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Allusions, the great art of a writer..

Affectation, the misfortune of it........

Described

Almighty, his power over the imagination.
Aristotle's saying of his being

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Allegories, like light to a discourse...
Eminent writers faulty in them

Amazons, their commonwealth....

How they educated their children......
Their wars....

404

460

421

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465

421

421

421

433

434

434

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Anne Boleyne's last letter to king Henry VIII..

Ancients in the east, their way of living.....

Appearances. Things not to be trusted for them.......

Applause (public) its pleasure.....

400

401

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The greatness of the manner how it strikes the
fancy

415

Of the manner of both ancients and moderns......
The concave and convex figures have the greatest

415

air...

415

Every thing that pleases the imagination in it, is
either great, beautiful, or new.....

415

No

Art (works of) defective to entertain the imagination 414
Receive great advantage from their likeness to
those of nature

August and July (months of) described..

BABEL, (Tower of)

Bacon (Sir Francis) prescribes his reader a poem or
prospect, as conducive to health

What he says of the pleasure of taste

Bankruptcy, the misery of it...

414

425

415

411

447

428, 456

407

426

445

445

451

436

449

406

412

Bar-oratory in England, reflections on it...

Basilius Valentinus, and his son, their story.
Baxter (Mr.) his last words......

More last words.........

Bayle (Mr.) what he says of libels..
Bear-garden, a combat there...

The cheats of it.........

Beauty heightened by motion....

Beauty of objects, what understood by it...

Nothing makes its way more directly to the soul.. 412

Every species of sensible creatures has different

notions of it...

A second kind of it..

Beggars, the grievance of them......

412

412

430

Belvidera, a critique on a song upon her.

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Buck (Timothy) his answer to James Miller's chal-

lenge..

436

Buffoonery censured......

443

Business (men of) their error in similitudes.

421

Of learning fittest for it........

469

Bussy d'Amboise, a story of him...............................

467

CESAR lost his life by neglecting a Roman augur's cau-
tion....

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Calisthenes, his character...................................................................... 422
Calumny, the ill effects of it..

451

Camilla's letter to the Spectator from Venice............ 443
How applauded there

Cartesian, how he would account for the ideas formed

443

by the fancy, from a single circumstance of the

memory.

Cato, the respect paid him at the Roman theatre

No.

417

446

Chamont's saying of Monimia's misfortunes......
Charity schools to be encouraged...........

395

430

Charles II. his gaieties........

462

Charms, none can supply the place of virtue............. 395

Children, their duty to their parents...

426

Ill education of them fatal....

431

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Clarendon (Earl of) his character of a person of a

troublesome curiosity...

439

Cleanthes, his character.....

404

Cleopatra, a description of her sailing down the Cyd-

nos........

400

Colours, the eye takes most delight in them............. 412
Why the poets borrow most epithets from them.. 412
Only ideas in the mind

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Company, temper chiefly to be considered in the choice

of it....

424

Concave and convex figures in architecture have the

greatest air, and why.......

415

Confidence, the danger of it to the ladies.....

395

Coverley (Sir Roger de) his adventure with Sukey...... 410
His good humour.....

424

Conversation, an improvement of taste in letters....... 409
Country life, why the poets in love with it....

What Horace and Virgil say of it....

Rules for it......

Courage wants other good qualities to set it off.........................
Court and city, their peculiar ways of life and conver-

sation

Critics (French) friends to one another...

Cuckoldom abused on the stage..

414

414

424

422

403

409

446

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Dainty (Mrs. Mary) her memorial from the country

infirmary

429

Damon and Strephon, their amour with Gloriana....
Dancing displays beauty..

423

466

On the stage faulty.

466

The advantages of it.........

466

Dangers past, why the reflection of them pleases.....

418

Day, the several times of it in several parts of the

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Papers of that kind a scandal to the government.. 451
To be punished by good ministers..

451

Denying, sometimes a virtue

458

Deportment (religious) why so little appearances of it

in England

448

416

Descriptions come short of statuary and painting.

Please sometimes more than the sight of things... 416
The same not alike relished by all...

416

What pleases in them

418

What is great, surprising, and beautiful, more ac-
ceptable to the imagination than what is little,

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Distracted persons, the sight of them the most morti-

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Drama, its first original a religious worship..
Dream of the seasons........

405

425

Dream of golden scales

Dress, the ladies extravagance in it......
An ill intention in their singularity..

The English character to be modest in it...

Drink, the effects it has on modesty..

EASTCOURT (Dick) his character.....
Editors of the classics, their faults..
Education of children, errors in it...
A letter on that subject...
Gardening applied to it...

Emblematical persons..

No.

463

435

435

435

458

468

470

431

455

455

419

Employments, whoever excels in any, worthy of praise 432

Emulation, the use of it..

432

Enemies, the benefits that may be received from them 399
English naturally modest...

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Essay on the pleasures of the imagination, from 411 to 421
Ether (fields of) the pleasures of surveying them....... 420
Ever-greens of the fair-sex....

395

Euphrates river contained in one bason.................... 415
Exchange (Royal) described.....

454

FAIRY writing...

419

The pleasures of imagination that arise from it.... 419
More difficult than any other, and why.........

419

The English are the best poets of this sort......

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Father, the affection of one for a daughter.............. 449

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