Necessary cause of our being pleased with what is great, new,
and beautiful, N. 413.

New or uncommon, why every thing that is so raises a pleasure
in the imagination, N. 411; what understood by the term
with respect to objects, 412; improves what is great and
beautiful, ibid. why a secret pleasure annexed to its idea,
413; every thing so that pleases in architecture, 415.
News how the English thirst after it, N. 452; project for a sup
ply of it, ibid. of whispers, 457.
Nicodemuncio's letter to Olivia, N. 433.
Nicolini, his perfection in music, N. 405.
Night-walk in the country, N. 425.
November (month of) described, N. 425.

ODE (Laplander's) to his mistress, N. 406.
Opinion (popular) described, N. 460.

Ostentation, one of the inhabitants of the paradise of fools, N.
460.

Otway, his admirable description of the miseries of law-suits,

N. 456.

Ovid, in what he excels, N. 417; his description of the palace
of Fame, 439.

P

PAMPHLETS, defamatory, detestable, N. 451.

Pantheon at Rome, how it strikes the imagination at the first
entrance, N. 415.

Paradise of fools, N. 460.

Paradise lost (Milton's) its fine image, N. 417.
Parents, their care due to their children, N. 426.
Party not to be followed with innocence, N. 399.

Party prejudices in England, N. 432.

Passions treated of, N. 408; what moves them in descriptions
most pleasing, 418; in all men, but appear not in all, ibid.
of hope and fear, 471.

Passionate people, their faults, N. 438; Nat. Lee's description
of it, ibid.

Peevish fellow described, N. 438.

Penseroso (Poem of) by Milton, N. 425.

Persecution in religious matters immoral, N. 459.

Persian soldier, reproved for railing against an enemy, N. 427.

Phidias, his proposal of a prodigious statue of Alexander, N. 415.

Phocion's saying of a vain promiser, N. 448.
Philipater's letter about his daughter's dancing, N. 469.
Philips (Mr.) pastoral verses of his, N. 400.

Philosophy (new) the authors of it gratify and enlarge the ima-
gination, N. 420.

Picture not so natural a representation as a statue, N. 416; what
pleases most in one, 418.

Pindar's saying of Theron, N. 467.

Pity, is love softened by sorrow, N. 397; that and terror leading
passions in poetry, 418.

Places of trust, who most fit for them, N. 469; why courted by
men of generous principles, ibid.

Planets, to survey them fills us with astonishment, N. 420.
Pleasant fellows to be avoided, N. 462.

Pleasantry in conversation, the faults it covers, N. 462.
Poems, several preserved for their similies, N. 421.

Poetry has the whole circle of nature for its proving, N. 419.
Poets, the pains they should take to form the imagination, N,417;
should mend nature, and add to her beauties, 418; how much
they are at liberty in it, ibid.

Polite imagination let into a great many pleasures the vulgar are
not capable of, N. 411.

Politics of St. James's coffee-house, on the report of the French
King's death, N. 403; of Giles's, ibid. of Jenny Man's, ibid.
of Will's, ibid. the Temple, ibid. Fish-street, ibid. Cheap-
side, ibid. Garraway's, ibid.

Poor, the scandalous appearance of them, N. 430.

Poverty the loss of merit, N. 464.

Praise, the love of it deeply fixed in men's minds, N. 467.

Precipice, distant, why its prospect pleases, N. 418.

Prejudice, a letter about it as it respects parties in England, N.

432.

Promises (neglect of) through frivolous falsehood, N. 448.
Promisers condemned, N. 448.

Prospect, a beautiful one delights the soul as much as a demonstra-
tion, N. 411; wide ones pleasing to the fancy, ibid. enliven-
ed by nothing so much as rivers and falls of water, 412; that
of hills and valleys soon tires, ibid.

Proverbs (the 7th chapter of) turned into verse, N. 410.
Psalm the 114th translated, N. 461.

Psalmist, against hyprocrisy, N. 399; of Providence, 441.
Punning, whose privilege, N. 396; a pun of thought, 454.
Pyramids of Egypt, N. 415.

Pythagoras, his precepts about the choice of a course of life, N
447.

QUACK bill, N. 444; doctors, the cheats of them, ibid

Quakers project of an act to marry them to the olive beauties, N.
4396.

Peter de) his letter to the Spectator about puns, N. 396.

R.

RILLERY in conversation, the absurdity of it, N. 422.
Rainbow, the figure of one contributes to its magnificence, as
uch as the colours to its beauty, N. 415.

Ramble, from Richmond by water to London, and about it, by
the Spectator, V, 454.

Raphael, the excellence of his pictures, N. 467.

Read (Sir William) his operations on the eyes, N. 472.

Reason the pilot of the passions, N. 408; a pretty nice propor-
tion between that and passion, ibid.

Religion considered, N. 459.

Renatus Valentinus, his father and grandfather, their story, N.

426.

Rentfree (Sabina) her letter about the green-sickness, N. 431.
Rentement, a dream of it, N. 425.

Rhubarb (John, Esq.) his memorial from the country infirmary,
N 429.

Riches corrupt men's morals, N. 464.

Rich men, their defects overlooked, N. 464.

Ridule put to a good use, N. 445.

Riding dress of ladies, the extravagance of it, N. 435.

Robin, the porter at Will's coffee-house, his qualifications, N.
398.

Rusticity shocking, N. 400.

Rusty Scabbard his letter to the Spectator, N. 449.

S

SALLUST, his excellence, N. 409.

Salutations in churches censured, N. 460.

Satires, the English, Ribaldry, and Billingsgate, N. 451; Panegy-
ricalion ourselves, 473.

Stales golden] a dream of them, N. 463.

Scandal to whom most pleasing, N. 426; how monstrous it
renders tis, 451.

Seot Dr.This Christian Life, its merit, N. 447.

Scotch, a saying of theirs, N 463.

Scribblers against the Spectator, why neglected by him, N. 445.
Seasons, a dream of them, N. 425.

Sidney, Verses on his modesty, N. 400.

Self-conceit, one of the inhabitants of the paradise of fools, N. 460.
Semanthe, her character, N. 404.

Semiramis, her prodigious works and power, N. 415.

Sempronia the match-maker, N. 437.

September (month of) described, N. 425.

Sexes, amity between agreeable persons of different, dangerous,
N. 400; the advantages of it to each, 433.

Shakspeare excels all writers in his ghosts, N. 419.

Sherlock (Dr.) improved the notion of heaven and hell, N. 447,
Sight the most perfect sense, N. 411; the pleasures of the ima
gination arise criginally from it, ibid. furnishes it with ideas,
ibid

Silk-worm, a character of one, N, 454.

Similitudes, eminent writers faulty in them, N. 421; the preser
vation of several poems, ibid. an ill one in a pulpit, 455.

Sippet (Jack) his character, N. 448.

Snarlers, N. 438.

Socrates, why the oracle pronounced him the wisest of men, Ni
408.

Song with notes, N. 470.

Soul, its happiness the contemplation of God, N. 413; state of
it after separation, ibid.

Sounds, how improper for description, N. 416.

Spectator, his invitation to all sorts of people to assist him; N.
442; about the stamps, 445; guardian of the fair-sex, 449;
his advertisements, 461; about the price of his paper, ibid.
put into the golden scales, 463; a sort of news-letter, 468,
Spencer, his whole creation of shadowy persons, N. 419.
Spirits, several species in the world besides ourselves, N. 419.
Spring, a description of it, N. 423; his attendants, ibid.
Spies, not to be trusted, N. 439; despised by great men, ibid.
Stamps, how fatal to weekly historians, N. 445.

Stars (fixt) how their immensity and magnificence confound us.

N. 420.

Statuary, the most natural representation, N. 416.

Stint (Jack) and Will Trap, their adventure, N. 448.

Stoics discarded all passions, N. 397.

Sudden (Thomas, Esq.) his memorial from the country infirma-
ry, N. 429.

Sukey's adventure with Will Honeycomb and Sir Roger de Co
verley, N. 410.

Sun-rising and setting the most glorious show in nature, N. 412:
Symmetry of objects, how it strikes, N. 411.
Syncopius the passionate, his character, N. 438.

T

TALE-BEARERS censured, N. 439.

Taste of writing, what it is, and how it may be acquired, N.
409; the perfection of a man's as a sense, ibid. defined, ib.
that of the English, ibid.

Terror and pity, why those passions please, N. 418.
Thames, its banks, and the boats on it described, N. 454.
Theognis, a beautiful saying of his, N. 464.

Thimbleton (Ralph) his letter to the Spectator, N. 432.
Thoughts, of the highest importance to sift them, N. 399.
Tillotson (Archbishop) improved the notion of heaven and hell,
N. 447.

Torture, why the description of it pleases, and not the prospect,

N. 418.

Transmigration of souls, how believed by the ancients, N. 408.
Trap (Mr.) his letter to Mr. Stint, N. 448.

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

Trimming, the Spectator unjustly accused of it, N. 445.

V & U

VAINLOVES, the family of, N. 454.

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

Valetudinarians in chastity, N. 395.

Vanity, the paradise of fools, N. 460; a vision of her and her
attendants, ibid.

Variety of men's actions proceeds from the passions, N. 408.
Venus, the charming figure she makes in the first Eneid, N
417; an attendant on the spring, 425.

Vertumnus an attendant on the spring, ibid.

Viner (Sir Robert) his familiarity with King Charles II, N. 462.
Virgil, his genius, N. 404; compared with Homer, 417; when he
is best pleased, ibid.

Virtues, supposed ones not to be relied on, N. 399.

Understanding, wherein more perfect than the imagination, N.

420; reasons for it, ibid. should master the passions, 438.
Universe, how pleasing the contemplation of it, N. 420.