tercession of Messiah, 194. Eclipse of the sun, a noble incident
195. Adam and Eve's regrets on hearing their sentence of expul-
sion from Paradise, 196, 197. Adam's visions, 198. Of the de-
luge, and its effect on Adam, 201. Twelfth book.-Sketch of the
Plagues of Egypt, 202. Abraham, 203. Messiah foretold, 204.
Noble conclusion of the poem, 205. A small alteration in it pro-
posed, 206. Judicious division of the poem into twelve books, 206.
Moral to be deduced from it, 207. Time of the action, from the
fourth book to the end, ib. Replete with scenes most proper to strike
the imagination, 364.

Parallel passages frequent in Homer and Milton, 183.
Parallels of Homer, Virgil, and Ovid, 362.

Addison's time, ib. note.

Fashionable in Mr.

Participle, how to be used instead of a substantive, 79, note.

Party-spirit injurious to the cause of virtue, 42.

Passionate men unfit for public business, 443.

Passions, the use of them, 62. Descriptions most pleasing which
move them, 365. Those of hope and fear, 449.

Pastoral hymn from the 23d Psalm, 396.

Pathetic, not essential to the sublime, 163.

Pelion, Homer's epithet on, 158.

Pembroke, Countess dowager of, epitaph on her, 260.

Pericardium of a coquette's heart, marked with millions of scars, 219.
Some account of the lady, 221. The heart of a salamandrine qua-
lity, 222.

Perrault, ridicules the homely sentiments of Homer, 99. His ill judged
sneer at Homer's similitudes, 124.

Persecution, in religious matters, immoral, 429.

Persia, the queen of, her pin-money, 238.

Persons, imaginary, not proper for an heroic poem, 191.

Perspicuity, a great requisite in epic poetry, 101.

Pestilence, awfully personified in scripture, 193.

Petronius Arbiter, remarks on his death, 274.

Petticoat-politicians, a seminary of them to be erected in France, 244.
Phalaris, his consolation to one who had lost a good son, 273.
Phaon, the inconstant lover of Sappho, 4.

Phidias, his proposal to cut mount Athos into a statue of Alexander,
353.

Philips, Mr. Ambrose, his translation of Sappho's hymn to Venus, 5.
His character as a poet and as a man, ib. note. His imitation of
another fragment from Sappho, 17.

Philomot, feuille morte, 84.

Philosophy, natural, its uses, 311. A source of pleasure to the ima-
gination, 372.

Phoenix, the tutor of Achilles, his mode of remonstrating with his pu-
pil, 304.

Pindaric manner, in gardening, 460.

Pin-money, a curious case respecting, 235. The term proposed to be
changed into needle-money, 237. Lands
sia's pin-money, 238.

called the queen of Per-

Pity, its influence on mankind, 313. That and terror the leading
passions in poetry, 366.

Place, in the state, why to be sought after, 442. What persons unfit
for, 443.

Plato, his justification of Providence in the adversity of good men, 31.
His account of the queen of Persia's pin-money, 238. His style
worthy of the gods, 324.

Pleasures of imagination, Mr. Addison's essay on, the most masterly
of his critical works, 336, note.

Planets, to survey them, fills us with astonishment, 372.

Plot (Dr.) his account of a clock-striking ideot, 404.

Plutarch, relates a circumstance respecting an ode of Sappho, 17. Enu-
merates the good fruits of enmity, 317. His propensity to construe
events into judgments, 469.

Plutus, why struck blind by Jupiter, 437.

Poems, three in our language, of the same nature, each a masterpiece
in its kind, 62.

Poetry, which excites terror and pity, why pleasing, 365. What its
highest perfection, 376.

Poet, should take pains in forming his imagination, 361. In fiction
has the modelling of nature in his own hands, 367.

Poets, bad ones most subject to envy and detraction, 58. Their anti-
pathy to a cat-call, 281.

Polite imagination, lets into a great many pleasures the vulgar are in-
capable of, 338.

Politics, academy for, projected at Paris, 243. Revenues, 244. Arts
to be taught there, 245. Of St. James's coffee-house on the report
of the French king's death, 320. Of Giles's, 321. Of Jenny
Man's, ib. Of Wills's, ib. The Temple, ib. Fish-street, ib. Cheap-
side, 322.

Poll, a way of arguing, 35.

Polyphemus, compared to a man of talents without discretion, 8.
Pompey, for what recommended by Cicero to the Romans, 231.
Population, wisely regulated by Providence, 227.

Poverty, the virtues and vices it produces, 436.

Powder Watt, a distinguished performer in the London cries, 57.
Power, despotic, an unanswerable argument against it, 225.

Praise, why not freely conferred on men till dead, 273.

Prayers, called by Homer, the daughters of Jupiter, 304. A fable
relating to them, 305. Set forms, why necessary, 308.

Precipice, distant, why its prospect pleases, 366.

Prejudice, in men of Greek taste, against Gothic architecture, 353,

note.

Presumption, in construing misfortunes into judgments, 469.
Price, of the Spectator's papers, why raised, 398.

Printing, the art of, a source of rivalry among the polite nations of
Europe, 284. Praise of the English press, 285.

Procrastination, to be avoided by men in office, 444.
Projector, a letter from one, on news, 416.

Another proposing a

news-letter of whispers, 421. And a monthly pamplet, 423.

Prophecy, a ludicrous one in the Eneid, how fulfilled, 177.
Prose-critics, a sort of men so called by Mr. Dryden, 106.
Prosopopæia, instanced in Homer, Virgil and Milton, 191, 192.
Prosperity, to what compared by Seneca, 31.

Prospect, a beautiful one delights the soul as much as a demon-
stration, 337. Wide ones please the fancy, 338. Enlivened by no-
thing so much as rivers and falls of water, 341. That of hills and
valleys soon tires, ib.

Providence, a discovery of its ways, the probable happiness of a future
state, 29. Its œconomy too wise for our comprehension, 31.
Equality of its dispensations to mankind, 63.

Prudence, why sometimes an impediment to good fortune, 233.
Psalmist, celebrates the scenes of nature which gladden the heart,
311. His prayer against hypocrisy, 319. His representation of
Providence, 396. His emphatical expressions of religious hope, 451.
Psalms, a sublime passage from, in Paradise Lost, 161. The 23d a
pastoral hymn, 396. The 139th, a wonderful beauty in it, 319.
Pug the monkey's letter to his mistress, giving an account of the
transmigrations of his soul, 269.

Puns, a string of them in Paradise Lost, 100.

Purgatory, compared with the married state, 465, 466.

Purses, separate, between man and wife, as unnatural as separate
beds, 237.

Puzzle, Tom, an immethodical disputant, 456.

Pyramids, of Egypt, 352.

Pythagoras, his precept on the formation of virtuous habits, 406.

Q.

Quixote, Don, an effectual cure for the extravagances of love, 14.
An instance of the first species of ridicule, 53.

R.

Rabbinical secret revived by the Jesuits, 246.
Rack, a knotty syllogism, 35.

Rainbow, its figure as well as colours magnificent, 355. Account of
one across the Channel from Dover, 'ib. note.

Ramage de la Ville, Will Honeycomb's term for the cries of London, 45.
Raphael, an admirable character in Paradise Lost, 94. His descent to
Paradise, 152.

Raphael the painter, his picture of St. Paul preaching at Athens,
exemplifies the gesture of Italian orators, 327.

Ratio ultima regum, the logic of kings,' 34.

Readings, various, in the classics, a disadvantage, 445. A humorous
specimen of them, 446, 447.

Ready money, of great use in argument, 35.

Rechteren, (Count,) his controversy with Monsieur Mesnager, its
influence on the affairs of Europe, 462.

Redundancies in discourse, ridiculed, 288.

Reformation of the age, mode of contributing to it, 401, 402.

Rehearsal, its ridicule on Dryden, how justifiable, 109.

Relative, too far from the antecedent, 295, note.

Religion, the practice of it, with what pleasures attended, 407. Con-
sisting of belief and practice, 427. Remark of an excellent author
on charity and zeal, 430.

Report, used for judgment, and vice versâ, 318, note.

Reproach, most hateful to an ambitious man, 70.

Richelieu, his remark on misfortune and imprudence, 231. His poli-
tics made France the terror of Europe, 244. Rich men, their de-
fects overlooked, 435.

Riches corrupt men's morals, 436.

Ridicule, perhaps a better expedient against love than sober advice,
14. The qualification of little, ungenerous tempers, 51. How to
be rendered of use in the world, 52. Its two great branches in
writing, 53. How far admissible in criticism, 109. Improper
subjects for it in comedy, 403.

Riding-coats of the ladies, the Spectator's dislike of them, 385.
Rhythm, in style, illustrated, 331, 332, note.

Rochester, his remark on French truth and British policy, 247.
Roman Catholics, less ashamed of religion than Protestants, 426.
Romances, full of metaphorical deaths, 290.

Roscommon, (Lord,) referred to, on Paradise Lost, 159.

Royal Society, design of its first institutors, 80.

Rycaut, (Sir Paul,) his account of a curious Mahometan custom,
269.

S.

Sallust, his remark on Cato, 64. His excellence, 330.

Sappho, fragments of her poetry beautiful, 3. Called by ancient
authors the tenth muse, 4. Her Hymn to Venus, and Lover's
Leap, 4. Another fragment of hers, as great a model to poets as
the Torso to Sculptors and Painters, 15. Translated by Catullus,
ib. By Boileau, 16. And by Mr. Philips, 17. Circumstance re-
specting it related by Plutarch, ib. Takes the Lover's Leap and
dies, 25.

Satan, a principal actor in Paradise Lost, 94. His first speech, won-
derfully proper, 119. His person described with great sublimity,
120. His meeting with Sin and Death, 126, 131. His approach
to the confines of creation, 135. His survey of its wonders, 138.
His discourse with the Angel in the Sun, 138. Opening of his
speech to the Sun, 142. His transformations and encounter with
Zephon and Gabriel, 143. Wounded by the sword of Michael,
160. Assumes the form of a serpent, 179. Beguiles Eve, 182.
Returns to Hell, 187. His disgraceful transformation, ib.
Satiety of joy, the expression corrected, 303, note.
Satire, when general how rendered personal, 59, note.

Most popular

when aimed at eminent persons, 67. On particular persons, the
disgrace of England, 410.

Scales, golden, in Paradise Lost, a refinement on a thought in Homer,
144. A vision of them, 432.

Scaliger, his censure of Lucan's digressions, 114.

Scandal, printed, effectual mode of suppressing, 409.
Science, best cultivated in a free state, 226.

Scotch, a saying of theirs, on natural parts and learning, 433.
Scotists, their contests with the Smiglesians at Oxford, 34.

Scott, Dr. his Christian Life, its merit, 408.

Scribblers, why neglected by the Spectator, 399, 400.

Scudery's Romances, relate a curious expedient of two absent lovers,
38.

Seasons, the Spectator's choice of countries to pass them in, 309.
Secret faults, methods for each person to discover his own, 317.
Sectaries, during the rebellion, tendency of their hypocrisy, 426.
Self-examination, a precept for, 277.

Self-knowledge, how attainable, 317.

Self-murder among females, mode of preventing it in Greece, 20.
Semiramis, figure of, cut from a huge rock, 351.

Senate, Roman, analogous to our nobility, 224.

Seneca, his opinion of modesty, 21. Stricture on a great author's
style applied to Milton, 116. A pattern for essay writing, 455.
Sentiments, in an epic poem, how to be considered, 96. Two kinds,
the natural and the sublime, 98.

Sentry, (Captain,) accompanies the Spectator and Sir Roger to the
play, 265.

Serenade of cat-calls, for what purpose performed, 282.

Serpent, story of, from Scripture, how treated by Milton, 179.

Sexes, their mutual regard tends to the improvement of each, 378.
Shakespear excels in the fairy way of writing,' 370.

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And in ghosts,

Shallow, (John, Esq.) his letter on cat-calls at the theatre, 279.
Sherlock on Death, why so generally perused, 229. Has improved
the notion of Heaven and Hell, 408.

Shilling, a crooked one, the talisman of absent lovers, 45.

Shows and diversions, the peculiar province of the Spectator, 26.
Shenkyn, Davyth ap, his letter to Mister Spictatur, on the Lover's
Leap, 13.

Sight, the most perfect and delightful of the senses, 336. The plea-
sures of imagination arise originally from it, ib.

Simætha perishes in the Lover's Leap, 23.

Similes of Milton, their sublimity and beauty, 124.
Similitudes, eminent writers faulty in them, 375.
Sin, why properly the portress of Hell, 131.

Sin and Death, a beautiful allegory in Paradise Lost, 93.
proach to earth after the fall, 185, 186.

Singularity, an honourable one, in Mr. Addison, 377.

Their ap-

Sion, the songs of, in great repute among the eastern monarchs,

325.

Sisyphus rolling the stone, admirably described by Homer, 61.
Slavery, what kind of government most removed from it, 223.
Smells, or perfumes, heighten the pleasures of imagination, 343.
Smiglesians, their contests with the Scotists at Oxford, 34.

Socrates, his method of arguing compared with that of Aristotle, 33.