828 A225 1889 Val3

LONDON:

PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,

STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.

CONTENTS, VOL. III.

THE SPECTATOR.

162. On Inconstancy and Irresolution

163. Disappointment in Love-Letter from Leonora—

Consolation.

164. Story of Theodosius and Constantia

165. Introduction of French Phrases in the History of the

War--Specimen in a Letter

166. Durability of Writing-Anecdote of an atheistical

Author

169. On Good-nature, as the Effect of Constitution

170. On Jealousy

171. Subjec. continued-Address to those who have jealous

Husbands

173. Account of a Grinning-match

177. Good-nature, as a Moral Virtue

179. Various Dispositions of Readers-Account of a Whis-

tling-match-Yawning

181. Cruelty of Parents in the Affair of Marriage

183. On Fable-Fable of Pleasure and Pain.

184. Account of a remarkable Sleeper

185. Zeal-various Kinds of Zealots

186. On Infidelity

189. Cruelty of Parents-Letter from a Father to his Son-

Duty to Parents

191. On the Whims of Lottery-Adventurers

195. On Temperance

198. Character of the Salamanders-Story of a Castilian

and his Wife

201. Devotion-Enthusiasm

203. On Seducers, and their illicit Progeny-Letter from

a natural Son

205. Description of a Female Pander-Affected Method of

Psalm-singing-Erratum in the Paper on Drinking

207. Notions of the Heathens on Devotion

209. Simonides's Satire on Women

211. Transmigration of Souls-Letters on Simonides's Sa-

tire on Women

213. On habitual good Intentions

215. Education-compared to Sculpture

95

219 Vanity of Honours and Titles

98

SFECTATOR.

CCNTENTS OF THE THIRD VOLUME.

221. Use of Mottos-Love of Latin among the Common

People-Signature Letters

223. Account of Sappho-Her Hymn to Venus

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102

105

225. Discretion and Cunning

108

227. Letter on the Lover's Leap

111

229. Fragment of Sappho .

115

231. Letter on Bashfulness-Reflections

233. History of the Lover's Leap

121

235. Account of the Trunk-maker in the Theatre

124

237. On the Ways of Providence

127

239. Various Ways of managing a Debate

130

241. Letter on the Absence of Lovers-Remedies proposed

133

33

243. On the Beauty and Loveliness of Virtue .

136

245. Simplicity of Character-Letters on innocent Diver-

sions-Absent Lovers-from a Trojan

139

247. Different Classes of Feinale Orators

142

249. Laughter and Ridicule

251. Letter on the Cries of London

253. On Detraction among bad Poets-Pope's Essay on

Criticism

255. Uses of Ambition-Fame difficult to be obtained

256. Subject-Disadvantages of Ambition

257. Ambition hurtful to the Hopes of Futurity

261. Love and Marriage

262. The Spectator's Success-Caution in Writing-an-

nounces his Criticism on Milton

265. Female Head-dress-Will. Honeycomb's Notions of it

267. Criticism on Paradise Lost

269. Visit from Sir Roger-his Opinions on various Matters

271. Letters from Tom Trippit, complaining of a Greek

Quotation-soliciting a Peep at Sir Roger from a

Showman

173

170

273. Criticism on Paradise Lost

181

289. Reflections on Bills of Mortality-Story of a Dervise

291. Criticism on Paradise Lost

293. Connexion betwixt Prudence and good Fortune-

Fable of a Drop in the Ocean

295. Letter on Pin-money-Reflections on that Custom

297. Criticism on Paradise Lost

299. Letter from Sir John Envil, married to a Woman of

303. Criticism on Paradise Lost

303

306

198

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310

204

SPECTATOR.

305. Project of the new French Political Academy

309. Criticism on Paradise Lost

311. Letter on Fortune-stealers-Remarks

315. Criticism on Paradise Lost

7. On Waste of Time-Journal of a Citizen

on them-on

321. Criticism on Paradise Lost

223

343. Transmigration of Souls-Letter from a Monkey

345. Criticism on Paradise Lost

for useful Purposes

377. Bill of Mortality of Lovers

381. Cheerfulness preferable to Mirth

383. Sir Roger de Coverley's Visit to Spring Gardens .

387. Motives to Cheerfulness

360

362

399. Hypocrisy, various kinds of it

376

403 Speculations of Coffee-house Politicians on the Death

of the King of France

379

405. On the Improvement of Sacred Music

382

407. Character of English Oratory-Use of proper Gestures 385

409. Characteristics of Taste

411-421. Essays on the Pleasures of the Imagination 393-430

433. Advantages of the Sexes associating--History of a

male Republic

430

434. History of a female Republic

433

435. Female Dress-Mixture of the Sexes in one Person

-Female Equestrians

435

439. The Manners of Courts-The Spy and the Cardinal

440 Proceedings of the Infirmary for Ill-humoured People

441 Happiness of Dependance on the Supreme Being

445. On the new Stamp-Success of the Spectator

446. Degeneracy of the Stage

447. Influence of Custom-Moral deduced from it

451. On defamatory Publications

PAGR

438

441

444

447

450

453

457

452. On News-writers and Readers-Specimen of a News-

470. Criticism-Specimen of various Readings

471. On Religious Hope

465. Means of strengthening Faith

469. On Benevolence in official Situations

475. On asking Advice in affairs of Love.

476. On Method in Writing and Conversation-Characters

of Tom Puzzle and Will. Dry

477. Letter on Gardening

482

486

488

491

494

497

499

481. Opinions on the Dispute between Count Rechteren

and M. Mesnager

503

482. Letters from Hen-peckt Husbands-from a Woman

married to a Cotquean

505

483. On attributing our Neighbours' Misfortunes to Judg-

ments

508