Page 96, line 9, for 'liber' read 'Liber.'
11, for frustra sudet' read 'sudet multum.' 22, for 451' read' 415.'
25, for ducunt' read 'ducent.'
6, for nudat' read 'nudant.' 26, for 'tuæ' read ‘tua.'
" 402,,, 15, for 'labiturque' read'dabiturque.'
Page 50, line 24, for rhamnes' read Rhamnes."
The motto is from Ovid, Met. iv. 280.
,, 134, note I, for 'Strida' read ‹ Stridor.'
184, note, for venenata' read venenato.' ,, 209, note 1, for 'tunes' read ' times.'
364, note, for Aspices' read Aspicis.'
Page 178, line 21, for 'clxxxiii. 14' read 'xiv. 183.'
Page 2, line 9, Politicians,' the reading of the original and subsequent editions, seems to be a misprint for 'potations.'
Dr. Grosart kindly informs me that Harper's letter-book is now in his possession. The original of the letter in No. 480 has this postscript: "I know the printing this letter would point me out to those I want confidence to speak to, and I hope it is not in your power to refuse making anybody happy.'
,, 205, line 22, for scene' read scheme' (a misprint in the early editions).
Some particulars of Fransham will be found in the Dictionary of National Biography,' xx. 201, and in Wright's Life of Defoe.'
'Bottoms' are balls of thread. 'bottoms of thread, close wound up.'
ABBEY DE LA TRAPPE, its rules
against scandal, viii. 168 Abduction of a child by gipsies, ii. 235
Abigails, male, for ladies, i. 233 Abilities, neglect to utilise to their full extent, vii. 394 Abracadabra, iii. 253 and note Abraham, traditions of trees he planted, viii. 147 Abraxas, iii. 253 note
Absence of lovers, iii. 347, 368 Absence of mind, essential in mem- bers of the Amorous Club, i. 155; instance in Will Honeycomb, 400; cause and means of over- coming it, 401; La Bruyère's character of an absent-minded man, 403; identification of the same, 403 note; an instance in a lover, ii. 293
Academy, English, needed for the language, ii. 257 Academy, French, Richelieu's ob- ject in founding, iv. 277 Academie Galante, ii. 46 note Academy, political, iv. 276 et seq. Academy of Painting, vii. 404 and note
Accent in speech, i. 148 Accomplishments, trifling, viii. 60 Accursius, Franciscus, his proverb, iii. 370 and note Acosta, Uriel, iii. 216 note Acrobats, i. 157 and note Acrostics, i. 299, 301, 311, 318, 330 Actions, rules for the direction of one's, i. 22, 34; ii. 164, 369; iii. 204, 214; iv. 204; sources of, iv. 16; v. 375; vi. 23; viii. 140 Addison, Joseph, i. intro. vii-xli ; ii. 3 note, 86 note, 89 note, 126
note, 205 note, 210 note; iii. 2 note, 9 note; iv. 7 note, II note, 17 note, 24 note, 36 note, 47 note, 127 note, 196 note, 315 note; v. 94 note, 122 note; vi. 40 note, 67 note, 73 note, 74 note, 80, 104 note, 129 note, 274 note; vii. 139 note, 210 note; viii. I note, 224 note
Adrian, Emperor, dying words of, vii. 283
Adulteration of food and drink, a remonstrance, v. 222
Advertisements in the Spectator:
opera of 'The Cruelty of Atreus,' i. 79 note; Italian chirurgeon, 117; St. James's Coffee-House, 128; Pinkethman's 'Pantheon,' 159; a gentlewoman who teaches birds to speak, 186; George Powell's appearance in the 'Con- quest of Mexico,' 209 and note; a flesh painter, 214; collection of Italian paintings, 352 note; from the Three Chairs in the Piazza, Covent Garden, 352 and note; instruction in exercise of the snuff-box, ii. 272; a chestnut horse called 'Cæsar,' 365; Mr. Sly, haberdasher, iii. 94 and note; collection of paintings and draw- ings, 279 and note; a painter, 280; the Bumper Tavern to be opened by Estcourt, iv. 67 note; a show at Charing Cross, iv. 102 note; Peter Motteux, 188; board- ing-school for young gentle- women, 332; an engraving by Vertue, v. 205 note; Nicolini's last performance in England, vi. 46 note; Steele's 'Multiplication Table,' 85 note; Venetian razor strops, 158 note; lady's riding
habit, 187 note; a young woman on horseback in equestrian habit, vii. 60; a missing letter, 184 note; Bavarian Red Liquor, 361 note; concerning the Spectator's letters, viii. 6 note
Advice, the best means of convey- ing it, vii. 181 Eneid. See Virgil Eschylus, iv. 170; v. 204 Æsop, fables of, i. 92 Affability, essay on, iv. 143 Affectation, more terrible enemy to fine faces than smallpox, i. 170; deforms beauty and turns wit into absurdity, 194; causes, cure, effects, 195-98; letter to an af- fected man, 198; the affectation of indolence and of bustle, iv. 163 Affliction, rules for supporting more needed than directions for happi- ness, ii. 390; proper bearing of affliction, iv. 317 et seq. Age, ridiculed by Athenians, but respected by Lacedemonians, i. 36; wishing oneself younger un- worthy one of liberal education, ii. 341; age and youth contrasted, 342; the overbearing habit of old men censured, v. 84 Akenside, Mark, his 'Pleasures of the Imagination, vi. 73 note Alabaster, Dr. William, chaplain to Earl of Essex, iii. 254 and note Albertus Magnus, i. 288 and note Alcæus, lyric poet, iii. 313 Alcibiades the Second, Plato's dia- logue of, iii. 185
Aldermen, commonly ridiculed, i. 174; vi. 238
Alexander the Great, i. 156, 164; v. 309
Allegories and Dreams in the Spec- tator: Public Credit, i. 17; Gene- alogy of Humour, 179; Luxury and Avarice, 286; True and False Wit, 329; Art, ii. II; dis- section of a beau's head and a coquette's heart, iv. 119; the affected beauty, 251; transfor- mation of Fidelio into a looking- glass, v. 367; the Seasons, vi. 142; Plants, 284; Error and Popular Opinion, 307; the golden
scales, 324; River of Tears, vii. 129; Parnassus, 191; Heavenly and Worldly Wisdom, 244; Hu- man Misfortunes, or the Moun- tain of Miseries, viii. 11, 15; the Hearts, 136; Trophonius's Cave, 184; Human Life, 208 Almanza, battle of, i. 38 and note Ambition, never satisfied, i. 137 et seq.; proper use, iii. 18; ambi- tion of princes, 150; ambition of men to distinguish themselves, iii. 241 et seq., 264 et seq.; neces- sity for, iv. 16; low ambition of eating for renown, v. 127; men who grow eminent by trivial per- formances, viii. 60; toils of ambi- tion, 284
American Indians, their belief that all creatures have souls, i. 288; their tradition of a vision of the under-world, 289
Amusements, useful, for men of ease, viii. 120
Anacharsis, viii. 57 and note Anacreon, vii. 378 Anagrams, i. 310
Anatomy of a beau's head and a coquette's heart, iv. 118 et seq.; speculative essay on, vii. 338 Andrewes, Lancelot, Bishop of Win- chester, i. 316 and note
Anger, essay on, vi. 200; angry husband, viii. 34
Anjou, Duke of, vi. 39 Anthems, remarks on, vi. 46 Antipater, vii. 377
Antipathies, viii. 229 Antiphanes, iv. 193, 194 note Apelles, ii. 408; viii. 322 Apollo, temple of, on the promon- tory of Leucate, iii. 309 et seq. Apollodorus, iii. 68
Apothecaries, iii. 127; vii. 355 Appearances, character judged by, iii. 181; a good face a letter of recommendation, 251; appear- ance in respect to dress, v. 213 Apuleius, v. 92
Arabian Nights Tales, iii. 125 Aranda, Louisa de Padilla, Countess of, v. 309 and note
Architecture, as qualified to delight the imagination, vi. 92
Aretine, or Aretino, the satirist, i.
Argument, Addison's essay on, iii. 339 Arietta, her agreeable character, i. 57; her fable of the lion and man, 58; relates Ligon's story of Inkle and Yarico, 59 and note Ariosto, iv. 231
Aristænetus, i. 319 and note; iii. 336
Aristophanes, i. 119 and note; vi. 330
Aristotle, i. 11, 200, 202, 205, 215, 279, 288, 316; ii. 407; iii. 339; iv. 78 note, 107 and note, 112 and note, 168 et seq., 228 et seq., 337 et seq.
Art, remarks on, i. 151, 326; ii.
408; iii. 386; vi. 87, 337 ; vii. 329 Aspatia, ii. 227
Ass and hay, problem of, iii. 107 Ass race, iii. 20
Astrologers of Moorfields, iii. 118 and note
Atheists, iii. 84; v. 353; vii. 101 Athletics, village, ii. 382; among the ancients, 384
Atticism, iii. 84; v. 353; vii. 101 Audiences, theatre, vii. 136 Augustus, Roman emperor, iv. 346 Aurelia, a model woman, i. 82 Aurelius, Marcus, i. 306; ii. 226 Authors, must be known to their readers, i. I; an author's opinion of his fame, 21; license in writing for the stage, 263; dearth of in- vention the cause of bawdry in poetry, 263; comparison of writers of essays and those of more bulky works, ii. 207; uses and place of books, 407; longevity of books compared with works of art, 408; bearing of reproach without answering by satires and lampoons, v. 184; fine taste in writing, vi. 63; art of writing, 120; cacoethes, or itch of writing, viii. 117; neces- sity of writing according to how one thinks, 169; absurdities of metaphors, 170; peculiarities of authors concerning the number of their books, viii. 316 et seq.
Avarice, contrasted with luxury, i. 283; their perpetual warfare illus- trated by an allegory, 286; reflec- tions on, viii. 284
BACON, Sir Francis, i. 53 and note, 99, 354; iii. 41; vi. 241; vii. 395 Baker, Sir Richard, iv. 93 and note Ballads, Chevy Chase,' i. 364 and
note, 384; Two Children in the Wood," ii. 21; 'Wanton Wife of Bath,' iii. 378 and note Balloon, the game of, i. 236 note Balzac, v. 186
Bank of England, i. 16; ii. v note Bankruptcy, dissertation on, vi. 289 Banks, John, playwriter, i. 251 Bantam, ambassador of, visits Eng- land, viii. 8 and note
Baptista della Porta, his De Humanæ Physiognomia, ii. 26 and note Barbados, the, i. 59 and note, 416 note; v. 378 and note; vii. 94 and
Barber, John, Swift's publisher, viii. 267
Barbier, Mrs., operatic singer, iii. 299 note
Barnaby Bright, longest day of year, viii. 281 and note
Barn Elms, favourite place for duels, ii. 53 and note
Barnes, Joshua, Cambridge professor of Greek, iii. 369 and note Bartas, Du, Sylvester's translation of, i. 302 and note
Basset, game of, v. 7 and note Bastile, a prisoner's amusement
during close confinement, ii. 164 Bawds, denounced, iii. 104; iv. 74 Baxter, Richard, author of 'Saints' Everlasting Rest,' ii. 21 and note; vi. 232
Bayle, François, philosopher, ii. 189 and note, 192 and note; vi. 266 Bayle, Pierre, his 'Historical Dic- tionary,' ii. 56 and note, 86 note, 189 note; iii. 65 note
Beards, their history and the ad- vantage of, v. 55 et seq. Bear-gardens, i. 158 and note; vi. 190 and note, 255
Beaumont and Fletcher, iii. 346 note; iv. 74; v. 217 and note
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