The Tatler, Volume 4

INDEX

Reading edition

Abchurch Lane, iii. 95 note; iv. 152 note, 360 note, 381

Abercorn, Earl of, ii. 20 note

Abigail, Mrs., i. 89 note; iv. 167

Abingdon, Countess of, i. 325 note

Absolute power satirised, i. 100 seq.

Abstinence the best physic, iv. 227 seq.

Ace, a sharper, ii. 177

Achilles, his shade rejoices in the virtue of his son, iii. 203, 204:

referred to, i. 57, 58, 59, 60, 256; ii. 129, 232; iii. 172; iv. 160

Acorn, an honest Englishman, i. 107

"Act, an," a meeting for conferring degrees, i. 366 and note

Acting, as taught by Hamlet, i. 288, 289

Actæon under enchantment of the sharpers, ii. 69:

fair prey to sharpers, ii. 195

Actors should not gag, ii. 280, 281:

advice to, iv. 42, 43

Adagia, the, of Erasmus, i. 360 note

Adam, puppet, i. 140; iii. 188, 189:

as a husband, iv. 116, 117, 126, 127:

referred to, i. 55, 56, 330, 381; ii. 358, 424; iv. 211, 249, 340

Addison, his age and position at starting of The Tatler, i. vii, viii:

his share in the work, i. xiii, xiv, xv:

called in and found indispensable, i. 4:

author of characters of men and women under names of musical instruments, the distress of the news-writers, the inventory of the play-house, description of thermometer, ibid.:

credited Steele with wit, i. 5:

against opera, i. 40 note:

on Dryden, i. 56 note:

his Remarks on several parts of Italy, and Dialogues on Medals, i. 152 note:

his The Drummer, i. 155 note, 158 note, 192 note; iii. 227 note:

on witches, i. 180 note:

plea for D'Urfey, i. 348 note:

his The Campaign, i. 353 and note:

on the fan, ii. 21 note:

on absurd fuss over dresses on stage, ii. 33 note:

account of Switzerland, ii. 299, 300:

his Rosamund, iii. 276 note:

his treatment of death, iii. 351 note:

a tribute to his assistance, iv. 376

Referred to, i. 22 note, 32 note, 36 note, 41 note, 49 note, 57 note, 112 note, 136 note, 155 note, 192 note, 217 note, 265 note, 291 note, 292 note, 350 note, 362 note, 371 note, 382 note; ii. 92 note, 146 note, 171 note, 201 note, 331 note, 349 note, 423 note; iii. 5 note, 44 note, 55 note, 111 note, 113 note, 178 note, 218 note, 227 note, 299 note, 332 note, 389 note; iv. 32 note, 93 note, 94 note, 116 note, 142 note, 154 note, 201 note, 210 note, 264 note, 374 note

Author of Tatler, Nos. 24, 96, 97, 100, 108, 116, 119-122, 129, 131, 133, 146, 148, 152-158, 161-163, 165, 192, 216, 218, 220, 221, 224, 226, 239, 240, 249, 250, 255, 267

Author (?) of Nos. 36, 37, 38, 50, 51, 77, 78, 118, 130, 136, 151, 219, 222, 237

with Steele, author of Nos. 42, 75, 81, 86, 93, 101, 103, 110, 111, 114, 147, 160, 253, 259, 260, 262, 265

(?) Editor of No. 223

Part author of Nos. 18 (?), 59 (?), 214

Articles by, i. 344; ii. 27, 35, 273, 282 seq.

Addison, Gulston, brother of Joseph, Governor of Fort George, iv. 204 note

---- Dorothy, wife of Dr. Sartre, and later of Daniel Combes, iv. 204 note

---- Lancelot, of Magdalen, iv. 204 note

---- Dr. Lancelot, a model father, iv. 204 and note:

referred to, iv. 201 note

"Address to the cock-killers," iii. 113 note

Admiralty, the, ii. 125 note

Adonis, ii. 5; iii. 341; iv. 250

Adroit, Major, a very topping fellow, i. 320

Advancement of Learning, by Bacon, quoted, i. 145; ii. 392, 393

Advertisements, in Tatler, increased, i. 182 note:

concerning, iv. 147 seq.:

a scheme for, iv. 170, 171:

from original edition of Tatler, iv. 379 seq.

Advice, the danger of giving, i. 210, 211

Advice to a Daughter, by Halifax, iv. 363 and note

Advice to a Painter, by Waller, i. 34 and note

Advice to the Poets, by Sir Richard Blackmore, i. 122 and note

Ælia, iii. 86

Æneas, marriage with Lavinia, ii. 281 note:

visits the shades, iii. 211 seq., 235:

referred to, i. 52, 57; ii. 129, 232; iii. 105; iv. 262

Æneid quoted, i. 215 and note, 257; ii. 142, 146, 308, 332, 405; iii. 22, 105, 330 and note; iv. 104:

a sequel to, ii. 281 and note:

referred to, iii. 263

Æschines, ii. 119; iii. 360

Æschylus, i. 367

Æsculapius (i.e. Dr. John Radcliffe), disappointed in love at the age of sixty, i. 355 note and seq., 376, 384; ii. 4, 128

---- iv. 160, 374

Æsop, his Fables imitated, ii. 68 seq., 315; iii. 11:

referred to, ii. 232

Æthiopians, i. 58

Affectation condemned, i. 8:

a budget of, ii. 202 seq.

Affection, the government of, ii. 35 seq.

Affliction, strange causes of, iii. 171

Africanus, i.e. Sir Scipio Hill, i. 296 seq.

Afterday, Will, a man of expectations, iv. 18, 19

"After-life," an, iv. 351 and note

Afterwit, Solomon, ii. 236 note:

letter from, ii. 243, 244

Agamemnon, i. 58, 59; iii. 202, 203

Age, old, the keenest pleasure of, iv. 69:

the follies of, iv. 350 seq.

Agesilaus, ii. 412 and note

Agincourt won on beef and mutton, iii. 179

Aglaura, destined for second wife of Duumvir, ii. 38

Agreda, iv. 158

Agrippa, ii. 286; iii. 137

Aisne, the, ii. 133

Aitken, G. A., on "Steele and some English Grammars," iv. 196 note

Ajax, i. 59, 60; iii. 104, 204, 205

Alba, Duke d', i. 97

Albemarle, Earl of, i. 399

Albergotti, iii. 333 and note

Alchemist, The, by Ben Jonson, i. 125, 126

Alcmena, iii. 202

Aldersgate Street, i. 334 seq.; iii. 234 note

Aldobrandini, iii. 364

Aldrich, Dr. Henry, Dean of Christchurch, i. 281 note; ii. 171

Aldus, ii. 218; iii. 234, 249

Alethes, the guardian spirit of conscience, i. 389 seq.

Aletheus, a gentleman of too much virtue for the age he lives in, ii. 50

Alexander the Great; or, The Rival Queens, by Lee, Mrs. Bracegirdle in, i. 17 note:

George Powell in, i. 36:

burlesque of, iii. 398 note and seq.:

referred to, i. 139, 140, 141

Alexander, set a fashion in wry necks, ii. 202:

at table of Fame, ii. 228:

and his physician, iv. 78 seq.:

his character, iv. 81:

referred to, i. 74 note, 257, 270; ii. 135 and note, 207, 297; iii. 299

Alexander and Cæsar compared to Prince Eugène and Marlborough, i. 62, 63

Alicante, i. 61, 72, 95, 184, 333

Alice, Mrs., a goddess to her lover, iii. 136 seq.

All for Love; or, The World Well Lost, Dryden's version of Antony and Cleopatra, i. 93 and note

Allestree, Richard, probably author of The Whole Duty of Man, ii. 184.

Alleyn, Edward, actor, founded Dulwich Hospital, i. 172 and note

Allies, the, i. 27, 28, 52, 61, 130, 151, 155, 164, 197, 204, 205, 213, 237, 291, 354; ii. 34, 97, 105, 107, 109; iii. 82, 316 note

Almanacs, Poor Robin's, i. 169

Almanza, iii. 141

Almanzor and Almahide, by Dryden, quoted, i. 114, 115:

prologue to, i. 311 note:

attacked and defended, i. 367 and note

Almeira, the disconsolate, iv. 257, 258

Alonzo, Don, his epitaph, ii. 256

Alost, i. 20, 43, 229

Alps, iii. 250, 251

Alsace, i. 51, 94

Alsatia, in Whitefriars, a refuge for debtors, ii. 126 and note

---- i. 174

Alva, Duke of, i. 156

Amanda, the wife of Florio, i. 396

---- a confidante, i. 186 seq.

---- of Kent, summoned for a toast, iv. 16

Amaraga, Don Joseph Hartado de, i. 106

Amazons, i. 257; ii. 103; iv. 160

Ambitions, fruitless, iv. 44 seq.

America, i. 44, 106, 174; ii. 91

Amherst, his Terræ-Filius; or, Secret History of the University of Oxford, i. 366 note

Aminadab (Swift?), a letter from, iii. 391, 392

Amoret, courted by Sir Scudamore, iv. 7

Amsterdam, account of a theatre in, i. 171, 172:

referred to, iii. 82

Amusements, Serious and Comical, by Tom Brown, ii. 348 and note; iii. 139 note

Amyntas, iv. 250

Anatomy of Melancholy, by Burton, i. 23 note; iii. 63 note

Ancaster, Duke of, i. 34 note

Anchises, i. 52; iii. 217

Anderson, Dr., inventor of famous "Scots Pills," i. 83 and note; iv. 149 and note, 150 note

Androgyne, too learned, ii. 245

Angelica, in Love for Love, played by Mrs. Bracegirdle, i. 17 note

Angelo, Michael, his "Last Judgment," iii. 223

Angliæ Notitia; or, The Present State of England, by Chamberlayn, iv. 154 and note, 294 note

Anjou, Duchess of, i. 332

---- Duke of, i. 60, 71, 73, 97, 106, 198, 237, 362; ii. 188; iii. 86; iv. 86, 87, 158

Annals of Queen Anne, ii. 106 note

Anne, Queen, her mourning for Prince George, i. 79:

referred to, i. 84 note, 188 note, 206, 305 note, 353; ii. 42 note; iii. 84 note, 91, 283 note, 299 note; iv. 288

Annotations on the "Tatler," by M. Bournelle (W. Wagstaff), i. 52 note; ii. 211 note; iii. 396 note; iv. 127 and note, 172, 173 note

Anticlea, mother of Ulysses, iii. 200 seq.

Anticyra, the Bedlam of the Roman Empire, iii. 63

Antilochus, iii. 202

Antiochus, the story of his love, iii. 369, 370

Antiope, iii. 203

Antony, Mark, i. 18, 70, 93; iii. 128

Antony and Cleopatra, Dryden's version of, i. 93 and note

Antwerp, i. 205, 354

"Any card-matches or save-alls," a London cry, i. 41 note

Ap Rice, iv. 301

Ap Shenkin, iv. 301

Ap Shones, iv. 301

Apes. To lead apes in hell, the curse of old maids, iv. 84 and note

Apollo, the great room at the Devil Tavern, ii. 215

Apollo, i. 58, 59; ii. 293; iii. 341; iv. 160, 224

Apologia, by Apuleius, i. 360 note

Apology by Cibber quoted, i. 110 note; ii. 413 note; iii. 1 note

Apology for himself and his writings, by Steele, i. 48 note; ii. 118 note

Apothecaries, great orators, iv. 227

Apparition of Mrs. Veal, iv. 316 note

Appearances, the love of, universal, iii. 371 seq.

Appetites, the two principal human, iv. 58 seq.

Appius and Virginia, by Dennis, i. 346 note

Apprentices, rising of the, iii. 99 and note

Apuleius' Apologia, i. 360 note

Araminta, will not see her husband without a hood, iv. 93

Arbeau, Thoinet, inventor of orchesography, ii. 275 note

Arbiter, Petronius, his Saturæ, ii. 14 note

Arcadia, Sir Philip Sidney's, ii. 313 note

Archias, the poet, iii. 142

Archibald (i.e. Lord Archibald Hamilton), ii. 20 and note

Archimedes in Chamber of Fame, ii. 231 and note

Arco, Marshal d', i. 269

Aremberg, Duke of, ii. 109

Argyle, John, Duke of, his character, i. 379:

referred to, i. 102 note, 291, 378 and note

Ariadne, iii. 202

Aristocritus, iii. 241

Aristotle, Problems of, ii. 136:

in chamber of Fame, ii. 229, 239:

referred to, ii. 187; iv. 221, 356

Armstrong, Tobias, i. 233

Arne, Edward (the Political Upholsterer?), iii. 218, 244 seq., 333 seq.

---- Thomas (of Covent Garden), host of Indian kings, iii. 218 note, 299 note

---- Dr. Thomas, musician, son of Thomas, iii. 299 note

Arria and Poetus, two notable lovers, ii. 168 seq.

Arrian, ii. 228

Ars Poetica of Horace quoted, ii. 141, 153, 154, 359

Arsinöe, by Mr. Clayton, iii. 276 and note

Art of Living and Dying, by Jeremy Taylor, iv. 350

Arthur, King, ii. 189: first who sat down to a whole roasted ox, iii. 180

---- Mr., Keeper of White's, i. 12 note

Artillery Company, i. 333 seq.; ii. 88:

satire on, ii. 79, 80

---- ground, i. 232 note, 355; ii. 80

Arundel Street, i. 161

As You Like It, quoted, i. 338, 339

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, i. 282 note

Ashton, Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne, by, iii. 56 note

Aspasia (i.e. Lady Elizabeth Hastings), her character, i. 342 note and seq., 394

Astell, Mrs. Mary (Madonella), her Serious proposal to Ladies, &c., i. 265 note and seq.:

not at home, iii. 273 note, 274 note:

forewoman of jury of Court of Honour, iv. 284:

referred to, i. 343 note; ii. 103 seq.

Aston, Tony, on Mrs. Verbruggen, i. 31 note:

referred to, i. 15 note

Astrea, victim of drunken husband, iv. 231

Astrological speculation useful to a news-writer, i. 28

Asturias, Prince of, i. 51, 105

Atalantis, the New, by Mrs. Manley, ii. 104; iii. 330; iv. 172, 173 note, 242

Athenæ Oxonienses, by Wood, i. 87 note

Athenian Mercury, i. 127 note

Athenians, a story illustrating their character, iii. 46 seq.:

referred to, i. 100, 181; iii. 360

Athens, i. 220; ii. 24, 25, 119

Atterbury, Dr. Francis, the character of, i. 5:

controversy with Hoadley, i. 5 note:

an orator, ii. 120 note and seq.:

verses on a white fan borrowed from Miss Osborne, iv. 222 and note:

referred to, ii. 118 note and seq., 171 note; iv. 94 note

Audacity, the man of, iii. 284 seq.

Audley Inn, ii. 181 note

Augustan age, iii. 142

Augustus, King, i. 27, 51, 129, 204, 236, 304; ii. 133, 135 note, iii. 218, 219, 247; iv. 186, 187

Augustus Cæsar in chamber of Fame, ii. 230:

playing at marbles, ii. 412:

referred to, iii. 311, 312, 330; iv. 236

Aurengezebe (i.e. Tom Colson), his scimitar, i. 346:

referred to, i. 371 note and seq.; ii. 4

Austin, John, M.P., ii. 19 note

Author turned dealer, ii. 377 note and seq.

Autumn, Lady, of Epsom, i. 293 seq.; iii. 144; iv. 78

Avarice, the temple of, iii. 52: alluded to, iii. 54:

counteracted by I. B., iii. 60, 61

Avaro (Heathcote, of the City), character of, i. 211 seq.

Ayme, Henry, iv. 380

Ayres, writing-master, iv. 329 note

Babies, i.e. dolls, ii. 313 and note

Babylon, iii. 223, 392; iv. 308

Bacchus, i. 200, 352

Bachelor's scheme for governing his wife, i. 90 seq.

Bacon, Sir Francis, his Advancement of Learning, i. 145; ii. 392:

on marriage, iii. 186 and note:

his legacy, iii. 106, 107:

his agreeable talk on "Impudence," iii. 285:

his Of Simulation and Dissimulation, iv. 97 note:

a prayer by, iv. 356 seq.:

referred to, iv. 220

Badajos, i. 73, 106, 149, 253, 261

Baden, i. 70, 204; ii. 47

Baggs, Zachary, treasurer of Drury Lane, ii. 164 note

Bagshot Heath, a purse lost on, iii. 171

Baird, Mrs., iv. 382

Bajazet, i. 345

Baker, Sir James (Sir Hannibal), Knight of the Peak, iii. 9 note, 23

---- Admiral, i. 276

---- Honora, i. 38 note

---- John, Consul at Algiers, i. 38 note

---- Sir Richard, his Chronicle of the Kings of England, iv. 342 and note

---- Thomas, author of a Female Tatler, ii. 290 note, 387 note; iv. 172 note

Balagueir, ii. 200; iv. 85, 86

Baldwin, a bookseller, iv. 169 note:

printer of a Female Tatler, iv. 173 note

Ballance, Mr., a happy merchant, iii. 120

Ballard, his Memoirs of British Learned Ladies, iii. 274 note

Baltic, the, i. 205 note, 362; iii. 84 note

Bamburgh Castle Library, i. 147 note

"Band of Lovers, the," iii. 33

Banister, John, i. 301:

violinist of Drury Lane, iv. 139 and note

Bank, the, of England, iii. 55:

founding of, iv. 3 note, 132

Banks, John, his Earl of Essex, i. 125

Banquet of Trimalchio, by Petronius Arbiter, ii. 14 and note

Banqueting House at Whitehall, iii. 296

Barbadoes, the, i. 235 note

Barbers, their foolish desire to do everything, i. 282

Barbican, i. 334

Barcelona, i. 50, 72, 94, 95, 182, 213; ii. 19:

snuff, ii. 309, 352

---- the most esteemed of women, ii. 46

Barebones, Lovewell, his sorrows, ii. 196, 197

Barn Elms, i. 258 note

Barnard, Thomas, his Character of Lady Elizabeth Hastings, i. 343 note

Barnes, Joshua, Greek Professor at Cambridge, his edition of Homer, iii. 159 and note, 160 and note:

"Knew as much Greek as a Greek cobbler," iii. 160 note

Barry, Mrs., some notice of, i. 15 note, 16 note:

acts before the Queen, i. 16 note:

requested to act as I. B.'s widow, i. 67:

referred to, iii. 282 note

---- Edward, father to Mrs. Barry, i. 15 note

Barrymore, Earl of, i. 150

Bartholomew babies, ii. 313 note

Bartholomew Fair, by Ben Jonson, i. 280 note

Bartholomew Fair, i. 42 note

---- Lane, ii. 15 note

Bart'lemy Fair; or, An Enquiry after Wit, by Mr. Wotton, by Mrs. Astell, i. 265 note, 266 note

Bartlet, John, of Goodman's Fields, quack, iv. 148 and note

Bartlet, Christopher, the late, iv. 148 note

---- S., quack, iv. 148 note

Bartolus, Lawyer, in Beaumont and Fletcher's Spanish Curate, iv. 199

Basset Table, The, by Pope, iv. 337 note

Bastile, the, i. 218; iii. 336

Bateman, of the City (Paulo), i. 211 and note

Bath, some account of, i. 138 seq.:

origin of the word Toast, i. 202 seq.:

complaint of the sharpers at, ii. 114 seq.:

referred to, i. 360, 361 note, 365; ii. 111 note, 205, 378; iv. 189

Bathillus, an affected creature, ii. 17

Battle critic, a, ii. 112, 113; iii. 379

Bavaria, i. 269

---- Duke of, ii. 134

---- Elector of, i. 144, 184, 299; ii. 322; iii. 83 note, 333

Bavius, writer of rejected comedies, ii. 291, 292

---- iv. 235

Bay, Marquis de, i. 73, 88, 106, 149, 261

Bayes, in The Rehearsal, i. 63 and note; iv. 7, 309 note

Bayle's Dictionary, iv. 22 note

Bayne, Alexander, ii. 244 and note;

a letter from, on the Beauties of the Royal Exchange, iii. 169, 170

Bayonne, i. 51, 73; iv. 158

Beadlestaff, Ben, letter from, i. 366 seq.; ii. 165, 166

"Bear," to sell the, i. 307, 308

---- -garden in "Hockley in the Hole," i. 234 and note, 256

---- the, at the Bridge Foot, iii. 147

Bearskin, The Tatler's, i. 65 and note

Beatrice, Mrs., iv. 313

Beaufort Buildings, i. 229 note; ii. 298, 309, 323, 351, 359; iii. 71 note, 129

Beaufort, Henry, first Duke of, ii. 35 note

Beaumont and Fletcher, ii. 281: their Maid's Tragedy, iii. 279 note:

a comedy of theirs adapted by Buckingham, iii. 400 note:

The Spanish Curate, iv. 199

Beauty, its influence on every temper, i. 91:

how far should it be considered by women, ii. 85 seq.:

made a new test of character by the Mirror of Truth, ii. 355 seq.:

how to make it last, ii. 368 seq.:

the birth of, ii. 283 seq.

Beaux' Stratagem, by Farquhar, i. 36 and note

Becket, Thomas à, i. 103, 214 note

Bedford Street, i. 219 note

Bedlam (or Bethlem) Hospital, referred to, i. 247 and note, 318; ii. 15; iii. 62, 63, 64, 73, 134, 318, 336, 377; iii. 314 note:

see Moorfields

Bedstaff, Ephraim, letter from, i. 179-181

Beech Lane, i. 335

Beef, defence of, iii. 179 seq., 257

Beefeaters, the order of, iii. 180

Beefsteak Club, i. 169

Beggar's Opera, by Gay, i. 234 note

Belgrave Square, i. 280 note

Belial, his talk, iii. 103 and note

Belinda (i.e. Mary, daughter of Baron Spanheim), an old lady on "Birth," iii. 76

Bell Yard, iii. 147

Bellfrey, Tom (Dr. Blackall), his voice, i. 302:

referred to, i. 300 and note, 301

Bellianis, Don, of Greece, ii. 315; iii. 81

Bellum Grammatical, iv. 196 note

Belvidera in Venice Preserved, i. 16 note

---- a beauty without affectation, iii. 66 seq.

"Ben" in Congreve's Love for Love, created by Doggett, i. 17 note

Bender, ii. 47 note; iii. 219, 247; iv. 186, 187 note

Benjamin, iv. 191

Bennet, Madam, a notorious character, ii. 246 and note

Ben's Club, ii. 215

Benskin, Will, overseer, ii. 43 note

Bentivolio (i.e. Dr. Bentley), i. 66 and note

Bentley, Dr. Richard (Bentivolio), i. 66 and note:

on Barnes' "Homer," iii. 160 and note

Berg, i. 174

Berkeley, i. 343 note:

Earl of, i. 137 and note

Berlin, letters from, i. 27, 72, 129, 236, 304; ii. 47:

referred to, i. 213

Bermuda Mission, i. 343 note

Bernard, M., the banker, i. 36, 50, 88, 246 note

Berne, letters from, i. 76, 94, 204; ii. 47, 100

Berry, Duke of, ii. 54

---- Duchess of, ii. 54

Bertamont, ii. 222

Berwick, Duke of, i. 51, 94, 182, 237, 332; ii. 48; iii. 317

Béthune, i. 19 note

Betony, iv. 353 and note

Betterton, actor, i. 15 note and seq.; ii. 389:

his Hamlet, ii. 163:

some account of, ii. 163 and note, 164 note:

his new theatre, ii. 334 note:

notice of a benefit for, iii. 233:

criticism of, iii. 279 seq.:

some account of his death, iii. 279 note:

referred to, iii.; 384, iv. 42

Betty, ii. 6

---- Mrs., not charming, but very winning, ii. 316; iv. 201

Beuil, Chevalier de, i. 95

Bevis, of Southampton, ii. 316

Bezons, Count de, i. 95, 237, 299

Bickerstaff, Isaac, sometime pen-name of Swift, now adopted by Steele, i. ix, 3, 8:

genealogy of, i. 3 seq.:

his attack on Partridge, 21 and note, 22 note:

playful quarrel between Swift and Steele as to the name, 22 note:

his Vindication, 21 note:

his Predictions for the Year, 22 note:

asks patronage for his cousin John, 36 note:

some account by Mrs. Distaff of the papers in his closet, 89 seq.:

alias Biggerstaff, 103:

his guardian-angel, Mr. Pacolet, 116, 122, 131:

his Difference between Scandal and Admonition, his Prophecy of Things Past, and "choice sentences for the company of masons and bricklayers," 151:

at Merchant Taylors' School, 152:

tragedies in MS., 189:

accredited a doctor, 191:

letter to Lewis XIV., 194 seq.; iii. 394:

the answer, 217 seq.:

hates giving advice, 210, 211:

takes three lads round London, 247 seq.:

his designs for the said lads, his nephews, the scholar, the merchant, the page, 249, 250; iv. 70:

will not tolerate extravagance in dress, 253, 254:

takes universities under his charge, 262:

his "circumspection water," 277:

favourite with the fair sex, 278:

acknowledges his own faults, ii. 102:

a profession of love to, 240, 241:

his reply, 242, 243:

proposed for the chamber of Fame, 232:

receives company, 257 seq.:

his upbringing, 279:

determines to learn fencing, 303, 371; iii. 308, 309:

his own sufferings from a cruel mistress, 385 seq.:

his interest in mankind, iii. 16 seq.:

his early love, 19, 20;

his prescription for grief, iii. 39 seq.:

his reception at the play, 44 seq.:

his letter to Dr. Sacheverell, 140 note:

compared to Cato, 256:

ill with toothache, 320:

promises to be wittier, 118 and note:

grammars issued under his approval, 194 note, 195 note:

his farewell, 374

Referred to, i. 11, 31, 55, 64, 66, 77 note, 80 note, 89 note, 92, 97 note, 101, 106 note, 115, 130, 135 and note, 166, 167, 168, 184 note, 191, 210, 214 note, 247, 253, 261, 262 and note, 314 note, 327, 359, 366, 368, 369, 388; ii. 12, 32, 71, 80, 93, 114, 123, 129, 150, 151, 157, 161, 163, 165, 167, 177, 184, 185, 200, 205, 223 note, 249, 277, 286, 289, 306, 311, 314, 320, 347 note, 359, 368, 377, 381, 389 note, 395, 401, 405; iii. 2 note, 8, 21 note, 27, 67, 71 note, 80, 83, 130, 133, 145, 228, 235, 236, 259, 261, 262, 267 note, 277, 296, 303, 328, 348, 366 note, 374, 375 note, 380; iv. 20, 25, 39, 41, 73, 82, 85 note, 164, 167, 172 note, 189, 206 note, 233, 242, 243, 256, 283, 286, 300, 317, 334, 335, 348, 375 note

Bickerstaff, John, performance for the benefit of, i. 36:

acted Captain in Mrs. Centlivre's A Bickerstaff's Burying; or, Work for the Upholders, i. 36 note

---- Sir Isaac, a Knight of the Round Table, ii. 189, 190

---- Ralph, eldest son of Sir Isaac, ii. 190

---- Philip, in reign of Richard III., ii. 190

Bickerstaff, Sir Walter, ii. 191

---- Maud, the milkmaid, wife of Sir Walter, ii. 191

---- Harry, the facetious, iv. 69

---- William, the prudent, iv. 69

---- Dame Deborah, iii. 27

---- Mrs. Pyramid, iii. 27

---- Sir Jacob, grandfather of I. B., iii. 197

---- Simon, brother of Margery, iii. 198

---- Mrs. Margery, wealthy great-aunt of I. B., the family devices to keep her single, iii. 197, 198, 266

---- Nehemiah, reign of Henry II., ii. 72

---- Frank, on charms of the country and courtesy of his noble landlord, iii. 292, 293

---- Samuel, and his family, a branch of the Bickerstaff family, iii. 387 seq.:

Sam, his son, iii. 388 seq.:

Mary, his daughter, iii. 388 seq.

---- family, their care in alliances, ii. 189 seq.:

their women never change their names, ii. 193 note, 409:

referred to, iv. 206

Bickerstaff’s Burying, A; or, Work for the Upholders, by Mrs. Centlivre, i. 36 note

Bicknell, Mrs. See Mrs. Bignell

Biddy, Mrs., not very commendable, but very desirable, iv. 202

Bignell, Mrs., benefit for, i. 29:

history of, i. 29 note

Billingsgate, "the freshest oysters and the plainest English," ii. 175, 176:

referred to, i. 42; ii. 214; iv. 55

Biographia Britannica, i. 355 note

Birching Lane, i. 232

Birdcage Walk, ii. 420 note

Birmingham, ii. 88

Birth, folly of pride at, i. 101

Bishopsgate, i. 247 note

Bishopsgate Street, iv. 39 and note

Biskett in Shadwell's Epsom Wells, i. 69

Bisset, Brigadier, iii. 9 note

"Bite," A, a new way of being witty, i. 107 and note

Black Horse, the Major at the, iii. 19

---- Lion, iv. 149 note

---- Prince, professed lover of the brisket, iii. 180

Black Raven Court, i. 335

---- Sea, the, iii. 220

Blackall, Dr., Bishop of Exeter (Tom Bellfrey), his controversy with Hoadley on passive obedience, i. 359 note and seq.; ii. 8 seq., 17 seq.:

supported by Oxford, i. 365 and note:

referred to, i. 300 and note, 301 note

Blacking, true Spanish, iv. 153 and note

Blackmore, Sir Richard, his Advice to the Poets, i. 122 and note:

his Instructions to Vanderbank, i. 32 and note

Blaregnies, the battle of, i. 102 note; ii. 269

Blaugies, ii. 107, 108

Blenheim, battle of, Addison's The Campaign on, i. 353 and note:

won on beef, iii. 181:

Prior's poem on, iii. 163 note:

referred to, i. 28 and note, 54 note; ii. 269; iii. 141, 162 note

Blessings, real and imaginary, iii. 173, 174

Blind, a strange cure of the, ii. 41 seq.

Blockheads always secretly admire one another, iv. 22

Bloomsbury, i. 258 note

---- Square, i. 161

Blount (Miss), Pope's epistle to, iv. 336 note

Bluff, Oliver, indicted for duelling, iv. 349

Bluffe, Capt., in Congreve's Old Bachelor, ii. 62 and note

Blunder, Major, a most expert officer, ii. 88, 89

Boccalini, Trajan, his Parnassus, iv. 341, 342 note:

notice of, iv. 341 note, 342 note

Bodegrave, i. 76

Bœotians, i. 285

Bogg, Beau, a sharper, ii. 115, 116

Bohea, dishes of, ii. 210

Boileau, i. 218:

on pedants, iii. 237

Bolingbroke, iii. 2 note

Bolton, Duke of, i. 355 note

---- Duchess of (? Hebe), i. 355 note and seq.

"Bombardier, the," ii. 270, 271

Boneval, General, i. 50, 71

Boniface, Mr. Ezekiel, gallant of Mrs. Will Rosin, ii. 374

Book of Martyrs, the, i. 382

Book for a Corner, by Leigh Hunt, iii. 75 note

Books, a scheme for regulating the price of, ii. 218

Bordeaux, President of, iii. 95 note

---- letters from, i. 96

Boristhenes, ii. 47 and note, 134; iii. 336

"Bos," iv. 363 and note

Bosnage, M., i. 120

Bossiney, ii. 1 note

Bossu, iii. 270

Boston, iii. 299 note

Bosworth, the battle of, ii. 285

Bouchain, iii. 316, 317

Boufflers, Marshal de, i. 88; ii. 105, 204

Bouhours, Dominic, a critic, ii. 265

Bourbon, the House of, i. 88, 246; iv. 87

Bourignon, Antoinette de, foundress of the Pietists, iii. 68 and note

Bournelle, M., author of Annotations on the "Tatler," i. 52 note

Boutheiller, Nicolas de, a bachelor, ii. 54

Bow Street, i. 13 note

Boxing, the noble art of, ii. 303, 304

Boyer, Abel, Whig journalist, i. 157 and note:

his Political State of Great Britain, i. 157 note:

compiled French and English Dictionary, i. 157 note:

the spurious "Tatler," ii. 347 note

Boyle, Mr. Secretary, ii. 106 note

Brabant, i. 229, 354; ii. 254 note

Bracegirdle, Mrs., described by Cibber, i. 16 note, 17 note:

left money for maintenance of decayed wits, i. 173 and note:

referred to, i. 30 note; iii. 282 note

---- Justinian, father of Mrs. Bracegirdle, i. 16 note

Bradfield, i. 32 note

Bradley, Sir Arthur de (i.e. Sir Ambrose Crowley), his address as alderman, ii. 178 note and seq.

Braganza, iv. 158

Bramhall, Bishop, his answer to Eachard, iv. 294 note

Brandenburg, Elector of, iv. 227

Brasenose College, iv. 324

Bray, the Vicar of, iv. 129

Bread, the staff of life, not one of the Staffs, i. 105:

his verses to Louis XIV., i. 206

Breeding, good, supplanted by a little invention, i. 109

Brennoralt, by Suckling, i. 329

Brentford, i. 201 note; iv. 28

Bretagne, i. 73

Brett, Colonel (? Colonel Ramble), i. 68 and note:

arranged reunion of actors, ii. 334 note

Briançon, i. 182, 332, 399; ii. 48

Bribery, i. 340, 341; iii. 53

Bridewell Hospital, ii. 120 note; iii. 42

Bridge Foot, iii. 147 note

Brief Relation, by Luttrell, i. 38 note, 325 note

Brightland, John, author of A Grammar of the English Tongue, &c., iv. 194 note, 196 note

Brightly, Lady, iv. 73

Briseis, i. 58

Brisk, Sir Liberal, and the sharpers, ii. 176 seq.

Bristol, i. 371 note; ii. 171 note

"Bristol, the," a man-of-war, i. 137

Brisac, i. 174

---- New, to be destroyed, i. 174

Britain, Great (Felicia), its prosperity, i. 44 seq.; iii. 89 seq.:

what it owes to Marlborough, i. 54

Referred to, i. 51, 102, 120, 123, 152, 156, 161, 174, 191, 217, 256, 372, 373; ii. 6, 108, 119, 122, 127, 146 note, 150, 151, 155, 189, 291, 304, 327, 331, 351; iii. 2, 44, 81, 84, 170, 259, 264, 276 note, 290, 299, 376, 377, 390; iv. 132, 195, 233, 302, 303, 328, 353 and note

British Apollo, The, i. x, 36 note, 280 note, 293 note; ii. 42 note, 155 note; iii. 26 note

British Mercury, iii. 306 note

British Museum, ii. 156 note

British Perfumer, by Charles Lillie, ii. 20 note; iv. 354 note

British race, the true stock unfit for travel, ii. 302:

character of, iv. 138

Britons, no true, left, ii. 193

Broad, Mr., i. 317

---- Street, i. 334

Bromeo, a rival of Tabio, ii. 99 seq.

Brookfield, site of May Fair, i. 42 note

Broomstaff, i. 102, 104, 290

Broomstick, Nathaniel, i. 97 note

Browbeat, Benjamin, indicted for duelling, iv. 349

Brown, a print-seller, i. 33 note

---- Andrew, a watchmaker, iv. 383

---- Tom, his Amusements, Serious and Comical, ii. 348 note and seq.; iii. 139 note:

quoted, ii. 121 note

---- Will, i. 346

Browne, Sir Thomas, his Religio Medici, i. 267 note

Bruges, i. 28

Brumars, M., died for love of his wife, ii. 54

Brunett, Colonel, a very pretty fellow, i. 199 seq.

Brussels, letter from, i. 19, 88, 97, 151, 183, 197, 213, 229, 236, 290, 332; ii. 34

Brussels Postscript, The, i. 376, 377, 378, 384

Brutus, i. 70; ii. 140, 141, 223 note; iii. 89, 281

---- Junius, ii. 223 note

Bruyère, his satirical account of the French, ii. 59

Bubbleboy, Charles (i.e. Charles Mather), a toyman, i. 228; ii. 418

Buckhurst, Lord, afterwards Earl of Dorset, iv. 235 and note

Buckingham Court, ii. 125 and note

Buckingham, Duke of, his The Rehearsal, i. 63 and note; ii. 300 note, 301 note:

his The Chances, iii. 400:

referred to, i. 145; ii. 16 note, 285

Bucklersbury, iv. 381

Buckley, Sam, printer of London Gazette, &c., i. 157 note

Budgell, Dr. Gilbert, iii. 389 note

---- Eustace, his son, iii. 275 note, 389 note, 390 note

Buen Retiro, i. 51

Bullock, Will, comic actor, his talent for looking like a fool, i. 70:

compared to Will Penkethman, iii, 385:

referred to, i. 67 and note, 68 note; ii. 281

Bull-baiting, i. 235 note; iii. 111 seq.

Bull-beggar, a, iv. 95 and note

Bull Inn, iv. 150 note

Bunhill Row, i. 335, 336

Buononcini, Giovanni, composer of Camilla, ii. 373 and note

---- Giovanni Maria, musician, ii. 373 note

Burgess, merry Daniel, an Independent minister, ii. 121 and note; iv. 172, 222

Burgundy, Duke of, i. 35; ii. 54

---- Duchess of, i. 20, 96

---- i. 354

Burnet, Bishop, his History of his Own Time, ii. 294 note:

referred to, i. 265 note; ii. 154 and note:

his Travels and Letters, ii. 272 note

---- Thomas, his History of Robert Powell the Puppet-Showman, iv. 335 note

Burney, his History of Music, i. 345 note

Burridge (or Borago), a cordial, i. 259 note

Burton, his Anatomy of Melancholy, i. 23 note; iii. 63 note

Business men allowed to look in the "Mirror of Truth," ii. 344

Busy, Benjamin, complaint of interruption, iv. 347 seq.

Busybody, The, by Mrs. Centlivre, i. 135 seq., 163

Butcher Row, ii. 264 and note

Butler's Hudibras quoted, iii. 179 note

Buttler, Captain John, i. 334

Button's Coffee-house, i. 350 note; ii. 277 note

Buzzard, Benjamin, indicted for rudeness, iv. 319

Byng, Admiral, i. 61, 182

Byron, Christopher, ii. 317 note

---- Captain, i. 87 note

Cabe, Sergeant, of the Coldstreams, ii. 264

Cacus, a deer stealer, i. 256

Cadaroque, a fort of the Troquois, iii. 300, 301

Cadiz, ii. 19 note

Cadogan, Lieut.-General, i. 19 and note; ii. 133, 200

Cadwallader, King, iv. 301

Cælia, the history of, iv. 25 seq., 30

----, requests advice in choice between two suitors, iv. 35-37

Cæsar, Julius, his modesty at his death, ii. 263:

in the Chamber of Fame, ii. 228:

and Alexander compared to Marlborough and Prince Eugène, i. 62, 63

Referred to, i. 54, 252, 303 note, 304 note, 345; ii. 7 note, 33 and note, 110, 129, 140, 141, 152, 177, 207, 230, 239; iii. 89, 330, 385

Caius Marius, i. 16 note

Calais, ii. 27; iv. 249 note

Calamanco for the waistcoat, ii. 254 and note, 322

Calamities, real and imaginary, iii. 173, 174

Calatayud, iv. 158

Callicot, Edward, foreman of Cambric's shop, iv. 318

Calpurnia, Pliny's letters to, iii. 187 seq.

Cambric, Charles, indicted for obscene conversation, iv. 317

Cambridge, i. 350 note; iii. 159 note, 160 note

Camilla (Mrs. Tofts), i. 171 and note

Camilla, opera by Buononcini, i. 171 note, 345 note; ii. 373 note; iii. 6 note

Camillo (i.e. Lord John Somers), i. 44

Camomile, Lady, an old fop, iv. 352 seq.

Campaign, The, by Addison, i. 353 and note

Campbell, Duncan, a dumb fortune-teller, i. 126 and note:

Defoe's History of, i. 126 note; iii. 100 note:

referred to, ii. 125 note

Cancaon, i. 253

Cancrum, a very pretty fellow, i. 201

Candaules, King, iv. 238

Canes, not of the family of Staff, i. 104:

commonly hung from buttons by a ribbon, i. 217 and note:

persons permitted to wear them, ii. 221, 222:

clouded canes, ii. 418:

as necessary as a limb, ii. 360:

their use defended, ii. 363:

perfect canes, iii. 153, 154:

referred to, i. 367; ii. 165, 202, 298, 321, 359, 417

Canvy Island, iv. 380

Capitol, the, ii. 263

Card-matches, i. 41 and note

Careless, Frank, a coxcomb, i. 128

---- Jack, a love-letter from, i. 251:

referred to, i. 253

Careless Husband, by Cibber, i. 91 note

Carellis, Captain Robert, i. 334

Carey Street, Lincoln's Inn, ii. 121 note; iii. 98 note

Carignan, Prince de, i. 95

Carlisle, Dean of, ii. 120, 171 note

Carminative Wind-dispelling Pills, iv. 152

Carrol, Mr., i. 136 note

Carry, Joe, a very pretty fellow, i. 201

Cartail, Robert, of Bucks, i. 301

Carthage, ii. 229; iii. 361, 379, 392

Carthaginians, i. 54; ii. 229

Cartwright, Mr., iii. 6 note

Case, Dr., his Compendium Anatomicum, i. 169 note:

referred to, i. 127 note, 168 note; iv. 226

Cash, Tom, i. 218

---- Sir Tristram (i.e. Sir Francis Child), ii. 58 seq., 75, 76, 77

Caska, an impudent fellow, iv. 280

"Cashu," iv. 250 and note

Cassander in the Faërie Queene, iv. 16

Cassio in Othello, iv. 240 note

----, a rich man of excellent understanding, iv. 260

Cassius, i. 70; ii. 140, 141; iii. 281

Castabella, letter to, i. 130, 142

---- a prude, iii. 67

Castel Gandolpho, iii. 375

Castille, iv. 158

Castle Rackrent, by Miss Edgeworth, iv. 261 note

Castle Street, iv. 329

Castlemaine, Earl of, ii. 7 note

---- Lady, Pepys on, iii. 296 note

Caswell (i.e. Dr. Will Taswell), ii. 43 and note

Catalonia, i. 76, 95; ii. 200

Cathcart, Lord Charles, third husband of Elizabeth Malyn, iv. 261 note

Catholic, Roman, a custom in nunneries, ii. 318

---- Majesty, her, i. 213

---- Majesty, his, ii. 19, 188

Catiline, Sallust's History of, i. 75; ii. 94, 95; iv. 97 note

Catinat, i. 234

Cato, i. 54, 98; ii. 51, 413; iii. 89, 274 note, 385:

compared to I. B., iii. 256:

would rather be, than appear good, iii. 132:

the Censor, iv. 194 note

Cato of Utica, the younger, ii. 223 note:

in chamber of Fame, ii. 230

---- junior, iv. 13, 14

Catullus, his "Lesbia," i. 387:

his De Suffeno, iii. 259

Cavaliers on duelling, i. 319, 320

Cavallier, James, leader of French Protestants, i. 244 note

Caya, the, i. 149

"Cebes, the Table of," iii. 250 and note

Cecil Street, ii. 54, 156 note

Celamico, iv. 330

Celania, a shepherdess in Davenant's The Rivals, iv. 140 note

Celia, i. 46

Cenis, Mount, i. 399

Censor, the, of Great Britain (i.e. I. B.), necessity for, in a free nation, iii. 160:

defence of I. B.'s way of acting the part, iii. 255:

accused of partiality, iii. 343:

referred to, iii. 144, 149, 159, 248, 255 seq., 284; iv. 14, 17, 96, 127, 145, 195, 254, 312

Centaur, Lady, in Ben Jonson's Silent Woman, ii. 29 and note

Centlivre, Mrs. Susannah, her A Bickerstaff's Burying, i. 36 note:

her The Busybody performed, i. 135 and note, 163:

notice of her life, &c., i. 136 note

---- Joseph, i. 136 note

Ceres, iii. 341

Cervantes, his Don Quixote, iii. 331 seq.; iv. 279

Cevennes, the, i. 244 and note, 301 note, 332

Chalcas, i. 58

Chalmers quoted, i. 102 note

Chamade, the, defended, i. 362 and note

Chamberlain, Lord, closes theatre, i. 344 note:

referred to, i. 16 note, 37 note, 110 note, 250 note; ii. 334 note

Chamberlayn, Edward and John, authors of Angliæ Notitia; or, The Present State of England, iv. 154 note, 294 note

Chamillard, M., i. 229, 244

Chancery Lane, i. 228 note; iii. 147

Chances, The, by the Duke of Buckingham, iii. 400 and note

Chanticleer, Job, petition from, iii. 110

Chapel Clerk, a, ii. 150, 172, 173

Character of the Present set of Whigs, by J. Trapp, ii. 121 note

Character of Don Sacheverello, Knight of the Firebrand, in a letter to Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq., iii. 141

Charing Cross, i. 154, 219 note, 261 note; ii. 125, 126 note, 150; iii. 26 note, 100, 209; iv. 149 note, 150 note, 254, 329 note

Charlemagne, ii. 300

Charles Street, i. 342 note

Charles I., i. 15 note, 83 note; ii. 294 note, 334 note

---- II., i. 83 note, 126 note, 127 note, 153 note, 157, 202, 310 note, 317; ii. 246 note, 320 note, 413 note; iii. 113 note; iv. 109 note, 140 note, 150 note, 207, 372 note

---- XII., ii. 47 note, 135 note

---- King of Spain, i. 49, 60, 61, 67, 71, 73, 94, 174

Charlettus Percivallo Suo, by Edmund Smith, i. 158 note

Charlton, Mr. Thomas, his story, ii. 178 note

Charmont, i. 174

Charon, the ferryman, iii. 212, 223

Charterhouse yard, ii. 156 note

---- school, ii. 331 note; iv. 201 note

Chastity, bequeathed by I. B., i. 66:

to be valued in men as in women, ii. 62:

more difficult for a young man than generosity, ii. 64

Chaucer, ii. 425 note

Cheapside Conduit, ii. 192

---- i. 334; ii. 373; iii. 55; iv. 149 note, 153 note, 370

Chelsea, some account of the coffee-houses, &c., i. 280 seq.:

referred to, i. 349 note; ii. 244, 267; iii. 302; iv. 163

---- Hospital, room for news-writers, i. 159:

referred to, iv. 172

---- fields, i. 389

Chequers, common name for public houses, ii. 264 note

Chesterfield, Lord, i. 100 note

Chetwine, Mrs. (see Clarissa), her history, i. 38 note:

her marriage, ii. 255 seq.:

referred to, i. 259, 286; ii. 62

Chetwynd, William Richard, third Viscount, i. 38 note

Chetwynd, Walter, M. P. for Stafford, Master of the Buckhounds, i. 38 note

Cheyne Walk, i. 280 note

Chicheley, Mrs. Sarah, her beauty and fidelity, ii. 369 and note, 370 note, 379

---- Sir Thomas, her husband, ii. 370

---- Sir John, one of King William's admirals, her son, ii. 369

Chichester, Bishop of, i. 124 note

Child, Sir Francis, banker, i. 349 note; ii. 58

Children in the Wood, iv. 163

Child's Coffee house, iv. 131

China, craze for collecting, i. 192 and note

Chiswell Street, i. 334, 335

Chloe (i.e. Mrs. Hales), her character, i. 38 note and seq., 64, 259

---- advised against the lottery, iv. 53, 72, 73

---- beloved of Philander, ii. 306, seq.

---- asks I. B. whether he is quite as good as he seems, iii. 145:

referred to, ii. 6

Chloes, the, i. 138

Chloris, i. 81

Choice Sentences for the Company of Masons and Bricklayers, by I. B., i. 151

Christchurch, i. 7 note, 281; ii. 171

Christian Man's Vocabulary, The, iv. 308

Christianity not Mysterious, by Toland, ii. 417 note

Christ's Hospital, ii. 97, 156 note; iii. 160 note

Chromius, who sighed for Laura, ii. 37

Chronicle of the Kings of England, by Baker, iv. 342 and note

Chryses, King of Chryseis, i. 58 seq.

Church, bad manners in, iii. 144; iv. 315, 316

---- preferment, a problem in, iv. 167, 168

Churchill, Brigadier-General Charles, i. 90 note, 91 note

Cibber, Caius Gabriel, a sculptor, ii. 14 note; iii. 65 note

---- Colley, acknowledges service of Steele to the stage, i. 15 note:

on Betterton, ibid.:

on Mrs. Barry, ibid. and 16 note:

on Mrs. Bracegirdle, i. 17 note:

on Mrs. Verbruggen, i. 30 note:

on Underhill, i. 188 note:

on Sandford, iii. 113 note:

on John Mills, iv. 42 note:

on Mrs. Oldfield, iv. 94 note:

his Careless Husband, i. 91 note; iii. 357:

his Apology, i. 110 note; iii. 1 note, 355 note:

complains of money given to singers, &c., i. 110 note:

his salary, ii. 164 note:

his Double Gallant; or, Sick Lady's Cure, ii. 201 and note; iv. 262:

on Charles II., ii. 413 note:

his Rival Queens, iii. 399 and note:

his excellences, iii. 355 note and seq.:

manager of Drury Lane, iii. 355 note:

his Love's Last Shift, iii. 356:

his Lives of the Poets, iii. 390 note

Referred to, i. 37 note, 358 note; ii. 334 note; iii. 283 note, 384

Cibber, Mrs., iii. 299 note

Cicereius, his modesty, ii. 262

Cicero, two orations of, ii. 152, 153:

his De Oratore quoted, ii. 155; iv. 219:

De Amicitia, ii. 410, 412 note; iii. 45:

De Officio, ii. 323:

his Disp. Tusc., ii. 231 note; iii. 62, 116 note; iv. 228:

De Sen., iii. 98, 114:

Pro Archia Oratio, iii. 280; in the Chamber of Fame, ii. 229:

letters to his wife, iii. 239 seq.

Referred to, ii. 94, 230; iii. 61, 89, 115, 116; iv. 151, 220, 221, 239, 356

---- the younger, iii. 239, 240, 243

Cineas, the orator, iv. 45

"Cits" distinguished from citizen, i. 211, 212; iii. 256

City, a fine city widow, i. 127, 128

City train-bands subject of ridicule, i. 232 and note

City Shower, The, by Swift, iii. 38 note

"Civil Husband, The," ii. 27 seq.

Civil Wars, the, iv. 267

Civility, injudicious, a nuisance, iv. 74

Clapper, Mr., a great talker, iv. 203

Clare Market, a butcher of, attempts to bribe I. B., iii. 178, 179:

referred to, iii. 110

Clarence, Duke of, ii. 285

Clarendon Press, i. 317

Clarinda, loving Philander, ii. 306 seq.

Clarinda, caught cold at a masquerade, iii. 171

---- beloved of Philander, iii. 297, 298

---- her folly, iv. 260:

referred to, iv. 142

Clarissa (Mrs. Chetwine), her character, i. 39 seq., 48

---- the divine, her cruelty, iii. 170

Clarissas, the, i. 138

Clark, Dr., oculist, iv. 150 and note

---- Joseph, a young posture master, ii. 389 note

Claviger, i. 256

Clay Hill, i. 262 note

Clayton, Thomas, author of Arsinöe, his pastoral masque, iii. 276 and note:

introduced Italian opera into England, iii. 276 note

Clement XI., Pope, ii. 142

---- Thomas, iv. 315, 327 seq.

Cleomilla, "a female miner," ii. 271

Cleomira, an old "fine lady," ii. 86, 87

Cleontes politely ridiculous, ii. 111

Cleopatra, i. 93, 346

---- her eyes more beautiful than any ear-ring, iii. 195

Cleora, friend and rival of Diana Doubtful, ii. 328 seq.

Clergy, the, advised to read celebrated sermons instead of their own, ii. 59:

poor speakers and readers, ii. 119 seq., 151 seq., 170, 171:

their language and subjects complained of, iii. 149, 150:

degradation of, iv. 293 seq., 313, 314:

their periwigs, iv. 372 seq.

Clergy, The Contempt of the, by Dr. John Eachard, ii. 143 note:

appendix to the same, ii. 143

Clerkenwell Green, i. 235 note

Cleveland, Barbara, Duchess of (Villaria), mistress of Charles II., ii. 4, 5 note, 7 note and seq., 14, 87

Clidamira, a pretty lady, i. 278, 279

Clinch of Barnet, imitator, ii. 15 and note

Clod, Colonel, i. 141

Clodius, iii. 62

Clogher, Bishop of, iv. 175 note, 176 note, 215 note, 216 note

Clotilda, rival of Maria, ii. 288

Club, a, some account of, iii. 98 seq.

Clubs and Club Life in London, by Timbs, i. 12 note, 280 note; ii. 260 note

Clubs frequented about 6 P.M., i. 224 note

---- not family of Staffs, i. 104

Clumsy, Sir Tunbelly, in Vanbrugh's Relapse, i. 67 note

Clytus, iii. 399

Cock Hall, iii. 110

---- fighting, Hogarth's picture of, iii. 111 seq., 112 note

Cockpit, the, iii. 127 and note

Codrus, iii. 359, 380

Coell, Sir John, i. 41 note

Coffee-houses, different ones for retailing news of different subjects, i. 12, 13:

the histories of, i. 12 note, 13 note:

natural resort after plays, i. 32:

politicians of the, i. 92; ii. 321; iv. 360 seq.:

frequented at about 6 P.M., i. 224 note:

of Edinburgh, iv. 383

Referred to, ii. 110, 149, 353; iii. 65, 109, 147; iv. 254

See Smyrna, White's, Will's, Button's, Young Man's, the Crown, the Chelsea, the Grecian, Morris's, St. James's, Tom's, Garraway's, Mandoe's, the Rainbow, Dick's, Child's, Jacob's, Denis's, Lloyd's, The Old Man's, Union, Jack's.

Coggan, Henry, translator of Mendez Pinto's travels, iv. 288 note

Coke, Mr., i. 38 note

---- Justice, his Institutes of the Laws of England, iii. 107 note, 389

Colbert, i. 74 note, 174 note

Coldstream Guards, ii. 315 note

Coleman Street, i. 334

Coleridge on Steele, i. xx

Collier, William, M.P., seizes Drury Lane, ii. 334 note:

his struggle with Rich, ii. 336 note and seq.

---- Jeremy, his attack on the immorality of the stage, ii. 336 note:

his Essays upon several Moral Subjects, iv. 275 note:

on fortitude, iv. 275:

referred to, i. viii

Collins, his Discourse of Free-Thinking, iii. 115 note

Colloquies of Luther, iv. 52 note

Colmar, i. 174 note

Cologne, Elector of, i. 339

Colson, John, a punning Cambridge scholar, ii. 39 and note

Colt, Sir Henry (Trick Track), i. 124 and note

"Colt's Tooth," a, iii. 198 and note

Coltstaff, i. 130

Comber, James, a churchwarden, ii. 43 note

Combes, Daniel, second husband of Dorothy Addison, iv. 204 note

Comedians-in-ordinary to his Majesty, i. 16 note

Comedies reflect the taste of the age, i. 341 seq.:

subscription for the encouragement of new, i. 189

Comma, Jack, a man of learning without sense, ii. 65-67

---- Mrs. (Mary Astell). See Astell, Mary

Commachio, i. 50, 61, 72

"Commodes" as head-dresses, iii. 192 and note

Commonwealth, the interests of the, i. 11

Comparison between Two Stages, by Gildon, ii. 334 note

Compendium Anatomicum, &c., by Dr. Case, i. 169 note

Competency, iii. 52

Complacency, iii. 36

Complete Gamester, by Strutt, iv. 250 note

Compostella, iii. 63 note

Compter (or Counter), debtor's prison, i. 233 and note

Comus, Milton's, quoted, ii. 332, 333

Condé, i. 174, 291, 299, 339; ii. 97, 109

Condoling Letter to "The Tatler," A, iv. 172, 173 note

Confederacy, by Vanbrugh, i. 111 note

Congreve, his Love for Love performed, i. 15 and note, 16 note:

his Old Bachelor, i. 81 and note; ii. 62 note:

The Drummer dedicated to, i. 155 note; iii. 227 note, 292 note:

his The Way of the World, iv. 367 and note:

referred to, i. 17 note, 29 note, 395 note; iv. 310 note

Coniers, John, an apothecary, i. 179 note

Conjectura Cabalistica, by Henry More, i. 262 note

Consbruck, i. 95

Conscience, the Court of, iv. 286

Constant, Col., love-letter from, i. 252, 253

Constant Couple, The; or Trip to the

Jubilee, by Farquhar, i. 125, 163; iii. 356 note

Constantia, iii. 400

Constantine, founder of "The Grecian," i. 13 note

Constantinople, i. 61; iii. 222

Contention, iii. 36

Conversation, perplexed by pretenders, i. 7:

the decay of, i. 109:

the art of, iv. 154 seq.

Cook, a fencing-master, i. 42 note

Cooke, translator of A Reprehension of Naked Breasts and Shoulders, iv. 109 note

Cooper, John, a constable, i. 42 note

Copenhagen, i. 72, 112

Copper Office, ii. 84

Coppersmith, Harry, money-lender, his character, ii. 57, 58, 84

---- Will, of great credit among the Lombards, ii. 57

Copswood, Mrs. Alse (Archbishop of York), i. 300 and note

Coquette, a converted, i. 86, 87:

character of, i. 225 seq.:

the humour of a, iii. 69 seq.

Cordwainers' Hall, ii. 339

Corelli, Archangelo, violinist, ii. 373 and note

Coriana, a faithful lover, ii. 40, 41

Corinna, mistress of Limberham (i.e. Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas), i. 55 note, 396 note

---- complains of flatteries in a stage-coach, iv. 107

---- i. 46

Cornhill, i. 387 note, 390; ii. 373; iii 169

"Cornwall, the lovers of," ii. 234

Correggio, iv. 322

Correspondence, all over the world arranged for, i. 12

Correspondents, contributions from unknown, i. 4

Corvix for Cervix, iii. 87 note

Corydon, iv. 250

Cosmelia, the divine, iv. 352

Costume, a cyclopædia of, iii. 192 note

Coulson, Tom (Aurengezebe), i. 371 note and seq.

Country, the lasting pleasures, iii. 337 seq.

---- gentlemen, their strange habits, ii. 321 seq.:

town terms explained to, i. 175 seq., 198 seq., 201 seq., 223 seq.:

the genuine, a fine character, iii. 291:

fashion in coats, iv. 82

Country Wife, The, by Wycherley, performed, i. 29 seq.

Coupler, honest, iv. 31

Couplet, Josiah, letter from, ii. 121

Courage, bequeathed by I. B., i. 66

Courant, The, i. 347. See Daily Courant

---- the Scots, iv. 383

Court of Requests, the, iv. 176

Courtier, a letter from a, ii. 207

Courtley, Will, a model of breeding, i. 250

Courtly, Lady, a fine talker, ii. 93 seq.

---- Tom, the pink of courtesy, iv. 57

Courtray, i. 73, 88, 229, 237

Courts, their effect on character, iii. 259 seq.

Courtwood, Mrs., her visiting list, ii. 397

Covent Garden, i. 42 note, 355, 373; iii. 299 and note, 336:

iv. 327 note, 335 note

Coventry, Earl of, i. 42 note

Coverley, the Roger de, i. 158 note; iv. 342 note

Covetous man, a mad man, iii. 65

Cowley as a critic, iv. 199:

quoted, iv. 278

Cowper, his John Gilpin, i. 232 note

---- Spencer, Judge of Common Pleas, i. 317 and note

---- William Lord, Baron of Wingham, vol. iii. dedicated to, iii. 1 and note, 90

Coxcomb, a, his goods sold by auction, ii. 401, 402, 416 seq.

Coxcombs, a new kind of, ii. 61, 70:

allowed to retain their fashions, ii. 320 seq., 359 seq.:

concerning various, i. 309 seq.:

men saved from being, iv. 24:

a fool of parts, iv. 77:

the worst kind—professed wits, iv. 124 seq.

Crabtree, Captain, haberdasher, i. 232, 233

---- the, iii. 385

"Crack, a," iii. 332 and note

"Crackers," &c., ii. 272; iii. 258

Craftsman, The, iv. 195 note

Crassau, General, i. 71, 204

Crassus, Maria's wealthy suitor, ii. 286 seq.:

his woods and forests, iii. 355

Crawley, his show, i. 140 note

Cream, beautifying, iv. 153 and note

"Creation of the World," a puppet-show, i. 140 and note

Cressy won on beef and mutton, iii. 179

Cripplegate, i. 335 note

Critic, a, character of, i. 241 seq.; iii. 269 seq.:

sort of Puritan in the polite world, i. 242

Critical Specimen, The, iii. 249 note

Cromwell, Henry (Sir Jaffety Trippet, the fortune hunter; Squire Easy, the amorous bard; Sir Timothy Tittle, the critic; and (?) Tom Spindle), i. 380 note and seq., iii. 263 note, 270 seq.

---- Oliver, i. 153 note, 179 note; ii. 14 and note, 279; iv. 268:

his coins, iv. 249 and note, 269 note

Crooked Lane, i. 275

Cross, Thomas, ii. 275

Cross-grain, Nick, a writer of anagrams, ii. 65

Cross-stitch, Mrs. Catherine, inventor of a new fashion in petticoats, ii. 418

Crowdero in Hudibras, i. 377

Crowley, Sir Ambrose (Sir Arthur de Bradley), ii. 179 and note

Crown and Cushion, the, iii. 299 note

---- Coffee house, i. 293 note

Crowther, Colonel Thomas, i. 146 note and seq.:

verses by, i. 377 note

Cudgels not of the family of Staffs, i. 104

Culverin (or Gun) of Wapping, i. 200, 201 and note

Cunning condemned, i. 8

Cupid, i. 46, 225, 395; iii. 36, 78; iv. 223, 250:

a perverse, iv. 321, 322

---- a dog, iii. 39 seq.

Curatii, i. 319

Curll, i. 15 note

Curtius, Quintus, quoted, i. 74; iv. 80 seq.

Custom, force of, i. 239, 240

---- House, i. 390

Cutter, a sharper, ii. 177

Cutts, Lord, his verses quoted, i. 47 and note:

referred to, i. vii

Cyder, by John Philips, iii. 23 note; iv. 270 note

Cymon, a young fellow grown sprightly, ii. 22

Cynthia, a coquette, ii. 382 seq.

Cynthio (i.e. Viscount Hinchinbroke), the story of, i. 14, 15 and note:

absorbed by passion for a lady who passed his window in a coach, i. 14, 15:

the only true lover of the age, i. 47 and note:

on love, i. 184 seq.:

a letter from his mistress, i. 186 seq.:

gives up Clarissa, his letter to Elizabeth Popham (i.e. Steele's to Prue), i. 286, 287:

his passion for Clarissa, ii. 62 seq.:

his reflections on the story of Scipio, ii. 64:

his death and epitaph, ii. 255, 256

Referred to, i. 47, 48

Cyrus the Great, i. 345, 358

Czar, the, ii. 47 and note, 67; iii. 336

Dacier, the critic, iii. 272; iv. 139

Dactile, Little Mr. Jasper, at work on a poem of advice to a young virgin who knits, i. 34, 35:

a wit, i. 243:

on ridicule, ii. 100 seq.

Daily Courant, i. 36 note, 157 note, 159 and note, 293 note; ii. 42 note, 182 note, 211 note; iii. 220, 277 note, 335; iv. 150 note, 152 note, 154 note

Daintry, innkeeper, i. 156 note

Dainty, Lady, refuses to eat, ii. 201

---- Dame Winifred, her reputation, iv. 318

---- Richard, husband of Dame Winifred, iv. 318

---- of Soho, i. 302

Dale, Will, churchwarden, ii. 43 note

Damasippus, a victim of vanity, iii. 372

Damia, a very pretty lady, i. 278, 279

Damon, his courtship, ii. 299:

lover of Clarinda, iv. 260

---- i. 300

Dampier, Will, his fat boatswain, ii. 95, 96

Danae, iv. 216 note

Dancing-master, a, ii. 273 seq.

Daniel, Cromwell's mad porter, ii. 14 and note

---- Samuel, the historian, iii. 180; iv. 180, 181

Danish blood in England, ii. 193

Dantzic, the plague at, ii. 324 and note:

referred to, i. 77, 236

Dapper, Tim, a very inconsiderable fellow, ii. 254

---- a, ii. 321; iii. 256

----, Parson (i.e. Joseph Trapp), his character, ii. 121 seq.

Dares, i. 257

Darius, iii. 400; iv. 78, 79

Dashwell, Nehemiah, i. 162

Dassapas, Tom, his potion, i. 393

Dathan, a peddling Jew, iv. 301 seq.

Dauphin, the, i. 144, 305; ii. 54

Dauphiné, i. 51, 94, 182, 354; ii. 48

Davenant, Sir William, his Siege of Rhodes, i. 172 note:

his alterations of Shakespeare, ii. 141 note:

his theatrical company, ii. 163 note:

his Rivals, iv. 140 note:

referred to, i. 37 note

---- Lady, i. 15 note

Davenport, Major-General Sherington, iii. 9 note; iv. 376 and note

David, iii. 391; iv. 308

Davis, Edward, ii. 179 note

----, Mrs. Mary, dancer, mistress of Charles II., iv. 140 note

Dawks, Ichabod, a news-writer, i. 158 and note:

his Letter printed to imitate handwriting, iii. 334 and note, 335:

his character, iii. 335

De Duello, by Selden, i. 255 note

De Poematum Cantu et Viribus Rhythmi, by Vossus, i. 282 note

De Usu Partium, by Galen, iii. 28

Dean Street, iv. 148 note

Death, considerations on, iii. 350 seq.:

as treated by Swift, Addison, and Steele, iii. 351 note

Decius, the abandoned, i. 364, 365

Dedication, an ideal, i. 348, 349:

some thoughts on, iii. 327 seq.

Defence of the Awkward Fellows against the Smarts, &c., ii. 80

Defoe, Daniel, his Life of Campbell, the fortune-teller, i. 126 note; iii. 100 note:

wrongly supposed author of Memoirs of the Life and Adventures of Signor Rozelli, i. 83 note:

on the storm of 1703, i. 353 note:

his Journey through England, i. 387 note:

regret at Steele answering his critics, iv. 173 note:

his Apparition of Mrs. Veal, iv. 316 note:

his (?) Groans of Great Britain, iv. 335 note

Referred to, i. 31 note; 158 note, ii. 135 note

Delamira (Lady Jane Hamilton?) resigns her fan, ii. 20 seq.

Deleau, Mrs., a widow, ii. 4 note

Delia, ii. 6; iii. 190

----, a beauty within the power of art, ii. 56

Demosthenes, ii. 94, 119, 120, 153; iii. 360; iv. 221

Denham, his Directions to a Painter, i. 34 and note

Denis's Coffee-house, iv. 252 note

Denmark, King of, i. 50, 51, 60, 61, 72, 76, 129, 183, 204, 213, 236, 276, 304; iii. 85 note

Dennis, John (Rinaldo Furioso, "Critic of the Woful Countenance"), his Essay on Operas, i. 40 note:

his invention of stage thunder, i. 346 and note:

his Appius and Virginia, i. 346 note:

referred to, iii. 249 note

Dentifrice, Mrs., i. 118

D'Epingle, Madame, a doubtful character, i. 68 seq., 273 note, 278

Derision. See Ridicule

Derwentwater, Earl of, iv. 140 note

Description of the Morning, by Wagstaff (i.e. Swift), i. 3, 82, 111; iv. 216 note

Desdemona, iii. 281:

her character, iii. 383

D'Estain, Count, i. 73

Deucalion, preserved at the destruction of mankind, iii. 173

Devereux Court, a duel at, i. 13 note

Devil, the Old, at Temple Bar, ii. 215

Devillier (or Duvillier), a hairdresser, iii. 275

D'Harcourt, M., i. 88; ii. 73

Dialogues on Medals, by Addison, i. 152 note

Dialogue, a, on the present wits, i. 107 seq.

Diana, i. 42; iii. 341; iv. 262

Dick's Coffee-house (also called Richard's), ii. 260 and note, 279

Dicky, a cruel boy, ii. 411, 412, 415

Dictinna, her character, i. 116 seq.

Didapper, Mr., persists in red-heeled shoes, ii. 127

Dido, i. 57; iii. 105:

the shade of, iii. 215

Diego, Don. See Don Diego Dismallo

Diego, the sexton in Beaumont and Fletcher's Spanish Curate, iv. 199

Diet of the City considered by Tatler, iii. 179 seq.:

beef and mutton recommended, ibid.:

foolish custom in, iii. 181 seq.

Dieuport assisted to introduce Italian operas to England, iii. 276 note

Difference between Scandal and Admonition, by I. B., i. 151

Dimple, Jack, a pretty fellow, i. 176, 177

---- Mrs. Winifred, betrothed to Mr. Ezekiel Boniface, ii. 374

---- Lady, iii. 273

Dioclesian, i. 346

Diogenes the Laertian, ii. 231

Diomedes, i. 59, 60

Dipple, Mrs., i. 118

Directions to a Painter, by Denham, i. 34 and note

Directions to the Waiting-Maid, by Swift, iv. 294 note

Discourse of Free-Thinking, iii. 115 note

Discourse on Satire, by Dryden, ii. 425 note

Discretion, iii. 36

Disguises of Cunning, Vanity, and Affectation stripped off, by I. B., i. 8

Dismallo, Don Diego (name afterwards given to the Earl of Nottingham), i. 184, 259, 323 and note

Dispensary, The, by Sir Samuel Garth, i. 127 note; ii. 208 note, 376

"Dissertation on Bath Waters," i. 133 note

Dissimulation distinguished from simulation, iv. 97 seq.

Distaff, Mrs. Jenny, half-sister to I. B., letters from, i. 89 seq., 270 seq., 291 seq., 300 seq.; iv. 256:

meaning of the name, i. 104:

her instructive autobiography, i. 272 seq.:

devoted to the interests of her own sex, i. 305:

consulted about the Chamber of Fame, ii. 136:

a husband for, ii. 188 seq.:

her lover Tranquillus, ii. 250 seq.:

as a wife, ii. 366 seq.:

should not be called madam, iii. 143:

a visit from, iii. 155 seq.:

her gay equipage, iii. 156, 157

Distaff, Mrs. Jenny, referred to, i. xvi, 93 note, 97 note, 290, 313, 314 note, 329; ii. 247; iii. 284, 365

"Distress of the News-Writers," by Addison, i. 4

Divination, the gift of, possessed by I. B., i. 14

Divito (i.e. Christopher Rich), his management of the theatre, ii. 336 note:

referred to, i. 110 and note

Dockwra, William, established Penny Post in London, ii. 130

Dodwell, Henry, A. M., the Nonjuror, his Epistolary Discourse, proving that the Soul is a Principle naturally Mortal, iii. 23 and note, 375

Doelittle, Mrs. Mary, her scoured petticoat, iv. 316

Dog, a fine lady's, his illness and cure, iii. 39 seq.

Doggett, Thomas, in Love for Love, i. 17 note:

managed Drury Lane with Steele, i. 17 note:

in the Old Bachelor, iii. 405, 406, 407:

referred to, iii. 38, 282 note

Dogood, Mr., his foolish story, iv. 368

Dogs (or curs), i.e. sharpers, ii. 125 seq., 142, 143, 157 seq., 175 seq.:

of the feminine gender, ii. 137

Doll, i. 89 note

Domestic news from St. James's Coffee-house, i. 13

Domitian, i. 257; iv. 236

Dompre, Lieut.-General, i. 229

Don Diego. See Dismallos

---- de Miranda, in Don Quixote, ii. 148 note

---- John, iii. 400

Don Quixote, Comical History of, i. 36 note:

translated by Jervas, i. 39 note:

the barber in, i. 282:

translated by Motteux, ii. 377 note:

reflections on, iii. 331 seq.:

said to destroy spirit of gallantry, iv. 126:

referred to, i. 239, 258; ii. 148

Don Quixote, by D'Urfey, i. 36 note; iv. 102 note

Donauwerth, battle of, i. 20 note

Donne, his Sermons, iv. 342 note

Dorchester, the coach to, iii. 158

Dorinda and Sylvia, dialogue between, by Mrs. Singer, i. 92 and note

Dorinda (in Spectator), i. 216 note:

referred to, iv. 25 and note

Dorset, Earl of, i. 112 and note:

a dedication to, iv. 102 note

Dorset Gardens, comedians at, i. 36 note, 37 note:

Theatre Royal in, iii. 58 note:

referred to, ii. 163 note

Douay, i. 19 note, 174, 205, 269, 339; iii. 245, 316 and note, 321, 333 note, 379

Double, Peter, indicted for discourtesy, iv. 348, 349

Double Gallant, The; or, The Sick Lady's Cure, by Cibber, ii. 201 and note; iv. 262

Doubt, Mr. Nicholas, of the Inner Temple, ii. 257 seq., 290

Doubtful, Diana, her distresses, ii. 328 seq.:

I. B.'s cure, ii. 329 seq.

Dover, Henry Lord, i. 41 note

Dover Cliff, in Shakespeare's King Lear, iii. 20

Downes, the prompter, an Epistle from, i. 4; iii. 343 note, 408 seq.:

his Roscius Anglicanus; or, Historical Review of the Stage, iii. 408 note:

(? J. Osborne, Duke of Leeds), iii. 407 note

Dozers, the, their character, iv. 61 seq.

Drachm, the learned Dr., i. 383

Dragon, of Wantley, the, i. 239 note

---- a kind of cane, iii. 154 and note

Drake, Sir Francis, iv. 266

Drawcansir, in The Rehearsal, i. 157 note

Dresden, i. 50, 51, 183, 204, 213, 276

Dress, simplicity in, recommended, i. 8:

extravagance in, condemned, i. 253, 254:

in house, rules for, iv. 93 seq.

Driden, John, of Chesterton, Dryden's Epistle to, ii. 166 and note

Drinking, the vice of the country, iii. 289 seq.:

the habit of, iv. 229 seq., 278 seq.

Dromio, a sharper, ii. 51

Drummer, The, dedicated to Congreve, i. 155 note, 292 note; iii. 227 note:

referred to, i. 158 note

Drumstick, Dorothy, iii. 143, 144

Drury Lane, under Steele and Doggett, i. 17 note:

closed, i. 250 and note:

sale of its goods and movables, i. 344 seq., 358:

its monopoly broken, ii. 334 note

Referred to, i. 24 note, 36 note, 42 note, 110 note, 188 note, 373; ii. 336, 420; iii. 276 note

Drybones, Tom, a very pretty fellow, i. 201

Dryden, John, at Will's, i. 13 note:

his state of Innocence and Fall of Man compared to Paradise Lost, i. 55, 56:

referred to, ii. 92 note:

as Bayes in The Rehearsal, i. 63 note:

his Miscellany Poems, i. 92 and note:

his All for Love, i. 93 and note:

his Almanzor and Almahide, i. 114, 115 and note:

translation of Helen's Epistle to Paris (Ovid), i. 117 note:

on a critic, i. 242:

his Of Heroic Plays, i. 367 note:

his The Kind Keeper, i. 396 note:

on Duke of Buckingham, ii. 16 and note:

his definition of art, ii. 92 note and seq.:

note on Bishop Burnet, ii. 154 note:

his Epistle to John Driden of Chesterton, ii. 166 and note:

his Discourse on Satire, ii. 424 note, 425 note:

his Translation of Virgil recommended, iii. 217:

his Hind and Panther parodied by Prior and Montague, iv. 3 note:

his Translation of Juvenal, iv. 136 note

Referred to, i. 7 note, 18, 303 note; ii. 249 note, 334 note; iv. 226

Dublin, theatre at, i. 33 note:

referred to, iv. 208, 209

Duck Island, Governor of, ii. 413 note

Duel over meaning of a Greek word, i. 13 note

Duelling, to be extirpated with gaming, i. 5:

prompted by a false sense of honour, i. 6:

the folly of, i. 207 seq.:

the spirit of, i. 220 seq.:

a subtle question on, i. 230 seq.:

thoughts on, i. 231 seq.:

effect on men of the city, i. 233 seq.:

survival of knight-errantry, i. 239:

kept up by force of custom, i. 239, 240:

history of, i. 254 seq.:

not known in countries of the South or East, i. 255:

a place for, i. 258 and note:

a bloodless duel, i. 307, 308:

a dialogue on, i. 318 seq.:

duellists not men of honour, iii. 256:

opposed, iv. 59 note

Duke (now Sardinia) Street, iii. 410 note

Duke of Marlborough's Head in Fleet Street, iii. 82 note, 83 note

Duke's company, the, ii. 163 note; iii. 408 note

Dull, the art of being, iv. 193 seq.

Dulwich Hospital founded by the actor Alleyn, i. 172 note

Dunciad, The, i. 346 note; ii. 261 note

Dunkirk, i. 20, 173, 206, 362; iii. 336

Dunton quoted, iii. 332 note

D'Urfey, Tom, his character, i. 18, 19 and note:

his Modern Prophets, i. 18 note, 42 note, 100 note, 348 and note:

his Wit and Mirth, a song in, called "The Young Maid's Portion," iii. 192 note:

his The Old Mode and the New; or, Country Miss with her Furbelow, iii. 196 note:

that "ancient lyric," iv. 102 and note:

his "Second Part of Don Quixote," i. 36 note; iv. 102 note

Quoted, iii. 66

Durham Street, i. 219 note

---- Yard, i. 219; iv. 379

Dursley, James, Viscount, i. 137 and note

Dutch, character of the, iii. 82:

mails, iii. 218:

nightingales (i.e. frogs), iv. 207

Duumvir (i.e. Duke of Ormond?), ii. 35 note and seq.

Duvillier, i.e. a full-bottomed wig, i. 238 and note, 239

D'Uzeda, Duke, i. 71

Dyctinna, a country beauty, iv. 262, 263

Dyer's Letter, i. 158 and note; ii. 261; iv. 103

Eachard, Dr. John, his Contempt of the Clergy and Religion Inquired into, ii. 143 note:

referred to, iv. 294 note

Earl of Essex, a play by John Banks, i. 125 and note

Earl's Court, iii. 302

Early hours, in praise of, iv. 336 note and seq.

East India Company founded, iv. 3 note

---- Indies, iii; 154 iv. 204 note

Easy, Dick (? Henry Cromwell), his ambition to be a poet, i. 380 note; iii. 263

---- Lady, her visiting on the wrong days, ii. 397

---- Sir Charles, in Careless Husband, iii. 357 note

Eaters, the, distinguished from swallowers, iv. 61

Eaton Square, i. 280 note

Ebenezer, an ill-used lover, iv. 365 seq.

Eboracensis (i.e. Robert Hunter), a wise governor, ii. 145 seq.

Ecclesiastical thermometer, iv. 128 seq.

Edgeworth, Miss, her Castle Rackrent, iv. 261 note

Edgworth, Colonel Ambrose, a dandy, iv. 254 and note

Edinburgh, fops in, iii. 165: referred to, iv. 260, 382, 383

---- reprint of Tatler, iv. 382

Editions, beautiful, dying out, ii. 351

Edward, Prince, ii. 285

---- IV., his sons, ii. 285

Egerton, his Memoirs of Gamesters, ii. 14 note, 178 note

Eitherside, Bridget, a letter from, ii. 147

Elector, the, ii. 73

---- Palatine, i. 183

Electuary, an, iv. 150 and note, 353 and note

Eleonora would conceal her grey hairs, ii. 131

Elizabeth, Queen, a speech by, quoted, ii. 180;

her maids of honour allowed three rumps of beef at breakfast, iii. 180

Referred to, iii. 149; iv. 103, 180, 266, 267, 305

----, Mrs., her youth, iii. 319

Elliot, Mr., of St. James's Coffee-house, scheme to keep the lottery, iv. 43;

referred to, iv. 48, 52, 72

Elmira, a faithful spouse, ii. 27 seq.

Eloquence and graceful action, ii. 118 seq.

Elow Oh Kaom, Iroquois Chief of River Sachem and the Ganajohhom Sachem, iii. 299 note, 301

Elpenor among the shades, iii. 200

Elscrikius, Dr. Johannes, Professor in Anatomy, iv. 112

Elstob, Elizabeth, author of Anglo-Saxon Grammar, ii. 104 and note

Elvas, i. 106, 150

Elysian Fields, i. 77, 78

Elysium, ii. 308; iii. 216, 226

Elzevir, ii. 218, 347 note; iii. 234, 249

Emilia, a letter from, ii. 55:

a town wit not appreciated in the country, ii. 56 seq.

Emma, Queen, ii. 104

Emmanuel College, iii. 160 note

Emperor, the German, i. 54 note, 70, 72, 95, 145, 174; iv. 148

"Empire of Beauty," an essay contemplated by I. B., i. 90 seq.

Empty, Tom, iii. 154

Encheiridion of Epictetus, ii. 145

Enfield Chase, iv. 261

England, papers published for the use of the people of, i. 11:

duels in, conducted with good breeding, i 235:

mixed blood in, ii. 193:

referred to, iii. 335, 337

---- Sir George, on the victory at Malplaquet, ii. 113, 114

English, the, love blood in their sport, iii. 113 and note:

character of, iv. 97 seq.

English Grammar, an, by M. Maittaire, iv. 196 note

English Mirror, The, by George Whetstone, i. 340

English Post, The, iii. 220

English Rudiments of Grammar for the Anglo-Saxon Tongue, ii. 104 and note

Entellus, i. 257

Entertainment, articles of, under White's Chocolate-house, i. 12:

means of, will never fail The Tatler, i. 14

Envious man, a madman, iii. 65

Envy, its cause and cure, iv. 163 seq.

Epaminondas, ii. 223 note

Epicene gender, the, i. 225

---- (Mrs. Manley), her Memoirs from the Mediterranean, ii. 104:

her Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality of both Sexes, from the New Atalantis, and her Memoirs of Europe towards the close of the Eighth Century, ii. 104 note

Epictetus, his Encheiridion, ii. 145:

referred to, iii. 346; iv. 363

Epicurus, iv. 21

Epistles of Phalaris, the controversy on, i. 66 note

Epistolarum Obscurorum Virorum, dedicated to Steele, iv. 21 seq.

Epistolary Discourse concerning the Soul's Immortality, by Henry Dodwell, iii. 23 note, 375

Epitaph of Don Alonso, ii. 256

Epithets of Virgil more judicious than those of Homer, i. 57

Epsom, the waters of, i. 293:

news from, i. 379 seq.:

referred to, i. 381; ii. 111

Epsom Wells, by Th. Shadwell, i. 70, 293 note

Equanimity, the virtue of, iii. 321 seq.

Equipages, the folly of gay, iii. 156, 157, 161 seq.

Erasmus, his Adagia, i. 360 note

Eriphyle, iii. 202

"Error," the den of, in the Faërie Queene, iv. 173

Esquire, the title, its uses and abuses, i. 160 seq.; iii. 256

Essay on the Invention of Samplers, by Mrs. Arabella Manly, school-mistress, i. 41 and note

----, concerning the Human Understanding, by Locke, i. 328 and note

----, on Modern Education, by Swift, i. 12 note

Essays, Divine, Moral, and Political, iii. 407 note

Essays upon several Moral Subjects, by J. Collier, iv. 275 note

Essex, Earl of, i. 346

---- manners in, i. 162

---- the Hundreds of, ii. 32

---- Street, i. 161; ii. 132

Estcourt, Richard, comedian (Tom Mirrour), as Sergeant Kite in Farquhar's Recruiting Officer, i. 169 and note:

anecdote of, ii. 15 seq.:

his salary, ii. 164 note:

referred to, iii. 92 note; iv. 20

Este, Marquis d', ii. 34

Esteem of others the principal desire of mankind, iv. 64 seq.

Eucrates, a man of ill-regulated benevolence, iii. 322 seq.

Eugène, Prince, and Marlborough, compared to Cæsar and Alexander, i. 62, 63:

referred to, i. 44, 51, 72, 97, 143, 155, 157, 197, 213, 214, 234, 237, 269, 290; ii. 4, 9, 108, 109; iii. 316

Eugenio, his criticism of bad plays, i. 74, 75:

on pictures, iii. 355

Euphusius, too good-natured, ii. 195 seq.

Euripides, a tragedy of, iii. 47 seq.

Eusebius, understands familiarity, iv. 156, 157

Eustace, Francis, the terrible effects of his passion, iii. 306 note and seq.

Eutrapelus, a humourist mentioned by Horace, iii. 198

Evance, Sir Stephen, banker, i. 349 and note

Evander, iii. 21

Evans, i. 29

Eve, a puppet, i. 140:

tempted by toad, iv. 211:

as a wife, ii. 424; iii. 188, 189; iv. 116, 117, 126, 127:

referred to, i. 56, 330, 381; iv. 249

Everbloom, Lady, compliment to, iv. 319

Every Man out of his Humour, by Ben Jonson, i. 341

Examiner, The, i. 7 note, 84 note, 121 note, 126 note, 184 note, 201 note, 245 note, 300 note; ii. 417 note; iii. 2 note, 71 note, 218 note, 343 note, 366 note, 395 note, 396 note, 407 note; iv. 13 note, 85 note, 118 note, 173 note, 187, 219 note, 222 note

Exchange, the Royal, an angel in, iii. 169:

referred to, i. 65, 170 note, 293 note, 390; ii. 15 note, 42 note, 139, 156 note, 420; iii. 25, 120, 133, 147; iv. 132, 241, 252 note, 259, 300

---- the New, some account of, i. 219 and note:

three goddesses in, iii. 139, 169:

referred to, i. 170 note

Exchange Alley, i. 387 note, 390; ii. 156 note; iii. 178

Exchequer bills, first issue of, iv. 3 note

Exercise at arms, an, i. 333 seq.

Exeter, ii. 389 note; iii. 401

---- College, ii. 187

Exilles, i. 174; ii. 48

Extortion, iii. 53

Fabio, beloved of Diana Doubtful, ii. 328 seq.

"Fable of the Worlds," i. 350, 351

Fabulous histories, moral satisfaction in, iii. 17

Faërie Queene, iv. 7, 14, 16

Fair, Mayfair, i. 41 note, 42 note:

Bartholomew, i. 42 note:

at Southwark, i. 140 note

Fair sex, the, to be entertained in the Tatler, i. 12, 142, 143:

title chosen in their honour, i. 12:

usually love those who look the other way, i. 47:

how to prevail with them, i. 128:

outdone by a lazy fellow, i. 91, 92:

skill in addressing them, i. 117 seq.:

a squire is one born for their service, i. 163:

to be won by graceful ogling, i. 185 seq.:

lesson to the voluntary invalids of, i. 191-193:

love a "very pretty fellow," i. 199 seq.:

Tatler always courteous to, i. 218:

a lady wooed through her parrot, i. 226, 227:

to be "come at" only be "survivorship," i. 240:

letters of gallantry to, i. 250 seq.:

to be won by flattery, i. 264, 364:

their frailties due to men's admiration of coquetry, i. 271 seq.:

folly of their taking snuff, i. 285:

their chief interest, in love, i. 292:

do not talk scandal more than men, i. 300:

their interests in charge of Mrs. Distaff, i. 305:

not won by gravity, i. 251:

of small importance in Shakespeare's days, i. 341 seq.:

always approve those whom their friends abuse, i. 382:

their place in the front box, ii. 6 note:

prevailed on by nonsense, ii. 77 seq.:

how far and to what age should they make beauty their first care, ii. 85 seq.:

letters finding fault with them, ii. 131 seq.:

accomplices of the "sharpers," ii. 137:

being made of men and not of earth have a more delicate humanity, ii. 139:

how moved to tears, ii. 139:

modesty their most becoming quality, ii. 246:

running after puppet-shows, iii. 7:

proper ornaments suitable to, iii. 16:

tendency to lavish affection on animals, iii. 42 seq.:

Virgil translated for, iii. 107 seq.:

amenable to advice, iii. 135:

their vanity encouraged by our foolish style of wooing, iii. 136 seq.:

proper education for, iii. 146, 165 seq.:

proper way to manage them, iii. 156:

how to avoid oglers, iii. 166 seq.:

the attractions of, typified in Venus's girdle, iii. 176:

advice to, on matrimony, iii. 177:

seen at their best in mourning, iii. 194 seq.:

carried away by what is showy, iii. 196:

the shades of the finest women of all ages appeared to Ulysses, iii. 202:

the talkers among them compared to different musical instruments, iii. 228 seq., 248:

difficulties of reducing them to any tolerable order, iii. 256, 257:

at the Government lottery, iii. 296:

at Moorfields, iii. 318 seq.:

a scheme for, iv. 15 seq., 37 seq., 142:

an amicable contribution for raising the fortunes of ten young ladies, iv. 38, 39:

treated with impertinence, iv. 39:

affection and esteem for, generally go together, iv. 68:

abused for fault-finding, &c., iv. 82 seq.:

advice in dress, iv. 93 seq.:

their affectation of nakedness condemned, iv. 109 seq.:

grown political, iv. 187, 188:

a grammar for, iv. 195 note, 196 note:

their conduct in love, iv. 257 seq.:

different education desired for, iv. 261 seq.:

their follies in old age, iv. 351 seq.

Fairlove, Joshua, claims to the title of Esquire, iv. 127, 128

Falstaff, Sir John, i. 67, 102, 103, 156; ii. 264 note; iii. 281

"Fame, a chamber of," the idea started by Swift, ii. 223 note:

a vision of, ii. 223 seq.:

plans changed, ii. 224 note:

the guests in, ii. 228 seq.:

the fabulous apartment, ii. 231 seq.:

a table for the ladies, ii. 247 note:

those whose claims to enter therein may have been overlooked, ii. 248 seq.:

referred to, ii. 128 seq., 135 seq., 175, 186, 206 seq., 239; iii. 159 note

Familiar, I. B.'s., iii. 28.

See Pacolet, Mr.

Familiars, their habits, i. 388 seq.

Fan, the virtues of, ii. 20 seq.:

Gay and Addison on, ii. 21 note:

"Fluttering of the Fan," ii. 22 and note

Farthingale, Lady, a catalogue of her private possessions, iv. 247 seq.

Farloe, Richard, M.A., an acute dissector, ii. 97

Farquhar, his Beaux' Stratagem, i. 36:

his Constant Couple; or, A Trip to the Jubilee, i. 125, 163; iii. 356:

his Recruiting Officer, i. 169 seq.

Farr, James, a barber, of the Rainbow Tavern in Fleet Street, iv. 131 note

Farrier's Dictionary quoted, iii. 157 note

Fashion, Sir Novelty, in Cibber's Love's Last Shift, iii. 350

Fashionable folk, follies of, iii. 343 seq.

"Fat Dogs'," the, ii. 125

Fatal Marriage, Mrs. Barry in, i. 16 note

Father, a wise, ii. 75-77:

a good, his children's truest friend, iii. 385 seq.:

a model, iv. 204, 205

Fault-finding, letters of, sent privately, but published if no heed is taken of their complaints, ii. 130 seq.:

subject of conversation, iv. 252 seq.

Faustus, Dr., the puppet, iii. 8

Favonius (i.e. Dr. Smalridge), a model clergyman, i. 5 and note; ii. 171, 421

Feeble, Mrs., an old fop, iv. 353

---- Tom, of Brasenose, iv. 353

Feilding, Beau Robert (Orlando the Fair), i. 124 note; ii. 4 note, 5 note and seq., 8 and note, 13 seq.

Felicia (i.e. Great Britain), i. 44 seq., 123; ii. 145

"Fellows" different from men, ii. 26:

of a great deal of fire, ii. 81 seq.

See also Pretty Fellows, Very Pretty Fellows, Smart Fellows, Honest Fellows, Merry Fellows

Female Tatler, The, ii. 247 note, 290 note, 387 note:

two papers so named, iv. 172 and note, 173 note

Fenchurch Street, iv. 153 note

Fénélon, his Télémaque, iii. 222 seq.

Fescue, Mrs., iv. 332

Fidelia, her strange passion for an old rake, i. 190

Fidget, Lady, the general visitant, iii. 315 seq.

---- Mrs., i. 118; iv. 332

Filmer, on Patriarchal Government, ii. 10 note

Final, i. 72, 75, 182

Finch Lane, i. 334; iv. 252 note

Fine ladies of the present day very inferior to those of I. B.'s youth, ii. 87, 88

Fire, the quality of, in man, ii. 81 seq., 117, 166:

men of, iii. 256

Firebrand, Lady, her temper, iv. 118

Fits, a story of, i. 191-193

Fitzherbert, Sir Anthony, his Grand Abridgement, i. 255

Five Fields, the, of Chelsea, i. 280 and note

Flambeau, Mrs., indicted for not calling, iv. 334

Flanders, i. 19, 73, 77, 105, 144; ii. 254 note, 348; iii. 265, 320, 334

Flatterer, a knave of parts, iv. 77:

and jester, iv. 107

Flavia, a sonnet on, ii. 377, 378:

an eminent coquette, iii. 167:

loss of her parrot, iii. 171:

not altered by smallpox, iii. 315

---- a young mother, iv. 67

---- (Miss Osborne?) well dressed, iv. 94 and note, 223

Fleet Bridge, ii. 150

---- Street, ii. 88 note, 228 note; iii. 61 note, 82, 126, 152 note; iv. 379, 382

Fleming, General, i. 27

Flora, her character, i. 117

Florence, i. 50, 76

Florimel, a vain creature, i. 69

---- an ambitious lady in the autumn of life, i. 139 seq.

---- Mrs., ii. 196, 197

Florinda, a living woman, ii. 381

Florio, a good talker, i. 369

---- the generous husband, i. 396

Florio, happiness centred in a tulip root, iii. 171

---- John, his Montaigne, ii. 239 note

Florus, his account of Scipio, ii. 62 note

Floyer, Sir John, his Inquiry into the Right Use and Abuses of Hot, Cold, and Temperate Baths, i. 133 note

Flyblow, a coxcomb, i. 312, 313

Flying Post, The, i. 133 note, 156 note, 293 note

Folio, Tom (i.e. Thomas Rawlinson), a broker in learning, iii. 234 seq.:

his protest, iii. 248, 249

"Fondlewife," in Congreve's The Old Bachelor, i. 81 note

Fontive, editor of Postman, iii. 332 note

Fool distinguished from a madman, i. 328, 329

Foote, at "the Grecian," i. 13 note

Foppington, Lord, in the Careless Husband, iii. 357 note

Fops, charming to certain sort of women, i. 381

"For," the particle, its meaning, ii. 65

Forbes, Lord, (Marinus?) ii. 83 and note:

his defence of Steele from the sharpers, iii. 9 note; iv. 377 note

Ford, Edward, his Tewin-Water; or, The Story of Lady Cathcart, iv. 261

----, James, the speaking doctor, ii. 115, 156 and note

Forecast, Diana, eager to see scheme for the fair sex, iv. 37

Foreign news, not musty edicts or dull proclamations, i. 12:

from St. James's Coffee-house, i. 13

Forester, brother-in-law of Vanderbank, i. 33 note

Forster, his Historical and Biographical Essays quoted, i. 49 note; ii. 142 note, 315 note, 349 note, 423 note; iii. 75 note, 407 note; iv. 68 note

Fort George, in India, iv. 204 note

Fortunate Isles, The, masque by Ben Jonson, i. 84 note

Fortune-hunter, a letter from, iii. 75-79

Fortune Hunters, The, a play, i. 311 note

Foster Lane, iv. 149 note

Fountain Tavern, the, ii. 298

Fox, The; or, Volpone, by Ben Jonson, i. 177 seq.

Fox-Hall or Vauxhall, i. 219 and note

Fox-hunters, their voices, i. 301

Foxon, Captain, i. 88

Fracastorius, Hieronymus, physician, his Syphilis, iv. 322 note

Fraga, ii. 188

Frail, Mrs., in Love for Love, i. 16 note

France, i. 27, 28, 51, 61, 76, 88, 120, 121, 129, 130, 154, 164, 173, 174, 184, 204, 213, 214, 219, 237, 240, 244 note, 354; ii. 9, 27, 54, 106, 107, 211, 222, 249; iii. 73, 92, 123, 223, 318, 336, 337

---- King of, i. 155, 194, 214, 237, 244 note, 245; ii. 48