WE have another View of our first Parents in their Evening Difcourfes, which is full of pleafing Images and Sentiments fuitable to their Condition and Characters. The Speech of Eve, in particular, is dreffed up in such a soft and natural Turn of Words and Sentiments, as cannot be fufficiently admired.

I fhall close my Reflections upon this Book, with obferving the masterly Tranfition which the Poet makes to their Evening Worship, in the following Lines.

Thus at their fhady Lodge arriv'd, both flood,
Both turn'd, and under open Sky ador'd

The God that made both Sky, Air, Earth and Heav'n,
Which they beheld, the Moon's refplendent Globe
And Starry Pole: Thou alfo mad'ft the Night,
Maker Omnipotent, and thou the Day, &c.

MOST of the modern Heroick Poets have imitated the Ancients, in beginning a Speech without premising, that the Perfon said thus or thus; but as it is easy to imitate the Ancients in the Omiffion of two or three Words, it requires Judgment to do it in fuch a manner as they fhall not be miffed, and that the Speech may begin naturally without them. There is a fine Inftance of this Kind out of Homer, in the twenty third Chapter of Longinus.

L

INDE X.

A

A.

Cademy for Politicks, N. 305. The Regulati-
ons of it, &c. ibid.

Admiration, thort-lived, N. 256.

Age, a comfortable old Age, the Reward of a well-
fpent Youth, N. 260.

Agreeable Man, who, N. 280.

Ambition, never fatisfied, N. 256. The End of it, N.
255. The Effects of it in the Mind, 256. Subjects
us to many Troubles, N. 257. The true Object of a
laudable Ambition, ibid.

Appetites, the Incumbrances of old Age, N. 260.
Ariftotle, his Definition of an entire Action in Epic Poe-
try, N. 267. His Senfe of the Greatness of the Ac-
tion in a Poem; his Method of Examining an Epic
Poem, N. 273. An Obfervation of that Critick's,
ibid. One of the beft Logicians in the World, N. 291.
His Divifion of a Poem, 297. Another of his Ób-
fervations, ibid. His Obfervation on the Fable of an
Epic Poem, N. 315.

Art of Criticism, the Spectator's Account of that Poem,
N. 253.

Audiences, at prefent void of common Senfe, N. 299.
Auguftus, his Request to his Friends at his Death,N. 317.

B

B.

Eau's Head, the Diffection of one, N. 275.

Beauty in a virtuous Woman makes her more vir-
tuous, N. 302.

Bills of Mortality, the Ufe of them, N. 289.

Baccalini, his Animadverfions upon Criticks, N. 291.

Cafar

C.

ÆSAR (Julius) a frequent Saying of his, N. 256.
Calamities, the Merit of Suffering patiently under
them, N. 312.

Camillus, his Deportment to his Son, N. 263.
Canidia, an antiquated Beauty, defcribed, N. 301.
Capacities of Children not duly regarded in their Edu-
cation, N. 307.

Cenfor of Marriages, N. 308.

Charity-Schools, great Inftances of a publick Spirit, N.

294.

Clavius, proving uncapable of any other Studies, be-
came a celebrated Mathematician, N. 307.
Comparifors in Homer and Milton, defended by Mon-
fieur Boileau again ft Monfieur Perrault, N. 303.
Coquet's Heart diffected, N. 281.

Coverley (Sir Roger de) his Return to Town, and Con-
verfation with the Spectator in Grays-Inn Walks, N.
269. His intended Generofity to his Widow, N. 295.
Courtship, the pleasanteft Part of a Man's Life, N. 261.
Credit, undone with a Whisper, N. 320.
Criminal Love, fome Account of the State of it, N. 274.
Critick, the Qualities requifite to a good one, N. 291.

D.

Eath. Deaths of eminent Perfons, the moft im-

Datovin Deaths of eminent 20.

Decency, nearly related to Virtue, 292.

Decency of Behaviour, generally tranfgreffed, N. 292.
Delicacy; the Difference betwixt a true and falfe Deli-❤
cacy, N. 286. The Standard of it, ibid.
Dependants, Objects of Compaffion, N. 282.

Diftreft Mother, a new Tragedy, recommended by the
Spectator, N. 290.

E

E.

Ating, Drinking and Sleeping, with the generality
of People, the three important Articles of Life, N.

317.
Education; whether the Education at a publick School,
or under a private Tutor, be to be preferred, N. 313.
The Advantage of a publick Education, ibid.
Elizabeth (Queen) her Medal on the Defeat of the Spa-
nish Armada, N. 293.

N 3

Emilia,

Emilia, an excellent Woman, her Character, N. 302.
Envy; the Abhorrence of Envy, a certain Note of a
great Mind, N. 253.

Eyes; the prevailing Influence of the Eye, instanced in
feveral Particulars, N. 252...

F.

Fable, of a Drop of Water, N. 293,

Fame, the Difficulty of obtaining and preserving
it, N. 255. The Inconveniences attending the Defire
of it, ibid.

Fop, what Sort of Perfons deserve that Character, N.

280.

Fortune often unjustly complained of, N. 282. To be
controuled by nothing but infinite Wisdom, N. 293.
Fortune-Stealers, who they are that fet up for fuch, N.
311. Diftinguished from Fortune-Hunters, ibid.
Fribblers, who, N. 288.
G.

Ifts of Fortune, more valued than they ought to be,
N. 294.

Government, what Form of it the most reasonable, N.
287.

Gracefulness of Action, the Excellency of it, N. 292.
Greeks and Romans, the different Methods obferved by
them in the Education of their Children, N. 313.

H

H.

Omer's Excellence in the Multitude and Variety of
his Characters, N. 273. He degenerates fome-
times into Burlesque, N. 279.

Honeycomb (Will) his great Infight into Gallantry,N.265.
His Application to rich Widows, N. 311.

Hoods, coloured, a new Invention, N. 265.

J

I.

Ane (Mrs.) a great Pickthank, N. 272.

Idleness, a great Diftemper, N. 316.

Jefuits, their great Sagacity in difcovering the Talent
of a young Student, N. 307.

Indolence, an Enemy to Virtue, N. 316.

Journal; a Week of a deceafed Citizen's Journal pre-
fented by Sir Andrew Freeport to the Spectator's Club,
N. 317. The Ufe of fuch a Journal, ibid.
rus; the great Artifice of Irus, N. 264.

Know-

K.

Knowledge, the main Sources of it, N. 287.

L.

Adylove (Bartholomew) his Petition to the Spectator,

Letters to the Spectator; from Mary Heartfree, defcrib-
ing the powerful Effects of the Eye, Ñ. 252. from
Barbara Crabtree, to know if fhe may not make use
of a Cudgel on her Sot of a Husband, ibid. from a
Lawyer whose Wife is a great Orator, ibid. from Ly-
dia to Harriot, a Lady newly married, N. 254. Har-
riot's Answer, ibid. to the Spectator, from a Gentle-
man in Love with a Beauty without Fortune, ibid.
from Ralph Crochet, for a Theatre of Eafe to be e-
rected, N. 258. from Mr. Clayton, &c. ibid. from
Jack Afterday, an old Batchelor, who is
grown dead
to all other Pleasures but that of being worth 50000 1.
N. 260. from a Lover, with an enclosed Letter to his
humourfome Mistress, ibid. from a Father difcourfing
on the relative Duties betwixt Parents and their Chil-
dren, N.263.from a Mother to her undutiful Son,ibid.
the Son's Answer, ibid. to the Spectator from Richard
Eftcourt, with one enclosed from Sir Roger de Cover-
ley, N. 264. from James Eafy, who had his Nose a-
bufed in the Pit, N. 268: from A. B. on the merce-
nary Views of Perfons when they marry, ibid. from
Anthony Gape, who had the Misfortune to run his
Nofe against a Poft, whilft he was staring at a Beauty
ibid. from
about the new-fashioned Hoods
ibid. from one at Oxford in Love with Patetia,
ibid. from Tom Trippet, on a Greek Quotation
in a former Spectator, N. 271. from. C. D. on
Sir Roger's return to Town, ibid. from S. T. who has
a Show in a Box of a Man, a Woman, and a Horse,
ibid. from Cleanthes, complaining of Mrs. Jane an
old Maid, and a Pickthank. N. 272. from--with an
enclosed Letter from a Bawd to a noble Lord, N. 274.
from Frank Courtly, reproving the Spectator for fome
Freedoms he had taken, N. 276. from Celia incensed
at a Gentleman, who had named the Words lufty Fel-
low in her Prefence, ibid. from Pucella, kept by an
old Batchelor, ibid. from Hezekiah Broadbrim, accu-