| Babblers | [218] |
| Babes in the Wood | [85] |
| Babylon | [415] |
| Bachelors, an inquisition on | [320] |
| Bacon flitch at Whichenovre | [607] |
| Bacon, Lord quoted | [554] [10], [19], [411], [447] |
| Bags of money transformed | [3] |
| Balance, Jupiter's, in Homer and Virgil | [463] |
| Baldness | [497] |
| Ballads (old), admiration of Chevy Chace Babes in the Wood | [85], [502] [Fn. 1] [70], [74] [85] |
| Balloon | [45] [Fn. 3] |
| Balzac | [355] |
| Bamboo, Benjamin, his philosophical use of a shrew | [482] |
| Bank of England | [2] [Fn. 1] |
| Bankruptcy | [428], [456] |
| Bantam, the ambassador from, describes the English | [557] |
| Bantry Bay | [383] [Fn. 1] |
| Barbadoes, Ligon's History of appeals from | [11] [Fn. 2] [394] |
| Barbarity | [139] |
| Bareface, his success with the ladies | [156] |
| Barn Elms | [91] |
| Barnes, Joshua | [245] |
| Bar, oratory of the English | [407] |
| Barnaby-bright | [632] |
| Barr, Mr. | [388] |
| Barreaux, Jacques Vallée, Seigneur des | [513] [Fn. 2] |
| Barrow, Isaac | [106] [Fn. 4] |
| Bashfulness natural to the English | [148] |
| Basil Valentine and his son, history of | [426] |
| Bastards | [203] |
| Bastile, a prisoner in the | [116] |
| Battles, descriptions of | [428] |
| Bawlers | [148] |
| Baxter | [84], [445], [498] |
| Bayle, on libels his dictionary | [451] [92] [Fn. 2,] [121] [Fn. 1], [198] [Fn. 1] |
| Beagles | [116] [Fn. 1] |
| Bear garden, visited how to improve the | [436], [449] [141] |
| Beards | [321] [331] |
| Beau and Quaker Beau's head dissected | [631] [255] |
| Beaufort, Cardinal, Shakespeare's death of | [210] |
| Beaumont and Fletcher's Scornful Lady | [270] |
| Beauties | [4], [33], [87], [144], [155] |
| Beauty | [33], [133], [302], [406], [412], [510] |
| Beaver, the haberdasher and coffeehouse politician | [49] |
| Beef-steak Club | [9] [Fn. 2] |
| Beggars Sir A. Freeport on | [430], [613] [232] |
| Behn, Aphra | [22] [Fn. 4], [51] [Fn. 9] |
| Beings, scale of, considered imaginary | [519] [419] |
| Bel and the Dragon | [28] [Fn. 6] |
| Bell Savage, etymology of | [28] |
| Belvidera, song upon, criticized | [470] |
| Beneficence | [292], [588], [601] |
| Bentley, Richard | [165] |
| Biblis, every woman's rival | [187] |
| Bill, for preserving female fame of mortality | [326] [289] |
| Bion, saying of, on search for happiness | [574] |
| Birch, Dr. Thomas | [364] [Fn. 2] |
| Birds for the opera better education of, by L. Tattle how affected by colours | [5] [36], [121] [412] |
| Birthday, Queen Anne's | [294] |
| Biters | [47], [504] |
| Biton and Cleobis | [483] |
| Blackmore, Sir R. | [6] [Fn. 1], [339] [Fn. 8], [543] |
| Bland, Dr. | [628] |
| Blank, a letter from | [563] |
| Blank verse | [39] |
| Blast, Lady, her character | [457] |
| Bluemantle, Lady | [427] |
| Blushing | [390] |
| Boar killed by Mrs. Tofts in Armida | [22] [Fn. 3] |
| Board-wages | [88] |
| Boccalini, Trajan | [291] [Fn. 6], [335], [514] |
| Bodily exercises | [161] |
| Body, human, transcendent wisdom in construction of the | [543] |
| Boevey, Mrs. Catherine | [113] [Fn. 1] |
| Boileau | [47], [209], [279] [Fn. 11] |
| Boleyn, Anne, her letter to Henry VIII. | [397] |
| Bond, John | [286] [Fn. 1] |
| Bonosus, a drunken Briton | [569] |
| Books | [37], [93], [123], [124], [163], [166] |
| Bossu, Réné le | [279] [Fn. 4], [291] [Fn. 2] |
| Bouhours, Dominique | [62] [Fn. 4] |
| Boul, Mr., sale of his pictures | [226] |
| Bouts Rimés | [60] |
| Bow, English use of the | [161] |
| Boyle, Hon. Robert | [94], [121], [531], [554] |
| Bracton's law of Scolds | [479] [Fn. 2] |
| Brady, Nicholas | [168] [Fn. 3] |
| Breeding (good) | [66], [119], [169] |
| Bribery | [239], [394] |
| British Ladies and Picts Princes, Hon. E. Howard's | [41] [43] [Fn. 7] |
| Brome, Dr. | [302] |
| Brooke and Hellier | [362] [Fn. 5] |
| Brown, Tom, his new method of writing | [576] |
| Brunetta and Phillis | [80] |
| Bruno, Giordano | [389] |
| Bruyère's character of an absent man | [77] [Fn. 2] |
| Buck, Timothy, answers the challenge of James Miller | [436] |
| Buckingham, Duke of, invention in glass Sheffield, Duke of Villiers, Duke of | [509] [253] [Fn. 5], [462] [Fn. 3] [371] |
| Budgell, Eustace Gilbert | [67] [Fn. 1], [517] |
| Buffoonery | [443] |
| Bullock, the Comedian Gabriel, love letter of | [36] [Fn. 4], [44] [324] [Fn. 3], [328] |
| Bully Dawson | [2] [Fn. 5] |
| Bumpers in drinking | [474] |
| Burlesque | [249], [616], [625] |
| Burnet's Theory of the Earth Travels | [38][ Fn. 1], [143], [146] [46] [Fn. 4], [531] |
| Bury Fair | [154] [Fn. 4] |
| Business, the man of learned men most fit for | [27] [469] |
| Bussy d'Amboise | [467] |
| Busy world, virtuous and vicious | [624] |
| Button-makers' petition | [175] [Fn. 2] |
| Butts | [47], [175] |
| Byrom, John | [586] [Fn. 1], [603] [Fn. 1] |
| Cacœthes scribendi | [582] |
| Cælia, the pretty, advised to hold her tongue | [404] |
| Cæsar, Julius edition of his Commentaries | [23] [Fn. 3], [147], [169], [231], [224], [256], [374], [395] [367] |
| Cairo, Spectator at | [1], [69] |
| Calamities | [312], [483], [558], [559] |
| Calamy, Edward | [106] [Fn. 4] |
| Caligula | [16], [246] |
| Callipædia, Claude Quillet's | [23] [Fn. 4] |
| Callisthenes | [422] |
| Calprenède's romances | [37] [Fn. 2] |
| Calumny | [451], [594] |
| Cambray, Fenelon, Archbishop of | [69], [95] |
| Cambridge Ugly Club | [78] |
| Camilla Virgil's the opera | [15] [18][ Fn. 1], [22] [Fn. 3],[443] |
| Camillus, behaviour of, to his son | [263] |
| Camisars, the | [160] |
| Camp, wherein a good school | [566] |
| Campbell, the dumb fortune-teller | [323] [Fn. 4], [474] |
| Candour | [382] |
| Canidia, an old beauty | [301] |
| Cant | [147] |
| Capacities of children to be considered in their education | [307] |
| Caprice | [191] |
| Carbuncle, Dr., his dye | [52] |
| Care who has most man's chief | [574] [122] |
| Caricatures | [537] |
| Carneades, his definition of Beauty | [144] |
| Cartesian theory of ideas | [417] |
| Cartoons, Raphael's | [226], [244] |
| Cases in love answered | [591], [607], [614] |
| Casimir, Liszinski, a Polish atheist, punishment of | [389] |
| Cassandra, romance of | [37] [Fn. 2] |
| Cassius, Caius, temper of | [157] |
| Castle-builders | [167] |
| Cat a contributor to harmony old and young, speculations on -call, a dissertation on the | [361] [626] [361] |
| Catiline | [386] |
| Cato | [243], [255], [446], [557] |
| Catullus, his lampoon of Cæsar | [23] [Fn. 3] |
| Cave of Trophonius | [598], [599] |
| Celibacy | [528] |
| Celinda on female jealousy | [178] |
| Censor of small wares of marriages -ship of the press | [16] [308] [445] [Fn. 1] |
| Censure | [101], [610] |
| Ceremony | [119] |
| Chair, the mathematical | [25] |
| Chambermaids | [366] |
| Chancery | [564] |
| Chaplains to persons of quality Sir Roger de Coverley's chaplain | [609] [106] |
| Chapman, George | [467] [Fn. 4] |
| Chardin, Sir John | [289] [Fn. 4] |
| Charity schools | [294], [430] |
| Charlemagne and his secretary, story of | [181] |
| Charles I., book of Psalms in a picture of | [58] |
| Charles II., his familiarities | [78], [462] |
| Charles II. of Spain | [64] [Fn. 2] |
| Charles VI. of Germany | [353] [Fn. 3] |
| Charles XII. of Sweden, his march to the Ukraine | [43] [Fn. 2] |
| Chastity | [99], [579] |
| Chaucer | [73] |
| Cheerfulness | [143], [381], [387] |
| Chemists' jargon | [426] |
| Cherubim and Seraphim | [600] |
| Chevy Chace criticized | [70], [74] |
| Chezluy, Jean, excused to Pharamond his absence from court | [480] |
| Children | [157], [246], [307], [426], [500] |
| in the Wood, on the Ballad of the | [85] |
| Child's Coffee-house | [1] [ Fn. 7] |
| China women and the vapours | [336] |
| Chinese | [60], [189], [414] |
| Chit-chat Club | [560] |
| Chocolate | [365] |
| Chocolate-house Cocoa Tree White's | [1] [Fn. 11], [88] [ Fn. 2] |
| Chremylus, story of, from Aristophanes | [464] |
| Christian religion | [186], [213], [574] |
| Christian Hero, Steele's | [37], [356] Fns. [2]-[8], [516] |
| Christmas | [268] |
| Chronograms | [60] [Fn. 7] |
| Church and puppet show behaviour at music work | [14] [53], [242], [259], [460], [630] [338] [383] |
| Churchyard, the country, on Sunday | [112] |
| Cibber, Colley | [48] [Fn. 2], [370], [546] |
| Cicero | [61], [68], [212], [404], [427], [436], [467] [Fn. 1], [505], [531], [541], [554] |
| Citizens, the opportunity of | [346] |
| City lovers | [155] |
| Clarendon, Earl of | [349], [485] [Fn. 1] |
| Clarinda, an Idol | [73] |
| Clark, Mrs. Margaret, remnant of a love-letter to | [342] |
| Clarke, Dr. Samuel | [367] [Fn. 1] |
| Classics, editors of the | [470] |
| Clavius, Christopher | [307] [Fn. 2] |
| Clay, Stephen | [133] [Fn. 2] |
| Clayton, Thomas, the composer | [18] [Fn. 1], [258] [Fn. 2] |
| Cleanliness | [631] |
| Cleanthe, a French lady, novel of | [15] |
| Cleanthes misapplies his talents | [404] |
| Clelia, Scudéri's | [37] [Fn. 2] |
| Cleopatra Caprenède's romance of | [400] [37] [Fn. 2] |
| Clergyman of the Spectator's Club | [2], [34] |
| Clergymen | [21], [306], [609], [633] |
| Clerks, parish, advice to | [372] |
| Cleveland, John | [286] [Fn. 1] |
| Cliff, Nat., advertises for a lottery ticket | [191] |
| Clinch of Barnet | [24] [Fn. 2], [31] |
| Clodpate, Justice, Cibber's | [48] |
| Cloe the idiot | [466] |
| Club Law | [239] |
| Clubs the Amorous Beef-steak Chit-chat Everlasting Fox-hunters' Fringe-glove Hebdomadal Hen-pecked Kitcat Lazy Lawyers' Mohock Moving October Rattling She Romp Sighing Spectator's Club at Oxford for re-reading the Spectator Street Clubs Twopenny Ugly White's Widows' | [9], [474], [508] [30] [9][ Fn. 2] [560] [72] [474] [30] [43] [474] [9] [Fn. 1] [320] [372] [324] [372] [9] [Fn. 3] [630] [217] [30] [1], [2], [34] [553] [9] [9] [17], [78] [88] [Fn. 2] [561] |
| Coachmen, Hackney, gentlemen as | [515], [526] |
| Coat, fine, when a livery | [168] |
| Cocoa-tree Chocolate-house | [1] [Fn. 11] |
| Coffee-house debates idols impertinents liars potentates at different hours Child's Grecian Jonathan's Lloyd's Rainbow St. James's Serle's Squire's Will's | [197], [476] [155] [87], [145] [521] [49] [1] [Fn. 7] [1] [Fn. 10] [1] [Fn. 13] [46] [Fn. 1] [16] [Fn. 1] [1] [Fn. 9], [24] [49] [Fn. 1] [49] [Fn. 1] [1] [Fn. 6], [49] [Fn. 1] |
| Collier, Jeremy | [361] [Fn. 3] |
| Colours | [412], [413], [416] |
| Colours taken at Blenheim | [136] |
| Comedies | [249], [446] |
| Comet, Newton on the | [101] |
| Comfort | [196], [501] |
| Commode, the | [98] [Fn. 1] |
| Commendation | [348], [467] |
| Commentaries, Cæsar's, Clarke's edition of | [367] |
| Commerce | [21], [69] |
| Commercial friendship | [346] |
| Commines, Philip de | [491] |
| Commodus, Emperor | [127] |
| Common Prayer, the Book of | [147] |
| Commonwealth of Amazons | [433] |
| Companions | [424] |
| Comparisons in Homer and Milton | [303] |
| Compassion | [169], [397] |
| Complaisance at courts | [394] |
| Compliments | [103], [155] |
| Comus, god of revels | [425] |
| Concave figure, its advantage in architecture | [415] |
| Condé, Prince of | [86] |
| Conecte, Thomas, his preaching against women's commodes | [96] [Fn. 4] |
| Confidants | [118] |
| Confidence dangerous to ladies | [395] |
| Conformity, occasional | [269] |
| Congreve | [40] [Fn. 3], [189], [204], [443], [530] |
| Conquest, Deborah, of the Widows' Club | [561] |
| Conquests, the vanity of | [180] |
| Conscience | [188] |
| Constancy in sufferings | [237] |
| Contemplation | [514] |
| Contempt | [150] |
| Content | [163], [574] |
| Conversation | [53], [68], [100], [103], [119], [143], [409], [574] |
| Copenhagen | [393] |
| Coquets heart of one dissected | [66], [172], [208], [390] |
| Cordeliers, story of St. Francis | [245] |
| Cornaro, Lewis | [195] |
| Corneille | [39] [Fn. 4] |
| Cornelii, family of the | [192] |
| Corruption | [469] |
| Cotqueans | [482] |
| Cottilus, his equanimity | [143] |
| Country dances the Sir Roger de Coverley | [67] [106] [Fn. 1] |
| Country life Wake, the, a farce wakes described | [151], [161], [414], [424], [474], [583], [622] [502] [161] |
| Courage | [99], [152], [161], [350], [422] |
| Court life | [64], [76], [394], [403] |
| Courtship | [261] |
| Coverley, Sir Roger de | [2], [6], [34], [106]-[113], [115], [116], [118], [122], [125], [126], [130], [131], [174], [269], [295], [329], [331], [335], [359], [410], [424], [517] |
| Covetousness | [316] |
| Cowardice | [231], [611] |
| Cowley | [41], [62], [67], [81], [114], [123], [339], [551], [590], [610], [613] |
| Cowper, Lord | [38], [467] |
| Crab, chaplain to the Ugly Club | [78] |
| Crambo | [63] |
| Crastin, Dick, challenges Tom Tulip | [91] |
| Crazy, a man thought so for reading Milton aloud | [577] |
| Creation contemplation of Milton's account of Blackmore's poem on | [393] [339] [339] [Fn. 8], [543] |
| Credit | [3], [218], [320] |
| Credulity in women | [190] |
| Cries of London | [251] |
| Critics | [87], [291], [409], [592] |
| Cross, Miss, half a tun less handsome than Madam Van Brisket | [32] |
| Cully-Mully-Puff | [362] |
| Cultismo | [379] [Fn. 3], [409] |
| Cunning | [225] |
| Curiosity | [237], [439] |
| Custom | [437], [455], [474] |
| Cymon and Iphigenia | [71] |
| Cynæas reproves Pyrrhus | [180] |
| Cynthio and Flavia, broken courtship of | [399] |
| Cyrus | [564] |
| Czar Peter, compared with Louis XIV. | [139] |
| Dacier, André and Anna | [291] [Fn. 2], [297] [Fn. 1] |
| Dacinthus, a pleasant fellow | [462] |
| Dæmon, Plato's | [214] [Fn. 4] |
| Daintry, Captain | [570] [Fn. 1] |
| Dainty, Mrs. Mary, writes from the Infirmary | [429] |
| Dalton's Country Justice | [92] [Fn. 2] |
| Damon, Strephon, and Gloriana | [423] |
| Dampier's Voyages | [121] |
| Dancing | [66], [67], [296], [334], [370], [376], [466] |
| Dangers past | [418] |
| Daphne's Chance Medley | [33] |
| Dapperwit, Tom | [482], [530] |
| Darkness, Egyptian | [615] |
| Day, several times of, in London life | [454] |
| Day-dream | [167] |
| Death | [7], [25], [133], [152], [289], [349] |
| Debt | [82] |
| Dedications | [188] [of Spectator to Lord Somers] [to Lord Halifax] [to Henry Boyle] [to the Duke of Marlborough] [to Thomas, Earl of Wharton] [to Earl of Sunderland] [to Paul Methuen] [to Will. Honeycomb] |
| Defamation | [348], [427], [451] |
| Definitions | [373] |
| Deformity | [17], [87] |
| Delicacy | [104], [286], [292] |
| Delight essential to wit vernal | [62] [393] |
| Deluge, Whiston's Theory of the | [396] |
| Demetrius, a saying of | [237] |
| Demurrers, what women to be so called | [89] |
| Denham, Sir John | [82] [Fn. 2] |
| Dennis, John | [47] [Fn. 2], [273] [Fn. 5], [548] [Fn. 1] |
| Denying, sometimes a virtue | [458] |
| Dependence | [181], [214], [282] |
| Dervise Fadlallah, story of the | [631] |
| Descriptions, source of pleasure in | [416], [418] |
| Desire | [191], [400] |
| D'Estrades, negotiations of Count | [92] [Fn. 2] |
| Detraction | [256], [348], [355] |
| Devotee described | [354] |
| Devotion | [93], [163], [201], [207], [415] |
| Diagoras, the atheist, in a storm | [483] [Fn. 2] |
| Dial plate for absent lovers | [241] |
| Diana | [453] |
| Diet | [195] |
| Dieupart, Charles | [258] [Fn. 2] |
| Diffidence | [87] |
| Dignitaries of the law | [21] |
| Dilatoriness | [469] |
| Diligence | [514] |
| Dionysius, a Club tyrant | [508] |
| Dionysius's ear | [439] |
| Disappointed love | [163] |
| Discontent | [214] |
| Discretion | [225], [607] |
| Dispensary, Garth's | [476] |
| Dissection of a beau's head of a coquette's heart | [275] [281] |
| Dissenters | [147], [259] |
| Dissimulation | [103] |
| Distempers, each does best with his own | [599] |
| Distinction, desire of | [219], [224] |
| Distrest Mother, a tragedy, commended | [290], [335], [338] [Fn. 2] |
| Diversions, over-indulgence in | [447] |
| Divorce | [41] |
| Doctor in Moorfields, contrivance of a | [193] |
| Dogget the comedian | [235] [Fn. 1], [370], [446], [502] [Fn. 3] |
| Doggrel | [60] |
| Dogs | [116] [Fn. 1], [474], [579] |
| Doily stuffs cheap and genteel | [283], [320] |
| Domestic life | [320], [455] |
| Donne, his description of Eliz. Drury | [41] [Fn. 3] |
| Dorigny's engravings of the Cartoons | [226] [Fn. 5] |
| Doris, Congreve's character of | [422] |
| Dorset, Lord, collected old ballads | [85] |
| Doves in company | [300] |
| Drama, its original a worship | [465] |
| Drawcansir | [16] [Fn. 4] |
| Dreams of retirement golden scales seasons Trophonius' Cave | [167], [487], [505], [524], [586], [593], [597] [425] [403] [425] [599] |
| Dress | [69], [150], [360], [435] |
| Drinking | [189], [195], [205], [458], [474], [569] |
| Drums in a marriage concert | [364] |
| Drury Lane Theatre | [1] [Fn. 12] |
| Dry, Will., of clear head and few words | [476] |
| Dryden | [5] [Fn. 1], [32] [Fn. 3], [33], [37] [Fn. 2], [40] Fns. [2] & [4], [55], [58], [62], [71], [77], [85], [116], [141], [162], [177], [222], [223] [Fn. 2], [267] [Fn. 13], [297] [Fn. 5], [341], [365], [512], [572], [589], [621] |
| Du Bartas | [58] [Fn. 4] |
| Duelling | [84], [97], [99] |
| Dugdale | [21] [Fn. 3] |
| Dull fellows | [43] |
| Dullness, goddess of | [63] |
| Dumb conjurer, the | [560] |
| Dunces | [17] [Fn. 3] |
| Dunlop, Alexander | [524] [Fn. 1] |
| Duration, the idea of | [94] |
| D'Urfey, Thomas | [37] [Fn. 2] |
| Dutch monuments for the dead | [26] |
| Dyer's News-letter | [43] [Fn. 6], [127] |