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 Like-
nefs to thofe of Nature, ibid.

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

B

B.

ABEL, (Tower of) N. 415.

Bacon (Sir Francis) prescribes his Reader a Poem on Profpect, as conducive to Health, N. 411. What he fays of the Pleasure of Tafte, 447.

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

Bar Oratory in England, Reflections on it, N. 407.
Bafilius Valentinus, and his Son, their Story, 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.

it, 449.

Beauty heightened by Motion, N. 406.

The Cheats of

Beauty of Objects, what understood by it, N. 412. Nothing makes its Way more directly to the Soul, ibid. Every Species of fenfible Creatures has different Notions of it, ibid. A fecond Kind of it, ibid. Beggars, the Grievance of 'em, N. 430. Belvidera, a Critick on a Song upon her, N. 470.

Belus, Jupiter, Temple of, N. 415:

Birds, how affected by Colours, N. 412.

Blaft, (Lady) her Character, N. 457.

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

Buck (Timothy) his Answer to James Miller's Challenge,

N. 436.

Buffoonry cenfur'd, N. 443.

Bufinefs (Men of) their Error in Similitudes, N. 421. Of

Learning, fitteft for it, 469.

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

C.

ESAR loft his Life by neglecting a Roman Au-
gur's Caution, N. 395.

Calia, her Character, N. 404.

Califthenes, 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 Me-
mory, N. 417.

Cato, the Refpet paid him at the Roman Theatre, Ñ.
446.

Chamont's Saying of Monimia's Misfortune, N. 395.
Charity Schools 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 Educa-
tion of them fatal, 431.

Chinefe 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 fays of Scandal, 427; of the Re-
man Gladiators, 436.

Clarendon (Earl of) his Character of a Perfon of a trouble-
fome Curiofity, N. 439.

Cleanthes, his Character, N. 404.

Cleopatra, a Defcription of her failing down the Cydnos,

N. 400.

Cloe, the Idiot, 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 confider'd in the Choice

of it, N.

42.4.

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.

Conversation 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 Stage, N. 445.

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

Custom a fecond Nature, N. 437. The Effect of it, ibid. How to make a good Use or it, ibid. Cannot make every thing pleating, 455.

Cynthio and Flavia break off their Amour very whimsi

cally, N. 399.

D.

Dacinthus, his Character, N. 402;

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 Stage faulty, ibid. The Advantages of it, ibid.

Dangers paft, why the Reflection of 'em pleases, N. 418.

Day, the feveral Times of it in feveral Parts of the Town, N. 454.

Deluge, Mr. W

396.

n's Notion of it reproved, N.

Defamation the Sign of an ill Heart, N. 427. Papers of that kind a Scandal to a Government, 451. To be punished by good Minifters, ibid.

Denying, fometimes a Virtue, N. 458.

Deportment (Religious) why fo little Appearances of it in England, N. 348.

Descriptions

Descriptions come short of Statuary and Painting, N. 416. Please fometimes more than the Sight of Things, ibid. The fame not alike relifhed by all, ibid. What pleases in them, 418. What is Great, Surprising 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 Sacrifices condemned by an ancient Poet, N. 453.

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

Difcourfe in Converfation not to be engrofs'd by one Man, N. 428.

Diftracted Perfons, the Sight of them the moft mortifying thing in Nature, N. 421.

Dagget, how cuckolded on the Stage, N. 446.
Domeftick Life, Reflections concerning it, 455.

Doris, Mr. Congreve's Character of her, N. 422.

Drama, its first Original a Religious Worship, N. 405.

Dream of the Seafons, N. 425; of Golden Scales, 463.

Drefs, the Ladies Extravagance in it, N. 435. An ill Intention in their Singularity, ibid. The English Character to be modeft in it, ibid.

Drink, the Effects it has on Modefty, N. 458.

Aftcourt (Dick) his Character, N. 468.

E court Na

Editors of the Clafficks, their Faults, N. 470.

Education of Children, Errors in it, N. 431. A Letter on that Subject, 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.

Englife

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

Enmity, the good Fruits of it, N. 399.
Epictetus's Saying of Sorrow, N. 397-
Equeftrian Ladies, who, N. 435.

Error, his Habitation defcrib'd, N. 460; how like to
Truth, ibid.

Effay on the Pleafures of the Imagination, from N. 411

to 421.

Ether (Fields of) the Pleafures of furveying them, N,

420.

Ever-greens of the Fair Sex, N. 395-

Euphrates River contain'd in one Bason, N. 415.
Exchange (Royal) defcrib'd, N. 454.

F.

AIRY Writing, N. 419. The Pleafures of Ima-

gination that arife from it, ibid.

than any other, and why, ibid.

Poets of this Sort, ibid.

More difficult

The English the best

Faith, the Benefit of it, N. 459. The Means of confirm-
ing 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 Society, N. 429.

Fancy, all its Images enter by the Sight, 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 Senfe as Sight, N. 411.

Fiction, the Advantage the Writers have in it to please
the Imagination, N. 419. What other Writers please

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.

Flavia's Character and Amour with Cynthio, N. 398.
Flora, an Attendant on the Spring, N. 425.

Follies