Comedy, how aided by stage-tricks, ii. 318; a species of ridicule in writing, iii. 148; its decline on the English stage, 450; in what inferior to tnat of the an- cients, 451.
Comedies in Italy, more lewd than those of other countries, i. 393. Comet, of 1680, described, iv. 189. Commandment against perjury, v. 418. Commentators, bad, on Ovid's Metamor- phoses, i. 141; modern, their senseless affectation of Terence's and Plautus's phrases, v. 219.
Commerce, a goddess attendant on Li- berty, ii. 140; its blessings enumerated, 372; its progress not sufficiently marked by English historians, v. 49; how im- proved by Edward III., Henry VII., and Elizabeth, ib.; treaties at Madrid and Utrecht compared, 50; necessary to Great Britain, 54; the nurse of her naval power, ib.; its tendency to civilize the people and abate their discontents, 56. Commissary of St. Marino, his office de- scribed, i. 405.
Committee, of the Spectator's club, ap- pointed to sit every night, ii. 232; of tracts proposed to establish a truce be- tween the female Whigs and Tories, v. 38. Commodus, how distinguished on medals, i. 264; medal of, 307; nature of the al- lusion, 308; represented on a medal, fencing, 342; spoiled by his mother, be- came a foolish and abandoned tyrant, ii. 486.
Common people, their wonder at the punctilios of the great, iii. 503. Commons, House of, what class of men it represents, iv. 397; they and their speaker commended for their conduct during the troubles of the country, v.
Commonwealth, why the best form of go- vernment for the states among the Alps, i. 526; of learning, its secret history told by Tom Folio, ii. 134; genius of a commonwealth attendant on Liberty, 139; property more equally distributed than in monarchies, iv. 361. Commotions, popular, in London, by whom fomented, v. 83.
Communion of men and spirits in Para- dise, described by Milton, ii. 259. Como (lake), called by Virgil, Larius, i.
Complacency, her office at the Temple of Virtuous Love, ii. 78.
Complainers, their importunacy, ii. 99. Complaisance, useful to make conversa- tion agreeable, iv. 312; its effects, 313; illustrated by an Arabian tale, 314. Complexion of a murderer to be sold, ii. 4. Compliments, English, ridiculed in the ambassador of Bantam's letter to his master, iv. 87.
Composers of English music, how far they ought to imitate the Italian, ii. 290. Composite pillars of Constantine's arch, said to be imitated from those of Solo- mon's temple, i. 480.
Comptroller-general of the London Cries, a new office proposed, iii. 149. Concave and convex, the most striking figures in architecture, iii. 409. Conceitedness, a word now obsolete, iii. 305, note.
Concord, device of, on ancient medals, i. 274; illustrated from Seneca and Sta- tius, 275.
Condé, the prince of, his face compared to that of an eagle, ii. 400; his raillery on the fickle politics of the English, iv. 489.
Conduct of men, how to be rectified, iv. 85. Confederates, their conduct of the war
how defective, iv. 353; ; each nation fancies itself the greatest sufferer in the war, 359. Confession of Constantia to Theodosius, iii. 10.
Confirmation, discipline preparatory to, among the primitive Christians, v. 124. Confusion, a monster, described, ii. 142;
an abstract idea, out of place, iv.313, note. Congreve, praised, i. 26; alludes to the doctrine of transmigration in one of his prologues, iii. 90; his Old Bachelor, a lesson to woman-haters, iv. 50; his lash on the critics in his epistle to Sir R. Temple, 221; a fashionable writer in his time; character of his works, v. 46, note; Sir Richard Steele's dedicatory epistle to him, 142; his poem on the Peace, 322; an early friend of Addison, 326; letter to him, ib. ; his "Bickerstaff Detected," 394.
Congruity of ideas the origin of wit, ii. 358 instanced in similitudes, ib. Conjectures, respecting the signatures to the Spectator, iii. 103; on obscure pas- sages in ancient authors, often give new pleasure to the reader, v. 219. Conjugal engagements sometimes broken by trifles, ii. 153; instanced in a story, 154.
Conjugal harmony finely portrayed in Adam's speech to Raphael, iii. 255. Connecte, Thomas, a famous monk, preached against head-dresses, ii. 421. Connor, Dr., his account of the grotto del Cani, i. 436.
Conquest of Mexico, a play, for Mr. Pow- ell's benefit, ii. 311. Conquest (Deborah), widow of Sir Samp- son, and the terror of the whole sex, iv 96 Conrad III., his generosity to the women of Hensberg, iv. 16. Conscience, a good one, the health of the soul, iv. 253; its proper supports, 254; the only relief against the pains of calumny, 255; its efficacy at the hour of death, ib. Conspiracy of rebels over a bowl of punch, iv. 404.
Conspiracies, how punished by great monarchs, v. 10, 11.
Constance, lake of, described, i. 532. Constancy, how to be acquired, i. 153; in sufferings, the excellence of it, iii.
Constantia and Theodosius, their story, iii. 7.
Constantine, Emperor, a coin of his ex- plained, i. 291; the sign that appeared to him in the heavens, 308; his tri- umphal arch the noblest in Rome, 480; inscription hinting at his vision, ib. Constitution, English, contrasted with that of the Romans, iii. 299.
Construction, a rule for, in writing, iv. 260, note.
Consuls, Roman, their office, iii. 297; power given them by the Roman sen- ate, iv. 459.
Conté, the prince of, his succession to the government of Neuf-Chatel, a matter of dispute, i. 530.
Contemplation of the Deity, a source of cheerfulness, iii. 359.
Contemplations on the material world less wonderful than those on the world of life, iv. 40.
Contempt is reciprocal, iv. 174. Content, produces all the effects of the philosopher's stone, iv. 117; methods of acquiring this virtue, 117, 119; Chris- tianity the only system which can ef- fectually produce it, 119. Contention personified, ii. 79. Contentment, the utmost good we can hope for in this world, iii. 4. Contract of marriage among birds, its duration, ii. 485.
Controversy, books of, their tendency, iii. 482.
Controversies, between parents and chil- dren, considered, iii. 59. Conventicler, female, a letter respecting one, ii. 324.
Convents, convenient receptacles for fiery zealots, i. 532.
Conventuals, in the Romish Church, a rule among them, ii. 224. Conversation compared to a concert of music, ii. 115; straitened in numerous assemblies, 367; like the Romish reli- gion, reformed, 455; become vulgar by
false refinement, 456; how a means of improving our natural taste, iii. 392; the Spectator's first essays at, iv. 82; that of a man of integrity the most agreeable, 154; more mirth in the French, more wit in the English, 192; rendered agreeable by complaisance, 312. Convocation, Lower House of, reprimand- ed by Queen Anne for intemperate be- haviour, v. 361.
Cookery, French, censured, ii. 108. Cook-maid, turned off, for favouring the suspension of the Habeas Corpus act, v. 18. Copenhagen, a letter from, on the seasons of the year there, iii. 370.
Coquet, a male one, his bed-chamber de- scribed, ii. 183.
Coquetilla, her antipathy to books of de- votion and housewifery, ii. 410. Coquette, bosom of one, how to be paint- ed, iv. 270.
Coquette's heart, dissected, iii. 293; found to be light and hollow, 294. Coquette's labyrinth described in a vision, ii. 77.
Coquette-logician, may be rallied but not contradicted, v. 18.
Coquettes, disguised as Quakers at a mas- querade, ii. 248; a satire on them, 428; character of an old one, 487; a class of female orators, iii. 144.
Cordeliers, their story of their founder St. Francis, iii. 139.
Coriolanus, his wife an example to the female patriots of Britain, iv. 427. Cormorant, Satan's transformation into on what founded, iii. 225, 226. Corn, how preserved by the ants, iv. 288. Cornaro, Lewis, his treatise on temper ance recommended, iii. 66.
Corneille, his style in tragedy, ii. 305; his artifice in a tragedy, to avoid public bloodshed, 316.
Cornish lawyer, his letter on country fa- shions, ii. 488.
Cornish, Mr., instructions to Lord Stair on behalf of his son, v. 485. Cornu-copiæ, emblematical of concord, i. 274; and of peace, 275.
Corona radiata, a type of divinity, i. 319. Corona Radialis, one shown at Florence with only eight spikes, i. 499. Coronation-chairs in Westminster Abbey, Sir Roger's remark on them, iii. 331. Coronis, the story of, i. 103. Corporation, a certain one, divided into factions by the Fat and Lean Clubs, ii. 250; how reconciled, ib.
Corregio, his picture of a Cupid from a burlesque poem, ii. 215; vision of his pictures, 394.
Correspondence between the primitive Christian churches, v. 124.
Corruption, his office in the temple of
Avarice, ii. 90; men liable to, unfit for office, iii. 487.
Corsica, conquest of, by the Genoese, how commemorated, i. 364.
Cossley, Lieutenant John, v. 468.
Cotes, Mr. Digby, his verses to the author of Cato, i. 167.
Cot-quean, account of one, iii 507. Cotton library, copy of Ann Boleyn's letter from, iii. 374, 375.
Counsellor at Westminster Hall, thread of his discourse, pack-thread, iii. 387. Counter-apotheosis, marriage so termed, ii. 384.
Country, in spring time compared to a spa- cious garden, ii. 161; slow progress of fashion in, 488; affords amusements of a noble kind, iv. 134; bill of mortality, 258, 259. Country clergyman, his letter on theatrical psalm-singing, iii. 80.
Country gentleman, acts the lion in the opera, ii. 261; and his wife, neighbours to Sir Roger, their different tempers de- scribed, 487.
Country gentlemen, described as lying under the curse of Goliath, iv. 128. Country gentlewoman, taken for Lord Nithisdale, iv. 494.
Country life, why conducive to health, ii. 449; most delightful to the imagination, iii. 404.
Countryman, entreats of Jupiter the man- agement of his weather, ii. 281. Country newspapers established, v. 94, and note.
Country squire, a plain-spoken one, iv. 312.
Country Sunday, the use of it, ii. 446. Country-woman, judged by Rhadaman- thus, iv. 298.
County, a happy one, with no Presby- terian in it except the bishop, iv. 480. Courage, esteemed by the ancients the perfection of virtue, i. 274; the great point of honour among men, ii. 422; recommends a man to the female sex more than any other quality, ib.; one of the chief topics in books of chivalry, 423; false courage, 424; growing from constitution, compared with that found- ed on principle, iv. 226.
Courtship, the Spectator's failure in, iii. 167; the pleasantest part of a man's life, 168; fond, a cause of unhappy marriages, iv. 217.
Courtships immoderately long censured, ii. 402.
Coverley (Sir Roger de), account of him, ii. 232; warns the Spectator not to med- dle with country squires, 296; satisfied by the arguments of the clergyman, 297; introduces the Spectator to his friend Leonora, 301; his character, as drawn by Addison, equal to that of Falstaff in Shakspeare, 434, note; his . family described, 435; is something of
a humourist, ib.; his chaplain, 436; forced to have every room in his house exorcised, 441; a good churchman ;, improves the discipline of his parish. ioners, 446; will suffer none of the con- gregation to sleep but himself, 447; his encouragement to boys on a catechising- day, 448; finds a remedy for disap- pointed love in fox-hunting, 451; puz- zled concerning a reputed witch, 454; ⚫at peace with himself, and beloved by all about him, 465; his behaviour at the assizes, 466; his portrait on a sign changed to the Saracen's head, 467; his embarrassment on finding his way to St. Anne's Lane when a school-boy, 475; why a stronger Tory in the coun- try than in town, 480; delights to read Dyer's Letter, 481; his fortune told and pocket picked by the gipsies, 491, 492; his care in preserving his game, 493; comes to town to see Prince Eugene, ii. 284; his remark on Christmas, 285; his reception at the coffee-house, 287; his munificent courtship of the perverse widow, 309; recommends Widow True- by's water to the Spectator, 329; goes with him to Westminster Abbey; the knight's remarks there, 330; his invita- tion to the interpreter, 332; his con- versation about the Mohocks, ib.; goes with the Spectator and Captain Sentry to the play, his behaviour there, 333; goes with the Spectator to Spring Garden, his choice of a waterman, 360; his behavi- our and discourse, 361, 362; his remark on the morals of the place, 362; his ad- venture with an equestrian lady, 436, 437; news of his death, iv. 37; account of it in his butler's letter, 38; its effect on the club, 40; letter in the name of, v. 434.
Coviello, a standing character in Vene- tian comedy, i. 394.
Cow, grazing, easily construed into a gob- lin, ii. 441.
Cowards, the most impudent of all crea- tures, iii. 119.
Cowley, his poetical character, i. 23; his propensity to allegory and pun, 151; de- fined wit by negatives, ii. 298, iv. 385; his writings abounding in mixt wit, ii. 358; his remark on a certain age in life, 469; his lines on the destruction of the uni- verse, iii. 16; his comparison of a beau- tiful woman to a porcupine, 354; his remark on great men, 480; his remark on egotism, iv. 98.
Cowper, William, first Earl, Lord Chan- cellor, v. 429.
Coxcomb, a melancholy thing to see one at the head of a family, iv. 319. Coxcombs, generally women's favourites, ii. 485.
Cracherode, Mr., letter from Tickell to, v. 509.
Crack, an unpoetical word. i. 84. note.
Craggs, Mr., his character, by Pope, i. 254. Craggs, James, Esq., "Young," v. 427; succeeded Addison as Secretary of State, 510; letter to Worsley, 522; from Ad- dison, 523.
Crambo, a game played in the temple of Dulness, ii. 364.
Cranes, Battle of, with the Pygmies, a Latin poem, i. 239.
Crassus, an old lethargic valetudinarian, iii. 186.
Crawford, Mr., letters to, v. 440, 446, 451, 502.
Crawford, Lord, his duel with the Duke of Argyle, v. 357.
Crazy, William, testifies his being cured of jealousy by two doses of the Spectator, iv. 75.
Creation, its works, more pleasing to con-
sider them in their immensity than in their minuteness, ii. 74; a transcript of the ideas of its Creator, iii. 16; of the world, Milton's account of it won- derfully sublime, 187, 244; a poem un- der that title noticed, 248; the sixth book of that poem referred to, iv. 73; works of, a perpetual feast to the mind of a good man, iii. 372; considered as the temple of God, iv. 104.
Creator, the standard of perfection and of happiness, ii. 445.
Credenda of the Tories, iv. 452.
Credit, public, allegory concerning, ii. 237.
Credulity represented in a vision as an idiot, iv. 497.
Creed of a philosopher, on eternity, iv. 145.
Cremera, river, i. 487.
Crequi (Mareschal de), inscription on the ball which shot him, iv. 468. Crescens the Cynic, his controversy with Justin Martyr, v. 105.
Cressy, battle of, King Edward's piety at, v. 80.
Creticus, rallied by Juvenal on the thin- ness of his dress, i. 278.
Cries of London, iii. 149; divided into vo- cal and instrumental, 150. Criminals, in comedy, often rendered fa- vourites with the audience, iii. 452. Critic, in the common acceptation of the word, described, ii. 140; a true one, his duty, iii. 196, note; a description of one, very opportune, iv. 188, note; one who attacks an author of high reputation, compared to the slave in a Roman tri- umph, 207; none but a man of genius should call himself so, 240; one who makes it his business to lash the faults of others, guilty of greater himself, 370. Criticism, its requisites, iii. 195, 196; soundness of it judged by the works of the critic, iv. 221.
Criticisms of Longinus on a fragment of Sappho, iii. 117.
Critics, called lacqueys of the learned, ii. 34; their crimes, how punished after death, 180; on lewd authors how con- sidered by the world, 134, note; always bad poets, 151; the best, a perusal of their works essential to the formation of a good taste, iii. 392; French critics, friends to one another, ib.; their rule for condemning a play, not because it is ill-written, but because it takes, iv. 148; modern ones stupid and illiterate, 149; of the family of Momus, the son of Darkness and Sleep, ib.; their indis- criminate abuse shows a want of taste, 237.
Critique on Dryden's plays, iv. 207. Crocodile, its eggs destroyed by the -ich- neumon, ii. 479.
Cromwell, exertions of the reforming
clergy in his time, iv. 224; observation of Pascal on his death, 257.
Cross, medal of, in allusion to the battle of Constantine with Maxentius, i. 308. Crotchet, Ralph, his letter to the Spectator on the cries of London, iii. 149. Crow, Mr., appointed envoy to the king of Spain, v. 351.
Crown, the ladies of the North clubbed for a new one for the Pretender, iv. 434. Cruelty, to animals, practised by retainers to physic, ii. 273; paternal, exhibited in a letter, iii. 58.
Cuckoldom, rules of a society tending to its advancement, ii. 248; the basis of most modern plays, iii. 452.
Cudgelling, an effectual way of reforming a freethinker, ii. 50.
Cumæ, at present utterly destitute of in- habitants, i. 452.
Cunning, contrasted with discretion, iii 110; a commander in the war of the sexes, iv. 274.
Cunning men, liable to jealousy, iii. 24. Cupid, a Greek epigram on a figure of,
458; a lap-dog, dangerously ill, ii. 81, prescription for him, 82; compared to a porcupine, 148; how drawn by Cor- regio, 215.
Cupid and Psyche, a fine piece of sculp- ture at Florence, i. 497.
Curiosity, one of the strongest and most lasting appetites of our nature, iii. 127. Curtain-lecture witnessed by Mr. Bicker. staffe, ii. 183.
Curtius, his statue crowned with an oaken garland, i. 299.
Cussinus, an Englishman, was promised to the Duke of Austria's sister in mar- riage, i. 519.
Custom, a second nature, iii. 453; its ef- fects, ib.; moral hence deduced, 454, 455.
Customs, Commissioners of, letter to, v. 471.
Cybele, mother of the gods, allusion to, i 304.
Cycnus transformed into a swan, i. 98. Cynic, one who lived the merriest life of any man in Athens, iv. 174.
Cynisca, wife of Eschines, cured of her passion for Lycus, by the Lover's Leap, iii. 122.
Cynthio, a character in the Dialogues on Medals, i. 255,
Cyphers, the queen and the Tories so call- ed, iv. 377.
Cyrus the Great, said to have planted all the Lesser Asia, iv. 135.
Czar of Muscovy, instructions to Lord Stair, in relation to him, v. 453, 455; Sir John Norris sent as Envoy Plenipo- tentiary to him, 466; his designs in France, 470.
Dacier's opinion respecting the vestis tra- beata of the Romans, i. 261; his men- tion of Amasia Sentia, a female pleader, iv. 492, note.
Dacier, Madame, her remark on Sappho's Ode to Venus, iii. 108.
Dædalus, letter from, on the art of flying, iv. 214.
Daily Readers, two, their conjectures on the ant-paper, iv. 304.
Dainty, the widow, her charge against Josias Shallow in the Court of Honour, ii. 212.
Dalton's Country Justice recommended to the ladies, ii. 409.
Damo, daughter of Pythagoras, refused a great sum for her father's works, iv. 321. Dampier, his account of a mode of dis- tinguishing wholesome from noxious fruits, ii. 461.
Dances communicated by letter, ii. 22. Dancing-master, account of his studies and dancing by book, ii. 22.
Danes, their pretensions to the Isle of St. Thomas, v. 448.
Danger of the church, the cry of the To- ries, v. 20.
Dangers past, why the reflection on them pleases, iii. 420.
Daniel, his relics in the great church of Milan, i. 369; the historian, provisions taxed in his time, ii. 107.
Dapperwit, Tom, his remark on conjugal affection, iv. 17; appointed by Will. Honeycomb to succeed him, 52.
Dart, double-pointed, an emblem of the sun-beams, i. 320.
Dartmouth, Lord, appointed Secretary of State, v. 393.
Dathan, a peddling Jew, indicted in the Court of Honour for breaking the peace, ii. 204. Dauphin edition, contains the best com- mentaries on Ovid, i. 142. Davenant, Dr., his works, v. 325.
Davenant, Mr, letter to, v. 440; letter re- specting the Aqua Tofana, 471. David, his reflection on the nothingness of man compared with the immensity of the heavens, iv. 102; his life length- ened at the expense of that of Adam, 266; the story invented by the Rabbins to show their high opinion of the Psalm- ist, ib. Dayrolles, James, at the Hague, v. 384; his family and appointments, 445; his recall, 481; letters to, 445, 481, 513. Days of abstinence recommended, iii. 66.
Dead in reason, a court held on persons in that state, ii. 53; Mrs. Rebecca Pin- dust, ib.; her admirer, ib.; an old fel- low of sixty, 54; authors, 55.
Dead languages, faults and baseness of style in them not so easily discoverable as in the living, v. 224. Death, a hideous phantom on the road to Fame, ii. 13; the time and manner of it unknown, 246; the fear of, often proves mortal, 280; finely personified in Para- dise Lost, iii. 216; exhibited as forming a bridge over the Chaos, 268; one of the most ancient morals recommended to mankind, 301; determines a man's re- putation as good or bad, 339; remark- able instances of firmness in that ca- tastrophe, 340; described as a Proteus, iv. 257.
Death-bed shows the emptiness of titles, iii. 100.
Debate, several methods of managing one, iii. 130.
Decay, a verb neuter, not to be used transitively, iv. 233, note.
Decius, ambassador from Cæsar to Cato, i. 189.
Declaration, loyal, of the Female Associa- tion, iv. 428; of the Freeholders of Great Britain in answer to that of the Pre- tender, 429.
Dedicatio Poematum, i. 232.
Dedication of Solomon's Temple, v. 78. Defamation, its evils enumerated, ii. 275. Defamatory pamphlets, scandalous to a government, iii. 457; pleasure in read- ing them, whence arising, 459, 460. Defiance of the Freeholders to the Pre- tender, iv. 429.
De Foe, a ministerial paper of his, alluded to by Count Tariff, iv. 367, note. Deformity, sometimes amiable, ii. 400. Deism personified, ii. 208. Deity, his nature and attributes contem- plated by the light of reason, iv. 52, 53; by that of revelation, 54; various effects of a sense of his omnipresence on the condition of intellectual beings, 113; one of the greatest affronts to him is perjury, iv. 417.
Deliberation, danger of, to woman, i. 212 note.
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