Propagators, infamous, should be sent to people the American colo-
nies, 419.

Prosopolepsia, one of the smaller vices in morality, 206.

Prostitution by proxy, 424.

Proverb, Italian, on living by Hope, 405. Of Solomon, recommend-
ing charity, 373. Proverbs, a passage from, relating to wisdom,
291.

Providence, arguments for it, drawn from the natural history of ani-
mals, 272. In the formation of the meanest creatures, 278.
Psalm-singing, theatrical, a letter on, 424.

Psalms, the book of, written in a head of Charles I. 140.

Public Credit, allegory concerning, 14. Her frequent changes from
health to sickness, 15.

Pun, in sculpture at Blenheim-house, 144.

Punch-bowl, a sign of one, curiously decorated, at Charing Cross, 79.
Punic language, its word Cæsar signifying elephant, 143.

Punning, a popular species of false wit, 150. Flourished in the reign
of James I. 151. Pun, defined, 153.

Puns, a party of, in the Temple of Dulness, 163.

Purcell, his compositions, why not admired by Italian artists, 74.
Purgatory, continuance of vicious writers in, 350.

Purling stream, a rivulet so called, 91.

Pythagoras, his speech, from Ovid, 436.

Q.

Qua genus, book of, digested into sermons, 452.

Quaker, contrasted with a beau, 47.

Quality, the notion of it, producing superiority and pre-eminence
among men, 447. Distinguished into three kinds, ib.

Quillet, how treated by Cardinal Mazarine when he had satirized
him, 59.

Quintilian, distinguishes true wit from puns, 152.

R.

R. papers in the Spectator so marked, ascribed to Sir Roger, 453.
Racine, his style in tragedy, 93.

Raillery, in an imaginary history of Anne's the first's reign, 236.
Rainbow Coffee-house, information of extravagant dress seen there,
46.

Rants, tragic speeches, so called, 98. Instance of their effect, 99.
Rape of Proserpine, a French opera, wherein absurd, 76.

Raphael, vision of his pictures, 198.

Readers of the Spectator, their number calculated, 32.

Readers, classed into the Mercurial and the Saturnine, 375.

Reading, a profitable employment of time, 221.

Reason, not to be found in brutes, 273. The safest rule of conduct in
life, 332.

Rebus, a conceit frequent among the ancients, 142, 143. A silly

one at Blenheim, 144.

Rebuses, a magazine of them in the Temple of Dulness, 162.

Recitative music, in every language ought to be adapted to its ac-
cent, 74.

Recitativo, Italian, surprise on its first introduction on the English
stage, 73.

Recovering the Fan, direction for, 238.

Red-port, quantity drank by the everlasting club, 181.

Reformation of manners, society for, a letter from one of its directors,
24.

Rehearsal, allusion to a dance with the sun, moon, and earth in it, 16.
Relatives, right use of them in English, perplexing, 321.

Religio medici, of Sir Thomas Brown, quoted, 373.

Religion, injured by enthusiasm and superstition, 415. A ground for
its triumph, in the perfectibility of the soul, 257.

Renegado, a French one seduces the wife of a Castilian, 412.
Renegadoes, why liable to infamy and derision, 331.

Resembles, improperly used for compares, 328, note.

Revealed religion, its necessity proved by an answer of Socrates, 429.
Reverence, a title given to the inferior clergy, 448.

Rhythm, of the English tongue, 224, note.

Rich, Mr. would not suffer the opera of Whittington and his Cat to
be performed, 20.

Ridicule, a dangerous talent in an ill-natured man, 58.

Riding, an exercise recommended to readers of both sexes, 264.

Rinaldo, the opera of, filled with thunder and lightning, 18.

Rivers, in the French opera dressed in red stockings, 76.

Robin redbreast, a poetical ornament in The Children of the
Wood, 201.

Roman Catholic church overwhelmed with superstition, 416.

Romans, the patriotism of their ladies, 194.

Rope-dancer, account of one, by birth a monkey, 72.

Rosalinda, a whig-partizan, mistakes occasioned by a mole on the
tory part of her forehead, 192.

Royal Exchange, contemplated, 169. Its scenes afford a fund of en-
tertainment, 170.

Royal Society, a wish for them to compile a body of natural history,

279.

Rubens, vision of his pictures, 198.

S.

S. that letter too frequent in the English tongue, 319.

Sabine women, their interference terminated a war with the Romans,
193.

Sagacity, in animals, exemplified, 276.

St. Anne's lane, Sir Roger's embarrassment in finding his way to it,

293.

St. James's Coffee-house frequented by the Spectator, 5.

St. Paul's church, described in the manuscripts of the four Indian
kings, 121.

Salamanders, a species of women, so distinguished, 410.

Sallust, his contrast of the characters of Cæsar and Cato, 354,

Salmon, Mrs. erects the figure of her namesake for a sign, 71.
Salt-spilling, portentous, 21.

Salutes, used for salutations, 289.

Sanctorius, his balance, used by a Valetudinarian, 62.

Sanguine temper, often the occasion of misfortunes, 404.

Saracen's Head, a country-sign, the portrait of Sir Roger de Coverley,

284.

Sarasin, Monsieur, his ridicule of the bouts rimez, 149.

Satire on projectors, 69.

Satires, compared to poisoned darts, 58.

Satirists, why they best illustrate ancient manners, 431.

Saturnine, a class of readers so termed, 375.

Saviour, his submission to the divine will, 430.

Scale of being, infinite, 258.

Scandal, private, reprobated, 48.

Scholar's egg, a Greek poem, 138.

Schoolmen, their ludicrous case of an ass between two bundles of
hay, 401.

Scolds, made up of canine particles, 433.

Screech-owl, superstitious terrors on hearing one, 22.

Scribblers of lampoons and satires, their inhuman barbarity, 60.

Sculpture, a notion concerning, applied to education, 443.

Sea, a certain species of females made fron, 433.

Seamen, their mode of judging of fruit by the peckings of birds,

277.

Sects, in religion, tinctured with enthusiasm, 416.

Sede vacante, never known in the everlasting club, 180.

Sedentary, the word misapplied, 263, note.

Seducers, a loose tribe of men, noticed, 417. How to be punished,
419.

Seduction, exemplified in the story of a Castilian, 411.

Segrais, Mons. his threefold distinction of the readers of poetry, 159.
Sempronia, a fine lady, 110. On what occasion she holds her tongue,

111.

Seneca, his remark on the waste of time, 218. His style faulty, 227,

note.

Sentry, Captain, account of him, 11. Cautions the Spectator not to
touch on the army, 82. Satisfied by the arguments of the clergy-
man, 83.

Serenity, a title given to princes, 448.

Sermons of Sir Roger's chaplain how chosen, 247.
Sermons, illustrated by Que genus and As in præsenti, 452.
Settlement-act, hung up in the Hall of Public Credit, 14.
Sexes, their respective duties, 133.

Sextus Quintus, his severe treatment of a satirist, 59, 60.
Shadows and realities not to be mixed in the same piece, 17.
Shadwell, Mr. trait in the character of a rake in one of his plays, 85.
Shakespear, his style, wherein faulty, 94. His tragedy of Lear ad-
mirable, 97. His tragedies abounding in puns, 151. An instance
of the first kind of great geniuses, 329.

Shepherd, an Italian, his extraordinary genius in tossing of eggs,
330.

Shepherd's pipe, a species of minor Greek poetry, 139.

Shovel, Sir Cloudesley, his monument ill-designed, 68.

Sidney, Sir Philip, his opinion on the song of Chevy Chase, 174.
Sight of the mole adapted to its element, 279.

Signatures to the Spectator, conjectures respecting them, 453.
Sign-posts, a letter concerning, 69.

Silenus, resemblance of Socrates to him in countenance, 205.
Silvia, a demurrer in courtship till past child-bearing, 207.
Similitudes, in Holy Writ, more bold than exact, 328.

Simonides, the author of the oldest satire extant, 432. His satire on
women, 433. Motto from him, translated, 434.

Simplicity of thought, a primary requisite in writing, 174.

Sirach, wisdom of the son of, an apocryphal treatise recommended,
166. His caution against jealousy, 358.

Skiomachia, or fighting with a man's own shadow, recommended to
the learned, 265.

Sleep taken by weight, 63.

Sleeper, account of a periodical one, 388.

Song in the opera of Camilla, how translated, 51.

Social virtues, their exercise, the best employment of time, 219.
Society for reformation of manners, a letter from one of its directors,
24.

Socrates, saying respecting him, 32. His behaviour at his death,
59. Justifies the character given him by a physiognomist, 205.
His behaviour on the approach of death described by Plato, 385.
Why he ordered a sacrifice to Esculapius, 397. His instructions to
his pupil Alcibiades relating to prayer, 426. His temperance pre-
served him from the great plague at Athens, 408. His dying
speech quoted by Erasmus, 442.

Sophocles, his skilful management of the tragedy of Electra, 107.
Soul, its passions, according to Plato, survive the body, 210. Why it
hovers over the place of burial, 211. Its immortality proved, 255.
Its progress towards perfection, infinite, 257.

Souls, the American belief concerning, 129. Of women, how com-
pared, according to Simonides, 432,
Sparrows, bought for the use of the opera, 18.
Spectator, his prefatory discourse, 4.

His

Great taciturnity, ib. His
vision of Public Credit, 13. His entertainment at the table of an
acquaintance, 21. His recommendation of his speculations, 32.
Advertised in the Daily Courant, 36. His encounter with a lion
behind the scenes, 40. Design of his writings, 47. No party-man,
48. His resolution to march on in the cause of virtue, 83.
visit to a travelled lady, 110. His speculations in the first principles,
113. An odd accident that befel him at Lloyd's Coffee-house, 114.
His advice to our English Pindaric writers, 145. His account
of himself and his works to be written three hundred years hence,
236. His great modesty, 237. He accompanies Sir Roger de
Coverley into the country, 244. His exercise when young, 265

Spectator, goes with Sir Roger to the assizes, 281. His adventure
with a crew of gypsies, 311. The several opinions of him in the
country, 316. Thanks heaven he was born an Englishman, 318.
His artifice to engage different readers, 375.

Spectators, the fraternity of them, distinguished,
Spectre, on the stage, often saves a play, 104.

33.

Speculations, their variety in the Spectator, apologized for, 376.
Spenser, his Fairy Queen, a series of fables, 384.

Spice islands our hot-beds, 172.

Spider-catchers, 56.

Spirits, the appearance of them not fabulous, 253.
Spleen, how to be evaporated, 265.

Sportsman, a country one, described, 281.

Spurious children, earnestly recommended to the care of their pa-
rents, 419.

Squeekum, Squire, infected with a taste for theatrical psalm-singing,

425.

Stage, under proper regulations, a source of noble and useful enter-
tainment, 220.

State, future, the refreshment a virtuous person enjoys in the pros-
pect and contemplation of it, 394.

State-pedants described, 243.

Statira, her passionate description of Alexander's conversation, 95.
Statue, in a block of marble compared to an uneducated mind, 443,

446.

Steele, Sir Richard, his wit and humour characterized, 3, note.
Steward, of the Everlasting Club, his behaviour at the great fire, 181.
Stratagem, no head more full of, than that of a libidinous man, 419.
Street-clubs, 29.

Studying by weight, 63.

Stupidity, described as a German painter, 196.

Sultan of Egypt, a story of one, 224.

Sun of Glory, a title of the Emperor of Persia, 329.

Sunday in the country, why pleasing, 259.

Superintendence of the English language proposed, 345.

Superiority reduced to the notion of quality, 447.

Superstition ridiculed, 21. Antidote to it, 24. An excess in devotion,
416. Tinctured with folly, ib.

Superstitions, Jewish and Romish, pernicious to mankind and de-
structive to religion, 441.

Supreme Being, his nature, an argument for the immortality of the
soul, 256. A sense of his presence productive of good actions, 442.
Surnames, the occasion of a club, 29.

Swan, the famous punster, his conversation described, 151.

Swift, said to have furnished the hint for a paper in the Spectator, 120,

note.

Swine, its ingredients compose the soul of some women, 433.

Swiss musician, an extraordinary one, 80.

Sword-cutler, his sign of the French king's head, 71.

Sydenham, Dr. lavish in praise of riding, 264.

Symposium, mentioned by a Greek author, a parallel to it, 31.