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