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Crowding, the love of it, the ruling passion of a
woman, Wor. xxiii. 66

Cuckold, saying of one to a lady in the park, Wor
xxii. 9; character of, vindicated, 57

Cuckoldom should not be reproached, Sp. vii. 203;
abused on the stage, 446

Cullyism exposed, Sp. xi. 486

Culverin, Colonel, character of, Wor. xxiii. 90
Cumberland's notion of rectitude, Id. xxvii. 36
Cunning opposed to wisdom, Guar. xv. 152; the ac-
complishment of whom, Sp. vii. 225; the great-
est cunning of some people to appear so, Tat. iv.
191; a contemptible quality, ib.; origin of, an
allegory, Ad. xix. 31; nature of, Id. xxvii. 92
Cupid with eyes, Guar. xv. 127; a lap-dog, dan-
gerously ill, Tat. iii. 121

Cupidus, his observations on the folly of visionary
opulence, Ram. xvii. 73

Curate of York, his history, Wor. xxii. 31
Curiosity, one of the strongest and most lasting of
our appetites, Sp. viii. 237; absurd, an instance
of it, x. 439; of powerful operation, Ram. xvii.
103. 118; the folly of its influence, 103; to be
indulged with caution, 82; the first and last
passion in great and generous minds, xviii. 150;
necessary to entertainment and knowledge, Ad.
xix. 17; the great destroyer of female honour,
Wor. xxiv. 154

Cursing and swearing, essay on, Con. xxvi. 108
Custom, a second nature, Sp. x. 437; the effect of
it, and how to make a good use of it, ib.; has a
mechanical effect on the body, xi. 474; cannot
make every thing pleasing, x. 455; the cause of
duels, Tat. i. 29; barbarous customs in England,
Guar. xiv. 61; definition of by a late noble
author, Wor. xxiii. 112; its prevalence in lan-
guage, xxiv. 166

Cynæas, Pyrrhus' chief minister, his handsome re-
proof of that prince, Sp. vii. 180

Cynthio, falls in love, Tat. i. 1; the effect of a bow
from his mistress, 5; dictating on the passion of
love, 22; his resolution, and letter to his mis-
tress, 35; his death, monument, and epitaph, ii.
85

Cynthio and Flavia break off their amour very
whimsically, Sp. x. 399

Cyrus, his chastity, Guar. xiii. 45; how he tried a
young lord's virtue, Sp. xii. 564

Cyr, Saint, account of that monastery, Guar. xiii. 48
Czar of Muscovy, account of his victory, Tat. ii.
49; his generosity and hospitality to the Swedish
officers, 58; compared with Louis XIV., Sp. vi.
139; a great projector, Ad. xxi. 99. See Peter.

D.

Dacinthus, the character of a pleasant fellow, Sp.
x. 462

Dædalus, his letter about flying, Guar. xiv. 112
Dainty, Mrs. Mary, her letter from the country in-
firmary, Sp. x. 429

Dalrymple, Sir Hugh, letter from, Look. xxxv. 32
Damia, a woman of distinction, a very pretty lady,
Tat. i. 34

Damo, a daughter of Pythagoras, to whom he left
his writings, Guar. xv. 165

Damon and Strephon, their amour with Gloriana,
Sp. x. 423

Dampers, sect of, described, Ob. xxxii. 2. xxxiii.
97; club of, ib.

Dancers, good, have always good understandings,
Sp. x. 466

Dancing, what, Sp. vi. 66; defended, 67; a neces-

sary accomplishment, ix. 334. 376; encouraged
by the Lacedæmonians, vi. 67; the advantages of
it, x. 466; the disadvantage it lies under, to
what owing, ix. 334; displays beauty, x. 466,
Tat. i. 34; useful on the stage, Sp. ix. 370; faulty
on the stage, x. 466; kissing dances censured, vi.
67; recitative, what, 66, see Rope-Dancing;
charity balls, Look. xxxvi. 41

Dancing-master, account of one who danced by book,
Tat. ii. 88; proper business of dancing-masters,
Sp. vi. 67; dancing-master and his scholar, an
anecdote, Ob. xxxii. 3

Dancing-shoes to be carried in a stage-coach gratis,
Tat. iii. 180

Dangers past, why reflection on them pleases, Sp.
x. 418; insensibility of, when mistaken for cou-
rage, Ad. xxi. 106

Daniel the historian, extract from, on taxes, Tat. iii.
148

Daniel, Mr. Bickerstaff's merry companion, his
manner of preaching, Tat. ii. 66

Dante, anecdote of, Ad. xx. 87

Daphne, her chance-medley, Sp. v. 33.

Dapper, parson, his way of preaching, Tat. ii. 66;
Tim., head of a species, 85

Dapperwit, Tom, his opinion of matrimony, Sp. xi.
482; recommended to succeed Will. Honeycomb
in the Spectator's club, 530

Darkness, Egyptian, described, Sp. xii. 615
Dassapa, Tom, his potions, Tat. ii. 48

Dathan, a Jew, tried in the Court of Honour, Tat.
iv. 256

Daubigné, Messrs., father and grandfather of Mad.
Maintenon, their story, Guar. xiii. 46

Davenport, Major-general, his good offices to Mr.
Steele, Tat. iv. 271

David, king, a rabbinical story concerning him,
Guar. xv. 138; the beauty of his lamentation for
Jonathan, xiii. 51

David, Saint, his day, why observed by Mr. Bicker-
staff, Tat. iii. 140

Davis, Sir George, his adventure with a lion, Guar.
xv. 146; major, his duel with Ralph Pumpkin,
Wor. xxiii. 68

Dawbridgecourt, Sir Eustace, his marriage and pe-
nance, Wor. xxiv. 160

Dawks, honest Icabod, the news-writer, Tat. i. 18.
iii. 178; Sp. x. 457

Day, the several times of it in different parts of the
town, Sp. x. 454; dreams, vii. 167

Dead, see Mourning.

Dead men only have honour in China, Guar. xiv.
96; who to be so accounted, Tat. iii. 96; 111,
118, 174; heard and adjudged, 110; dressed in
lace, &c. contrary to the act, 118; a dead man re-
suscitated, ib. See Partridge.

Deaf, dumb, and blind, the advantage of being so,
Wor. xxii. 1; deafness necessary to a hearer, 56
Death, the time and manner thereof, unknown, Sp.
v. 7; the contemplation of, affords delight, mix-
ed with terror and sorrow, vi. 133; the benefit of
it, ix. 349; intended for our relief, vi. 133, vii.
153; how to make the thoughts of, sweet, Guar.
xiii. 18; the hope of good men in it, xv. 169;
what only can speak life in the midst of death,
135; of eminent persons, the most improving part
of history, Sp. vi. 133, viii. 289; the fear of it
often mortal, v. 25; why not much feared in
camps, vii. 152; compared to Proteus, Guar. xv.
136; whence the abhorrence of it proceeds, 169;
an infirmity not to desire it, xiii. 20; instruction
arising from the near view of it, Ram. xvi. 54;
due contemplation of it a proper method of sup-

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pressing fear, 17; the immediate effect of, awful
and important, xvii. 78; impressions made by it
too generally transient, ib.; the remembrance of
a great incentive to virtue, ib.; the contempt of
it, to what owing, Wor. xxiii. 73; those most
averse to it who have the least enjoyment of life,
ib.; on the death of a friend, Id. xxvii. 41; on
the fear of, Mir. xxix. 87; visit to the house of a
deceased friend, Ob. xxxii. 48; death of Antitheus,
the disbeliever, ib. ; notion of a humourist that it
may be avoided at will, xxxiii. 59

Debauchee, old, life of, Ad. xx. 86

Debt, thoughts on imprisonment for, Id. xxvii. 22,

38

Decency, nearly allied to virtue, Sp. viii. 104, x.
292, see Cleanliness: delicacy of behaviour, gene-
rally transgressed, ib.

Decius, the character of a lewd person, Tat. ii. 45
Declaimers, coffee-house, two sorts, Sp. xi. 521. See
Coffee-house.

Decorum, how expressed by the Greeks, Wor. xxiv.
189

Dedications, the absurdity of them in general, Sp.

vii. 188; the abuse of them, Guar. xiii. 4, Tat.
ii. 43, iii. 177; an author's dedication to himself,
Guar. xiii. 4; difference between ancient and mo-
dern dedications, Tat. iii. 177; a play dedicated
to a city knight, ii. 43; meanness and mischief of
indiscriminate dedications, Ram. xviii. 136; a new
model of, Con. xxvi. 122

Defamation, whence it arises, Sp. x. 427; the sign
of a bad heart, ib.; the art of it discovered, Guar.
xv. 170; both sexes equally inclined to it, Sp. ix.
348; defamatory papers, a reproach to a govern-
ment, x. 451; against the dead, unaccountable,
Wor. xxiv. 173; history of a defamer, Ob xxxiii.

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