O.

OATES (Dr.) a favourite with fome party-ladies, No.

57

Ogler, the complete ogler, No. 46

Old maids generally fuperftitious, No. 7
Old Teftament in a perriwig, No. 58

Opera, as it is the prefent entertainment of the English
ftage, confidered, No. 5. The progrefs it has made on
our theatre, 18. Some account of the French opera, 29
Otway commended and cenfured, No. 39.

Overdo, a Juftice at Epping, offended at a company of
ftrollers, for playing the part of Clodpate, and making
a mockery of one of the Quorum, No. 48

Oxford fcholar's great difcovery in a coffee-house, No. 46

P.

PAINTER and Tailor often contribute more than the
Poet to the fuccefs of a tragedy, No. 42

Parents: their taking a liking to a particular profeffion
often occafions their fons to mifcarry, No. 21

No. 57

Parties crept much into the converfation of the ladies,
Party-zcal very bad for the face, ibid.
Particles English, honour done them in operas, No. 18
Paffions, the conqueft of them a difficult tafk, No. 71
Peace, fome ill confequences of it, No. 45

Peepers defcribed, No. 53

Pharamond: memoirs of his private life, No 76. His
great wifdom, ibid.

Philautia, a great votary, No. 79

Philofophy, the use of it, No. 7. faid to be brought by
Socrates down from heaven, 10

Phylician and Surgeon, their different employment, No.
16. the phyficians a formidable body of men, 21. com-

pared

pared to the British army in Cæfar's time, No. 21. their
way of converting one diftemper into another, 25

Picts, what women fo called, No. 41. no faith to be
kept with them, ibid.

Pinkethman to perfonate King Porus on an elephant, No.

31

Players in Drury-lane, their intended regulations, No.
36

Poems in picture, No 58

Poets (English) reproved, No. 39, 40. Their artifices,

44

Poeteffes (English) wherein remarkable, No. 51

Powell (fenior) to act Alexander the Great on a drome-
dary, N. 31. His artifice to raise a clap, 40

Powell (junior) his great skill in motions, No. 14. His
performance referred to the opera of Rinaldo and Ar-
mida, ibid.

Praife, the love of it implanted in us, No. 38

Pride a great enemy to a fine face, No. 33

Profellions: the three great ones overburdened with prac-
titioners, No. 21

Projector, a fhort defcription of one, No. 31
Profper (Will) an honest taie-bearer, No. 19
Punchinello frequented more than the church, No. 14.
Punch out in the moral part, ibid.

Punning much recommended by the practice of all ages,
No. 61. In what age the pun chiefly flourished, ibid.
a famous univerfity much infefted with it, ibid. why
banished at prefent out of the learned world, ibid. The
definition of a pun, ibid.

Q.

QUALITY no exemption from reproof, No. 34
Quixote (Don) patron of the Sighers club, No. 30

RANTS

R.

RANTS confidered as blemishes in our English tragedies, No. 40

Rape of Proferpine, a French opera, fome particulars in it, No. 29

Reafon, instead of governing paffion, is often fubfervient to it, No. 6

Rebus, a kind of falfe wit in vogue among the ancients, No. 59. and our own countrymen, ibid. A Rebus at Blenheim-Houfe condemned, ibid.

Recitativo (Italian) not agreeable to an English audience,
No. 29. Recitative mufic in every language ought to
be adapted to the accent of the language, ibid.
Retirement, the pleasure of it, where truly enjoyed,
No. 4

Rich (Mr.) would not fuffer the opera of Whittington's
Cat to be performed in his houfe, &c. No. 5
Royal Exchange, the great refort to it, No. 69

S.

SALMON (Mrs.) her ingenuity, No. 28
Sanctorius, his invention, No. 25

Scholar's egg, what fo called, No. 58

Sempronia a profeffed admirer of the French nation, No. 45 Senfe: fome men of fenfe more defpicable than common beggars, No. 6.

Sentry (Captain) a member of the Spectator's club, his character, No. 2

Sextus Quintus, the Pope, an inftance of his unforgiving temper, No. 23

Shadows and realities not mixed in the fame piece, No. 5 Shovel (Sir Cloudefly): the ill-contrivance of his monument in Weftininfter-Abbey, No. 26

Sidney,

Sidney (Sir Philip): his opinion of the song of ChevyChace, No. 70

Sighers, a club of them in Oxford, No. 30. Their regu. lations, ibid.

Sign-pofts, the abfurdities of many of them, No. 28
Socrates, his temper and prudence, No. 23

Solitude: an exemption from paffions the only pleasing folitude, No. 4.

Sophocles, his conduct in his tragedy of Electra, No. 44 Sparrows bought for the use of the opera, No. 5

Spartan virtue acknowledged by the Athenians, No. 6 Spectator (the) his prefatory difcourfe, No. 1. His great taciturnity, ibid. His vifion of the Public Credit, 3. His entertainment at the table of an acquaintance, 7. His recommendation of his fpeculations, 10. Advertifed in the Daily Courant, 12. His encounter with a lion behind the fcenes, 13. The defign of his writings, 16. No party-man, ibid. A little unhappy in the mold of his face, 17. His artifice, 19. His defire to correct impudence, 20. And refolution to march on in the caufe of virtue, 34. His vifit to a travelled Lady, 45. His fpeculations in the first principles, 46. An odd accident that befel him at Lloyd's coffee-house, ibid. His advice to our English Pindaric writers, 58. His examen of Sir Fupling Flutter, 65

Spleen, a common excufe for dulnefs, No. 53
Starers reproved, No. 20

Statira propofed as a pattern to the Fair Sex, 41

Superftition, the folly of it defcribed, No. 7

Sufannah, or Innocence Betrayed, to be exhibited by Mr. Powell, with a new pair of Elders, No. 14

T.

TEMPLAR, one of the Spectator's club, his charac

ter, No. 2

That,

That, his remonftrance, No. 80

Theatre (English) the practice of it in feveral inftances cenfured, No. 42, 44, 51

Thunder of great use on the stage, No. 44

Thunderer to the playhouse, the hardships put upon him, and his defire to be made a cannon, No. 36 Tom-tits to perfonate finging-birds in the opera, No. 5 Tom the Tyrant, firft minifter of the coffee-houfe, between the hours of eleven and twelve at night, N. Tombs in Westminster vifited by the Spectator, No.

26.

His reflection upon them, ibid.

49

Trade, the benefit of it to Great Britain, No. 69 Tragedy, a perfect tragedy the nobleft production of human nature, No. 39. Wherein the modern tragedy excels that of Greece and Rome, ib. Blank verfe moft proper for English tragedy, &c.

Tragi-comedy, the product of the English theatre, monftrous invention, No. 40

Travel highly neceffary to a coquette, No. 45. The behaviour of a travelled Lady in the playhouse, ibid. Truth an enemy to falfe wit, No. 63

Tryphiodorus, the great lipogrammnatift of antiquity, No. 59

U.

VENICE Preferved founded on a wrong plot, No. 39 Uglinefs fome fpeculations upon it, No. 32

Vifit: a vifit to a travelled Lady, which the received in her bed, defcribed, No. 45

Understanding: the abuse of it is a great evil, No. 6 Vocifer: the qualifications that make him pafs for a fine gentleman, No. 75

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