Chapter LV: 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