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moderns, ibid. The concave and convex figures have the greatest air, ibid. Every thing that pleases the imagination in it, is either great, beautiful or new,

ibid. Art (works of) defective to entertain the imagination, N. 414. Receive great advantage from their likeness to thofe of Nature, ibid.

Auguft and July (months of) described, N. 425.

B,

BABEL, (Tower of) N. 415.

What he

Bacon (Sir Francis) prefcrioes his reader a poem or profpect, as conducive to health, N. 411. fays of the pleasure of tafte, 447.

Bankruptcy, the mifery of it, N. 428, 456.

Bar oratory in England, reflexions on it, N. 407. Bafilius Valentinus, and his fon, their ftory, N. 426. Baxter (Mr.) his last words, N. 445. more last words, ibid.

Bayle (Mr.) what he fays of libels, N. 451.

Bear-Garden, a combat there, N. 436. The cheats of it, 449.

Beauty heightened by motion, N. 406.

Beauty of objects, what understood by it, N. 412, no. thing makes its way more directly to the foul, ibid. Every fpecies of fenfible creatures has different notions of it, ibid. A fecond kind of it. ibid. Beggars, the grievance of 'em, N. 430, Belvidera, a critique on a fong upon her, N. 470. Belus, Jupiter, Temple of, N. 415.

Birds, how affected by colours, N. 412.

Blast (Lady) her character, N. 457.

Bluemantle (Lady) an account of her, N. 427.

Buck (Timothy) his anfwer to James Miller's challenge,

N. 436.

Buffoonry cenfur'd, N. 443.

Bufinefs (men of) their error in fimilitudes, N. 421. of learning fitteft for it, 459.

Buffy d'Amboife, a ftory of him, N. 467.

C.

CESAR loft his life by neglecting a Roman augur's
caution, N. 395.

Celia, her character, N. 404.

Calisthenes, his character, N. 422.

Calumny, the ill effects of it, N. 451.

Camilla's letter to the Spectator from Venice, N. 443•
How applauded there, ibid.

Cartefian, how he would account for the ideas formed by
the fancy, from a fingle circumftance of the memory,
N. 417.

Cato, the refpect paid him at the Roman theatre, N.
446.

Chamont's faying of Monimia's misfortunes, N. 395.
Charity fchools to be encouraged, N. 430.

Charles II. his gaieties, N. 462.

Charms, none can fupply the place of virtue, N. 395.
Children, their duty to their parents, N. 426. Ill edu-
cation of them fatal, 431.

Chinese laugh at our gardens, and why, N. 414.
Chremylus, his character out of Ariftophanes, N. 464.
Cicero, his genius, N, 404. The oracle's advice to him.
ibid. What he says of fcandal, 427; of the Roman
gladiators, 436.

Clarendon (Earl of) his character of a person of a trou-
blesome curiofity, N. 439.

Cleanthes, his character, N. 404.

Cleopatra, a defcription of her failing down the Cydnos,
N. 400.

Cloe, the ideot, N. 466.

Colours, the eye takes moft delight in them, N. 412.
Why the poets borrow moft epithets from them, ibid.
Only ideas in the mind, 413. Speak all languages,
416.

Comedies, English, vicious, N. 446.
Commonwealth of Amazons, N. 433.

Compaffion civilizes human nature, N. 397. How to
touch it, ibid.

Company, temper chiefly to be confidered in the choice

of it, N. 424.

Concave

Concave and convex figures in architecture have the greatest air, and why, N. 415.

Confidence, the danger of it to the ladies, N. 395. Coverley (Sir Roger de) his adventure with Sukey, N. 410. His good humour, 424.

Converfation an improvement of tafte in letters, N.

409.

Country life, why the poets in love with it. N. 414, what Horace and Virgil say of it, ibid. Rules for it,

424.

Courage wants other good qualities to fet it off, N. 422., Court and city, their peculiar ways of life and converfation, N. 403.

Criticks (French) friends to one another, N. 409.
Cuckoldom abufed on the ftage, N. 446.

Curiofity (abfurd) an inftance of it, N. 439.

Cufom a fecond nature, N. 437. The effect of it, ibid. How to make a good use of it, ibid. Cannot make every thing pleasing, 455.

Cynthio and Flavia break off their amour very whimfically, N. 399.

D.

DAcinthus, his character, N. 462.

Dainty (Mrs. Mary) her memorial from the coun

try infirmary, N. 429.

Damon and Strephon, their amour with Gloriana, N. 423.

Dancing difplays beauty, N. 466; on the ftage faulty, ibid. The advantages of it, ibid.

Dangers paft, why the reflexion of 'em pleafes, N. 418. Day, the feveral times of it in several parts of the town, N. 454

Deluge, Mr. Wn's notion of it reproved, N. 396.

Defamation, the fign of an ill heart, N. 427. Papers of that kind a fcandal to the government, 451. To be punished by good minifters, ibid. Denying, fometimes a virtue, N, 458.

Deportment (religious) why fo little appearance of it in England, N. 448.

Defcrip

Defcriptions come fhort of ftatuary and painting, N. 416. Please fometimes more than the fight of things, ibid. The fame not alike relished by all, ibid. What pleases in them, 418. What is great, furprising and beautiful, more acceptable to the imagination than what is little, common, or deformed, ibid.

Defire, when corrected, N. 400.

Devotion, the nobleft buildings owing to it, N. 415.

Diana's cruel facrifices condemned by an ancient poet,

N. 453

Dionyfius's ear, what it was, N. 439.

Difcourfe in converfation not to be engroffed by one man, N. 428.

Diftracted perfons, the fight of them the most mortifying thing in nature, N. 421.

Dogget, how cuckoled on the ftage, N. 446.
Domeftic life, reflexions concerning it, N. 455.
Doris, Mr. Congreve's character of her, N. 422.
Drama, its first original a religious worship, N. 405.
Dream of the feafons, N. 425. Of golden fcales,
463.

An ill

Drefs, the ladies extravagance in it, N. 435. intention in their fingularity, ibid. The Englis character to be modeft in it, ibid.

Drink, the effects it has on modesty, N. 458.

E.

FAftcourt (Dick) his character, N. 468.

Editors of the clafficks, their faults. N. 470. Education of children, errors in it, N. 431.

A letter

on that fubject, N. 455. Gardening applied to it, ibid.

Emblematical perfons, N. 419.

Employments, whoever excels in any, worthy of praise, N. 432.

Emulation, the use of it, N. 432.

Enemies, the benefits that may be received from them,

N. 399.

English

English naturally modeft, N. 407, 435; thought proud
by foreigners, N. 432.

Enmity, the good fruits of it, N. 399.
Epictetus's faying of forrow, N. 397.
Equeftrian ladies, who, N. 435.

Error, his habitation defcrib'd, N. 460; how like to
truth, ibid.

Effay on the pleasures of the imagination, from N. 411,

to 421.

Ether (fields of) the pleasures of surveying them, N.

420.

Ever greens of the fair-fex, N. 395.

Euphrates river contained in one bason, N. 415.
Exchange (Royal) describ'd, N. 454.

FA

F.

AIRY writing, N. 419. The pleafures of imagi-
nation that arife from it, ibid. More difficult than
any other, and why, ibid. The English the beft poets
of this fort, ibid.

Faith, the benefit of it, N. 459. The means of confir-
ming it, 465.

Fame a follower of merit, N. 426. the palace of, de-
fcrib'd, 439. Courts compar'd to it, ibid.
Familiarities indecent in fociety, N. 429.

Fancy, all its images enter by the fight, N. 411.
Fashion, a defcription of it, N. 460.

Father, the affection of one for a daughter, N. 449.

Favilla, fpoil'd by a marriage, N. 437:

Faults (fecret) how to find them out, N. 399.

Fear (paffion of) treated, N. 471.

Feeling not fo perfect a fenfe as fight, N. 411.
Fiction, the advantage the writers have in it to please
the imagination, N. 419. What other writers please
in it, 420.

Fidelia, her duty to her father, N. 449,

Final caufes of delight, in objects, N. 413. Lie bare ;
and open, ibid.

Flattery defcrib'd, N. 460.

Flavid's character and amour with Cynthio, N. 398.

Flora, an attendant on the spring, N. 425.

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