To what compared in the Scriptures, and by the heathen The present life a state of probation, We are in this life nothing more than passengers, Eternal life what we ought to be most solicitous about, Valuable only as it prepares for another, Captain Sity, laght and colours only ifleas of the mind, is Roger de Covellie (Charles), his present to the Spectator, the Emperor of Chandamira, the only woman allowed to paint, 575 Master, a good one, a prince in his family, 358 A complaint against some ill masters, From A survey of it in a vision, From C. B. rap ment to the be 396 268 99 149 234 27 479 The advantages of it preferable to a single state, 479,500 93 Termed purgatory by Tom Dapperwit, 482 143 The excellence of its institution, 490 143 The pleasure and uneasiness of married persons, to what 143 imputed, 506 159 The foundation of community, 522 For what reason liable to so much ridicule, 522 219 Some further thoughts of the Spectator on that subject, 525 237 Mars, an attendant on the spring, 425 289 Martial, an epigram of his on a grave man's being at a lewd 289 play, 446 8 8 107 137 420 519 365 41 May, a month extremely subject to calentures in women, 403 Memory, how improved by the ideas of the imagination, 339 Merchant, the worth and importance of his character, 30 Mercy, whoever wants it has no taste of enjoyment, 475 Method, the want of it, in whom only supportable, 506 Military education, a letter about it, 591, 607 Mill to make verses, 596 Miller (James), his challenge to Timothy Buck, 288 Minutius, his character, 128 Mirth in a man ought always to be accidental, The awkward pretenders to it, Distinguished from cheerfulness, 225 227 233 54 His subject conformable to the talents of which he was 315 55 His fable a master piece, 315 55 55 195 The moral of that poem, and length of time contained "A continuation of the Spectator's criticism on Paradise 507 in the action, 369 507 The vast genius of Milton, 417 522 His poem of Il Penseroso,' 425 His description of the archangel and the evil spirits ad- 141 dressing themselves for the combat, 463 408 Mimicry (art of), why we delight in it, 416 85 Mind (human), the wonderful nature of it, 554 631 Minister, a watchful one described, 439 422 196 358 381 159 564 483 62 12 6 196 Mixt communion of men and spirits in Paradise, as described 264 Mode, on what it ought to be built, A standing mode of dress recommended, 441 Modesty, the chief ornament of the fair sex, Persons, imaginary, not proper for an heroic poem, Petition from a cavalier for a place, with his pretensions to it, 629 last moments grounded on different motives, Petticoat, a complaint against the hoop petticoat, Several conjectures upon it, Compared to an Egyptian temple, 349 Of Fish street, Of Cheapside, 127 Poll, a way of arguing, 127 Polycarpus, a man beloved by every body, 127 Pontignan (Monsieur), his adventure with two women, is the prese Petticoat politicians, a seminary to be established in France, 305 Poor, the scandalous appearance of them, His great wisdom, His edict against duels, Phebe and Colin, an original poem by Dr. Byrom, Phidias, his proposal for a prodigious statue of Alexander, Philips (Mr.), pastoral verses of his, His pastorals recommended by the Spectator, Said to be brought by Socrates down from heaven, 76 Pope (Mr.), his miscellany commended by the Spectator, 84 Posterity, its privilege, 97 Poverty, the inconveniences and mortifications usually at- 79 Powell (senior), to act Alexander the Great on a drome- His artifice to raise a clap, 466 Powell (junior), his great skill in motions, His performance referred to the opera of Rinaldo and No. 578 Polities of Jenny Man's, 357 Of Will's, 577 Of the Temple, No. 403 403 403 403 403 430 523 188 101 603 415 400 528 195 7 14 - 287 337 Praise, the love of it implanted in us, 38, 467 420 A generous mind the most sensible of it, 238 The boast of pagan philosophers that they exalt human ㄨ His saying of a vain promiser, Physic, the substitute of exercise or temperance, Physician and surgeon, their different employment, Los Picts, what women so called, No faith to be kept with them, Picture not so natural a representation as a statue, What pleases most in one, Pictures, witty, what pieces so called, Piety an ornament to human nature, Base Pindar's saying of Theron, the Pin money condemned, Pinkethman to personate King Porus on an elephant, ecomePisistratus, the Athenian.tyrant, his generous behaviour on a particular occasion, Pitch-pipe, the invention and use of it, Pittacus, a wise saying of his about riches, or de Pity, is love softened by sorrow, That and terror leading passions in poetry, Place and precedency more contested among women of an sand Places of trust, who most fit for them, Why courted by men of generous principles, The unreasonableness of party-pretences to places, Plato, his notion of the soul, Wherein, according to him and his followers, the punish 634 Why not freely conferred on men till dead, 349 551 133 Prayers, Phoenix's allegorical description of them to Achilles 188 in Homer, 391 448 195 16 Precipice, distant, why its prospect pleases, The folly and extravagance of our prayers in general, 391 418 21 Prediction, the many arts of it in use among the vulgar, 505 101 25 86 41 A letter about it, as it respects parties in England, 432 480 33 Poetesses (Engish, wherein remarkable, Poeny has the whole circle of nature for its province, Ba pocts given to envy and detraction, The chief qualification of a good poet, The pains they should take to form the imagination, Polite imagination let into a great many pleasures the vulgar Politicians, the mischief they do, Politics of St. James's coffee house, on the report of the 418 Qualities, what are truly valuable, 183 A pun of thought, 454 By whom punning is affected, 504 484 Punsters, their talents, 525 Puss, speculations on an old and a young one, 504 58 Pyramids of Egypt, 483 Puzzle (Tom), a most eminent immethodical disputant, 626 470 421 267 Pythagoras, his precepts about the choice of a course of life, 447 415 586 39, 40 QUACK bill, 44 Doctors, the cheats of them, 444 253 Au essay against quacks by Dr. Z. Pearce, 444 417 314 Quakers, project of an act to mary them to the olive beau- 572 396 340 And our own countrymen, A rebus at Blenheim house condemned, Recitative (Italian), not agreeable to an English audience, Recreation, the necessity of it, Religion, the greatest incentive to good and worthy actions, Self-conceit, one of the inhabitants of the paradise of foods, 49 120 Self love transplanted, what, 408 The narrowness and danger of self-love, 408 Semanthe, her character, 59 Semiramis, her prodigious works and powers, 59 Sempronia, a professed admirer of the French nation, 59 A morose melancholy behaviour, which is observed in se 494 The true spirit of religion not only composes, but cheers 494 426 431 Renatus Valentinus, his father and grandfather, their story, Reproof, when justly deserved, how we ought to behave un- Reputation, a species of fame, The stability of it, if well founded, Retirement, the pleasure of it where truly enjoyed, 487 487 Seneca, his saying of drunkenness, Sense; some men of sense more despicable than commit The different degrees of sense in the several different Sentry (Captain), a member of the Spectator's club, his che His account of a soldier's life, His discourse with a young wrangler in the law, an engagement between a French privateer and a His reflections on that action, Takes possession of his uncle Sir Roger de Coverley' estate, September (month of), described, 382 Servants, the general corruption of their manners, 218 218 4 A dream of it. 425 Revelation, what light it gives to the joys of heaven, 600 favours, 611 Rhubarb (John, Esq.), his memorial from the country in- 429 Rich (Mr.), would not suffer the opera of Whittington's Cat' 5 Rich: to be rich, the way to please, 280 The advantages of riches, 283 The art of growing rich, 283 The proper use of riches, The defects of rich men overlooked, Richelieu (Cardinal), his politics made France the terror of Riches corrupt men's morals, Ridicule, the talent of ungenerous tempers, The two great branches of ridicule in writing, Riding, a healthy exercise, Riding dress of ladies, the extravagance of it, Robin, the porter at Will's coffee-house, his qualification, Romans; an instance of the general good understanding of the ancient Romans, Rosalinda, a famous Whig partisan. her misfortune, Rosicrucius, the story of his sepulchre, A pretended discovery made by a Rosicrucian, Rowley (Mr.), his proposals for a new pair of globes, Royal Exchange, the great resort to it, Royal Progress,' a poem, Rusticity shocking, Rusty (Scabbard), his letter to the Spectator, Rynsault, the unjust governor, in what manner punished by Charles, Duke of Burgundy, his sovereign, SAINT Paul's eloquence, Salamanders, an order of ladies described, Sallust, his excellence, Salmon (Mrs.), her ingenuity, Salutation, subject to great enormities, Salutations in churches censured, Sanctorius, his invention, Santer (Mrs.), a great snuff-taker, Sappho, an excellent poetess, Dies for love of Phaon, Her hymn to Venus, A fragment of Sappho's translated into three different languages, Satire, Whole duty of Man' turned into one, Satires, the English, ribaldry and Billingsgate, Panegyrical on ourselves, 249 - 249 445 115 435 91 398 81 the Flood, Sherlock (Dr.), the reason his discourse of death hath bee so much perused, Improved the notion of heaven and bell, in Westminster Abbey, Shows and diversions lie properly within the province of the Spectator, Sickness, a thought on it, Sidney (Sir Philip), his opinion of the song of 'Chery Chase," Verses on his modesty, Sighers, a club of them at Oxford, Their regulations, 602 Sight, the most perfect sense, 81 379 574 552 The pleasures of the imagination arise originally from it, Furnishes it with ideas, Sight, second, in Scotland, 69 Sign posts, the absurdity of many of them, 620 400 The preservation of several poems, 491 633 198 Simonides, his satire on women, The advantages of it over dissimulation and deceit, 409 Singularity, when a virtue, 28 An instance of it in a north-country gentleman, 259 Sippet (Jack), his character, 460 Slavery, what kind of government the most removed from it, 2 344 The folly and antiquity of it, 223 Sly, the haberdasher, his advertisement to young gentlemen 223 223 Sly (John), the tobacconist, his representation to the Spee 229 tator, His minute, 568 Smithfield bargain, in marriage, the inhumanity of it, The character given of him in his own presence, at 179 a 218 261 265 287 355 383 He accompanies Sir Roger de Coverley into the He goes with Sir Roger a hunting, And to the assizes, His adventure with a crew of gipsies, The several opinions of him in the country, His return to London, and fellow-travellers in the stage- His soliloquy upon the sudden and unexpected death of a His artifice to engage his different readers, His aversion to pretty fellows, and the reason of it, His advice to the British ladies. His adventure with a woman of the town, His description of a French puppet newly arrived, His opinion of our form of government and religion, His behaviour under reproach, and reasons for not re- His contemplations on Good-Friday, The benefits accruing to the public from his specula- tions, His papers much sought for about Christmas by all his His comparison of the world to a stage, He accompanies Sir Roger to Spring-garden, His zeal for the Hanover succession, 262 An error arising from a mistaken devotion, 266 Surprise, the life of stories, 277 Susanna, or Innocence Betrayed,' to be exhibited by Mr. 289 Sweaters, a species of the Mohock club, 356 TALF-BEARERS censured, Talents ought to be valued according as they are applied, 367 370 That of the English, 384 Tears, not always the sign of true sorrow, 133 Sun, the first eye of consequence, 132 Sukey's adventure with Will Honeycomb and Sir Roger de 131 Sudden (Thomas, Esq.) his memorial from the country 592 429 410 Sun rising and setting, the most glorious show in nature, 250 412 219 202 Superstition, the folly of it described, 7 201 213 538 Powell, with a new pair of Elders, 14 332 323 Swingers, a set of familiar romps at Tunbridge, 492 411 567 Syncopius, the passionate, his character, 438 579 439 172 140, 208 409 400 409 409 95 |