I. Belinda, fee from yonder Flow'rs 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. T 3 THE THE INDE X. A. ACETUS, his Character, Number 422. Admiration, a pleafing Motion of the Mind. N. 413 Allegories, like Light to a Difcourfe, N. 421. Eminent Allufions the great Art of a Writer, N. 421. Amazons, their Commonwealth, N. 433. How they Americans ufed Painting instead of Writing, N. 416. Amoret the Jilt reclaimed by Philander, N. 401. N 4 Art Art (Works of) defective to entertain the Imagination, 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 Bankruptcy, the Mifery of it, N. 428, 456. Bar Oratory in England, Reflexions on it, N. 407. Bear-Garden, a Combat there, N. 436. The Cheats of Beauty heightened by Motion, N. 406. Beauty of Objects, what understood by it, N. 412. No Birds how affected by Colours, N. 412. Blaft (Lady) her Character, N. 457. Bluemantle (Lady) an Account of her, N. 437. 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. Camilla's Camilla's Letter to the Spectator from Venice, N. 443- Cartefian, how he would account for the Ideas formed Cato, the Refpect paid him at the Roman Theatre, N.446. Charles II. his Gaieties, N. 462. Charms, none can fupply the Place of Virtue, N. 395. Chinese laugh at our Gardens, and why, N. 414. Clarendon (Earl of) his Character of a Perfon of a trou Cleanthes, his Character, N. 404. Cleopatra, a Defcription of her failing down the Cydnos, Cloc, the Idiot, N. 466. Colours, the Eye takes moft Delight in them, N. 412. Commonwealth of Amazons, N. 433. Compaflion civilizes Human Nature, N. 397. How to Company, Temper chiefly to be confider'd in the Choice Concave and Convex Figures in Architecture have the Confidence, the Danger of it to the Ladies, N. 395. Converfation an Improvement of Tafte in Letters, N. 4.09. Country Life, why the Poets in Love with it, N. 414. NS Cour Courage wants other good Qualities to fet it off, N. 423. Criticks (French) Friends to one another, N. 409. Curiofity (abfurd) an Inftance of it, N. 439. Custom a fecond Nature, N. 437. The Effect of it, ibid. Cynthia and Flavia break off their Amour very whimsi D. DAcinthus, his Character, N. 462. Dainty (Mrs. Mary) her Memorial from the Coun- Damon and Strephon, their Amour with Gloriana, N. 423. Dangers paft, why the Reflexion of 'em pleases, N. 418. N. 454 Deluge, Mr. W-n's Notion of it reproved, N. 396. Denying, fometimes a Virtue, N. 458. Deportment (Religious) why fo little Appearances of it Descriptions come fhort of Statuary and Painting, N.416. Defire, when Corrected, N. 400. Devotion, the nobleft Buildings owing to it, N. 415. N. 453. Difcourfe |