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Feeling not so perfect a sense as sight..

Fiction, the advantage the writers have in it to please

No.

411

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Follies and defects mistaken by us in ourselves for worth 460

Fortius, his character..

422

Fortunatus, the trader, his character.

443

Freart (monsieur) what he says of the manner of both

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Why the English gardens not so entertaining to the
fancy, as those in France and Italy..

414

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Gesture, good in oratory

407

Ghosts, what they say should be a little discoloured... 419
The description of them pleasing to the fancy.... 419
Why we incline to believe them......

419

Not a village in England formerly without one.... 419
Shakespear's the best

419

436

423

Gladiators of Rome, what Cicero says of them..
Gloriana, the design upon her.....

Goats-milk, the effect it had upon a man bred with it.. 408

Good sense and good-nature always go together......... 437
Grace at meals practised by the pagans...

458

Grandeur and minuteness, the extremes pleasing to

the fancy

420

Gratitude, the most pleasing exercise of the mind...... 453
A divine poem upon it

Greatness of objects, what understood by it, in the

pleasures of the imagination

453

412, 413

Green-sickness, Sabina Rentfree's letter about it....... 431
Guardian of the fair sex, the Spectator so.............................................. 449

No.

HAMLET'S reflections on looking upon Yorick's scull..... 404
Harlot, a description of one out of the Proverbs......... 410
Health, the pleasures of the fancy more conducive to it

than those of the understanding...........................

Heaven and hell, the notion of, conformable to the light

411

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Hesiod's saying of a virtuous life..

447

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Historian, his most agreeable talent.....

How history pleases the imagination...................

420

Descriptions of battles in it scarce ever understood 428

Hockley in the Hole gladiators..

436

Homer's descriptions charm more than Aristotle's rea-

soning.

411

Compared with Virgil..

417

When he is in his province.

417

Honestus the trader, his character..

443

Honeycomb (Will) his adventure with Sukey.

410

471

Hope (passion of) treated.

Horace takes fire at every hint of the Iliad and Odyssey 417

Hotspur (Jeffrey, esq.) his petition from the country

infirmary..

429

Human nature the best study

408

Humour (good) the best companion in the country..... 424

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On the glories of the heaven and earth............... 465

Hypocrisy, the various kinds of it........

399

To be preferred to open impiety...

458

IDEAS, how a whole set of them hang together............ 416
Idiot, the story of one by Dr. Plot.......

447

Idle and innocent, few know how to be so.................

411

Jilt, a penitent one..

401

Iliad, the reading of it like travelling through a country

uninhabited...

417

Imaginary beings in poetry.

419

The advantages of them........

Instances in Ovid, Virgil, and Milton

Imagination, its pleasures in some respects equal to those

of the understanding, in some preferable.

Their extent.....

What is meant by them..

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More conducive to health than those of the under-
standing....

411

Raised by other senses as well as the sight.......... 412
The cause of them not to be assigned.

413

Works of art not so perfect as those of nature to
entertain the imagination.....

414

The secondary pleasures of the fancy

The power of it.......

416

416

Whence its secondary pleasures proceed...

Of a wider and more universal nature than those it
has when joined with sight..........

418

How poetry contributes to its pleasures.............. 419
How historians, philosophers, and other writers 420, 421
The delight it takes in enlarging itself by degrees,

as in the survey of the earth, and the universe.. 421
And when it works from great things to little...... 421
Where it falls short of the understanding...
How affected by similitudes....

421

421

As liable to pain as pleasure; how much of either

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Infirmary, one for good-humour..

Impertinent and trifling persons, their triumph.......... 432

A further account of it from the country...

Ingoltson (Charles of Barbican) his cures..

Invitation, the Spectator's, to all artificers as well as

philosophers to assist him......

A general one..

Jolly (Frank, esq.) his memorial from the country in-

443

429, 437, 440

440

444

428, 442

442

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Languages (European) cold to the Oriental............... 405

Lapland ode translated......

Latimer, the martyr, his behaviour at a conference with

the papists.....

Law-suits, the misery of them.......

Leaf (green) swarms with millions of animals..

No.

406

465

456

420

Learning (men of) who take to business, best fit for it 469
Letters from Cynthio to Flavia, and their answers, to
the breaking off their amour............

398

From Queen Ann Boleyne to Henry the VIII.... 397
From a bankrupt to his friend...

456

The answer....

456

From Lazarus Hopeful to Basil Plenty.

472

To the Spectator: From Peter de Quir, of St.
John's college in Cambridge........

396

From a penitent jilt........

401

From a lady importuned by her mother to be un-
faithful to her husband...

402

From a married man, who out of jealousy obstruct-
ed the marriage of a lady to whom he was guar-
dian........

402

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Letters about the use and abuse of similes......

Salutations at churches.....

With a translation of the 114th Psalm......

No.

455

460

461

About the advance on the paper for the stamps.... 461

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Light and colours only ideas in the mind......

Those that write or read them, excommunicated. 451

Livy, in what he excels all other historians.. 409, 420
Loller (lady Lydia) her memorial from the country in-

413

firmary.

429

London, the differences of the manners and politics of
one part from the other........

403

MAN, the middle link between angels and brutes....
What he is, considered in himself.....
The homage he owes his Creator....................... 441

408

441

Manilius, his character.....

467

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Martial, an epigram of his on a grave man's being at

a lewd play......

446

Machiavel, his observation on the wise jealousy of

states....

408

Matter, the least particle of it contains an unexhaust-

ed fund......

420

May (month of) dangerous to the ladies......

395

Described...

425

430

Meanwell (Thomas) his letter about the freedoms of
married men and women.....

Memory, how improved by the ideas of the imagina-

tion..

417
Merchant, the worth and importance of his character. 428
Mercy, whoever wants it has no taste of enjoyment.... 456
Metamorphoses (Ovid's) like enchanted ground...... 417
Metaphor, when noble, casts a glory round it............ 421
Miller (James) his challenge to Timothy Buck.... 436
Milton, his vast genius......

His poem of Il Penseroso.........

417

425

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