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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.

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Tat. i. 5.

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.

&c.

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.

25.

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.

110.

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.

2.

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.

407.

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.

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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.

x. 292.

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.

viii. 187.

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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