I.

Belinda, fee from yonder Flow'rs
The Bee flies loaded to its Cell;
Can you perceive what it devours?
Are they impair'd in Show or Smell?

Aug. 23, 1712.

AVING a little Time upon my Hands, I could

Hnot think of beflowing it better, than in writing an Epistle to the SPECTATOR, which I now do,

• and am,

P.S.

SIR, Your bumble Servant,

BOB SHORT.

If you approve of my Stile, I am likely enough to become your Correfpondent. I defire your Opinion of it. I defign it for that Way of Writing called by the Judicious the Familiar.

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A.

ACETUS, his Character, Number 422.

Admiration, a pleafing Motion of the Mind. N. 413
Affectation, the Misfortune of it, N. 404. Defcribed, 460.
Almighty, his Power over the Imagination, N. 421,
Ariftotle's Saying of his Being, 465.

Allegories, like Light to a Difcourfe, N. 421. Eminent
Writers faulty in them, ibid.

Allufions the great Art of a Writer, N. 421.

Amazons, their Commonwealth, N. 433. How they
educated their Children, 434. Their Wars, ibid. They
marry their Male-Allies, ibid.

Americans ufed Painting instead of Writing, N. 416.
Amity between agreeable Perfons of different Sexes
dangerous, N. 400.

Amoret the Jilt reclaimed by Philander, N. 401.
Anne Boleyne's laft Letter to King Henry VIII. N. 397.
Ancients in the Eaft, their way of Living, N. 415.
Appearances, Things not to be trufted for them, N. 464.
Applaufe (publick) its Pleasure, N. 442.
April, (Month of) defcribed, N. 425.
Arabella, Verfes on her Singing, N. 443.
Architecture, the Ancients Perfection in it, N. 415. The
Greatness of the Manner, how it ftrikes the Fancy, ibid.
Of the Manner of both Ancients and Moderns, ibid.
The Concave and Convex Figures have the greatest.
Air, ibid. Every thing that pleafes the Imagination
in it, is either Great, Beautiful or New, ibtd.

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Art

Art (Works of) defective to entertain the Imagination,
N. 414. Receive great Advantage from their Like,
nefs to those of Nature, ibid.

Auguft and July (Months of) defcribed, N. 425.

B.

ABEL, (Tower of) N. 415.

B Bacon (Sir Francis) prefcribes his Reader a Poem on

Profpect, as conducive to Health, N. 411. What he
fays of the Pleasure of Tafte, 447·

Bankruptcy, the Mifery of it, N. 428, 456.

Bar Oratory in England, Reflexions on it, N. 407.
Bafilius Valentinus, and his Son, their Story, N. 426.
Baxter, (Mr.) his last Words, N. 445. more laft Words,ib.
Bayle, (Mr.) what he fays of Libels, N. 451.

Bear-Garden, a Combat there, N. 436. The Cheats of
it, 449.

Beauty heightened by Motion, N. 406.

Beauty of Objects, what understood by it, N. 412. No
thing makes its Way more directly to the Soul, ibid.
Every Species of fenfible Creatures has different No-
tions of it, ibid. A fecond Kind of it, ibid.
Beggars, the Grievance of 'em, N. 430.
Belvidera, a Critick on a Song upon her, N. 470.
Belus, Jupiter, Temple of, N. 415.

Birds how affected by Colours, N. 412.

Blaft (Lady) her Character, N. 457.

Bluemantle (Lady) an Account of her, N. 437.
Buck (Timothy) his Anfwer to James Miller's Challenge,
N. 436.

Buffoonry cenfured, N. 443.

Bufinefs (Men of) their Error in Similitudes, N. 421,

Of Learning, fitteft for it, 469.

Buffy d'Amboife, a Story of him, N. 467.

C.

ESAR loft his Life by neglecting a Roman Au-

gur's Caution, N. 395.

Calia, her Character, N. 404.

Califthenes, his Character, N. 422.
Calumny, the ill Effects of it, N. 45.

Camilla's

Camilla's Letter to the Spectator from Venice, N.
How applauded there, ibid.

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Cartefian, how he would account for the Ideas formed
by the Fancy, from a fingle Circumftance of the Me-
mory, N. 417.

Cato, the Refpect paid him at the Roman Theatre, N.446.
Chamont's Saying of Monimia's Misfortune, N. 395.
Charity Schools to be encouraged, N. 430.

Charles II. his Gaieties, N. 462.

Charms, none can fupply the Place of Virtue, N. 395.
Children, their Duty to their Parents, N. 426. Ill Edu-
cation of them fatal, 431.

Chinese laugh at our Gardens, and why, N. 414.
Chremylus, his Character out of Arifophanes, N. 464.
Cicero, his Genius, N. 404. The Oracle's Advice to
him, ibid. What he fays of Scandal, 427. of the Ro
man Gladiators, 436.

Clarendon (Earl of) his Character of a Perfon of a trou
blefome Curiofity, N. 439.

Cleanthes, his Character, N. 404.

Cleopatra, a Defcription of her failing down the Cydnos,
N. 400.

Cloc, the Idiot, N. 466.

Colours, the Eye takes moft Delight in them, N. 412.
Why the Poets borrow moft Epithets from them, ibid.
Only Ideas in the Mind,413. fpeak all Languages, 416A
Comedies, English, vicious, N. 446.

Commonwealth of Amazons, N. 433.

Compaflion civilizes Human Nature, N. 397. How to
touch it, ibid.

Company, Temper chiefly to be confider'd in the Choice
of it, N. 424.

Concave and Convex Figures in Architecture have the
greateft Air, and why, N. 415.

Confidence, the Danger of it to the Ladies, N. 395.
Coverly (Sir Roger de) his Adventure with Sukey, N. 410.
His Good-humour, 424.

Converfation an Improvement of Tafte in Letters, N.

4.09.

Country Life, why the Poets in Love with it, N. 414.
What Horace and Virgil tay ofit, ibid. Rules for it, 224-

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Courage wants other good Qualities to fet it off, N. 423.
Court and City, their peculiar Ways of Life and Conver
fation, N. 403.

Criticks (French) Friends to one another, N. 409.
Cuckoldom abufed on the Stage, N. 446.

Curiofity (abfurd) an Inftance of it, N. 439.

Custom a fecond Nature, N. 437. The Effect of it, ibid.
How to make a good use of it, ibid. Cannot make e-
very thing pleafing, 455.

Cynthia and Flavia break off their Amour very whimsi
cally, N. 399 39

D.

DAcinthus, his Character, N. 462.

Dainty (Mrs. Mary) her Memorial from the Coun-
try Infirmary, N. 429.

Damon and Strephon, their Amour with Gloriana, N. 423.
Dancing difplays Beauty, N. 466. on the Stage faulty,
ibid. The Advantages of it, ibid.

Dangers paft, why the Reflexion of 'em pleases, N. 418.
Day, the feveral Times of it in feveral Parts of the Town,

N. 454

Deluge, Mr. W-n's Notion of it reproved, N. 396.
Defamation the Sign of an ill Heart, N. 427. Papers of
that kind a Scandal to a Government, 451. To be pu-
nished by good Minifters, ibid.

Denying, fometimes a Virtue, N. 458.

Deportment (Religious) why fo little Appearances of it
in England, N. 348.

Descriptions come fhort of Statuary and Painting, N.416.
Please fometimes more than the Sight of Things, ibid.
The fame not alike relished by all, ibid. What pleases
in them, 418. Of what is Great, Surprifing and Beau-
tiful, more acceptable to the Imagination than what is
Little, Common, or Deformed, ibid.

Defire, when Corrected, N. 400.

Devotion, the nobleft Buildings owing to it, N. 415.
Diana's cruel Sacrifices condemned by an ancient Poet,

N.

453.
Dionyfius's Ear, what it was, N. 439.

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