Almanack, Oxford considered, Tat. i. 39; an ex-
cellent treatise of practical astronomy, Wor. xxiv.
140; new one for persons of quality, Con. xxvi.
99
Almet and the Stranger, an Eastern tale, Ad. xxi.
114
Almerin and Shelimah, a tale, Ad. xxi. 103, 104
Alms, when the wages of idleness, Sp. viii. 232
Alnaraschin, story of, Guar. xv. 167
Alnaschar, story of, Sp. xi. 535
Alonzo, Don, fatal instance of jealousy, Guar. xiii.
37
Alost, attempt to suprise the garrison, Tat. i. 1. 4
Alphabet, petitions of all the letters of it, except E
and O, Wor. xxiv. 180
Alphonso, his story, from Strada's Lucan, Guar. xiv.
119
Altar, a poem in the shape of, a piece of false wit,
Sp. v. 58
Alteration, the first principle of an improver, Wor.
xxiii. 76
Altilia, coquetry of, Ram. xviii. 182
Amanda, rewarded for her virtue, Sp. ix. 375; the
happy wife of Florio, Tat. ii. 49; an instance of
seduction, Wor. xxii. 52; consequences of pub-
lishing her history, 53
Amaryllis, improved by good breeding, Sp. vi. 144
Amasis, law of, dream concerning, Loun. xxx. 47
Amazons, their commonwealth, marriages, and man-
ner of educating children, Sp. x. 433, 434; bra-
very of, revived, Id. xxvii. 87
Ambassador, definition of, Id. xxvii. 30
Ambition, various kinds of it, Sp. xii. 570; why
implanted in the soul of man, viii. 255; the found-
ation and end thereof, ibid, Tat. iv. 186; every
man, in some degree subject to it, Sp. vii. 219,
224, xii. 570; middle age of man most addicted
to it, Tat. iii. 120; the true object of laudable
ambition, Sp. viii. 257, xii. 613, Tat. iv. 251;
men of shining parts most actuated by it, Sp. vi.
73, viii. 255; of use when well directed, vii. 219;
becomes true honour in the good, Tat. iii. 120;
by what to be measured, Sp. viii. 188; betrays
into many troubles, indecencies, and perplexities,
viii. 256, 257, xii. 624; is vain, unprofitable, and
never satisfied, v. 27, vii. 180, viii. 256; no true
happiness in the success of it, Tat. iv. 202; the
occasion of factions, Sp. vi. 125; as hurtful to
princes as to people, vii. 200; its refuge when
disappointed, Tat. iv. 202; in grotesque, what,
ib.; ambition natural to youth, Ram. xvi. 15;
vanity of it in the lower stations of life, xvii. 66 ;
modern, project to prevent the disappointment of,
Ad. xxi. 98; folly and madness of, Wor. xxiv.
174; high and brilliant talents not conducive to
success in, Loun. xxx. 39
Americans used painting instead of writing, Sp. x.
416; their opinion of departed souls exemplified
in a vision, v. 56
Amicus' reflections on the deplorable case of prosti-
tutes, Ram. xvii. 107
Aminadab, the quaker's, admonition, Tat. iv. 190
Aminta of Tasso compared with Guarina's Pastor
Fido, Guar. xiii. 28
Amity, dangerous between agreeable persons of dif-
ferent sexes, Sp. x. 400
Amoret, the jilt, reclaimed by Philander, Sp. x. 401
Amorous club, Sp. v. 30
Amurath, an eastern story, Ad. xix. 20, 21, 22
Amusement, necessary and allowable, when inno-
cent, Sp. vi. 93; how to be rendered useful, Ram.
xvii. 89; the principal design of a public paper,
Wor. xxiii. 104; to be taxed, Con. xxvi. 110
Anacreon, instructions for painting his mistress,
Guar. xv. 168
Anacharsis, the Corinthian drunkard, a saying of,
Sp. xii. 569: the Scythian, introduction of, to
Solon, Look. xxxvi. 59
Anatomy, speculations thereon, Sp. xi. 543: cruel-
ties of, Id. xxvii. 17
Anaximander, a saying of, on being laughed at for
singing, Guar. xv. 135
Ancestors, their examples should excite to great and
virtuous actions, Guar. xv. 136
Ancestry, how far to be venerated, Sp. xii. 612,
Guar. xv. 137; renders the good only illustrious,
xiv. 122; ridiculous for a man to value himself
upon it, xv. 137
Ancients, crying them up reproved, Guar. xiii. 25;
all that is good in writing not borrowed from them,
12; wherein they excel modern writers in genius,
Sp. v. 61, viii. 249; distinguished by Strada,
Guar. xiv. 119; how they spent their hours of
mirth, Sp. ix. 358; in what arts they excelled
the moderns, Ad. xxi. 127; in what the moderns
excel, 133; boasting of the ancients, Wor. xxii.
2; superiority over the moderns in expensive din-
ners, 20; skilfulness of their cooks, ib.; unac-
quainted with the cure of the king's evil, 24; ig-
norant of the manufacture of thunder and light-
ning, xxiii. 83; their imperfect notions of honour,
113; and modern times compared, Loung. xxx.
19; witty saying of, Ob. xxxiii. 52
Androcles, story of him and the lion, Guar. xv.
Andromache, see Distrest Mother.
Angelo, Michael, his picture of the Last Judgement
censured, Tat. iii. 156. See Michael.
Angels, what notions they may be supposed to en-
tertain of mankind, Sp. xii. 610, see Spirit;
fallen angels, their employments, from Milton,
Sp. viii. 237
Anger defined, Guar. xv. 129; its ill consequences,
ib., Tat. iii. 172; angry man described, Sp. x. 438;
why sudden inclinations to that passion should be
mastered, ib.; a tragical instance of surprise in
anger, Tat. iii. 172, see Passion; a tumultuous
and dangerous passion, Ram. xvi. 11; pernicious
effects of, ib.; necessity of checking, ib., Wor. xxiv.
196; remarks on, with characters, Ob. xxxiv. 110
Animals, their different structure considered, Sp. vi.
120; instinct of brutes exemplified in various in-
stances, 120, 121; the variety of arms with which
nature has provided them, ib.; gratitude owing
to them, Guar. xiv. 61; cruelty towards them con-
demned, Tat. iii. 133, Guar. xiv. 62; animal co-
medians, Ad. xix. 19; instances of cruelty to, v.
37, Wor. xxiv. 190; trial of, a vision, Con. xxv.
12; fondness for, 89
Annabella's letter concerning the conversation of
men and women, Sp. v. 53
Anne Boleyne's last letter to king Henry the Eighth,
Sp. viii. 307; tragedy of, Guar. xiii. 19
Anne, queen, eulogiums on her government, Tat. ii.
90, iii. 130
Annihilation, the most abject of wishes, Sp. vii. 210;
by whom desired, Guar. xiv. 89, Sp. vii. 210; de-
scribed by Milton and Dryden, Tat. i. 6; how ter-
rible the thought of, Wor. xxiii. 73
Anningait and Ajut, story of, Ram. xviii. 186, 187
Annuities, how purchased by Africanus, Tat. i. 36
Anthea, disagreeable character of, Ram. xvi. 34
Anthony, Marc, his witty mirth commended by
Tully, Sp. x. 386
Anticyra, an island assigned by the Romans to mad-
men, Tat. iii. 125; its product, ib.; compared to
Montpelier, ib.
Anti Gallicans, their premiums for encouraging the
manufacture of thunder and lightning, Wor. xxiii.
83
Antigonus, how painted by Apelles, Sp. xii. 633
Anti Judaic entertainment, Con. xxv. 13
Antiochus, in love with his mother-in-law, Sp. vii.
220
Antipathies considered, Sp. xii. 609; a conversation
on that subject, xi. 538
Antiquaries, club of, Ram. xvii. 117
Anti-starers appointed, Sp. v. 20
Antoine, his amour with Clarinda, Wor. xxiii. 79
Ants, natural history of, Guar. xv. 153, 156, 157,
160
Anxieties, unnecessary, the evil and vanity of them,
Sp. xii. 615; universal, Ram. xvii. 128
Apelles, an extinguisher, Wor. xxii. 55; the paint-
ings of, Ob. xxxiii. 99
Apes, a class of women so called, Sp. viii. 244
Apollo, god of verse and physic, Tat. iv. 240; his
throne described, Sp. xi. 514; the temple of, on
the top of Leucate, by whom and why frequented,
vii. 223; description of his temple, Wor. xxiii. 121
Apologies, false, fatal effects of, Ad. xx. 54, 55, 56
Apology for great men in bestowing favours, Tat.
iii. 168
Apollodorus, a humorous fragment of his, Sp. vii.
203
Apothecaries, their employments, Sp. vii. 195; great
orators, Tat. iv. 240; apothecary in Caius Marius,
and Romeo and Juliet, Guard. xiii. 21
Apparel, see Dress
Apparitions, the creation of weak minds, Sp. vi.
110; stories of them attended with very bad con-
sequences, v. 12; Plato's opinion of spirits, vi.
90. See Ghost, Spirits, Souls.
Appearances, veneration and respect paid to them
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