horrors portrayed to Adam in a vision, 199.
Wars, the late, made us so greedy of news, 414.

Watch-well, Tim, his letter to the Spectator on fortune-stealers, 248.
Wealth, the virtues and vices it produces, 436.

Weather-glass, filled from the liquor found in a coquette's heart, 220.
What, which, and that, dexterously applied in a sentence, 343, note.
White, Moll, her death followed by a storm, 210.

Whims and Humourists, a letter concerning, 286.
Whispering place of Dionysius the tyrant, 389.
Whispers, a news-letter of, proposed, 421.

Widows, the great game of fortune-hunters, 251.

Wife of Bath,' lines in that ballad on female loquacity, 50.

Wig, a long one, the eloquence of the bar, 328.

Wisdom, described by an apocryphal writer, 10.

Wise and London, the heroic poets of gardeners, 459.
Wise Man, his story on wisdom and poverty, 435.
Wise man and the fool, difference between them, 7.
William the Conqueror, judgments on his posterity, 469.
Wimble, Will, his present to the Spectator, 210.
Winter-garden, hints for one, 460.

Wit, without discretion, is impertinence, 8. Consisting in the affi-
nity of ideas, 357. False, why sometimes pleasing, ib.
Witchcraft generally believed in by our forefathers, 370.

Woman, an animal that delights in finery, 82. Seldom asks advice
before she has bought her wedding clothes, 452. Women better
qualified for eloquence than men, 47. Several causes assigned for
this, 49. What the chief object of their thoughts, 378.
Words, well chosen, their force on the imagination, 358.
Work if I had it,' a strange cry for a corn-cutter, 57.

Worship, evening, in Paradise, 147. Religious, the first origin of the
drama, 325.

Would used instead of should, 403, note.

Writer, how he should perfect his imagination, 361.

Writing, of every kind, has a style of its own, 334, note.
kinds, in the Spectator, 455.

X.

Xantippe, a modern one, her treatment of her husband, 466.
Xenophanes, his reply on being reproached as timorous, 425.

Y.

Y, preceding a vowel, often cut off in Milton's verse, 107.

Z.

Zeal, intemperate, its evil tendency, 318.

Zephon, his rebuke of Satan, graceful and moral, 143.
Zoilus, his ridicule of Homer, 99.

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