Examination self, recommended by Pythagoras, Sp.
xii. 586; advantages of it, Guar. xv. 158
Examiner, animadversions on, Tat. iv. 239; re-
proved for insolence and scandal, Guar. xiii. 51;
misapplies the word church, and abuses the clergy,
lords, and commons, xiv. 80; insolence to a bishop
of the church of England, 90; writes in defence
of popery, ib.; his knack at finding out treason,
xv. 160; had no talent at panegyric, 170; letters
concerning him, xiv. 56, 63; an advocate for a
lady who was said not to be lain with, 63
Example, the influence of, Guar. xiv. 87, xv. 165;
its prevalence on youth, Sp. ix. 337
Examples, who, Sp. vii. 208
Excellence, desire of, laudable, Ram. xvii. 66; prac-
tical and ideal widely different, 112
Excess, when useful, Sp. vii. 180
Exchange, see Royal Exchange.
Exercise, bodily, the great benefit and necessity of,
Sp. vi. 115, 116, vii. 161; the most effectual phy-
sic, vii. 195, see Labour, Wakes; necessary to
health and vigour, Ram. xiv. 85; better paint for
the ladies than rouge, Wor. xxii. 36
Exercise of arms in London, Tat. i. 41
Exile, an elegy, Mir. xxix. 85
Existence, every stage to be distinguished by im-
provement, Ram. xviii. 155
Expectation, the torment of it greatest in the early
seasons of life, Ram. xiv. 111; the practice of
disappointing others, not consistent with true
friendship, xviii. 163; exemplified in the case of
Liberalis, ib.; our expectations often visionary,
196
Expenses, oftener proportioned to our expectations
than possessions, Sp. vii. 161
Experiments, modern, utility of, Wor. xxiv. 141
Extasy, described by Dryden, Tat. i. 6
External appearances frequently delusive, Ram. xviii.
Extinguisher, and extinguishing office, uses of, Wor.
xxii. 55
Extortion, office of, in the temple of Avarice, Tat.
iii. 123
Extravagance, when beloved and esteemed, Sp. viii.
243; instances of, Ram. xviii. 192; mischief of,
xvi. 26, Ad. xix. 34
Extravagant, why his expenses are larger than an-
other's, Sp. vii. 222
Eye, the curious formation thereof considered, Sp.
xi. 472; language of, Tat. iii. 145; dissertation
on the eyes, Sp. viii. 250; several instances of
their prevailing influence, v. 19, viii. 252
Fable, antiquity and use of, Sp. vii. 183
Fables, of the children and frogs, Sp. v. 23; of a
drop of water, viii. 293; a grasshopper, ix. 355;
Jupiter and the countryman, v. 25; the lion and
man, 11; pleasure and pain, vii. 183; of the Per-
sian glassman, xi. 535; of Pilpay on the usage
of animals, Guar. xiv. 61, see Allegory, Dream,
Æsop, Vision; critical remarks on, Ad. xix. 18;
fable of the dog and shadow, ib.; of modesty and
aşsurance, Wor. xxii. 2; of the old man, the boy,
and the ass, 13; of Jupiter's lotteries, xxiii. 120,
xxiv. 143; education of the Muses, Con. xxv. 6;
hare and tortoise, xxvi. 90; Satyr and pedlar,
125; the gout and a flea, Look. xxxvi. 58; vice-
roy of Naples and the galley-slave, xxxvii. 67;
of the coat and the pillow, 75
Face, the epitome of man, Sp. xi. 541; a good one
Emblematical persons, Sp. x. 419
Emilia, an uncommon and excellent character, Sp.
viii. 302, Tat. ii. 57
Eminence, tax on, Sp. vi. 101; a proof of it in having
many enemies as well as friends, Ram. xvi. 10
Emma, see Imma.
Employment, praiseworthy to excel in any, Sp. x.
432; men differently employed unjustly censure
each other, Ad. xxi. 128
Emulation, the use of it, Sp. x. 432; incitement to,
Ad. xx. 81
Enborne, custom for widows there, Sp. xii. 614, 623
Enemies, why they should not be hated, Sp. vi. 125;
how they may be made beneficial, x. 399; love of
them not constitutional, Guar. xiii. 20; how far
possible to love them, Ad. xx. 48; character of a
man who is no one's enemy but his own, Mir.
xxviii. 23
England, the figure it made in 1709, Tat. iii. 130;
engagements between the English and French, i.
15, ii. 63, 64; peculiar advantages of being born
there, Sp. vi. 135; its superiority in politeness to
other nations, Wor. xxiii. 103; compared to France,
Mir. xxviii. 18; obstruction to society in, Ob. xxxii.
21; habits of life and expense in, xxxiii. 85; state
of society, 91
English characterized by a preacher and an ambas-
sador, Sp. xii. 557; very fanciful, x. 419; famous
for oddities, Guar. xv. 144; cold and dull orators,
Sp. x. 407; generally inclined to melancholy, 387;
naturally bashful and modest, vii. 148, x. 407,435;
modest in dress, 435; not talkative, vi. 135, vii.
148; thought proud by foreigners, x. 432; a dis-
temper of theirs and its cure, xii. 582; when they
begin to sing, Tat. iv. 222; cannot relish Italian
pictures, Sp. x. 407; English tongue, speculators
on, vi. 135; much adulterated, vii. 163, Tat. iv.
hinders us from attaining our great end, 257; the
love of it dwells in heroic spirits, Tat. ii. 92; in-
conveniences attending the desire of it, viii. 255;
a follower of merit, x. 426; difficult to obtain or
preserve, viii. 255; bank of, Tat. ii. 87; plan of
the chamber of Fame, ii. 67; palace of, described,
Sp. x. 439; table of, Tat. ii. 74. 81; mountain
and temple of, 81; house of common fame de-
scribed, Guar. xiv. 66, see Ambition, Glory; the
love of fame irregular and dangerous, Ram. xvi.
49; when laudable, ib.; the only recompense
mortals can bestow on virtue, ib. ; ill economy of,
the effect of stupidity, 56; short duration, when
ill founded, xviii. 154; the acquisition and loss of,
146; the ascent to it obstructed by envy and com-
petition 165; literary offerings in the temple of,
Ad. xx. 90
Familiarities, indecent in society, Sp. x. 429, 430;
how distinguished, Tat. iv. 225; general ill effects
of, Ad. xxi. 112
Family, head of a, dangerous when bad, Guar. xv.
165; good mistress of a, described, 168; bad
measures taken by great families in the education
of younger sons, Sp. vii. 168; a family scene, Tat.
ii. 95, iii. 114; madness in pedigrees, Sp. xii.
612; family interest frequently the destruction of
family estates, Wor. xxiii. 72; happiness, Loun.
xxxi. 57
Famine, a great one in France, Sp. vii. 180
Fan, the exercise of it, Sp. vi. 102; its motion dis-
covers ladies' thoughts, Tat. ii. 52; verses on a
fan, iv. 239
Fancy, the daughter of liberty, Sp. xi. 514; her
character and calamities, xii. 558; all its images
enter by sight, x. 411; advantage of scrutinizing
into its action, xii. 586 See Cartesian.
remarks on it, Sp. viii. 267, 273, 291, 297, ix.
315; proemial part of the epic, Ram. xvi. 1;
contents of, Ad. xix. 4
Epicharmus, the first writer of comedy, Ob. xxxiv.
135; fragments of, 136
Epictetus on censure, Guar. xv. 135; rule for, be-
haviour under detraction, Sp. ix. 355; his advice
to dreamers, xi. 524; observations on the female
sex, v. 53; an illusion on human life, vii. 219;
his saying on sorrow, x. 397; on ardent wishes,
Ram. xvi. 2; on the influence of the fears of po-
verty and death, 17
Epigram on marriage, Tat. i. 40; on Hecatissa, Sp.
v. 52; a French one, miscalled a song, Guar. xiii.
16
Epilogue to Cato, by Dr. Garth, Guar. xiii. 23
epilogues, ludicrous effects of, Sp. ix. 338, 341
Epimetrius, a letter from him concerning pretty
feet, Guar. xv. 132
Epistles, poetical, two sorts of style used in them,
Sp. xii. 618; recommendatory, generally unjust
and absurd, xi. 493; difficulty and excellence of
epistolary writings, Ram. xv. 152; direction for,
ib.
Epitaph, by Ben Jonson, Sp. v. 33; on the Coun-
tess of Pembroke, Sp. ix. 323; on a charitable
man, vii. 177; the extravagance and modesty of
epitaphs, Sp. v. 25; epitaphs at Pancras, xi. 538;
at Stepney, 539, see Abbey, Monuments; of a
moral Atheist on himself, Wor. xxiii. 73; flattery
of, Con. xxvi. 73; new species of, 131
Epithets of Homer and Virgil compared, Tat. i. 6
Epsom, diversions there, Tat. i. 30; adventures of a
fortune-hunter, ii. 47
Epsom Wells, character of that comedy, Tat. i. 7
Equality in the happiness and misery of men, Guar.
xiii. 54
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