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Pleasure, not to be exclaimed against in the reclaiming of
youth, 127.

Poetry, compared with dress, 149.

ibid.

different styles required for the different kinds of it,

Poet, history of an ancient Greek one, 141.

tragic errors committed by them, 110.

Polydore and Melissa, their story, 85.

Pope, Mr. his description of a war-horse, 86.
Popes, the Leos the best, and Innocents the worst, 114.
Posterity, the regard we should have thereto, 138.
Posture-master, his frolics about clothes, 102.
Praise, grateful to human nature, 135.

Pride, that vice oxposed, 153. opposed to honour, 152.
Priest, the respect due to that title, 130.

Prim, Ruth, her advice to Nestor Ironside, 132.

Prior, Matthew, his character of perfect beauty, 85.
Prolusions of Strada on the style of poets, 115. 119. 122.
Property-man at the Play, robbed, 95.

Proteus compared to death, 136.

Proverbs concerning a good mistress of a family, 168.
Providence, a remarkable instance of its interposition, 117.
Prudes, how they should paint themselves, 140.

Purville, Mr. the property-man, account of his being robbed,

95.

Puzzle, Peter, his dream, 106.

Pythagoras, his learning and that of his family, 165.

his invention of the foundation of British com-

merce, 130.

RAKES, characterised, 131.

Recluse, idleness exposed, ibid.

Reformation of manners, a project for that purpose, 107.

Repartee, a quick one in parliament, 137.

Rich men, what Diogenes said of them, 94.

Riding-dress, why called pindaric, 149.

Ringwood, Jack, his Temple education described, 151.
his milliner's and shoe-maker's bills, ibid.

Roarings of Button's lion, 121.

Rochester, bishop of, his definition of wit, 141.
Roscommon, earl of, his rule for translating, 164.

Rustysides, his letter on masquerades, 142.

SACKVILLE, Sir Edward, his answer to lord Bruce's challenge,

129.

account of his combat with lord Bruce, 133.

Sadducees may be called freethinkers among the Jews, 93.
Santon, Barsisa, his history from the Turkish Tales, 148.
Scandal, a vice the fair sex too easily given into, 85.
a tax paid by the meritorious, ibid.

Schacabac the Persian, an instance of his complaisance, 163.
Scorn opposed to patience, 152.

Segonia, John De, account of his combat with his brother, 104.
Servants, the duty of masters towards them, 87.
Sexes, the comparative perfections of them, 152.

at war, reconciled by Virtue and Love, ibid.
Shame, fear of it overcomes tenderness, 105.
public, the use of it, 95.

Short club, account of it, 91. 92.

Sickness, the effects it has on the mind, 132.
Silvio, his bill of costs in courting Zelinda, 97.
Sleep, shews the divinity of the human soul, 93.
Sloth more invincible than vice, 131.
Small-coalman, his musical talent, 144.

Snow, artificial, before the French king, 103.
Socrates contemned censure, 135.

Softly, Simon, ill used by a widow, 93.

Solomon, his choice of wisdom, 111.

Sophia refuses a present of jewels on her marriage, 147.

Soul, sympathy of, 150.

South, Dr. extract from his discourse on a good conscience,

135.

Speculative part of mankind compared with the active, 130.
Speech, a discourse thereon, 172.

Spleen, the Dutch not subject to it, 131.

Spring, the beauties of that season described, 125.

verses thereon, ibid.

called the youth and health of the year. ibid.

Squires, country, ignorant of Nature, 169.

Statius, Strada's, 122.

Steele, Mr. his letters about Dunkirk, 168.

Stomachers for beaus, 171.

Strada, his excellent Prolusions, 115. 119. 122.
Sublime, Longinus his best rule for it, 152.
Boileau's notes on it, 117.

Sullen husbands complained of, 132.

Swagger, Tom, his letter to Old Testy, 145.
affronted, 171.

Swords, the immoderate length of them condemned, 143.

145.

Sympathy of souls, 150.

TALL club, an account of it, 108.

Temple education, account of it, 151.

Temple, sir William, his account of English humour, 144.
his remarks on the gardens of Alcinous, 173.
his character of the Dutch, 131.

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Teraminta angry about the tucker, 109.
like a wag-tail, 125.

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Terrible club, account of it, 143.

Theano, the wife of Pythagoras, taught philosophy, 165.
Theodosius, the emperor, married to Athenias, a Grecian
virgin, 155.

Thrift, Generosity, his letter about French trade, 170.
Time, not to be squandered, 158.

Timogenes, a man of false honour, 161.

Timoleon the Corinthian, his piety and remarkable preser-

vation, 117.

Tiptoe, Tom, a gallant member of the short club, 92.
account of his assignation, ibid.

Topknot, Dr. why so called, 116.

Tory, English, his letters about demolishing Dunkirk, 128.

131.

Trade with France prejudicial to England, 170.

Tragedy-writers, wherein notoriously defective, 110.
Translation, lord Roscommon's rules for it, 164.

the best means of refining and polishing a lan-

guage, ibid.

Tremble, Tom, the quaker, his letter on naked breasts, 116.
Truelove, Tom, the character of a good husband, 113.
Tuck, Tim, the hero of the short club, 92.

Tugghe, Sieur, of Dunkirk, his impudence, 128.

Tutors, ill used and ill paid, 94.

VARIETY, the nature and sweets of it, 138.

Versailles, described, 101.

Verses describing the gardens of Alcinous, 173.

164.

from Anacreon, 168.

out of Claudian, 164.

from Congreve, 85. 115.

from Eusden's translation of the Rape of Proserpine,

Eve treating an angel, described from Milton, 138.
on gardening, 173.

by Prior, Congreve, and Addison, 85. 115.

description of a horse, 86.

from a manuscript on hunting, 125.

Verses from Martial, 173.

from Racine's Athaliah, 117.

describing the spring, 125.

concerning translation, by lord Roscommon, 164.
the court of Venus from Claudian, 127.

from Virgil, translated from Dryden, 138.
on wit and wisdom, 141.

on the art of writing, by a lady, 172.

Virgil, remarks on his praise of Augustus, 138.
Strada's, commended, 115. 119. 122.

Vision of Xenophon, 111.

Umbra, her letter on public shame, 95.
University education, its errors, 94.

WAG-TAILS, their way of courting, 125.
Weather, fine, the pleasure it occasions, ibid.
Wedding-clothes, the vanity of them exposed, 113.

Whiston, Mr. his letter to Nestor Ironside, concerning the
Philosopher's stone, 107.

Wife, sir Thomas More's direction for the choice of one, 163.
Wilkins, bishop, his art of flying, 112.
Winifred, saint, a doubtful person, 90.
Wisdom, opposed to cunning, 152.

Solomon's choice of it, 111.

Wiseacre, squire, the cause of his ruin, 147.
Wit, defined by the bishop of Rochester, 141.

Women should have learning, 155.

wisdom and knowledge recommended to their study,

155. 159. 165.

Wound, most dangerous on a full stomach, 133.
Writing, verses on that art, by a young lady, 172.

XENOPHON, account of the vision of Hercules, 111.

ZELINDA, her generosity to Sylvio, 97.

INDEX

TO THE

NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

The Roman Numerals refer to the Volumes, and the Figures to the Page.

ADDISON, Hon. Joseph, i. 1, 6,
77, 110, 114, 137, 297, 301,
336, 340, 354, 359. ii. 19,
30, 65, 69, 74, 78, 82, 86,
90, 95, 98, 103, 107, 111,
114, 120, 124, 127, 132, 136,
143, 147, 150, 154, 157, 161,
163, 169, 174, 179, 183, 188,
238, 241, 242, 244, 246, 250,
259, 267, 322, 326, 331, 335,
343, 355, 360, 365, 368, 373,
378, 389, 397.
Airs, Mr. i. 2.
Armstrong, Dr. ii. 89.
Atterbury, bishop, ii. 267.
Aumont, Duc d', ii. 317, 326.

Baker, Aaron, i. 298.

Bartelett, Deane, ii. 20, 215.
219.

Barwell, alias Barton, John, ii.
378.

Bayne, Alexander, i. 326.
Bentley, Dr. i. 301. ii. 49.
Berkeley, Bishop, i. [vi.] 50,
129, 164, 189, 244, 274, 278,
289, 311, 315, 354. 391. ii.
9, 30, 38, 41, 93, 103, 193.
Beveridge, bishop, i. 370.
Birch, Dr. Thomas, i. 168.
Blackmore, Sir Richard, i. 110.
Boigard, Colonel, ii. 98, 100.
Boyle, Hon. Robert, ii. 434.
Breton, Thomas, ii. 282.
Brown, Leonard, ii. 139.

Budgel!, Eustace. i. 147,
Burnett, Dr. Thomas, i. 395.
Button, Daniel, ii. 19, 81.

Cardan, i. 38.

Cary, William, ii. 20.
Castiglione, Count, ii. 61.
Clarendon, Lord, ii. 211.
Clark, Joseph, Posture-master,
ii. 96.

Collins, Anthony, i. 12. ii. 215.
Colston, Edward, i. 44, 256.
Combes, Daniel, ii. 322.
Comte, Pere Le, ii. 70.
Cowper, Lord, ii. 30.
Cromwell, Oliver, ii. 247.

Dennis, John, i. 7.
Desaguliers, John Theoph. i.
244.

Deslandes, Mons. i. 133, 188.
Diaper, Mr. i. 44.

Doily, the Linendraper, ii. 102.
Donne, Dr. i. 91.
Dupuis, Claudius, i. 320.
D'Urfey, Thomas, i. 338, 414,
415.
Duumvir, ii. 75.
Dyer, John, ii. 322.

Eusden, Lawrence, ii. 69, 186,
202.

Fell, Dr. John, i. 363.

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