The Tatler, Volume 4

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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

States-General, the, i. 72, 143, 173, 197, 198, 213, 229, 399; ii. 108, 127, 133; iii. 123, 318

Stationers' Hall, i. 64; iii. 71 _note_, 102 _note_

Statira, in Lee's _Alexander the Great_, played by Mrs. Bracegirdle, i. 17 _note_: referred to, i. 139, 141; iv. 81

---- the victim of treachery in love, iii. 79 _seq._

Steele, his age and position at starting of _The Tatler_, i. vii, viii: originator and chief author of _The Tatler_, i. xiv: his character, i. xx: service to stage, i. 15 _note_: with Doggett in control of Drury Lane, i. 17 _note_: watch bequeathed to, by D'Urfey, i. 18 _note_, 19 _note_: his _Apology_, i. 48 _note_; ii. 118 _note_: discovered by Addison as author of _Tatler_, i. 57 _note_: his dedication of _The Drummer_ to Congreve, i. 155 _note_, 292 _note_; iii. 227 _note_: his _Lying Lover_, i. 219 _note_; ii. 145 _note_: his _Ladies' Library_, i. 266 _note_; iv. 264 _note_: at Christ Church, i. 281 _note_: letter to Miss Scurlock, i. 286, 287: his _Correspondence_, i. 286 _note_: criticisms by, ii. 141, 142 _note_: his regiment the Coldstream, ii. 264 _note_, 267: his _Funeral_, ii. 335 _note_: governor of Theatre Royal, iii. 1: his _Lover_, i. 192 _note_; ii. 255 _note_; iii. 161 _note_: _Life of Betterton_ dedicated to him, iii. 279 _note_: Eucrates partly drawn from, iii. 322 _seq._: origin of his unmanly tenderness, iii. 350, 351: his treatment of death, iii. 351 _note_: _Epistles of Obscure Writers to Ortuinus_ dedicated to him, iv. 21 _seq._: his _Tender Husband_, iv. 32 _note_, 249 _note_: his _Theatre_ quoted, i. 209 _note_; ii. 6 _note_: Some English Grammars of his Time, iv. 196 _note_: acknowledges authorship of _Tatler_, iv. 375

Author of Nos. 1-4, 6-17, 19-23, 25-31, 33-35, 39-41, 43-49, 51, 52, 55-62, 64, 65, 67, 69, 71-74, 76, 79, 80, 82, 83, 87-89, 91, 92, 94, 98, 99, 104, 105, 106, 115, 124, 125, 127, 128, 132, 134, 135, 137-141, 143-145, 149, 150, 159, 164, 166-182, 184-191, 195-198, 200-204, 206-208, 210-213, 215, 217, 225, 228, 231-234, 241, 242, 244-248, 251, 252, 258, 261, 263, 264, 266, 268-271

? Author of Nos. 36, 37, 38, 50, 53, 54, 68, 77, 78, 118, 136, 151, 194, 219, 235, 237

Steele and Addison, authors of Nos. 18, 42, 63, 75, 81, 86, 93, 101, 103, 110, 111, 114, 147, 160, ? 214, 253, 254, 256, 257, 259, 260, 262, 265 and Swift, authors of Nos. 32, 66, 230, 238

Part of Nos. 59, 193, 223, 236

---- Richard, father of Steele, iii. 350 and _note_

Stella (Mrs. Johnson), i. 92 _note_, 107, 285 _note_; iii. 407

Stentor (_i.e._ Dr. Will Stanley), his loud voice in church, ii. 39 and _note_, 55, 127, 154

Stephen, toyshop-man, iv. 382

Stepney Churchyard, iv. 44 _seq._

Sterne, his _Tristram Shandy_, ii. 316 _note_

Stevenson, Mrs. Anne, iii. 282 _note_

Stick, Lieutenant Jeffry, i. 232, 233

Stiffrump, Ezekiel, a Quaker, ii. 206, 207

Stockbridge, i. 298 _note_; iii. 158

Stocking, the ceremony of throwing, ii. 217

Stockjobbers of the Exchange, heirs to I. B.'s real estate, his bearskin, &c., i. 65

Stocks Market, statues in, i. 153 and _note_

Story-tellers, the Order of, iv. 44

Story's Gate in the Park, ii. 420

Stout, Richard, vendor of ass's milk, iv. 151 and _note_

Strand, the, i. 13 _note_, 170 _note_, 219 and _note_, 229 _note_; ii. 54, 264 _note_, 298; iii. 26 _note_, 158, 276 _note_, 299 _note_; iv. 150 _note_ 372, 379

Stratonica, Queen, beloved of Antiochus, iii. 369, 370

Strephon, a master in the art of persuasion, ii. 78 _seq._

---- a man of sense, iv. 260

---- his love-letters, iv. 250, 251

Strops for razors, iv. 149 and _note_

Strutt, his _Complete Gamester_, iv. 250 _note_

Stuart, John, Earl of Bute, ii. 1 _note_

Sturdy, honest Mr., i. 262 _note_, 268

Styx, iii. 24, 213, 214, 223

Sublime, the true, i. 351 _seq._

Such-an-one, Jack, his character, iv. 65, 66

---- Lady, iv. 67

Suckling, Sir John, on love, i. 329: his tragedy of _Brennoralt_, i. 329: his _Poems_, iv. 240: referred to, ii. 61, 70, 256

Suffenus, his happiness centred on a gilded chariot, iii. 171

Suffolk, Henry, fifth Earl of, i. 179 _note_

---- Street, resort of gamblers, ii. 89 and _note_, 91, 157 _seq._

Summer-house, a covered, iii. 337 _seq._, 380 _seq._; iv. 53

Sunderland, Lord (? Horatio), i. 45 and _note_

---- Robert, Earl of, ii. 87 _note_

"Supple men," iv. 101 _seq._

Surville, M. de, i. 199

"Swallowers" distinguished from the "Eaters," iv. 61

Swan, Captain, ii. 95 _note_

Swash, Sir Paul, Knight, indicted for discourtesy, iv. 348, 349

Swearers, iii. 126 _seq._

Swearing, a cunning cure for, i. 118, 119

Sweden, King of, i. 72, 213, 399; ii. 67, 134, 135; iii. 85 _note_, 336

Sweething's Lane, iii. 352 _note_

Swift, his age and position at starting of _The Tatler_, i. vii, viii: his contributions, i. xiv: his coldness towards Steele and others, i. xxiv: acknowledgements to, i. 3: his verses on a _Shower_, _ibid._: his _Description of the Morning_, _ibid._, i. 81, 82, 111 _seq._; iv. 216 _note_: made name of Bickerstaff famous, i. 8, 22 _note_: his _Essay on Modern Education_, i. 12 _note_: described as Wagstaff, i. 81 _seq._: his _Journal to Stella_, i. 83 _note_, 92 _note_, 107, 285 _note_; ii. 122 _note_, 396 _note_; iii. 55 _note_, 299 _note_, 407 _note_; iv. 175 _note_, 211 _note_, 215 _note_, 254 _note_, 265 _note_, 294 _note_, 310 _note_, 320 _note_, 374 _note_: hatred of Boyer, i. 157 _note_: his _Tale of a Tub_, i. 209 and _note_; iv. 320 _note_: the "Janus of the Age," i. 268: his _Polite Conversation_, ii. 6 _note_: his _City Shower_, iii. 58 _note_; iv. 215 _note_: his _Genteel Conversation_, iii. 100 _note_: on Mary Astell, iii. 274 _note_: his treatment of Death, iii. 351 _note_: his continuation of the _Tatler_, iii. 406 _note_: his _The Importance of the Guardian considered_, iii. 407 _note_: his _Project for the Advancement of Religion_, iv. 294 _note_: his _Directions to the Waiting-Maid_, iv. 294 _note_: his _Journal of a Modern Lady_, iv. 338 _note_

Referred to, i. 13 _note_, 22 _note_, 48 _note_, 49 _note_, 99 _note_, 112 _note_, 156 _note_, 228 _note_, 245 _note_, 263 _note_; ii. 4 _note_, 85 _note_, 146 _note_, 320 _note_; iii. 12, 390 _note_, 407 _note_; iv. 43 _note_, 93 _note_, 149 _note_, 194 _note_, 204 _note_, 206 _note_, 315 _note_, 343 _note_

Letters by (signed Obadiah or Tobiah Greenhat, Elizabeth Potatrix, Cato junior, and Aminadab), i. 259 and _note_, (?) 289; ii. 70 _seq._, 102 _seq._, 151 (?), 162, 163 (?); iii. 391, 392 (?); iv. 13 _seq._

Part author of Nos. 32, 66, 67, 68 (?), 230, 238

Hawkesworth claims for him Nos. 66, 67, 74, 81; ii. 223 _note_: an article _not_ by him, ii. 186 _note_

Swiss, the (Heidegger), ii. 118

Switch, Tom, a letter from, i. 240

Switzerland, i. 50, 61, 62, 76: described by Addison, ii. 300

_Sylvia and Dorinda_, dialogue by Mrs. Singer, i. 92 and _note_

Sylvia, her hard case, iii. 367 _seq._, 382 _seq._

Sylvius (General Cornelius Wood), iii. 162 and _note_

Symes, Thomas, first husband of Steele's mother, iii. 350 _note_

Synge, Captain R., i. 334

T. R., a Welshman, iv. 301 _seq._

Tabio, a rival of Bromeo, ii. 99 _seq._

"Table of the Titles and Distinctions of Women," i. 89 _note_

Tacitus, his _Annals_ quoted, i. 145; iii. 361

"Talc," iv. 250 and _note_

_Tale of a Tub_, i. 209 _note_; iv. 320 _note_

Talgol (in _Hudibras_), iii. 179 _note_

Talicotius, Gaspar, iv. 314, 320, 322 _note_ and _seq._, 327

Talking, the art of, iv. 242 _seq._: the abuse of, iv. 342 _seq._

Tallboy, a sharper, ii. 115, 116

_Taming of the Shrew_ retold, iv. 181 _seq._

Tapestry described, i. 32, 33

Taplash, John, a singing clerk, i. 337

Tarantula, its poison cured by dancing or music, i. 383 and _note_

Tasso, his _Pastor Fido_, iii. 236

Taswell (_i.e._ Caswell), Dr. William, minister, ii. 43 _note_

Tate, Nahum, his _No Duke_, iii. 409

_Tatler_, its forerunners, i. x, xi: its origin, i. xi; its methods, i. xi-xiv, xviii _seq._: characters in, i. xvi: Gay on, i. xvi _seq._: its teachings, i. xxii _seq._: causes of its discontinuance, i. xxiv: its popularity, i. xxv-xxvii: imitators and continuations, i. xxvii: some account of the design of, i. 3 _seq._: contributions by Addison, i. 4 _seq._: subscribed to by every one eminent for wit, power, beauty, valour, or wisdom, i. 9: title chosen in honour of the fair sex, i. 12: price to be 1d., i. 12, 13, 46 _note_: foreign news made interesting, i. 12: service to stage, i. 15 _note_, 31: French translation of, i. 34 _note_: _Annotations on_, i. 52 _note_, &c.: wit of, exhausted, i. 64: will, burial and funeral, i. 65-67: devoted to the fair sex, i. 142, 143; ii. 218: increase of advertisements, i. 182 and _note_: hush-money for, i. 219: advice to, ii. 183 _seq._: defended, ii. 197 _seq._: the _Female Tatler_, ii. 247 _note_, &c.: pirated _Tatler_, ii. 347 and _note_: the censor of Great Britain, iii. 160, &c.: the continuation of, by Swift and Harrison, iii. 406 _note_: its rivals and critics, iv. 171 _seq._, 219 _seq._: Edinburgh reprint of, iv. 382

Tatler, Martha, a letter from, i. 293 _seq._

Tattle, Jasper, a talkative fellow, iv. 247 _seq._

Taylor, Jeremy, his _Art of Living and Dying_, iv. 350

Tears, cause for shedding, ii. 138 _seq._

Tearshift, an unjust judge i. 124

Tee Zee Neen Ho Ga Prow, an Iroquois chief of the Maquas, Emperor of the Mohocks, iii. 299 _note_, 301

Telemachus among the shades in Fénélon's _Télémaque_, iii. 222 _seq._

Tempest, Miss (? Hebe), maid of honour, i. 355 _note_ and _seq._

_Tempest, The_, iii. 409

Temple, the i. 161; ii. 363

---- Sir Richard, i. 102 _note_, 291

---- Sir William, his _Memoirs of what passed in Christendom from 1672 to 1679_, ii. 351 and _note_

---- Bar, i. 348; ii. 156 _note_, 215, 260; iii. 98 _note_, 127, 264;