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Feeling not so perfect a sense as sight..

411

Fiction, the advantage the writers have in it to please

the imagination

419

What other writers please in it

420

Fidelia, her duty to her father........

449

Final causes of delight in objects.......

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Lie bare and open......

413

Flattery described.....

460

Flavia's character and amour with Cynthio.

398

Flora, an attendant on the spring...

425

Follies and defects mistaken by us in ourselves for worth 460

Fortius, his character..

422

Fortunatus, the trader, his character..

443

Freart (monsieur) what he says of the manner of both

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Why the English gardens not so entertaining to the
fancy, as those in France and Italy...

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Ghosts, what they say should be a little discoloured... 419
The description of them pleasing to the fancy.... 419
Why we incline to believe them.....

Not a village in England formerly without one

419

419

Shakespear's the best

419

Gladiators of Rome, what Cicero says of them......................

436

Gloriana, the design upon her.................

423

Goats-milk, the effect it had upon a man bred with it.. 408

Good sense and good-nature always go together..
Grace at meals practised by the pagans..

437

458

Grandeur and minuteness, the extremes pleasing to

the fancy

420

Gratitude, the most pleasing exercise of the mind...... 453
A divine poem upon it

Greatness of objects, what understood by it, in the

453

pleasures of the imagination
412, 413
Green-sickness, Sabina Rentfree's letter about it....... 431
Guardian of the fair sex, the Spectator so............................................. 449

No.

HAMLET'S reflections on looking upon Yorick's scull..... 404
Harlot, a description of one out of the Proverbs....... 410
Health, the pleasures of the fancy more conducive to it

than those of the understanding....

Heaven and hell, the notion of, conformable to the light

of nature

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411

447

405

447

Heavens, verses on the glory of them........................................ 465
Hebrew idioms run into English....
Hesiod's saying of a virtuous life..
Historian, his most agreeable talent........................ 420
How history pleases the imagination......
Descriptions of battles in it scarce ever understood 428

Hockley in the Hole gladiators,.....

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Homer's descriptions charm more than Aristotle's rea-

soning...

Compared with Virgil..

420

436

411

417

417

443

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When he is in his province.

Honestus the trader, his character..

Hope (passion of) treated

Horace takes fire at every hint of the Iliad and Odyssey 417
Hotspur (Jeffrey, esq.) his petition from the country

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Humour (good) the best companion in the country..... 424

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Hymn, David's pastoral one on Providence.......

On gratitude...

457

441

453

On the glories of the heaven and earth............... 465
Hypocrisy, the various kinds of it..........

399

To be preferred to open impiety..

458

IDEAS, how a whole set of them hang together............ 416
Idiot, the story of one by Dr. Plot.......

447

Idle and innocent, few know how to be so................. 411

Jilt, a penitent one....

401

Iliad, the reading of it like travelling through a country

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Imagination, its pleasures in some respects equal to those

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More conducive to health than those of the under-
standing..

411

Raised by other senses as well as the sight.......... 412
The cause of them not to be assigned

413

Works of art not so perfect as those of nature to
entertain the imagination.

414

416

416

416

The secondary pleasures of the fancy

The power of it...

Whence its secondary pleasures proceed.......

Of a wider and more universal nature than those it
has when joined with sight.......

How poetry contributes to its pleasures...

... 418
419

How historians, philosophers, and other writers 420, 421
The delight it takes in enlarging itself by degrees,

as in the survey of the earth, and the universe.. 421
And when it works from great things to little...... 421
Where it falls short of the understanding.
How affected by similitudes.....

421

421

As liable to pain as pleasure; how much of either
it is capable of.....

421

The power of the Almighty over it.....

421

421

432

443

Imagining, the art of it in general......
Impertinent and trifling persons, their triumph.
Impudence mistaken for wit...........
Infirmary, one for good-humour................

429, 437, 440

A further account of it from the country..
Ingoltson (Charles of Barbican) his cures....
Invitation, the Spectator's, to all artificers as well as
philosophers to assist him.....

A general one......

Jolly (Frank, esq.) his memorial from the country in-

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Language (licentious) the brutality of it....
Languages (European) cold to the Oriental...

440

444

428, 442

442

429

404

438

425

425

399

414

405

Lapland ode translated..

Latimer, the martyr, his behaviour at a conference with

the papists....

Law-suits, the misery of them................

No.

406

465

456

Leaf (green) swarms with millions of animals....... 420
Learning (men of) who take to business, best fit for it 469
Letters from Cynthio to Flavia, and their answers, to
the breaking off their amour.....................

398

From Queen Ann Boleyne to Henry the VIII.... 397
From a bankrupt to his friend.......

The answer...

From Lazarus Hopeful to Basil Plenty.........

To the Spectator: From Peter de Quir, of St.
John's college in Cambridge.....

456

456

472

396

From a penitent jilt......

401

From a lady importuned by her mother to be un-
faithful to her husband...

402

From a married man, who out of jealousy obstruct-
ed the marriage of a lady to whom he was guar-
dian.......

402

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From Ephraim Weed.....

450

From a projector for news............................................................. 452, 457
About education......

455

From one who had married a scold.................... 455
From Pill Garlick..........

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Letters about the use and abuse of similes...

Salutations at churches.......

No.

455

460

With a translation of the 114th Psalm.......

461

About the advance on the paper for the stamps.... 461 ·

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Libels, a severe law against them.....

451

Those that write or read them, excommunicated. 451

Light and colours only ideas in the mind...

413

Livy, in what he excels all other historians.. 409, 420
Loller (lady Lydia) her memorial from the country in-

firmary..

429

London, the differences of the manners and politics of
one part from the other......

403

MAN, the middle link between angels and brutes....
What he is, considered in himself...

408

441

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Martial, an epigram of his on a grave man's being at
a lewd play..

446

Machiavel, his observation on the wise jealousy of

states

408

Matter, the least particle of it contains an unexhaust-
ed fund....

420

May (month of) dangerous to the ladies................... 395
Described...

425

Meanwell (Thomas) his letter about the freedoms of
married men and women.

Memory, how improved by the ideas of the imagina-

tion....

430

417

Merchant, the worth and importance of his character. 428
Mercy, whoever wants it has no taste of enjoyment.... 456
Metamorphoses (Ovid's) like enchanted ground......... 417
Metaphor, when noble, casts a glory round it............ 421
Miller (James) his challenge to Timothy Buck..... 436
Milton, his vast genius....

His poem of Il Penseroso.................................................................................

417
425

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