Army, the best school, Sp. xiv. 566. loss in a campaign, viii. 180. proposal for a female, Id. xxxiii. 5. Arria, wife of Pætus, her death, Tat. ii. 72.
Art, general design of, Sp. xiv. 541. conform to taste, vi. 29. works of imperfect, xii. 414. those most capable of, fond of nature, Guar. xviii. 173. affinity of to manners, Wor. xxvii. 78. progress of, Id. xxxiii. 63.
Art of Criticism, a poem, Sp. ix. 253.
Arthur, king, the first that ate of a roasted ox, Tat. iv. 148. Artificers, petition from, Guar. xvii. 64.
Artillery, invention of, Sp. xi.
Atalantis, author of the, Guar. xvii. 107.
Athaliah of Racine,Guar.xvii.117. Athanatus, on death, Ram.xx.54. Atheism, enemy to cheerfulness, Sp. xii. 381. arguments against, 389. prejudice towards, ix. 237. more grievous than religion, vii. 93.
Atheists, zealots and bigots Sp. viii. 185. not fine gentlemen, vii. 75. how to be treated, xii. 389. one in sickness, viii. 166. Guar. xvi. 39. in a storm, Sp. xiii. 483. Tat. iii. 3. terrible death, Con. xxx. 28. history of, xxxi. 61. doubtful if such exist, Win. xliv. 148.
Athenais, married to Theodosius, Guar. xviii. 155.
Athens, history of, Ob. xl. 114,
Athenians, their public spirit, Tat. iii. 122. passion for novelty, Wor. xxviii. 117. vision, Ob. xxxix. 100, 101..
Attention, the true posture of, Sp. xiv. 521.
Atterbury, dean, his preaching, Tat. ii. 66.
Atticus, prudent conduct in friendship, Sp. xii. 385. a great genius, viii. 150.
Attorneys how they solve diffi- culties, Tat. iii. 99.
Attraction of bodies applied to minds, Guar. xviii. 126.
Avarice, age devoted to, Tat. iii. 120. origin of, Sp. vi. 55. an abject passion, ix. 224. troubles attend- ing, xv. 624. its temple, vi. 55. Tat. iii. 123. effect of a discourse on, 124. its inconsistencies, Win. xlii. 39.
Avaro, a mean rich man, Tat. i.
Auction-hunter, character of, Id. xxxiii. 35.
Audience, behaviour of, Tat. iii. 122. 201. how composed, Sp. xiii. 502. void of common sense, vi. 13. x. 290. vicious taste censured, xiii. 502.
August, month of, Sp. xii. 425. Augustus Cæsar, reproves bache- lors, Sp. xiv. 528. on mourning, xv. 585. his request at death, Sp. xi. 317. Virgil's praises of, Guar. xviii. 138.
Aurantius, his treatment of Libe- ralis, Ram. xxii. 163.
Aurelia, a happy wife, Sp. vi. 15. unhappy, Guar. xvii. 85. a view through her breast, 106.
Aurengezebe, his history, Tat. ii. 46.
Aurengezebe, a tragedy, Guar. xvii. 110. Ram. xxi. 125.
Auricular orthography, uncertain, Wor. xxvii. 101.
Austerities in religion, Ram. xxi.
Author, reader should be ac- quainted with, Sp. vi. 1. of his own performance, 4. Tat. iii. 92. one a mole to another, Sp. vii. 124. has the advantage of an artist, viii. 166. for what most to be admired,
xi. 355. one raising contributions, Guar. xvii. 58. putting his name to his works attended with inconve- niences, Sp. xii. 451. an atheis- tical author, viii. 166. precedency settled, xiv. 529. their vanity, vi. 9. an expedient by those who write for the stage, 51. sort of persons most agreeable to, 4. entering the world, Ram. xix. 1. hopes of, 2. acqui- sition of fame difficult, 23. great difference between the productions of, 24. literary fame, xx. 106. xxi. 146. deluded by hopes of immortal reputation, xx. 106. their proper rank, xxi. 136. difference between writings, xix. 14. danger of succeed- ing a great, xx. 86. necessity of lite- rary courage, xxi. 137. travelling in quest of his own character, 146. directions to, xxii. 176. sale of the manuscripts of, Ad. xxiii. 6. long sufferings of, Wor. xxvi. 20. not ab- solutely an object of contempt, xxvii. 57. encomium on English, xxviii. 137. proposal for an hospital for, xxix. 159. advised to get them- selves hanged, 173. vanity of, Con. xxx. 29. offering his assistance, xxxi. 70. on the character of, xxxii. 114. 116. mortifications of, Id. xxxiii. 55. inattentive to themselves, 102. va- nity of, Ob. xxxviii. 3. of the past and present, xxxix. 82, 83. diffidence of young, Oll. xli. 1. inglorious fate of, 4. caution requisite to, 16. vanity their motive, Win. xliv. 118. 127. pursuits of, Mic. xlv. 1. admonition of, 12, various opi- nions of. 18. persecution of, a dream, 31.
Authority, confounded, Ram. xxi. 156. parental, often rigorous, 148.
Automaton, account of, Loun. xxxvi. 22.
Autumn, lady, behaviour at church, Tat. iii. 140.
Autumn, melancholy iur, Loun. xxxvii. 93.
Ax, a poem, Sp. vi. 58.
BABBLERS, Worse than fire, Sp. ix. 218.
Babel, the tower of, Sp. xii. 415, Babylon, temple of, Sp. xii. 415. Bacon flitch, at Whichenovre, Sp. xv. 607.
Bacon, lord, character of, Sp. xiv. 554. Tat. v. 267. his comparison of a book well written, Sp. vi. 10. his sentiments of poetry, Tat. iii. 108. prescribes a poem, Sp. xii. 411. on envy, vi. 19. pleasures of taste. xii. 447. on his history of Henry the Seventh, Guar. xvi. 25. his legacy, Tat. iii. 133. on beautiful women, Ram. xix. 38. his moral essays, xx. 106. observation of, Wor. xxvi.
Badajos, battle there, Tat. i. 17. Bagnios, connexion with the theatre, Wor. xxvi. 9.
Bag-pipe, to what sort of persons applicable, Tat. iv. 153.
Bags of money transformed into sticks and paper, Sp. vi. 3.
Baillet,his critical decisions, Ram. xx. 93.
Balance, Jupiter's compared with Scripture, Sp. xii. 463.
Baldness makes not a head the wiser, Sp. xiii. 497.
Ballads, old, admired by the greatest critics, Sp. vii. 85. pastoral, Guar. xvi. 40. singers, of benefit to the community, Wor. xxviii. 149.
Ballance, merchant, treatment of one, Tat. iii. 136.
Balzac, M. greatness of mind apparent in, Sp. xi. 355.
Bamboo, Ben, makes a shrew philosophically useful, Sp. xiii, 482. Bambury, famous for cakes and zeal, Tat. v. 220,
Bankers, should take poems for bills, Tat. ii. 43.
Bankruptcy, miseries attending, Sp. xii. 428. xiii. 456.
Bantam ambassador, his letter, Sp. xiv. 557.
Baptist Lully, improvement of French music, Sp. vi. 29.
Barbadoes, appeals from, Sp. xii. 394.
Barbarity, attendant on tyranny, Tat. iv. 161. what, Sp. viii. 139.
Barbers, historical, Guar. xvi. 50. Bareface, Mr. his success with the ladies, Sp. viii. 156. Will. de- sires a wife, Guar. xvi. 38.
Bargain, buyer of, Id. xxxiii. 35. Loun. xxxvii. 79.
Barnes, Joshua, his Homer, Tat. iii. 143. the Achilles of modern Greeks, Sp. ix. 245.
Bar, reflections on the, Sp. xii.
Barretier, sleep he took, Ad. xxiii. 39.
Barrymore, earl, prisoner in Por- tugal, Tat. i. 17.
Barry, Mrs. an excellent player, Tat. i. 1. requested to act the widow, 7.
Barsisa, Santon, his story, Guar. xviii. 148.
Bashfulness, English, Sp. viii. 148. effect of retirement, Ram. xxi. 157. 159. in boys, Win. xlii. 25.
Basilius, Valentinus, and his son, Sp. xii. 420.
Bass-viols applied to conversa- tion, Tat. iv. 153. matched, 157. for sale by lottery, 166.
Bastards, their hardships, Sp. ix. 203. cruelty of deserting, Ad. xxv.
xi. 320. story of an old, Wor. xxvi. 9. complaint of one, Con. xxxii. 115.puzzled how to leave his pro- perty, 129. insignificance of, Loun. xxxvi. 26.
Bath, commotions there, Tat. i. 26. customs of, Guar. xviii. 174. characters at, Ad. xxv. 129. mira- culous cures, Wor. xxvii. 70. Bath, Wife of, a comedy, Guar. xvi. 50.
Batson's coffee-house, characters at, Con. xxx. 1.
Battle of Badajos, Tat. i. 17. of Blaregnies, ii. 63, 64. of critics, 65. Battles, description of seldom understood, Sp. xii. 428. produce little effect, Ad. xxv. 110. descrip- tion of one, Mir. xxxv. 107.
Bawbles, by whom brought to perfection, Tat. iii. 142.
Bawd, a mother so, Guar. xvi. 17. letter from to a noble lord, Sp. x. 274. the artifices of, ix. 205. x. 266. 274. Wor. xxvii. 97.
Bawdry, dearth of invention, Sp. vi. 51.
Bawdy-houses frequented out of stratagem, Sp. viii. 190.
Bawlers, perplexing, Sp.viii. 148. Baxter, Mr. represents a great blessing, Sp. xv. 598. his writings under Christmas-pies, vii. 84. his last words, xii. 445. his incitement of charity, Ram. xx. 71.
Bayle, Mons. opinion of libels, Sp. xii. 451.
Bayes, Mr. his expedient, Tat. i. 6.
Beadlestaff, at puppet-show, Tat. ii. 45.
Beans, to be abstained from, Tat. v. 240.
Bear, meaning of, Tat. ii. 38. Bear-baiting, Guar. xvii. 61. Bear-garden, antiquity, Tat. i. 31. condemned, iii. 134. account of
a combat, Sp. xii. 436. cheats prac- tised, 449. method to improve, viii. 141.
Beards, a type of wisdom, Sp. xi. 321. homage paid to, 331. Beasts, trial of, a vision, Con. xxx. 12.
Beau compared with a Quaker, Sp. xv. 631. head dissected, x. 255. academic, Guar. xvi. 10. a species to be commiserated, xvii. 62. character of, Wor. xxviii. 136. Beaufort, cardinal, death of, Sp. ix. 210.
Beaver, the haberdasher, a great politician, Sp. vi. 49.
Beau Monde, a newspaper, Ad. xxiii. 35. inventors of unintelligible writing, Wor. xxvi. 24.
Beauties, very untractable, Sp. vii. 87. viii. 144. plagiaries, vi. 4. as insufferable as professed wits, 33. distresses of the lower order of, viii. 155.
Beauty defined, Sp. viii. 144. force and efficacy of, vi. 33. x. 302. xiii. 510. Tat. i. 10. makes its way to the soul, Sp. viii. 144. xii. 412. heightened by motion, xii. 406. how long it ought to be the care, Tat. ii. 61. inconveniences attend- ing, Guar. xvii. 85. at war with for- titude, xviii. 152. the town over- stocked with, Tat. iv. 195. imper- fect defined, Guar. xvii. 85. beau- ty, a mental quality, Ram. xx. 92. disadvantages incident to, xxi. 130. miseries of, 133. produced by mo- ral sentiment, Ad. xxiv. 82. pecu- liar charms of artless, Wor. xxviii. 105. true idea of, Id. xxxiii. 82. philosophical opinions of, Mir. xxxiv. 3.
Bedford coffee-house, characters at, Con. xxx. 1.
Bedlam, project for erecting a new one, Tat. iii. 125. iv. 174. dis-
tribution of the apartments, 175. visit to, Ad. xxv. 109. Wor. xxvi. 23.
Bees and beens, have beens, and shall be, dissertation on, Id. xxxiii. 36.
Bentley, Dr. on the death of an old bridegroom, Wor. xxvi. 51. Bentley, Dr. and Boyle, their controversy, Win. xliv. 133.
Bernard, a French banker, his failure, Tat. i. 3. 5. 29. offers to his
Beef, food of our ancestors, Tat. creditors, 9. iv. 148.
Beggars, a great grievance, Sp. xii. 430. eloquence, Sp. xv. 613. Sir Andrew Freeport's opinion, ix. 232. Scarecrow, the beggar, compared with a wicked man of sense, vi.-6. conduct of a church, Ad. xxiii. 28. Behn, Mrs. one of her comedies, Wor. xxvi. 43.
Beings, scale of, Sp. xiv. 519. imaginary, xii. 419.
Bell, Mr. his device, Sp. vi. 28. Bellaria, character of, Ram. xxii. 191.
Bellfry, Mr. his behaviour at Lady Dainty's, Tat. i. 37. Bell-Savage, etymology of, Sp. vi. 28.
Belphegor, married devil, tran- script from, Wor. xxvii. 96.
Belvidere, a woman of good sense, Tat. iii. 126. song upon, Sp. xiii. 470.
Benefactions, directions for, Sp.
Beneficence, essay on, Sp. xv. 601. not founded on weakness, 588. mutual, end of society, Ram. xx. 56. Benefits not always entitled to gratitude, Ram. xxi. 149.
Benevolence, the seeds implant- ed in the soul, Guar. xviii. 126. urged from the misery of solitude, Ad. xxv. 132.
Benevolus contrasted with Flo- rio, Ad. xxiii. 16.
Ben-Hannase, magnet for detect- ing incontinence, Ram. xxii. 199. Bennet, Madam, maxim for la- dies, Tat. ii. 84.
Bernardus Bauhusius, his epi- gams, Win. xliii. 47.
Bets, practice of, Con. xxx. 15. Betterton, the player, his charac- ter, Tat. i. 1. ii. 71. iv. 157, 167. Betty, Miss, her history, Guar. xviii. 159.
Beveridge, bishop, passage in his works, Guar. xvii. 74.
Bias, his saying of calumny, Guar. xviii. 135.
Bible, purity of the, Ad. xxiv. 90. detection of a blunder in the tran- slation, Mic. xlv. 28.
Biblis, every woman's rival, Sp.
Bickerstaff, Isaac, his genealogy, Tat. i. 11. ii. 75. his life, iii. 89. an adept in astronomy, i. 2. iii. 124. of the society for reformation of manners, i. 3. a benefactor to Grub- street, v. 229. gives advice, i. 1. 4. expects hush-money, i. 26. not in partnership with Lilly, iii. 96. did/ not compound with the milliners, i. 30. caught writing nonsense, ii. 59. amours, iii. 91. 107.117. v. 248. contents of his scrutoire, ii. 78. his will, i. 7. extraordinary cures per- formed by, 34. disposes of his three nephews, ii. 39. entertains his nephews and a lady, iv. 207. vindicated from injuring a person by satire, ii. 71. 74. received at the theatre with extraordinary civility, iii. 122. entertained at the house of a friend, iv. 148. writes to the French king, iv. 190. his adven- tures in a journey, 192.
Bickerstaff, Margery, Tat. iv. 151.
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