HAMLET's reflections on looking upon Yorick's
Harlot, a defcription of one out of the Proverbs, N. 410.
Health, the pleasures of the fancy more conducive to it,
than thofe of the understanding, N. 411.
Heaven and hell, the notion of, conformable to the
light of nature, N. 447.
Heavens, verfes on the glory of them, N. 465.
Hebrew idioms run into English, N. 405.
HESIOD'S faying of a virtuous life, N. 447-
Hiftorian, his mot agreeable talent, N. 420; how
history pleases the imagination, ibid. defcriptions of
battles in it fcarce ever understood, 428.
HOCKLEY in the hole gladiators, N. 436.
HOMER'S defcriptions charin more than Ariftotle's rea-
foning, N. 411; compared with Virgil, 417; when
he is in his province, ibid.
HONESTUS the trader, his character, N. 443.
HONEYCOMB (WILL) his adventurewith Sukey, N. 410.
Hope (paflion of) treated, N. 471.
HORACE takes fire at every hint of the Iliad and
Odyffey, N. 417.
HOTSPUR (JEFFREY, Efq;) his petition from the country
infirmary, N 429.
Human nature the best ftudy, N. 408.
Humour (good) the best companion in the country, N.
HUSH (PETER) his character, N. 457.
Hymn, David's Paftoral one on providence, N. 441
on gratitude, 453; on the glories of the heaven and
earth, 465.
Hypocrify, the various kinds of it, N. 399; to be pre-
ferred to open impiety, 458.
IDeas how a whole fet of them hang together, N. 416.
Idiot, the ftory of one by Dr. Plot, N. 447.
Idle and innocent, few know how to be so, N. 411.
Jilt a penitent one, N. 401.
Iliad, the reading of it like travelling through a country
uninhabited, N. 417.
Imaginary beings in poetry, N. 419.
Inftances in Ovid, Virgil, and Milton, ibid.
Jimagination, its pleasures in fome refpects equal to those
of the understanding, in fome preferable, N. 411;
their extent, ibid. the advantages of them, ibid.
what is meant by them, ibid. two kinds of them,
ibid. awaken the faculties of the mind, without fa-
tiguing or perplexing it, ibid. more conducive to
health than thofe of the understanding, ibid. raised
by other fenfes as well as the fight, 412; the cause
of them not to be affigned, 413; works of art not fo
perfect as thofe of nature to entertain the imagination,
414; the fecondary pleafures of the fancy, 416; the
power of it, ibid. whence its fecondary pleasures pro-
ceed, ibid. of a wider and more univerfal nature than
thofe it has when joined with fight, 418; how poetry
contributes to its pleafures, 419; how historians,
philofophers, and other writers, 420, 421; the de-
light it takes in enlarging itfelf by degrees, as in the
furvey of the earth, and the univerfe, ibid. and when
it works from great things to little, ibid where it
falls fhort of the underftanding, ibid. how affected
by fimilitude, 421; as liable to pain as pieafure;
how much of either it is capable of, ibid. the power
of the Almighty over it, ibid.
Imagining, the art of it in general, N..421.
Impertinent and trifling perfons, their triumph, N. 432.
Impudence mistaken for wit, N. 443-
Infirmary, one for good humour, N. 429, 437, 440;
a further account out of the country, ibid.
INCOLTSON (CHARLES of Barbican) his cures, N. 444-
Invitation, the SPECTATOR'S, to all artificers as well as
philofophers to affitt him, N. 428, 442; a general
one, ibid.
JOLLY (FRANK, Efq;) his memorial from the country
infirmary, N. 429.
IRAS, her character, N. 404.
Irony who deal in it, N. 438.
July and Auguft (months of) defcribed, N. 425.
June (month of) described, N. 425.
Knowledge of one's felf, rules for it, N. 399.
LAndskin, a pretty one, N. 414.
Language (licentious) the brutality of it, N. 400.
Languages (European) cold to the oriental, N. 405.
Lapland ode translated, N 406.
LATIMER, the martyr, his behaviour at a conference
with the papifts, N. 465.
Law-fuits, the mifery of them, N 456.
Leaf (green) fwarms with millions of animals, N. 420.
Learning (men of) who take to bufinefs, beit fit for it,
Letters from Cynthio to Flavia, and their answers to the
breaking off their amour, N. 398
Letters from queen Ann Boleyne to Henry VIII. N. 397;
from a bankrupt to his friend, 456; the anfwer, ibid.
from Lazarus Hopeful to Bafil Plenty, 472.
Letters to the SPECTATOR; from Peter de Quir of St.
John's college in Cambridge, N. 396; from a penitent
Jilt, 401; from a lady importuned by her mother to
be unfaithful to her husband, 402; from a married
man who out of jealousy obftructed the marriage of a
lady to whom he was guardian, ibid. from a lady
whofe lover would have abufed her paffion for him,
ibid. from a young uncle on the difobedience of his
elder nephews and nieces, ibid about a city and coun-
try life, 406; with a tranflation of a Lapland ode,
ibid. on the paffions, 408; concerning Gloriana,
423; of good-humour, 424; of the country infirmary,
419; of common beggars, 430; of charity-schools,
ibid, the freedoms of married men and women, ibid.
from Richard and Sabina Rentfree, 431; about pie-
judice and emulation, 432; naked fhoulders, 437 ;
a country fociety and infirmary, ibid. from Camilla,
413; from an exchange man, ibid. about buffoonry,
ibid. from Ephraim Weed, 450; from a projector for
news, 42, 457; about education, 455; from one
who had married a scold, ibid. from Pill Garlic,
ilid. about the use and abufe of fimiles, ibid, falu-
tations at churches, 460; with a tranflation of the
114th Palin, 461; about the advance on the paper
for the ftamps, ibid, about King Charles the fecond's
gaieties, 462; about dancing, 466; about fight,
472; about panegyrical fatires on ourselves, 473;
from Timothy Stanza ibid. from Bob Short, ibid.
Libels, a fevere law against them, N. 451; thofe that
write or read them excommunicated, ibid.
Light and colours only ideas in the mind, 413.
Livy, in what he excels all other hiftorians, N. 409,
LOLLER (lady LYIA) her memorial from the country
infirmary, N. 429.
London, the differences of the manners and politics of
one part from the other, N. 403.
MAN, the middle link between angels and bru'es,
N. 408; what he is, confidered in himself, 441; the
homage he ows his Creator, ibid.
MANILIUS, his character, N. 467.
March (month of) defcribed, N. 425.
MARIAMNE the first dancer, N. 466.
MARS, an attendant on the spring, N. 425.
MARTIAL, an epigram of his on a grave inan's being at
a lewd play, N. 446.
MACHIAVEL, his obfervation on the wife jealousy of
ftates, N. 408.
Matter, the leaft particle of it contains an unexhausted
fund, N. 420.
May (month of) dangerous to the ladies, N. 395; de-
fcribed, 425.
MEANWELL (THOMAS) his letter about the freedoms
of married men and women, N.
430.
Memory, how improved by the ideas of the imagina-
tion, N. 417.
Merchant, the worth and importance of his character,
N. 428.
Mercy, whoever wants it has a taste of no enjoyment,
N. 456
Metamorphofes (Ovid's) like enchanted ground, N. 417.
Metaphor, when noble, cafts a glory round it, N. 421.
MILLER (JAMES) his challenge to Timothy Buck, N.
436.
MILTON, his vaft genius, N. 417; his poem of Il penfe-
rofo, 425. His defcription of the arch-angel and the
evil fpirit's addreffing themfelves for the combat, 463.
Mimicry (art of) why we delight in it, N. 416.
Minifter, a watchful one deferibed, N. 439.
MINUTIUS, his character, N. 422.
Modefty (falfe) the danger of it, N 558; diftinguithed
from the true, ibid.
Monflers, novelty bestows charms on them, N. 412;
incapable of propagation, 413; what gives fatisfac-
tion in the fight of them, 418.
Money; the SPECTATOR propofes it as a Thefis, N. 442;
the power of it, 450; the love of it very commendable,
il id.
Morality, the benefits of it, N. 459; Arengthens faith,
465.
MOUSE-ALLEY doctor, N. 444.
Mufic (church) of the improvement of it, N. 405;
it may raife confufed notions of things in the tancy,
416.
NAKED shouldered, N 437.
Names of authors to be put to their works, the bardhipa
and inconveniences of it, N. 451.
Nature, a man's beft guide, N. 404; the moft ufe-
ful object of human reafon, 408; her works more
perfect than thofe of art to delight the fancy,
414; yet the more pleafant the more they refemble
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