Tacitus, 348.
Tasso, 353.
Taste, paper on, 347; definition of,
348; the English taste Gothic, 350.
Tate, Nahum, epigram by, 103.
Templar, the, 5, 13, 16, 68, 106; his
character, 5.
Temple, Sir W., quoted, 237.
Temple-stairs, the, 62.
Terence, quoted, 153.
Tertullian, on dreams, 464.
Theatre, Sir Roger at the, 59.
Themistocles, 286.
Theocritus, quoted, 441.
Theodosius and Constantia, a tale,
406.
Tillotson, Archbishop, 21; quoted,
225, 308.
Time, right use of, 140; notion of,
145.
Tobacco, 57.
Tories, 419, 428.
Touchy, Tom, 37, 53.
Trade, a desirable calling for idle
younger sons, 24; its benefits, 117;
recommended, 238.
Tragedy, English, 364, 365; rules of
the French, 369, 371.
Tragi-comedy, a monstrous invention,
365.
Tragic artifices, 367.
Transmigration of souls, 452.
Trueby, the widow, her water, 56.
Trunk-maker, the, 372; his correct
judgment, 373.
Turkish Tales, story from, 145.
Utrecht, quarrel at, 303.
Valerius Flaccus, 380.
Vauxhall, 63.
Venice Preserved, play of, 367.
Virgil, passim, his poems quoted, 382-
387; his friends and enemies, 391.
Visions;-of Public Credit, II 2; of the
encounter of True and False Wit,
339; of Mirzah, 401; of the Scales
and Weights, 416.
Waller, Edmund, quoted, 89, 336,
346.
Wanton Wife of Bath, ballad, 449.
Westminster Abbey, 55, 56, 58.
Whifflers, 307.
Whigs, 314, 419, 428.
Whistling-match, account of, 90.
Whittington and his cat, 353.
Whole Duty of Man, the, 315.
Widows, 287.
Widow, the.
See Coverley.
William III., 322.
Will's Coffeehouse. See Coffeehouse.
Wimble, Will, 21-24, 36, 45, 50, 53,
54, 58, 264.
Wit, papers on, 319-344; Locke's
account of, 334; defined by Dryden,
337; False Wit, the Egg, the Wings,
&c. 321; Punning, 331; Mixed
Wit, 336.
Witchcraft, 33; scarce a village in
England without a witch, 35; the
Spectator thought a white witch, 50.
Witches' Prayer, the, 333.
Women, party spirit in, 255; their
patches, 256; their proper province,
259; head-dresses of, 260; their
extravagance in dress, 296; their
natural eloquence, 447; mobility of
their tongues, 449; qualities that
make good wives, 451.
Xenophanes, saying of, 193.
Xenophon, quoted, 167.
Zeal, paper on, 161; Zealots for
atheism, 163.
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