Volume 18 — INDEX.

A.

Abingdon, Earl of, dedication to, Vol. xi, 121

Countess of, account of, xi, 119

Absalom and Achitophel, Part I. ix, 195

remarks on, ib. 197

recommendatory verses to, ib. 213, 216

notes on, ib. 249

Part I. character of, i, 243

answers to, ib. 253

Part II. ix, 313

remarks on, ib. 315

notes on, ib. 354

character of, i, 268

extracts from Buckingham’s answer to, ix, 272-4

Absalom’s Conspiracy, or the Tragedy of Treason, ix, 199, 205

Abuse of personal satires, xiii, 81

Accession of James I., state of learning in England on, i, 5

James II., poems on, x, 59

Account of Gibbon’s conversion to the catholic faith, by himself, i, 316

Montague and Prior’s parody on the Hind and the Panther, ib. 330

Luke Milbourne, ib. 394

ludicrous, Dryden’s funeral, ib. 441

Dryden’s funeral, by Mrs Thomas, false, ib. 442

Dryden’s funeral, by Tom Brown, ib. 443

Dryden’s family, ib. 462

of Cleveland, i, 43

Sir Robert Howard, i, 54

defence of an Essay of Dramatic Poesy, ii, 263

the representation of the Spanish Friar, vi, 371

Annus Mirabilis, in a letter to Sir Robert Howard, ix, 92

contest at the election of Sheriffs for London, ix, 404

the last period of the life of the Earl of Shaftesbury, ix, 415

the reception of the Lancashire Witches, vii, 15

Protestant flail, ib. 19

the Associating Club, ib. 154

the Hind and Panther, by Swift, x, 106

the rise of the Quakers, ib. 141

the noble house-keeping of the Duke of Beaufort, ix, 391

the sect of Anabaptists, x, 145

the rise of Presbyterianism, ib. 148

the birth of the son of James II., by Smollet, x, 305

Pope-burning, x, 370

John Lilburn, vi, 363

William Fuller, viii, 329

Lodovico Sforza, ix, 46

Anne Hyde, Duchess of York, ib. 73

Sir John Lawson, ib. 161

gallant actions of Prince Rupert, ix, 167, 174

gallant actions of the Duke of Albemarle, ib. 168, 171

Sir Edward Spragge, ib. 178

Sir Freschville Hollis, ib. 180

Michael Adrien de Ruyter, ib. 182

Sir William Jones, ib. 279

Slingsby Bethel, ib. 280

Titus Oates, ib. 282

Sir Edmondbury Godfrey, ib. 285

the Duke of Ormond, ib. 294

the Earl of Ossory, ib. 299

Archbishop Sancroft, ib. 301

Bishop Compton, ib. 302

Bishop Dolben, ib. 303

the Marquis of Halifax, ib. 305

of the Earl of Rochester, ix. 307

Sir Edward Seymour, ib. 308

Nahum Tate, ib. 315

Sir Robert Playton, ib. 359

Sir Thomas Player, ib. 361

Robert Ferguson, ib. 363

James Forbes, ib. 368

Samuel Johnson, ib. 369

Samuel Pordage, ib. 372

Elkanah Settle, ib. 373

King’s Head Club, ib. 380

Sir William Waller, ib. 381

the Earl of Dartmouth, ib. 386

Edward Sackville, ib. 387

the Duke of Beaufort, ib. 390

the Duke of Albemarle, ib. 394

the Earl of Arlington, ib. 395

the Duke of Grafton, ib. 396

the Earl of Feversham, ix, 397

Nottingham, ib. 400

Sir Roger L’Estrange, ib, 400

Sir John Moor, ib. 402

Whip and Key, ib. 425

Thomas Hunt, vii, 127

Richard Rumbold, ib. 261

Edward Coleman, x, 18

Hugh Paulin Cressy, ib. 21

Edmund Campian, ib. 20

Robert Parsons, ib. 20

William Tyndal, ib. 24

Richard Hooker, ib. 26

George Cranmer, ib. 26

John Penry, or Martin Mar-prelate, ib. 27

Eleanor James, ib. 116

Zuinglius, ib. 150

Calvin, ib. 155

John White, ib. 257

Gilbert Burnet, ib. 267

Hart, the tragedian, ib. 328

Ralph Bathurst, ib. 330

Dr Charles Davenant, ib. 333

Lady H. M. Wentworth, ib. 337

Lodowick Carlell, x, 404

of John Bancroft, x, 412

Richard Flecknoe, ib. 441

Thomas Shadwell, ib. 443

Thomas Heywood, ib. 446

James Shirley, ib. 446

Ogleby, ib. 452

Sir George Etherege, ib. 454, xi, 38

Dr Walter Charleton, xi, 12

Dr William Gilbert, ib. 15

William Harvey, ib. 15

Dr George Ent, ib. 16

Lady Castlemaine, ib. 18

the death of Nat. Lee, ib. 22

John Northleigh, ib. 35

Southerne, ib. 48

Henry Higden, ib. 52

Lord Lansdowne, ib. 63

Peter Anthony Motteux, ib. 67

John Driden of Chesterton, ib. 71

Sir Godfrey Kneller, ib. 84

John Oldham, ib. 98

Mrs Anne Killigrew, ib. 102

Dr Henry Killigrew, ib. 106

Mrs Katharine Philips, xi, 111

the Countess of Abingdon, ib. 119

Henry Purcell, ib. 145

the Marquis of Winchester, ib. 152

the death of Sir Palmes Fairborne, ib. 156

St Cecilia, ib. 165

the festival of St Cecilia, ib. 166

the Duke of Ormond, ib. 195

Ovid, xii, 4

the causes of Ovid’s banishment, ib. 5, 7

Cowley’s mode of translation, ib. 15

Lord Radcliffe, ib. 47

Sir Peter Lely, ib. 267

Thomas Creech, ib. 277

the Earl of Roscommon, ib. 341

Livius Andronicus, xiii, 54

Barten Holyday, ib. 93

Sir Robert Stapylton, ib. 93

Owen Swan, ib. 97

Sir George Mackenzie, ib. 111

of William Walsh, ib. 297

the person, manners, and fortune, of Virgil, ib. 323

the Earl of Chesterfield, xiv, 3

the Earl of Peterborough, xv, 189

Sir William Trumball, ib. 190

Gilbert Dolben, ib. 190

the Duke of Shrewsbury, ib. 192

Sir Thomas Armstrong, ib. 204

Aston, ib. 204

the Earl of Aylesbury, ib. 207

the Earl of Essex, ib. 208

John Taylor, the water poet, ib. 378

Thomas Rhymer, ib. 383

the Brachmans, xvi, 91

Malacca, ib. 150

Amboyna, ib. 158

P. V. P. Cayet, xvii, 94

Archbishop Spottiswoode, ib. 159

Robert Bellarmine, ib. 160

Louis Maimbourg, ib. 182

Dr Peter Heylin, ib. 190

Bishop Stillingfleet, ib. 194

Dr George Morley, ib. 196

Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy, ib. 281

M. St Evremont, xviii, 9

Polybius the historian, ib. 26

the translation of Polybius, by Sir Henry Shere, ib. 19

the murder of Lucian, ib. 57

Charles Blount, ib. 77

Henry Brouncker, ib. 92

William Pate, ib. 130

Mrs Elizabeth Steward, ib. 141

Samuel Pepys, ib. 154

Acis, Polyphemus, and Galatea, story of, xii, 199

Acquittal of the Earl of Shaftesbury, ix, 409

Act of Oblivion, ix, 50

Action, unity of, what xv, 307

Actions of the Duke of Albemarle, ix, 168-171

Addison’s Essay on the Georgics of Virgil, xiv, 14

Address of the Atheists, x, 144

Addresses on the accession of James II. character of, x, 110

poetical, to James II. on the birth of a son, ib. 286-7

Advertisement to the Duke of Guise, vii, 133

regarding poems ascribed to Dryden, xv, 199

Essay on Dramatic Poesy, xv, 292

translation of Plutarchs’ Lives, xvii, 3

the first edition of the translation of Virgil’s works, xiii, 281

Advice to a young painter, xvii, 377-468

Æneas, Epistle to, xii, 35

Æneid, moral of, xiv, 150

disputed by Heyne, ib. 150

four first lines of, not Virgil’s, ib. 225

Æneis, time of action of, xiv, 189

machinery of, ib. 193

of Virgil, xiv, 125, xv, 1-186

dedication of, xiv, 127

Book I. xiv, 231, notes on, ib. 262

II. ib. 264

III. ib. 296, note on, ib. 322

IV. ib. 324 ib. 353

V. ib. 355

VI. ib. 388, notes on, ib. 424

VII. ib. 429 ib. 461

VIII. xv, 1 xv, 29

IX. ib. 30 ib. 62

X. ib. 64 ib. 102

XI. ib. 105

XII. ib. 143, notes on, ib. 183

Postscript to, xv, 187

Agathias, epigram of, xvii, 76

Age of Queen Elizabeth, false wit one character of, i, 7

share of John Lillie in determining the taste of, ib. 7

James I. prevalence of false taste in, i, 9

play of words in, ib. 10

Age, golden, xii, 66

silver, ib. 67

brazen, ib. 68

iron, ib. 68

Agreement of Dryden with Jacob Tonson concerning the Fables, xviii, 191

Ajax and Ulysses, speeches of, xii, 181

death of, ib. 198

Albemarle, Duke of, gallant actions of, ix, 168-171

account of, ib. 394

Albion and Albanus, an opera, vii, 209

remarks on, ib. 211

verses in ridicule of, ib. 213

preface to, ib. 216

prologue to, ib. 228

frontispiece to, ib. 231

epilogue to, ib. 268

Albumazar, character of, x, 416

prologue to, ib. 416

Alexander’s Feast, or the Power of Music, an ode, xi, 183

Alexandrine, uncommon one of Tom Brown, ix, 415

Alexis, a pastoral, xiii, 374

All for Love, or, the World Well Lost, a tragedy, v, 285

remarks on, ib. 287

epistle dedicatory to, ib. 296

preface to, ib. 306

prologue to, ib. 321

epilogue to, ib. 411

original performers in, ib. 294

character of, i, 238

Allen, Sir Thomas, enterprise of, ix, 177

Almanzor and Almahide, a tragedy, Part I. iv, 1

Amaryllis, or third idyllium of Theocritus, xii, 287

Amboyna, or the cruelties of the Dutch to the English merchants, a tragedy, v, 1

Dryden’s worst play, ib. 4

remarks on, ib. 3

epistle dedicatory to, ib. 5

prologue to, ib. 10

epilogue to, ib. 87

American colonies, a refuge for the disaffected, x, 394

Amours (Ovid’s) translations from, xii, 257

Amphitryon, or the two Sosias, a comedy, viii, 1

remarks on, ib. 3

letter and verses on, ib. 5

epistle dedicatory to, ib. 7

prologue to, ib. 12

epilogue to, ib. 106

Amyntas, a pastoral elegy, xi, 139

Anabaptists, account of, x, 145

Anachronism of Virgil defended, xiv, 176

Ancient political satire of Reynard the fox, x, 155

Ancient armour, rivetted after put on, xi, 363

British custom, xviii, 120

Ancients, excelled by the English in dramatic writing, xv, 396

ceremonies observed by, on escape from shipwreck, ix, 34, 44

Andronicus, Livius, first author of a play in Roman republic, xiii, 54

account of, ib. 54

Anecdote traditionary of Ben Jonson, i, 13

James I. ib. 13

Anecdote of Robert Keies, i, 23

Dryden’s brothers and sisters, ib. 25

Southerne, ib. 237

Jacob Tonson, ib. 389

Dryden, ib. 390

Dryden and Jacob Tonson, ib. 391

Heliodorus, vi. 126

Andrew Naugeria, ib. 370

a Scottish judge, ix, 20

the Earl of Shaftesbury, ib. 265

Gilbert Burnet, ib. 371

Charles II., ib. 413

Nell Gwynn, ib. 426

Peter Fabel, vii, 10

Friar Bacon, ib. 10

the Loyal Brother, x, 370

John Hales, xv, 351

Angelo, Michael, character of, ib. 489

Animadversions, Dryden’s, on Melbourne, i, 403

Animosity to Dryden of Elkanah Settle, rise of, xv, 398

Annals or commentaries, what, xvii, 56

Annus Mirabilis, the year of wonders, 1666, an historical poem, ix, 81

Dryden’s first poem of consequence, ib. 83

remarks on, ib. 83

dedication of, ib. 89

notes on, ib. 158

account of, in a letter to Sir Robert Howard, ib. 92

character of, i, 61

Answer of Samuel Pepys to a letter of Dryden’s, xviii, 156

to the preface of the Great Favourite, or the Duke of Lenna, ii, 265

Dryden’s Medal, extracts from, ix, 452

Rymer’s remarks, heads of, xv, 385

the Duchess of York’s paper, xvii, 194

Absalom and Achitophel, i, 253

the Medal, ib. 255

Apology for heroic poetry, and poetic licence, v, 105

Apostle of the Indies, St Francis Xavier, life of, xvi, 1

Appeal to honour and justice, extract from, x, 387

Appendix to the Fables, containing the original tales of Chaucer, modernized by Dryden, xii, i-xci.

to Dryden’s works, xviii, 183

No. I. Dryden’s degree of master of arts, ib. 185

No. II. Dryden’s patent as poet-laureat, and historiographer-royal, ib. 187

No. III. Dryden’s agreement with Jacob Tonson concerning the Fables, ib. 191

No. IV. Mr Russel’s bill for Dryden’s funerals, ib. 194

Description of Dryden’s funeral, ib. 195

No. V. Mrs Thomas’s letters concerning Dryden’s death and funeral, ib. 200

No. VI. Monument in the church at Tichmarsh, ib. 215

No. VII. Extract from an epistolary poem to Dryden, occasioned by the death of the Earl of Abingdon, by William Pitts, ib. 218

No. VIII. Extracts from poems attacking Dryden for his silence upon the death of Queen Mary, ib. 222

No. IX. Verses occasioned by reading Dryden’s Fables, by Mr Hughes, ib. 227

No. X. Ode on the death of Dryden, by Alexander Oldys, ib. 234

Application of the Hind and the Panther censured, x, 90

defended, ib. 91

justified, ib. 197, 240

the fable of the Swallows, ib. 253

Appointment of Dryden to the office or poet-laureat, and historiographer-royal, i, 115

fasts and thanksgivings belongs only to the king, ix, 388

Apprentices duty in ancient times, vi, 382

loyal, dinner, ix, 396

Archbishop Sancroft, account of, ix, 301

Spottiswoode, account of, xvii, 159

Argument of the fable of the Flower and the Leaf, xi, 354

Arius, doctrine of, x, 146

and Athanasius, controversy between, ib. 15

Aristotle’s division of the integral parts of a play, xv, 312

Arlington, Earl of, account of, ix, 395

Armour, ancient, rivetted after put on, xi, 363

Armstrong, Sir Thomas, account of, xv, 204

stabs Mr Scroop, x, 327

Art of Love, Ovid’s, translations from, xii, 229

Painting, by C. A. Du Fresnoy, translation of xvii, 279, 339

remarks on, ib. 281

observations on, ib. 392

when translated, i, 405

Poetry, xv. 227

remarks on, ib. 229

Canto II. pastoral, ib. 238

elegy, ib. 240

ode, ib. 240

epigram, ib. 241

satire, ib. 243

III. tragedy, ib. 245

IV. ib. 258

Arthur, or the British Worthy, viii, 107

Arts, Dryden’s degree of master of, xviii, 185

Arviragus and Philiciæ, prologue to, x, 404

Assassination of the Duke of Guise, xvii, 148

Assault upon Dryden, in Rose-street, i, 204

upon Sir John Coventry, ix, 258

Assignation, or Love in a Nunnery, a comedy, iv, 343

remarks on, ib. 345

epistle dedicatory to, ib. 348

prologue to, ib. 356

epilogue to, ib. 447

Associating club, account of, vii, 154

Association for the defence of Queen Elizabeth ix, 422

Aston, account of, xv, 204

Astrea Redux, a poem, ix, 25

remarks on, ib. 27

notes on, ix. 41

Astrological observations of John Silvester, extract from, x, 421.

Astrology, Dryden’s belief in, xviii, 207

Athanasius and Arius, controversy between, x, 15

Atheists, address of, ib. 144

Attack on Dryden, xi, 237

Shakespeare, by Ben Jonson, xv, 344

upon Blackmore and Collier, in the prologue and epilogue to the Pilgrim, i, 436

Attacks, poetical, against Dryden, specimen of, ib. 350

by Swift on Dryden, ib. 374-393

Attempt, Shaftesbury’s, to alter the succession, ix, 268

Aureng-Zebe, a tragedy, v, 167

remarks on, ib. 169

epistle dedicatory to, ib. 174

prologue to, ib. 188

epilogue to, ib. 282

Authority of Dryden in Will’s Coffee-house, i, 371

Authors of the Rehearsal, ib. 136

Author’s apology for heroic poetry, and poetic licence, v, 105

Aylesbury, Earl of, account of, xv, 207

B.

Bacon, Friar, anecdote of, vol. vii, 10

Ballad of College, the Protestant joiner, vii, 5

The Brawny Bishop’s Complaint, x, 270

Bancroft, John, account of, ib. 412

Banishment of Ovid, causes of, xii, 5-7

Bathurst, Ralph, account of, x, 330

Character of Latin compositions of, x, 332

Battle, a poem, extract from, ix, 398

of four days, ix, 168-174

of Landen, behaviour of the Duke of Ormond at, xi, 202

of Senneph, ib. 233

Baucis and Philemon, xii, 109

Beaufort, Duke of, account of, ix, 390

noble house-keeping of, ib. 391

Beaumont and Fletcher, character of, xv, 352

Beautiful in painting, xvii, 343

Behaviour of the Duke of Ormond at the battle of Landen, xi, 202

Belief of Dryden in judicial astrology, xviii, 207

Bellarmine, Robert, account of, xvii, 160

Bellino, George, character of, xvii, 492

Beneficence of Polybius the historian, xviii, 33

Benefit of Dryden, the Pilgrim brought forward for, i, 434

Bennet, Sir Henry, vide Arlington, Earl of

Bethel, Slingsby, account of, ix, 280

Bevil, Sir Robert, imprisoned, xi, 82

Bible, what occasioned by Tyndal’s translation of, x, 23

Biography, what, xvii, 58

Birth of Charles II. star visible at, ix, 51

children, custom at, xiii, 389

Dryden, i, 26

St Francis Xavier, xvi, 15

the Prince, poem on, x, 283

the son of James II. said to be spurious, x, 286

believed by the Papists miraculous, ib. 285-302

account of by Smollet, ib. 305

Bishop of Munster’s irruption into the United States, ix, 165

Compton, account of, ib. 302

Dolben, ib. 303

Blackmore, Sir Richard, Dryden’s dispute with, i, 420

extract of preface to Prince Arthur by, ib. 421

ridiculed, viii, 442

Blackmore and Collier, Dryden’s attack upon, in the Prologue and Epilogue to the Pilgrim, i, 436

Blount, Charles, account of, xviii, 77

Blount, Charles, Religio Laici of, x, 8

Boccace and Chaucer, parallel between, xi, 233

translations from, ib. 401

Bologna, singular event at the siege of, ix, 18

Booksellers, niggardliness of, xv, 194

Bower’s medal of Earl of Shaftesbury, ix, 412

Boyle, Lord Broghill, vide Orrery, Earl of,

Brachmans, account of the, xvi, 91

Brady’s character of Shadwell, x, 445

Bravery of the Duke of York, ix, 161

Brawny Bishop’s complaint, a ballad, x, 270

Brazen age, from Ovid, xii, 68

Britannia Rediviva, x, 283

remarks on, ib. 285

notes on, ib. 302

British Worthy, or King Arthur, viii, 107

Brouncker, Henry, account of, xviii, 92

Brown, (Tom,) uncommon Alexandrine of, ix, 415

extract from works of, x, 51

letter on Hind and Panther of, ib. 102

extract of Preface to The New Converts Exposed, ib. 103

account of Dryden’s funeral by, i, 443

religio medici of, x, 7

Bruce, Robert, vide Aylesbury, Earl of

Brutus Marcus, employed writing an epitome of Polybius, xviii, 30

Buckingham, Duke of, account of, v, 174

epistle dedicatory to, v, 174

intrepidity of, ib. 175

character of, v, 175, ix, 270, 304

answer of, to Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel, extracts from, ib. 272

Battle, by extract from, ix, 398

author of the Essay on Satire, xv, 201

gallantry of, ib. 211

satire on gallantry of, ib. 212

Buffoon, or Gracioso, what, i, 77

Burlesque inscription by Swift, to be placed under Blackmore’s picture, viii, 442

Burnet, Gilbert, anecdote of, ix, 371

account of, x, 267

personal appearance of, ib. 270

account of the relief given by James II. to the French exiled Protestants, ib. 264

remarks on some part of conduct and writings of, ib. 271

examination of, by the House of Commons, ib. 274

why named Captain of the Test, ib. 276

Burning a Pope, what, vi, 222

Busby, Rev. Dr, Dryden’s letters to, xviii, 96-98

Bussy, D’Ambois, a tragedy, extracts from, vi, 376

Butler, James, vide Ormond, Duke of

Butler, the author of Hudibras, unrewarded by the Court, x, 250

C.

Cæsar Borgia, prologue to, x, 347

Calisto, a masque, dramatis personæ of, x, 337

Calvin, account of, x, 150

Calvinism, history of, by Lewis Maimbourg, x, 30

Cambridge, Dryden admitted to Trinity College of, i, 28

Campian, Edmund, account of, x, 20

Canace to Macareus, epistle of, xii, 21

Candour of Polybius, instance of, xviii, 40

Captain of the Test, Bishop Burnet, why named, x, 276

Carbery, Earl of, vide Vaughan, Lord

Carlell, Lodovick, account of, x, 404

Carrache, character of Ludivico, Hannibal, and Augustine, xvii, 496

Castlemaine treated with contempt by the Pope, x, 305

Castlemain, Lady, poetical epistle to, xi, 20

remarks on, ib. 18

account of, ib. 18

Catholic missionaries, diligence of in the conversion of the Heathen, x, 192

Catholic faith, Dryden becomes a convert to, i, 303

Dryden firm in his attachment to, ib. 322

Gibbon’s account of his conversion to, ib. 316

Caulfield’s history of the gunpowder plot, extract from, i, 24

Causabon’s commentary on Persius, xiii, 72

Causes of enmity between Dryden and Shadwell, x, 427

Ovid’s banishment, xii, 5-7

Cavendish, William, vide Newcastle, Duke of,

Cayet, P. V. P. account of, xvii, 94

Cecil, John, vide Exeter, Earl of,

Cecilia’s, St, day, song for, xi, 167

remarks on, ib. 165

account of, ib. 165

festival of, ib. 166

day, Ode in honour of, ib. 183

circumstances attending the composition of,i, 408

set to music by Handel, ib. 310

Ceremonies observed by the ancients on escape from shipwreck, ix, 34, 44

Ceyx and Alcyone, fable of, xii, 139

Chancellor Hyde, verses to, ix, 65

Chandos portrait of Shakespeare, xi, 87.

Chapman, George, extracts from tragedy of Bussy D’Ambois of, vi, 376

Character of Dryden, i, 444

by Congreve, ii, 9

Sir Gilbert Pickering, i, 34

Sir John Driden, ib. 37

Annus Mirabilis, ib. 61

Dryden’s Tempest, ib. 106

Heroic plays, ib. 118

Marriage a-la-mode, ib. 143

Massacre of Amboyna, ib. 164

the Empress of Morocco, ib. 187

All for Love, ib. 218

Ben Jonson, iii, 222

Mrs Montfort, by Cibber, iv, 233

the Œdipe of Corneille, vi, 119

the Troilus and Cressida of Shakespeare, vi, 239

the Troilus and Cressida of Dryden, i, 223

of the Spanish Friar, i, 227

Absalom and Achitophel, Part I. ib. 243

II. ib. 268

Mac-Flecknoe, a satire, ib. 266

Dryden as a satirist, ib. 279

Jeremy Collier, ib. 424

Southerne, i, 372

Congreve, ib. 372

Life of St Francis Xavier, ib. 337

Dryden’s translations by Garth, ib. 340

of Otho, ix, 43

the Earl of Clarendon, ib. 63

Duke of Buckingham, ib. 270, 304

Pere Richard Simon, x, 31

the addresses on the accession of Jarnes II. x, 110

James II. x, 226, 265

The Man of Mode, x, 339

Mountfort the comedian, x, 412

Albumazar, ib. 416

of Thomas Shadwell, ib. 445

Decker, ib. 451

Thomas Shadwell’s Virtuoso, ib. 454

Sir Godfrey Kneller, xi, 89

Donne, as a love-poet, ib. 123

Homer and Virgil, ib. 211

Chaucer, ib. 225

a good Parson, xi, 395

remarks on, ib. 394

Ovid’s works, xii, 8, 11

Homer’s poetry, xii, 49

a translator, ib. 266

Lucretius, ib. 272

Theocritus, ib. 278

Horace, ib. 280

the Earl of Dorset, xiii, 7

Spenser, xiii, 18

Milton, ib. 19

Pacurius, the satirist, ib. 58

Lucilius the satirist, ib. 58

Persius, ib. 72

the father of Horace, ib. 77

the Satires of Horace, ib. 99

Mæcenas, ib. 307

Virgil’s Pastorals, ib. 339

French poetry, ib. 366

Virgil’s Georgics, xiv, 25

Lauderdale’s translation of Virgil, xiv, 223

the Earl of Exeter, xv, 191

the Duke of Shrewsbury, xv, 192

French plays, ib. 337

William Shakespeare, ib. 350

Beaumont and Fletcher, ib. 352

Ben Jonson, ib. 353

Dryden’s colleagues in notes and observations on Empress of Morocco, xv, 399

Plutarch’s Lives, xvii, 62

Michael Angelo, as a painter, xvii, 489

Raphael Santio, ib. 490

Julio Romano, ib. 491

Polydore, ib. 492

Gio Bellino, ib. 492

Georgione, as a painter, ib. 492

Titian, ib. 493

of Paul Veronese, xvii, 494

Tintoret, ib. 494

Corregio, ib. 494

Parmegiano, ib. 495

Ludivico, Hannibal, and Augustine Carrache, ib. 496

Guido, ib. 496

Domenichino, ib. 497

Lanfranc, ib. 497

Gio. Viola, ib. ib.

Rubens, ib. 498

M. St Evremont, xviii, 9

Polybius and his writings, ib. 17

Pope Nicholas V. ib. 24

Lucian, ib. 70

Booksellers, ib. 80.

Charles I., Dryden accused of approving of the execution of, ix, 16

Shaftesbury offers his services to, ib. 444

Charles II., restoration of, led the way for the revival of letters, i, 42

star visible at the birth of, ix, 51

panegyric on the coronation of, ib. 54

mechanical genius of, ib. 60

skill of, in maritime affairs, ib. 160

conduct of, at the fire of London, ib. 187

illegitimate children of, ib. 250

receives a pension from France, ib. 385

anecdote of, ib. 413

North’s opinion of Shaftesbury’s designs upon the person and authority of, ib. 450

titles of some odes on death of, x, 55

concern of the people for death of, ib. 79

Physicians who attended, ib. 79

circumstances regarding the death of, ib. 80

extract of papers found in strong box of, ib. 188, 190

Charleton, Dr Walter, account of, xi, 12

poetical epistle to, ib. 14

remarks on, ib. 12

Chaucer, Tales from, xi, 193-399

and Ovid, parallel between, ib. 214

Chaucer’s Pilgrims, Stothard’s painting of, ib. 217

Chaucer’s rhyme, supposed inequalities of, xi. 221

character of, xi, 225

and Boccace, parallel between, ib. 233

first patroness, ib. 246

original tales, modernized by Dryden, xii, i-xci

Knightes Tale, ib. iii

Nonnes Priestes Tale, ib. liii

Floure and the Leafe, ib. lxviii

Wif of Bathes Tale, ib. lxxxii

Chesterfield, Earl of, account of, xiv, 3

dedication to, ib. 3

Chevalier de St George, birth of, x, 305

false report of the death of, ib. 307

Children, illegitimate, of Charles II., ix, 250

Christian religion, machinery of, more feeble than the Heathen, in poetry, xiii, 23

Church of England, declaration of James VI. concerning the, x, 262

loyalty of, ib. 154

tradition of no weight in, ib. 156

Tichmarsh, monument in, xviii, 215

Cibber’s character of Mrs Montfort, iv, 233

Cinyras and Myrrha, fable of, xii, 127

Circe, original prologue to, x, 333

prologue to, as corrected by Dryden, ib. 335

Circumstances which influenced the Earl of Shaftesbury in his change of politics, ix, 448

regarding the death of Charles II., x, 80

Civil wars, state of poetry in England before, i, 4

metaphysical poetry favoured till the beginning of, i, 12

interrupt the study of poetry, i, 20

Clare, Marquis of. Vide Haughton, Lord

Clarendon, Earl of, character of, ix, 63

Clayton, Sir Robert, account of, ib. 359

Cleomenes, a tragedy, viii, 181

preface to, ib. 196

verses to Dryden on, ib. 205

representation of, suspended, i. 363, viii, 199

Life of, ib. 207

Prologue to, ib. 246

Epilogue to, ib. 329

character of, i, 362

Clergy, Dryden’s resentment against, ib. 428

Cleveland, account of, ib. 43

Clifford, Lord, epistle dedicatory to, v, 5

account of, ib. 5

Hugh, dedication to, xiii, 337

Matthew, Dryden’s controversy with, i, 154

Club, King’s Head, account of, ix, 380

Cock and the Fox, or the Tale of the Nun’s Priest, xi, 327

remarks on, ib. 326

Coffeehouse, (Will’s,) Dryden’s authority in, i, 371

Coleman, Edward, account of, x, 18

Colleagues of Dryden, in Notes and Observations on the Empress of Morocco, xv, 399

characterized, ib. 399

College, Trinity, Cambridge, Dryden admitted to, i, 28

College’s (the protestant joiner) Ballad, vii, 5

Collier and Blackmore, attack upon, in the prologue and epilogue to the Pilgrim, i. 436

Colouring, the third part of painting, xvii, 361, 450

Combat, curious, xi, 283

Combination of the lute and sword ridiculed, x, 450

Comedy of the Wild Gallant, ii, 13

Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen, ib. 379

Sir Martin Mar-all, iii, 1

the Tempest, iii, 95

an Evening’s Love, or the Mock Astrologer, ib. 207

Marriage A-la-mode, iv, 231

the Assignation, or Love in a Nunnery, ib. 343

the Kind Keeper, or Mr Limberham, vi, 1

Amphitryon, viii, 1

distinguished by acts not known to the early Greeks, xv, 311

and Tragedy, not wrote by the same authors among the ancients, ib. 317

Comedies of intrigue introduced to the English stage, i, 76

Comets, two remarkable, ix, 160

Comic scenes in tragedy, propriety of, i, 230

Commencement of Dryden’s dramatic career, ib. 80

friendship with Southerne, ib. 294

Commentaries, or annals, what, xvii, 56

Commines, Philip de, account of, xviii, 36

Comparison between the poems of Sprat and Dryden, ix, 6

Persius and Horace, xiii, 78

Horace and Juvenal, ib. 78

Tacitus and Polybius, xviii, 50

Complaint of the Brawny Bishop, a ballad, x, 270

Compton, Bishop, account of, ix, 302

Concern of the people for the death of Charles II., x, 79

Condemnation, King’s power of granting pardon after, questioned, ix, 310

Conduct of Charles II. on the fire of London, ib. 187

pusillanimous, of Lord Grey, ib. 276

infamous of Lord Howard, ib. 278

of Bishop Burnet, remarks on some parts of, x, 271

of the Earl of Shaftesbury at the Restoration, ix, 447

Confederates, a poem, xviii, 175

Confuting arguments used by the King, and disrespect of his person, x, 252

Congreve, Wm., extracts from Wilson’s Life of, xviii, 200

Dryden’s friendship with, i, 372

poetical epistle to, xi, 59

remarks on, ib. 57

verses addressed to, ib. 61

Congreve’s dedication of Dryden’s Dramatic Works, ii, 5

character of, i, 372

character of Dryden, ib. 9

Connection of Dryden in society, after the Revolution, i, 369

of the Indian Emperor to the Indian Queen, ii, 293

Conquest of Granada, a tragedy, Part I. iv, 1

remarks on, ib. 3

Epistle Dedicatory to, ib. 9

complimentary verses on, ib. 29

Prologue to, ib. 30

Epilogue to, ib. 110

a tragedy, Part II. ib.

Prologue to, ib. 113

Epilogue to, ib. 210

Conquest of Mexico, a tragedy, ii. 257

Conscience, declaration for liberty of, x, 279

Consequences of the Revolution to Dryden, i, 347

Constantine the Great, epilogue to, x, 386

Contest at the election of Sheriffs for London, ix, 404

Contract, Dryden’s, with the King’s company of players, i, 102

Controversy between Athanasius and Arius, x, 15

concerning the comparative merits of the ancients and moderns, xii, 45

between Dryden and Stillingfleet, concerning the Duchess of York’s paper, xvii, 185

remarks on, ib. 187

between Dryden and Sir Robert Howard, i, 94

Matthew Clifford, ib. 154

Richard Leigh, ib. 157

Edward Ravenscroft, ib. 160

Earl of Rochester, ib. 195

Shadwell, ib. 259

Elkanah Settle, ib. 259

Rymer, ib. 379

Milbourne, ib. 394

Contumacy, Dryden punished at College for, ib. 28

Copy of a paper written by the late Duchess of York, xvii, 189

Corinna, Charles Dryden’s letter to, xviii, 213

Corneille, character of Œdipe of, vi, 119

Coronation of Charles II. panegyric on, ix, 54

Corregio, character of, as a painter, xvii, 494

Correspondence of Dryden with Madam Honor Dryden,xviii, 86

with the Earl of Rochester, ib. 89, 101

with the Rev. Dr Busby, ib. 96, 98

with Jacob Tonson, ib. 103, 106, 109, 118, 119, 121, 122, 123, 124, 126, 127, 128, 130, 136, 137, 138

with Mr Dennis, ib. 111, 114

with Mrs Steward, ib. 141, 144, 146, 147, 149, 150, 153, 156, 157, 161, 169, 171, 174, 178, 180

with his sons, at Rome, ib. 131

with Elmes Steward, Esq. ib. 143

with Samuel Pepys, ib. 154, 156

with the Right Hon. Charles Montague, ib. 159

with Mrs Elizabeth Thomas, junior, xviii, 164, 167, 173

Court of Requests, a scene of political intrigue, x, 348

Covenant in England, and League in France, parallel between, i, 281

Coventry, Sir John, assault on, ix, 258

Cowardice of the Earl of Rochester, xv, 215

Cowley, the most ingenious poet of the metaphysical class, i, 15

character of Cromwell by, ix, 4

imitation of, ib. 191

and Denham’s manner of Prose translation, xii, 14

translation of Pindar by, ib. 15

Cranmer, George, account of, x, 26

Creech, Thomas, account of, xii, 277

Dryden’s conduct with regard to, censured, viii, 200

justified, ib. 202

Dedication of to Horace, extract from, ib. 220

Life of Cleomenes by, ib. 207

Verses by on Religio Laici, x, 36

Note and Letter on a passage in Translation of Lucretius by, xviii, 94

Cressy, Hugh Paulin, account of, x, 21

Critical history of the Old Testament, translator of, x, 32

Criticism, in tragedy, grounds of, vi, 243

specimen of Milbourne’s on Dryden’s Virgil, i, 397

Critics censured by Dryden, xii, 49

French better than the English, xiv, 159

Cromwell, Oliver, character of by Cowley, ix, 4

heroic stanzas to the memory of, ib. 8

Sprat’s verses to the memory of, ib. 5

dissolution of the Parliament by, ib. 45

conduct of to Scotland, ib. 19

storm at the death of, ib. 23

Shaftesbury’s situation during the usurpation of, ib. 445

death of, Dryden’s first theme, i, 38

Cruel doctrine of English lawyers, xv, 297

Cruelties of the Dutch to the English merchants, or Amboyna, a tragedy, v, 1

Curious combat, xi, 283

Custom at the birth of children, xiii, 389

Cymon and Iphigenia, xi, 454

remarks on, ib. 452

idea of borrowed from Theocritus, ib. 452

D.

Dacier’s character of the Satires of Horace, vol. xiii, p. 77

Danby, Earl of, epistle dedicatory to, v, 296

account of, ib. 296

Daphnis and Chloris, from Theocritus, xii, 300

Daphnis, a pastoral, xiii, 391

Dartmouth, Earl of, account of, ix, 386

Davenant, Sir William, account of, iii, 97

share of, in the alteration of the Tempest, ib. 98

first introduced regular scenery on the English stage, x, 323

introduced moveable scenes on the stage, i, 79

a restorer of taste in poetry, i, 48

style of, imitated by Dryden, i, 59

Davenant, Dr Charles, account of, x, 333

Davies’s Dramatic Miscellanies, extract from, v, 172

Death of Lodislaus, king of Hungary, vii, 184

Charles II. titles of odes on, x, 55

concern of the people for, ib. 79

circumstances regarding, ib. 80

Oliver Cromwell, storm at, ix, 23

Dryden’s first theme, i, 38

Ajax, xii, 198

Death, scenes of, improper on the stage, xv, 332

Decameron of Boccacio, the tale of Sigismund and Guiscardo originally from, xi, 443

Theodore and Honoria from, ib. 448

Symon and Iphigenia from, ib. 473

Decker, character of, x, 451

Declaration of James II. concerning the church of England, ib. 262

for liberty of conscience, ib. 279

Decree of the University of Oxford, concerning non-resistance, ib. 241

Decrees of fate, Jupiter cannot alter, xv, 103

Decrepitude, premature, of the Earl of Shaftesbury, ix, 454

Dedication to the King, xvii, 81

Queen, xvi, 3

Duke of Newcastle, ii, 5, iii, 209

Earl of Orrery, ii, 113

Duchess of Monmouth and Buccleuch, ib. 259

Duke of Monmouth and Buccleuch, iii, 346

Duke of York, iv, 9

Earl of Rochester, ib. 235

Sir Charles Sedley, ib. 348

Lord Clifford, v, 5, xiii, 337

the Duchess of York, v, 95

Earl of Mulgrave, ib. 174

Earl of Danby, ib. 296

Lord Vaughan, vi, 6

the Earl of Sunderland, ib. 231

Lord Haughton, ib. 373

the Earl of Rochester, vii, 13

the Earl of Leicester, vii, 283

Sir William Leveson Gower, viii, 7

the Marquis of Halifax, ib. 113

Earl of Salisbury, ib. 337

Metropolis of Great Britain, ix, 89

Earl of Abingdon, xi, 121

Duke of Ormond, ib. 195

Duchess of Ormond, ib. 245

Lord Radcliffe, xii, 47

the Earl of Chesterfield, xiv, 3

Marquis of Normanby, ib. 127

Earl of Dorset, xv, 286

Duke of Ormond, xvii, 5

Congreve’s edition of Dryden’s Dramatic Works, ii, 5

Orpheus Britannicus, xi, 146

Creech’s Horace, extract from, viii, 202

(Author’s) of the History of the League, to the French King, xvii, 89

the Empress of Morocco, extract from, xv, 398

Defeat of the Mahometans at Malacca, xvi, 211

Defence of an Essay of Dramatic Poesy, ii, 265

the epilogue to the Conquest of Granada, iv, 211

the Immunities of the city of London, vii, 127

the use of the triplet in poetry, xiv, 216

rhyme in serious plays, xv, 367

the paper written by the Duchess of York, xvii, 208

Virgil against the reflections of M. Fontenelle, xiii, 345

Definition of satire, ib. 103

modern, ib. 105

a Georgic, xiv, 16

a play, xv, 302

Defoe’s Appeal to Honour and Justice, extract from, x, 387

Denham and Cowley’s manner of translation, xii, 14

Sir John, opinion of, on verbal translation, ib. 14

and Waller, improvers of English versification, i, 18

Dennis, John, letter of, to Dryden, xviii, 111

Dryden to, ib. 114

Dennis’s account of Dryden’s controversy with Settle, i, 183

Description of Titus Oates, by North, ix, 355

the Independents, x, 140

the personal appearance of Bishop Burnet, x, 270

Richard Flecknoe, ib. 441

Nokes the comedian, xi, 50

Love, xiv, 173

Mozambique, xvi, 63

the city of St. Thomas, ib. 138

the island of Ternato, ib. 166

Japan, ib. 290

an accomplished historian, xviii, 48

Design, the second part of painting, xvii, 349-420

Despairing Lover, from Theocritus, xii, 296

Device of the partizans of Monmouth, x, 364

Dialogue concerning women, preface to, xviii, 1

Dickinson, Henry, translator of Pere Simon’s critical history of the Old Testament, x, 32

Dido to Æneas, epistle of, xii, 35

Difference between the taste of Dryden and Milton, i, 168

Dillon, Wentworth, vide Roscommon, Earl of,

Dimock or Dymock, hereditary champion of England, ii, 266

Dinner of loyal apprentices, ix, 396

Disaffected, American colonies a refuge for the, x, 394

Disappointment, epilogue to, ib. 390

Dispute of Dryden with Milbourne, i, 394

Blackmore, ib. 420

Disputes, political, in 1680 and 1681, parallel between, x, 353

Dissolution of Parliament by Cromwell, ix, 45

Distinction between the Greek satirical drama, and the satirical poetry of the Romans, xiii, 47

of comedy into acts, not known to the early Greeks, xv, 311

Distressed circumstances of Wycherly, xiii, 77

Divination, rod of, what, ix, 20

Divines, moderate, what, x, 242

Division of the integral parts of a play, xv, 312

Divisions of history, xvii, 56

commentaries or annals, ib. 2

history proper, ib. 57

biography, ib. 58

Doctrine of Socinius, x, 46

Arius, ib. 146

Dolben, Bishop, account of, ix, 303

Gilbert, account of, xv, 190

Domenichino, character of, as a painter, xvii, 497

Don Sebastian, a tragedy, vii, 271

remarks on, ib. 273

epistle dedicatory to, ib. 283

preface to, ib. 291

prologue to, ib. 302

epilogue to, ib. 444

Donne, character of, as a love-poet, xi, 123

Dorset, Earl of character of, xiii, 7

Essay on Satire, addressed to the, ib. 3

Dryden’s exaggerated praise of, ib. 15

dedication to, xv, 286

song of, written the evening before battle, xv, 284

Double Discovery, or the Spanish Friar, xi, 365

Drama of the Greeks, plot of, xv, 313

Romans, ib. 314

revival of, at the Restoration, i, 65

Dramatic career of Dryden, commencement of, i, 80

termination of, i, 364

poesy, defence of, an essay of, ii, 265

notes concerning, ib. 263

poetry of the last age, essay on, iv, 211

miscellanies, extract from, v, 172

performances among the Romans, origin of, xiii, 51

Dramatic poesy, essay on, xv, 293

writing, English excel the ancients in, xv, 396

Dramatis personæ of Calisto, x, 337

The True Widow, ib. 343

The Humorists, ib. 452

Driden, Sir John, character of, i, 37

Driden, John, of Chesterton, account of, xi, 71

Poetical Epistle to, ib. 75

remarks on, ib. 71

Drury-lane theatre burnt, x, 319

Dryden, John, Life of, i, 1

descent and parentage of, ib. 21

anecdotes of the brothers and sisters of, ib. 25

birth of, i, 27

education of, ib. 27

first poems of, ib. 28

is admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge, ib. 28

punished for contumacy, ib. 29

long residence of at the university, ib. 31

degree of Master of Arts of, xviii, 185

Sir Gilbert Pickering’s clerk, i. 36

death of Cromwell, the first theme of, ib. 38

first poem of consequence of, ix, 83

poems of on the Restoration, i, 50

changes the spelling of his name, ib. 53

is chosen a member of the Royal Society, ib. 56

imitates the style of Davenant, ib. 59

commencement of dramatic career of, ib. 80

first appearance of the Wild Gallant, ib. 80

Rival Ladies, ib. 81

Indian Queen, ib. 83

Indian Emperor, ib. 84

intrigue of with Mrs Reeves, ib. 87

marriage of, ib. 88

Essay of Dramatic Poesy, appearance of, ib. 92

controversy of with Sir Robert Howard, ib. 94

contract of with the King’s Company of Players, ib. 101

appearance of the Maiden Queen of, ib. 104

Tempest, ib. 105

Sir Martin Mar-all, ib. 107

the Mock Astrologer, ib. 109

Royal Martyr, ib. 110

Conquest of Granada, ib. 112

promoted to the offices of poet-laureat and historiographer-royal, ib. 115

patent of, as poet-laureat and historiographer-royal, xviii, 187

appearance of Marriage A-la-mode, i, 143

the Assignation, ib. 146

controversy with Matthew Clifford, ib. 154

Richard Leigh, ib. 157

Edward Ravenscroft, ib. 160

Elkanah Settle, ib. 259

Rochester, ib. 195

appearance of Massacre of Amboyna, ib. 163

State of Innocence, ib. 166

Aurenge-Zebe, i, 209

is assaulted in Rose-street, ib. 204

meditates an epic poem, ib. 215

appearance of All for Love, ib. 218

Limberham, ib. 221

Œdipus, ib. 222

Troilus and Cressida, ib. 223

the Spanish Friar of, ib. 227

relations of when he composed the Spanish Friar, ib. 233

anecdote of with Southerne, ib. 237

engages in politics, ib. 239

appearance of Absalom and Achitophel, Part I. ib. 243

the Medal, ib. 250

extracts from answer to, ix, 452

controversy of with Shadwell, i, 259, 286

causes of enmity between Shadwell and, x, 472

appearance of Mac-Flecknoe, a satire, i, 266

Absalom and Achitophel, Part II. ib. 268

assisted by Nahum Tate in, ix, 315

effect of the satirical poetry of on English poetry, i, 275

character of, as a satirist, ib. 279

share of in the composition of the Duke of Guise, ib. 281

furnishes a Preface to the translation of Plutarch’s Lives, ib. 289

translates the History of the League, ib. 290

appearance of the First Miscellany of, ib. 294

commencement of Southerne’s friendship with, ib. 294

Memorial of to the Earl of Rochester, ib. 296

appearance of Threnodia Augustales of, ib. 299

Albion and Albanius, ib. 299

becomes a convert to the Roman Catholic faith, ib. 303

reasons which might influence him in his change of religious opinions, ib. 303

sincere in his attachment to the Catholic faith, ib. 322

controversy of with Stillingfleet, ib. 323, xviii, 187

illiberality of Dryden and Stillingfleet, x, 251

appearance of the Hind and the Panther, i, 325

libels occasioned by publication of, x, 104

Hind and Panther, where composed, i, 325

projects a translation of the History of Heresies, ib. 334

appearance of the Life of St Francis Xavier, ib. 336

second volume of Miscellanies, ib. 340

character of translations of by Garth, ib. 340

translation of Te Deum, ib. 343

hymn for St John’s eve, ib. 344

consequences of the Revolution to, ib. 347

poetical attacks against, ib. 350

loses the offices of poet-laureat and historiographer-royal, ib. 354

appearance of Don Sebastian, i, 357

King Arthur, ib. 360

Cleomenes, ib. 362

Love Triumphant, ib. 364

last dramatic work of, viii, 333.

list of plays of, with the respective dates of their being acted and published, i, 367

connections in society of, after the Revolution, ib. 369

indebted to Dorset’s bounty, ib. 370

exaggerated praise of Dorset by, xiii, 15

authority of in Will’s Coffee-house, i, 371

friendship of with Southerne and Congreve, ib. 372

literary friends of, ib. 373

attacked by Swift, ib. 374

appearance of translation of Juvenal and Persius, ib. 375

smaller pieces, ib. 376

Eleonora, ib. 376

Third Miscellany, ib. 378

controversy of with Rymer, ib. 379

correspondence of with Jacob Tonson, ib. 381

appearance of the translation of Virgil by, ib. 382

Fourth Miscellany, ib. 382

quarrel of with Tonson, ib. 387

anecdote of, ib. 390

and Tonson, ib. 391

dispute of with Milbourne, ib. 394, xi, 237

animadversions of on Milbourne, ib. 403

Ode to St Cecilia, appearance of, ib. 407

set to music by Handel, ib. 410

attacked for his silence on the death of Queen Mary, xviii, 222

translation of Homer meditated by, i, 414

projected works of, xiii, 31

dispute of with Blackmore, i, 420

appearance of Fables, ib. 427

agreement of with Jacob Tonson concerning the Fables, xviii, 191

resentment of against the clergy, i, 428

the Pilgrim brought forward for the benefit of, ib. 434

attack upon Blackmore and Collier, in the Prologue and Epilogue to the Pilgrim, i, 436

last period of the life of, ib. 439

death and funeral of, ib. 440

Mr Russell’s bill for funeral of, xviii, 194

description of funeral of, ib. 195

ludicrous account of the funeral of by Farquhar, i, 441

Mrs Thomas’s letters concerning the death and funeral of, xviii, 200

account of funeral of by Mrs Thomas, false, i, 442

account of funeral of by Tom Brown, ib. 443

character of, ib. 444

character of by Congreve, ii, 9

notices of family of, i, 462

Ode on the death of by Alexander Oldys, xviii, 234

and Shakspeare, parallel between, v, 287

conduct of with regard to Creech, censured, viii, 200

justified, ib. 202

comparison between the poems of Sprat and, ix, 6

accused of approving of the execution of Charles I, ib. 16

versification of the King’s Speech to the Oxford Parliament by, ib. 309

satire on Shadwell by, ib. 379

use of the Alexandrine by, ridiculed, ib. 413

Epode to, vii, 133

Prologues of ridiculed in the Rehearsal, x, 313

acknowledgment of to Dr William Gibbons, xi, 77

mistake of regarding the inequalities of Chaucer’s rhyme, xi, 221

critics censured by, xii, 49

inaccuracy of with regard to Sir Philip Sidney, xiii, 18

his translation of Virgil the best, xiv, 209

Poems ascribed to, xv, 197

Original Prose Works of, ib. 281

colleagues of in the Notes and Observations on the Empress of Morocco, ib. 399

characterised, ib. 399

Life of Plutarch by, xvii, 1

extract from Epistolary Poem to, xviii, 218

Letters of, ib. 83

to Madam Honor Dryden, ib. 86

to the Earl of Rochester, ib. 89, 101

to the Rev. Dr. Busby, ib. 96, 98

to Jacob Tonson, ib. 103, 106, 109, 118, 119, 121, 122, 123, 124, 126, 127, 128, 130, 136, 137, 138

with Mr Dennis, ib. 111, 114

with Mrs Steward, ib. 141, 144, 146, 147, 149, 150, 153, 156, 157, 161, 169, 171, 174, 178, 180

with his sons at Rome, ib. 131

with Elmes Stewart, Esq., ib. 143

with Samuel Pepys, ib. 154, 156

with the Right Hon. Charles Montague, ib. 159

with Mrs Elizabeth Thomas, junior, ib. 164, 167, 173

Dryden, Charles, letter of to Corinna, xviii, 213

Duchess of York, account of the, v, 95, ix, 73

Epistle Dedicatory to, v, 95

Verses to, ix, 76

Poetical Epistle to, xi, 33

paper of, xvii, 189

controversy between Dryden and Stillingfleet concerning paper of, ib. 185

Stillingfleet’s answer to, ib. 194

Dryden’s defence of, ib. 208

Stillingfleet’s answer to defence of, ib. 252

Newcastle, account of, iii, 210

Buccleugh and Monmouth, account of, ix, 256

Ormond, Dedication to, ib. 245

Portsmouth’s picture, epigram on, xv, 280

Duke of Guise, a tragedy, vii, 1

remarks on, ib. 3

Parallel between, and affairs in England, ib. 4

Epistle Dedicatory to, ib. 18

Prologue to, ib. 19

Epilogue to, ib. 122

a tragedy, Vindication of, vii, 125

remarks on Vindication of, ib. 127

Advertisement to, ib. 133

and Monmouth, no parallel intended between, ib. 144

Massacre of Paris transposed for, ib. 188

attacked by Shadwell, i, 286

share of Dryden in, ib. 281

assassination of, xvii, 148

Duke of Newcastle, Congreve’s Dedication to, ii, 5

account of, iii, 209

epistle dedicatory to, ib. 209

Lerma, answer to the Preface of the, ii, 265

York, Dedication to, iv, 9

personal bravery of, ib. 10, ix, 161

attempt to counteract the influence of in the city, ix, 388

shipwreck of upon the Lemman Ore, ib. 401

picture of, at Guildhall, defaced, vii, 51

Prologue to, x, 366

requested by Charles II. to retire to the continent, ix, 384

presence of acceptable to the Scots, ib. 385

Albemarle, account of, ix, 394

gallant actions of, ix, 250-6

Monmouth, account of, ix, 250

Buckingham, account of, v, 174

intrepidity of, v, 175

epistle dedicatory to, ib. 174

Answer of to Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel, extracts from, ix, 272

Battle of, extract from, ib. 398

author of the Essay on Satire, xv, 201

gallantry of, ib. 211

satire on gallantry of, ib. 212

Ormond, account of, ix, 294-8, xi, 195

dedication to, xi, 195, xvii, 5

behaviour of at the battle of Landen, xi, 202

Beaufort, account of, ix, 390

noble house-keeping of, ib. 391

Grafton, account of, ix, 396

examination of Bishop Burnet concerning, x, 274

Shrewsbury, account of, xv, 192

Du Bartas, poem of, extract from, xv, 233

Dumfounding, what, x, 408

Dundee, Viscount, account of, xi, 113

Epitaph on the death of, ib. 115

remarks on, ib. 113

Pitcairn’s Epitaph upon, ib. 114

Du Fresnoy, Chas. Alphonse, account of, xvii, 281

Du Fresnoy’s Art of Painting, ib. 279

remarks on, ib. 281

observations on, ib. 392

judgment of the works of the principal painters of the two last ages, ib. 489

Duras, Lewis, vide Earl of Feversham

Dutch, satire on, ix, 71

Dutch insolence, ib. 162

Duty of apprentices in ancient times, vi, 382

E.

Eagre or Higre, what, x, 65

Earl of Orrery, account of the, ii, 113

dedication to, ib. 113

of Mulgrave, account of the, v, 174

epistle dedicatory to, ib. 174

character of, ib. 175

vide Duke of Buckingham,

of Danby, account of the, v, 296

epistle dedicatory to, ib. 296

of Lindsay, account of the, ib. 304

of Carbery, vide Vaughan, Lord

of Sunderland, account of, vi, 231

epistle dedicatory to, ib. 231

of Rochester, account of, vii, 13, ix, 607

character of, iv, 235

epistle dedicatory to, ib. 235, vii, 13

banished the Court, ib. 238

assaults Dryden in Rose-street, i, 204

Dryden’s memorial to, ib. 296

account of, vii, 283

epistle dedicatory to, ib. 283

of Salisbury, epistle dedicatory to, viii, 337

of Clarendon, character of the, ix, 63

of Ossory, account of the, ib. 299

of Feversham, account of, ix, 397

of Nottingham, account of, ix, 400

of Shaftesbury, imprisonment and acquittal of, ib. 409

last period of the life of, ib. 415

ridiculed as aspiring to the crown of Poland, ix, 441

offers his services to Charles I., ib. 444

character of, during usurpation of Cromwell, ib. 445

conduct of, at the Restoration, ib. 447

circumstances which influenced him in his change of politics, ib. 448

North’s opinion of the designs of, upon the person and authority of Charles II., ib. 451

premature decrepitude of, ib. 454

of Roscommon, account of the, xii, 341

poetical epistle to, xi, 28

of Dorset, Dryden indebted to the bounty of, i, 370

Essay on Satire, addressed to the, xiii, 3

character of, ib. 7

Dryden’s exaggerated praise of, ib. 15

epistle dedicatory to, xv, 286

song of, written the evening before the battle, ib. 284

of Peterborough, account of the, ib. 189

of Exeter, character of the, ib. 191

epitaph of the, ib. 191

of Aylesbury, account of the, ib. 207

of Essex, account of the, ib. 207

prologue to, x, 368

Ecclesiastical policy, Hooker’s treatise upon, ib. 26

Effect of Dryden’s satirical poems on English poetry, i, 275

Effects of the Revolution upon literary pursuits, ib. 385

Elegies and epitaphs, xi, 91, 160

Elegy upon the death of Lord Hastings, ib. 94

to the memory of Mr Oldham, xi, 99

Mrs Anne Killigrew, ib. 105

on the death of Amyntas, ib. 139

on a very young gentleman, ib. 142

Election of Sheriffs for London, contest at, ix, 404

Eleonora, a panegyrical poem, to the memory of the Countess of Abingdon, xi, 117

remarks on, ib. 119

dedication of, ib. 121

Elizabeth, Queen, age of, abundant in false wit, i, 7

John Lillie’s share in determining the taste of, ib. 7

association for the defence of the person of, ix, 422

Empress of Morocco, character of, i, 187

notes and observations on, xv, 405

postscript to, ib. 409

parody on part of, ib. 407

preface to notes, and observations on, ib. 401

England, poetry of, before the civil wars, i, 4

state of learning in, on the accession of James I., ib. 5

milled money not struck in, before 1663, ix, 451

loyalty of church of, x, 154

tradition of no weight with the church of, ib. 156

establishment of the Jesuits in, ib. 255

English poetry, effect of Dryden’s satirical poems on, i, 275

versification improved by Denham and Waller, ib. 18

fleet, names of changed, ix, 63

verse, Virgil translated into, xiii, 279

lawyers, cruel doctrine of, xv, 297

plays, superiority of, ib. 349

excel the ancients in dramatic writing, ib. 3

Enchanted Island, or the Tempest, a comedy, iii, 95

Ennius, first author of Roman satire, xiii, 58

Ent, Dr George, account of, xi, 16

Enterprize of Sir Thomas Allen, ix, 177

Sir Robert Holmes, ib. 178, 184

Epic poem meditated by Dryden, i, 215

Epilogues and Prologues, x, 309, 424

to the Wild Gallant, a comedy, ii, 106-7

the Indian Queen, ib. 255

the Indian Emperor, ib. 377

Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen, ib. 469

Sir Martin Mar-all, iii, 93

the Tempest, or the Enchanted Island, ib. 205

An Evening’s Love, ib. 340

Tyrannic Love, iii, 435

the Conquest of Granada, iv, 110, 210

Defence of the, ib. 211

remarks on, ib. 229

to Marriage a-la-Mode, ib. 342

the Assignation, ib. 447

Amboyna, v, 87

Aureng-Zebe, ib. 282

All for Love, ib. 411

the Spanish Friar, vi, 485

Limberham, ib. 114

Œdipus, ib. 222

Troilus and Cressida, ib. 363

the Duke of Guise, vii, 122

Albion and Albanus, ib. 268

Don Sebastian, ib. 444

Amphitryon, viii, 106

Cleomenes, ib. 329

Love Triumphant, ib. 435

the Pilgrim, ib. 462

remarks on, ib. 459

attack upon Jeremy Collier in, i, 436

spoken at the opening of the New House, x, 326

Oxford, ib. 330

intended to have been spoken by Lady H. M. Wentworth, ib. 337

to the Man of Mode, ib. 339

Mithridates, ib. 341, 354

Tamerlane, ib. 356

the University of Oxford, ib. 360, 381

for the King’s House, ib. 362

to the Loyal Brother, ib. 377

Constantine the Great, ib. 386

the Disappointment, ib. 390

upon the union of the two companies, x, 398

to the Princess of Cleves, ib. 402

Henry II., ib. 412, 420

the Husband his own Cuckold, ib. 423

the Humourists, from, ib. 456

Epistle dedicatory to the King, xvii, 81

Queen, xvi, 3

Duke of Newcastle, ii, 5, iii, 209

Earl of Orrery, ii, 113

Duchess of Monmouth and Buccleuch, ii, 259

Duke of Monmouth and Buccleuch, iii, 346

Duke of York, iv, 9

Earl of Rochester, ib. 235

Sir Charles Sedley, ib. 348

Lord Clifford, v, 5, xiii, 337

the Duchess of York, v, 95

Earl of Mulgrave, ib. 174

Earl of Danby, ib. 296

Lord Vaughan, vi, 6

the Earl of Sunderland, ib. 231

Lord Haughton, ib. 373

the Earl of Rochester, vii, 13

Earl of Leicester, ib. 283

Sir William Leveson Gower, viii, 7

the Marquis of Halifax, ib. 113

Earl of Salisbury, ib. 337

Metropolis of Great Britain, ix, 89

Earl of Abingdon, xi, 121

Duke of Ormond, ib. 195

Duchess of Ormond, ib. 245

Lord Radcliffe, xii, 47

the Earl of Chesterfield, xiv, 3

Marquis of Normandy, ib. 127

Earl of Dorset, xv, 286

Duke of Ormond, xvii, 5

Mr Congreve’s edition of Dryden’s Dramatic Works, ii, 5

Orpheus Britannicus, xi, 146

Creech’s Horace, extract from, viii, 202

of the History of the League, to the French King, xvii, 89

to the Empress of Morocco, extract from, xv, 398

to the Whigs, ix, 417

by Sir George Etherege, to the Earl of Middleton, xi, 40

poetical, from Pope to Jervas, xvii, 282

Mason to Sir Joshua Reynolds, ib. 284

Epistles of John Dryden, xviii, 83

remarks on, ib. 85

of Dryden to Madam Honor Dryden, ib. 86

to the Earl of Rochester, ib. 89, 101

to the Rev. Dr Bushby, ib. 96, 98

to Jacob Tonson, ib. 103, 106, 109, 118, 119, 121, 122, 123, 124, 126, 127, 128, 130, 136, 137, 138

to Mr Dennis, ib. 111, 114

to Mrs Steward, ib. 131, 144, 146, 147, 149, 150, 153, 156, 157, 161, 169, 171, 174, 178, 180

to his sons, at Rome, ib. 131

to Elmes Steward, Esq., ib. 143

to Samuel Pepys, ib. 154, 156

to the Right Hon. Charles Montague, ib. 159

to Mrs Elizabeth Thomas, junior, ib. 164, 167, 173

Epistles poetical, xi, 1-90

to John Hoddeson, ib. 4

to Robert Howard, ib. 7

to Dr Charleton, ib. 14

to Lady Castlemain, ib. 20

to Mr Lee, ib. 23

to the Earl of Roscommon, ib. 28

to the Duchess of York, ib. 33

to Mr J. Northleigh, ib. 37

to Sir George Etherege, ib. 42

to Mr Southerne, ib. 50

to Henry Higden, ib. 55

to Mr Congreve, xi. 59

to Mr Granville, ib. 64

to Mr Motteux, ib. 69

to John Driden, ib. 75

to Sir Godfrey Kneller, ib.

Ovid’s, translations from, xii, 1-41

preface to, ib. 3

character of, ib. 11

Canace to Macareus, ib. 21

Helen to Paris, ib. 26

Dido to Æneas, ib. 35

Epitaph on the Earl of Rochester’s being dismissed from the treasury, xv, 279

Epithalamium of Helen and Menelaus, xii, 292

Epitome of Polybius, engaged in by Marcus Brutus, xviii, 30

Epode to Dryden, vii, 133

second of Horace, xii, 351

Essay of Dramatic Poesy, defence of, ii, 265

on Heroic Plays, iv, 16

on the dramatic poetry of the last age, iv, 211

on translated verse, xi, 28

Poetical Epistle on, ib. 28

on Virgil’s Georgic’s, xiv, 14

upon Satire, xv, 203

remarks on, ib. 201

upon Satire, Duke of Buckingham, author of, xv, 201

of Dramatic Poesy, xv, 293

remarks on, ib. 283

dedication to, ib. 286

advertisement to, ib. 292

Essex, Earl of, prologue to, x, 368

Establishment of the Jesuits in England, ib. 255

Etherege, Sir George, account of, ib. 454

epistle of, to the Earl of Middleton, xi, 40

Evremont, M. St, account of, xviii, 11

character of, ib. 9

Examination of Bishop Burnet by the House of Commons, x, 274

Evening’s Love, or the Mock Astrologer, a comedy, iii, 207

epistle dedicatory to, ib. 209

remarks on, iii, 217

preface to, ib. 218

prologue to, ib. 233

epilogue to, ib. 340

Extract from preface to the Sullen Lovers, i, 260

Journal of Capt. Christopher Gunman, ib. 301

Preface to Blackmore’s Prince Arthur, ib. 422

Epistle to Sir Richard Blackmore, ib. 437

from epilogue to the Humourists, x, 456

letter to Jacob Tonson, xv, 194

Wilson’s life of Congreve, xviii, 200

an epistolary poem to Dryden, occasioned by the death of the Earl of Abingdon, ib. 218

Extracts from poems attacking Dryden for his silence upon the death of Queen Mary, ib. 222

Vindication of the Answer to some late Papers, x, 246, 249

Roscius Anglicanus, x, 325

Appeal to Honour and Justice, x, 387

Love’s Kingdom, ib. 453

epilogue to the Humourist, ib. 456

Malone’s History of the English Stage, xi, 58

Spanheim’s Dissertation, xiii, 47

poem of Du Bartas, xv, 233

epilogue upon reviewing Every Man in his Humour, xv, 310

dedication to the Empress of Morocco, xv, 398

Caulfield’s History of the Gunpowder Plot, i, 24

one of Dryden’s first poems, i, 33

Creech’s dedication to Horace, viii, 202

poem of John James, ix, 164

Naboth’s Vineyard, ib. 198

Judah Betrayed, a poem, ib. 266

the Duke of Buckingham’s answer to Absalom and Achitophel, ib. 272

Settle’s Absalom senior, ib. 375

poem of Loyal Feast Defeated, ib. 390

The Battle, ib. 398

Loyal Medal vindicated, ib. 423

Hickeringill’s answer to Dryden’s Medal, ix, 452

Lenten Prologue, vii, 131

the Religio Laici of J. R., x, 9

Revolter, a tragi-comedy, x, ib.

Lord Herbert’s history, ib. 23

Tom Brown’s works, ib. 51

preface to the New Converts Exposed, ib. 103

Reasons for Mr Bayes changing his Religion, ib. 103, 313, 315

papers found in the strong-box of King Charles II. ib. 188-190

F.

Fabel, Peter, anecdote of, vol. vii, 10

Fable of the Swallows, application of, x, 253

Cock and Fox, xi, 327

Flower and Leaf, or the Lady in the Arbour, ib. 356

remarks on, ib. 354

argument of, ib. 354

Fables, tales from Chaucer, xi, 193, 399

translations from Boccace, ib. 401, 480

Dedication of, ib. 195

Preface prefixed to, ib. 205

Dryden’s agreement with Jacob Tonson, concerning, xviii, 191

verses occasioned by reading, xviii, 227

Appendix to, containing the original tales of Chaucer, modernized by Dryden, xii, i-xci

of Iphis and Ianthe, xii, 116

Pygmalion and the Statue, ib. 123

Cinyras and Myrrha, ib. 127

Ceyx and Alcyone, ib. 139

Fair Stranger, a song, xi, 163

Fairborne, Sir Palmes, epitaph on tomb of, xi, 155

account of the death of, xi, 156

Fairfax, Edward, translator of Tasso’s Jerusalem, xi, 207

Falkland, Anthony, Lord Viscount, account of, v, 307

Fall of Man, an opera, v, 89

False wit, one character of the poetry of Queen Elizabeth, i, 7

taste, prevalence of in the age of James I. ib. 9

Familiar epistle to Mr Julian, xv, 222

remarks on, ib. 218

Familiarity of Augustus with Virgil and Horace, xiii, 313

Farquhar’s ludicrous account of the Funeral of Dryden, i, 441

Fasts and thanksgivings, appointment of, belongs only to the king, ix, 388

Fate of Titus Oates, ib. 356

Fates, Jupiter cannot alter the decrees of the, xv, 103

Feigned Innocence, or Sir Martin Mar-all, a comedy, iii, 1

Female Prelate, and Lancashire Witches, account of, vii, 142

performers first introduced on the stage after the Restoration, x, 321

Ferrex and Perrex, a tragedy, mistake of Dryden concerning, ii, 118

Ferguson, Robert, account of, ix, 363

Fescennine and Saturnine verses, what, xiii, 51

Festival, St Cecilia’s, account of, xi, 166

Feversham, Earl of, account of, ix, 397

Finch, Sir Keneage, vide Nottingham, Earl of

Fire of London, conduct of Charles II. on, ix, 187

its dreadful effects, ib. 189

First Miscellany, appearance of, i, 294

First poems of Dryden, i, 28

Fitzharris’s Plot, Waller’s Discovery of, ib. 382

Flail, account of Protestant, vii, 19

Flecknoe, Richard, account of, vi, 7, x, 441

Marvell’s description of, ib. 441

plays of, ib. 442

Fleet, English, names of changed, ix, 48

Flower and the Leaf, a fable, xi, 356

Floure and the Leafe, by Chaucer, xii, lxviii

Fontenelle’s Reflections, defence of Virgil from, xiii, 345

Forbes, James, account of, ix, 368

Fourth Miscellany, appearance of, i, 382

Four days battle, account of, ib. 168, 174

Frampton, Mary, epitaph on monument of, xi, 158

France, Charles II. receives a pension from, ix, 385

France set the pattern of rhiming or heroic plays, i, 69

League in, and Covenant in England, parallel between, i, 281

Freethinkers, their opinions, x, 143

Free translation, Cowley’s mode of, xii, 15

French stage, punctilios of, v, 307

exiled Protestants, relief given by King James II. to, x, 264

poetry, character of, xiii, 366

better critics than the English, xiv, 159

authors, scrupulous observers of the unities of time and action, xv, 325

observe the laws of the stage, and decorum more exactly than the English, xv, 336

plays, character of, ib. 337

servility of the, in attention to the unities, ib. 346

Friar Bacon, anecdote of, vii, 10

Friends, literary, of Dryden, i, 373

Friendship of Dryden with Southerne and Congreve, i, 372

Frontispiece to Albion and Albanus, vii, 231

Fuller, William, account of, viii, 329

Fuller’s anecdote of Robert Keies, i, 23

Funeral Pindaric poem, x, 53

of Dryden, i, 440

Farquhar’s ludicrous account of, ib. 441

Tom Brown’s account of, ib. 443

Mr Russel’s bill for, xviii, 194

Mrs Thomas’s letters concerning, ib. 200

description of, ib. 195

procession at the death of St Francis Xavier, description of, xvi, 465

G.

Gallant, Wild, a comedy, vol. ii, 13

actions of Prince Rupert, ix, 167-174

the Duke of Albemarle, ix, 168, 171

action of Edward Spragge, xi, 24

Gallantry of the Duke of Buckingham, xv, 211

Gallus, a pastoral, xiii, 417

Garth’s character of Dryden’s Translations, i, 340

Georgic, definition of, xiv, 16

Georgics of Virgil, translation of, xiv, 1-122

dedication of, ib. 3

essay on, ib. 14

character of, ib. 25

notes on, ib. 123

Book I. ib. 27

II. ib. 49

III. ib. 73

IV. ib. 98

Georgione, character of, xvii, 492

German jollity, xi, 44

Giants’ war, xii, 69

Gibbon’s account of his conversion to the Catholic faith, i, 316

character of Pope Nicholas V. xviii, 24

account of the murder of Lucian, ib. 57

Gilbert, Dr William, account of, xi, 15

Goa, description of, xvi, 71

Godfrey, Sir Edmondbury, account of, ix, 285

Golden age, from Ovid, xii, 66

Government of Japan, xvi, 291

Gracioso, or buffoon, what, i, 77

Grafton, Duke of, account of, ix, 396

Graham, James, vide Dundee, Viscount

Granville, George, poetical epistle to, xi, 64

remarks on, xi, 63

Great Favourite, answer to the preface of the, ii, 265

Grecian dramas, plot of, xv, 313

Greek satirical drama, and the satirical poetry of the Romans, distinction between, xiii, 47

Greeks, comedy distinguished by acts not known to the early, xv, 311

Grey, Lord, pusillanimous conduct of, ix, 276

Griselda, story of, not invented by Petrarch, xi, 215

Grounds of criticism in tragedy, vi, 243

Growth of Popery, by Andrew Marvel, ix, 420

Guardian angels, machinery of, xiii,

Guibbons, Dr William, Dryden’s acknowledgment to, xi, 77

Guido, character of as a painter, xvii, 496

Guise, Duke of, a tragedy, vii, 1

assassination of, xvii, 148

Gunman, Captain Christopher, extract from journal of, i, 301

Gunpowder Plot, extract from Caulfield’s history of, i, 24

Gwynn, Nell, anecdote of, ix, 426

H.

Hacket, Coppinger, and Arthington, enthusiasm of, vol. x, 28

Hale, Sir Matthew, prejudices of, xiii, 67

Hales, John, anecdote of, xv, 351

Halifax, Marquis of, epistle dedicatory to, viii, 113

account of, ib. 113, ix, 305

Handel, Ode to St Cecilia set to music by, i, 410

Harman, Sir John, exploit of, ix, 179

Harmony of numbers, neglected by the metaphysical poets, i, 17

Hart, the tragedian, account of, x, 328

Harte’s vindication of Statius, xiv, 130

Harvey, William, account of, xi, 15

Hastings, Lord, elegy upon the death of, xi, 94

remarks on, ib. 93

Haughton, Lord, account of, vi, 373

epistle dedicatory to, ib. 373

Hawkers, prodigies of, x, 348

Heads of an answer to Rymer’s remarks, xv, 385

remarks on, ib. 383

Healing Parliament, what, x, 71

Heathen, diligence of Catholic missionaries in converting the, x, 192

Hector and Andromache, last parting of, xii, 382

Heinsius’s definition of satire, xiii, 103

Helen and Paris, epistle of, xii, 26

to Menelaus, epithalamium of, from Theocritus, ib. 292

Heliodorus, anecdote of, vi, 126

Henry II., epilogue to, x, 412

Herbert’s, Lord, History of Henry VIII., extracts from, x, 23

Heresies, History of, Dryden projects a translation of, i, 334

Hero, piety the first quality of, xiv, 161

Heroic plays, character of, i, 118

an essay on, iv, 16

poetry, apology for, v, 105

stanzas to the memory of Oliver Cromwell, ix, 8

remarks on, ib. 3

notes on, ib. 15

or rhyming plays imitated from the French, i, 69

Heylin, Dr Peter, account of, xvii, 190

Heywood, Thomas, account of, x, 446

Hickeringill’s, Edmund, answer to the Medal of Dryden, ix, 452

Higden, Henry, poetical epistle to, xi, 55

remarks on, ib. 52

account of, ib. 52

Higgons’s verses to Congreve, ib. 61

Higre or Eagre, what, x, 65

Hind and Panther, Part I. x, 85

remarks on, ib. 87

parabolical signification of, ib. 90

criticised, ib. 90

application of censured, ib. 90

defended, ib. 91

transversed, extracts from, ib. 91

where composed, i, 325

parody on by Prior and Montague, ib. 330

parody on, x, 91

letters on, ib. 102

libels occasioned by publication of, ib. 104

Swift’s account of, ib. 106

preface to, ib. 109

notes on, ib. 139-157

Part II. ib. 159

notes on, ib. 185-194

Part III. ib. 195

application of justified, ib. 197

notes on, ib. 240-282

Historiographer-royal, Dryden appointed to the office of, i, 115

loses the office of, i, 354

Historical and Political Poems, ix, 1

History of Calvinism by Lewis Maimbourg, x, 30

Satire among the Romans, xiii, 56

divisions of, xvii, 56

proper, what, ib. 57

of the League, specimen of translation of, xvii, 77

appearance of, i, 290

author’s dedication to, ib. 89

advertisement to the reader, ib. 98

Book III. translation of, ib. 101

translator’s postscript to, ib. 150

of Heresies, Dryden projects a translation of i, 334

Hoddeson, John, poetical epistle to, xi, 4

remarks on, ib. 3

Hollis, Sir Freschville, account of, ix, 180

Holmes, Sir Robert, enterprise of, ix, 178, 184

Holyday, Barten, account of, xiii, 93

Homer, character of, xi, 211

Homer’s poetry, character of, xii, 59

translations from, ib. 355-388

Virgil’s imitation of, xiv, 182

Dryden meditates a translation of, i, 414

Hooker, Richard, account of, x, 26

treatise of upon Ecclesiastical Policy, ib. 26

Hoped and unhoped, ancient meaning of, xi, 336

Hopkins, Charles, account of, xviii, 163

Horace, character of, xii, 280

translations from, ib. 339-354

Ode 3. of Book I. inscribed to the Earl of Roscommon, ib. 341

Ode 9. of Book I. inscribed to the Earl of Rochester, ib. 344

Second Epode of, ib. 351

character of his father, xiii, 77

and Persius, comparison between, ib. 78

Juvenal, comparison between, ib. 78

Satires of, Dacier’s character of, ib. 99

Housekeeping, noble of the Duke of Beaufort, ix, 391

Howard, Sir Robert, joint author with Dryden of the Indian Queen, ii, 203

note concerning, ib. 263

letter to, ix, 92

poetical epistle to, xi, 7

remarks on, ib. 5

account of, i, 54

Dryden’s controversy with, ib. 94

Lord, infamous conduct of, ix, 278

Hudibras, author of, unrewarded by the court, x, 250

at court, ib. 250

Hughes’s verses, occasioned by reading Dryden’s Fables, xviii, 227

Huguenot refugee clergy, not all of the same communion, x. 203, 244

Human body, measures of, xvii, 424

Hume’s account of the rise of the Quakers, x, 141

Humours, Shadwell’s, what meant by, x, 396, i, 261

Humourists, dramatis personæ of, x, 452

extract from epilogue to, ib. 456

Hungary, breach of treaty, and death of Ladislaus, king of, vii, 184

Hunt, Thomas, account of, ib. 127

Husband his own Cuckold, epilogue to, x, 423

Hyde, Lord Chancellor, verses to, ix, 65

Anne, vide York, Duchess of

Laurence, vide Rochester, Earl of

Hymn for St John’s Eve, translation of by Dryden, i, 344

I.

James I. state of learning in England on the accession of, i, 5

false taste in age of, ib. 9

play of words in age of, ib. 10

traditionary anecdote of, ib. 13

attached to the sports of the chace, viii, 451

account of one of the revels of, ib. 452

II. titles of poems on accession of, x, 59

character of addresses on accession of, ib. 110

professions of at accession of, ib. 262

declaration of concerning the church of England, ib. 262

relief given by to the French exiled Protestants, x, 264

character of, ib. 226, 265

poetical addresses to on the birth of a son of, ib. 286

birth of son of said to be spurious, ib. 286

believed by the Papists miraculous, ib. 285, 302

pregnancy of queen of ridiculed, ib. 303

account of the birth of son of by Smollet, ib. 305

vide York, Duke of

Eleanor, account of, x, 116

author of a Vindication of the Church of England, ib. 116

John, extract from poem of, ix, 164

Japan, island of, description of, xvi, 290

government of, ib. 291

religion of, ib. 292

language of, ib. 295

Idylliums of Theocritus, translations from, xii, 285-307

Jervas, poetical epistle to, xvii, 282

Jesuits, establishment of in England, x, 255

Iliad of Homer, Book I. translations from, xii, 357

moral not intended in, xiv, 134

Tasso’s imitation of, xiii, 17

Illegitimate children of Charles II. ix, 250

Illiberality of Stillingfleet and Dryden, x, 251

Imitation of Cowley, ix, 191

in translation, what, xii, 12

of Homer by Virgil, xiv, 182

Immunities of the city of London defended, vii, 127

Impossible to translate verbally, xii, 12

Imprisonment and acquittal of the Earl of Shaftesbury, ix, 409

Indelicacy of the stage in the age of Dryden, i, 417

Independents, description of, x, 140

Infallibility, not in the Pope alone, ib. 164-187

Indian Queen, a tragedy, ii. 201

remarks on, ib. 203

prologue to, ib. 205

epilogue to, ib. 255

Indian Emperor, a tragedy, ii, 257

dedication to, ib. 259

remarks on, ib. 290

prologue to, ib. 295

epilogue to, ib. 377

connection of to the Indian Queen, ib. 293

Inaccuracy of Dryden with regard to Sir Philip Sydney, xiii, 18

Indelicacy of Lucretius, xii, 276

Infamous conduct of Lord Howard, ix, 278

Innocent Traitor, extract from, ix, 198

Inscription, burlesque, to be placed under Sir Richard Blackmore’s picture, viii, 445

Inscription under Milton’s picture, xi, 160

Insolence of the Dutch, ix, 162

Instruction, the end of all poetry, vi, 246

Instructions of St Francis Xavier to missionaries, xvi, 228

Insurrection of Count Teckeli, x, 387

Integral parts of a play, Aristotle’s distinction of, xv, 312

Interment of St Francis Xavier, xvi, 456

Intrigue, comedies of, introduced, i, 76

of Dryden with Mrs Reeves, ib. 87

Invention, necessary both to painting and poetry, xvii, 318

the first part of painting, xvii, 347, 410

John’s (St) Eve, hymn for, i, 344

Johnson, Samuel, account of, ix, 369

Jones, Sir William, account of, ib. 278

Jonson, Ben, character of by Dryden, iii, 222

Shadwell an imitator of, x, 456

a metaphysical poet, i, 11

traditionary anecdote of, ib. 13

attack of on Shakespeare, xv, 344

Journal of Captain Christopher Gunman, extract from, i, 301

Iphis and Ianthe, fable of, xii, 116

Iron Age, from Ovid, xii, 68

Irreligion of Polybius, xviii, 46

Irruption of the Bishop of Munster into the United States, ix, 165

Iter Boreale of Dr Robert Wild, xv, 296

Judah Betrayed, a poem, extract from, ix, 266

Judgment of Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy on the works of the principal painters of the two last ages, xvii, 489

Judicial astrology, Dryden’s belief in, xviii, 207

Jupiter cannot alter the decrees of the fates, xv, 103

Juvenal, translations from, xiii, 1-202

and Horace, comparison between, xiii, 78

First Satire of translated, ib. 119

Third, ib. 130

Sixth, ib. 148

Tenth, ib. 178

Sixteenth, ib. 198

K.

Keis, Robert, anecdote of, vol. i. 23

Ket’s insurrection defeated, v, 181

Killigrew, Dr Henry, account of, xi, 106

Mrs Anne, account of, ib. 102

Elegy to the memory of, ib. 105

remarks on, ib. 102

Kind Keeper, a comedy, vi, 1

King Arthur, or the British Worthy, a Dramatic Opera, viii, 107

remarks on, ib. 109

prologue to, ib. 122

epistle dedicatory to, ib. 113

epilogue to, ib. 178

King James I. attached to the sports of the chace, viii, 451

account of one of the revels of, ib. 452

II., vide Duke of York, and James II.

King William, Titus Oates pensioned by, viii, 464

King, confuting arguments used by, disrespect of his person, x, 252

King and Queen, Epilogue to, ib. 393

dedication to the, xvii, 81

of France, dedication to, ib. 89

King’s speech to Oxford Parliament versified, ix, 309

power of granting pardon after condemnation questioned, ix, 310

Head clubs, account of, ib. 380

House, epilogue for, x, 362

and Duke’s players united, ib. 393

company of players, Dryden’s contract with, i, 162

right of the Pope over, x, 19

Kneller, Sir Godfrey, poetical epistle to, xi, 85

account of, ib. 84

character of, ib. 89

Knight’s Tale, or Palamon and Arcite, xi, 241

by Chaucer, xii, iii

L.

Ladislaus, King of Hungary, breach of treaty, and death of, vol. vii, 184

Lady in the Arbour, a fable, xi, 356

Lancashire Witches, reception of, vii, 15

account of, ib. 142

machinery of, x, 382

Landen, behaviour of the Duke of Ormond at, xi, 202

Lanfranc, character of, xvii, 497

Langbaine’s account of Lodowick Carlell, x, 404

Language of Spenser obsolete, xiii, 19

of Japan, xvi, 295

Lansdowne, Lord, account of, xi, 63

Last period of the life of Dryden, i, 439

Settle, ib. 273

Lauderdale, Duke of, examination of Bishop Burnet concerning, x, 274

Earl of, character of, translation of Virgil by, xiv, 223

Laureat, a poem, x, 104

Dryden appointed to the office of, i, 115

Laws of the stage observed more exactly by the French than the English, xv, 336

Lawson, Sir John, account of, ix, 161

Lawyers, cruel doctrine of, xv, 297

Layman’s faith, or Religio Laici, an epistle, x, 1

League in France, and Covenant in England, parallel between, i, 281

specimen of translation of history of, xvii, 77

history of, author’s dedication to, ib. 89

Learning in England, on the accession of James I. i, 5

Lee, Nat. verses to Mr Dryden by, v. 103

share of in the tragedy of Œdipus, vi, 117

poetical epistle to on his tragedy of the Rival Queens, xi, 23

remarks on, ib. 22

account of the death of, ib. 22

Lee, Eleonora, vide Abingdon, Countess of

Leeds, Duke of, vide Danby, Earl of

Leicester, Earl of, epistle dedicatory to, vii, 283

account of, ib. 283

Leigh, Richard, Dryden’s controversy with, i, 157

Lely, Sir Peter, account of, xii, 267

Letter of Lady Elizabath Dryden to Dr Busby, xviii. 97

Mr John Dennis to Dryden, ib. 111

Jacob Tonson to Dryden, ib. 106

Samuel Pepys to Dryden, ib. 156

Charles Dryden to Corinna, i. 213

and verses of Milbourne to Jacob Tonson, viii, 5

and note on a passage in Creech’s Lucretius, xviii, 94

Letters of Dryden, xviii, 83

remarks on, ib. 85

to Madam Honor Dryden, xviii, 86

to the Earl of Rochester, ib. 89, 101

to the Reverend Dr Busby, ib. 96, 98

to Mr Jacob Tonson, ib. 103, 109, 118, 119, 121, 122, 123, 124, 126, 127, 128, 130, 136, 137, 138

to Mr Dennis, ib. 114

to his sons at Rome, ib. 131

to Mrs Steward, ib. 141, 144, 146, 147, 149, 150, 153, 156, 157, 161, 169, 171, 174, 178, 180

to Elmes Steward, Esq. xviii, 143

to Samuel Pepys, Esq. ib. 154

to the Right Hon. Charles Montague, ib. 159

to Mrs Elizabath Thomas, junior, ib. 164, 167, 173

Leveson Gower, Sir William, account of, viii, 7

epistle dedicatory to, ib. 7

Libels against Dryden, occasioned by the publication of the Hind and Panther, x, 104

Liberty of conscience, declaration for, x, 279

Licence in personal satire, xv, 218

Life of John Dryden, i, 1

descent and parentage of, ib. 21

anecdotes of the brothers and sisters of, ib. 25

birth of, i, 27

education of, ib. 27

first poems of, ib. 28

is admitted of Trinity College, Cambridge, ib. 28

punished for contumacy, ib. 29

long residence of at the university, ib. 31

degree of Master of Arts of, xviii, 185

Sir Gilbert Pickering’s clerk, i, 36

death of Cromwell, the first theme of, ib. 38

first poem of consequence of, ix, 83

poems of on the Restoration, i, 50

changes the spelling of his name, ib. 53

is chosen a member of the Royal Society, ib. 56

imitates the style of Davenant, ib. 59

commencement of dramatic career of, ib. 80

first appearance of the Wild Gallant, ib. 80

Rival Ladies, ib. 81

Indian Queen, ib. 83

Indian Emperor, ib. 84

intrigue of with Mrs Reeves, ib. 87

marriage of, ib. 88

Essay of Dramatic Poesy, appearance of, ib. 92

controversy of with Sir Robert Howard, ib. 94

contract of with the King’s Company of Players, ib. 101

appearance of the Maiden Queen of, ib. 104

Tempest, ib. 105

Sir Martin Mar-all, ib. 107

the Mock Astrologer, ib. 109

Royal Martyr, ib. 110

Conquest of Granada, ib. 112

promoted to the offices of poet-laureat and historiographer-royal, ib. 115

patent of, as poet-laureat and historiographer-royal, xviii, 187

appearance of Marriage A-la-mode, i, 143

the Assignation, ib. 146

—controversy with Matthew Clifford, i, 154

Richard Leigh, ib. 157

Edward Ravenscroft, ib. 160

Elkanah Settle, ib. 259

Rochester, ib. 195

appearance of Massacre of Amboyna, ib. 163

State of Innocence, ib. 166

Aurenge-Zebe, i, 209

is assaulted in Rose-street, ib. 204

meditates an epic poem, ib. 215

appearance of All for Love, ib. 218

Limberham, ib, 221

Œdipus, ib. 222

Troilus and Cressida, ib. 223

the Spanish Friar of, ib. 227

relations of when he composed the Spanish Friar, ib. 233

anecdote of with Southerne, ib. 237

engages in politics, ib. 239

appearance of Absalom and Achitophel, Part I. ib. 243

the Medal, ib. 250

extracts from answer to, ix, 452

controversy of with Shadwell, i, 259, 286

causes of enmity between Shadwell and, x, 472

appearance of Mac-Flecknoe, a satire, i, 266

Absalom and Achitophel, Part II. ib. 268

assisted by Nahum Tate in, ix, 315

effect of the satirical poetry of on English poetry, i, 275

character of, as a satirist, ib. 279

share of in the composition of the Duke of Guise, ib. 281

furnishes a Preface to the translation of Plutarch’s Lives, ib. 289

translates the History of the League, ib. 290

appearance of the First Miscellany of, ib. 294

commencement of Southerne’s friendship with, ib. 294

Memorial of to the Earl of Rochester, ib. 296

appearance of Threnodia Augustales of, ib. 299

—appearance of Albion and Albanius, i, 299

becomes a convert to the Roman Catholic faith, ib. 303

reasons which might influence him in his change of religious opinions, ib. 303

sincere in his attachment to the Catholic faith, ib. 322

controversy of with Stillingfleet, ib. 323, xviii, 187

illiberality of Dryden and Stillingfleet, x, 251

appearance of the Hind and the Panther, i, 325

libels occasioned by publication of, x, 104

Hind and Panther, where composed, i, 325

projects a translation of the History of Heresies, ib. 334

appearance of the Life of St Francis Xavier, ib. 336

second volume of Miscellanies, ib. 340

character of translations of by Garth, ib. 340

translation of Te Deum, ib. 343

hymn for St John’s eve, ib. 344

consequences of the Revolution to, ib. 347

poetical attacks against, ib. 350

loses the offices of poet-laureat and historiographer-royal, ib. 354

appearance of Don Sebastian, i. 357

King Arthur, ib. 360

Cleomenes, ib. 362

Love Triumphant, ib. 364

last dramatic work of, viii, 333.

list of plays of, with the respective dates of their being acted and published, i, 367

connections in society of, after the Revolution, ib. 369

indebted to Dorset’s bounty, ib. 370

exaggerated praise of Dorset by, xiii, 15

authority of in Will’s Coffee-house, i, 371

friendship of with Southerne and Congreve, ib. 372

literary friends of, ib. 373

—Dryden attacked by Swift, i, 374

appearance of translation of Juvenal and Persius, ib. 375

smaller pieces, ib. 376

Eleonora, ib. 376

Third Miscellany, ib. 378

controversy of with Rymer, ib. 379

correspondence of with Jacob Tonson, ib. 381

appearance of the translation of Virgil by, ib. 382

Fourth Miscellany, ib. 382

quarrel of with Tonson, ib. 387

anecdote of, ib. 390

and Tonson, ib. 391

dispute of with Milbourne, ib. 394, xi, 237

animadversions of on Milbourne, ib. 403

Ode to St Cecilia, appearance of, ib. 407

set to music by Handel, ib. 410

attacked for his silence on the death of Queen Mary, xviii, 222

translation of Homer meditated by, i, 414

projected works of, xiii, 31

dispute of with Blackmore, i, 420

appearance of Fables, ib. 427

agreement of with Jacob Tonson concerning the Fables, xviii, 191

resentment of against the clergy, i, 428

the Pilgrim brought forward for the benefit of, ib. 434

attack upon Blackmore and Collier, in the Prologue and Epilogue to the Pilgrim, i, 436

last period of the life of, ib. 439

death and funeral of, ib. 440

Mr Russell’s bill for funeral of, xviii, 194

description of funeral of, ib. 195

ludicrous account of the funeral of by Farquhar, i, 441

Mrs Thomas’s letters concerning the death and funeral of, xviii, 200

account of funeral of by Mrs Thomas, false, i, 442

account of funeral of by Tom Brown, ib. 443

character of, ib. 444

character of by Congreve, ii, 9

notices of family of, i, 462

Ode on the death of by Alexander Oldys, xviii, 234

Life of St Francis Xavier, the Apostle of the Indies, xvi, 1

dedication of, ib. 3

writers of, ib. 9

address to the reader by the author of, ib. 8.

his birth, ib. 15

education, ib. 16

teaches philosophy, ib. 19

conversion, ib. 24

arrives at Rome, ib. 29

at Lisbon, ib. 46

departs for the Indies ib. 58.

arrives at Mozambique, ib. 63

at Goa, ib. 71

visits Cape Comorin, ib. 82

miracles of, ib. 83, 89, 91, 99, 111, 113, 131, 155, 163—to 466

converts the Paravas, ib. 101

returns to Goa, ib. 101

visits Comorin, ib. 107

goes to Cochin, ib. 124

Negapatam, ib. 133

Meliapor, ib. 138

Malacca, ib. 150

Amboyna, ib. 158

Isle del Moro, ib. 176

returns to Amboyna, ib. 186

Malacca, ib. 190

arrives at Cochin, ib. 219

visits the Paravas, ib. 226

his instructions to missionaries, ib. 228

visits Ceylon, ib. 233

Goa, ib. 234

baptises a Japonese, ib. 238

visits the Coast of Fishery, ib. 248

returns to Goa, ib. 249

resolves to go to Japan, ib. 249

his instructions to Gasper Barzeus, ib. 254

—sails for Japan, xvi, 276

visits Cochin, ib. 276

Malacca, ib. 276

his instructions to Juan Bravo, ib. 279

arrives at Japan, ib. 287

waits on the king of Saxuma, ib. 297

is treated with honour, ib. 297

receives permission to teach the Christian religion, ib. 297

visits the Bonzas, ib. 299

Bonzas oppose the Christian faith, ib. 301

miracle, ib. 302

arrives at Firando, ib. 312

Amanguchi, ib. 313

Macao, ib. 319

returns to Amanguchi, ib. 321

visits Fugheo, and reception by the king, ib. 343

disputes with a Bonza, ib. 362, 369

leaves Japan, ib. 379

arrives at Cochin, ib. 395

at Goa, ib. 396

affairs of Goa in his absence, ib. 403

engages in a voyage to China, ib. 410

departs from Goa, ib. 421

arrives at Malacca, ib. 422

miracles at Malacca, ib. 423

arrives at the isle of Sancian, ib. 437

means fail him for his passage into China, ib. 451

his sickness, ib. 452

death, ib. 455

interment, ib. 456

disinterred, ib. 457

and carried to Goa, ib. 465

funeral procession, ib. 465

miracles wrought by the dead body, ib. 466.

qualifications, ib. 471

beatification and canonization, ib. 531

Life of St Francis Xavier, an authentic testimony of the truth of the Gospel, ib. 535

Life of Virgil, xiii. 297

his birth, ib. 298

education, ib. 300

visits Rome, ib. 301

is introduced to Octavius, ib. 302

visits Athens, ib. 306

loses his patrimony, ib. 307

recovers his patrimony, ib. 309

in favour with Augustus, ib, 313

Pastorals, ib. 310

Georgics, ib. 311

Æneis, ib. 316

sickness and death of, ib. 321

Life of Cleomenes, viii. 207

Plutarch, xvii, 1

remarks on, ib. 3

birth, ib. 19

education, ib. 23

travels, ib. 27

religion ib. 31

marriage, ib. 39

children, ib. 39

visits Rome, ib. 45

letter to Trojan, ib. 49

his Lives, ib. 51

chosen Archon of Chæronea, ib. 51

other works, ib. 52

Life of Lucian, xviii, 53

remarks on, ib. 55

Congreve, by Wilson, Extract from, ib. 200

Lilburn, John, account of, vi. 363

Lillie, John, share of in determining the taste of the age of Queen Elizabeth, i. 7

Lilly, the astrologer, x. 263

Limberham, or the Kind Keeper, a comedy, vi. 1

remarks on, ib. 3

epistle dedicatory to, ib. 6

prologue to, ib. 13

epilogue to, ib. 114

Lindsay, Earl of, account of, v. 304

List of Dryden’s Plays, with the respective dates of their being acted and published, i, 367

List of the Nine Worthies, xi, 372

Literary friends of Dryden, i, 373

pursuits, effect of the Revolution upon, i, 385

London, immunities of city of defended, vii, 127

plague in city of, in 1665, ix, 189

city of, dedication to, ix, 89

fire of, conduct of Charles II. on, ix. 187

dreadful effects of, ib. 189

Love in a Nunnery, a comedy, iv, 343

Love Triumphant, or Nature will Prevail, a tragic comedy, viii. 331

remarks on, ib. 333

Dryden’s last Dramatic work, ib. 333

epistle dedicatory to, ib. 337

prologue to, ib. 344

epilogue to, ib. 435

Love’s Kingdom, a pastoral tragi-comedy, extract from, x, 453

Love, description of, xiv. 173

Loyal Feast defeated, extracts from poem of, ix, 390

apprentices dinner, ib. 396

Medal vindicated, extracts from, ib. 423

cause, military chiefs of the city attached to, ib. 451

Brother, prologue to, x, 374

anecdote of, ib. 370

epilogue to, ib. 377

Loyalty of the church of England, x, 154

Lucian, life of, xviii, 53

remarks on, ib. 55

first profession of, ib. 60

teaches rhetoric, and studies law, ib. 61

death of, ib. 61

religion of, ib. 63

character of, ib. 70

murder of, by Rufinus, ib. 57

Lucilius, the satirist, character of, xiii, 58

Lucretius, character of, xii, 272

indelicacy of, ib. 276

translations from, xii, 307-337

beginning of 1st book, xii, 311

2d, ib. 314

3d, ib. 317

4th, ib. 326

5th, ib. 337

Lucretius of Creech, note and letter concerning, xviii, 94

Lute and Sword, combination of, ridiculed, x, 450

Lycidas and Mæris, a pastoral, xiii, 413

Lyrical Pieces, Odes, Songs, xi, 63

M.

Macareus, epistle to, xii, 21

Mac-Flecknoe, a satire against Thomas Shadwell, x, 425

remarks on, ib. 427

character of, i, 266

one of the keenest satires in the English language, ib. 429

its object misconstrued by Dryden’s editors, ib. 432

notes on, ib. 441

Machinery of the Christian religion more feeble than that of the Heathen, in poetry, xiii, 23

Guardian Angels, ib. 26

the Æneis, xiv, 193

in the Lancashire Witches, x, 382

Mackenzie, Sir George, account of, xiii, 111

Mæcenas, character of, xiii, 307

Maiden Queen, or Secret Love, a comedy, ii, 379

lady, epitaph on, xi, 158

Maimbourg, Lewis, account of, xvii, 182

history of Calvinism of, x, 30

Malacca, account of, xvi, 150

defeat of the Mahometans at, ib. 211

Malone’s account of the Whip and Key, ix, 425

History of the English Stage, extract from, xi, 58

Man of Mode, character of, x, 339

Epilogue to, ib. 339

Mar-all, Sir Martin, a comedy, iii, 1

Maritime affairs, skill of Charles II. in, ix, 160

Mar-prelate, Martin, account of, x, 27

Marriage of Dryden, i, 88

Marriage A-la-mode, a comedy, iv, 231

remarks on, ib. 233

epistle dedicatory to, ib. 235

prologue to, ib. 241

epilogue to, ib. 342

character of, i, 143

Marquis of Clare, vide Haughton, Lord

Halifax, account of, viii, 113, ix, 305

epistle dedicatory to, viii, 113

Worcester, vide Beaufort, Duke of

Winchester, epitaph on, xi, 154

account of, ib. 152

Normanby, dedication to, xiv, 127

vide Buckingham, Duke of

Marvel’s Growth of Popery, ix, 420

description of Richard Flecknoe, x, 441

Massacre of Pans, transposed for the Duke of Guise, vii, 188

Amboyna, character of, i, 164

Mason, Mr, poetical epistle of, xvii, 284

Master of Arts, Dryden’s degree of, xviii, 185

Masque of Calisto, dramatis personæ of, x, 337

Meal-tub Plot, Waller’s discovery of, ix, 382

Measures of the human body, xvii, 424

Mechanical genius of Charles II. ix. 60

The Medal, or a satire against Sedition, ix, 407

remarks on, ib. 409

publications in opposition to, ib. 415

character of, i, 250

reply to, i, 255

Medal, Bower’s, of the Earl of Shaftesbury, ix, 412

Meleager and Atalante, xii, 96

Melibæus, a pastoral, xiii, 402

Memorial of Dryden to the Earl of Rochester, i,296

Metamorphoses, Ovid’s, translations from, xii, 43-227

Book I. ib. 63

the Golden Age, ib. 66

the Silver Age, ib. 67

the Brazen Age, ib. 68

the Iron Age, ib. 68

Giants’ War, ib. 69

of Daphne into a laurel, xii, 81

Io into an heifer, ib. 85

the eyes of Argus into a peacock’s train, ib. 90

Syrinx into reeds, ib, 91

of Æacus into a cormorant, xii, 154

Metamorphoses, Book XII. ib. 156

Metaphrase translation, what, ib. 11

Metaphysical poet, what, i, 10

poetry favoured by the public till the beginning of the civil wars, i, 12

poets, Cowley the most ingenious of, i, 16

neglected harmony of numbers, ib. 17

Mexico, Conquest of, a tragedy, ii, 257

Middleton, Earl of, Etherege’s Epistle to, xi, 40

Milbourne, Luke, account of, i, 394

letter of, and verses to Mr Tonson on Amphitryon, viii, 5

attack on Dryden, xi, 158

dispute of with Dryden, i, 394

an admirer of Dryden, i, 395

translation of Virgil by, character of, i, 397

criticism by, of Dryden’s Virgil, specimen of, i, 397

Military chiefs of the city, attached to the loyal cause, ix, 451

Milled money, not struck in England before 1663, ib. 451

Milton, John, character of, xiii, 19

difference between the taste of Dryden and, i, 168

not swayed by the conceits of his time, i, 16

inscription under picture of, xi, 160

Miracles of St Francis Xavier, xvi, 83, 89, 91, 99, 111, 113, 131, 155, 163, &c.

Miscellany, first, of Dryden, appearance of, i, 294

second, ib. 340

third, ib. 378

fourth, ib. 382

Missionaries, Catholic, diligence of, in converting the Heathen, x, 192

St Francis Xavier’s instructions to, xvi, 228

Mistake of Dryden concerning the tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex, ii, 118

The Mistakes, prologue to, x, 408

Mistake concerning the dedication of Orpheus Britannicus, xi, 146

Mithridates, epilogue to, x, 341, 354

Mock Astrologer, a comedy, iii, 207

Moderate divines, what, x, 242

Modern satire, definition of, xiii, 105

Moliere, Psyche, an opera, imitated from, x, 448

Money, milled, not struck in England before 1663, ix, 451

Monmouth and Buccleuch, Duchess of, account of, ii, 250, ix, 256

dedication to, ii, 259

Monmouth, Duke of, account of, ix, 250

epistle dedicatory to, in, 346

reception of, in an excursion through England, ix, 288

partizans of, designs of, x, 364

and Duke of Guise, no parallel intended between, vii, 144

Montague, Hon. Charles, letter of Dryden to, xviii, 159

Montague and Prior, parody of the Hind and Panther of, x, 91

Montfort, Mrs, character of, iv, 233

Monument in the church at Tichmarsh, xviii, 215

Moor, Sir John, account of, ix, 402

Moral not intended by Homer in the Iliad, xiv, 134

of the Æneid, ib. 150

disputed by Heyne, ib. 150

Mordaunt, Charles, vide Earl of Peterborough

Morley, Dr George, account of, xvii, 182

Motteux, Peter Anthony, poetical epistle to, xi, 69

remarks on, ib. 67

account of, ib. 67

Motteux’s account of St Cecilia’s Festival, xi, 166

Mountfort the comedian, character of, x, 412

Moveable scenes introduced on the stage, i, 79

Moyle, Walter, account of, xviii, 76

Mozambique, description of, xvi, 63

Mulgrave, Earl of, account of, v, 174

character of, ib. 175

epistle dedicatory to, ib. 174

vide Buckingham, Duke of

Munster, irruption of the Bishop of, into the United States, ix, 165

Murder of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey, ix, 285

Thomas Thynne, Esq. ib. 292

Lucian by Rufinus, xviii, 57

Music, Shadwell’s proficiency in, x, 448

Ode to St Cecilia set to, by Handel, i, 410

Mysteries or religious plays, origin of, xv, 247

N.

Naboth’s Vineyard, or the Innocent Traitor, extracts from, ix, 198

Names of the English fleet changed, ib. 48

Nature will Prevail, a tragi-comedy, viii, 331

of satire, xiii, 37

Naugeria, Andrew, anecdote of, vi, 370

Neander, Dryden’s feigned appellation, xv, 283

Neptune, pilots’ prayer to, vii, 17

New House, epilogue spoken at opening of the, x, 326

Newcastle, Duke of, account of, iii, 209

Congreve’s dedication to, ii, 5

epistle dedicatory to, iii, 209

Duchess of, account of, iii, 210

Nicholas V. Pope, character of, xviii, 24

panegyric on, ib. 25

Niggardliness of booksellers, xv, 194

Nine Worthies, life of the, xi, 372

Nokes, the comedian, description of, xi, 50

Nonnes Priestes Tale, by Chaucer, xii, liii

Non-resistance, decree of the University of Oxford concerning, x, 241

Normanby, Marquis of, dedication to, xiv, 127

vide Mulgrave, Earl of, and Buckingham, Duke of

North’s description of Titus Oates, ix, 355

opinion of Shaftesbury’s designs upon the person and authority of Charles II. ix, 451

Northleigh, John, poetical epistle to, xi, 37

remarks on, ib. 85

account of, ib. 35

Note concerning Polybius, xviii, 19

Notes on Heroic Stanzas to the Memory of Oliver Cromwell, ix, 15

on Astrea Redux, ix, 41

Panegyric on the Coronation of Charles II. ib. 59

Verses to the Duchess of York, ib. 79

Absalom and Achitophel, Part I. ib. 249

Part II. ib. 354

Threnodia Augustalis, x, 79

the Hind and Panther, Part I. ib. 139

II. ib. 185

III. ib. 240

Britannia Rediviva, ib. 302

Mac-Flecknoe, a satire, ib. 441

the satires of Persius, xiii, 217, 227, 239, 248, 262, 274

Æneis of Virgil, xiv, 262, 322, 353, 424, 461, xv, 29, 62, 102, 183

and observations on Empress of Morocco, preface to, xv, 401, 405

postscript to, ib. 409

upon Dryden’s poems, extract of, i, 154

Notices of Dryden’s family, ib. 462

Nottingham, Earl of, account of, ix, 400