Hobb's, Mr. his observation upon laughter, 121. Honeycomb, Will. his knowledge of mankind, 252. His letter to Honour, wherein commendable, and when to be exploded, 242,&c. Human nature, the same in all reasonable creatures, 182. Humour to be described only by negatives, 87. The genealogy I. Iambic verse, the most proper for Greek tragedies, 95. Jealousy described, 374. How to be allayed, 379. Imma, the daughter of Charles the Great, her story, 401. Indian kings, some of their observations during their stay here, Indiscretion more hurtful than ill-nature, 62. Infidelity, another term for ignorance, 416. Injuries, how to be measured, 59. Innocence, and not quality, an exemption from reproof, 85. Instinct, the power of it in brutes, 287. Interest, often a promoter of persecution, 412. Italians, their writers florid and wordy, 18. Jupiter Ammon, an answer of his oracle to the Athenians, 451. K. Knowledge, the pursuits of it long, but not tedious, 233. The L. Labour, bodily, of two kinds, 274. Lacedemonians, a form of prayer used by them, 451. Lady's library described, 91, &c. Lampoons writ by people who can't spell, 48. Witty ones inflict Language, the English much adulterated during the war, 363. Laughter, the provocations to it, 121. Lawyers, the peaceable and litigious described, 55. Lear, king, a tragedy suffers in the alteration, 101. Leonora, her character, 93. Description of her country seat Leontine and Eudoxus, their great friendship and adventures, com- plaining of the new petticoat, 316. From a lawyer on the cir a whistling match at Bath, 396. From, who had married Letter-droppers of antiquity, 148. Library. A lady's library described, 91. Life in what manner our lives are spent, according to Seneca, London, an emporium for the whole earth, 178, Lottery, some discourse on it, 423. Luxury described with its attendant avarice, and a fable of those M. Males among the birds have only voices, 320. Man a sociable animal, 27. Variable in his temper, 348. Maple, Will, an impudent libertine, 441. Masquerade, a complaint against it, 25. The design of it, 26. Merchants of great benefit to the public, 181. Mixt wit described, 163, &c. Mixt communion of men and spirits in Paradise, as described by Mizran, the visions of, 338. Mode, a standing mode or dress recommended, 323. Moliere made an old woman a judge of his plays, 182. Monuments in Westminster-Abbey examined by the Spectator, 67, &c. Motto, the effects of a handsome one, 477. Music banished by Plato from his commonwealth, 54. Of a re lative nature, 77. N. Newberry, Mr. his rebus, 150. New-river, a project to bring it into the playhouse, 17. Nicolini, Signior, his voyage on pasteboard, 15. His combat with An excellent actor, 42. Nutmeg of delight, one of the Persian emperor's titles, 345. 0. Oates, Dr. a favourite with some party ladies, 142. Obedience of children to their parents the basis of all govern- Obscurity the only defence against reproach, 245. Ogler. The complete ogler, 121. Old maids generally superstitious, 21. Testament in a peruke, 146. Otway commended and censured, 98. Oxford scholar, his great discovery in a coffee-house, 119. P. Painter and taylor often contribute to the success of a tragedy Parents, their taking a liking to a particular profession, often oc- Particles, English, the honour done to them in the late operas, 52. Party scribblers reproved, 310. Passions of the fan, a treatise for the use of the author's scho Passions, their various operations, 468. The strange disorders Persians, their institution of their youth, 243. Their notion of Petticoat, hoop, complaint against it, 316. Several conjectures Philosophy, the use of it, 22. Said to be brought by Socrates Physic the substitute of exercise or temperance, 429. Physicians and surgeons, their different employment, 48. The Piety, an ornament to human nature, 439. Pinkethman to personate King Porus upon an elephant, 80. Plato, his notion of the soul, 220. Wherein, according to him. Pleasure and pain, a marriage between them, 406. Poems in picture, 144. Poets, English, reproved, 96, &c. Their artifices, 107, &c. Posterity, its privilege, 245. Powel, Senior, to act Alexander the Great on a dromedary, 80. His artifice to raise a clap, 102. Prejudice, the prevalency of it, 246. Pride, a man crazed with it a mortifying sight, 437. Procuress, her trade, 446. Prodicus, the first inventor of fables, 404. Professions, the three great ones overburdened with practitioners, 55, &c. Projector, a short description of one, 79, &c. Providence, demonstrative arguments for it, 285. VOL. I. K k Punning, much recommended by the practice of all ages, and in Q. Quality, no exemption from reproof, 85. Is either of fortune, R. Rants considered as blemishes in our English tragedy, 102. Readers divided into the mercurial and saturnine, 394. Reason not to be found in brutes, 286. Rebus, a kind of false wit in vogue amongst the ancients and our Recitative music in every language ought to be adapted to its ac- Recitativo, Italian, not agreeable to an English audience, 74, &c. Riding a healthy exercise, 277. Royal Exchange, the great resort to it, 178. S. Salamanders, an order of ladies described, 432. Salmon, Mrs. her ingenuity, 72. Sanctorius's invention, 63. Satirists best instruct us in the manners of their respective times 455. Scholar's egg, what so called, 144. Schoolmen, their ass-case, 423. How applied, ibid. Sempronia, a professed admirer of the French nation, 144. Sentry, Captain, a member of the Spectator's club, 8. Sextus Quintus, the pope, an instance of his unforgiving temper,60. Sidney, Sir Philip, his opinion of the song of Chevy-chase, 183. Socrates, his temper and prudence, 59, 60. His notion of pleasure |