Caravansery, 184.
Cardan, Jerome, 438.
Cartesian philosophy, 448.
Cato, 181, 308.
Catullus, 336.
Chaplain, Sir Roger de Coverley's, 19,
29; his style of preaching, 20.
Characters of women, 126 seq.
Chardin, Sir John, his travels, 184.
Charity, 159.
Charles I., picture of, at Oxford, 322.
Cheerfulness, paper on, 188.
Chevy Chase, ballad of, 378-387;
design of the poem, 397; analysis
of, 380 seq.; noble simplicity of,
384.
Child's coffeehouse. See Coffeehouse.
Children in the Wood, ballad, 431.
Chremylus, story of, 419.
Christianity attested, 466.
Christmas in the country, 53.
Chronograms, 328.
Church-service, how conducted in
Worcestershire, 27.
Church of England, act for securing,
54.
Cicero, 119; quoted, 134, 137, 437,
440; 295, 325, 331, 349.
Clergy, classes of the, 235.
Clergyman, the, 9, 14, 65, 74, 106;
Club, the Spectator, account of its
members, 4; discussion in, 12; dis-
solution of, 71; plan of a new one,
73.
Clubs, paper on, 229; the Kings, the
George, the Humdrum, &c., 230.
Cocoa-tree coffeehouse. See Coffee-
house.
Coffeehouse, Button's, 108; Child's,
3, 108; the Cocoa-tree, 3; Garra-
way's, 294, 301; Giles's, 292; the
Grecian, 3; Jonathan's, 3, 108;
Lloyd's, 81; the Rainbow, 232;
the Rose, 6; St. James', 3, 292;
the Smyrna, 300; Will's, 4, 292,
301; Squire's, 54.
Comedy, a definition of, 346.
Comic artifices, 371.
Commerce, eulogy of, 117, 238.
Committee, The, play of, 59.
Commodes, 266, 268, 299.
Composition, paper on, 458.
Congreve, W., his tragedy, 355.
Connecte, Father Thomas, 261.
Conquest of Mexico, a play, 367.
Constitution, the British, praise of, 118.
Contentment, paper on, 213.
Conversation, polite, paper on, 308.
Converts, 150.
Coquettes, 448.
Corneille, 292; his play of Les Horaces,
369.
Cornwall, 267, 268.
Coronation chair, the, 57.
Country manners, papers on, 263–268.
Coverley, Sir Roger de, 4, 13, 45, 84,
106, 247, 274, 433; his character,
5, 264; his courtship of the widow,
5, 21, 31, 55, 60; his life in the
country, 18-51; his goodness of
heart, 19; his behaviour in church,
28; a great sportsman, 31; his
visit to Moll White the witch, 34;
at the county assizes, 37; the Sara-
cen's Head, 38; has his fortune told
by gipsies, 47; he comes up to town
to see Prince Eugene, 52; goes to
Squire's coffeehouse, 54; visit to
Westminster Abbey, 56; he goes to
the play, 59; visits Vauxhall, 62;
his death, 65; stories of, 297, 298.
Cowley, quoted, 222, 258, 399; 287,
317, 336, 378; eulogised, 337.
Creation, immensity of, 208.
Cries, the London, paper on, 274.
Critics, celebrated, 376.
Cumberland, 268.
Daciers, the, 349, 376.
Dampier, Captain, 437.
Dawkes, Mr., 300.
Dawson, Bully, 5.
Death, papers on, 182-188.
Demosthenes, eloquence of, 295.
Denain, battle of, 460.
Denham, Sir John, quoted, 392.
Dervise, story of a, 184.
Despotic power, 121.
Detraction, paper on, 391.
Eaton, or Eton, 22.
Echos, a kind of false wit, 326.
Effeminacy, 253.
Egg, poem in the shape of, 321.
Eloquence, 447.
English language, remarks on, 269
Englishman, the, a Whig paper, 108.
Englishmen, taciturnity of, 268; mo-
desty of, 294.
Enville, Sir John, 282.
Envious criticism, 376.
Epaminondas, story of, 186.
Epictetus, 89; quoted, 177.
Epicurean philosophy, 167.
Erasmus, quoted, 326, 445..
Essay on criticism, by Pope, remarks
on, 392.
Eternity, 218; paper on, 219; 417.
Eudoxus and Leontine, a tale, 398.
Eugene, Prince, 52, 54.
Evremont, de St., quoted, 186.
Examiner, the, a Tory paper, 108.
Exercise, good effects of, 30.
Fables; of Jupiter and the country-
man, 241; of Menippus, 413.
Fashions, frivolity of, 232; invasion
of French, 250.
Female vanity, 126.
Fletcher, John, the dramatist, 392.
Florus, quoted, 183.
Fortune hunters, paper on, 285.
Freelove, Jack, 453.
Freeport, Sir Andrew, 6, 13, 45, 54,
65, 67, 71, 74; his character, 6, 56,
68, 71; his letter on retiring from
the club, 72; his remarks on trade,
117.
French manners, paper on, 250, 299.
Friendship, essay on, 137.
Fuller's Book of Worthies, 94.
Funnell, Will, 211.
Future state, paper on, 224.
Garraway's. See Coffeehouse.
Garth's Dispensary, 460.
George I, III, 114.
Gesture, rhetorical, 294.
Ghosts, belief in, 10, 25.
Giles's coffeehouse. See Coffeehouse.
Gipsies, 46; story of a boy stolen by, 48.
Good nature, essay on, 157.
Gossips, 448.
Gothic taste, 350, 378, 387.
Grand alliance, the, 278.
Gratian, Baltasar, 347
Gray's-inn walks, 52.
Grecian, the. See Coffeehouse.
Greece, under Turkish slavery, 122;
story of the women in ancient, 180;
258.
Grinning-match, account of, 271.
Guelfes and Gibellines, 42.
Hadrian, the emperor, story of, 445.
Halifax, Marquis of, quoted, 153.
Hen, instinct of the, 435, 437.
Heraclitus, saying of, 463.
Herbert, George, 322.
Hermit, repartee by a, 217.
Herod the Great, 411.
Herodotus, quoted, 170; story of
Cleobis and Biton, 200.
Hilpa, a love story, 421.
Hogue, Cape La, battle of, 63.
Homer, passim; his design in writing
the Iliad, 379.
Honeycomb, Will, 8, 13, 15, 69, 74,
106, 251, 255, 275, 287, 307, 452;
his character, 8, 457; his past life,
16; his letters, 51, 69; his mar-
riage, 70.
Honour, paper on the love of, 175.
Horace, 336; quoted, 371; his Art of
Poetry, 392.
Hoyden, account of a, 254.
Hudibras, 270, 287, 326, 330, 346,
387, 445, 449.
Huguenot refugees, 445.
Human life, allegory of, 403.
Humour, paper on, 316.
Hunting, 31, 32.
Hush, Peter, 300.
Huygens, quoted, 208.
Hydaspes, opera of, 354, 355.
Hypocrisy, 194.
Ichneumon, the, 44.
Immortality, arguments for, 147.
Inconstancy, 150.
Independents, gloomy piety of, 201.
Indian kings, 395, 427; diary of one
of them, 427.
Indians, 398.
Infidelity, 167.
Ingratitude, filial, 170.
Instinct, papers on, 433-440; myste-
rious nature of, 436.
Italian writers, florid style of, 353.
Jacobite, the, 273.
James I, a punster, 331.
Jealousy, essay on, 152; no northern
passion, 156.
Jewish people, paper on, 464.
Jokes, practical, paper on, 288.
Jonathan's coffeehouse. See Coffee-
Jonson, Ben, 232; his Alchemist,
quoted, 243, 378.
Judgments, supposed, paper on, 197.
Juvenal, quoted, 261, 298, 415.
Kitcat Club, 231.
Knotting, paper on, 305.
Koran, the (Alcoran), 145, 430.
Lacedemonians, the, 173.
Lampoons, censure of, 130.
Languages, remarks on, 271.
Laughter, remarks on, 344.
Lawyers, 236, 356.
League, the, 42.
Lecompte, Father, 170.
Lee, E., his tragedies, 365, 366.
Leonora, her library, 245; history of,
247.
L'Estrange, Sir Roger, quoted, 132;
his phonetic way of writing, 270.
Letters; from Will Wimble, 22; from
Will Honeycomb, 51, 69; from Sir
Roger's butler, 66; from Sir A.
Freeport, 72; from R. G., 83; from
an Irish gentleman, 83; about a
whistling match, 90; from Philo-
Spec., 106; from the clergyman,
165; from an angry father, 168;
on the diffidence of actors, 178;
from Charles Lillie, 235; from a
Valetudinarian, 238; about sign
boards, 242; about a rope-dancer,
244; from Leonora, 248; from a
lawyer on circuit, 266; from Ralph
Crotchet on the London cries, 275;
from Josiah Fribble, Esq., 278;
from Sir John Enville, 282; from
Tim. Watchwell, 285; on whims
and practical jokes, 288; about
scandal and scandal-mongers, 299;
from a young lady on knotting,
305; on catspaws, or 'shoeing-
horns,' 306; from the ambassador of
Bantam, 309; describing the battle
of Blenheim, 390; from Æsculapius,
441; from Athenais, 442; from
Davyth ap Shenkyn, 442; about
transmigrations, 453; from a young
lady asking advice, 458.
Libellous writing censured, 133.
Liberty, fruits of, 121.
Library, a lady's, papers on, 245-250.
Lions (on the stage), 355, 356.
Lipogrammatists, the, 324.
Lipsius, 232.
Little Britain, 4.
Locke, quoted, 25, 144, 438.
Logic Lane, 445.
London, cries of, 275; difference be-
tween court and city, 291.
London Prentice, the, 357.
Longinus, 393.
Louis XIV, report of his death, 292;
his support of M. Mesnager, 303;
his ratio ultima,' 445.
Love for Love, Congreve's play of, 169.
Lover's Leap, the, 441.
Lowndes, M., 300.
Lucian, 346.
Lucretius, his belief in apparitions, 28;
336.
Lully, Sig. Baptist, 362.
Macbeth, tragedy of, 252.
Mahometans, charity of, to animals,453.
Malebranche, quoted, 144.
Mall, the, 108.
Mariamne, story of, 411.
Marraton, a tale, 395.
Marriage, paper on, 450.
Marriage-hater Match'd, The, play of,
70.
Martial, quoted, 139, 241, 336, 378.
Matthews, John, 28.
Mazarin, Cardinal, his generosity, 131.
Ménage, quoted, 330.
Menippus, 413.
Mesnager, Monsieur, 303.
Method, benefits of, 459.
Military terms, imported from France,
388.
Milton, passim; quoted, 346.
Mirth, 188.
Mirzah, Vision of, 401.
Modesty, paper on, 178.
Mogul, the Great, 115.
Mohocks, the, 59.
Mole, natural history of the, 438.
Molière, story of, 378; his Misan-
thrope, 432.
Moll White, 34, 35; her death, 53.
Monks, English, their chronicles, 199.
Monmouth, Duke of, 8.
Montaigne's Essays, 459.
Morality, of supreme obligation, 195.
More, Sir Thomas, his noble behaviour,
187.
More, Dr. Henry, quoted, 438.
Mottos, the Spectator's use of, 91;
Latin mottos popular, 93.
Muly Moloc, story of, 187.
Music, English, 360, 362; French, 362.
Namur, taking of, 273, 291.
Newberry, Mr., 325.
Newcastle, 268.
Newton, Sir Isaac, saying of, 210.
Nicolini, Signor, 351, 354-356, 373.
Nonjurors, 232, 293.
Norfolk Street, 59.
Norris, the actor, 371.
Oates, Dr. Titus; story of a female
admirer of, 255.
Edipus, play of, quoted, 366.
Ogling, 83.
Old Bachelor, Congreve's play, 69.
Opera, the, 351; decorations of, ib.;
sparrows for, ib.; history of the Ita-
lian, 357; English, 360.
Otway, T., quoted, 33; his tragedies,
365, 367.
Ovid, quoted, 326, 449; 336.
Oxford, 445.
Pied Piper, the, 354.
Pin money, 55; papers on, 278-284.
Pindaric writers, 323.
Pippin-woman, the, 449.
Pittacus, saying of, 215.
Plato, quoted, 55, 281; his dialogue
on prayer, 171; 317, 360.
Platonic speculation, 223.
Pliny, quoted, 376.
Plutarch, quoted, 40, 192, 203, 308,
463.
Poetry, popular, 378.
Politeness, false, 310.
Polybius, quoted, 119.
Pope, Alexander, his Essay, 392;
quoted, 393.
Pope, the, 303.
Powell, the actor, 365.
Prayer, paper on, 171; taught per-
fectly by Christ, 174.
Preachers, Italian, 295.
Prester John, 465.
Pretender, the, 111, 113.
Procession, the pope's, 54, 96.
Professions, the learned, paper on, 235.
Pronunciation, remarks on, 269.
Publius Syrus, quoted, 212.
Puns, 331; definition of, 333.
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