Prudence, the goddess of, ii. 283
Prudentia, an ambitious lady, in the autumn of life, i. 139 _seq._
Prudes, their true character, ii. 357; compared to coquettes, iii. 67
_seq._
Prue, Mrs., i. 89 _note_
---- _i.e._ a prude, i. 141 and _note_
---- Steele's wife, i. 141 _note_, 142 _note_
Prussia, King of, i. 27, 174, 213, 236, 304
---- Queen of, i. 129
---- Prince Royal of, i. 105, 151
Public good, those interested in, profess disinterestedness, i. 37
Public-spirited persons, newspapers designed for, i. 11:
their characteristics, of strong zeal and weak intellects, _ibid._:
none in this age, i. 152:
their difficulties, ii. 127
Pudding, Jack, the mountebank, i. 163
Pultowa, battle of, ii. 47 and _note_
"Punch Nag," a, iii. 157 and _note_
Punch turned prophet, i. 100 and _note_:
a pretty fellow, i. 366:
his scandalous behaviour, i. 170:
out of place in the Ark, i. 140, 141:
referred to, ii. 10, 11; iv. 335 _note_
Punchinello, i. 366, 367; iii. 7
Punning, letter from an expert in the art of, i. 268, 289 _seq._
Punto, Major, his indictment against Richard Newman, iv. 302
Purbeck, Countess of, ii. 5 _note_
Puzzlepost, Ned, his handwriting, iii. 153
Pylades, iii. 46
_Pylades and Corinna_, by Mrs. Thomas, i. 380 _note_; ii. 19; iii. 263
_note_
Pyrrha, preserved at the destruction of mankind, iii. 173
----, in Horace, iii. 309
_Pyrrhus and Demetrius_, opera, translated from the Italian of
Scarlatti, i. 40 and _note_
Pythagoras, his theory reversed, i. 369:
turned out of the Chamber of Fame, ii. 231 and _note_:
his school, ii. 317 _seq._:
his _Golden Sayings_ quoted, ii. 392:
referred to, ii. 239; iii. 109; iv. 228
Quacks to be exposed, iv. 15:
she-quacks, iv. 160 _seq._:
concerning, iv. 327
Quakers, letters from, ii. 170, 206:
protest from, iii. 390:
their speech defended, iv. 57
Quarterstaff, Mr., i. 80 _note_, 102, 103
Queenhithe, ii. 178, 187 _note_
Queen's Bagnio, iv. 380
Queen's College, Humphry Mopstaff, a scholar at, i. 152; referred to,
ii. 187
Quesne, Marquis de, ii. 129
"Questions and Commands," the game of, iii. 161 and _note_
Quickset, Sir Harry, of Staffordshire, ii. 228
---- young, a handsome heir, ii. 383
Quintus Curtius, a false guide, ii. 228; iv. 130
Rabelais, translated by Motteux, ii. 377 _note_:
a paper suggested by, iv. 289 _note_:
referred to, ii. 153
Raby, Lord, Earl of Strafford, i. 146 _note_, 293 _note_, 297 _note_,
325 _note_, 343 _note_, 371 _note_, 377 _note_, 386 _note_; ii.
5 _note_; iv. 204 _note_
Radcliffe, Dr. (Æsculapius), crossed in love at sixty, i. 355 _note_
and _seq._, 376, 384
"Raffling shop" at Hampstead, ii. 68 _seq._
Raggedstaff, i. 102, 104
Rainbow Coffee-house, ii. 156 _note_; iv. 131
---- and Dove, the, iii. 299 _note_
Rake, a, character of, i. 223 _seq._
---- (a sharper), his attack on a nunnery, i. 265 _seq._:
referred to, ii. 115
Rakes, natural and affected, iii. 256
"Rake's Progress," by Hogarth, i. 12 _note_; 247 _note_
Ralph, James, his _Touchstone_ quoted, ii. 335 _note_
Ram-Head Inn Yard, iv. 153 _note_
Ramble, Colonel (_i.e._ Colonel Hunter), i. 67 _seq._
Ramilies, i. 20 _note_, 28, 266 _note_, 378 _note_; iii. 162 _note_:
won on beef, iii. 181, 334
Ranter, Colonel, i. 90
_Rape of the Lock_, by Pope, ii. 29 _note_, 79 _note_; iv. 353 _note_
Rape, women should be on the juries for trials of, ii. 245
Rapin, Nicholas, ii. 265; iii. 112, 270, 272:
on the English, iii. 112, 113 _note_
Rapine, iii. 52
Rascals, ii. 49, 114 _seq._
Ratcliff, in the city, ii. 372 _note_
Ratcliffe, Francis Lord, Earl of Derwentwater, iv. 140 _note_
Ravenscroft, Edward, author of _London Cuckolds_, i. 73
Ravignan, Major-General, ii. 34, 48
Ravilliac, i. 96
Rawlinson, Tom (Tom Folio), book collector, iii. 234 _note_ and _seq._
Rayner, writing-master of St. Paul's, iii. 133 and _note_
Read, Sir William (Queen's Oculist), i. 83 and _note_; ii. 42 _note_;
iii. 169; iv. 150, 379, 380
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body, iii. 175
_Reasons for an English Education, by teaching the youths of both
sexes the arts of grammar, rhetoric, poetry, and logic, in their
own mother tongue_, iv. 195 _note_
_Recruiting Officer_, by Farquhar, i. 169
Red Cross, the Knight of, in _Faërie Queene_, iv. 173, 222, 288
Red Cross Street, i. 334
Red Lettice (or Lattice), a public-house, ii. 264 and _note_
Red Lion Court, i. 334
---- Square, iv. 148 _note_, 382
---- Market, i. 334, 335
_Reflections on Aristotle's Treatise of Poetry_, by Rapin, quoted,
iii. 113 _note_
Reformers of manners, societies of, i. 31 and _note_
"Refreshment," a, iii. 335 and _note_
_Rehearsal, The_, by the Duke of Buckingham, i. 63 and _note_, 157
_note_; ii. 300, 301 _note_; iv. 7, 160, 309 and _note_:
Parthenope in, i. 172 and _note_
_Relapse, The_, by Vanbrugh, i. 29 _note_
_Religio Medici_, by Thomas Browne, i. 267 _note_
Religion, considerations on, i. 48, 49; ii. 340 _seq._, 405; iv. 87
_seq._:
a waxwork of English, iv. 303 _seq._
_Reliques of Ancient English Poetry_, by Percy, i. 239 _note_
_Remarks on several parts of Italy_, by Addison, i. 152 _note_
Remorse, iii. 37
Renault, old, i. 327
Renne, General, i. 72
Rentfree, Thomas, Esq., J.P., ii. 257 _seq._
Reptile, Honest Dick, on abuse of language, iii. 125:
referred to, iii. 100; iv. 19, 52, 256
"Restitution, the Mount of," ii. 343 _seq._, 353 _seq._
Reynard, character adopted by Partridge, ii. 54
Rhebindar, General, ii. 48
Rheinsfeldt, Count, ii. 67
Rhine, i. 43, 129, 183, 304 _note_; ii. 134:
Lower, i. 183:
Upper, i. 71, 183
Rich, Christopher (Divito), manager of Drury Lane, i. 100 and _note_;
ii. 336 _seq._:
referred to, i. 250 _note_, 345, 358 and _note_; iii. 408 _note_ and
_seq._, 410 _note_
Richard III., ii. 190
----, Shakespeare's, ii. 284 _seq._; iii. 356
Richards, Major-General, i. 184
Riches usually given to asses, iv. 52 and _note_
Ridicule, of offenders, defended, ii. 83 _seq._:
the dangers of, ii. 100 _seq._:
a letter of, ii. 131 _seq._
Ridpath, George, publisher of the _Flying Post_, i. 156 _note_
Rigadoon, the dance described, i. 279 and _note_
_Rights of the Christian Church_, by Dr. Tindal, ii. 12 _note_
"Rigid men," the, iv. 101 _seq._
Rinaldo Furioso, "Critic of the Woful Countenance," iii. 249 _note_
Ring, the, in Hyde Park, ii. 125 and _note_
"Ring's End Car," an Irish, iv. 208 and _note_
_Rival Queens; or, Alexander the Great_, i. 17 _note_, 139 and _note_
_Rivals, The_, by Sir William Davenant, iv. 140 _note_
Rivet, Colonel, killed at Malplaquet, ii. 113 and _note_
Roarers, the, i. 327 and _note_
Robinson, Jonathan, bookseller, iii. 133 _note_
Rochefoucault, a modish French author, ii. 391
Rochester, Earl of, patron of Mrs. Barry, i. 16 _note_; iv. 235 and
_note_, 295
---- Dean of, iv. 294 _note_
Rochford, Earl of, iv. 85 _note_, 86
Roger de Caubly (Coverley), dance tune, i. 281 and _note_
Roman, causes of greatness, i. 54:
triumphs, ii. 98, 99, 106:
patriotism of, iii. 358:
purity of language, iv. 178
Romana chooses Careless rather than Constant, i. 253
Romans never fought duels, i. 255, 309
Rome, Emperor of, esteem for his horse, iii. 43:
news from, iii. 83, 84, 375:
referred to, i. 27, 49, 60, 71, 73, 94; ii. 337, 373 _note_; iii.
62, 87, 89, 243, 257, 258, 359, 361, 364, 378, 380, 392
Romeo, the father of Chloe, ii. 306
Ronquillo, Don Pedro, i. 95
Rope-dancing popular in the theatres, ii. 335
Roper, Abel, publisher of the _Post-Boy_, i. 156 _note_
Roquelaure, Duke of, i. 332
Rosamond's Pond or Pool, "Lake of Love," a favourite place of
assignation, ii. 79 and _note_, 420; iii. 297; iv. 99
Roscius, iii. 280
_Roscius Anglicanus; or, An Historical Review of the English Stage_,
by Downes, iii. 408 _note_
Roscommon, his translation of Horace's _Ars Poetica_, iii. 261
Rose, the sign of the, iii. 310; iv. 169 _note_
Rose tavern i. 24 _note_
Rosehat, Jonathan, on orators, ii. 154, 155
Roses, the town, i. 173
Rosicrucian lore, iv. 239
Rosin, Will, the Corelli of Wapping, ii. 372 _seq._
Rotherhithe, iii. 265
Rotterdam, i. 43, 120, 205
Rough Diamond, an honest blunt wit, ii. 243
Rouillé, M., i. 20 and _note_, 44, 51, 76, 96, 120, 197, 204, 213, 305
Rowe, i. 83 _note_; iv. 310 _note_
Roxana, her nightgown, i. 345
Royal pastime of cock-fighting, &c., by R. H., iii. 112 _note_
Royal Society, members of, resort to "the Grecian", i. 13 _note_:
I. B.'s learning bequeathed to, i. 66 and _note_:
their _Philosophical Transactions_, iii. 26 _note_:
referred to, i. 349; ii. 309 _note_; iii. 30; iv. 39, 134, 135, 207,
210 and _note_, 321
Rozelli, M., his cure for the gout, i. 83 _note_:
his adventures at the Hague, i. 83 _note_
Rubicon, the, i. 303 _note_, 304 _note_
Russell Street, i. 12 _note_, 13 _note_, 24 _note_; iv. 327 and _note_
----, Admiral, iii. 84 _note_
Rycant, Sir Paul, on the Ottoman Empire, iii. 111 _note_
Ryves, Jerome, Dean of Killaloe, iv. 206 _note_
S.P.C.K. founded by Mackworth, ii. 85 _note_
Sa Ga Zean Qua Prah Ton, an Iroquois chief of the Maquas, iii. 299
_note_, 301
Saar, ii. 105
Sabbath, the advantages of, iv. 87 _seq._
Saccharissa (_i.e._ Lady Dorothy Sidney), ii. 87 and _note_
----, i. 46
Sacheverell, Dr., his trial, i. 317 _note_; ii. 121 _note_; iii. 140
_note_, 145 _note_; iv. 4 _note_:
cause of ladies' early rising, iii. 151:
a popular subject, iii. 228:
his handkerchief, iii. 376:
ovations for, iii. 377 and _note_, 378 _note_
Sacred College, the, i. 71
Saffold, Dr., i. 168 _note_, 169 _note_; iv. 226 and _note_
Sage, Mr., in the "Dialogue on Duelling," i. 318 _seq._
Sagissa betrayed by snuff, i. 285, 286
St. Alban's, i. 156 _note_, 178 _note_
St. Anne's Lane, i. 334
St. Botolph, i. 247 _note_
St. Catherine by the Tower, ii. 372 and _note_
St. Catherine's Dock, ii. 372 _note_
St. Christopher's Court, ii. 42 _note_
----, Fort, i. 149
St. Clement's, ii. 264 _note_; iii. 127, 389
St. David's, celebration of, iii. 140
St. Dunstan's in the West, ii. 171 _note_
----, in Fleet Street, iv. 379, 382
St. Evremond, Governor of Duck Island, ii. 413 _note_
St. Gall, Abbot of, ii. 48
St. George, i. 257; ii. 316
St. George's Church, i. 140 _note_
St. Gile's i. 335
St. James', too refined for rope-dancing, ii. 335 _note_:
referred to, ii. 91
St. James's Coffee-house, foreign and domestic news, i. 13:
history of, i. 13 _note_:
clean linen required at i. 13:
referred to, i. 91, 92, 93, 214, 216; ii. 123, 277, 419; iii. 9
_note_, 276; iv. 43 and _note_, 131
----, Park, duel in, i. 124 _note_:
Rosamond's Pond in, ii. 79 and _note_:
referred to, ii. 126 _note_, 413 _note_; iii. 219, 244, 271; iv. 370
---- Street, i. 12 _note_, 13 _note_; iii. 276
---- Church, iv. 335
St. James, patron saint of Spain, i. 323 _note_
St. John, convent of, i. 76
St. Juan, Conte de, i. 150
St. Margaret's Westminster, ii. 104 _note_
St. Martin's, i. 334
---- Westminster, i. 42 _note_
St. Mary's, i. 71
---- at Oxford, i. 315
St. Patrick as rat-catcher, iv. 207:
his well, iv. 209
St. Paul's Alley, i. 336
---- Cathedral, ii. 24 and _note_, 38, 39, 40, 85; iii. 13; iv. 26,
169 _note_, 232, 233
---- Churchyard, ii. 39; iii. 133 _note_; iv. 329 _note_
---- School, iii. 133 and _note_; iv. 196 _note_
St. Pear, Colonel, iii. 55 _note_
St. Peter de Albigni, ii. 48
St. Peter's, i. 71; ii. 85
Salisbury Street, iii. 24
Sallust, his _Bell. Cat._, i. 53 and _note_, 76, 273 _note_; ii. 94,
95, 229, 317; iii. 128, 347; iv. 97 _note_
Salsine, Abbey of, i. 53
Salter, a barber, founder of Chelsea Coffee-house, the Don Saltero of
the _British Apollo_, i. 280 _note_ and _seq._; iv. 15, 163
Saltzburg, Archbishop of, i. 95
Sampler, Will, ii. 22
Samplers, an essay on, by Mrs. Manly, i. 41 and _note_
San Diego, _i.e._ Santiago, _i.e._ St. James, i. 323 _note_
Sandford, Sam., iii. 113 and _note_, 384
Sands, Lord, iii. 198 _note_
Sandwich, Edward, Earl of, i. 47 _note_
Santiago (_i.e._ St. James), i. 323 _note_
Sapho (? Mrs. Manley), character and anecdotes of, i. 55 _note_:
referred to, i. 329, 331
Sapicha, the, a Polish family, i. 305
Saraband, Mrs., her puppet-show, i. 170
Sarkey, Major-General, i. 150
Sart, ii. 108, 109, 127
Sartre, M., first husband of Dorothy Addison, iv. 204 _note_
_Satire addressed to a friend that is about to leave the University_,
by Oldham, iv. 296, 297
Satire, best friend to Reformation, ii. 197:
true and false, iv. 234 _seq._
_Satires_, by Marvell, i. 153 _note_
"Satisfaction," defined, i. 208:
not a case for, i. 231:
demanded from Bickerstaff, ii. 303
_Saturæ_, by Petronius Arbiter, ii. 14 _note_
Saturn, i. 290, 351; iv. 129
Saunderson, Maria, wife of Betterton, iii. 282 and _note_, 283
Savile, George, Marquis of Halifax, his _Advice to a Daughter_, iv.
363 and _note_
Savoy, Duke of, i. 71, 174, 182, 229, 337, 400; ii. 96, 108
---- ii. 48, 73, 200
Saxe-Zeits, Cardinal of, i. 183
Saxony, i. 43, 44, 51, 73, 204, 255; ii. 193
Scævola, iii. 329, 359
Scarecrow, Humphrey, Recorder to the Bear-garden, i. 256
Scarlatti, an opera of, translated, i. 40 and _note_
Scarp, the, i. 291; ii. 49; iii. 245, 317, 320
Scawen, Sir William, i. 348 and _note_
Schelt, the, i. 198, 205, 291, 299, 313
Scholar, the, I. B.'s nephew, iv. 70 _seq._
Scholars made from men of barren geniuses and fertile imaginations,
iv. 23
Schomberg, Marshal, iii. 162 _note_
_School for Scandal_, Sheridan's, quoted, ii. 315 _note_
Schottus, Andrew, i. 360 _note_
Schuylenburg, General, i. 339, 362
Scipio Africanus, his self-restraint and generosity illustrated, ii.
62 _seq._:
his friendship for Lælius, ii. 412 and _note_:
an authority on the charms of country life, iii. 292
Scipio, Cneius, preferred by his rival, ii. 262
Scoggan, or Skogan, Mr., M.A., some account of, i. 83 and _note_
Scolds, iv. 114 _seq._, 136 _seq._
Scotland, decay of simplicity in, iii. 165:
referred to, i. 43
Scots Pills, iv. 149 _note_
Scotus, his divisions of mankind, iii. 312
_Scourge of Venice and Mercury_, by Sintelaer, i. 215 _note_
Scowrers, the, i. 327
_Scowrers, The_, a play, by Shadwell, i. 327 _note_
Scrape, Tom, the Buononcini of Redriffe, ii. 373
"Screens" defined, iii. 303
Scrip, Sir William, i. 248
Scudamore, Sir, his courtship of Amoret, iv. 7, 14
Scurlock, Miss, i. viii, 286, 287
Sea-ball, a, ii. 372 _seq._
_Secret Memoirs and Manners of several persons of quality of both
sexes, from the New Atalantis_, by Mrs. Manley, ii. 104 _note_
Sefachoe, a singer, iii. 6 _note_
Segra, the, ii. 200; iv. 85
Selden, his _De Duello_, i. 255 _note_
_Select Collection of Poems_, by Nichols, i. 47 _note_, 203 _note_
Seleucus, a generous father, iii. 369, 370
Self-defence, the noble art of, i. 234 and _note_
Sempronia (_i.e._ Madame d'Epingle), her deceitful conduct, i. 273,
394
Seneca, ii. 375; iii. 46, 57, 64, 115, 294, 295, 323
Senecio, a good-natured old man, i. 370, 371
Seraglio of Great Britain, i. 373 _seq._
Serenading, the custom of, iv. 138 _seq._
Sergeant, Thomas, letter from, quoted, ii. 9 _note_
_Serious Proposal to the Ladies_, by Mrs. Astell, i. 265 _note_
Serpentine, the, ii. 125 _note_
"Serpents," ii. 272
Sesotris, his dwelling among the shades, iii. 226
Settlements, the invention and history of, iv. 32, 142 _seq._:
a model settlement, iv. 34
Seven Champions, the, ii. 315
Sexes, both to be attended to by the _Tatler_, i. 7:
the unfair difference between, i. 271:
separation between, at public assemblies, ii. 22
Seymour, Sir Edward, i. 371 _note_
Shadwell, his _Epsom Wells_, i. 70, 293 _note_:
his _The Scowrers_, i. 327 _note_
----, ii. 372 _note_
Shaftesbury, Lord, his letter on Enthusiasm answered, i. 266 _note_
Shakespeare, wholesome influence of, i. 74:
his women trivial, i. 341:
a master of tragedy, i. 385; ii. 33:
of the race of Staffs, ii. 4:
criticised by Steele, ii. 141 and _note_, 142 _note_:
I. B.'s Quotations from Davenant's alterations, ii. 141 _note_:
his _The Taming of the Shrew_ retold, iv. 181 _seq._:
his _As You Like It_, i. 338, 339:
his _Hamlet_, i. 18, 188 _note_, 288; ii. 138 _note_, 163 _seq._,
379 _seq._, 406; iv. 42, 378:
his _Henry IV._, i. 125 _note_, 385; ii. 315; iii. 198 _note_:
his _Henry V._, iii. 128 _note_, 356:
his _Henry VI._, ii. 285:
his _Henry VIII._, i. 18, 345; iii. 198 _note_:
his _Julius Cæsar_, ii. 140; iii. 128:
his _King Lear_, iii. 20:
his _Othello_, i. 345; ii. 334 _note_, 375; iii. 281, 380, 383
_seq._; iv. 42, 240:
his _Richard III._, ii. 284 _seq._; iii. 356:
his _The Tempest_ iii. 409:
referred to, i. 110; ii. 334 _note_; iii. 212, 281
---- Joan, ii. 334 _note_
Shallow, Sir Timothy, and his cane, iii. 154
---- Justice, an ignoramus, iv. 318
---- Ralph, a clever talker on nothing, iv. 23
Shapely, Rebecca, indicted for scandal, iv. 332, 333
Sharpe, Dr. John (Mrs. Alse Copswood) Archbishop of York, i. 300 and
_note_
Sharpers defined, ii. 49 _seq._:
to be exposed by fables, ii. 68:
referred to, ii. 74, 111, 115 _seq._, 137 _seq._, 159 _seq._, 175
_seq._; iii. 9 _seq._
_See also_ Rascals, Dogs, and Curs
Shayles, Elinor, mother of Steele, iii. 350 and _note_
Sheer (Shire) Lane, ii. 259, 260 and _note_, 279; iii. 75 _note_, 209,
357; iv. 375 _note_
Shelton, Lady, of Norfolk, i. 15 _note_
_Shepherd's Week_, by Gay, iv. 250 _note_, 344 _note_
Sherburne Lane, iv. 381
Sheridan, his _School for Scandal_, ii. 315 _note_
Shilling, the autobiography of a, iv. 265 _note_, 266 _seq._
Ship, John, overseer, ii. 43 _note_
Ship tavern, iv. 148 _note_
Shipton, Mother, ii. 281
Shipyard, the, ii. 264 _note_
"Shock," iv. 353 and _note_
Shoes, high red heels, i. 217 and _note_, 388; ii. 127, 165, 166, 321,
417; iii. 197, 257:
ladies' shoes not to be exposed in shop windows, iii. 159
Shoestring, Will (Sir W. Whitlocke), a coxcomb, i. 310, 311
Shoe Lane, i. 179 _note_
Shorey, Major John, i. 334
Short-sight, the fashion of, ii. 201
Shoulder-knots, the fashion of, iii. 197
Shovel, Sir Cloudesley, i. 102 _note_
Shrewsbury, Duchess of, iii. 6 _note_
Sibourg, Colonel, i. 184
Sichæus, Dido's first husband, iii. 105, 215
_Sid Hamet's Rod_, by Swift, i. 228 _note_
Side-boxes, seats for men and wenches, ii. 6 _note_, 201; iii. 168;
iv. 114
Sidney, Lord Godolphin (Horatio), i. 45 and _note_; iii. 90
---- Lady Dorothy (Saccharissa), ii. 87 _note_
---- Sir Philip, his _Arcadia_, ii. 313 _note_
_Siege of Rhodes_, by Davenant, i. 172 _note_
_---- of Damascus_, by John Hughes, iv. 90 _note_
Signior, the Grand, iv. 186
Sign-posts, the bad spelling on, leads schoolboys and others astray,
i. 152 _seq._
Silence, the virtues of, iii. 103, 104
_Silent Woman_, by Jonson, ii. 29 and _note_; iii. 92
Silvia courted by Damon, ii. 299:
her letter acknowledged, iv. 189
Silvius, suitor to Cælia, iv. 35-37
Simmonds, John, his mezzotints of the Indian kings, iii. 299 _note_
Simplicity recommended in dress, discourse, and behaviour, i. 8
Simplicius, ii. 293
Simulation distinguished from dissimulation, iv. 97 _seq._:
Bacon on, iv. 97 _note_
Singer, Mrs. Elizabeth, her works and life, i. 92 _note_, 93 and
_note_
Sintelaer, the pearl-driller, his _Scourge of Venus and Mercury_, i.
215 and _note_
Sippet, Harry, the famous, iii. 96
Sisly, the maid of Signor Hawksly, in whose name the raffling shop is
taken, ii. 68
Skelton, poet-laureate to Henry VIII., i. 84 _note_
Skinners' Hall, iv. 382
Slaughterford, a murderer, i. 337 and _note_
Slender, Elizabeth, spinster, a petition from, iv. 372
Slim, Mrs., a lady of understanding, i. 260
Slimber, Beau, a Londoner, i. 301
Sloane, Sir Hans, his museum, i. 280 _note_:
brings frogs to Ireland, iv. 208 and _note_, 209:
referred to, ii. 156
Sly, Richard, in a breach of promise, iv. 334, 335
Slyboots, Humphrey, a careful laugher, ii. 101, 102
Smack, Mrs. Sarah, her complaint of scandal, iv. 332, 333
Smagge, Mr. Jan, farmer, iv. 380
Smalridge, Dr., Bishop of Bristol (Favonius), a Jacobite, i. 5 and
_note_:
tutor of Maynwaring, i. 7 _note_:
his character and life, ii. 171 and _note_, 421
Smart, Captain, his duel, i. 320 _seq._
Smart fellow, not a pretty fellow, i. 217, 230 _seq._, 367; ii. 79,
166, 321, 323; iii. 256:
a defence of the awkward fellows against the smarts, ii. 80
Smith, Edmund, author of _Phædra and Hippolitus_, his _Charlettus
Percivallo Suo_, i. 158 _note_
---- Joseph, married to Mrs. Tofts, i. 171 _note_
---- Dr. Thomas, of King Street, Westminster, cures corns, teeth, &c.,
ii. 362 and _note_; iv. 15
---- Thomas, M. P., iii. 343 _note_
Smithfield Bars, iv. 43
"Smyrna, The," coffee-house in Pall Mall, i. 92 and _note_; ii. 210
Snapdragon, to be avoided in married life, ii. 252, 253
Snuff, history of, by Charles Lillie, i. 229 and _note_:
folly of taking, i. 284 _seq._:
worse for ladies, i. 285:
the best Barcelona, ii. 309:
snuff-takers not "whetters," iii. 147:
taking it no sign of wit, iii. 256:
referred to, ii. 192, 298, 401
Snuff-box, its shape determines character, i. 229:
lost, i. 349 _note_:
a new, at eighty guineas, iii. 155:
referred to, ii. 214, 359, 401, 418
Sobieski, John, King of Poland, i. 153 _note_
_Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne_, by Ashton, iii. 56 _note_
Socrates, questions the spirit of a duellist, i. 220 _seq._:
in the Chamber of Fame, ii. 228:
an anecdote of, iii. 47:
referred to, ii. 223 _note_, 231, 324; iii. 115, 116 _note_, 250
_note_
Softly, Ned, iii. 259 _seq._
Soho Square, i. 161
Soilett, Mr., i. 218
Somers, John, Lord (Camillo), i. vii, 44 and _note_; iii. 90
Somerset, Lady Mary, ii. 35 _note_
---- Duke of, iii. 6 _note_
Somerset House Yard, auction at, iii. 303
Son, a, who would be wiser than his father, ii. 391
Sophronius, i. 176; ii. 17, 50
Sorrow, the benefits of, iii. 349 _seq._:
consolations for, iv. 189 _seq._
Sotus, the learned, his tongue loosed by snuff, i. 285
Sound, the, i. 72
South, Dr. Robert, his saying that a liar is "a coward to man and a
brave to God," i. 6:
on the Ways of Pleasantness, iv. 62 _seq._:
on religion, iv. 91 _seq._:
referred to, ii. 85 _note_
South British, Mr., or Mr. English, iv. 310, 311
South Sea mania, i. 349 _note_
Southgate, iv. 95
Southwark Fair, i. 140 _note_
Sowerby, not fond of being laughed at, ii. 102
Spain, i. 49, 51, 88, 105, 197, 235, 237, 299, 323 _note_, 332; ii. 9;
iii. 86, 335; iv. 85, 87, 145, 158
Spanheim, Baron, Bavarian Ambassador, iii. 76 _note_
---- Mary Anne, his daughter, iii. 76 _note_
Spanish snuff, i. 229; ii. 352
_---- Curate, The_, by Beaumont and Fletcher, iv. 199
---- wine required at the "Grecian," i. 13
Sparta, ii. 412
Speech, perfection of, in an accomplished woman, ii. 93:
the abuse of, iii. 125 _seq._:
the proper dignity of, iv. 55 _seq._
Spence's _Anecdotes_, i. 8 _note_
Spenser, ii. 284, 425 _note_; iv. 7, 14, 16 _note_, 173, 288
Spindle, Tom (Henry Cromwell, or possibly Thomas Tickell), a
disappointed poet, i. 382 _seq._; ii. 378 _note_
Spleen, a sufferer from, ii. 220, 221
_Splendid Shilling_, by John Philips, iv. 270 _note_
Spondee, Harry, in praise of nonsense, ii. 77 _seq._
---- a critic, i. 243; ii. 92
Sprightly, Mrs., iii. 273
---- Mr., turned sulky, iii. 401
Spring Gardens, new, at Vauxhall, i. 219 _note_
---- old, at Charing Cross, some account of, ii. 126 and _note_:
referred to, i. 219 _note_, 261 and _note_; ii. 125
Springly, Lady, of Epsom, i. 293 _seq._
---- Tom, a pretender to vice, iv. 98, 99
Spruce, Jack, driven mad by a smile, ii. 6
Spy, Mrs., cured of ogling, i. 277
Spyer, Anth., iv. 152 _note_
Squibs, ii. 272
"Squir," to, iv. 268 and _note_
Squire Easy (Henry Cromwell) the amorous bard, i. 380 _note_; iii. 263
Squires, some account of, i. 160 _seq._
Staffian race, the history of, i. 102:
the staffs of another family, i. 104, 105, 179:
related to Greenhats, ii. 72:
Shakespeare is of the clan, ii. 4:
referred to, i. 240, 289 _seq._; ii. 110, 162, 184, 215
Staffordshire, a drinking county, iii. 289
Stage, audience on, at Betterton's benefit, i. 16, 17
Stanhope, James, first Earl of, i. 37 _note_, 72, 95, 213; ii. 19 and
_note_; iv. 85 and _note_, 86, 87
Stanilaus, King, i. 43, 71
Stanley, Dr. Will. (Stentor), Canon of St. Paul's, his loud voice in
church, ii. 39 and _note_, 55, 127, 154
---- Sir John, ii. 336 _note_
Stanyon, Temple, perhaps author of part of No. 193, iii. 407 _note_
and _seq._
Staremberg, Count, ii. 19, 187, 200; iv. 158
Stars, ladies' eyes no longer to be compared to, ii. 309
_State of Innocence and Fall of Man_, by Dryden, compared to _Paradise
Lost_, i. 55, 56:
referred to, ii. 92 _note_
State weather-glass, a, described, iv. 103 _seq._, 128