Book I. ib. 252

II. ib. 271 III. ib. 291 dedication to, ib. 245

Panegyric on the coronation of Charles II. ix, 54 remarks on, ib. 53 notes on, ib. 59 on Pope Nicholas V. xviii, 25

Papers found in King Charles II’s strong-box, extract from x, 188

Papist plot, ix, 259

Parabolical signification of the Hind and the Panther, x, 90 criticised, ib. 90

Parallel between Shakespeare and Dryden, v, 287 the story of the Duke of Guise and affairs in England, vii, 4 the Duke of Guise and Monmouth, not intended, ib. 144 political disputes in 1680 and 1681, x, 353 Ovid and Chaucer, xi, 214 Chaucer and Boccace, ib. 233 poetry and painting, xvii, 286 the League in France and the Covenant in England, i, 281

Paraphrase, in translation, what, xii, 12 of the Third Idyllium of Theocritus, xii, 287 of Veni Creator Spiritus, xi, 190

Paris, Epistle to, xii, 26

Pardon, the king’s power of granting, after condemnation questioned, ix, 310

Parliament, dissolution of by Cromwell, ix, 45 Oxford, king’s speech to versified, ib. 309 Healing, what, x, 71

Parmegiano, character of as a painter, xvii, 495

Parody on part of the Empress of Morocco, xv, 407 the Hind and the Panther, x, 91, i, 330

Parson, character of a good one, xi, 395

Parsons, Robert, account of, x, 20

Particulars regarding the test-act, x, 260

Parting of Hector and Andromache, xii, 382

Parts of a poem, tragedy, or comedy, xv, 386

Party-names, Stillingfleet’s opinion of, x, 243

Paston, Mrs Margaret, epitaph on, xi, 151

Pastorals of Virgil, translated, xiii, 335, 421 dedication of, ib. 337 character of, ib. 339 Tityrus and Melibœus, xiii, 369 Alexis, ib. 374 Palæmon, ib. 378 Pollio, ib. 386 Daphnis, ib. 391 Silenus, ib. 397 Melibœus, ib. 402 Pharmaceutria, ib. 407 Lycidas and Mœris, ib. 413 Gallus, ib. 417 rules to be observed in writing, ib. 355

Pate, William, account of, xviii, 130

Patent of Dryden as poet-laureat and historiographer royal, xviii, 187

Pelham, Thomas, vide Newcastle, Duke of

Penny, John, or Martin Mar-prelate, account of, x, 27

Pension from France received by Charles II. ix, 385

People, concern of for the death of Charles II. x, 79

Pepys, Samuel, account of, xviii, 154 letter of Dryden to, ib. 154 to Dryden, ib. 156

Performers, female, first introduced after the Restoration, x, 321

Personal resemblance of Shadwell to Ben Jonson, i, 265

Personal appearance of Gilbert Burnet, x, 270

Perspective, when known in England, xi, 86

Petrarch, not the inventor of the story of Griselda, xi, 215

Persius, not equal as a satirist to Juvenal and Horace, xiii, 68 obscurity of, ib. 72 Causabon’s commentary on, ib. 72 character of, ib. 75 and Horace, comparison between, ib. 78 translations from, ib. 203-247 First Satire of, ib. 207 notes on, ib. 217 Second Satire of, xiii, 221 notes on, ib. 227 Third Satire of, ib. 230 notes on, ib. 239 Fourth Satire of, ib. 242 notes on, ib. 248 Fifth Satire of, ib. 251 notes on, ib. 262 Sixth Satire of, ib. 267 notes on, ib. 274

Personal satire, abuse of, ib. 281 licence in, xv, 218

Peterborough, Earl of, account of, xv, 189

Pharmaceutria, a pastoral, xiii, 407

Philips, Mrs Katherine, account of, xi, 111

Philosophy of Pythagoras, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, xii, 207

Phylacteries, what, x, 132

Physicians who attended Charles II. ib. 79

Pickering, Sir Gilbert, character of, i, 34 Dryden clerk to, ib. 36

Picture of the Duke of York at Guildhall defaced, vii, 51

Piety, the first quality of a hero, xiv, 161

Piles, Mons. de, preface of to the Art of Painting, xvii, 333

Pilgrim, a comedy, revived for Dryden’s benefit in 1700, i, 434, viii, 437 prologue written for, ib. 441 song written for, ib. 449 secular masque written for, ib. 455 epilogue written for, ib. 462

Pindar, Cowley’s translation of, xii, 15

Pindaric funeral poem, x, 53

Pilot’s prayer to Neptune, vii, 17

Pitcairn’s epitaph on Viscount Dundee, xi. 114

Pitt’s, William, extract from epistolary poem of, xviii, 218

Place, unity of, what, xv, 306

Plagiarism charged on Shadwell, x, 418

Plague in London in 1665, ix, 189

Play, first one among the Romans, xiii, 54 definition of a, xv, 302 of words, a particular taste in the age of James I. i, 10

Plays of Dryden, list of, with the respective dates of their being acted and published, i, 367 Heroic, an Essay on, iv, 16 English superior to French, xv, 349 rhyme unnatural in, ib. 363 serious, defence of rhyme in, ib. 367 effect of in the representation, ib. 393 rhyming or heroic, i, 69 heroic, character of, ib. 118 of Richard Flecknoe, x, 442

Player, Sir Thomas, account of, ix, 361

Players, rival companies of united, x, 393 Dryden’s contract with the King’s Company of, i, 102

Plot of the Papists, ix, 259 Grecian dramas, xv, 313 Roman dramas, ib. 314

Plutarch, Lives of, advertisement to translation of, xvii, 3 preface to, appearance of, i, 289 Life of, xvii, 1 remarks on, ib. 3 birth of, xvii, 19 education of, ib. 23 travels, ib. 27 religion of, ib. 31 marriage of, ib. 39 children of, ib. 39 visits Rome, ib. 45 letter of to Trajan, ib. 49 chosen Archon of Chæronea, ib. 51 his Lives, ib. 51 other works, ib. 52 character of the Lives of, ib. 62

Poem on the restoration of Charles II. ix, 30 birth of the prince, x, 283 an epic one the greatest work of human genius, xiii, 36 parts of, xv, 386 epic, meditated by Dryden, i, 215 epistolary to Dryden, extract from, xviii, 218

Poems, satirical, of Dryden, effect of on English poetry, i, 275 attacking Dryden for his silence on the death of Queen Mary, extract from, xviii, 222

Poems Historical and Political, ix, 1 of Sprat and Dryden, comparison between, ib. 6 on the accession of James II. titles of some of, x, 59 recommendatory on Dryden’s translation of Virgil, xiii, 289 ascribed to Dryden, xv, 197 advertisement regarding, ib. 199

Poet-Laureat, Dryden appointed to the office of, i, 115 Dryden loses the office of, i, 354

Poetic licence, apology for, v, 105

Poetical addresses to James II. on the birth of a son, x, 286

Poetical Epistles, xi, 1-90 Epistle to John Hoddeson, ib. 4 Sir Robert Howard, ib. 7 Dr Charleton, ib. 14 Lady Castlemain, ib. 20 Mr Lee, ib. 23 the Earl of Roscommon, ib. 28 the Duchess of York, ib. 33 Mr J. Northleigh, ib. 37 Sir George Etherege, ib. 42 Mr Southerne, ib. 50 Henry Higden, ib. 55 Mr Congreve, ib. 59 Mr Granville, ib. 64 Mr Motteux, ib. 69 John Driden, ib. 75 Sir Godfrey Kneller, ib. 85 from Pope to Jervas, xvii, 282

Poetry, Dramatic, Essay on, iv, 211 Heroic, apology for, v, 105 the chief end of instruction, vi, 246 French, character of, xiii, 366 expression in, the same as colouring in a picture, xiv, 210 Art of, xv, 227 remarks on, ib. 229 Elegy, ib. 240 Ode, ib. 240 Pastoral, ib. 238 Epigram, ib. 241 Poetry, Art of, Satire, xv, 243 Tragedy, ib. 245 and painting, parallel of, xvii, 286 of England before the Civil Wars, remarks on, i, 4 study of interrupted by the Civil Wars, ib. 20 Sir William Davenant a restorer of true taste in, ib. 48 character of Homer’s, xii, 59 English, effect of Dryden’s satirical poems upon, i, 275

Poets, metaphysical, what, ib. 10 Cowley the most ingenious of, ib. 15 neglected harmony of numbers, ib. 17

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

Political and Historical Poems, ib. 1 satire of Reynard the Fox, x, 155

Political affairs, skill of Polybius in, xviii, 31

Politics, Dryden engages in, i, 239

Pollio, a pastoral, xiii, 386

Polybius, the historian, account of, xviii, 26 skill of in political affairs, ib. 31 Marcus Brutus employed in writing an epitome of, ib. 30 character of and of his writings, ib. 17 Shere’s translation of, viii, 203 character of, xviii, 19

Polydore, character of as a painter, xvii, 492

Pope-burning, description of vi, 222 account of, x, 370 right of over kings, ib. 19 infallibility not alone in the, x, 164, 187 treats Castlemaine with contempt, ib. 305 Nicholas V. character of, xviii, 24 panegyric on, ib. 25 Alexander, poetical epistle of, xvii, 282 lines of on the fate of Elkanah Settle, i, 274

Pordage, Samuel, account of, ix, 372

Portsmouth, Duchess of, epigram on picture of, xv, 280

Postscript to the Æneis, ib. 187 History of the League, xvii, 150

Powell’s, George, retort on Dryden, xi, 65

Powlet, John, vide Winchester, Marquis of

Prayer, pilot’s, to Neptune, vii, 17

Preface to the Sullen Lovers, extract from, i, 260 translation of Plutarch’s Lives, appearance of, ib. 289 Blackmore’s Prince Arthur, extract from, ib. 422 the Wild Gallant, a comedy, ii, 17 Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen, ib. 383 the Tempest, iii, 99 an Evening’s Love, ib. 218 Tyrannic Love, ib. 349 All for Love, v, 306 the State of Innocence, ib. 105 Œdipus, vi, 124 Troilus and Cressida, ib. 238 Albion and Albanus, vii, 216 Don Sebastian, ib. 291 Cleomenes, viii, 196 Religio Laici, x, 11 the Hind and the Panther, ib. 109 prefixed to the Fables, xi, 205 to translation of Ovid’s Epistles, xii, 3 on Translation, prefixed to Dryden’s Second Miscellany, ib. 263 the translation of the Pastorals of Virgil, xiii, 345 Notes and Observations on the Empress of Morocco, xv, 401 remarks on, ib. 397 every Husband his own Cuckold, xv, 414 the Art of Painting, by Mons. de Piles, xvii, 333 a dialogue concerning women, xviii, 1 remarks on, ib. 3 the New Converts Exposed, extract from, x, 103 Reasons for Mr Bayes changing his Religion, extract from, ib. 103

Pregnancy of the Queen of James II. ridiculed, ib. 303

Prejudices of Sir Matthew Hall, xiii, 67

Preliminary remarks on the poetry of England before the Civil Wars, i, 4

Premature decrepitude of the Earl of Shaftesbury, ix, 454

Presbyterianism, account of the rise of x, 148

Presbyterians, tradition of no weight with, ib. 169

Prevalence of false taste in the age of King James I. i, 9

Prince Rupert’s gallant actions, ix, 167, 174 Arthur, of Blackmore, extract from, i, 422

Princess of Cleves, prologue to, x, 400 epilogue to, ib. 402

Prior and Montague, parody of on the Hind and the Panther, i, 330

Prodigies of hawkers, x, 348

Profession of James II. on his accession, x, 262

Projected works of Dryden, xiii, 31

Prologue to the Wild Gallant, ii, 19, 21 Rival Ladies, ib. 123 Indian Queen, ib. 205 Indian Emperor, ib. 295 Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen, ii, 388, 389 Sir Martin Mar-all, iii, 5 the Tempest, ib. 103 An Evening’s Love, ib. 218 Tyrannic Love, ib. 355 the Conquest of Granada, iv, 30, 113 Marriage A-la-mode, iv, 241 the Assignation, iv, 356 Amboyna, v, 10 Aureng-Zebe, ib. 188 All for Love, v, 321 the Spanish Friar, vi, 382 Limberham, vi, 13 Œdipus, vi, 128 Troilus and Cressida, vi, 267 Amphitryon, viii, 12 King Arthur, ib. 122 Cleomenes, ib. 246 Love Triumphant, ib. 344 the Pilgrim, attack upon Blackmore, i, 436

Prologue, Song, Secular Masque, and Epilogue, written for the Pilgrim, viii, 437 remarks on, ib. 439 to the Duke of Guise, vii, 19 Lenten, extract from, vii, 131

Prologue to Albion and Albanus, vii, 228 Don Sebastian, vii, 302 spoken the first day of the King’s House acting after the fire, x, 319 for the women, when they acted at the old theatre, Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields, x, 321 spoken at the opening of the new house, x, 323 to the University of Oxford, x, 328 original to Circe, x, 333 to Circe, as corrected by Dryden, x, 335 to the True Widow, x, 345 Cæsar Borgia, x, 347 to Lee’s Sophonisba, x, 350 ib. 352 the University of Oxford, ib. 385 his Royal Highness the Duke of York, ib. 366 to the Earl of Essex, ib. 368 Loyal Brother, ib. 374 University of Oxford, ib. 378, 385 King and Queen, ib. 393 Princess of Cleves, ib. 400 Arviragus and Philicia, ib. 404 the first satire of Persius, xiii, 206 Prophetess, x, 406 prohibited, ib. 406 Mistakes, ib. 408 ib. 415 to Albumazar, ib. 416

Prologues and Epilogues, x, 309 remarks on, ib. 311 Dryden’s ridiculed in the Rehearsal, x, 313 and Epilogues, sold by hawkers at the door of the theatres, x, 316

Projected translation of Homer by Dryden, i, 334

Prophetess, prologue to, x, 406 prohibited, ib. 406

Propriety of comic scenes in tragedy, i, 230

Prose works of Dryden, xv, 281

Protestant Joiner’s ballad, vii, 5 Flail, account of, ib. 19

Protestants, French, relief given by James II. to, x, 264

Publications of Dryden’s enemies in opposition to the Medal, ix, 415

Punctilios of the French stage, v, 307

Purcel, Henry, account of, xi, 145

Purcel, Henry, Ode on the death of, ib. 148

Purgatory, what founded on, x, 189

Pusillanimous conduct of Lord Grey, ix, 276

Pygmalion and the Statue, fable of, xii, 123

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

Pythagorean Philosophy, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, xii, 207

Q.

Quakers, account of the rise of, x, 141

Qualification of a translator, xviii, 81

Qualifications of St Francis Xavier, xvi, 473

Quatrains, or stanzas of four verses in alternate rhyme, defended, ix, 94

Queen, dedication to the, xvi, 3 pregnancy of ridiculed, x, 303

Querouailles, Louise de, account of, xi, 163 verses addressed to, ib. 163

R.

Radcliffe, Lord, account of, xii, 47 dedication to, ib. 47

Ravenscroft, Edward, account of, iv, 345 Dryden’s controversy with, i, 160

Reasons for Mr Bayes changing his religion, extract from, x, 103 for and against transubstantiation, ib. 154 which might have influenced Dryden in his change of faith, i, 303

Reception of the Duke of Monmouth in an excursion through England, ix, 288 Dryden’s translation of Virgil, i, 392

Recommendatory verses to Absalom and Achitophel, ix, 213 the author of the Medal, ib. 427 on Religio Laici, x, 33 poems on Dryden’s translation of Virgil, xiii, 289

Reeves, Mrs, Dryden’s intrigue with, i, 87

Reflections on Milton’s Paradise Lost, xiii, 20

Reformation of the stage, order for, xviii, 152

Refugee Clergy, Huguenot, not all of the same communion, x, 203, 244

Rehearsal, time spent in composing the, ixi, 46 first appearance of, i, 133 authors of, i, 136 Dryden’s prologues ridiculed in, x, 313

Relations of Dryden, when he composed the Spanish Friar, i, 233

Relief given by James II. to the French exiled Protestants, x, 264

Religio Laici, or a Layman’s faith, an epistle, x, 1 remarks on, ib. 3 preface to, ib. 11 recommendatory verses on, ib. 33 of Charles Blount, ib. 8 by J. R. extracts from, ib. 9 Medici of Thomas Browne, ib. 7

Religion of Lucian, xviii, 63 Japan, xvi, 292

Religious plays, origin of, xv, 247

Remarkable comet, ix, 160 sea fight, ib. 168

Remarks on the poetry of England during the civil wars, i, 4 the Duke of Guise, vii, 3 Vindication of the Duke of Guise, ib. 127 Albion and Albanius, ib. 211 Don Sebastian, ib. 273 the Wild Gallant, a comedy, ii, 15 the Rival Ladies, ib. 111 the Indian Queen, ib. 203 the Indian Emperor, ib. 290 Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen, ib. 381 Sir Martin Mar-all, iii, 3 the Tempest, or the Enchanted Island, ib. 97 An Evening’s Love, ib. 217 Tyrannic Love, ib. 343 the Conquest of Granada, iv, 3 Defence of the Epilogue, ib. 229 Marriage A-la-mode, ib. 233

Remarks on the Assignation, iv. 345 Amboyna, v, 3 Aureng-Zebe, ib. 169 All for Love, ib. 287 the State of Innocence, or Fall of Man, ib. 91 the Spanish Friar, vi, 367 Limberham, ib. 3 Œdipus, ib. 117 Troilus and Cressida, ib. 228 Amphitryon, viii, 3 King Arthur, ib. 109 Cleomenes, viii, 183 Love Triumphant, viii, 333 Prologue written for the Pilgrim, ib. 439 Song written for do. ib. 446 Secular Masque, written for do. ib. 451 Epilogue written for do. ib. 459 Heroic Stanzas to the memory of Oliver Cromwell, ix, 3 Astrea Redux, ib. 41 Panegyric on the Coronation of Charles II. ib. 53 Satire on the Dutch, ix, 70 Verses to the Duchess of York, ib. 73 Annus Mirabilis, ib. 83 Absalom and Achitophel, Part I. ib. 197 II. ib. 315 the Medal, or Satire against Sedition, ib. 409 Religio Laici, x, 3 Threnodia Augustalis, ib. 55 the Hind and the Panther, ib. 87 some parts of Bishop Burnet’s conduct and writings, ib. 271 Britannia Rediviva, ib. 285 Prologues and Epilogues, ib. 311 Mac-Flecknoe, ib. 427 Poetical Epistles, xi, 3, 5, 12, 18, 22, 26, 31, 35, 38, 47, 52, 57, 63, 67, 71, 84 Elegies and Epitaphs, ib. 93, 102, 113, 145, 152 Eleonora, a panegyrical poem, ib. 119 Song for St Cecilia’s day, ib. 165 Palæmon and Arcite, ib. 243

Remarks on the Cock and the Fox, a fable, xi. 326 the Flower and the Leaf, a fable, ib. 354 the Wife of Bath, a tale, ib. 376 Character of a good parson, ib. 394 Sigismonda and Guiscardo, a tale, ib. 403 Theodore and Honoria, ib. 433 Cymon and Iphigenia, ib. 452 translations from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, xii, 45 translation of Virgil, xiii, 281 Essay on Satire, xv, 201 Epistle to Mr Julian, ib. 218 Art of Poetry, ib. 229 Tarquin and Tullia, ib. 266 Verses on the Young Statesman, ib. 273 Essay of Dramatic Poesy, ib. 283 Heads of an Answer to Rhymer’s Remarks, ib. 383 Preface to the notes and observations on the Empress of Morocco, ib. 397 Life of Plutarch xvii, 3 specimen of translation of the History of the League, ib. 79 the controversy between Dryden and Stillingfleet, xvii, 187 translation of Du Fresnoy’s Art of Painting, ib. 281

Reply to Absalom and Achitophel, i, 253 the Medal, ib. 255

Report of the death of the Chevalier de St George, x, 307

Requests, Court of, a scene of political intrigue, ib. 348

Resemblance, personal, of Shadwell to Ben Jonson, i, 265

Resentment of Dryden against the clergy, ib. 428

Residence of Dryden at the university, ib. 31

Restoration of Charles II. poem on, ix, 30 conduct of Shaftesbury at, ib. 447 led the way to the revival of letters, i, 42 Dryden’s poems on, ib. 50 revival of the Drama at, ib. 65

Retort on Dryden, xi, 65

Revel of James I. viii, 452

Revival of the Drama at the Restoration, i, 65

Revolter, a tragi-comedy, extracts from, x, 9 criticism of, on the Hind and the Panther, ib. 99

Revolution, consequences of to Dryden, i, 347 effects of upon literary pursuits, ib. 385

Reynard the Fox, an ancient political satire, x, 155

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, poetical epistle to, xvii, 284

Rhyme unnatural in plays, xv, 363 defence of in serious plays, ib. 367 a constraint to poets, xiv, 207

Rhyming or heroic plays, pattern of set by France, i, 69

Ridicule of Dryden’s use of the Alexandrine, ix, 415

Right of the Pope over kings, x, 19

Rise of the Quakers, account of, ib. 141 Settle’s animosity to Dryden, xv, 398

Rival Ladies, a tragi-comedy, ii, 109 remarks on, ib. 111 dedication to, ib. 113 prologue to, ib. 123 companies of players united, x, 393

Rochester, Earl of, character of, iv, 235 account of, vii, 13, ix, 307 Dryden’s memorial to, i, 296 letters to, xviii, 89, 101 epistle dedicatory to, iv, 235, vii, 13 banished the court, iv, 238 cowardice of, xv, 215 dismissal from the treasury of, epitaph on, ib. 279 assaults Dryden in Rose-street, i, 204

Rod of divination, what, ix, 20

Rogers, Mr, epitaph upon, xi, 144

Roman satirical poetry, rise of, xiii, 47

Roman satire, first author of, ib. 58 dramas, plot of, xv, 314

Roman Catholic plot, ix, 259

Romances of Mademoiselle Scuderi, xi, 232

Romano, Julio, character of as a painter, xvii, 491

Romans, origin of dramatic performances among, xiii, 51 first author of a play among the, ib. 54 what satire meant among, ib. 65

Roscius Anglicanus, extract from, x, 325

Roscommon, Earl of, account of, xii, 341 poetical epistle to, xi, 28 remarks on, ib. 26 verses of on Religio Laici, x, 33

Roundelay, xi, 178

Rovers sporting at, what, xiii, 10

Royal Martyr, a tragedy, iii, 341 mistresses, xv, 206 exile, soliloquy of, ib. 280 Society, Dryden chosen a member of, i, 56 historiographer, Dryden appointed to the office of, i, 115

Rubens, character of as a painter, xvii, 498

Rules to be observed in writing pastorals, xiii, 355

Rumbold, Richard, account of, vii, 261

Run-a-muck, a Malay term, what, x, 276

Rupert, Prince, gallant actions of, ix, 167, ib. 174

Russell’s bill for Dryden’s funerals, xviii, 194

Ruyter, Michael Adrian de, account of, ix, 182

Rymer, Thomas, account of, xv, 383 reflections of, on Milton’s Paradise Lost, xiii, 20 controversy of Dryden with, i, 379

S.

Sackville, Edward, account of, ix, 387

Salisbury, Earl of, epistle dedicatory to, viii, 337

Sancian, island of, description of, xvi, 437

Sancroft, Archbishop, account of, ix, 301

Santio, Raphael, character of, xvii, 490

Satire on the Dutch, ix, 71 remarks on, ib. 70 on Shadwell, ib. 379 of Mac-Flecknoe, character of, i, 266 against sedition, or the Medal, ib. 407 political of Reynard the Fox, x, 155 essay on, xiii, 3 origin and nature of, ib. 37 Roman, first, author of, ib. 58 history of, among the Romans, ib. 56 Varronian, what, ib. 61 Menippean, what, ib. 63 what meant by among the Romans, ib. 65 personal, abuse of, xiii, 81 Heinsius’s definition of, ib. 103

Satire, modern, definition of, xiii, 105 Essay on, Duke of Buckingham author of, xv, 201 Essay on, ib. 203 remarks on, ib. 201 on the Duke of Buckingham’s gallantry, xv, 212 personal, license in, xv, 218 upon the silent poets, xviii, 224

Satires of Horace, character of, xiii, 99 Juvenal, xiii, 119-198 Persius, ib. 207-267

Satirical poetry of the Greeks and Romans, difference between, xiii, 47 poetry of Dryden, effect of on English poetry, i, 275

Satirist, Dryden’s character as a, i, 279

Saturnine and Fescennine verses, what, xiii, 51

Saunders, Charles, author of the tragedy of Tamerlane, x, 356

Saville, Sir George, vide Marquis of Halifax,

Scenery first introduced on the stage, x, 323

Scenes, moveable, introduced on the stage, i, 79

Scotish judge, anecdote of a, ix, 20

Scotland, Cromwell’s conduct to, ix, 19 theatrical amusements introduced into, x, 360

Scott, Anne, vide Monmouth and Buccleuch, Duchess of

Scroop, Mr, stabbed by Sir Thomas Armstrong, x, 327

Scuderi, Mademoiselle, romances of, xi, 232

Sea-fight, remarkable, ix, 168

Sebastian, Don, a tragedy, vii, 271

Second epode of Horace, xii, 351 miscellany of Dryden, appearance of, i, 340

Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen, a comedy, ii, 379 remarks on, ib. 381 preface to, ib. 383 prologues to, ib. 388 epilogue to, ib. 469

Secretary of the muses, epistle to, xv, 222

Secular Masque, written for the Pilgrim, viii, 455 remarks on, ib. 451

Sedition, satire against, ix, 407

Sedley, Sir Charles, account of, iv, 348 anecdote of, ib. 351 epistle dedicatory to, ib. 348 Shadwell assisted by, in the comedy of Epsom Wells, x, 454

Selling-bargains, what, x, 408

Seneph, battle of, xi, 239

Sense of the author to be preserved inviolable in translation, xii, 18

Servility of the French in attention to the unities, xv, 346

Settle, Elkanah, account of, ix, 373 rise of animosity of to Dryden, xv, 398 Dryden’s controversy with, i, 259 Absalom senior, or Achitophel transposed of, extracts from, ix, 376 last period of the life of, i, 273 Pope’s lines on the fate of, ib. 274

Seymour, Sir Edward, account of, ix, 308

Sforza, Lodovico, account of, ix, 46

Shadwell, Thomas, Dryden’s satire on, ix, 379 account of the reception of the Lancashire Witches by, vii, 15 machinery of in the Lancashire Witches, x, 382 humours of, what meant by, ib. 396 plagiarism charged on, ib. 418 originality of, ib. 418 a satire against, x, 425 remarks on, ib. 427 causes of enmity between Dryden and, x, 427 Dryden’s controversy with, i, 259, 286 personal resemblance of to Ben Jonson, i, 265 Duke of Guise attacked by, i, 286 account of, x, 443 character of, ib. 445 humours of, ib. 444, i, 261 proficiency in music of, x, 448 assisted in his comedy of Epsom Wells by Sir Charles Sedley, x, 454 an imitator of Ben Jonson, ib. 456

Shaftesbury, Earl of, account of, ix, 409 anecdote of, ix, 265 attempt of to alter the succession, ib. 268 imprisonment and acquittal of, ib. 409 Bower’s medal of, ib. 412 account of last period of the life of, ib. 415 ridiculed as aspiring to the crown of Poland, ix, 441 offers his services to Charles I. ix, 444 situation of during Cromwell’s usurpation, 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

Shakespeare and Dryden, parallel between, v, 287 attack on, by Ben Jonson, xv, 344 character of, ib. 350 Chandos portrait of, xi, 87

Share of Dryden in the composition of the Duke of Guise, i, 281

Shere, Sir Henry, translation of Polybius by, viii, 203 account of xviii, 19

Shipwreck of the Duke of York, ix, 401 ceremonies observed by the ancients on escape from, ix, 34, 44

Shirley, James, account of, x, 446

Shooting at Rovers, what, xiii, 10

Shovel-board, an ancient game, viii, 122

Shrewsbury, Duke of, account of, xv, 192

Sidney, Philip, vide Leicester, Earl of

Sigismonda and Guiscardo, a tale, xi, 405 remarks on, ib. 403 original from the Decameron of Boccace, xi, 443

Signification, parabolical, of the Hind and the Panther, x, 90 critised, ib. 90

Silence of Dryden upon the death of Queen Mary, extracts from poems attacking him for, xviii, 222

Silent Woman, examination of the comedy of the, xv, 354 poets, a satire upon, xviii, 224

Silenus, a pastoral, xiii, 397

Silver Age, from Ovid, xii, 67

Silvester, John, extract from astrological observations of, x, 421

Simon, Pere Richard, character of, x, 31

Sincerity of Dryden in his attachment to the Catholic faith, i, 322

Singleton, a musical performer of eminence, x, 450

Singular fashion of writing, x, 457 event at the siege of Bologna, ix, 18

Sir Martin Mar-all, or the Feigned Innocence, a comedy, iii, 1 remarks on, ib. 3 prologue to, ib. 5 epilogue to, ib. 93

Skill of Polybius in Political affairs, xviii, 31

Smollett’s account of the birth of the son of James II. x, 305

Society, Dryden’s connections in after the Revolution, i, 369

Socinius, Lelius, doctrine of, x, 46

Soliloquy of a royal exile, xv, 280

Song, written for the Pilgrim, viii, 449 remarks on, ib. 446

Songs, Odes, and Lyrical Pieces, xi, 161-191 the Fair Stranger, xi, 163 for St Cecilia’s day, ib. 167 the Tears of Amynta, ib. 171, xi, 173 The Lady’s, ib. 175, xi, 176, 177 to a fair Young Lady, ib. 181

Sophocles, Œdipus Tyrannus and Coloneus of, character of, vi, 117, 124

Sophonisba, prologue to, x, 350

Southerne, poetical epistle to, xi, 50 remarks on, ib. 47 account of, ib. 48 verses of to Congreve, xi, 61 anecdote of, i, 237 commencement of Dryden’s friendship with, i, 294 character of, i, 372

Spanheim’s dissertations, extract from, xiii, 47

Spanish Friar, or the Double Discovery, vi, 365 remarks on, ib. 367 epistle dedicatory to, ib. 373 prologue to, ib. 382 epilogue to, ib. 485 prohibited by James II. ib. 371 represented by Queen Mary by her order, ib. 371 account of, representation of, ib. 371 character of, i, 227 relations of Dryden when it was composed, i, 233

Specimen of Milbourne’s translation of Virgil, i, 400 poetical attacks upon Dryden, i, 350 of translation of the History of the League, xvii, 77 remarks on, ib. 79

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

Speeches of Ajax and Ulysses, xii, 181

Speght’s edition of Chaucer, xi, 220

Spenser, character of, xiii, 18 obsolete language of, ib. 19

Sports of the Chace, King James I. much attached to, viii, 451

Spottiswoode, Archbishop, account of, xvii, 159

Spragge, Sir Edward, account of, ix, 178 gallant action of, xi, 24

Sprat’s verses to the memory of Cromwell, ix, 5

Stage, regular scenery first introduced on, x, 323 moveable scenes introduced on, i, 79 scenes of death improper on, xv, 332 laws of, observed more exactly by the French than by the English, xv, 336 order for the reformation of, xviii, 152 indelicacy of, in the age of Dryden, i, 417

Stanzas, heroic, to the memory of Oliver Cromwell, ix, 8 of four verses in alternate rhyme, defended, ib. 94

Stapylton, Sir Robert, account of, xiii, 93

Star visible at the birth of Charles II. ix, 51

State of Innocence and Fall of Man, an opera, v, 89 remarks on, ib. 91 epistle dedicatory to, ib. 95 verses on, ib. 103 preface to, ib. 105

State of Learning in England, on the accession of James I. i, 5 Dryden’s connexions in society after the Revolution, i, 369

State Tracts, extract from, x, 185

Statius, Harte’s vindication of, xiv, 130

Steward, Elmes, letter of Dryden to, xviii, 143 Mrs Elizabeth, account of, ib. 141 letters of Dryden to, xviii, 141, 144, 146, 147, 149, 150, 153, 161, 169, 171, 174, 178, 180

Stillingfleet, Bishop, account of, xvii, 194 opinion of, on party names, x, 243 and Dryden, illiberality of, x, 251 controversy between, xvii, 187, i, 323 answer of to the Duchess of York’s paper, xvii, 194

Storm at the death of Oliver Cromwell, ix, 23

Story of Griselda, not invented by Petrarch, xi, 215 Acis, Polyphemus, and Galatea, xii, 199

Stothard’s painting of Chaucer’s Pilgrims, xi, 217

Strong box of Charles II. extract from papers found in, x, 188

Stuart, James, vide Duke of Monmouth

Succession, Shaftesbury’s attempt to alter the, ix, 268

Sullen Lovers, extract from preface to, i, 260

Sunderland, Earl of, account of, vi, 231 epistle dedicatory to, ib. 231

Superiority of English to French plays, xv, 349

Suum Cuique, xv, 276

Swallows, application of the fable of the, x, 253

Swan, Owen, account of, xiii, 97

Swash-buckler, what, iii, 6

Swift’s attacks on Dryden, i, 374 the Virgil of Dryden, ib. 393 inscription for Sir R. Blackmore’s picture, viii, 445 account of the Hind and the Panther, x, 106

Synalepha, example of, xii, 57

T.

Talbot, Charles, vide Shrewsbury, Duke of

Tale of the Nun’s Priest, xi, 327 Wife of Bath, ib. 377 Sigismonda and Guiscardo, ib. 405

Tales from Chaucer, fables, xi, 193-399 of Chaucer modernized by Dryden, xii, i-xci Knightes Tale, xii, iii Nonnes Preestes Tale, ib. liii Floure and the Leafe, ib. lxviii Wif of Bathes Tale, ib. lxxxii

Tamerlane, a tragedy, epilogue to, x, 356

Tarquin and Tullia, xv, 267 remarks on, ib. 266

Tasso’s imitation of the Iliad, xiii, 17 Jerusalem, translation of by Edward Fairfax, xi, 207

Taste, false, prevalence of in the age of James I. i, 9 in poetry, Sir William Davenant a restorer of, i, 48

Tate, Nahum, account of, ix, 315 assisted Dryden in the Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel, ib. 315

Taylor, John, the water-poet, account of, xv, 378

Te Deum, translation of by Dryden, i, 343

Tears of Amynta, a song, xi, 171

Tekeli, Count, insurrection of, x, 387

The Tempest, or the Enchanted Island, a comedy, iii, 95 remarks on, ib. 97 preface to, ib. 99 prologue to, ib. 103 epilogue to, ib. 205 character of, i, 106

Terence, unity of time neglected by, xv, 315

Ternate, description of the island of, xvi, 166

Test-act, what it required, x, 187 particulars regarding, ib. 260

Theatre, prologues and epilogues sold at the door of the, x, 316 of Drury-Lane burnt, ib. 319

Theatrical amusements introduced into Scotland by the Duke of York, x, 360

Theocritus, character of, xii, 278 translations from, ib. 285-307 idea of Cymon and Iphigenia, borrowed from, xi, 452

Theodore and Honoria, xi, 435 remarks on, ib. 433

Third Miscellany, appearance of, i, 378

Thomas, Mrs Elizabeth, account of, xviii, 164 Dryden’s letters to, xviii, 164, 167, 173 letters of, concerning Dryden’s death and funeral, ib. 200 account of Dryden’s funeral false, i, 442

Thomas, St, description of the city of, xvi, 138

Three Unities, what, xv, 305

Threnodia Augustalis, a funeral pindaric poem, x, 53 remarks on, ib. 55 notes on, ib. 79 appearance of, i, 299

Thynne, Thomas, murder of, ix, 292

Tichmarsh, monument in the church of, xviii, 215

Time, unity of, what, xv, 305 neglected by Terence, ib. 305 of action of Æneis, xiv, 189 and action, unities of, scrupulously observed by the French authors, xv, 325 spent in composing the Rehearsal, xi, 46

Tintoret, character of as a painter, xvii, 494

Titian, character of as a painter, xvii, 493

Titles of some odes on the death of Charles II. x, 55

Tityrus and Melibœus, a pastoral, xiii, 369

Tonson, Jacob, letter and verses to on Amphitryon, viii, 5 extract of letter to, xv, 194 anecdotes of, i, 389, 391 quarrel between Dryden and, i, 387 Dryden’s letters to, xviii, 103, 109, 118, 119, 121, 122, 123, 124, 126, 127, 128, 130, 136, 137, 138 letter of to Dryden, xviii, 106 Dryden’s agreement with concerning the Fables, ib. 191

Tory, origin of the name of, ix, 208

Tradition, of no weight with the church of England, x, 156 Presbyterians, ib. 169

Traditionary anecdote of Ben Jonson, i, 13

Tragedy, propriety of comic scenes in, i, 230 of the Indian Emperor, ii, 201 Tyrannic Love, or the Royal Martyr, iii, 341 the Conquest of Granada--two Parts, iv, 1 Amboyna, v, 1 Aureng-Zebe, ib. 167 All for Love, v, 285 Œdipus, vi, 115 Troilus and Cressida, vi, 227 The Duke of Guise, vii, 1 Don Sebastian, vii, 271 Cleomenes, viii, 181 Tamerlane, epilogue to, x, 356

Tragi-comedy of the Rival Ladies, ii, 109 the Spanish Friar, vi, 365 Love Triumphant, viii, 331 the Revolter, extracts from, x, 9

Trajan, letter of Plutarch to, xvii, 49

Transformation of Daphne into a laurel, xii, 81 Io into an heifer, ib. 85 the eyes of Argus into a peacock’s train, ib. 90 Lyrinx into reeds, ib. 91 Æsacus into a cormorant, ib. 154

Translation of Virgil’s works, xiii, 279 Virgil, reception of, i, 392 circumstances concerning, ib. 383 Virgil’s Pastorals, ib. 335-421 Georgics, xiv 1-122 Æneis, xiv, 125, xv, 1-186 the Bible by Tyndal, what it occasioned, x, 23 metaphrase, xii, 11 paraphrase, ib. 12 imitation, ib. 12 verbal, impossible, ib. 12 Cowley’s mode of, ib. 15 sense to be preserved inviolably in, ib. 18 Pindar, ib. 15 preface on, xii, 263 Plutarch’s Lives, advert. to, xvii, 3 dedication to, ib. 5 the History of the League, specimen of, ib. 77 Du Fresnoy’s Art of Painting, xvii, 279 remarks on ib. 281 the History of Heresies, projected by Dryden, i, 334 Te Deum, by Dryden, ib. 43 the Hymn for St John’s Eve, by Dryden, ib. 344 Homer, meditated by Dryden, ib. 414 Polybius, by Sir Henry Shere, account of, xviii, 19 from Boccace, xi, 401-480 Ovid’s Epistles, xii, 1-41 preface to, ib. 3

Translations from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, xii, 43-227 remarks on, ib. 45 dedication to, ib. 47 Art of Love, xii, 229 Amours, xii, 257 Persius, xiii, 203-247 Theocritus, xii, 285-307 Lucretius, ib. 309-337 Horace, ib. 339-354 Homer, ib. 355-388 Juvenal, xiii, 1-202 of Dryden, Garth’s character of, i, 340

Translator, character of a, xii, 266 qualification of, xviii, 81

Translators of Plutarch, xvii, 3, 18

Translator’s postscript to the History of the League, xvii ,150

Transubstantiation, reasons for and against, x, 147 reasons against, ib. 154

Trimmer, original, who, x, 389

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

Triplet defended, xiv, 216

Troilus and Cressida, or Truth found too Late, a tragedy, vi, 227 character of, i, 223 remarks on, vi, 228 epistle dedicatory to, ib. 231 preface to, ib. 238 prologue to, ib. 267 epilogue to, ib. 363

True Widow, character of, x, 343 dramatis personæ of, ib. 343 prologue to, ib. 345

Trumball, Sir William, account of, xv, 190

Truth found too Late, or Troilus and Cressida, a tragedy, vi, 227

Tyndal, William, account of, x, 24

Tyndall’s translation of the Bible, what occasioned by, x, 23

Tyrannic Love, or the Royal Martyr, a tragedy, iii, 341 remarks on, ib. 343 epistle dedicatory to, ib. 346 preface to, ib. 349 prologue to, ib. 355 epilogue to, ib. 435

U.

Union of the two companies, epilogue upon, x, 398

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

Unities, three, what, xv, 305 servility of the French in attention to, xv, 346

Unity of time, what, xv, 305 place, what, ib. 306 action, what, ib. 307 of time, neglected by Terence, xv, 315 and action, scrupulously observed by the French authors, xv, 325

University, Dryden’s residence at, i, 31 of Oxford’s decree concerning non-resistance, x, 241 of Oxford, prologues to, x, 328, 358, 378, 385 epilogues to, ib. 360, 381

Usurpation of Cromwell, Shaftesbury’s situation during, ix, 445

Urania’s Temple, or a Satire upon the Silent Poets, xviii, 224

V.

Varronian satire, what, xiii, 61

Vaughan, Lord, account of, vi, 6 epistle dedicatory to, ib. 6

Veni Creator Spiritus, paraphrased, xi, 190

Verbal translation impossible, xii, 12 opinion of Sir John Denham on, ib. 14

Veronese, Paul, character of as a painter, xvii, 494

Verses on the Conquest of Granada, iv, 29 State of Innocence, v, 103 Amphitryon, viii, 5 Cleomenes, ib. 205 to the memory of Cromwell, ix, 5 Lord Chancellor Hyde, ib. 65 remarks on, ib. 63

Verses to the Duchess of York, ix, 76 remarks on, ib. 73 recommendatory to Absalom and Achitophel, ix, 213 the author of the Medal, ib. 427 in ridicule of Albion and Albanius, vii, 213 on Religio Laici, x, 33-36 addressed to Congreve, xi, 61 Louise de Querouailles, ib. 163 on the young statesmen, xv, 274 remarks on, ib. 273 occasioned by reading Dryden’s Fables, xvii, 227

Versification, English, improved by Waller and Denham, i, 18

Villiers, George, vide Buckingham, Duke of Barbara, vide Castlemain, Lady

Vindication of the Duke of Guise, vii, 125 remarks on, ib. 127 answer to some late papers, extract from, x, 246 Statius, xiv, 130

Viola, Gio, character of, xvii, 497

Virgil, works of translated into English verse, xiii, 279 remarks on, ib. 281 advertisement to first edition of, ib. 281 recommendatory poems on, ib. 289 names of subscribers to cuts of, ib. 283 life of, ib. 297 birth of, ib. 298 education of, 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 favour of with Augustus, ib. 313 Georgics of, ib. 311 Pastorals of, ib. 310 Æneis of, ib. 316 sickness and death of, ib. 321 account of the person, manners, and fortune of, ib. 323 character of, xi, 211 Pastorals of translated, xiii, 335-421 dedication of, ib. 337 character of, ib. 339 preface to, ib. 34,5 defence of against the reflections of M. Fontenelle, ib. 345 Pastorals of, Tityrus and Melibæus, ib. 369 Alexis, ib. 374 Palemon, ib. 378 Pollio, ib. 386 Daphnis, ib. 391 Silenus, ib. 397 Melibæus, ib. 402 Pharmaceutria, ib. 407 Lycidas and Mæris, ib. 413 Gallus, ib. 417 Georgics of translated, xiv, 1-122 Æneis of translated, ib. 125, xv, 1-186 anachronism of defended, xiv, 176 an imitator of Homer, ib. 182 Dryden’s translation of the best, ib. 209 character of Lauderdale’s translation of, ib. 223 attack of Swift on Dryden’s translation of, i, 393 specimen of Milbourne’s translation of, i, 397 Dryden’s translation of, circumstances concerning, i, 383

Virtuoso, a comedy, character of, x, 454

Viscount Falkland, account of, viii, 196

W.

Wakeman, George, account of, vi, 223

Waller, Sir William, account of, ix, 381 discovery of the meal-tub plot by, ib. 382 Fitzharris’s plot by, ib. 382

Waller and Denham, improvers of English versification, i, 18

Walsh, William, account of, xiii, 297 preface by to the translation of Virgil’s Pastorals, ib. 345

Walter, William, tragedy of Guiscard and Sigismund by, xi, 403

Warlock, what meant by, xiv, 164

Wars, civil, interrupted the study of poetry in England, i, 20

Wentworth, Lady Henrietta Maria, account of, x, 337

Whig and Tory, origin of the names of, ix, 208

Whigs, epistle to the, ib. 417

Whip and Key, account of, ib. 425

White, John, account of, x, 257

White-boys, what meant by, vii, 257

Whitmore, Lady, epitaph on, xi, 150

Wif of Bathes Tale, by Chaucer, xii, lxxxii

Wife of Bath, a tale, xi, 377 remarks on, ib. 376

Wild, Dr Robert, Iter Boreale of, xv, 296

Wild Gallant, a comedy, ii, 13 remarks on, ib. 15 preface to, ib. 17 prologues to, ib. 19, 21 epilogues to, ib. 106, 107

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

William III. Titus Oates pensioned by, viii, 464

Wilmot, John, vide Earl of Rochester

Wilson’s life of Congreve, extract from, xviii, 200

Winchester, Marquis of, account of, xi, 152 epitaph on monument of, ib. 154 remarks on, ib. 152

Wit, false, one character of the poetry of the age of Queen Elizabeth, i, 7

Women, preface to a dialogue concerning, xviii, 1

Worcester, Marquis of, vide Duke of Beaufort

Works of Virgil translated into English verse, xiii, 279 remarks on, ib. 281 advertisement to first edition of, ib. 281 recommendatory poems on, ib. 289-296 of John Dryden, appendix to, xviii, 183 No. I. Dryden’s degree of master of arts, ib. 185 No. II. Dryden’s patent as poet-laureat, and historiographer-royal, xviii, 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

Writers of Life of St Francis Xavier, xvi, 9

Writing pastorals, rules to be observed in, xiii, 355 singular fashion of, x, 457

Writings of Bishop Burnet, remarks on some parts of, x, 271 Polybius, character of, xviii, 17

X.

Xavier, St Francis, Life of, xvi, 1 writers of life of, ib. 9 address to the reader by the author of life of, ib. 8. dedication to, ib. 3 birth of, ib. 15 education, ib. 16 teaches philosophy, ib. 19 conversion of, xvi, 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, 163-466 converts the Paravas, ib. 101 returns to Goa, ib. 101 visits Comorin, ib. 107 goes to Cochin, ib. 124 Negapatam, ib. 133 Mehapor, 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, xvi, 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 an authentic testimony of the truth of the Gospel, ib. 535 character of the Life of, i, 337

Y.

Year of Wonders, 1666; an historical poem, ix, 81

York, Duke of, epistle dedicatory to, iv, 9 personal valour of, ib. 10, ix, 161 requested by Charles II. to retire to the Continent, ib. 384 presence of, acceptable to the Scots, ib. 385 attempt to counteract the influence of, in the city, ib. 388 shipwreck of, ix, 401 picture of at Guildhall defaced, xvii, 51 prologue to, x, 366

York, Duchess of, account of, v, 95, ix, 73 epistle dedicatory to, ib. 73 verses to, ix, 76 poetical epistle to, on her return from Scotland, xi, 33 remarks on poetical epistle to, ib. 31 copy of a paper written by, xvii, 189 Stillingfleet’s answer to paper, &c. ib. 194 defence of paper, &c. ib. 208 answer to defence of paper, &c. ib. 252

Young Lady, song to, xi, 181 Gentleman, elegy on the death of a, xi, 142 Statesman, verses on, xv, 274 painter, advice to a, xvii, 377, 468

Z.

Zuinglius, account of, x, 150

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS.

VOLUME FIRST.

PAGE. The Life of John Dryden 1

SECT. I. Preliminary remarks on the Poetry of England before the Civil Wars--The Life of Dryden from his Birth till the Restoration--His Early Poems, including the Annus Mirabilis, 3

SECT. II. Revival of the Drama at the Restoration--Heroic Plays--Comedies of Intrigue--Commencement of Dryden’s Dramatic Career--The Wild Gallant--Rival Ladies--Indian Queen and Emperor--Dryden’s Marriage--Essay on Drastic Poetry, and subsequent Controversy with Sir Robert Howard--The Maiden Queen--The Tempest--Sir Martin Mar-all--The Mock Astrologer--The Royal Martyr--The two Parts of the Conquest of Granada--Dryden’s situation at this period, 65

SECT. III. Heroic Plays--The Rehearsal--Marriage A-la-mode--The Assignation--Controversy with Clifford--with Leigh--with Ravenscroft--Massacre of Amboyna--State of Innocence, 118

SECT. IV. Dryden’s Controversy with Settle--with Rochester--he is assaulted in Rose-street--Aureng-Zebe--Dryden meditates an Epic Poem--All for Love--Limberham--Œdipus--Troilus and Cressida--The Spanish Friar--Dryden supposed to be in opposition to the Court, 180

SECT. V. Dryden engages in Politics--Absalom and Achitophel, Part First--The Medal--Mac-Flecknoe--Absalom and Achitophel, Part Second--The Duke of Guise, 239

SECT. VI. Threnodia Augustalis--Albion and Albanius--Dryden becomes a Catholic--The Controversy of Dryden with Stillingfleet--The Hind and Panther--Life of St Francis Xavier--Consequences of the Revolution to Dryden--Don Sebastian--King Arthur--Cleomenes-- Love Triumphant, 298

SECT. VII. State of Dryden’s Connections in Society after the Revolution--Juvenal and Persius--Smaller Pieces--Eleanora--Third Miscellany--Virgil--Ode to St Cecilia--Dispute with Milbourne--with Blackmore--Fables--The Author’s Death and Funeral--His Private Character--Notices of his Family, 369

SECT. VIII. The State of Dryden’s Reputation at his Death, and afterwards--The general Character of his Mind--His Merit as a Dramatist--As a Lyrical Poet--As a Satirist--As a Narrative Poet--As a Philosophical and Miscellaneous Poet--As a Translator--As a Prose Author--As a Critic, 470

VOLUME SECOND.

Dedication of Mr Congreve’s edition of Dryden’s Dramatic Works to the Duke of Newcastle, 5

The Wild Gallant, a Comedy, 13 Preface, 17

The Rival Ladies, a Tragi-comedy, 109 Dedication to the Earl of Orrery, 113

The Indian Queen, a Tragedy, 201

The Indian Emperor, or the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards, 257 Dedication to the Duchess of Monmouth and Buccleuch, 259 Defence of an Essay of Dramatic Poesy, 265 Connection of the Indian Emperor to the Indian Queen, 293

Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen, 379 Preface, 583

VOLUME THIRD.

Sir Martin Mar-All, or the Feigned Innocence, a Comedy, 1

The Tempest, or the Enchanted Island, a Comedy, 95 Preface, 99

An Evening’s Love, or the Mock Astrologer, a Comedy, 207 Epistle Dedicatory to the Duke of Newcastle, 209 Preface, 218

Tyrannic Love, or the Royal Martyr, a Tragedy, 341 Epistle Dedicatory to the Duke of Monmouth and Buccleuch, 346 Preface, 349

VOLUME FOURTH.

Almanzor and Almahide, or the Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards, a Tragedy, Part First, 1 Epistle Dedicatory to the Duke of York, 9 Of Heroic Plays, an Essay, 16