dream of Trophonius's cave, ib. Why the eighth volume
published, 632.

Spenser, his advice to young ladies under the distress of de-
famation, $90. His whole creation of shadowy persons,

419.

Speech, the several organs of it, 231.

Spies, not to be trusted, 493. Despised by great men, ib.
Spirit, an high one, a great enemy to candour, 382.

Spirits, the appearance of them not fabulous, 110. Several
species in the world besides ourselves, 419.

Spleen, a common excuse for dulness, 53. Its effects, 558.
Spring, a description of it, 423. Its attendants, ib. The
pleasantest season of the year, 359.

Spring-garden, a kind of Mahometan paradise, 383.
Spy, the mischief of one in a family, 202.

Squeezing the hand, by whom first used in making love, 109.
Squires, rural, their want of learning, 529.

Stamps, how fatal to weekly historians, 445.

Starch, political, its use, 305.

Starers reproved, 20.

Stars, a contemplation of them, 565. Fixed, how their im-
mensity and magnificence confound us, 420.

State, future, the refreshments a virtuous person enjoys in

prospect and contemplation of it, 186.

Statira, in what proposed as a pattern to the fair sex, 41.
Statuary, the most natural representation, 416.

Stint, Jack, and Will Trap, their adventure, 448.

Stoics discarded all passions, 397.

Stores of providence, what, 248.

Story-tellers, their ridiculous punctuality, 138.

Strife, the spirit of it, 197.

Stripes, the use of them to perverse wives, 479.

Stroke, to strike a bold one, what meant by it, 619.

Sublime in writing, what it is, 592.

Sudden, Thomas, esq. his memorial from the country in-
firmary, 429.

Sukey's adventure with Will Honeycomb, and sir Roger de
Coverley, 410.

Sun, the first eye of consequence, 250.

Sun-rising and setting, the most glorious show in nature, 412.
Superiority reduced to the notion of quality, 219. To be
founded only on merit and virtue, 202.

Superstition, an error arising from a mistaken devotion, 201.
Superstition has something in it destructive to religion,
213. The folly of it described, 7.

Surprise, the life of stories, 538.

Susanna, or innocence betrayed, to be exhibited by Mr. Pow-
ell, with a new pair of elders, 14.

Sweaters, a species of the Mohock club, 332,

Swingers, a set of familiar roraps at Tunbridge, 492.
Symmetry of objects, how it strikes, 411.

Syncopists, modern ones, 567.

Syncopius the passionate, his character, 438.

Syracusan prince jealous of his wife, how he served her, 573.

TALE-BEARERS censured, 439.

Talents, ought to be valued according as they are applied, 172.
Taste, corrupt of the age, to what attributed, 140, 208.
Taste of writing, what it is, and how it may be acquired, 409.
The perfection of a man's as a sense, ib. Defined, ib.
That of the English, ib.

Tears, not always the signs of true sorrow, 95.
Temper, serious, the advantage of it, 598.

Temperance the best preservative of health, 195. What
kind of temperance the best, ib.

Templar, one of the Spectator's club, his character, 2.
Temple (sir William) his rule for drinking, 195.

Ten, called by the Platonic writers the complete number;
221.

Tender hearts, an entertainment for them, 627.

Tenure, the most slippery in England, 623.

Terence, the Spectator's observations on one of his plays, 502.
Terror and pity, why those passions please, 418.

Thales, his saying of truth and falsehood. 594.

Thames, its banks, and the boats on it described, 454.

That, his remonstrance, 80.

Theatre (English) the practice of it in several instances cen-
sured, 42, 44, 51. Of making love there, 602.

Themistocles, his answer to a question relating to the marry-
ing his daughter, 311.

Theodosius and Constantia, their adventures, 164.

Theognis, a beautiful saying of his, 464.

Thimbleton (Ralph) his letter to the Spectator, 432.

Thinking aloud, what, 211.

Thoughts, of the highest importance to sift them, 399.

Thrash (Will) and his wife, an insipid couple, 522.
Thunder of great use on the stage, 44.

Thunderer to the playhouse, the hardships put upon him,
and his desire to be made a canon, 36.

Tickell (Mr.) his verses to the Spectator, 532.

Tillotson (archbishop) improved the notion of heaven and
hell, 447.

Time, our ill use of it, 93. The Spectator's direction how
to spend it, ib. How the time we live ought to be com-
puted, 316.

Title page (Anthony) his petition to the Spectator, 304.
Titles, the significancy and abuse of then, 480.

o Trusty, a tender husband, and care ful father, 479.

Tom Touchy, a quarrelsome fellow, 122.

Tom Tulip, challenged by Dick Crastin, 91. Flies into the
country, ib.

Tom Tit to personate singing birds in the opera, 5.

Tom the Tyrant, first minister of the coffee-house between
the hours of eleven and twelve at night, 49.

Tombs in Westminster visited by the Spectator, 26. His re-
flection upon them, ib.

Toper (Jack)his recommendatory letter in behalf of a servant

493.

Torre in Devonshire, how unchaste widows are punished
there, 914.

Torture, why the description of it pleases, and not the pros-
pect, 418.

Townly, Frank, his letters to the Spectator, 560.

Trade, the benefit of it to Great Britain, 69. The most
likely means to make a man's private fortune, 283. Tra-
ding and landed interest ever jarring, 174.

Tradition of the Jews concerning Moses, 237.

Tragedy; a perfect tragedy the noblest production of human
nature, 39. Wherein the modern tragedy excels that of
Greece and Rome, ib. Blank verse the most proper for an
English tragedy, ib. The English tragedy considered, ib.
Tragi-comedy, the product of the English theatre, a monstrous
invention, 40.

Transmigration, what 211.

Transmigration of souls, asserted by Will Honeycomb, 345.
How believed by the ancients, 408.
Trap, Mr. his letter to Mr. Stint, 448.
Travel highly necessary to a coquette, 45
a travelled lady in the play-house, ib.
undertaken, and the true ends of it, 363.
Travellers, the generality of them exploded, 474.

The behaviour of
At what time to be

Trees, more beautiful in all their luxuriancy than when cut
and trimmed, 414.

Trimming, the Spectator unjustly accused of it, 445.
Triphiodorus, the great lipogrammatist of antiquity, 59.
Trueby (widow) her water recommended by sir Roger as
good against the stone and gravel, 329.

Truepenny, Jack, strangely good-natured, 82.

Trunk-maker, a great man in the upper gallery in the play-
house, 235.

Truth an enemy to false wit, 63. The everlasting good effect
it has even upon a man's fortune and interest, 452. Al-
ways consistent with itself, ib. The excellence of it, 507.
Tully praises himself, 562. What he said of the immortality
of the soul, 588. Of uttering a jest, 616. Of the force of
novelty, 626. What he required in his orator, 653.
Turner, sir William, his excellent maxims, 509.

Tyrants, why so called, 508.

VAINLOVES, the family of, 454.

Valentinus (Basilius) and Alexandrinus, their story, 426.
Valerio, his character, 404.

Valetudinarians in chastity, 395. In society, who, 100. Not
to be admitted into company, but on conditions, 143.

Vanity, the paradise of fools, 460. A vision of her and her
attendants, ib.

Vapours in women, to what to be ascribed, 115.

Variety of men's actions proceeds from the passions, 403.
Varilas, his cheerfulness and good humour make him generally
acceptable, 100.

Ubiquity of the Godhead considered, 571. Farther considera-
tions about it, 583.

Venice Preserved, a tragedy founded on a wrong plot, 59.
Venus, the charming figure she makes in the first Æneid, 417.
An attendant on the spring, 425.

Verses by a despairing lover, 591. On Phebe and Colin, 603.
Translation of verses pedantic out of Italian, 617. The
royal progress, 620. To Mrs.
on her grotto, 633.

Vertumnus, an attendant on the spring, 425.

Ugliness, some speculations upon it, 32.

Vice, as laborious as virtue, 604.

Villacerfe (madame de) an account of her death, and the
manner of it, 368.

Vinci, Leonardo, bis many accomplishments, and remarkable
circumstance at his death, 554.

Viner (sir Robert) his familiarity with king Charles II. 462.
Virgil, his beautiful allegories founded on the Platonic phi-
losophy, 90. Wherein short of Homer, 273. His fable
examined in relation to Halicarnassus, his history of Æneas,
351. His genius, 404. Compared with Homer, 417. When
he is best pleased, ib.
Virtue, the exercise of it recommended, 93. Its influence,
ib. Its near relation to decency, 104. The most reasonable
and genuine source of honour, 219. Of a beautiful nature,
243. The great ornaments of it, ib. To be esteemed in a
foe, ib. When the sincerity of it may reasonably be sus-
pected, 266. The way to preserve it in its integrity, 394.
The use of it in our afflictions, 520.

Virtues, supposed ones not to be relied on, 399.
Vision of human misery, 604.

Visit: a visit to a travelled lady which she received in her bed,
described, 45.

Understanding, the abuse of it is a great evil, 6. Wherein
more perfect than the imagination, 420. Reasons for it, ib.
Should master the passions, 438.

Universe, how pleasing the contemplation of it, 420.

Vocifer, the qualifications that make him pass for a fine geu-
tleman, 75.

Volumes, the advantage an author receives of publishing his
works in volumes, rather than in single pieces, 124.
Vulcan's dogs, the fable of them, 579.

Uranias, his great composure of soul, 143.

WAGERING disputants exposed, 145.
Wall, the prodigious one of China, 415.

Wars, the late, made us so greedy of news, 452.
Wasps and doves in public, who, 300.

Wealth, the father of love, 506.

Wealthy men fix the character of persons to their circum-
stances, 469.

Wedlock, the state of it ridiculed by the town-writings, 525.
Weed (Ephraim) his letter to the Spectator about his mar-
riages and estate, 450.

West Enborne in Berkshire, a custom there for widows, 614.
What lord Coke said of the widows' tenure there, 623.
Whichenovre, bacon flitch, in Staffordshire, who entitied to
it, 607.

Whole Duty of Man, that excellent book turned into a satire,
568.

Whispering-place, Dionysius the tyrant's, 439.
Whisperers, political, 457.

Whistling match described, 179.

White (Mol) a notorious witch, 117.

Her

Who and Which, their petition to the Spectator, 78.
Widow (the) her manner of captivating sir Roger de Coverley,
113. Her behaviour at the trial of her cause, ib.
artifices and beauty, ib. Too desperate a scholar for a
Country gentleman, ib. Her recep ion of sir Roger, ib.
Whom she helped to some tansy in the eye of all the coun-
try, ib. She has been the death of several foxes, 115.
Sir Roger's opinion of her, that she either designs, to mar-
ry, or she does not, 118.

Widows, the great game of fortune-hunters, 311.

Widows' club, an account of it, 561. A letter from the pre-
sident of it to the Spectator, about her suitors, 573. Ďuty
of widows in old times, 606. A custom to punish unchaste
ones in Berkshire and Devonshire, 614. Instances of their
riding the black ram there, 623.

Wife how much preferable to a mistress, 199. The most de-
lightful name in nature, 404.

Wig, long one, the eloquence of the bar, 407.

William III. king of England, compared with the French
King, 516.

William and Betty, a short account of their amours, 118.
Wimble (Will,) his letter to sir Roger de Coverley, 108.