a humourist in gardening, 499, 502; a de- scription of a cot-quean, 507; from Will. Honeycomb, on conjugal affection, with a vision of a female procession from a be- sieged town, iv. 16, 18; from Philogamus, in praise of marriage, 19, 21; from Titus Trophonius, the Moorfields oneirocritic, 23, 24; from Will, Honeycomb, on fairs for the sale of unmarried women, &c., 28; containing a thought in sickness, 34; from Edward Biscuit, giving an ac- count of Sir Roger de Coverley's illness and death, 38, 39; from Will. Honey- comb, on his marriage to a farmer's daughter, 51; from a young lady, pro- posing a new employment for beaux, 60, 61; describing a set of insignificant fellows called shoeing-horns, 62; from Philo-Spec., proposing an election of new members to the Spectator's club, 69, 70; praising the Spectator in a con- cealed but diverting way, 74; from Sir Andrew Freeport, on his retirement from the world, and his future scheme of life, 78; from the ambassador of Ban- tam to his master, on English compli- ments, 87; to the Spectator from a widow-hunter, with an account of the Widow Club, 95; on the condition of intellectual beings under a sense of God's omnipresence, 112, 113; on the Deity's presence in heaven, 128; from Shalum to Hilpa, 139; from Hilpa to Shalum, 140.
Letters to the Guardian: from Simon Softly, on his courtship of a rich widow, iv. 169; from Paris, describing the king's palaces, 182; from Blois, de- scribing the French nation, 183, 184; another from Blois, interesting to those who are versed in British antiquities, 190; on the manners and language of the French, 192; from Peter Puzzle, with the vision of a window in a lady's bosom, 196; from a projector, on no- menclators, 199; from Messrs. Whiston and Ditton, on the means of determin- ing the longitude, 200, 201; of remon- strance, from the secretary of the Tall Club, 202; from half a dozen super- annuated beauties, approving the paper on tuckers, 205; from Olivia, on the same subject, 206; of criticism on Dry- den's plays, 207; from Alexander to Aristotle, 211; to Mr. Ironside from Dædalus, on the art of flying, 214; from an honest citizen in his honey- moon, 216; from Tom Plain, on petti- coats, 220; from Tom Tremble, a Quak- er, on naked bosoms, 224; from Leonilla Figleaf, proposing herself as a lioness, 228; from Jackall, 229; from N. R., offering himself as an outriding lion, 230; a bit for the lion on female game- sters, 231; from Ned Mum, of the Silent Club, 234; from an obedient ward of
Mr. Ironside's, 236; enclosing one from a mother to a person who had abused her daughter, 245; from Leo the Second of Cambridge, 247; from Humphrey Binicorn, 248; a song for the lion's mouth, ib.; from P. N., praising the lion, 249; on fashionable nakedness, 251, 252; containing the story of An- drocles and the lion, 267; from Mr. Ironside to Pope Clement VIII., on tuckers and petticoats, 271; to Mr. Ironside from Lucifer, describing a masquerade, 279; relating an instance of the value of knowledge to females, 301; from two daily readers and Will. Wasp, on the ants, 305; one relating the comments of an angry gentleman on the same subject, 305, 306; recom- mending French wines, 307; from a chaplain in a noble family, 316; with an extract of a Latin poem by Sir Thomas More, 317; from an alchymist, who had deluded Mr. Ironside, 324.
Letters sent to the Spectator commended by the public, iv. 67.
Letters to and from Addison. See Addi- son, and the names of his respective cor- respondents.
Letter-droppers of antiquity, ii. 346. Leucas, an island of the Ionian Sea, for- merly joined to Acarnania, iii. 112. Leucate, a promontory of Acarnania, why famous, iii. 106.
Levant trade of England, its prosperity on what depending, iv. 344.
Levee-hunting, cured by a pennyworth of the Spectator, iv. 75.
Leviathans, in a spoonful of vinegar, ii. 72. Levity, personified, in the vision of hu-
man life, ii. 78; female, no less fatal after marriage than before, 486. Lewis, Mr. Erasmus, v. 348; Mr. Stepney's legacy to him, 363; letter to, 348. Leyden, its Anatomical Museum, v. 339. Libel, most approved when aimed at great men, iii. 160; punished by the Romans with death, 458; specimen of a curious one, iv. 106; often used when argument fails, 469.
Libertines, female, a letter on, iii. 77, 78, &c.; ashamed of decency, 121; those of Charles II.'s reign, almost put Christi- anity out of countenance, v. 34. Liberty, apostrophe to, i. 35; how repre- sented by medalists and poets, 291; the goddess of, described in a vision, ii. 139; leads Monarchy into the hall of Public Credit, 239; civil, what may be properly so called, iii. 296; its natural fruits, riches and plenty, 298. Libra, the reigning constellation of Rome and Italy, i. 297.
Library, of a lady, described, ii. 301; for the lion, proposed, iv. 251.
Licences for wearing canes, perspective glasses, perfumes, &c., ii. 44.
Licentiousness described as leading an army against Liberty, ii. 142. Lichtenstein, Prince, v. 362.
Lie, a pernicious monosyllable, ii. 204; the giving of, the great violation of the point of honour from man, 423. Lies, certain ones, adapted to particular climates and latitudes, iv. 424. Life, described in holy writ by the path of an arrow, ii. 282; its gaps and chasms, 412; methods for filling them up, ib.; its stages, produce revolutions in the mind of man, iii. 2; termed a pilgrim- age, in Scripture, and by heathen phi- losophers, 100; its end like the winding up of a play, 340; its great ends and purposes, iv. 120; every station of it has its proper duties, 134.
Light and colours, ideas and not qua- lities, iii. 402.
Lightning on sale, ii. 4; sold by the pound, iv. 187.
Lights, when well disposed in assemblies, their effect on the temper, ii. 48. Ligurians, ancient, their character, i. 361. Lillie, Charles, his office under the censor
of Great Britain, ii. 45; his reports, 188. Limbo of Vanity, an objectionable alle- gory in Paradise Lost, iii. 200. Limborch, his objections to Jewish cere- monies answered by Acosta, iii. 93. Limbs, in wax, custom of hanging them in Catholic churches, whence derived, i. 384.
Lindaw, on the Lake of Constance, de- scribed, i. 533; formerly bombarded by Gustavus Adolphus, ib.
Lintott, Mr., letter from Steele, v. 405. Linus, his observation on hope, iii. 492. Lion, an emblem of Africa, i. 322; the one in the Haymarket occasions many conjectures in the town, ii. 259; very gentle to the Spectator, 260; an emblem of the English nation, 348; his make corresponding with his temper and passions, 462; that at Button's described, iv. 218; his roarings to be published once a week, 219; morsels from his maw, 228; a lioness, 229; an outriding lion, 230; a bit for the lion, 231; his roarings, 234; more roarings, 247; a song for him, 248, 249; his temporary silence, accounted for, 250; a library for him proposed, 251; roars against untuckered necks, ib.; honoured by a history of the species, 267; story of Androcles, 268; astrologer's remarks on his nativity, 269.
Lioness proposed, iv. 229.
Lions, spies of great men so called, iv. 162; etymology, 163; account of those kept by Walsingham, ib.; the present race described, 164.
Lipogrammatists or letter-droppers of an- tiquity, ii. 346.
Liquors, no bribery in, iv. 307.
Little, use of its two comparatives, less and lesser, i. 3, note.
Littleton, Lord, had a most admirable talent at an et cætera, ii. 99.
Liutprand, King, said to have brought the corpse of St. Austin to Pavia, i. 365. Lives of great men cannot be properly written within a short space after their decease, v. 29.
Livia, how represented on medals, i. 264. Livy, his excellence as an historian, iii.
425; has not the convulsions of Tacitus, nor Addison the nerves of Montesquieu, iv. 147, note.
Lizard, Lady, prevailed on to take a box at Tom D'Urfey's benefit, iv. 160, 161; her learning and industry, 283; her daughters rudely rallied by their cousin Tom, 312.
Lloyd, Rev. John, letter to, on his "God, a poem," v. 612.
Lloyd's Coffee-house, minutes of the Spec-
tator found and read there, ii. 322; va- rious comments on them by the hearers, 323.
Loaden, why used for loaded, iv. 91, note. Loadstone, its soul, ii. 336; the means of correspondence between two absent friends, iii. 135.
Loaves and fishes, those miracles attribut- ed by Celsus to magic, v. 110. Locke, Mr., his reflection on the dif- ference of wit and judgment, ii. 357; his remarks on thought and time, 415: his instance of the association of ideas in the belief in goblins and spirits, 441; his instance of Providence in the form- ation of the meanest creatures, 461; his remark on the interspersion of evil with good, iii. 366; on the doctrine of light and colours, 403; on the scale of being, superior and inferior to man, iv. 43; his examination of the idea of an in- comprehensible Supreme Being, 53; his rule for explaining elliptical forms of speech, 144.
Locke, John, appointed a Lord of Trade, v. 420.
Lodgings, the Spectator's difficulty of set- tling in, ii. 256.
Logic, necessary in criticism, iii. 195; of no avail with female disputants, v. 18. Logic Lane, a passage in Oxford, why so called, iii. 131.
London, an emporium of the whole earth,
ii. 370; an aggregate of various nations, iii. 379; Lord Mayor of, letters to, v. 441, 490. London and Wise, gardeners to the play- house, a treaty with them, ii. 243.
Londoners, some silly ones, pass in the country for wits, iv. 482. Longinus, distinguishes true wit from puns, ii. 356, 357; quotes an ode of Sappho, iii. 108; reference to his criti- cisms on a fragment from Sappho, 117; his observation on genius, 197, 198; his remark on the sublime and the pathetic, 243; his precept on sublime writing, 244; praises the description of a storm by Homer, iv. 8; mention's Ajax's si- lence as a noble instance of the sublime, 235; his admirable rule for attaining the sublime, 272. Longitude, letter from Messrs. Whiston and Ditton, on a discovery for ascertain- ing it, iv. 200, 201.
Loo, social affections vilely prostituted to it, iv. 232.
Looking-glass and the Gay Old Woman, a fable, iji. 457.
Lord Mayor and Aldermen, at St. Paul's, and by good luck only two of that body asleep, v. 71.
Lord's Prayer considered, iii. 84. Loretto, the riches of its holy house and treasury, i. 408; why never attacked by the Christians or Turks, ib.; hint on which the imposture was probably founded, 409.
Lorrain, the Duke of, killed at the battle of Pavia, buried in the convent of the Austrian monks there, i. 365; the late duke of, the palace at Inspruck assigned to him by the emperor, 534. Lorrain, the Pretender's exploits among the game there, v. 33. Lostwithiel, Addison elected for, v. 425. Lottery, notion of lucky numbers in, iii.
61; premium advertised for one, 62. Loubere, M. de la, his account of ants' nests in Siam, iv. 293.
Louis XIV., his ambition and cruelty, i. 7; humbled by the Duke of Marl- borough, 53; medallic history of, criti- cised, 350; why admired by the emperor of Morocco, iv. 439; his method of raising money, 465; and of depreciating specie, 466; warned by a letter of Lord Bolingbroke not to persist in reducing Barcelona, v. 418.
Louis d'ors, called in and re-issued at a higher value, iv. 465.
Loungers, a flourishing society of people, iv. 247.
Louse, is itself a lousy creature, ii. 172. Love, the animating principle of the soul, ii. 23; allegory on its pains and plea- sures, 24; compared to fire, 359; a strong ingredient in jealousy, iii. 22; when feigned, often more successful than true love, 168; reflection on its pleasures compared to those of sense, 254; the mother of poetry, 353; a neu- tral leader in the war of the sexes, iv. 275; Seneca's nostrum for, v. 37.
Love of God, how emphatically recom- mended in Scripture, iv. 116.
Love of one's country recommended as a moral virtue, iv 411; instances of it in several nations, ib.; the most sublime and essential of all social virtues, 412; persons eminent in other virtues, distin- guished by this, 413.
Love and friendship, a struggle between, in the story of two negroes, iii 97 Love for Love, character of a cruel father in that comedy, iii. 58.
Love-adventure of Monsieur Pontignan, ii. 407.
Lover, grieves at the shortness of time, ii. 412; why teased with the thought of Mrs. Anne Page, iv. 332; visited by his unfortunate fellow-sufferers, 335.
Lovers, a band of them in the Vision of Human Life, ii. 76; unwilling to part with their burdens at the Mountain of Miseries, iv. 90; computed by Sir W. Petty to make a third part of the sensi- ble men in the British nation, 407. Lover's Leap, a fatal experiment to Sap- pho, iii. 106; its situation described, ib., 112; account of persons who took it,
Loyalty, of an active nature, iv. 420; in a religious nation, will keep pace with morality, 421; personified in the High- lander's vision, 407.
Lucan, his allusion to the olive as a token of peace, i. 276; his description of Egypt, 323; represents Italy addressing Julius Cæsar, 332; his account of the Parthians, 333; his style not that of poetry but of declamation, 336, note; his description of the harbour of Mo- naco, 360; his reflections on the Po ridiculed by Scaliger, 397; his descrip- tion of the road from Anxur to Rome, 422; his prophecy, the desolation of Latium, fulfilled, 487; forfeits his claim as a poet, by appearing as an historian in the Temple of Fame, ii. 15; his poet- ry too epigrammatic, iii. 187; his un- necessary digressions, 201; his eminent station on the floating Parnassus, iv. 223; his poetry characterized by Strada, 237; his verse on Cato, 378; his Phar- salia, a translation of it desirable, v. 48; beholden to antiquity for a certain privilege in style, 224.
Lucas, of Colchester, why a noble family, ii. 423.
Lucca, the republic of, industry of its inhabitants, i. 493; under the king of Spain's protection, 494; was in danger of ruin, ib.; the great contempt the in- habitants have for the Florentines, and why the latter never attacked them, ib. Lucia, daughter of Cato, i. 183, 184, 202, 211, 213, 223.
Lucian, his gods, an instance of the second species of ridicule, iii. 148; his
manner imitated by Mr. Addison, 367, 369, note, iv. 297.
Lucifer, his letter to Mr. Ironside, de- scribing a masquerade, iv. 279. Lucius, a senator, (in Cato,) i. 187, 191, 215, 223.
Lucius, Pope, his tomb at Verona, i. 378. Lucius Verus, a medal of his victory over the Parthians, i. 311; an excellent bust of him at Florence, 497. Lucretia, her deplorable fate, ii. 69. Lucretius, motto from, on the Dialogues
on Medals, i. 253; his metaphor of the sun-beams, 320; a believer in appari- tions, ii. 442; his station on the float- ing Parnassus, iv. 222; his poetry cha- racterized by Strada, 238.
Lucrine lake, its springs sunk by an earthquake, i. 432.
Ludlow, Edmund, his retreat in Switzer-
land, i. 513; his tomb and epitaph, ib. Lukewarm allegiance as fatal as treason, iv. 450.
Lully, Signor Baptist, his success in im- proving French music, ii. 290. Lust, in whom it is virtuous love, ii. 75; its temple, in the vision of human life, 79; a leader in the war of the sexes, iv. 274.
Lute, the part it bears in a concert or in conversation, ii, 116; where to be met with, 118.
Luxury, pernicious to a republic, i. 527;
its contest with Avarice, ii. 332; alle- gory on it, 334; is artificial poverty, iv. 118.
Lybia turned to a waste of sand by the misconduct of Phaëton, i. 94. Lycurgus, his expedient to encourage mar- riage among the Spartans, iv. 180. Lying, political, why so common, iv. 26; the guilt not palliated by the numbers who share in it, ib.
Lying by, a fatal consequence of neglect in laying in provisions for manhood and old age, iv. 210.
Lyons, a branch of the Rhone passing to it, i. 515.
Lyrics, modern, infected by conceits and false wit, iii. 105.
Lysippus, his noble statue of Alexander, iii. 408.
Macbeth, behaviour of a lady of quality on seeing that tragedy, ii. 321. Maccaronies, drolls so called in Italy, ii. 326.
Mac Flecno, extract from, ii. 345. Machiavel, his office described in a vision, ii. 89.
Machinæ gesticulantes, Anglicè, A puppet show, poema, i. 249.
Mackerel fishery benefited by the news of the French king's death, iii. 381. Macrobius mentions the slaughter of the innocents by Herod, v. 108.
Madmen, the ambitious and covetous so called, iv. 125.
Madon, transformed into a dolphin, i. 134. Madrid, late treaty of commerce, com-
pared with that of Utrecht, v. 50; ad- vantageous to Great Britain, 52. Magazine of Roman antiquities proposed, i. 262.
Magic, natural, a ridiculous piece of, taught by Democritus, iv. 33. Magic, practised in the time of our Sa- viour made the heathen less attentive to his miracles, v. 104; our Saviour's miracles said to have been wrought by it, 110; proved to be inconsistent with our religion, 111.
Magician at a masquerade, iv. 282. Magna Charta hung up in the hall of Public Credit, ii. 237.
Mahmoud, Sultan, a story of advice told him by his vizier, iv. 32, 33. Mahomet, his wonderful adventure with the angel Gabriel, ii. 416; suspension of his iron coffin at Mecca, iii. 60, 61; why he enforced his doctrines with the sword, v. 82.
Mahomet's she-disciples, how obliged to dress, iv. 253.
Mahometans, their care of written or
printed papers, ii. 395; their supposed belief in the transmigration of souls, iii. 335.
Maid, simile on one, in Valentinian, iv. 198.
Maids of honour, their allowance of beef at breakfast in the reign of Queen Eliza- beth, ii. 107.
Maintenon, Madame de, to preside over the petticoat politicians, iii. 314; a most virtuous and accomplished woman, iv. 284, note.
Maitre d'hotel, the chief lay officer of the abbot of St. Gaul, i. 522.
Majesty, a title given to kings, iii 99. Makebate, Elizabeth, indicted in the Court of Honour, ii. 210.
Making a sermon, an arch expression, iii. 285, note.
Malcontent, a competitor at a grinning- match, iii. 32.
Malcontents, their cause supported by falsehood, iv. 421; extravagant cre- dulity in members of their party, 450; by what principle actuated, and how to be quelled, 463; the most considerate, feel remorse at their proceedings, 499; their insults to the king, v. 90; arising from a presumption on the known lenity of his government, 91: advice of a great moralist recommended to them, 102. Males, only, among birds, have voices, ii. 485; account of a republic of them, iii. 431, 432; alliance with the Amazons, 434; and union, 435.
Mall, frequented by politicians about din- ner-time, ii. 126.
Mallebranche, his notion concerning thought and duration, ii. 416; visited by Addison, v. 332. Mallia Scantilla, her bust at Florence falsely inscribed Julia Severi, i. 496. Malmesbury, Addison elected for, v. 425. Mammon, in Paradise Lost, a finely drawn
character, iii 208; his speech in the second book, 213.
Man, a sociable animal, ii. 249; made for immortality, 444; aggravates the calamities of life, iii. 18; the merriest species of the creation, 146; his dependence on his Creator, 444; distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter, iv. 13; considered as the middle link in the chain of being, 53; a creature designed for two states of being, 120; three reasons why he should not be proud, 276.
Management of a husband, doctrines of the Widow Club on, iv. 98. Manchester, Earl of, v. 334; arrives in Venice, 365; affront offered him there, 369, 371; letters to, 362-364, 371. Manchester, Countess of, lines to, v. 228. Mandeville, Sir John, some of his remains, ii. 194.
Manilius, his allusion to Libra, the reigning constellation of Rome, i. 297; his description of Africa, 320.
Mankind, divided into the merry and the serious, iv. 151; the two classes have an aversion to each other, ib.
Manley, Mrs., her "Memoirs of Europe," v. 392.
Manner, greatness of, in architecture, iii. 408; illustrated from Mons. Freart, 409.
Manners of town and country contrasted, ii. 454.
Manners, in Epic poetry, signify the fable and the characters, iii. 181. Manni, Nicolo, v. 438, 467.
Man's, Jenny, reflections there on the French king's death, iii 380, 381. Mantua-maker, proposes herself as a lioness, iv. 228, 229.
Maple, Will., genealogy of his illegitimate children, iii. 74.
Marble, various sorts, too hard for the instruments now in use, i. 476.
Marcia, daughter of Cato, i. 183, 184, 211, 213, 222.
Marcus Aurelius, equestrian statue of, copied on ancient medals, i. 266; explanation of three of his coins, 314, 316; a medal of, 447; his equestrian statue described on coin, 475; an excellent bust of him at Florence, 497; levity of his wife Faustina, ii. 486; his letter, now lost, a testimony of a miracle performed by the prayers of the Christians, v. 130.
Marcus, son of Cato, i. 172, 201, 206. Marcus Tullius, inscribed on a public
monument, with the figure of a vetch instead of Cicero, ii. 347.
Mardyke, spacious canal made by the French, in evasion of the Treaty of Utrecht, v. 454; commissioners to inspect the demolition, 462; letter to, with instructions, 465, 472; difficulties in the way of demolition, 475; its progress, 499. Mare, its nature transfused into the souls of some women, iii. 87.
Marecchia, river, its mouth the spot where St. Anthony preached to the fish, i. 379. Mariamne and Herod, story of, iii. 28, 29. Mariners transformed into dolphins, i. 131. Marino, St., its town and republic described, i. 403; account of its founder, ib.; his statue, 404; short history of the republic, ib.; its form of government, 405. Mark Antony summons Herod to Egypt for his barbarity, iii. 28.
Marks worn by the Pretender's adherents on his birth-day, v. 90.
Marlborough, the Duke of, poem of the Campaign in honour of him, i. 42; his arrival at the Moselle, 43; progress of his arms, 44; his alliance with Prince Eugene, ib.; besieges Schellenberg, 45; his victory at Blenheim, 49; returns to the Netherlands, 53; received in London with acclamation, v. 352; sets out for Holland, 359; remains at Margate, 360; godfather to Lord Sunderland's son, 365; prevents the junction of the Dukes of Vendome and Berwick, 372; surrender of Bethune, 396.
Marlborough, Duchess of, opera of Rosamond inscribed to her, i. 55; invites Lady Peterborough to dine with her, v. 365.
Marquis, a French one, must yield precedence to a British freeholder, iv. 397. Marraton and Yaratilda, a visionary tale, ii. 336.
Marriage, how men's minds and humours may be changed by it, ii. 8; a counterapotheosis, 384; the first offer to be refused, like that of a bishopric, 404; without consent of parents, unfortunate, iii. 41; those most happy which are preceded by a long courtship, 161; importance of a right choice, ib.; qualities desirable in a companion for life, 169; rules before and after marriage, ib.; fruits of a happy one, 170; unequal, cannot be happy, 307; its pleasures and advantages, iv. 19; how rendered unhappy by flattery in courtship, 217. Marriage-life, caprices and hazards of it, ii. 153.
Marriage-state, its duties reciprocal, ii. 485; female levity fatal to it, 486; instanced in the character of a country gentleman and his lady, 487; happiness of Aristus and Aspatia, ib. Married state, compared to purgatory, iii. 506.
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