INDEX TO VOL. I. A. ABIGAILS, male, in fashion among the ladies, page 113. Acosta, his answer to Limborch touching the multiplicity of cere- Acrostic, a piece of false wit, divided into simple and compound, 154. Actions, a threefold division of them, 463. Advertisement of a lottery ticket, 425. Advice, no order of persons too great to be advised, 85. Ambition, the occasion of factions, 310. Most men subject to it, Americans, their opinion of souls, 134. Exemplified in a vision Amusements of life, when innocent, necessary and allowable, 231. Animals, the different make of every species, 285. The instinct The variety of arms with which they are provided by nature, 291. Apparitions, the creation of weak minds, 263. April, the first of, the merriest day in the year, 123. Aretine made all the princes of Europe tributary to him, 61. Aristus and Aspasia, a happy couple, 323. Arsinoe, the first musical opera on the English stage, 51. Artist, wherein he has the advantage of an author, 367. Association of honest men proposed by the Spectator, 311. Audiences are at present void of common sense, 43. VOL. I. I i Aurelia, her character, 45. Author, the necessity of the reader's knowing his size, temper, Avarice, its temples, adherents, attendants, and officers, &c. 131, B. Bacon, Sir Francis, his comparison of a book well written, 32. Bell, Mr. his ingenious device, 72. Bell-savage, its etymology, 73. Birds, a cage full for the opera, 16. Biters, their business, 24. Blank verse proper for tragedy, 96. Blanks of society, 33. Boileau censured, and for what, 458. Books reduced to their quintessence, 305. The legacies of great Bouhours, M. a great critic among the French, 165. Boutz-Rimez, what, 154. Bullock and Norris differently habited, prove great helps to a silly play, 112. Butts described, their qualification, 125. C. Cæsar, Julius, his behaviour to Catullus, who had put him into a Caligula, his wish, 49. Caprice often acts in the place of reason, 424. Care; what ought to be a man's chief care, 295. Castilian; the story of a Castilian husband and wife, 433, &c. Censor of small wares, an office to be erected, 48. Censure, a tax, by whom paid to the public, and for what, 245. Charles I. a famous picture of him, 146. Charles the Great, his behaviour to the secretary who had de- Chastity, the great point of honour in women, 241, &c. Chevy-Chase ballad, the Spectator's examen of it, 183, 195. Christian religion, the clear proof of its articles, and excellency of Chronogram, a piece of false wit, 154. Church-yard, the country change on sunday, 271. Cicero, a punster, 157. Clarinda, an idol, in what manner worshipped, 194. Cleanthe, her story, 43. Clergy, a threefold division of them, 55. Clubs, nocturnal assemblies, their several kinds, originals, and Commerce, its extent and advantage, 178. Compassion, the exercise of it would tend to lessen the calamities Connecte Thomas, a monk in the fourteenth century, a zealous Contentment the utmost good we can hope for in this life, 351. Cornaro, Lewis, a remarkable instance of the benefit of tempe- Coverley, Sir Roger de, a member of the Spectator's club, his Country gentleman and his wife, neighbours to Sir Roger, their Country Sunday, the use of it, 271, &c. Courage recommends a man to the female sex more than any Cowley abounds in mixt wit, 163. Coxcombs generally the womens' favourites, 321. Credit, a beautiful virgin, her situation and equipage, 12. D. Death, the time and manner of it unknown, 23. Delight and surprize, properties essential to wit, 161, &c. Devotion, the great advantage of it, 230. The most natural re- Dignitaries of the law, who, 56. Disappointments in love the most difficult to be conquered of any Drinking, a rule prescribed for it, 430. Dryden's definition of wit censured, 165. Duration, the idea of it how entertained according to Mr. Locke, Dutch more polite than the English in their funeral monuments, 69, E. Education, the benefits of a good one, and necessity of it, 168, &c. Eminent men, the tax paid by them to the public, 245. adulterated, 363. Enthusiasm, the misery of it, 437, &c. Epitaph of a charitable man, 392. Epitaphs, the extravagancy of some, and the modesty of others, 68. Errors and prepossessions difficult to be avoided, 278. Eternity, a prospect of it, 340. Eudoxus and Leontine, their friendship, and education of their Eugenius appropriates a tenth part of his estate to caritable uses, 391. Evremont, St. his endeavours to palliate the Roman superstition, 465. Exercise the most effectual physic, 427. Expences oftener proportioned to our expectations than pos- F. Fables, their antiquity, 403. Fable of the children and frogs, 62. Falsehood, the goddess of it, 168. Falstaff, Sir John, a famous butt, 125. Fame generally coveted, 191, &c. Families, the ill measures taken by great ones in the education of their younger sons, 262. Fan, the exercise of it, 249, &c. 2 Faustina the Empress, her notions of a pretty gentleman, 322. Feasts, the gluttony of our modern ones, 429. Flutter of the fan, the variety of motions in it, 250. Fools in plenty the first day of April, 123. Freeport, Sir Andrew, a member of the Spectator's club, 8. His Friendship, the great benefit of it, 174. Life's medicine, 175. Gaming, the folly of it, 231. G. Gaper, a common sigu in Amsterdam, 122. Ghost, its appearance of great efficacy upon the English theatre, 107. Giving and forgiving two different things, 421. Glaphyra, her story out of Josephus, 266. Good-breeding, the great revolution that has happened in that Good-nature, more agreeable in conversation than wit, 370. The Gospel gossips described, 120. Goths in poetry, who, 166. Great men, the tax they pay to the public, 245. Not truly known Greeks, a custom practised by them to create in their children an Grinning; a grinning prize, 386. Gypsies; an adventure between Sir Roger, the Spectator, and H. Handkerchiefs, the great machine for moving pity in tragedy, 108. Hard words ought not to be pronounced right by well-bred ladies, 116. Hardness of heart in parents towards their children most inex- Hate: why a man ought not to hate even his enemies, 309. Head-dress the most variable thing in nature, 237. Extravagantly Heirs and elder brothers frequently spoiled in their education, 299, Heroes in English tragedy generally lovers, 102. |