"We hope that in this and all things else, thou wilt promote the good of thy people, which will oblige us to pray that thy reign over us may be long and be long and prosper
Had all king James's subjects addressed him with the same integrity; he had, in all probability, sat upon his throne till death had removed him from it.
ABDON, a judge of Israel, blessed with a numerous progeny, 25.
Absalom and Achitophel, why one of our most popular poems, 39.
Accomplishments, female, their value, 354.
Achilles, how rendered invulnerable, 220.
Actors, why professed enemies to critics, 174.
Adam, said to have shortened his life to extend that of David, 314.
Adamites, a sect of heretics of the last century, 299.
Addison, an instance of his modesty and humour, 57, note. Of his
nice ear for the harmony of prose, 67, note. The 538th Spectator
certainly not written by him, 79, note. His paper, winding up the
plot of the Spectator, not so well written as might be expected, 91,
note. Embarrassed in contriving how to protract his paper beyond
its natural term, 97, note. Notwithstanding his satire on widows, mar-
ried the Countess of Warwick, who laid him out in four years, 116,
note. His fine imitation of the oriental cast of thought and expres-
sion, 168, note. Many sublime passages prove him to be not an
agreeable writer only, though he had not the nerves of Montesquieu
nor the pomp of Bolingbroke, 173, note. Extracts from Dr. Swift's
works, relating to him, 186. The part he took in the Guardian, to
what owing, 189. His first paper exquisite, 192, note. Allusion
to his third dialogue on medals, 198, note. How far an admirer of
Lucian, 205, note. Pays a just compliment to himself, 232, note.
Wherein a true poet, ib. Instance of his badinage pursued too far,
335. Injudicious in him to treat a serious subject in the manner of
Lucian, 350. Applies and explains his famous lines on honour in
Cato, 363. Next to the humourous and allegorical, his oriental
papers are the most taking, 388, note. As a party-writer, knew
how to maintain the fairness and dignity of his character, 427,
note. His trial of Count Tariff, to what relating, 431, note. Pe-
culiar keenness of reproof in his Whig-Examiner, to what imput-
able, 441, note.
Address, a supposed one, in favour of non-resistance, 467.
Adultery, the commandment against, misprinted in an edition of the
bible, 148. Adulterers in the primitive church excommunicated, ib.
VOL. V.
Advertisements, humorous, sent to the Spectator in praise of his pa-
pers, 88-90.
Advice, why the thing of all others that we receive with most reluc-
tance, 37. Fable, the finest way of giving it, 38. Story of the Sul-
tan Mahmoud, 39.
Æneas, incited to glory by a regard to posterity, 312.
Esop, why supposed to be a republican, 315.
Etna, Vulcan's temple on, for what remarkable, 149. Represented
in fireworks, with Vulcan's shop in it's entrails, 223.
Africans, their notion of heaven, 180.
Alcibiades, his speech to the Athenians against Taureas the brewer,
Alecto, Virgil's line on, applied by the Examiner to a princess of the
empire, 451.
Alexander, cultivated the arts and sciences, 249. His letter to Aris-
totle, 250.
Allegory of Solomon's choice, by a famous French poet, 252.
Allegories, rules for writing, 322. Plan of one in the style of Spen-
ser, ib.
Allusions, in Dryden's dramatic writings, injudicious, 246.
Almighty, proofs of his existence arising from the contemplation of
the sea, 11.
Alms-house, projected by Sir Andrew Freeport, 94.
Alnareschin, a Persian tyrant, story of, 382.
Alnaschar, the idle fellow, a fable, 69.
Alphonso, a Spanish governor, story of, from Strada, 281.
Ambiguity of expression, 270, note.
America, Spanish, supplies the coffers of the French king, 405.
Anacharsis, humorously claimed the prize in a drinking-match at
Corinth, 130.
Anacreon, choked in old age, by a grape-stone, 189.
Anatomy, affords proofs of the wisdom and power of the Deity, 83.
Anaximander, his reply on being laughed at for his singing, 301.
Ancestors, their actions should excite us to virtue, 311.
Ancestry and title, render good men more illustrious, and bad more
contemptible, 289.
Androcles, and the lion, a story, 316.
Anguish of heart often proceeds from imaginary distresses, 368.
Animal creation, a boundless field of contemplation, 49.
Animals, diversified by magnitude and species, 85. Correspondence
of parts in their formation, 86.
Anjou, the duke of, a panegyric on him by the Examiner, 448.
Anne (queen), a project for celebrating the glories of her reign by
medals, 199, 200.
Anomalies, in Mr. Addison's style, corrected, 16, note.
Antediluvian novel, 162. Billet doux, the only one extant, 164, 165.
Exquisite manner of treating the story, 168, note.
Anticlimax, a figure in which the Examiner excels, 453. One quoted
by Mr. Dryden, and another from the French, ib. Another from
the Examiner, 454.
Antiluminaries, literary, 158.
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