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Chapter LVI: Book I: ib. 27

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II. ib. 49
III. ib. 73
IV. ib. 98

Georgione, character of, xvii, 492

German jollity, xi, 44

Giants’ war, xii, 69

Gibbon’s account of his conversion to the Catholic faith, i, 316
character of Pope Nicholas V. xviii, 24
account of the murder of Lucian, ib. 57

Gilbert, Dr William, account of, xi, 15

Goa, description of, xvi, 71

Godfrey, Sir Edmondbury, account of, ix, 285

Golden age, from Ovid, xii, 66

Government of Japan, xvi, 291

Gracioso, or buffoon, what, i, 77

Grafton, Duke of, account of, ix, 396

Graham, James, vide Dundee, Viscount

Granville, George, poetical epistle to, xi, 64
remarks on, xi, 63

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

Grecian dramas, plot of, xv, 313

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

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

Grey, Lord, pusillanimous conduct of, ix, 276

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

Grounds of criticism in tragedy, vi, 243

Growth of Popery, by Andrew Marvel, ix, 420

Guardian angels, machinery of, xiii,

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

Guido, character of as a painter, xvii, 496

Guise, Duke of, a tragedy, vii, 1
assassination of, xvii, 148

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

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

Gwynn, Nell, anecdote of, ix, 426

H.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew, prejudices of, xiii, 67

Hales, John, anecdote of, xv, 351

Halifax, Marquis of, epistle dedicatory to, viii, 113
account of, ib. 113, ix, 305

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

Harman, Sir John, exploit of, ix, 179

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

Hart, the tragedian, account of, x, 328

Harte’s vindication of Statius, xiv, 130

Harvey, William, account of, xi, 15

Hastings, Lord, elegy upon the death of, xi, 94
remarks on, ib. 93

Haughton, Lord, account of, vi, 373
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 373

Hawkers, prodigies of, x, 348

Heads of an answer to Rymer’s remarks, xv, 385
remarks on, ib. 383

Healing Parliament, what, x, 71

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

Hector and Andromache, last parting of, xii, 382

Heinsius’s definition of satire, xiii, 103

Helen and Paris, epistle of, xii, 26
to Menelaus, epithalamium of, from Theocritus, ib. 292

Heliodorus, anecdote of, vi, 126

Henry II., epilogue to, x, 412

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

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

Hero, piety the first quality of, xiv, 161

Heroic plays, character of, i, 118
an essay on, iv, 16
poetry, apology for, v, 105
stanzas to the memory of Oliver Cromwell, ix, 8
remarks on, ib. 3
notes on, ib. 15
or rhyming plays imitated from the French, i, 69

Heylin, Dr Peter, account of, xvii, 190

Heywood, Thomas, account of, x, 446

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

Higden, Henry, poetical epistle to, xi, 55
remarks on, ib. 52
account of, ib. 52

Higgons’s verses to Congreve, ib. 61

Higre or Eagre, what, x, 65

Hind and Panther, Part I. x, 85
remarks on, ib. 87
parabolical signification of, ib. 90
criticised, ib. 90
application of censured, ib. 90
defended, ib. 91
transversed, extracts from, ib. 91
where composed, i, 325
parody on by Prior and Montague, ib. 330
parody on, x, 91
letters on, ib. 102
libels occasioned by publication of, ib. 104
Swift’s account of, ib. 106
preface to, ib. 109
notes on, ib. 139-157
Part II. ib. 159
notes on, ib. 185-194
Part III. ib. 195
application of justified, ib. 197
notes on, ib. 240-282

Historiographer-royal, Dryden appointed to the office of, i, 115
loses the office of, i, 354

Historical and Political Poems, ix, 1

History of Calvinism by Lewis Maimbourg, x, 30
Satire among the Romans, xiii, 56
divisions of, xvii, 56
proper, what, ib. 57
of the League, specimen of translation of, xvii, 77
appearance of, i, 290
author’s dedication to, ib. 89
advertisement to the reader, ib. 98

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