lation of one of her odes, 262,
290; takes the lover's leap, 312
Sarasin, Jean François, French

writer, i. 314 and note

Satire, the satire of the ancients
instructive as to the manners of
their times, iii. 197; a satire of
Simonides, supposed to be the
oldest extant, 197 et seq.; satires
of Juvenal and Boileau, 200;
Dryden's satire of 'Absalom and
Achitophel,' 257; Trajan Boc-
calini quoted, iv. 204; on the
bearing of reproach by authors,
v. 184; satirical authors, vi. 262;
the Spectator's satire on writers
who employ blank names, viii.
51, 53

Scales, Addison's allegory, vi. 323
Scaliger, the younger, viii. 29
Scandal denounced, v. 149; method

of combating it, v. 359; exami-
nation of, vi. 152; difficulty of
restraining scandal of writers, vi.
263; methods of ridding oneself
of the propensity to propagate
scandal, viii. 166

Scanderbeg, Prince of Epirus, iv.
90 and note; 343

Scaramouche, famous Italian co-
median, iv. 160

Scarron, the Abbé Paul, husband
of Madame de Maintenon, i. 89
and note

Scawen, Sir William, his genero-
sity, iii. 382 and note
Scheffer, John, his 'Lapponia,' v.
249 note; vi. 52

Scholar's Egg, an oval poem so-
called, i. 300
Schoolmasters,

Addison's essay
upon, ii. 361; their severity
censured, 415

Scott, Dr. John, author of the
Christian Life,' vi. 245 and note
Scudéry's romances, iii. 349
Scurlock, Mary, Steele's love-letters
to her, 289 note, 290 et seq.
Sebastian, Don, king of Portugal,
v. 156
Sedley, vi. 241

Segrais, Jean Regnauld de, French

poet, i. 327 and note

Seneca, i. 199 and note, 401 note;

ii. 59 and note, 363; iii. 302, 330;
v. 291

Sentry, Capt., a member of the
Spectator's club, his character, i.
13; and identification, 13 note;
advice to the Spectator, 175; on
indifference to death in the army,
ii. 337; takes part in the discus-
sion on the status of trade, iii. 25;
on lawyers, 136; visits the play
with the Spectator and Sir Roger,
v. 79; reads an account of an
English captain's sufferings, 157;
succeeds to Sir Roger's estate, vii.
212, 344

Seriousness of temper, viii. 181
Sermons, the object of them, v. 330
Servants, complaint aginst the cor-

rupted manners of men-servants,
ii. 33; Sir Roger de Coverley's
treatment of, 122; a valet's com-
plaint, 265; complaint of an
under lady's-maid, 266; how-d'ye
servants, 299 and note; a foot-
man's complaint against his
master, iii. 164; the petition of
John Steward and others against
family spies, 164; the question-
able nature of their recommen-
dations, vii. 93

Sexes, their characteristic diffe-
rences, ii. 223

Sextus, Pope, his punishment of a
satirist, i. 120.

Shadwell, Thomas, playwriter, i.
179 and note, 251 note; ii. 347

note

Shakespeare, i. 90, 202; Hamlet
quoted, 226, 235, 316, 344; ii.
166, 287; iii. 24 note, 204, 236,
365; vi. 114; vii. 52, 231, 329;
viii. 162

Shepherd, Miss, ii. 54 note
Sherlock, Dr., his Discourse on
Death,' iv. 193 and note; vii. 186
Shoeing-horns, a species of women's
men, vii. 306

Shovel, Sir Cloudesly, his monu-
ment in Westminster Abbey, i.
136 and 137 note; v. 48
Sidney, Sir Philip, i. 76, 364; iv.
127 note

Sieges of hearts, opportunities of
the army, viii. 46

Sight, the sense of, vi. 72, 369
Sign-posts, London street signs,
i. 142 and notes
Silenus, ii. 28

Simonides of Amorgos, Greek poet,
iii. 197 and note; vii. 379
Sincerity, Tillotson's Sermon on,
reviewed, ii. 106 and note; re-
marks on, 106

Singularity, general desire to avoid,
viii. 90

Sleeping exhibitions, iii. 77

Sly, John, observer for the Spectator,
vii. 255 and note, 258, 287, 298,
353
Smiglecius, Martin, Polish Jesuit,
iii. 340 note

Smith, Edmund, playwriter, his tra-
gedy of Phædra and Hippolitus,'
i. 97 and note, 206 and note
Smithfield bargain, iv. 271 and note
Smoke (to ridicule), v. 83 and note
Snape, Dr. Andrew, iv. 217 and

Soho Square, i. 9 note
Solitude, exemption from passions

the only pleasing solitude, i. 22;
methods of separating from the
world without withdrawing into
solitude, iv. 62 et seq.
Solomon, the apocryphal 'Wisdom

of Solomon,' iii. 244, 275, viii.
254; paraphrase of the Song of,
v. 349

Somers, Lord, dedication, i. xlix,
and note

Somervile, Sir Philip de, custom
connected with the holding of his
manors, viii. 221, 224
Somerville's Chase,' ii. 162 note
Sophocles, i. 229 and note; vii.
379

Sorites, a, iii. 342 and note
Soul, relation of dreams to, vii. 65;
speculations on, 279; immortality
of, 310; faculties of, viii. 188

Southerne, Thomas, playwriter, i.
206 and note; ii. 57 and note;
vii. 37 and note
Sparkes, John, swordsman, vi. 191
and note

Sparrows, for the opera, i. 28, 78
Spartans or Lacedemonians, the,
their virtue applauded by the
Athenians, i. 37

Spectator, the, its predecessors, i.
intro. xii-xxv; conception and
history and analysis of nature,
XXV-xxxviii; sale, xxxvi; author-
ship of the papers, xxxvii, xliv ;
successors, xxxviii; influence and
imitators, xlii; minor contribu-
tors, xliv; its publishers and the
copyright value, 7 note; the Spec-
tator's remarks on the objects of
his speculations and benefits issu-
ing from them, iv. 51 et seq.;
v. 253; its price as affected by
the newspaper tax, vi. 231, vii.

70

Spectator, the, his description of
himself, i. 1 et seq.; his club, 1,
7, 8 et seq.; his club's advice
to him, 173 et seq.; anxiety to
hear the world's opinion of him,
22; ill-luck at the table of an
acquaintance whose wife was
superstitious, 37; outline of the
Spectator's sphere and the good
work proposed to be done by
it, 52; his several lodgings in
London, 63; determination to
attack affectation and vice, 84;
and to keep clear of party issues,
87; uncommon shortness of his
face, 90; mentioned as a counter-
action to possible envy from his
fame, 102; the correction of
impudence among his under-
takings, 103; espousal of the
cause of virtue, 177; visits a
travelled lady who received her
visitors in bed, 234; minutes in-
tended for speculations picked up
at Lloyd's Coffee-House, 237:
Hecatissa's letter to him begging
his recommendation to the Ugly
Club, 249; a match proposed
between her and the Spectator,
268; household economy, ii. 7;

diversions, II; inquisitive tem-
per, 21; visit to Sir Roger de
Coverley at his country house,
117; remarks on preachers, 121;
observations on the excellent
management of servants of Sir
Roger de Coverley, 122; meets
Will Wimble at Sir Roger's,
126; in Sir Roger's gallery,
131; love of nature and solitude
136, 175, 183; at church with
Sir Roger, 145; goes coursing
with Sir Roger, and exhibits an
instance of his taciturnity, 166;
introduced by Sir Roger to a
supposed witch, 171; visits the
Assizes with Sir Roger, 196;
experience of gipsies, 233; re-
solves to return to town on
account of the inquisitiveness of
the neighbourhood, 237; sum-
moned to return by his club, 239;
narrative of his journey and com-
panions, 240; discussion at the
club on animosity displayed be-
tween parties with common in-
terests, iii. 25; the two general
divisions of his readers, and the
necessity of writing for both,
50; his weaknesses criticised in
a coffee-house, 237; remarks
upon the mottoes prefixed to his
papers, 250; and upon the initial
letters signed at the end, 252;
meeting with Sir Roger in Gray's
Inn Walks, iv. 90; personal ap-
probation of the Church and
constitutional government of Eng-
land, 180; receives a letter from
a possible rival of Hecatissa,
and replies thereto, 199; revisits
Westminster Abbey with Sir
Roger, v. 46, 55; visits the play
with Sir Roger and Captain
Sentry, 79; aversion to reply-
ing to detractors with satires
and lampoons, 184; love affairs
narrated at the club, 209; dis-
courses on the advantages arising
from his papers, 253; visits
Spring Garden with Sir Roger,
325; remarks on the contribu-
tions sent to him for publication,
vi. 218; on the price of his papers,

231, vii. 70; receives the news
of Sir Roger's death, 210; and
of Will Honeycomb's marriage,
274; verses in praise of him,
283; meets a contributor at his
bookseller's, 303; replies to cer-
tain remarks of his correspon-
dents and contributors, 334;
prints some testimonials to the
value of his paper, 359; receives
the news of Sir Andrew Free-
port's retirement, 369; his club
entirely dispersed, 372; considera-
tions of a new club, 372, 389;
farewell remarks to his readers,
400; the authorship of certain
papers, 401; acknowledgments
to various contributors, 402; the
new club elected, viii. I; endea-
vours to overcome his taciturnity,
2; letters on the same from his
correspondents, 19; satire on
writers who employ blank names,
51; criticism of the same at a coffee-
house, 53; answers in brief the
letters of various correspondents,
113, 267; consults a magician at
Grand Cairo, 207; concerning the
publication of his eighth volume,
317
Spectator's Club, the, i. 1, 7, 8 et
seq., 173; ii. 239; iii. 25; iv.
348; v. 157, 209; vii. 210, 274,
369, 372, 389; viii. I
Spenser, Edmund, cited, v. 359;
vii. 82; criticism of, vii. 323
Spies, court, vi. 206

Spies, family. See Family-spies
Spleen, the, an excuse for dulness,
i. 275

Spring Gardens, Old and New, v.
325 and note
Stage: Addison's essays upon the
English theatre and tragedy, i.
215 et seq., 225 et seq.; remarks
upon comedy, 231; British taste
for murder on the stage, 228;
French criticism of this taste,
228 and note; the custom on the
French stage, 228; stage thunder,
185 and note, 215, 225, viii. 159;
stage lions at the Haymarket, i.
67, 72; bawdry in English plays,
262; cruder class of acting com-

mented upon, ii. 284; bad
manners in the theatre, 346, 419
and note; stage fright, iii. 299;
the Trunk-maker in the upper
gallery,' 319, 346; stage manage-
ment, iv. 33; remarks on the
ladies of the audience, 94;
desire for a theatre of ease to
Covent Garden, iv. 33; Steele's
criticism of the English stage,
v. 270; stage morality, vi. 235;
audiences and their tastes, vii.
134; essay on gesture and voice
in dramatic performance, 328;
dramatic critics, viii. 160
Stanley, Dean, ii. 89 note
Stapylton, Sir Robert, his 'Slighted
Maid' cited, i. 185 note
Starers, condemnation of, i. 103,
276

Stationer, petition of a, iv. 273
Stationer's Company, their error in
printing the Bible, viii. 104
Steele, Richard, i. intro. vii.-xli, 26
note, 256 note, 257 note, 261 note,
262 and note, 343 note, 344 note;
ii. vi note, 56 note, 126 note, 205
note, 259 note, 275 note, 289 note,
290 et seq., 315 note, 352 note,
365 note, 370 note, 407 note; iii.
26 note, 238 note, 278 note, 279
note, 321 note; iv, 7 note, 12 note,
16 note, 35 note, 85 note, 95 note,
196 note; v. 36 note, 94 note, 109
note, 129 note, 189 note, 213 and
note, 274 note, 305 note, 330 note,
349 note, 378 and note; vi. 46
note, 67 note, 85 and note, 131
note; vii. 204, 283 note
Sternhold and Hopkins, iii. 180
and note

Stirling, William Alexander, Earl
of, iv. 249 and note
Stocks market, vi. 278 and note
Stoicism, iii. 358

Stories told in the Spectator: Inkle
and Yarico, i. 59 and note; the
colonel and his servant, ii. 37;
Monsieur Pontignan's love ad-
venture, 46; romance of change-
lings, 200; a stolen child re-
covered from the gipsies, 235;
Constantia and Theodosius, 394;
Herod and Mariamne, iii. 12;

Eginhart and Imma, 65; the
Castilian couple and the rene-
gado, 142; the tragedy of St.
Christopher, 226; the rival
preachers, 251; a Jewish tradi-
tion concerning Moses, 331;
story of Irus, iv. 64; story of
Scaramouche, 160; and of Rabe-
lais, 161; the dervish and the
king's palace, 194; the critic and
Apollo, 204; the judge and the
old fellow-scholar, 325; Escalus
and Isabella, 352; of Octavia, v.
1; the French privateer and the
English captain, 157; of Don
Sebastian, King of Portugal, 156;
Madame de Villacerfe and the
surgeon, 257; story of Amanda,
291; the sepulchre of Rosicrucius;
transformation of Fidelio into
a looking-glass, 367; story of
Cynthio and Flavia, vi. 14; of
the Valentine family, 147; of
Favilla, 196; of Biton and Clito-
bus, vii. 49; Charles the Bold
and Rhynsault, 84; a general
officer in the Civil Wars, 110;
Don Sebastian of Portugal, 112;
Pope Leo the Tenth, 112; the
Persian fairs of women, 117;
the siege of Hensberg, 120;
Tartar auctions of women, 179;
of Cyrus the Great and the noble-
man, viii. 37; of Isadas the
Spartan, 39; of Fadlallah and
the dervish, 99; of Diana's dogs
in the temple of Vulcan, 105;
Harpath and Shalum and their
courtship of Hilpa, 124, 128;
Rhæcus and the nymph, 148;
Gyges and Aglaüs, 233; a Spanish
lady's revenge, 239
Story-telling, vii. 314

Strada's Prolusions,' iii. 350; viii.
262

Strafford, Lord and Lady, iv. II
Street cries, iii. 394 and note; v.

296

Strops for razors, vi. 158 and note
Stuart, James, the elder Pretender,
i. 19 and note

Stubbs, Rev. Philip, ii. 315

Suckling of children, remarks on,
iii. 370