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CONTENTS.
VOL. I.
HISTORICAL and Biographical Pre-
face. Orignal Dedications.
1. The Spectator's Account of him-
self
2. Of the Club-Sir Roger de Coverley
-the Templar-Sir Andrew Free-
port Captain Sentry - Will
Honeycomb-the Clergyman
3. Public Credit, a Vision....
ADDISON.
...... STEELE.
4. Advantages of the Spectator's Ta-
citurnity-Care of the Female
Sex
........ STEELE.
5. On the Absurdities of the Modern
Opera ....
...... ADDISON.
6. Preference of Wit and Sense to Ho-
nesty and Virtue........
7. Popular Superstitions
8. Letters on Masquerades
9. Account of various Clubs
10. The Uses of the Spectator
.......
STEELE
..... ADDISON.
11. Character of Arietta-the Ephesian
Matron-Inkle and Yarico......... STEELE.
12. Custom of telling Stories of Ghosts
to Children
No.
13. Conduct of the Lions at the Opera
-Merit of Nicolini............... ADDISON.
14. Letters from the Lion-from an
Under-sexton on the Masquerade
-Puppet Show
15. Story of Cleanthe-on Happiness,
STEELE.
exemplified in Aurelia-Fulvia. ... ADDISON.
16. Various Articles of Dress-Lam-
poons-Scandal-Politics - Let-
ter from Charles Lillie.........
17. Account of the Ugly Club
....
18. History of the Italian Opera ........ ADDISON.
19. On Envy
20. Impudence-the Starers
21. Divinity, Law, and Physic overbur-
thened with Practitioners ....................... ADDISON.
22. Absurdities of the Opera exempli-
fied in Letters from the Perfor-
mers of Beasts
23. Ill-natured Satire
............................... STEELE.
....... ADDISON.
24. Complaint of Thomas Kimbow-
impertinent Acquaintance-Let-
ter from Mary Tuesday
25. Letter from a Valetudinarian-Ex-
cess of Anxiety about Health
... ADDISON.
26. Reflexions in Westminster Ab.
bey
.........
27. Resolutions to quit the World-
Letter to a Clergyman
............
28. Project of an Office for the Regula-
tion of Signs-a Monkey recom-
mended for the Opera....................
32. Admission of the Spectator into the
Ugly Club..........
33. Characters of Lætitia and Daphne...
Art of improving Beauty............ HUGHES.
34. Success of the Spectators with va-
rious Classes of Readers, repre-
sented by the Club
35. False Wit and Humour-Genealogy
of Humour
...
36. Letters from the Play-house, on the
Dismission of inanimate Perfor-
mers
...... ......... ADDISON.
37. Catalogue of a Lady's Library—
Character of Leonora
38. On Affectation-Vanity..... ................................. STEELE.
39. English Tragedy-Lee-Otway ... ADDISON.
40. Tragedy and Tragi-Comedy .........
41. Women called Picts-no Faith to
be kept with them
42. English Tragedy-Methods to ag-
grandise the Persons in Tragedy... ADDISON.
43. Account of the Hebdomadal Club
-Remarks on Dulness ............ STEELE.
44. Stage Tricks to excite Pity-Dra-
matic Murders.....
45. Ill Consequences of the Peace-
French Fashions-Childish Im-
pertinence.......
46. The Spectator's Paper of Hints drop-
ped-Gospel-gossip-Ogling......
47. Theory of the Passion of Laughter
48. Spectator's Letter to the Ugly Club
-Letters from Hecatissa-an old
Beau-Strolling Players ...
49. Character at the Coffee Houses-
50. Remarks on the English, by the In-
......
dian Kings
51. Censure of a Passage in the Fune-
ral-Indelicacies in Plays ......... STEELE.
52. Letter from the Ugly Club-Hob-
bes's Theory of Laughter.
...... HUGHES.
53. Letters on Female Education
The best bred Men-the Spleen—a
Peeper-King Latinus
54. Account of the new Sect of Loun-
gers.....
55. Effects of Avarice and Luxury on
Employments .....
56. Vision of Marraton..
57. Mischiefs of Party-Rage in the Fe-
male Sex .....
58. Essay on Wit-History of False
Wit
59. The same subject continued
60. Wit of the Monkish Ages-in Mo-
dern Times
61. The Subject continued