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The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 18

I saw above an universal joy,
Perfect without alloy;
(So great as ne’er till then had been
Since the sweet Waller entered in,)
When all that sacred company
Brought the triumphant bard from ours to heaven’s great jubilee;
That was the occasion of his happiness,
And of our sorrows, surely that the cause,
Called hence heaven’s monarch’s praise to help to express,
And to receive for that his own deserved applause.
There wanted still one in the heavenly quire,
Dryden alone was their desire,
Whom for the sacred song th’ Almighty did inspire
’Twas pity to us that so long delayed
His blest translation to eternal light;
Or, otherwise may we not be afraid,
’Twas for the sins of some who durst presume to write;
Who durst in verse, in sacred poetry,
Even heaven’s own design bely,
And damn themselves with utmost industry!
For this may we not dread
The mighty prophet’s taken from our head?
And though the fate of these I fear,
I in respect must venture here.
A long and racking war was sent,
Of common sins, a common punishment;
To the unthinking crowd the only curse,
Who feel no loss but in their purse:
But ah! what loss can now be worse?
The mighty Pan has left our mournful shore;
The mighty Pan is gone, Dryden is here no more.

IV.

When to the blest bright region he was come,
The vulgar angels gazed, and made him room:
Each laureat monarch welcomes him on high,
And to embrace him altogether fly:
Then strait the happy guest is shown
To his bright and lofty throne,
Inferior there to none.
A crown beset with little suns, whose rays
Shoot forth in foliages resembling bays,
Now on his head they place:
Then round him all the sacred band
Loudly congratulating stand:
When after silence made,
Thus the sweetest Waller said:—
“Well hast thou merited, triumphant bard!
For, once I knew thee militant below,
When I myself was so;
Dangerous thy post, the combat fierce and hard,
Ignorance and rebellion still thy foe;
But for those little pains see now the great reward!
Mack-Flecknoe and Achitophel
Can now no more disturb thy peace,
Thy labours past, thy endless joys increase;
The more thou hast endured, the more thou dost excel;
And for the laurels snatched from thee below,
Thou wear’st an everlasting crown upon thy hallowed brow.”

V.

The bard, who next the new-born saint addrest,
Was Milton, for his wonderous poem blest;
Who strangely found, in his Lost Paradise, rest.
“Great bard,” said he, “’twas verse alone
Did for my hideous crime atone,
Defending once the worst rebellion.
A double share of bliss belongs to thee,
For thy rich verse and thy firm loyalty;
Some of my harsh and uncouth points do owe
To thee a tuneful cadence still below.
Thine was indeed the state of innocence,
Mine of offence,
With studied treason and self-interest stained,
Till Paradise Lost wrought Paradise Regained.”
He said:—when thus our English Abraham,
(In heaven the second of that name,
Cowley, as glorious there as sacred here in fame,)
“Welcome, Aleides, to this happy place!
Our wish, and our long expectation here,
Makes thee to us more dear;
Thou great destroyer of that monstrous race,
Which our sad former seat did harass and disgrace,
Be blest and welcomed with our praise!
Thy great Herculean labours done,
And all the courses of thy zodiac run,
Shine here to us, a more illustrious sun!
But see! thy brethren gods in poetry,
The whole great race divine,
Ready in thy applause to join,
Who will supply what is defect in me.”

VI.

Rochester, once on earth a prodigy,
A happy convert now on high,
Here begins his wonderous lays,
In the sainted poet’s praise.
Fathomless Buckingham, smooth Orrery,
The witty D’Avenant, Denham, Suckling too,
Shakespeare, nature’s Kneller, who
Nature’s picture likest drew,
Each in their turn his praise pursue.
His song elaborate Jonson next does try,
On earth unused to eulogy;
Beaumont and Fletcher sing together still,
And with their tuneful notes the arched palace fill.
The noble patron poet now does try,
His wondrous Spenser to outvy.
Drayton did next our sacred bard address,
And sung above with wonderful success.
Our English Ennius, he who gave
To the great bard kind welcome to his grave,
Chaucer, the mightiest bard of yore,
Whose verse could mirth to saddest souls restore,
Caressed him next, whilst his delighted eye
Expressed his love, and thus his tongue his joy:—
“Was I, when erst below,” said he,
“In hopes so great a bard to see,
As thou, my son, adopted unto me,
And all this godlike race, some equal even to thee!
O! ’tis enough.”—Here soft Orinda219 came
And sprightly Afra,220 muses both on earth,
Both burned here with a bright poetic flame,
Which to their happiness above gave birth;
Their charming songs his entertainment close,
The mighty bard then, smiling, bowed, and rose.

VII.

Strait from his head each takes his laurel’d crown,
And on the golden pavement casts it down:
All prostrate fall before heaven’s high imperial throne,
When the new saint begins his song alone;
Wond’rous even there it was confest,
Scarce to be equalled by the rest;
Herbert nor Crashaw, though on earth divine,
So sweetly could their numbers join!
When, lo! the light of twenty thousand suns,
All in one body, shining all at once,
Darts from the imperial to this lower court;
A light which they but hardly could support!
Then the great anthem was begun,
Which all the hallowed bards together sung;
And by no choir of angels is outdone,
But by the great seraphic choir alone,
That day and night surround the awful throne of heaven’s eternal King;
Even they themselves did the great chorus fill,
And brought the grateful sounds to heaven’s high holiest hill.

VIII.

My soul shook with the sacred harmony, which soon alarmed my heart;
I fancied I was falling from on high, and wakened with a start:
“Waked,” said I, “surely no; I did not sleep;
Can they be dreams which such impressions make?
My soul does still the blest ideas keep;
And still, methinks, I see them, though awake!
The other thrones too, which, though vacant, shone
With greater glory than the sun,
Come fresh into my mind;
Which once will lose their lustre by their bards outdone,
When filled with those for whom they are designed.
Upon their fronts I saw the glittering names,
All written in celestial flames.
For Dorset what a palace did I see!
For Montague! And what for Normandy!
What glories wait for Wycherly!
For Congreve, Southerne, Tate, Garth, Addison?
For Stephney, Prior, and for Dennis too?
What thrones are void, what joys prepared and due?
The pleasant dear companion Cheek,
Whom all the great although at midnight seek,
This glorious wreath must wear, and endless joys pursue.
And for Motteux, my Gallic friend,
The like triumphant laurels wait;
Though heaven, I hope, will send it very late,
Ere they or he to their blest seats ascend.
’Tis in their verse, next his, that he must live,
Next his their lines eternal fame can give;
Then all the happiness on earth I know
Is, that such godlike men as they are with us still below.”

No. X.
TO THE
MEMORY OF MR DRYDEN,
A POEM.

Huic versatile ingenium sic pariter ad omnia fuit,
Ut ad id unum natum diceres quodcunque ageret.

1700, 17th June.

When mortals formed of common clay expire,
These vulgar souls an elegy require;
But some hero of more heavenly frame,
Exerts his valour, and extends his fame;
Below the spheres impatient to abide,
With universal joy is deified.
Thus our triumphant Bard from hence is fled.
But let us never, never say he’s dead;
Let poetasters make the Muses mourn,
And common-place it o’er his sacred urn;
The public voice exalts him to the sky,
And fate decrees him immortality;
Ordains, instead of tears or mournful hearse,
His apotheosis be sung in verse.
Great poets sure are formed of heavenly race,
And with great heroes justly claim a place.
As Cæsar’s pen did Cæsar best commend,
And all the elegies of Rome transcend;
So Dryden’s muse alone, like Phœbus bright,
Outshines all human praise, or borrowed light;
To form his image, and to make it true,
There must be art, and inspiration too.
Auspicious stars had doomed him to the trade,
By nature framed, by art a poet made:
Thus Maro’s words and sense in him we see,
And Ovid’s teeming vein of poesy.
In his vast miscellaneous works we find,
What charms at once, and edifies the mind:
His pregnant muse has in the offspring shown
What’s rare for use, or beauty to be known:
In monumental everlasting verse
Epitomised, he grasped the universe.
No power but his could tune a British lyre
To sweeter notes than any Tuscan quire,
Teutonic words to animate and raise,
Strong, shining, musical, as attic lays;
Rude matter indisposed he formed polite,
His muse seemed rather to create than write.
His nervous eloquence is brighter far
Than florid pulpit, or the noisy bar.
His periods shine harmonious in the close,
As if a muse presided in his prose;
Yet unaffected plain, but strong his style,
It overflows to fructify, like Nile.
The God of wit conspires with all the Nine,
To make the orator and poet join.
We’re charmed when he the lady or the friend,
Pleased in majestic numbers to commend.
The panegyric flows in streams profuse,
When worth or beauty sublimates the muse.
His notes are moving, powerful, and strong,
As Orpheus’ lyre, or as a Syren’s song;
Sweet as the happy Idumean fields,
And fragrant as the flowers that Tempe yields.
Thrice happy she to whom such tribute’s paid,
And has such incense at her altar laid;
A sacrifice that might with envy move
Jove’s consort, or the charming Queen of Love.
His lasting lines will give a sacred name,
(Eternal records in the book of fame,)
His favourites are doom’d by Jove’s decree,
To share with him in immortality.
The wealthy muse on innate mines could live,
Though no Mecenas any smile would give;
His light not borrowed, but was all his own;
His rays were bright and warm without the sun.
Pictures (weak images of him) are sold,
The French are proud to have the head for gold:
The echo of his verse has charmed their ear,—
O could they comprehend the sound they hear!
Who hug the cloud, caress an airy face,
What would they give the goddess to embrace?
The characters his steady muse could frame,
Are more than like, they are so much the same;
The pencil and the mirror faintly live,
’Tis but the shadow of a life they give;
Like resurrection from the silent grave,
He the numeric soul and body gave.
No art, no hand but his could e’er bring home
The noblest choicest flowers of Greece and Rome;
Transplant them with sublimest art and toil,
And make them flourish in a British soil.
Whatever ore he cast into his mould }
He did the dark philosophy unfold, }
And by a touch converted all to gold. }
With epic feet who ere can steady run,
May drive the fiery chariot of the sun,
Must neither soar too high, nor fall too low;
Must neither burn like fire, nor freeze like snow.
All ages mighty conquerors have known,
Who courage and their power in arms have shown:
Greece knew but one, and Rome the Mantuan swain,
Who durst engage in lofty epic strain;
Heroics here were lands unknown before,
Our great Columbus first descried the shore.
No prophet moved the passions of the mind,
With sovereign power and force so unconfined:
We sympathised with his poetic rage,
In lofty buskins when he ruled the stage;
He roused our love, our hope, despairs, and fears,
Dissolved in joy we were, or drowned in tears.
When juster indignation roused his hate,
Insipid rhymes to lash, or knaves of state;
Each line’s a sting, and ev’ry sting a death,
As if their fate depended on his breath.
Like sun-beams swift, his fiery shafts were sent,
Or lightning darted from the firmament.
No warmer clime, no age or muse divine,
In pointed satire could our bard outshine.
His unexhausted force knew no decay;
In spite of years, his muse grew young and gay,
And vigorous, like the patriarch of old,
His last-born Joseph cast in finest mould;
This son of sixty-nine, surpassing fair,
With any elder offspring may compare,
Has charms in courts of monarchs to be seen,
Caressed and cherished by a longing queen.
Great prophets oft extend their just command,
Receive the tribute of a foreign land;
When in their own ungrateful native ground
Few just admiring votaries they found.
But when these god-like men their clay resign,
Pale Envy’s laid a victim at their shrine;
United mortals do their worth proclaim,
And altars raise to their eternal fame.
Wealth, beauty, force of wit, without allay,
In Dryden’s heavenly muse profusely lay;
Which mighty charms did never yet combine,
In any single deity to shine,
But were dispensed, more thriftily, between
Jove’s wife, his daughter, and the Cyprian queen.
The nymphs recorded in his artful lays,
Produce the grateful homage of their praise;
Assisted in their vows by powers divine,
Offer their sacred incense at his shrine.
The spheres exalt their music, to commend
The poet’s master and the muse’s friend;
In concert form seraphic notes to sing,
Of numbers, and of harmony the king.
In this triumphant scene to act her part,
Nature’s attended by her hand-maid, Art:
Resounding Echo, with her mimic voice,
Concurs to make the universe rejoice.
Let ev’ry tongue and pen the poet sing,
Who mounts Parnassus top with lofty wing;
Whose splendid muse has crowns of laurel won,
That brave the shining beauties of the sun.
His lines (those sacred reliques of the mind)
Not by the laws of fate or war confined,
In spite of flames will everlasting prove,
Devouring rust of time, or angry Jove.

No. XI.
EXTRACT
FROM
POETÆ BRITANNICI.
A POEM, SATIRICAL AND PANEGYRICAL.

1700. 9. January.

L—gh aim’d to rise above great Dr—-n’s height,
But lofty Dryden kept a steady flight.
Like Dædalus, he times with prudent care
His well-waxed wings, and waves in middle air.
Crowned with the sacred snow of reverend years,
Dryden above the ignobler crowd appears,
Raises his laurelled head, and, as he goes,
O’er-shoulders all, and like Apollo shows.
The native spark, which first advanced his name,
By industry he kindled to a flame.
Then to a different coast his judgment flew,
He left the old world behind, and found a new.
On the strong columns of his lasting wit,
Instructive Dryden built, and peopled it.
In every page delight and profit shines;
Immortal sense flows in his mighty lines.
His images so strong and lively be,
I hear not words alone, but substance see,
The proper phrase of our exalted tongue
To such perfection from his numbers sprung;
His tropes continued, and his figures fine,
All of a piece throughout, and all divine.
Adapted words and sweet expressions move
Our various passions, pity, rage, and love.
I weep to hear fond Antony complain
In Shakespeare’s fancy, but in Virgil’s strain.
Though for the comic, others we prefer,
Himself the judge; nor does his judgment err.
But comedy, ’tis thought, can never claim
The sounding title of a poem’s name.
For raillery, and what creates a smile,
Betrays no lofty genius, nor a style.
That heavenly heat refuses to be seen
In a town character, and comic mien.
If we would do him right, we must produce
The Sophoclean buskin; when his muse
With her loud accents filled the listning ear,
And peals applauding shook the theatre.
They fondly seek, great name, to blast thy praise,
Who think that foreign banks produced thy bays.
Is he obliged to France, who draws from thence,
By English energy, their captive sense?
Though Edward and famed Henry warred in vain,
Subduing what they could not long retain,
Yet now, beyond our arms, the muse prevails,
And poets conquer, when the hero fails.
This does superior excellence betray:
O could I write in thy immortal way!
If Art be Nature’s scholar, and can make
Such great improvements, Nature must forsake
Her ancient style; and in some grand design, }
She must her own originals decline, }
And for the noblest copies follow thine. }
This all the world must offer to thy praise,
And this Thalia sang in rural lays.
As sleep to weary drovers on the plain,
As a sweet river to a thirsty swain,
Such divine Dryden’s charming verses show,
Please like the river, like the river flow.
When his first years in mighty order ran,
And cradled infancy bespoke the man,
Around his lips the waxen artists hung,
And breathed ambrosial odours as they sung.
In yellow clusters from their hives they flew,
And on his tongue distilled eternal dew:
Thence from his mouth harmonious numbers broke,
More sweet than honey from the knotted oak;
More smooth than streams, that from a mountain glide,
Yet lofty as the top from whence they slide.
Long he possest the hereditary plains,
Beloved by all the herdsmen, and the swains,
Till he resigned his flock, opprest with years,
And olden’d in his woe, as well as fears.
Yet still, like Etna’s mount, he kept his fire,
And look’d, like beauteous roses on a brier:
He smiled, like Phœbus in a stormy morn,
And sung, like Philomel against a thorn.

No. XII.
SOME ACCOUNT
OF
THE NINE MUSES;
Or, Poems written by nine several Ladies, upon the death of the late famous John Dryden, Esq.

As earth thy body keeps, thy soul the sky,
So shall this verse preserve thy memory;
For thou shalt make it live, because it sings of thee.

London: printed for Richard Basset, at the Mitre, in Fleet Street, 1700.

The work is dedicated to the Right Hon. Charles Montague, (Lord Halifax,) by the publisher Basset, who thus apologizes for the intrusion:

“The ladies indeed themselves might have had a better plea for your reception; but since the modesty which is natural to the sex they are of, will not suffer them to do that violence to their tempers, I think myself obliged to make a present of what is written in honour of the most consummate poet among our English dead, to the most distinguished among the living. You have been pleased already to shew your respect to his memory, in contributing so largely to his burial, notwithstanding he had that unhappiness of conduct, when alive, to give you cause to disclaim the protection of him.”

The dedication is followed by a commendatory copy of verses, addressed to the publisher, and signed Philomusus; of which most readers will think the following lines a sufficient specimen:

Hence issues forth a most delightful song,
Fair as their sex, and as their judgment strong;
Moving its force, and tempting in its ease;
Secured of fame, unknowing to displease;
Its every word like Aganippe, clear,
And close its meaning, and its sense severe:
As virtuous thoughts with chaste expression join,
And make them truly, what they feign, divine.

The poems of these divine ladies, as their eulogist phrases them, appear in the following order:

Melpomene, the Tragic Muse, personated by Mrs Manley, refers to his elegies and tragedies. Melpomene sorrows for him:

Who sorrowed Killigrew’s untimely fall,
And more than Roman made her funeral;
Inspired by me, for me he could command,
Bright Abingdon’s rich monument shall stand
For evermore the wonder of the land;
Oldham he snatched from an ignoble fate,
Changed his cross star for one more fortunate;
For who would not with pride resign his breath,
To be so loved, to be so blest in death?

The eulogiums on Cromwell and Charles then praised. Of the last it is said,

For this alone he did deserve the prize,
As Ranelagh, for her victorious eyes.

Cleopatra and St Catharine are mentioned; then

——Dorax and Sebastian both contend
To shew the generous enemy and friend.

Urania, the Divine Muse, by the Honourable the Lady Peirce. This lady, after much tragic dole, is wonderfully comforted by recollecting that Garth survives, though Dryden is dead:

More I’ll not urge, but know, our wishes can
No higher soar, since Garth’s the glorious man;
Him let us constitute in Dryden’s stead,
Let laurels ever flourish on his head.

Urania, after mentioning Virgil, exclaims,

O give us Homer yet, thou glorious bard!

Erato, the Amorous Muse, by Mrs S. Field. She claims the merit of Dryden’s love poems, on the following grounds:

Oft I for ink did radiant nectar bring,
And gave him quills from infant Cupid’s wing.

Euterpe, the Lyric Muse, by Mrs J. E. Euterpe, of course, pours forth her sorrow in a scrambling Pindaric ode:

But, oh! they could not stand the rage
Of an ill-natured and lethargic age,
Who, spite of wit, would stupidly be wise;
All noble raptures, extasies despise,
And only plodders after sense will prize.

Euterpe eulogizeth

Garth, whom the god of wisdom did foredoom,
And stock with eloquence, to pay thy tomb
The most triumphant rites of ancient Rome.

Euterpe is true to her own character; for one may plod in vain after sense through her lyric effusion.

Thalia, the Comic Muse, by Mrs Manley. A pastoral dialogue betwixt Alexis, Daphne, Aminta, and Thalia. After the usual questions concerning the cause of sorrow, Thalia, invoked by the nymphs and swains, sings a ditty, bearing the following burden:

Bring here the spring, and throw fresh garlands on,
With all the flowers that wait the rising sun;
These ever-greens, true emblems of his soul,
Take, Daphne, these, and scatter through the whole,
While the eternal Dryden’s worth I tell,
My lovely bard, that so lamented fell.

Clio, or the Historic Muse, by Mrs Pix, the authoress of a tragedy called “Queen Catharine, or the Ruins of Love.”

Stop here, my muse, no more thy office boast,
This drop of praise is in an ocean lost;
His works alone are trumpets of his fame,
And every line will chronicle his name.

Calliope, the Heroic Muse, by Mrs C. Trotter. This is the best of these pieces. Calliope complains, that she is more unhappy than her sisters of the sock and buskin, still worshipped successfully by Vanburgh and Granville, in the epic province:

————————Blackmore, in spite
Of me and nature, still presumes to write;
Heavy and dozed, crawls out the tedious length;
Unfit to soar, drags on with peasant strength
The weight he cannot raise.

The poem concludes,

———————————Now you who aim,
With fading power, at bright immortal fame;
Ambitious monarchs, all whom glory warms,
Cease your vain toil, throw down your conquering arms;
Your active souls confine, since you must die
Like vulgar men, your names and actions lie
Where Trojan heroes, had not Homer lived,
Had lain forgot, nor ruined Troy survived;
No more their glories I can e’er retrieve,
For nature can no second Dryden give.

Terpsichore, a Lyric Muse, by Mrs L. D. ex tempore. Albeit a lyric muse, Terpsichore laments in hexameters:

Just as the gods were listening to my strains,
And thousand loves danced o’er the etherial plains,
With my own radiant hair my harp I strung,
And in glad concert all my sisters sung:
An universal harmony above
Inspired us all with gaiety and love;
A horrid sound dashed our immortal mirth,
Wafted by sighs from the unlucky earth,
Et cætera, et cætera.

Polyhymnia, the Muse of Rhetoric, by Mrs D. E. This lady concludes the volume thus:

Incessant groans be all my rhetoric now!
My immortality I would forego,
Rather than drag this chain of endless woe.
O mighty Father, hear a daughter’s prayer,
Cure me by death from deathless sad despair!

These extracts are taken from the presentation copy of this rare book, in the library of Mr Bindley, of Somerset-House, whose liberality I have had already repeated occasion to acknowledge.

No. XIII.
VERSES
IN PRAISE OF MR DRYDEN.
To Mr Dryden, by Jo. Addison, Esq.

How long, great poet, shall thy sacred lays
Provoke our wonder, and transcend our praise!
Can neither injuries of time, or age,
Damp thy poetic heat, and quench thy rage?
Not so thy Ovid in his exile wrote;
Grief chilled his breast, and checked his rising thought;
Pensive and sad, his drooping muse betrays
The Roman genius in its last decays.
Prevailing warmth has still thy mind possest,
And second youth is kindled in thy breast.
Thou mak’st the beauties of the Romans known,
And England boasts of riches not her own:
Thy lines have heightened Virgil’s majesty,
And Horace wonders at himself in thee.
Thou teachest Persius to inform our isle
In smoother numbers, and a clearer style:
And Juvenal, instructed in thy page,
Edges his satire, and improves his rage.
Thy copy casts a fairer light on all,
And still outshines the bright original.
Now Ovid boasts the advantage of thy song,
And tells his story in the British tongue;
Thy charming verse, and fair translations show
How thy own laurel first began to grow;
How wild Lycaon, changed by angry Gods,
And frighted at himself, ran howling through the woods.
O may’st thou still the noble tale prolong,
Nor age, nor sickness interrupt thy song!
Then may we wond’ring read, how human limbs
Have watered kingdoms, and dissolved in streams,
Of those rich fruits that on the fertile mould
Turned yellow by degrees, and ripened into gold:
How some in feathers, or a ragged hide,
Have lived a second life, and different natures tried
Then will thy Ovid, thus transformed, reveal
A nobler change than he himself can tell.

Mag. Coll. Oxon. June 2, 1693.

INDEX.

A.
Abingdon, Earl of, dedication to, Vol. xi, 121
Countess of, account of, xi, 119
Absalom and Achitophel, Part I. ix, 195
remarks on, ib. 197
recommendatory verses to, ib. 213, 216
notes on, ib. 249
Part I. character of, i, 243
answers to, ib. 253
Part II. ix, 313
remarks on, ib. 315
notes on, ib. 354
character of, i, 268
extracts from Buckingham’s answer to, ix, 272-4
Absalom’s Conspiracy, or the Tragedy of Treason, ix, 199, 205
Abuse of personal satires, xiii, 81
Accession of James I., state of learning in England on, i, 5
James II., poems on, x, 59
Account of Gibbon’s conversion to the catholic faith, by himself, i, 316
Montague and Prior’s parody on the Hind and the Panther, ib. 330
Luke Milbourne, ib. 394
ludicrous, Dryden’s funeral, ib. 441
Dryden’s funeral, by Mrs Thomas, false, ib. 442
Dryden’s funeral, by Tom Brown, ib. 443
Dryden’s family, ib. 462
of Cleveland, i, 43
Sir Robert Howard, i, 54
defence of an Essay of Dramatic Poesy, ii, 263
the representation of the Spanish Friar, vi, 371
Annus Mirabilis, in a letter to Sir Robert Howard, ix, 92
contest at the election of Sheriffs for London, ix, 404
the last period of the life of the Earl of Shaftesbury, ix, 415
the reception of the Lancashire Witches, vii, 15
Protestant flail, ib. 19
the Associating Club, ib. 154
the Hind and Panther, by Swift, x, 106
the rise of the Quakers, ib. 141
the noble house-keeping of the Duke of Beaufort, ix, 391
the sect of Anabaptists, x, 145
the rise of Presbyterianism, ib. 148
the birth of the son of James II., by Smollet, x, 305
Pope-burning, x, 370
John Lilburn, vi, 363
William Fuller, viii, 329
Lodovico Sforza, ix, 46
Anne Hyde, Duchess of York, ib. 73
Sir John Lawson, ib. 161
gallant actions of Prince Rupert, ix, 167, 174
gallant actions of the Duke of Albemarle, ib. 168, 171
Sir Edward Spragge, ib. 178
Sir Freschville Hollis, ib. 180
Michael Adrien de Ruyter, ib. 182
Sir William Jones, ib. 279
Slingsby Bethel, ib. 280
Titus Oates, ib. 282
Sir Edmondbury Godfrey, ib. 285
the Duke of Ormond, ib. 294
the Earl of Ossory, ib. 299
Archbishop Sancroft, ib. 301
Bishop Compton, ib. 302
Bishop Dolben, ib. 303
the Marquis of Halifax, ib. 305
of the Earl of Rochester, ix. 307
Sir Edward Seymour, ib. 308
Nahum Tate, ib. 315
Sir Robert Playton, ib. 359
Sir Thomas Player, ib. 361
Robert Ferguson, ib. 363
James Forbes, ib. 368
Samuel Johnson, ib. 369
Samuel Pordage, ib. 372
Elkanah Settle, ib. 373
King’s Head Club, ib. 380
Sir William Waller, ib. 381
the Earl of Dartmouth, ib. 386
Edward Sackville, ib. 387
the Duke of Beaufort, ib. 390
the Duke of Albemarle, ib. 394
the Earl of Arlington, ib. 395
the Duke of Grafton, ib. 396
the Earl of Feversham, ix, 397
Nottingham, ib. 400
Sir Roger L’Estrange, ib, 400
Sir John Moor, ib. 402
Whip and Key, ib. 425
Thomas Hunt, vii, 127
Richard Rumbold, ib. 261
Edward Coleman, x, 18
Hugh Paulin Cressy, ib. 21
Edmund Campian, ib. 20
Robert Parsons, ib. 20
William Tyndal, ib. 24
Richard Hooker, ib. 26
George Cranmer, ib. 26
John Penry, or Martin Mar-prelate, ib. 27
Eleanor James, ib. 116
Zuinglius, ib. 150
Calvin, ib. 155
John White, ib. 257
Gilbert Burnet, ib. 267
Hart, the tragedian, ib. 328
Ralph Bathurst, ib. 330
Dr Charles Davenant, ib. 333
Lady H. M. Wentworth, ib. 337
Lodowick Carlell, x, 404
of John Bancroft, x, 412
Richard Flecknoe, ib. 441
Thomas Shadwell, ib. 443
Thomas Heywood, ib. 446
James Shirley, ib. 446
Ogleby, ib. 452
Sir George Etherege, ib. 454, xi, 38
Dr Walter Charleton, xi, 12
Dr William Gilbert, ib. 15
William Harvey, ib. 15
Dr George Ent, ib. 16
Lady Castlemaine, ib. 18
the death of Nat. Lee, ib. 22
John Northleigh, ib. 35
Southerne, ib. 48
Henry Higden, ib. 52
Lord Lansdowne, ib. 63
Peter Anthony Motteux, ib. 67
John Driden of Chesterton, ib. 71
Sir Godfrey Kneller, ib. 84
John Oldham, ib. 98
Mrs Anne Killigrew, ib. 102
Dr Henry Killigrew, ib. 106
Mrs Katharine Philips, xi, 111
the Countess of Abingdon, ib. 119
Henry Purcell, ib. 145
the Marquis of Winchester, ib. 152
the death of Sir Palmes Fairborne, ib. 156
St Cecilia, ib. 165
the festival of St Cecilia, ib. 166
the Duke of Ormond, ib. 195
Ovid, xii, 4
the causes of Ovid’s banishment, ib. 5, 7
Cowley’s mode of translation, ib. 15
Lord Radcliffe, ib. 47
Sir Peter Lely, ib. 267
Thomas Creech, ib. 277
the Earl of Roscommon, ib. 341
Livius Andronicus, xiii, 54
Barten Holyday, ib. 93
Sir Robert Stapylton, ib. 93
Owen Swan, ib. 97
Sir George Mackenzie, ib. 111
of William Walsh, ib. 297
the person, manners, and fortune, of Virgil, ib. 323
the Earl of Chesterfield, xiv, 3
the Earl of Peterborough, xv, 189
Sir William Trumball, ib. 190
Gilbert Dolben, ib. 190
the Duke of Shrewsbury, ib. 192
Sir Thomas Armstrong, ib. 204
Aston, ib. 204
the Earl of Aylesbury, ib. 207
the Earl of Essex, ib. 208
John Taylor, the water poet, ib. 378
Thomas Rhymer, ib. 383
the Brachmans, xvi, 91
Malacca, ib. 150
Amboyna, ib. 158
P. V. P. Cayet, xvii, 94
Archbishop Spottiswoode, ib. 159
Robert Bellarmine, ib. 160
Louis Maimbourg, ib. 182
Dr Peter Heylin, ib. 190
Bishop Stillingfleet, ib. 194
Dr George Morley, ib. 196
Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy, ib. 281
M. St Evremont, xviii, 9
Polybius the historian, ib. 26
the translation of Polybius, by Sir Henry Shere, ib. 19
the murder of Lucian, ib. 57
Charles Blount, ib. 77
Henry Brouncker, ib. 92
William Pate, ib. 130
Mrs Elizabeth Steward, ib. 141
Samuel Pepys, ib. 154
Acis, Polyphemus, and Galatea, story of, xii, 199
Acquittal of the Earl of Shaftesbury, ix, 409
Act of Oblivion, ix, 50
Action, unity of, what xv, 307
Actions of the Duke of Albemarle, ix, 168-171
Addison’s Essay on the Georgics of Virgil, xiv, 14
Address of the Atheists, x, 144
Addresses on the accession of James II. character of, x, 110
poetical, to James II. on the birth of a son, ib. 286-7
Advertisement to the Duke of Guise, vii, 133
regarding poems ascribed to Dryden, xv, 199
Essay on Dramatic Poesy, xv, 292
translation of Plutarchs’ Lives, xvii, 3
the first edition of the translation of Virgil’s works, xiii, 281
Advice to a young painter, xvii, 377-468
Æneas, Epistle to, xii, 35
Æneid, moral of, xiv, 150
disputed by Heyne, ib. 150
four first lines of, not Virgil’s, ib. 225
Æneis, time of action of, xiv, 189
machinery of, ib. 193
of Virgil, xiv, 125, xv, 1-186
dedication of, xiv, 127
Book I. xiv, 231, notes on, ib. 262
II. ib. 264
III. ib. 296, note on, ib. 322
IV. ib. 324 ib. 353
V. ib. 355
VI. ib. 388, notes on, ib. 424
VII. ib. 429 ib. 461
VIII. xv, 1 xv, 29
IX. ib. 30 ib. 62
X. ib. 64 ib. 102
XI. ib. 105
XII. ib. 143, notes on, ib. 183
Postscript to, xv, 187
Agathias, epigram of, xvii, 76
Age of Queen Elizabeth, false wit one character of, i, 7
share of John Lillie in determining the taste of, ib. 7
James I. prevalence of false taste in, i, 9
play of words in, ib. 10
Age, golden, xii, 66
silver, ib. 67
brazen, ib. 68
iron, ib. 68
Agreement of Dryden with Jacob Tonson concerning the Fables, xviii, 191
Ajax and Ulysses, speeches of, xii, 181
death of, ib. 198
Albemarle, Duke of, gallant actions of, ix, 168-171
account of, ib. 394
Albion and Albanus, an opera, vii, 209
remarks on, ib. 211
verses in ridicule of, ib. 213
preface to, ib. 216
prologue to, ib. 228
frontispiece to, ib. 231
epilogue to, ib. 268
Albumazar, character of, x, 416
prologue to, ib. 416
Alexander’s Feast, or the Power of Music, an ode, xi, 183
Alexandrine, uncommon one of Tom Brown, ix, 415
Alexis, a pastoral, xiii, 374
All for Love, or, the World Well Lost, a tragedy, v, 285
remarks on, ib. 287
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 296
preface to, ib. 306
prologue to, ib. 321
epilogue to, ib. 411
original performers in, ib. 294
character of, i, 238
Allen, Sir Thomas, enterprise of, ix, 177
Almanzor and Almahide, a tragedy, Part I. iv, 1
Amaryllis, or third idyllium of Theocritus, xii, 287
Amboyna, or the cruelties of the Dutch to the English merchants, a tragedy, v, 1
Dryden’s worst play, ib. 4
remarks on, ib. 3
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 5
prologue to, ib. 10
epilogue to, ib. 87
American colonies, a refuge for the disaffected, x, 394
Amours (Ovid’s) translations from, xii, 257
Amphitryon, or the two Sosias, a comedy, viii, 1
remarks on, ib. 3
letter and verses on, ib. 5
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 7
prologue to, ib. 12
epilogue to, ib. 106
Amyntas, a pastoral elegy, xi, 139
Anabaptists, account of, x, 145
Anachronism of Virgil defended, xiv, 176
Ancient political satire of Reynard the fox, x, 155
Ancient armour, rivetted after put on, xi, 363
British custom, xviii, 120
Ancients, excelled by the English in dramatic writing, xv, 396
ceremonies observed by, on escape from shipwreck, ix, 34, 44
Andronicus, Livius, first author of a play in Roman republic, xiii, 54
account of, ib. 54
Anecdote traditionary of Ben Jonson, i, 13
James I. ib. 13
Anecdote of Robert Keies, i, 23
Dryden’s brothers and sisters, ib. 25
Southerne, ib. 237
Jacob Tonson, ib. 389
Dryden, ib. 390
Dryden and Jacob Tonson, ib. 391
Heliodorus, vi. 126
Andrew Naugeria, ib. 370
a Scottish judge, ix, 20
the Earl of Shaftesbury, ib. 265
Gilbert Burnet, ib. 371
Charles II., ib. 413
Nell Gwynn, ib. 426
Peter Fabel, vii, 10
Friar Bacon, ib. 10
the Loyal Brother, x, 370
John Hales, xv, 351
Angelo, Michael, character of, ib. 489
Animadversions, Dryden’s, on Melbourne, i, 403
Animosity to Dryden of Elkanah Settle, rise of, xv, 398
Annals or commentaries, what, xvii, 56
Annus Mirabilis, the year of wonders, 1666, an historical poem, ix, 81
Dryden’s first poem of consequence, ib. 83
remarks on, ib. 83
dedication of, ib. 89
notes on, ib. 158
account of, in a letter to Sir Robert Howard, ib. 92
character of, i, 61
Answer of Samuel Pepys to a letter of Dryden’s, xviii, 156
to the preface of the Great Favourite, or the Duke of Lenna, ii, 265
Dryden’s Medal, extracts from, ix, 452
Rymer’s remarks, heads of, xv, 385
the Duchess of York’s paper, xvii, 194
Absalom and Achitophel, i, 253
the Medal, ib. 255
Apology for heroic poetry, and poetic licence, v, 105
Apostle of the Indies, St Francis Xavier, life of, xvi, 1
Appeal to honour and justice, extract from, x, 387
Appendix to the Fables, containing the original tales of Chaucer, modernized by Dryden, xii, i-xci.
to Dryden’s works, xviii, 183
No. I. Dryden’s degree of master of arts, ib. 185
No. II. Dryden’s patent as poet-laureat, and historiographer-royal, ib. 187
No. III. Dryden’s agreement with Jacob Tonson concerning the Fables, ib. 191
No. IV. Mr Russel’s bill for Dryden’s funerals, ib. 194
Description of Dryden’s funeral, ib. 195
No. V. Mrs Thomas’s letters concerning Dryden’s death and funeral, ib. 200
No. VI. Monument in the church at Tichmarsh, ib. 215
No. VII. Extract from an epistolary poem to Dryden, occasioned by the death of the Earl of Abingdon, by William Pitts, ib. 218
No. VIII. Extracts from poems attacking Dryden for his silence upon the death of Queen Mary, ib. 222
No. IX. Verses occasioned by reading Dryden’s Fables, by Mr Hughes, ib. 227
No. X. Ode on the death of Dryden, by Alexander Oldys, ib. 234
Application of the Hind and the Panther censured, x, 90
defended, ib. 91
justified, ib. 197, 240
the fable of the Swallows, ib. 253
Appointment of Dryden to the office or poet-laureat, and historiographer-royal, i, 115
fasts and thanksgivings belongs only to the king, ix, 388
Apprentices duty in ancient times, vi, 382
loyal, dinner, ix, 396
Archbishop Sancroft, account of, ix, 301
Spottiswoode, account of, xvii, 159
Argument of the fable of the Flower and the Leaf, xi, 354
Arius, doctrine of, x, 146
and Athanasius, controversy between, ib. 15
Aristotle’s division of the integral parts of a play, xv, 312
Arlington, Earl of, account of, ix, 395
Armour, ancient, rivetted after put on, xi, 363
Armstrong, Sir Thomas, account of, xv, 204
stabs Mr Scroop, x, 327
Art of Love, Ovid’s, translations from, xii, 229
Painting, by C. A. Du Fresnoy, translation of xvii, 279, 339
remarks on, ib. 281
observations on, ib. 392
when translated, i, 405
Poetry, xv. 227
remarks on, ib. 229
Canto II. pastoral, ib. 238
elegy, ib. 240
ode, ib. 240
epigram, ib. 241
satire, ib. 243
III. tragedy, ib. 245
IV. ib. 258
Arthur, or the British Worthy, viii, 107
Arts, Dryden’s degree of master of, xviii, 185
Arviragus and Philiciæ, prologue to, x, 404
Assassination of the Duke of Guise, xvii, 148
Assault upon Dryden, in Rose-street, i, 204
upon Sir John Coventry, ix, 258
Assignation, or Love in a Nunnery, a comedy, iv, 343
remarks on, ib. 345
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 348
prologue to, ib. 356
epilogue to, ib. 447
Associating club, account of, vii, 154
Association for the defence of Queen Elizabeth ix, 422
Aston, account of, xv, 204
Astrea Redux, a poem, ix, 25
remarks on, ib. 27
notes on, ix. 41
Astrological observations of John Silvester, extract from, x, 421.
Astrology, Dryden’s belief in, xviii, 207
Athanasius and Arius, controversy between, x, 15
Atheists, address of, ib. 144
Attack on Dryden, xi, 237
Shakespeare, by Ben Jonson, xv, 344
upon Blackmore and Collier, in the prologue and epilogue to the Pilgrim, i, 436
Attacks, poetical, against Dryden, specimen of, ib. 350
by Swift on Dryden, ib. 374-393
Attempt, Shaftesbury’s, to alter the succession, ix, 268
Aureng-Zebe, a tragedy, v, 167
remarks on, ib. 169
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 174
prologue to, ib. 188
epilogue to, ib. 282
Authority of Dryden in Will’s Coffee-house, i, 371
Authors of the Rehearsal, ib. 136
Author’s apology for heroic poetry, and poetic licence, v, 105
Aylesbury, Earl of, account of, xv, 207
B.
Bacon, Friar, anecdote of, vol. vii, 10
Ballad of College, the Protestant joiner, vii, 5
The Brawny Bishop’s Complaint, x, 270
Bancroft, John, account of, ib. 412
Banishment of Ovid, causes of, xii, 5-7
Bathurst, Ralph, account of, x, 330
Character of Latin compositions of, x, 332
Battle, a poem, extract from, ix, 398
of four days, ix, 168-174
of Landen, behaviour of the Duke of Ormond at, xi, 202
of Senneph, ib. 233
Baucis and Philemon, xii, 109
Beaufort, Duke of, account of, ix, 390
noble house-keeping of, ib. 391
Beaumont and Fletcher, character of, xv, 352
Beautiful in painting, xvii, 343
Behaviour of the Duke of Ormond at the battle of Landen, xi, 202
Belief of Dryden in judicial astrology, xviii, 207
Bellarmine, Robert, account of, xvii, 160
Bellino, George, character of, xvii, 492
Beneficence of Polybius the historian, xviii, 33
Benefit of Dryden, the Pilgrim brought forward for, i, 434
Bennet, Sir Henry, vide Arlington, Earl of
Bethel, Slingsby, account of, ix, 280
Bevil, Sir Robert, imprisoned, xi, 82
Bible, what occasioned by Tyndal’s translation of, x, 23
Biography, what, xvii, 58
Birth of Charles II. star visible at, ix, 51
children, custom at, xiii, 389
Dryden, i, 26
St Francis Xavier, xvi, 15
the Prince, poem on, x, 283
the son of James II. said to be spurious, x, 286
believed by the Papists miraculous, ib. 285-302
account of by Smollet, ib. 305
Bishop of Munster’s irruption into the United States, ix, 165
Compton, account of, ib. 302
Dolben, ib. 303
Blackmore, Sir Richard, Dryden’s dispute with, i, 420
extract of preface to Prince Arthur by, ib. 421
ridiculed, viii, 442
Blackmore and Collier, Dryden’s attack upon, in the Prologue and Epilogue to the Pilgrim, i, 436
Blount, Charles, account of, xviii, 77
Blount, Charles, Religio Laici of, x, 8
Boccace and Chaucer, parallel between, xi, 233
translations from, ib. 401
Bologna, singular event at the siege of, ix, 18
Booksellers, niggardliness of, xv, 194
Bower’s medal of Earl of Shaftesbury, ix, 412
Boyle, Lord Broghill, vide Orrery, Earl of,
Brachmans, account of the, xvi, 91
Brady’s character of Shadwell, x, 445
Bravery of the Duke of York, ix, 161
Brawny Bishop’s complaint, a ballad, x, 270
Brazen age, from Ovid, xii, 68
Britannia Rediviva, x, 283
remarks on, ib. 285
notes on, ib. 302
British Worthy, or King Arthur, viii, 107
Brouncker, Henry, account of, xviii, 92
Brown, (Tom,) uncommon Alexandrine of, ix, 415
extract from works of, x, 51
letter on Hind and Panther of, ib. 102
extract of Preface to The New Converts Exposed, ib. 103
account of Dryden’s funeral by, i, 443
religio medici of, x, 7
Bruce, Robert, vide Aylesbury, Earl of
Brutus Marcus, employed writing an epitome of Polybius, xviii, 30
Buckingham, Duke of, account of, v, 174
epistle dedicatory to, v, 174
intrepidity of, ib. 175
character of, v, 175, ix, 270, 304
answer of, to Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel, extracts from, ib. 272
Battle, by extract from, ix, 398
author of the Essay on Satire, xv, 201
gallantry of, ib. 211
satire on gallantry of, ib. 212
Buffoon, or Gracioso, what, i, 77
Burlesque inscription by Swift, to be placed under Blackmore’s picture, viii, 442
Burnet, Gilbert, anecdote of, ix, 371
account of, x, 267
personal appearance of, ib. 270
account of the relief given by James II. to the French exiled Protestants, ib. 264
remarks on some part of conduct and writings of, ib. 271
examination of, by the House of Commons, ib. 274
why named Captain of the Test, ib. 276
Burning a Pope, what, vi, 222
Busby, Rev. Dr, Dryden’s letters to, xviii, 96-98
Bussy, D’Ambois, a tragedy, extracts from, vi, 376
Butler, James, vide Ormond, Duke of
Butler, the author of Hudibras, unrewarded by the Court, x, 250
C.
Cæsar Borgia, prologue to, x, 347
Calisto, a masque, dramatis personæ of, x, 337
Calvin, account of, x, 150
Calvinism, history of, by Lewis Maimbourg, x, 30
Cambridge, Dryden admitted to Trinity College of, i, 28
Campian, Edmund, account of, x, 20
Canace to Macareus, epistle of, xii, 21
Candour of Polybius, instance of, xviii, 40
Captain of the Test, Bishop Burnet, why named, x, 276
Carbery, Earl of, vide Vaughan, Lord
Carlell, Lodovick, account of, x, 404
Carrache, character of Ludivico, Hannibal, and Augustine, xvii, 496
Castlemaine treated with contempt by the Pope, x, 305
Castlemain, Lady, poetical epistle to, xi, 20
remarks on, ib. 18
account of, ib. 18
Catholic missionaries, diligence of in the conversion of the Heathen, x, 192
Catholic faith, Dryden becomes a convert to, i, 303
Dryden firm in his attachment to, ib. 322
Gibbon’s account of his conversion to, ib. 316
Caulfield’s history of the gunpowder plot, extract from, i, 24
Causabon’s commentary on Persius, xiii, 72
Causes of enmity between Dryden and Shadwell, x, 427
Ovid’s banishment, xii, 5-7
Cavendish, William, vide Newcastle, Duke of,
Cayet, P. V. P. account of, xvii, 94
Cecil, John, vide Exeter, Earl of,
Cecilia’s, St, day, song for, xi, 167
remarks on, ib. 165
account of, ib. 165
festival of, ib. 166
day, Ode in honour of, ib. 183
circumstances attending the composition of,i, 408
set to music by Handel, ib. 310
Ceremonies observed by the ancients on escape from shipwreck, ix, 34, 44
Ceyx and Alcyone, fable of, xii, 139
Chancellor Hyde, verses to, ix, 65
Chandos portrait of Shakespeare, xi, 87.
Chapman, George, extracts from tragedy of Bussy D’Ambois of, vi, 376
Character of Dryden, i, 444
by Congreve, ii, 9
Sir Gilbert Pickering, i, 34
Sir John Driden, ib. 37
Annus Mirabilis, ib. 61
Dryden’s Tempest, ib. 106
Heroic plays, ib. 118
Marriage a-la-mode, ib. 143
Massacre of Amboyna, ib. 164
the Empress of Morocco, ib. 187
All for Love, ib. 218
Ben Jonson, iii, 222
Mrs Montfort, by Cibber, iv, 233
the Œdipe of Corneille, vi, 119
the Troilus and Cressida of Shakespeare, vi, 239
the Troilus and Cressida of Dryden, i, 223
of the Spanish Friar, i, 227
Absalom and Achitophel, Part I. ib. 243
II. ib. 268
Mac-Flecknoe, a satire, ib. 266
Dryden as a satirist, ib. 279
Jeremy Collier, ib. 424
Southerne, i, 372
Congreve, ib. 372
Life of St Francis Xavier, ib. 337
Dryden’s translations by Garth, ib. 340
of Otho, ix, 43
the Earl of Clarendon, ib. 63
Duke of Buckingham, ib. 270, 304
Pere Richard Simon, x, 31
the addresses on the accession of Jarnes II. x, 110
James II. x, 226, 265
The Man of Mode, x, 339
Mountfort the comedian, x, 412
Albumazar, ib. 416
of Thomas Shadwell, ib. 445
Decker, ib. 451
Thomas Shadwell’s Virtuoso, ib. 454
Sir Godfrey Kneller, xi, 89
Donne, as a love-poet, ib. 123
Homer and Virgil, ib. 211
Chaucer, ib. 225
a good Parson, xi, 395
remarks on, ib. 394
Ovid’s works, xii, 8, 11
Homer’s poetry, xii, 49
a translator, ib. 266
Lucretius, ib. 272
Theocritus, ib. 278
Horace, ib. 280
the Earl of Dorset, xiii, 7
Spenser, xiii, 18
Milton, ib. 19
Pacurius, the satirist, ib. 58
Lucilius the satirist, ib. 58
Persius, ib. 72
the father of Horace, ib. 77
the Satires of Horace, ib. 99
Mæcenas, ib. 307
Virgil’s Pastorals, ib. 339
French poetry, ib. 366
Virgil’s Georgics, xiv, 25
Lauderdale’s translation of Virgil, xiv, 223
the Earl of Exeter, xv, 191
the Duke of Shrewsbury, xv, 192
French plays, ib. 337
William Shakespeare, ib. 350
Beaumont and Fletcher, ib. 352
Ben Jonson, ib. 353
Dryden’s colleagues in notes and observations on Empress of Morocco, xv, 399
Plutarch’s Lives, xvii, 62
Michael Angelo, as a painter, xvii, 489
Raphael Santio, ib. 490
Julio Romano, ib. 491
Polydore, ib. 492
Gio Bellino, ib. 492
Georgione, as a painter, ib. 492
Titian, ib. 493
of Paul Veronese, xvii, 494
Tintoret, ib. 494
Corregio, ib. 494
Parmegiano, ib. 495
Ludivico, Hannibal, and Augustine Carrache, ib. 496
Guido, ib. 496
Domenichino, ib. 497
Lanfranc, ib. 497
Gio. Viola, ib. ib.
Rubens, ib. 498
M. St Evremont, xviii, 9
Polybius and his writings, ib. 17
Pope Nicholas V. ib. 24
Lucian, ib. 70
Booksellers, ib. 80.
Charles I., Dryden accused of approving of the execution of, ix, 16
Shaftesbury offers his services to, ib. 444
Charles II., restoration of, led the way for the revival of letters, i, 42
star visible at the birth of, ix, 51
panegyric on the coronation of, ib. 54
mechanical genius of, ib. 60
skill of, in maritime affairs, ib. 160
conduct of, at the fire of London, ib. 187
illegitimate children of, ib. 250
receives a pension from France, ib. 385
anecdote of, ib. 413
North’s opinion of Shaftesbury’s designs upon the person and authority of, ib. 450
titles of some odes on death of, x, 55
concern of the people for death of, ib. 79
Physicians who attended, ib. 79
circumstances regarding the death of, ib. 80
extract of papers found in strong box of, ib. 188, 190
Charleton, Dr Walter, account of, xi, 12
poetical epistle to, ib. 14
remarks on, ib. 12
Chaucer, Tales from, xi, 193-399
and Ovid, parallel between, ib. 214
Chaucer’s Pilgrims, Stothard’s painting of, ib. 217
Chaucer’s rhyme, supposed inequalities of, xi. 221
character of, xi, 225
and Boccace, parallel between, ib. 233
first patroness, ib. 246
original tales, modernized by Dryden, xii, i-xci
Knightes Tale, ib. iii
Nonnes Priestes Tale, ib. liii
Floure and the Leafe, ib. lxviii
Wif of Bathes Tale, ib. lxxxii
Chesterfield, Earl of, account of, xiv, 3
dedication to, ib. 3
Chevalier de St George, birth of, x, 305
false report of the death of, ib. 307
Children, illegitimate, of Charles II., ix, 250
Christian religion, machinery of, more feeble than the Heathen, in poetry, xiii, 23
Church of England, declaration of James VI. concerning the, x, 262
loyalty of, ib. 154
tradition of no weight in, ib. 156
Tichmarsh, monument in, xviii, 215
Cibber’s character of Mrs Montfort, iv, 233
Cinyras and Myrrha, fable of, xii, 127
Circe, original prologue to, x, 333
prologue to, as corrected by Dryden, ib. 335
Circumstances which influenced the Earl of Shaftesbury in his change of politics, ix, 448
regarding the death of Charles II., x, 80
Civil wars, state of poetry in England before, i, 4
metaphysical poetry favoured till the beginning of, i, 12
interrupt the study of poetry, i, 20
Clare, Marquis of. Vide Haughton, Lord
Clarendon, Earl of, character of, ix, 63
Clayton, Sir Robert, account of, ib. 359
Cleomenes, a tragedy, viii, 181
preface to, ib. 196
verses to Dryden on, ib. 205
representation of, suspended, i. 363, viii, 199
Life of, ib. 207
Prologue to, ib. 246
Epilogue to, ib. 329
character of, i, 362
Clergy, Dryden’s resentment against, ib. 428
Cleveland, account of, ib. 43
Clifford, Lord, epistle dedicatory to, v, 5
account of, ib. 5
Hugh, dedication to, xiii, 337
Matthew, Dryden’s controversy with, i, 154
Club, King’s Head, account of, ix, 380
Cock and the Fox, or the Tale of the Nun’s Priest, xi, 327
remarks on, ib. 326
Coffeehouse, (Will’s,) Dryden’s authority in, i, 371
Coleman, Edward, account of, x, 18
Colleagues of Dryden, in Notes and Observations on the Empress of Morocco, xv, 399
characterized, ib. 399
College, Trinity, Cambridge, Dryden admitted to, i, 28
College’s (the protestant joiner) Ballad, vii, 5
Collier and Blackmore, attack upon, in the prologue and epilogue to the Pilgrim, i. 436
Colouring, the third part of painting, xvii, 361, 450
Combat, curious, xi, 283
Combination of the lute and sword ridiculed, x, 450
Comedy of the Wild Gallant, ii, 13
Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen, ib. 379
Sir Martin Mar-all, iii, 1
the Tempest, iii, 95
an Evening’s Love, or the Mock Astrologer, ib. 207
Marriage A-la-mode, iv, 231
the Assignation, or Love in a Nunnery, ib. 343
the Kind Keeper, or Mr Limberham, vi, 1
Amphitryon, viii, 1
distinguished by acts not known to the early Greeks, xv, 311
and Tragedy, not wrote by the same authors among the ancients, ib. 317
Comedies of intrigue introduced to the English stage, i, 76
Comets, two remarkable, ix, 160
Comic scenes in tragedy, propriety of, i, 230
Commencement of Dryden’s dramatic career, ib. 80
friendship with Southerne, ib. 294
Commentaries, or annals, what, xvii, 56
Commines, Philip de, account of, xviii, 36
Comparison between the poems of Sprat and Dryden, ix, 6
Persius and Horace, xiii, 78
Horace and Juvenal, ib. 78
Tacitus and Polybius, xviii, 50
Complaint of the Brawny Bishop, a ballad, x, 270
Compton, Bishop, account of, ix, 302
Concern of the people for the death of Charles II., x, 79
Condemnation, King’s power of granting pardon after, questioned, ix, 310
Conduct of Charles II. on the fire of London, ib. 187
pusillanimous, of Lord Grey, ib. 276
infamous of Lord Howard, ib. 278
of Bishop Burnet, remarks on some parts of, x, 271
of the Earl of Shaftesbury at the Restoration, ix, 447
Confederates, a poem, xviii, 175
Confuting arguments used by the King, and disrespect of his person, x, 252
Congreve, Wm., extracts from Wilson’s Life of, xviii, 200
Dryden’s friendship with, i, 372
poetical epistle to, xi, 59
remarks on, ib. 57
verses addressed to, ib. 61
Congreve’s dedication of Dryden’s Dramatic Works, ii, 5
character of, i, 372
character of Dryden, ib. 9
Connection of Dryden in society, after the Revolution, i, 369
of the Indian Emperor to the Indian Queen, ii, 293
Conquest of Granada, a tragedy, Part I. iv, 1
remarks on, ib. 3
Epistle Dedicatory to, ib. 9
complimentary verses on, ib. 29
Prologue to, ib. 30
Epilogue to, ib. 110
a tragedy, Part II. ib.
Prologue to, ib. 113
Epilogue to, ib. 210
Conquest of Mexico, a tragedy, ii. 257
Conscience, declaration for liberty of, x, 279
Consequences of the Revolution to Dryden, i, 347
Constantine the Great, epilogue to, x, 386
Contest at the election of Sheriffs for London, ix, 404
Contract, Dryden’s, with the King’s company of players, i, 102
Controversy between Athanasius and Arius, x, 15
concerning the comparative merits of the ancients and moderns, xii, 45
between Dryden and Stillingfleet, concerning the Duchess of York’s paper, xvii, 185
remarks on, ib. 187
between Dryden and Sir Robert Howard, i, 94
Matthew Clifford, ib. 154
Richard Leigh, ib. 157
Edward Ravenscroft, ib. 160
Earl of Rochester, ib. 195
Shadwell, ib. 259
Elkanah Settle, ib. 259
Rymer, ib. 379
Milbourne, ib. 394
Contumacy, Dryden punished at College for, ib. 28
Copy of a paper written by the late Duchess of York, xvii, 189
Corinna, Charles Dryden’s letter to, xviii, 213
Corneille, character of Œdipe of, vi, 119
Coronation of Charles II. panegyric on, ix, 54
Corregio, character of, as a painter, xvii, 494
Correspondence of Dryden with Madam Honor Dryden,xviii, 86
with the Earl of Rochester, ib. 89, 101
with the Rev. Dr Busby, ib. 96, 98
with Jacob Tonson, ib. 103, 106, 109, 118, 119, 121, 122, 123, 124, 126, 127, 128, 130, 136, 137, 138
with Mr Dennis, ib. 111, 114
with Mrs Steward, ib. 141, 144, 146, 147, 149, 150, 153, 156, 157, 161, 169, 171, 174, 178, 180
with his sons, at Rome, ib. 131
with Elmes Steward, Esq. ib. 143
with Samuel Pepys, ib. 154, 156
with the Right Hon. Charles Montague, ib. 159
with Mrs Elizabeth Thomas, junior, xviii, 164, 167, 173
Court of Requests, a scene of political intrigue, x, 348
Covenant in England, and League in France, parallel between, i, 281
Coventry, Sir John, assault on, ix, 258
Cowardice of the Earl of Rochester, xv, 215
Cowley, the most ingenious poet of the metaphysical class, i, 15
character of Cromwell by, ix, 4
imitation of, ib. 191
and Denham’s manner of Prose translation, xii, 14
translation of Pindar by, ib. 15
Cranmer, George, account of, x, 26
Creech, Thomas, account of, xii, 277
Dryden’s conduct with regard to, censured, viii, 200
justified, ib. 202
Dedication of to Horace, extract from, ib. 220
Life of Cleomenes by, ib. 207
Verses by on Religio Laici, x, 36
Note and Letter on a passage in Translation of Lucretius by, xviii, 94
Cressy, Hugh Paulin, account of, x, 21
Critical history of the Old Testament, translator of, x, 32
Criticism, in tragedy, grounds of, vi, 243
specimen of Milbourne’s on Dryden’s Virgil, i, 397
Critics censured by Dryden, xii, 49
French better than the English, xiv, 159
Cromwell, Oliver, character of by Cowley, ix, 4
heroic stanzas to the memory of, ib. 8
Sprat’s verses to the memory of, ib. 5
dissolution of the Parliament by, ib. 45
conduct of to Scotland, ib. 19
storm at the death of, ib. 23
Shaftesbury’s situation during the usurpation of, ib. 445
death of, Dryden’s first theme, i, 38
Cruel doctrine of English lawyers, xv, 297
Cruelties of the Dutch to the English merchants, or Amboyna, a tragedy, v, 1
Curious combat, xi, 283
Custom at the birth of children, xiii, 389
Cymon and Iphigenia, xi, 454
remarks on, ib. 452
idea of borrowed from Theocritus, ib. 452
D.
Dacier’s character of the Satires of Horace, vol. xiii, p. 77
Danby, Earl of, epistle dedicatory to, v, 296
account of, ib. 296
Daphnis and Chloris, from Theocritus, xii, 300
Daphnis, a pastoral, xiii, 391
Dartmouth, Earl of, account of, ix, 386
Davenant, Sir William, account of, iii, 97
share of, in the alteration of the Tempest, ib. 98
first introduced regular scenery on the English stage, x, 323
introduced moveable scenes on the stage, i, 79
a restorer of taste in poetry, i, 48
style of, imitated by Dryden, i, 59
Davenant, Dr Charles, account of, x, 333
Davies’s Dramatic Miscellanies, extract from, v, 172
Death of Lodislaus, king of Hungary, vii, 184
Charles II. titles of odes on, x, 55
concern of the people for, ib. 79
circumstances regarding, ib. 80
Oliver Cromwell, storm at, ix, 23
Dryden’s first theme, i, 38
Ajax, xii, 198
Death, scenes of, improper on the stage, xv, 332
Decameron of Boccacio, the tale of Sigismund and Guiscardo originally from, xi, 443
Theodore and Honoria from, ib. 448
Symon and Iphigenia from, ib. 473
Decker, character of, x, 451
Declaration of James II. concerning the church of England, ib. 262
for liberty of conscience, ib. 279
Decree of the University of Oxford, concerning non-resistance, ib. 241
Decrees of fate, Jupiter cannot alter, xv, 103
Decrepitude, premature, of the Earl of Shaftesbury, ix, 454
Dedication to the King, xvii, 81
Queen, xvi, 3
Duke of Newcastle, ii, 5, iii, 209
Earl of Orrery, ii, 113
Duchess of Monmouth and Buccleuch, ib. 259
Duke of Monmouth and Buccleuch, iii, 346
Duke of York, iv, 9
Earl of Rochester, ib. 235
Sir Charles Sedley, ib. 348
Lord Clifford, v, 5, xiii, 337
the Duchess of York, v, 95
Earl of Mulgrave, ib. 174
Earl of Danby, ib. 296
Lord Vaughan, vi, 6
the Earl of Sunderland, ib. 231
Lord Haughton, ib. 373
the Earl of Rochester, vii, 13
the Earl of Leicester, vii, 283
Sir William Leveson Gower, viii, 7
the Marquis of Halifax, ib. 113
Earl of Salisbury, ib. 337
Metropolis of Great Britain, ix, 89
Earl of Abingdon, xi, 121
Duke of Ormond, ib. 195
Duchess of Ormond, ib. 245
Lord Radcliffe, xii, 47
the Earl of Chesterfield, xiv, 3
Marquis of Normanby, ib. 127
Earl of Dorset, xv, 286
Duke of Ormond, xvii, 5
Congreve’s edition of Dryden’s Dramatic Works, ii, 5
Orpheus Britannicus, xi, 146
Creech’s Horace, extract from, viii, 202
(Author’s) of the History of the League, to the French King, xvii, 89
the Empress of Morocco, extract from, xv, 398
Defeat of the Mahometans at Malacca, xvi, 211
Defence of an Essay of Dramatic Poesy, ii, 265
the epilogue to the Conquest of Granada, iv, 211
the Immunities of the city of London, vii, 127
the use of the triplet in poetry, xiv, 216
rhyme in serious plays, xv, 367
the paper written by the Duchess of York, xvii, 208
Virgil against the reflections of M. Fontenelle, xiii, 345
Definition of satire, ib. 103
modern, ib. 105
a Georgic, xiv, 16
a play, xv, 302
Defoe’s Appeal to Honour and Justice, extract from, x, 387
Denham and Cowley’s manner of translation, xii, 14
Sir John, opinion of, on verbal translation, ib. 14
and Waller, improvers of English versification, i, 18
Dennis, John, letter of, to Dryden, xviii, 111
Dryden to, ib. 114
Dennis’s account of Dryden’s controversy with Settle, i, 183
Description of Titus Oates, by North, ix, 355
the Independents, x, 140
the personal appearance of Bishop Burnet, x, 270
Richard Flecknoe, ib. 441
Nokes the comedian, xi, 50
Love, xiv, 173
Mozambique, xvi, 63
the city of St. Thomas, ib. 138
the island of Ternato, ib. 166
Japan, ib. 290
an accomplished historian, xviii, 48
Design, the second part of painting, xvii, 349-420
Despairing Lover, from Theocritus, xii, 296
Device of the partizans of Monmouth, x, 364
Dialogue concerning women, preface to, xviii, 1
Dickinson, Henry, translator of Pere Simon’s critical history of the Old Testament, x, 32
Dido to Æneas, epistle of, xii, 35
Difference between the taste of Dryden and Milton, i, 168
Dillon, Wentworth, vide Roscommon, Earl of,
Dimock or Dymock, hereditary champion of England, ii, 266
Dinner of loyal apprentices, ix, 396
Disaffected, American colonies a refuge for the, x, 394
Disappointment, epilogue to, ib. 390
Dispute of Dryden with Milbourne, i, 394
Blackmore, ib. 420
Disputes, political, in 1680 and 1681, parallel between, x, 353
Dissolution of Parliament by Cromwell, ix, 45
Distinction between the Greek satirical drama, and the satirical poetry of the Romans, xiii, 47
of comedy into acts, not known to the early Greeks, xv, 311
Distressed circumstances of Wycherly, xiii, 77
Divination, rod of, what, ix, 20
Divines, moderate, what, x, 242
Division of the integral parts of a play, xv, 312
Divisions of history, xvii, 56
commentaries or annals, ib. 2
history proper, ib. 57
biography, ib. 58
Doctrine of Socinius, x, 46
Arius, ib. 146
Dolben, Bishop, account of, ix, 303
Gilbert, account of, xv, 190
Domenichino, character of, as a painter, xvii, 497
Don Sebastian, a tragedy, vii, 271
remarks on, ib. 273
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 283
preface to, ib. 291
prologue to, ib. 302
epilogue to, ib. 444
Donne, character of, as a love-poet, xi, 123
Dorset, Earl of character of, xiii, 7
Essay on Satire, addressed to the, ib. 3
Dryden’s exaggerated praise of, ib. 15
dedication to, xv, 286
song of, written the evening before battle, xv, 284
Double Discovery, or the Spanish Friar, xi, 365
Drama of the Greeks, plot of, xv, 313
Romans, ib. 314
revival of, at the Restoration, i, 65
Dramatic career of Dryden, commencement of, i, 80
termination of, i, 364
poesy, defence of, an essay of, ii, 265
notes concerning, ib. 263
poetry of the last age, essay on, iv, 211
miscellanies, extract from, v, 172
performances among the Romans, origin of, xiii, 51
Dramatic poesy, essay on, xv, 293
writing, English excel the ancients in, xv, 396
Dramatis personæ of Calisto, x, 337
The True Widow, ib. 343
The Humorists, ib. 452
Driden, Sir John, character of, i, 37
Driden, John, of Chesterton, account of, xi, 71
Poetical Epistle to, ib. 75
remarks on, ib. 71
Drury-lane theatre burnt, x, 319
Dryden, John, Life of, i, 1
descent and parentage of, ib. 21
anecdotes of the brothers and sisters of, ib. 25
birth of, i, 27
education of, ib. 27
first poems of, ib. 28
is admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge, ib. 28
punished for contumacy, ib. 29
long residence of at the university, ib. 31
degree of Master of Arts of, xviii, 185
Sir Gilbert Pickering’s clerk, i. 36
death of Cromwell, the first theme of, ib. 38
first poem of consequence of, ix, 83
poems of on the Restoration, i, 50
changes the spelling of his name, ib. 53
is chosen a member of the Royal Society, ib. 56
imitates the style of Davenant, ib. 59
commencement of dramatic career of, ib. 80
first appearance of the Wild Gallant, ib. 80
Rival Ladies, ib. 81
Indian Queen, ib. 83
Indian Emperor, ib. 84
intrigue of with Mrs Reeves, ib. 87
marriage of, ib. 88
Essay of Dramatic Poesy, appearance of, ib. 92
controversy of with Sir Robert Howard, ib. 94
contract of with the King’s Company of Players, ib. 101
appearance of the Maiden Queen of, ib. 104
Tempest, ib. 105
Sir Martin Mar-all, ib. 107
the Mock Astrologer, ib. 109
Royal Martyr, ib. 110
Conquest of Granada, ib. 112
promoted to the offices of poet-laureat and historiographer-royal, ib. 115
patent of, as poet-laureat and historiographer-royal, xviii, 187
appearance of Marriage A-la-mode, i, 143
the Assignation, ib. 146
controversy with Matthew Clifford, ib. 154
Richard Leigh, ib. 157
Edward Ravenscroft, ib. 160
Elkanah Settle, ib. 259
Rochester, ib. 195
appearance of Massacre of Amboyna, ib. 163
State of Innocence, ib. 166
Aurenge-Zebe, i, 209
is assaulted in Rose-street, ib. 204
meditates an epic poem, ib. 215
appearance of All for Love, ib. 218
Limberham, ib. 221
Œdipus, ib. 222
Troilus and Cressida, ib. 223
the Spanish Friar of, ib. 227
relations of when he composed the Spanish Friar, ib. 233
anecdote of with Southerne, ib. 237
engages in politics, ib. 239
appearance of Absalom and Achitophel, Part I. ib. 243
the Medal, ib. 250
extracts from answer to, ix, 452
controversy of with Shadwell, i, 259, 286
causes of enmity between Shadwell and, x, 472
appearance of Mac-Flecknoe, a satire, i, 266
Absalom and Achitophel, Part II. ib. 268
assisted by Nahum Tate in, ix, 315
effect of the satirical poetry of on English poetry, i, 275
character of, as a satirist, ib. 279
share of in the composition of the Duke of Guise, ib. 281
furnishes a Preface to the translation of Plutarch’s Lives, ib. 289
translates the History of the League, ib. 290
appearance of the First Miscellany of, ib. 294
commencement of Southerne’s friendship with, ib. 294
Memorial of to the Earl of Rochester, ib. 296
appearance of Threnodia Augustales of, ib. 299
Albion and Albanius, ib. 299
becomes a convert to the Roman Catholic faith, ib. 303
reasons which might influence him in his change of religious opinions, ib. 303
sincere in his attachment to the Catholic faith, ib. 322
controversy of with Stillingfleet, ib. 323, xviii, 187
illiberality of Dryden and Stillingfleet, x, 251
appearance of the Hind and the Panther, i, 325
libels occasioned by publication of, x, 104
Hind and Panther, where composed, i, 325
projects a translation of the History of Heresies, ib. 334
appearance of the Life of St Francis Xavier, ib. 336
second volume of Miscellanies, ib. 340
character of translations of by Garth, ib. 340
translation of Te Deum, ib. 343
hymn for St John’s eve, ib. 344
consequences of the Revolution to, ib. 347
poetical attacks against, ib. 350
loses the offices of poet-laureat and historiographer-royal, ib. 354
appearance of Don Sebastian, i, 357
King Arthur, ib. 360
Cleomenes, ib. 362
Love Triumphant, ib. 364
last dramatic work of, viii, 333.
list of plays of, with the respective dates of their being acted and published, i, 367
connections in society of, after the Revolution, ib. 369
indebted to Dorset’s bounty, ib. 370
exaggerated praise of Dorset by, xiii, 15
authority of in Will’s Coffee-house, i, 371
friendship of with Southerne and Congreve, ib. 372
literary friends of, ib. 373
attacked by Swift, ib. 374
appearance of translation of Juvenal and Persius, ib. 375
smaller pieces, ib. 376
Eleonora, ib. 376
Third Miscellany, ib. 378
controversy of with Rymer, ib. 379
correspondence of with Jacob Tonson, ib. 381
appearance of the translation of Virgil by, ib. 382
Fourth Miscellany, ib. 382
quarrel of with Tonson, ib. 387
anecdote of, ib. 390
and Tonson, ib. 391
dispute of with Milbourne, ib. 394, xi, 237
animadversions of on Milbourne, ib. 403
Ode to St Cecilia, appearance of, ib. 407
set to music by Handel, ib. 410
attacked for his silence on the death of Queen Mary, xviii, 222
translation of Homer meditated by, i, 414
projected works of, xiii, 31
dispute of with Blackmore, i, 420
appearance of Fables, ib. 427
agreement of with Jacob Tonson concerning the Fables, xviii, 191
resentment of against the clergy, i, 428
the Pilgrim brought forward for the benefit of, ib. 434
attack upon Blackmore and Collier, in the Prologue and Epilogue to the Pilgrim, i, 436
last period of the life of, ib. 439
death and funeral of, ib. 440
Mr Russell’s bill for funeral of, xviii, 194
description of funeral of, ib. 195
ludicrous account of the funeral of by Farquhar, i, 441
Mrs Thomas’s letters concerning the death and funeral of, xviii, 200
account of funeral of by Mrs Thomas, false, i, 442
account of funeral of by Tom Brown, ib. 443
character of, ib. 444
character of by Congreve, ii, 9
notices of family of, i, 462
Ode on the death of by Alexander Oldys, xviii, 234
and Shakspeare, parallel between, v, 287
conduct of with regard to Creech, censured, viii, 200
justified, ib. 202
comparison between the poems of Sprat and, ix, 6
accused of approving of the execution of Charles I, ib. 16
versification of the King’s Speech to the Oxford Parliament by, ib. 309
satire on Shadwell by, ib. 379
use of the Alexandrine by, ridiculed, ib. 413
Epode to, vii, 133
Prologues of ridiculed in the Rehearsal, x, 313
acknowledgment of to Dr William Gibbons, xi, 77
mistake of regarding the inequalities of Chaucer’s rhyme, xi, 221
critics censured by, xii, 49
inaccuracy of with regard to Sir Philip Sidney, xiii, 18
his translation of Virgil the best, xiv, 209
Poems ascribed to, xv, 197
Original Prose Works of, ib. 281
colleagues of in the Notes and Observations on the Empress of Morocco, ib. 399
characterised, ib. 399
Life of Plutarch by, xvii, 1
extract from Epistolary Poem to, xviii, 218
Letters of, ib. 83
to Madam Honor Dryden, ib. 86
to the Earl of Rochester, ib. 89, 101
to the Rev. Dr. Busby, ib. 96, 98
to Jacob Tonson, ib. 103, 106, 109, 118, 119, 121, 122, 123, 124, 126, 127, 128, 130, 136, 137, 138
with Mr Dennis, ib. 111, 114
with Mrs Steward, ib. 141, 144, 146, 147, 149, 150, 153, 156, 157, 161, 169, 171, 174, 178, 180
with his sons at Rome, ib. 131
with Elmes Stewart, Esq., ib. 143
with Samuel Pepys, ib. 154, 156
with the Right Hon. Charles Montague, ib. 159
with Mrs Elizabeth Thomas, junior, ib. 164, 167, 173
Dryden, Charles, letter of to Corinna, xviii, 213
Duchess of York, account of the, v, 95, ix, 73
Epistle Dedicatory to, v, 95
Verses to, ix, 76
Poetical Epistle to, xi, 33
paper of, xvii, 189
controversy between Dryden and Stillingfleet concerning paper of, ib. 185
Stillingfleet’s answer to, ib. 194
Dryden’s defence of, ib. 208
Stillingfleet’s answer to defence of, ib. 252
Newcastle, account of, iii, 210
Buccleugh and Monmouth, account of, ix, 256
Ormond, Dedication to, ib. 245
Portsmouth’s picture, epigram on, xv, 280
Duke of Guise, a tragedy, vii, 1
remarks on, ib. 3
Parallel between, and affairs in England, ib. 4
Epistle Dedicatory to, ib. 18
Prologue to, ib. 19
Epilogue to, ib. 122
a tragedy, Vindication of, vii, 125
remarks on Vindication of, ib. 127
Advertisement to, ib. 133
and Monmouth, no parallel intended between, ib. 144
Massacre of Paris transposed for, ib. 188
attacked by Shadwell, i, 286
share of Dryden in, ib. 281
assassination of, xvii, 148
Duke of Newcastle, Congreve’s Dedication to, ii, 5
account of, iii, 209
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 209
Lerma, answer to the Preface of the, ii, 265
York, Dedication to, iv, 9
personal bravery of, ib. 10, ix, 161
attempt to counteract the influence of in the city, ix, 388
shipwreck of upon the Lemman Ore, ib. 401
picture of, at Guildhall, defaced, vii, 51
Prologue to, x, 366
requested by Charles II. to retire to the continent, ix, 384
presence of acceptable to the Scots, ib. 385
Albemarle, account of, ix, 394
gallant actions of, ix, 250-6
Monmouth, account of, ix, 250
Buckingham, account of, v, 174
intrepidity of, v, 175
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 174
Answer of to Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel, extracts from, ix, 272
Battle of, extract from, ib. 398
author of the Essay on Satire, xv, 201
gallantry of, ib. 211
satire on gallantry of, ib. 212
Ormond, account of, ix, 294-8, xi, 195
dedication to, xi, 195, xvii, 5
behaviour of at the battle of Landen, xi, 202
Beaufort, account of, ix, 390
noble house-keeping of, ib. 391
Grafton, account of, ix, 396
examination of Bishop Burnet concerning, x, 274
Shrewsbury, account of, xv, 192
Du Bartas, poem of, extract from, xv, 233
Dumfounding, what, x, 408
Dundee, Viscount, account of, xi, 113
Epitaph on the death of, ib. 115
remarks on, ib. 113
Pitcairn’s Epitaph upon, ib. 114
Du Fresnoy, Chas. Alphonse, account of, xvii, 281
Du Fresnoy’s Art of Painting, ib. 279
remarks on, ib. 281
observations on, ib. 392
judgment of the works of the principal painters of the two last ages, ib. 489
Duras, Lewis, vide Earl of Feversham
Dutch, satire on, ix, 71
Dutch insolence, ib. 162
Duty of apprentices in ancient times, vi, 382
E.
Eagre or Higre, what, x, 65
Earl of Orrery, account of the, ii, 113
dedication to, ib. 113
of Mulgrave, account of the, v, 174
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 174
character of, ib. 175
vide Duke of Buckingham,
of Danby, account of the, v, 296
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 296
of Lindsay, account of the, ib. 304
of Carbery, vide Vaughan, Lord
of Sunderland, account of, vi, 231
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 231
of Rochester, account of, vii, 13, ix, 607
character of, iv, 235
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 235, vii, 13
banished the Court, ib. 238
assaults Dryden in Rose-street, i, 204
Dryden’s memorial to, ib. 296
account of, vii, 283
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 283
of Salisbury, epistle dedicatory to, viii, 337
of Clarendon, character of the, ix, 63
of Ossory, account of the, ib. 299
of Feversham, account of, ix, 397
of Nottingham, account of, ix, 400
of Shaftesbury, imprisonment and acquittal of, ib. 409
last period of the life of, ib. 415
ridiculed as aspiring to the crown of Poland, ix, 441
offers his services to Charles I., ib. 444
character of, during usurpation of Cromwell, ib. 445
conduct of, at the Restoration, ib. 447
circumstances which influenced him in his change of politics, ib. 448
North’s opinion of the designs of, upon the person and authority of Charles II., ib. 451
premature decrepitude of, ib. 454
of Roscommon, account of the, xii, 341
poetical epistle to, xi, 28
of Dorset, Dryden indebted to the bounty of, i, 370
Essay on Satire, addressed to the, xiii, 3
character of, ib. 7
Dryden’s exaggerated praise of, ib. 15
epistle dedicatory to, xv, 286
song of, written the evening before the battle, ib. 284
of Peterborough, account of the, ib. 189
of Exeter, character of the, ib. 191
epitaph of the, ib. 191
of Aylesbury, account of the, ib. 207
of Essex, account of the, ib. 207
prologue to, x, 368
Ecclesiastical policy, Hooker’s treatise upon, ib. 26
Effect of Dryden’s satirical poems on English poetry, i, 275
Effects of the Revolution upon literary pursuits, ib. 385
Elegies and epitaphs, xi, 91, 160
Elegy upon the death of Lord Hastings, ib. 94
to the memory of Mr Oldham, xi, 99
Mrs Anne Killigrew, ib. 105
on the death of Amyntas, ib. 139
on a very young gentleman, ib. 142
Election of Sheriffs for London, contest at, ix, 404
Eleonora, a panegyrical poem, to the memory of the Countess of Abingdon, xi, 117
remarks on, ib. 119
dedication of, ib. 121
Elizabeth, Queen, age of, abundant in false wit, i, 7
John Lillie’s share in determining the taste of, ib. 7
association for the defence of the person of, ix, 422
Empress of Morocco, character of, i, 187
notes and observations on, xv, 405
postscript to, ib. 409
parody on part of, ib. 407
preface to notes, and observations on, ib. 401
England, poetry of, before the civil wars, i, 4
state of learning in, on the accession of James I., ib. 5
milled money not struck in, before 1663, ix, 451
loyalty of church of, x, 154
tradition of no weight with the church of, ib. 156
establishment of the Jesuits in, ib. 255
English poetry, effect of Dryden’s satirical poems on, i, 275
versification improved by Denham and Waller, ib. 18
fleet, names of changed, ix, 63
verse, Virgil translated into, xiii, 279
lawyers, cruel doctrine of, xv, 297
plays, superiority of, ib. 349
excel the ancients in dramatic writing, ib. 3
Enchanted Island, or the Tempest, a comedy, iii, 95
Ennius, first author of Roman satire, xiii, 58
Ent, Dr George, account of, xi, 16
Enterprize of Sir Thomas Allen, ix, 177
Sir Robert Holmes, ib. 178, 184
Epic poem meditated by Dryden, i, 215
Epilogues and Prologues, x, 309, 424
to the Wild Gallant, a comedy, ii, 106-7
the Indian Queen, ib. 255
the Indian Emperor, ib. 377
Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen, ib. 469
Sir Martin Mar-all, iii, 93
the Tempest, or the Enchanted Island, ib. 205
An Evening’s Love, ib. 340
Tyrannic Love, iii, 435
the Conquest of Granada, iv, 110, 210
Defence of the, ib. 211
remarks on, ib. 229
to Marriage a-la-Mode, ib. 342
the Assignation, ib. 447
Amboyna, v, 87
Aureng-Zebe, ib. 282
All for Love, ib. 411
the Spanish Friar, vi, 485
Limberham, ib. 114
Œdipus, ib. 222
Troilus and Cressida, ib. 363
the Duke of Guise, vii, 122
Albion and Albanus, ib. 268
Don Sebastian, ib. 444
Amphitryon, viii, 106
Cleomenes, ib. 329
Love Triumphant, ib. 435
the Pilgrim, ib. 462
remarks on, ib. 459
attack upon Jeremy Collier in, i, 436
spoken at the opening of the New House, x, 326
Oxford, ib. 330
intended to have been spoken by Lady H. M. Wentworth, ib. 337
to the Man of Mode, ib. 339
Mithridates, ib. 341, 354
Tamerlane, ib. 356
the University of Oxford, ib. 360, 381
for the King’s House, ib. 362
to the Loyal Brother, ib. 377
Constantine the Great, ib. 386
the Disappointment, ib. 390
upon the union of the two companies, x, 398
to the Princess of Cleves, ib. 402
Henry II., ib. 412, 420
the Husband his own Cuckold, ib. 423
the Humourists, from, ib. 456
Epistle dedicatory to the King, xvii, 81
Queen, xvi, 3
Duke of Newcastle, ii, 5, iii, 209
Earl of Orrery, ii, 113
Duchess of Monmouth and Buccleuch, ii, 259
Duke of Monmouth and Buccleuch, iii, 346
Duke of York, iv, 9
Earl of Rochester, ib. 235
Sir Charles Sedley, ib. 348
Lord Clifford, v, 5, xiii, 337
the Duchess of York, v, 95
Earl of Mulgrave, ib. 174
Earl of Danby, ib. 296
Lord Vaughan, vi, 6
the Earl of Sunderland, ib. 231
Lord Haughton, ib. 373
the Earl of Rochester, vii, 13
Earl of Leicester, ib. 283
Sir William Leveson Gower, viii, 7
the Marquis of Halifax, ib. 113
Earl of Salisbury, ib. 337
Metropolis of Great Britain, ix, 89
Earl of Abingdon, xi, 121
Duke of Ormond, ib. 195
Duchess of Ormond, ib. 245
Lord Radcliffe, xii, 47
the Earl of Chesterfield, xiv, 3
Marquis of Normandy, ib. 127
Earl of Dorset, xv, 286
Duke of Ormond, xvii, 5
Mr Congreve’s edition of Dryden’s Dramatic Works, ii, 5
Orpheus Britannicus, xi, 146
Creech’s Horace, extract from, viii, 202
of the History of the League, to the French King, xvii, 89
to the Empress of Morocco, extract from, xv, 398
to the Whigs, ix, 417
by Sir George Etherege, to the Earl of Middleton, xi, 40
poetical, from Pope to Jervas, xvii, 282
Mason to Sir Joshua Reynolds, ib. 284
Epistles of John Dryden, xviii, 83
remarks on, ib. 85
of Dryden to Madam Honor Dryden, ib. 86
to the Earl of Rochester, ib. 89, 101
to the Rev. Dr Bushby, ib. 96, 98
to Jacob Tonson, ib. 103, 106, 109, 118, 119, 121, 122, 123, 124, 126, 127, 128, 130, 136, 137, 138
to Mr Dennis, ib. 111, 114
to Mrs Steward, ib. 131, 144, 146, 147, 149, 150, 153, 156, 157, 161, 169, 171, 174, 178, 180
to his sons, at Rome, ib. 131
to Elmes Steward, Esq., ib. 143
to Samuel Pepys, ib. 154, 156
to the Right Hon. Charles Montague, ib. 159
to Mrs Elizabeth Thomas, junior, ib. 164, 167, 173
Epistles poetical, xi, 1-90
to John Hoddeson, ib. 4
to Robert Howard, ib. 7
to Dr Charleton, ib. 14
to Lady Castlemain, ib. 20
to Mr Lee, ib. 23
to the Earl of Roscommon, ib. 28
to the Duchess of York, ib. 33
to Mr J. Northleigh, ib. 37
to Sir George Etherege, ib. 42
to Mr Southerne, ib. 50
to Henry Higden, ib. 55
to Mr Congreve, xi. 59
to Mr Granville, ib. 64
to Mr Motteux, ib. 69
to John Driden, ib. 75
to Sir Godfrey Kneller, ib.
Ovid’s, translations from, xii, 1-41
preface to, ib. 3
character of, ib. 11
Canace to Macareus, ib. 21
Helen to Paris, ib. 26
Dido to Æneas, ib. 35
Epitaph on the Earl of Rochester’s being dismissed from the treasury, xv, 279
Epithalamium of Helen and Menelaus, xii, 292
Epitome of Polybius, engaged in by Marcus Brutus, xviii, 30
Epode to Dryden, vii, 133
second of Horace, xii, 351
Essay of Dramatic Poesy, defence of, ii, 265
on Heroic Plays, iv, 16
on the dramatic poetry of the last age, iv, 211
on translated verse, xi, 28
Poetical Epistle on, ib. 28
on Virgil’s Georgic’s, xiv, 14
upon Satire, xv, 203
remarks on, ib. 201
upon Satire, Duke of Buckingham, author of, xv, 201
of Dramatic Poesy, xv, 293
remarks on, ib. 283
dedication to, ib. 286
advertisement to, ib. 292
Essex, Earl of, prologue to, x, 368
Establishment of the Jesuits in England, ib. 255
Etherege, Sir George, account of, ib. 454
epistle of, to the Earl of Middleton, xi, 40
Evremont, M. St, account of, xviii, 11
character of, ib. 9
Examination of Bishop Burnet by the House of Commons, x, 274
Evening’s Love, or the Mock Astrologer, a comedy, iii, 207
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 209
remarks on, iii, 217
preface to, ib. 218
prologue to, ib. 233
epilogue to, ib. 340
Extract from preface to the Sullen Lovers, i, 260
Journal of Capt. Christopher Gunman, ib. 301
Preface to Blackmore’s Prince Arthur, ib. 422
Epistle to Sir Richard Blackmore, ib. 437
from epilogue to the Humourists, x, 456
letter to Jacob Tonson, xv, 194
Wilson’s life of Congreve, xviii, 200
an epistolary poem to Dryden, occasioned by the death of the Earl of Abingdon, ib. 218
Extracts from poems attacking Dryden for his silence upon the death of Queen Mary, ib. 222
Vindication of the Answer to some late Papers, x, 246, 249
Roscius Anglicanus, x, 325
Appeal to Honour and Justice, x, 387
Love’s Kingdom, ib. 453
epilogue to the Humourist, ib. 456
Malone’s History of the English Stage, xi, 58
Spanheim’s Dissertation, xiii, 47
poem of Du Bartas, xv, 233
epilogue upon reviewing Every Man in his Humour, xv, 310
dedication to the Empress of Morocco, xv, 398
Caulfield’s History of the Gunpowder Plot, i, 24
one of Dryden’s first poems, i, 33
Creech’s dedication to Horace, viii, 202
poem of John James, ix, 164
Naboth’s Vineyard, ib. 198
Judah Betrayed, a poem, ib. 266
the Duke of Buckingham’s answer to Absalom and Achitophel, ib. 272
Settle’s Absalom senior, ib. 375
poem of Loyal Feast Defeated, ib. 390
The Battle, ib. 398
Loyal Medal vindicated, ib. 423
Hickeringill’s answer to Dryden’s Medal, ix, 452
Lenten Prologue, vii, 131
the Religio Laici of J. R., x, 9
Revolter, a tragi-comedy, x, ib.
Lord Herbert’s history, ib. 23
Tom Brown’s works, ib. 51
preface to the New Converts Exposed, ib. 103
Reasons for Mr Bayes changing his Religion, ib. 103, 313, 315
papers found in the strong-box of King Charles II. ib. 188-190
F.
Fabel, Peter, anecdote of, vol. vii, 10
Fable of the Swallows, application of, x, 253
Cock and Fox, xi, 327
Flower and Leaf, or the Lady in the Arbour, ib. 356
remarks on, ib. 354
argument of, ib. 354
Fables, tales from Chaucer, xi, 193, 399
translations from Boccace, ib. 401, 480
Dedication of, ib. 195
Preface prefixed to, ib. 205
Dryden’s agreement with Jacob Tonson, concerning, xviii, 191
verses occasioned by reading, xviii, 227
Appendix to, containing the original tales of Chaucer, modernized by Dryden, xii, i-xci
of Iphis and Ianthe, xii, 116
Pygmalion and the Statue, ib. 123
Cinyras and Myrrha, ib. 127
Ceyx and Alcyone, ib. 139
Fair Stranger, a song, xi, 163
Fairborne, Sir Palmes, epitaph on tomb of, xi, 155
account of the death of, xi, 156
Fairfax, Edward, translator of Tasso’s Jerusalem, xi, 207
Falkland, Anthony, Lord Viscount, account of, v, 307
Fall of Man, an opera, v, 89
False wit, one character of the poetry of Queen Elizabeth, i, 7
taste, prevalence of in the age of James I. ib. 9
Familiar epistle to Mr Julian, xv, 222
remarks on, ib. 218
Familiarity of Augustus with Virgil and Horace, xiii, 313
Farquhar’s ludicrous account of the Funeral of Dryden, i, 441
Fasts and thanksgivings, appointment of, belongs only to the king, ix, 388
Fate of Titus Oates, ib. 356
Fates, Jupiter cannot alter the decrees of the, xv, 103
Feigned Innocence, or Sir Martin Mar-all, a comedy, iii, 1
Female Prelate, and Lancashire Witches, account of, vii, 142
performers first introduced on the stage after the Restoration, x, 321
Ferrex and Perrex, a tragedy, mistake of Dryden concerning, ii, 118
Ferguson, Robert, account of, ix, 363
Fescennine and Saturnine verses, what, xiii, 51
Festival, St Cecilia’s, account of, xi, 166
Feversham, Earl of, account of, ix, 397
Finch, Sir Keneage, vide Nottingham, Earl of
Fire of London, conduct of Charles II. on, ix, 187
its dreadful effects, ib. 189
First Miscellany, appearance of, i, 294
First poems of Dryden, i, 28
Fitzharris’s Plot, Waller’s Discovery of, ib. 382
Flail, account of Protestant, vii, 19
Flecknoe, Richard, account of, vi, 7, x, 441
Marvell’s description of, ib. 441
plays of, ib. 442
Fleet, English, names of changed, ix, 48
Flower and the Leaf, a fable, xi, 356
Floure and the Leafe, by Chaucer, xii, lxviii
Fontenelle’s Reflections, defence of Virgil from, xiii, 345
Forbes, James, account of, ix, 368
Fourth Miscellany, appearance of, i, 382
Four days battle, account of, ib. 168, 174
Frampton, Mary, epitaph on monument of, xi, 158
France, Charles II. receives a pension from, ix, 385
France set the pattern of rhiming or heroic plays, i, 69
League in, and Covenant in England, parallel between, i, 281
Freethinkers, their opinions, x, 143
Free translation, Cowley’s mode of, xii, 15
French stage, punctilios of, v, 307
exiled Protestants, relief given by King James II. to, x, 264
poetry, character of, xiii, 366
better critics than the English, xiv, 159
authors, scrupulous observers of the unities of time and action, xv, 325
observe the laws of the stage, and decorum more exactly than the English, xv, 336
plays, character of, ib. 337
servility of the, in attention to the unities, ib. 346
Friar Bacon, anecdote of, vii, 10
Friends, literary, of Dryden, i, 373
Friendship of Dryden with Southerne and Congreve, i, 372
Frontispiece to Albion and Albanus, vii, 231
Fuller, William, account of, viii, 329
Fuller’s anecdote of Robert Keies, i, 23
Funeral Pindaric poem, x, 53
of Dryden, i, 440
Farquhar’s ludicrous account of, ib. 441
Tom Brown’s account of, ib. 443
Mr Russel’s bill for, xviii, 194
Mrs Thomas’s letters concerning, ib. 200
description of, ib. 195
procession at the death of St Francis Xavier, description of, xvi, 465
G.
Gallant, Wild, a comedy, vol. ii, 13
actions of Prince Rupert, ix, 167-174
the Duke of Albemarle, ix, 168, 171
action of Edward Spragge, xi, 24
Gallantry of the Duke of Buckingham, xv, 211
Gallus, a pastoral, xiii, 417
Garth’s character of Dryden’s Translations, i, 340
Georgic, definition of, xiv, 16
Georgics of Virgil, translation of, xiv, 1-122
dedication of, ib. 3
essay on, ib. 14
character of, ib. 25
notes on, ib. 123
Book I. ib. 27
II. ib. 49
III. ib. 73
IV. ib. 98
Georgione, character of, xvii, 492
German jollity, xi, 44
Giants’ war, xii, 69
Gibbon’s account of his conversion to the Catholic faith, i, 316
character of Pope Nicholas V. xviii, 24
account of the murder of Lucian, ib. 57
Gilbert, Dr William, account of, xi, 15
Goa, description of, xvi, 71
Godfrey, Sir Edmondbury, account of, ix, 285
Golden age, from Ovid, xii, 66
Government of Japan, xvi, 291
Gracioso, or buffoon, what, i, 77
Grafton, Duke of, account of, ix, 396
Graham, James, vide Dundee, Viscount
Granville, George, poetical epistle to, xi, 64
remarks on, xi, 63
Great Favourite, answer to the preface of the, ii, 265
Grecian dramas, plot of, xv, 313
Greek satirical drama, and the satirical poetry of the Romans, distinction between, xiii, 47
Greeks, comedy distinguished by acts not known to the early, xv, 311
Grey, Lord, pusillanimous conduct of, ix, 276
Griselda, story of, not invented by Petrarch, xi, 215
Grounds of criticism in tragedy, vi, 243
Growth of Popery, by Andrew Marvel, ix, 420
Guardian angels, machinery of, xiii,
Guibbons, Dr William, Dryden’s acknowledgment to, xi, 77
Guido, character of as a painter, xvii, 496
Guise, Duke of, a tragedy, vii, 1
assassination of, xvii, 148
Gunman, Captain Christopher, extract from journal of, i, 301
Gunpowder Plot, extract from Caulfield’s history of, i, 24
Gwynn, Nell, anecdote of, ix, 426
H.
Hacket, Coppinger, and Arthington, enthusiasm of, vol. x, 28
Hale, Sir Matthew, prejudices of, xiii, 67
Hales, John, anecdote of, xv, 351
Halifax, Marquis of, epistle dedicatory to, viii, 113
account of, ib. 113, ix, 305
Handel, Ode to St Cecilia set to music by, i, 410
Harman, Sir John, exploit of, ix, 179
Harmony of numbers, neglected by the metaphysical poets, i, 17
Hart, the tragedian, account of, x, 328
Harte’s vindication of Statius, xiv, 130
Harvey, William, account of, xi, 15
Hastings, Lord, elegy upon the death of, xi, 94
remarks on, ib. 93
Haughton, Lord, account of, vi, 373
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 373
Hawkers, prodigies of, x, 348
Heads of an answer to Rymer’s remarks, xv, 385
remarks on, ib. 383
Healing Parliament, what, x, 71
Heathen, diligence of Catholic missionaries in converting the, x, 192
Hector and Andromache, last parting of, xii, 382
Heinsius’s definition of satire, xiii, 103
Helen and Paris, epistle of, xii, 26
to Menelaus, epithalamium of, from Theocritus, ib. 292
Heliodorus, anecdote of, vi, 126
Henry II., epilogue to, x, 412
Herbert’s, Lord, History of Henry VIII., extracts from, x, 23
Heresies, History of, Dryden projects a translation of, i, 334
Hero, piety the first quality of, xiv, 161
Heroic plays, character of, i, 118
an essay on, iv, 16
poetry, apology for, v, 105
stanzas to the memory of Oliver Cromwell, ix, 8
remarks on, ib. 3
notes on, ib. 15
or rhyming plays imitated from the French, i, 69
Heylin, Dr Peter, account of, xvii, 190
Heywood, Thomas, account of, x, 446
Hickeringill’s, Edmund, answer to the Medal of Dryden, ix, 452
Higden, Henry, poetical epistle to, xi, 55
remarks on, ib. 52
account of, ib. 52
Higgons’s verses to Congreve, ib. 61
Higre or Eagre, what, x, 65
Hind and Panther, Part I. x, 85
remarks on, ib. 87
parabolical signification of, ib. 90
criticised, ib. 90
application of censured, ib. 90
defended, ib. 91
transversed, extracts from, ib. 91
where composed, i, 325
parody on by Prior and Montague, ib. 330
parody on, x, 91
letters on, ib. 102
libels occasioned by publication of, ib. 104
Swift’s account of, ib. 106
preface to, ib. 109
notes on, ib. 139-157
Part II. ib. 159
notes on, ib. 185-194
Part III. ib. 195
application of justified, ib. 197
notes on, ib. 240-282
Historiographer-royal, Dryden appointed to the office of, i, 115
loses the office of, i, 354
Historical and Political Poems, ix, 1
History of Calvinism by Lewis Maimbourg, x, 30
Satire among the Romans, xiii, 56
divisions of, xvii, 56
proper, what, ib. 57
of the League, specimen of translation of, xvii, 77
appearance of, i, 290
author’s dedication to, ib. 89
advertisement to the reader, ib. 98
Book III. translation of, ib. 101
translator’s postscript to, ib. 150
of Heresies, Dryden projects a translation of i, 334
Hoddeson, John, poetical epistle to, xi, 4
remarks on, ib. 3
Hollis, Sir Freschville, account of, ix, 180
Holmes, Sir Robert, enterprise of, ix, 178, 184
Holyday, Barten, account of, xiii, 93
Homer, character of, xi, 211
Homer’s poetry, character of, xii, 59
translations from, ib. 355-388
Virgil’s imitation of, xiv, 182
Dryden meditates a translation of, i, 414
Hooker, Richard, account of, x, 26
treatise of upon Ecclesiastical Policy, ib. 26
Hoped and unhoped, ancient meaning of, xi, 336
Hopkins, Charles, account of, xviii, 163
Horace, character of, xii, 280
translations from, ib. 339-354
Ode 3. of Book I. inscribed to the Earl of Roscommon, ib. 341
Ode 9. of Book I. inscribed to the Earl of Rochester, ib. 344
Second Epode of, ib. 351
character of his father, xiii, 77
and Persius, comparison between, ib. 78
Juvenal, comparison between, ib. 78
Satires of, Dacier’s character of, ib. 99
Housekeeping, noble of the Duke of Beaufort, ix, 391
Howard, Sir Robert, joint author with Dryden of the Indian Queen, ii, 203
note concerning, ib. 263
letter to, ix, 92
poetical epistle to, xi, 7
remarks on, ib. 5
account of, i, 54
Dryden’s controversy with, ib. 94
Lord, infamous conduct of, ix, 278
Hudibras, author of, unrewarded by the court, x, 250
at court, ib. 250
Hughes’s verses, occasioned by reading Dryden’s Fables, xviii, 227
Huguenot refugee clergy, not all of the same communion, x. 203, 244
Human body, measures of, xvii, 424
Hume’s account of the rise of the Quakers, x, 141
Humours, Shadwell’s, what meant by, x, 396, i, 261
Humourists, dramatis personæ of, x, 452
extract from epilogue to, ib. 456
Hungary, breach of treaty, and death of Ladislaus, king of, vii, 184
Hunt, Thomas, account of, ib. 127
Husband his own Cuckold, epilogue to, x, 423
Hyde, Lord Chancellor, verses to, ix, 65
Anne, vide York, Duchess of
Laurence, vide Rochester, Earl of
Hymn for St John’s Eve, translation of by Dryden, i, 344
I.
James I. state of learning in England on the accession of, i, 5
false taste in age of, ib. 9
play of words in age of, ib. 10
traditionary anecdote of, ib. 13
attached to the sports of the chace, viii, 451
account of one of the revels of, ib. 452
II. titles of poems on accession of, x, 59
character of addresses on accession of, ib. 110
professions of at accession of, ib. 262
declaration of concerning the church of England, ib. 262
relief given by to the French exiled Protestants, x, 264
character of, ib. 226, 265
poetical addresses to on the birth of a son of, ib. 286
birth of son of said to be spurious, ib. 286
believed by the Papists miraculous, ib. 285, 302
pregnancy of queen of ridiculed, ib. 303
account of the birth of son of by Smollet, ib. 305
vide York, Duke of
Eleanor, account of, x, 116
author of a Vindication of the Church of England, ib. 116
John, extract from poem of, ix, 164
Japan, island of, description of, xvi, 290
government of, ib. 291
religion of, ib. 292
language of, ib. 295
Idylliums of Theocritus, translations from, xii, 285-307
Jervas, poetical epistle to, xvii, 282
Jesuits, establishment of in England, x, 255
Iliad of Homer, Book I. translations from, xii, 357
moral not intended in, xiv, 134
Tasso’s imitation of, xiii, 17
Illegitimate children of Charles II. ix, 250
Illiberality of Stillingfleet and Dryden, x, 251
Imitation of Cowley, ix, 191
in translation, what, xii, 12
of Homer by Virgil, xiv, 182
Immunities of the city of London defended, vii, 127
Impossible to translate verbally, xii, 12
Imprisonment and acquittal of the Earl of Shaftesbury, ix, 409
Indelicacy of the stage in the age of Dryden, i, 417
Independents, description of, x, 140
Infallibility, not in the Pope alone, ib. 164-187
Indian Queen, a tragedy, ii. 201
remarks on, ib. 203
prologue to, ib. 205
epilogue to, ib. 255
Indian Emperor, a tragedy, ii, 257
dedication to, ib. 259
remarks on, ib. 290
prologue to, ib. 295
epilogue to, ib. 377
connection of to the Indian Queen, ib. 293
Inaccuracy of Dryden with regard to Sir Philip Sydney, xiii, 18
Indelicacy of Lucretius, xii, 276
Infamous conduct of Lord Howard, ix, 278
Innocent Traitor, extract from, ix, 198
Inscription, burlesque, to be placed under Sir Richard Blackmore’s picture, viii, 445
Inscription under Milton’s picture, xi, 160
Insolence of the Dutch, ix, 162
Instruction, the end of all poetry, vi, 246
Instructions of St Francis Xavier to missionaries, xvi, 228
Insurrection of Count Teckeli, x, 387
Integral parts of a play, Aristotle’s distinction of, xv, 312
Interment of St Francis Xavier, xvi, 456
Intrigue, comedies of, introduced, i, 76
of Dryden with Mrs Reeves, ib. 87
Invention, necessary both to painting and poetry, xvii, 318
the first part of painting, xvii, 347, 410
John’s (St) Eve, hymn for, i, 344
Johnson, Samuel, account of, ix, 369
Jones, Sir William, account of, ib. 278
Jonson, Ben, character of by Dryden, iii, 222
Shadwell an imitator of, x, 456
a metaphysical poet, i, 11
traditionary anecdote of, ib. 13
attack of on Shakespeare, xv, 344
Journal of Captain Christopher Gunman, extract from, i, 301
Iphis and Ianthe, fable of, xii, 116
Iron Age, from Ovid, xii, 68
Irreligion of Polybius, xviii, 46
Irruption of the Bishop of Munster into the United States, ix, 165
Iter Boreale of Dr Robert Wild, xv, 296
Judah Betrayed, a poem, extract from, ix, 266
Judgment of Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy on the works of the principal painters of the two last ages, xvii, 489
Judicial astrology, Dryden’s belief in, xviii, 207
Jupiter cannot alter the decrees of the fates, xv, 103
Juvenal, translations from, xiii, 1-202
and Horace, comparison between, xiii, 78
First Satire of translated, ib. 119
Third, ib. 130
Sixth, ib. 148
Tenth, ib. 178
Sixteenth, ib. 198
K.
Keis, Robert, anecdote of, vol. i. 23
Ket’s insurrection defeated, v, 181
Killigrew, Dr Henry, account of, xi, 106
Mrs Anne, account of, ib. 102
Elegy to the memory of, ib. 105
remarks on, ib. 102
Kind Keeper, a comedy, vi, 1
King Arthur, or the British Worthy, a Dramatic Opera, viii, 107
remarks on, ib. 109
prologue to, ib. 122
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 113
epilogue to, ib. 178
King James I. attached to the sports of the chace, viii, 451
account of one of the revels of, ib. 452
II., vide Duke of York, and James II.
King William, Titus Oates pensioned by, viii, 464
King, confuting arguments used by, disrespect of his person, x, 252
King and Queen, Epilogue to, ib. 393
dedication to the, xvii, 81
of France, dedication to, ib. 89
King’s speech to Oxford Parliament versified, ix, 309
power of granting pardon after condemnation questioned, ix, 310
Head clubs, account of, ib. 380
House, epilogue for, x, 362
and Duke’s players united, ib. 393
company of players, Dryden’s contract with, i, 162
right of the Pope over, x, 19
Kneller, Sir Godfrey, poetical epistle to, xi, 85
account of, ib. 84
character of, ib. 89
Knight’s Tale, or Palamon and Arcite, xi, 241
by Chaucer, xii, iii
L.
Ladislaus, King of Hungary, breach of treaty, and death of, vol. vii, 184
Lady in the Arbour, a fable, xi, 356
Lancashire Witches, reception of, vii, 15
account of, ib. 142
machinery of, x, 382
Landen, behaviour of the Duke of Ormond at, xi, 202
Lanfranc, character of, xvii, 497
Langbaine’s account of Lodowick Carlell, x, 404
Language of Spenser obsolete, xiii, 19
of Japan, xvi, 295
Lansdowne, Lord, account of, xi, 63
Last period of the life of Dryden, i, 439
Settle, ib. 273
Lauderdale, Duke of, examination of Bishop Burnet concerning, x, 274
Earl of, character of, translation of Virgil by, xiv, 223
Laureat, a poem, x, 104
Dryden appointed to the office of, i, 115
Laws of the stage observed more exactly by the French than the English, xv, 336
Lawson, Sir John, account of, ix, 161
Lawyers, cruel doctrine of, xv, 297
Layman’s faith, or Religio Laici, an epistle, x, 1
League in France, and Covenant in England, parallel between, i, 281
specimen of translation of history of, xvii, 77
history of, author’s dedication to, ib. 89
Learning in England, on the accession of James I. i, 5
Lee, Nat. verses to Mr Dryden by, v. 103
share of in the tragedy of Œdipus, vi, 117
poetical epistle to on his tragedy of the Rival Queens, xi, 23
remarks on, ib. 22
account of the death of, ib. 22
Lee, Eleonora, vide Abingdon, Countess of
Leeds, Duke of, vide Danby, Earl of
Leicester, Earl of, epistle dedicatory to, vii, 283
account of, ib. 283
Leigh, Richard, Dryden’s controversy with, i, 157
Lely, Sir Peter, account of, xii, 267
Letter of Lady Elizabath Dryden to Dr Busby, xviii. 97
Mr John Dennis to Dryden, ib. 111
Jacob Tonson to Dryden, ib. 106
Samuel Pepys to Dryden, ib. 156
Charles Dryden to Corinna, i. 213
and verses of Milbourne to Jacob Tonson, viii, 5
and note on a passage in Creech’s Lucretius, xviii, 94
Letters of Dryden, xviii, 83
remarks on, ib. 85
to Madam Honor Dryden, xviii, 86
to the Earl of Rochester, ib. 89, 101
to the Reverend Dr Busby, ib. 96, 98
to Mr Jacob Tonson, ib. 103, 109, 118, 119, 121, 122, 123, 124, 126, 127, 128, 130, 136, 137, 138
to Mr Dennis, ib. 114
to his sons at Rome, ib. 131
to Mrs Steward, ib. 141, 144, 146, 147, 149, 150, 153, 156, 157, 161, 169, 171, 174, 178, 180
to Elmes Steward, Esq. xviii, 143
to Samuel Pepys, Esq. ib. 154
to the Right Hon. Charles Montague, ib. 159
to Mrs Elizabath Thomas, junior, ib. 164, 167, 173
Leveson Gower, Sir William, account of, viii, 7
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 7
Libels against Dryden, occasioned by the publication of the Hind and Panther, x, 104
Liberty of conscience, declaration for, x, 279
Licence in personal satire, xv, 218
Life of John Dryden, i, 1
descent and parentage of, ib. 21
anecdotes of the brothers and sisters of, ib. 25
birth of, i, 27
education of, ib. 27
first poems of, ib. 28
is admitted of Trinity College, Cambridge, ib. 28
punished for contumacy, ib. 29
long residence of at the university, ib. 31
degree of Master of Arts of, xviii, 185
Sir Gilbert Pickering’s clerk, i, 36
death of Cromwell, the first theme of, ib. 38
first poem of consequence of, ix, 83
poems of on the Restoration, i, 50
changes the spelling of his name, ib. 53
is chosen a member of the Royal Society, ib. 56
imitates the style of Davenant, ib. 59
commencement of dramatic career of, ib. 80
first appearance of the Wild Gallant, ib. 80
Rival Ladies, ib. 81
Indian Queen, ib. 83
Indian Emperor, ib. 84
intrigue of with Mrs Reeves, ib. 87
marriage of, ib. 88
Essay of Dramatic Poesy, appearance of, ib. 92
controversy of with Sir Robert Howard, ib. 94
contract of with the King’s Company of Players, ib. 101
appearance of the Maiden Queen of, ib. 104
Tempest, ib. 105
Sir Martin Mar-all, ib. 107
the Mock Astrologer, ib. 109
Royal Martyr, ib. 110
Conquest of Granada, ib. 112
promoted to the offices of poet-laureat and historiographer-royal, ib. 115
patent of, as poet-laureat and historiographer-royal, xviii, 187
appearance of Marriage A-la-mode, i, 143
the Assignation, ib. 146
—controversy with Matthew Clifford, i, 154
Richard Leigh, ib. 157
Edward Ravenscroft, ib. 160
Elkanah Settle, ib. 259
Rochester, ib. 195
appearance of Massacre of Amboyna, ib. 163
State of Innocence, ib. 166
Aurenge-Zebe, i, 209
is assaulted in Rose-street, ib. 204
meditates an epic poem, ib. 215
appearance of All for Love, ib. 218
Limberham, ib, 221
Œdipus, ib. 222
Troilus and Cressida, ib. 223
the Spanish Friar of, ib. 227
relations of when he composed the Spanish Friar, ib. 233
anecdote of with Southerne, ib. 237
engages in politics, ib. 239
appearance of Absalom and Achitophel, Part I. ib. 243
the Medal, ib. 250
extracts from answer to, ix, 452
controversy of with Shadwell, i, 259, 286
causes of enmity between Shadwell and, x, 472
appearance of Mac-Flecknoe, a satire, i, 266
Absalom and Achitophel, Part II. ib. 268
assisted by Nahum Tate in, ix, 315
effect of the satirical poetry of on English poetry, i, 275
character of, as a satirist, ib. 279
share of in the composition of the Duke of Guise, ib. 281
furnishes a Preface to the translation of Plutarch’s Lives, ib. 289
translates the History of the League, ib. 290
appearance of the First Miscellany of, ib. 294
commencement of Southerne’s friendship with, ib. 294
Memorial of to the Earl of Rochester, ib. 296
appearance of Threnodia Augustales of, ib. 299
—appearance of Albion and Albanius, i, 299
becomes a convert to the Roman Catholic faith, ib. 303
reasons which might influence him in his change of religious opinions, ib. 303
sincere in his attachment to the Catholic faith, ib. 322
controversy of with Stillingfleet, ib. 323, xviii, 187
illiberality of Dryden and Stillingfleet, x, 251
appearance of the Hind and the Panther, i, 325
libels occasioned by publication of, x, 104
Hind and Panther, where composed, i, 325
projects a translation of the History of Heresies, ib. 334
appearance of the Life of St Francis Xavier, ib. 336
second volume of Miscellanies, ib. 340
character of translations of by Garth, ib. 340
translation of Te Deum, ib. 343
hymn for St John’s eve, ib. 344
consequences of the Revolution to, ib. 347
poetical attacks against, ib. 350
loses the offices of poet-laureat and historiographer-royal, ib. 354
appearance of Don Sebastian, i. 357
King Arthur, ib. 360
Cleomenes, ib. 362
Love Triumphant, ib. 364
last dramatic work of, viii, 333.
list of plays of, with the respective dates of their being acted and published, i, 367
connections in society of, after the Revolution, ib. 369
indebted to Dorset’s bounty, ib. 370
exaggerated praise of Dorset by, xiii, 15
authority of in Will’s Coffee-house, i, 371
friendship of with Southerne and Congreve, ib. 372
literary friends of, ib. 373
—Dryden attacked by Swift, i, 374
appearance of translation of Juvenal and Persius, ib. 375
smaller pieces, ib. 376
Eleonora, ib. 376
Third Miscellany, ib. 378
controversy of with Rymer, ib. 379
correspondence of with Jacob Tonson, ib. 381
appearance of the translation of Virgil by, ib. 382
Fourth Miscellany, ib. 382
quarrel of with Tonson, ib. 387
anecdote of, ib. 390
and Tonson, ib. 391
dispute of with Milbourne, ib. 394, xi, 237
animadversions of on Milbourne, ib. 403
Ode to St Cecilia, appearance of, ib. 407
set to music by Handel, ib. 410
attacked for his silence on the death of Queen Mary, xviii, 222
translation of Homer meditated by, i, 414
projected works of, xiii, 31
dispute of with Blackmore, i, 420
appearance of Fables, ib. 427
agreement of with Jacob Tonson concerning the Fables, xviii, 191
resentment of against the clergy, i, 428
the Pilgrim brought forward for the benefit of, ib. 434
attack upon Blackmore and Collier, in the Prologue and Epilogue to the Pilgrim, i, 436
last period of the life of, ib. 439
death and funeral of, ib. 440
Mr Russell’s bill for funeral of, xviii, 194
description of funeral of, ib. 195
ludicrous account of the funeral of by Farquhar, i, 441
Mrs Thomas’s letters concerning the death and funeral of, xviii, 200
account of funeral of by Mrs Thomas, false, i, 442
account of funeral of by Tom Brown, ib. 443
character of, ib. 444
character of by Congreve, ii, 9
notices of family of, i, 462
Ode on the death of by Alexander Oldys, xviii, 234
Life of St Francis Xavier, the Apostle of the Indies, xvi, 1
dedication of, ib. 3
writers of, ib. 9
address to the reader by the author of, ib. 8.
his birth, ib. 15
education, ib. 16
teaches philosophy, ib. 19
conversion, ib. 24
arrives at Rome, ib. 29
at Lisbon, ib. 46
departs for the Indies ib. 58.
arrives at Mozambique, ib. 63
at Goa, ib. 71
visits Cape Comorin, ib. 82
miracles of, ib. 83, 89, 91, 99, 111, 113, 131, 155, 163—to 466
converts the Paravas, ib. 101
returns to Goa, ib. 101
visits Comorin, ib. 107
goes to Cochin, ib. 124
Negapatam, ib. 133
Meliapor, ib. 138
Malacca, ib. 150
Amboyna, ib. 158
Isle del Moro, ib. 176
returns to Amboyna, ib. 186
Malacca, ib. 190
arrives at Cochin, ib. 219
visits the Paravas, ib. 226
his instructions to missionaries, ib. 228
visits Ceylon, ib. 233
Goa, ib. 234
baptises a Japonese, ib. 238
visits the Coast of Fishery, ib. 248
returns to Goa, ib. 249
resolves to go to Japan, ib. 249
his instructions to Gasper Barzeus, ib. 254
—sails for Japan, xvi, 276
visits Cochin, ib. 276
Malacca, ib. 276
his instructions to Juan Bravo, ib. 279
arrives at Japan, ib. 287
waits on the king of Saxuma, ib. 297
is treated with honour, ib. 297
receives permission to teach the Christian religion, ib. 297
visits the Bonzas, ib. 299
Bonzas oppose the Christian faith, ib. 301
miracle, ib. 302
arrives at Firando, ib. 312
Amanguchi, ib. 313
Macao, ib. 319
returns to Amanguchi, ib. 321
visits Fugheo, and reception by the king, ib. 343
disputes with a Bonza, ib. 362, 369
leaves Japan, ib. 379
arrives at Cochin, ib. 395
at Goa, ib. 396
affairs of Goa in his absence, ib. 403
engages in a voyage to China, ib. 410
departs from Goa, ib. 421
arrives at Malacca, ib. 422
miracles at Malacca, ib. 423
arrives at the isle of Sancian, ib. 437
means fail him for his passage into China, ib. 451
his sickness, ib. 452
death, ib. 455
interment, ib. 456
disinterred, ib. 457
and carried to Goa, ib. 465
funeral procession, ib. 465
miracles wrought by the dead body, ib. 466.
qualifications, ib. 471
beatification and canonization, ib. 531
Life of St Francis Xavier, an authentic testimony of the truth of the Gospel, ib. 535
Life of Virgil, xiii. 297
his birth, ib. 298
education, ib. 300
visits Rome, ib. 301
is introduced to Octavius, ib. 302
visits Athens, ib. 306
loses his patrimony, ib. 307
recovers his patrimony, ib. 309
in favour with Augustus, ib, 313
Pastorals, ib. 310
Georgics, ib. 311
Æneis, ib. 316
sickness and death of, ib. 321
Life of Cleomenes, viii. 207
Plutarch, xvii, 1
remarks on, ib. 3
birth, ib. 19
education, ib. 23
travels, ib. 27
religion ib. 31
marriage, ib. 39
children, ib. 39
visits Rome, ib. 45
letter to Trojan, ib. 49
his Lives, ib. 51
chosen Archon of Chæronea, ib. 51
other works, ib. 52
Life of Lucian, xviii, 53
remarks on, ib. 55
Congreve, by Wilson, Extract from, ib. 200
Lilburn, John, account of, vi. 363
Lillie, John, share of in determining the taste of the age of Queen Elizabeth, i. 7
Lilly, the astrologer, x. 263
Limberham, or the Kind Keeper, a comedy, vi. 1
remarks on, ib. 3
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 6
prologue to, ib. 13
epilogue to, ib. 114
Lindsay, Earl of, account of, v. 304
List of Dryden’s Plays, with the respective dates of their being acted and published, i, 367
List of the Nine Worthies, xi, 372
Literary friends of Dryden, i, 373
pursuits, effect of the Revolution upon, i, 385
London, immunities of city of defended, vii, 127
plague in city of, in 1665, ix, 189
city of, dedication to, ix, 89
fire of, conduct of Charles II. on, ix. 187
dreadful effects of, ib. 189
Love in a Nunnery, a comedy, iv, 343
Love Triumphant, or Nature will Prevail, a tragic comedy, viii. 331
remarks on, ib. 333
Dryden’s last Dramatic work, ib. 333
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 337
prologue to, ib. 344
epilogue to, ib. 435
Love’s Kingdom, a pastoral tragi-comedy, extract from, x, 453
Love, description of, xiv. 173
Loyal Feast defeated, extracts from poem of, ix, 390
apprentices dinner, ib. 396
Medal vindicated, extracts from, ib. 423
cause, military chiefs of the city attached to, ib. 451
Brother, prologue to, x, 374
anecdote of, ib. 370
epilogue to, ib. 377
Loyalty of the church of England, x, 154
Lucian, life of, xviii, 53
remarks on, ib. 55
first profession of, ib. 60
teaches rhetoric, and studies law, ib. 61
death of, ib. 61
religion of, ib. 63
character of, ib. 70
murder of, by Rufinus, ib. 57
Lucilius, the satirist, character of, xiii, 58
Lucretius, character of, xii, 272
indelicacy of, ib. 276
translations from, xii, 307-337
beginning of 1st book, xii, 311
2d, ib. 314
3d, ib. 317
4th, ib. 326
5th, ib. 337
Lucretius of Creech, note and letter concerning, xviii, 94
Lute and Sword, combination of, ridiculed, x, 450
Lycidas and Mæris, a pastoral, xiii, 413
Lyrical Pieces, Odes, Songs, xi, 63
M.
Macareus, epistle to, xii, 21
Mac-Flecknoe, a satire against Thomas Shadwell, x, 425
remarks on, ib. 427
character of, i, 266
one of the keenest satires in the English language, ib. 429
its object misconstrued by Dryden’s editors, ib. 432
notes on, ib. 441
Machinery of the Christian religion more feeble than that of the Heathen, in poetry, xiii, 23
Guardian Angels, ib. 26
the Æneis, xiv, 193
in the Lancashire Witches, x, 382
Mackenzie, Sir George, account of, xiii, 111
Mæcenas, character of, xiii, 307
Maiden Queen, or Secret Love, a comedy, ii, 379
lady, epitaph on, xi, 158
Maimbourg, Lewis, account of, xvii, 182
history of Calvinism of, x, 30
Malacca, account of, xvi, 150
defeat of the Mahometans at, ib. 211
Malone’s account of the Whip and Key, ix, 425
History of the English Stage, extract from, xi, 58
Man of Mode, character of, x, 339
Epilogue to, ib. 339
Mar-all, Sir Martin, a comedy, iii, 1
Maritime affairs, skill of Charles II. in, ix, 160
Mar-prelate, Martin, account of, x, 27
Marriage of Dryden, i, 88
Marriage A-la-mode, a comedy, iv, 231
remarks on, ib. 233
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 235
prologue to, ib. 241
epilogue to, ib. 342
character of, i, 143
Marquis of Clare, vide Haughton, Lord
Halifax, account of, viii, 113, ix, 305
epistle dedicatory to, viii, 113
Worcester, vide Beaufort, Duke of
Winchester, epitaph on, xi, 154
account of, ib. 152
Normanby, dedication to, xiv, 127
vide Buckingham, Duke of
Marvel’s Growth of Popery, ix, 420
description of Richard Flecknoe, x, 441
Massacre of Pans, transposed for the Duke of Guise, vii, 188
Amboyna, character of, i, 164
Mason, Mr, poetical epistle of, xvii, 284
Master of Arts, Dryden’s degree of, xviii, 185
Masque of Calisto, dramatis personæ of, x, 337
Meal-tub Plot, Waller’s discovery of, ix, 382
Measures of the human body, xvii, 424
Mechanical genius of Charles II. ix. 60
The Medal, or a satire against Sedition, ix, 407
remarks on, ib. 409
publications in opposition to, ib. 415
character of, i, 250
reply to, i, 255
Medal, Bower’s, of the Earl of Shaftesbury, ix, 412
Meleager and Atalante, xii, 96
Melibæus, a pastoral, xiii, 402
Memorial of Dryden to the Earl of Rochester, i,296
Metamorphoses, Ovid’s, translations from, xii, 43-227
Book I. ib. 63
the Golden Age, ib. 66
the Silver Age, ib. 67
the Brazen Age, ib. 68
the Iron Age, ib. 68
Giants’ War, ib. 69
of Daphne into a laurel, xii, 81
Io into an heifer, ib. 85
the eyes of Argus into a peacock’s train, ib. 90
Syrinx into reeds, ib, 91
of Æacus into a cormorant, xii, 154
Metamorphoses, Book XII. ib. 156
Metaphrase translation, what, ib. 11
Metaphysical poet, what, i, 10
poetry favoured by the public till the beginning of the civil wars, i, 12
poets, Cowley the most ingenious of, i, 16
neglected harmony of numbers, ib. 17
Mexico, Conquest of, a tragedy, ii, 257
Middleton, Earl of, Etherege’s Epistle to, xi, 40
Milbourne, Luke, account of, i, 394
letter of, and verses to Mr Tonson on Amphitryon, viii, 5
attack on Dryden, xi, 158
dispute of with Dryden, i, 394
an admirer of Dryden, i, 395
translation of Virgil by, character of, i, 397
criticism by, of Dryden’s Virgil, specimen of, i, 397
Military chiefs of the city, attached to the loyal cause, ix, 451
Milled money, not struck in England before 1663, ib. 451
Milton, John, character of, xiii, 19
difference between the taste of Dryden and, i, 168
not swayed by the conceits of his time, i, 16
inscription under picture of, xi, 160
Miracles of St Francis Xavier, xvi, 83, 89, 91, 99, 111, 113, 131, 155, 163, &c.
Miscellany, first, of Dryden, appearance of, i, 294
second, ib. 340
third, ib. 378
fourth, ib. 382
Missionaries, Catholic, diligence of, in converting the Heathen, x, 192
St Francis Xavier’s instructions to, xvi, 228
Mistake of Dryden concerning the tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex, ii, 118
The Mistakes, prologue to, x, 408
Mistake concerning the dedication of Orpheus Britannicus, xi, 146
Mithridates, epilogue to, x, 341, 354
Mock Astrologer, a comedy, iii, 207
Moderate divines, what, x, 242
Modern satire, definition of, xiii, 105
Moliere, Psyche, an opera, imitated from, x, 448
Money, milled, not struck in England before 1663, ix, 451
Monmouth and Buccleuch, Duchess of, account of, ii, 250, ix, 256
dedication to, ii, 259
Monmouth, Duke of, account of, ix, 250
epistle dedicatory to, in, 346
reception of, in an excursion through England, ix, 288
partizans of, designs of, x, 364
and Duke of Guise, no parallel intended between, vii, 144
Montague, Hon. Charles, letter of Dryden to, xviii, 159
Montague and Prior, parody of the Hind and Panther of, x, 91
Montfort, Mrs, character of, iv, 233
Monument in the church at Tichmarsh, xviii, 215
Moor, Sir John, account of, ix, 402
Moral not intended by Homer in the Iliad, xiv, 134
of the Æneid, ib. 150
disputed by Heyne, ib. 150
Mordaunt, Charles, vide Earl of Peterborough
Morley, Dr George, account of, xvii, 182
Motteux, Peter Anthony, poetical epistle to, xi, 69
remarks on, ib. 67
account of, ib. 67
Motteux’s account of St Cecilia’s Festival, xi, 166
Mountfort the comedian, character of, x, 412
Moveable scenes introduced on the stage, i, 79
Moyle, Walter, account of, xviii, 76
Mozambique, description of, xvi, 63
Mulgrave, Earl of, account of, v, 174
character of, ib. 175
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 174
vide Buckingham, Duke of
Munster, irruption of the Bishop of, into the United States, ix, 165
Murder of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey, ix, 285
Thomas Thynne, Esq. ib. 292
Lucian by Rufinus, xviii, 57
Music, Shadwell’s proficiency in, x, 448
Ode to St Cecilia set to, by Handel, i, 410
Mysteries or religious plays, origin of, xv, 247
N.
Naboth’s Vineyard, or the Innocent Traitor, extracts from, ix, 198
Names of the English fleet changed, ib. 48
Nature will Prevail, a tragi-comedy, viii, 331
of satire, xiii, 37
Naugeria, Andrew, anecdote of, vi, 370
Neander, Dryden’s feigned appellation, xv, 283
Neptune, pilots’ prayer to, vii, 17
New House, epilogue spoken at opening of the, x, 326
Newcastle, Duke of, account of, iii, 209
Congreve’s dedication to, ii, 5
epistle dedicatory to, iii, 209
Duchess of, account of, iii, 210
Nicholas V. Pope, character of, xviii, 24
panegyric on, ib. 25
Niggardliness of booksellers, xv, 194
Nine Worthies, life of the, xi, 372
Nokes, the comedian, description of, xi, 50
Nonnes Priestes Tale, by Chaucer, xii, liii
Non-resistance, decree of the University of Oxford concerning, x, 241
Normanby, Marquis of, dedication to, xiv, 127
vide Mulgrave, Earl of, and Buckingham, Duke of
North’s description of Titus Oates, ix, 355
opinion of Shaftesbury’s designs upon the person and authority of Charles II. ix, 451
Northleigh, John, poetical epistle to, xi, 37
remarks on, ib. 85
account of, ib. 35
Note concerning Polybius, xviii, 19
Notes on Heroic Stanzas to the Memory of Oliver Cromwell, ix, 15
on Astrea Redux, ix, 41
Panegyric on the Coronation of Charles II. ib. 59
Verses to the Duchess of York, ib. 79
Absalom and Achitophel, Part I. ib. 249
Part II. ib. 354
Threnodia Augustalis, x, 79
the Hind and Panther, Part I. ib. 139
II. ib. 185
III. ib. 240
Britannia Rediviva, ib. 302
Mac-Flecknoe, a satire, ib. 441
the satires of Persius, xiii, 217, 227, 239, 248, 262, 274
Æneis of Virgil, xiv, 262, 322, 353, 424, 461, xv, 29, 62, 102, 183
and observations on Empress of Morocco, preface to, xv, 401, 405
postscript to, ib. 409
upon Dryden’s poems, extract of, i, 154
Notices of Dryden’s family, ib. 462
Nottingham, Earl of, account of, ix, 400
O.
Oates, Titus, account of, vol. ix, 282
pensioned by King William, viii, 464
North’s description of, ix, 355
fate of, ib. 356
Obscurity of Persius, xiii, 72
Observations on Du Fresnoy’s Art of Painting, xvii, 392
Obsolete language of Spenser, xiii, 19
Oblivion, act of, ix, 50
Odes, Songs, and Lyrical Pieces, xi, 161-191
on the death of Charles II., titles of some of, x, 59
Ode on the death of Mr Purcell, xi, 148
remarks on, ib. 145
in honour of St Cecilia’s day, ib. 183
set to music by Handel, i, 410
circumstances concerning composition of, i, 408
on the death of Dryden, xviii, 234
Œdipe of Corneille, character of, vi, 119
Œdipus, a tragedy, ib. 115
remarks on, ib. 117
preface to, ib. 124
prologue to, ib. 128
epilogue to, ib. 222
Tyrannus, of Sophocles, character of, ib. 117
Coloneus, character of, ib. 117
Ogleby, account of, x, 452
Old Testament, critical history of, x, 32
Oldham, John, account of, xi, 98
extract from the works of, ib. 100
elegy to the memory of, ib. 99
Oldys, Alexander, ode of, on the death of Dryden, xviii, 234
Opera of the State of Innocence, v, 89
Albion and Albanius, vii, 209
King Arthur, viii, 107
Opinion of Sir John Denham on verbal translation, xii, 14
Opinions of Freethinkers, x, 143
Order for the reformation of the stage, xviii, 152
Origin and nature of satire, xiii, 37
of dramatic performances among the Romans, xiii, 51
of mysteries or religious plays, xv, 247
Original prologue to Circe, x, 333
Tales of Chaucer, modernized by Dryden, xii, i-xci
prose works of Dryden, xv, 281
Originality of Shadwell, x, 418
Ormond, Duke of, account of, ix, 294, xi, 195
dedication to, ib. 195, xvii, 5
behaviour of, at the battle of Landen, xi, 202
Duchess of, dedication to, xi, 245
Orpheus Britannicus, dedication of, ib. 146
Orrery, Earl of, account of, ii, 113
dedication to, ib. 113
Osburne, Sir Thomas, vide Danby, Earl of
Ossory, Earl of, account of, ix, 299
Otho, character of, ib. 43
Ovid, account of, xii, 4
causes of the banishment of, ib. 5, 7
character of works of, ib. 8
epistles of, ib. 11
Ovid and Chaucer, parallel between, xi, 214
Ovid’s epistles, translations from, xii, 1-41
preface to, ib. 3
Epistle xi. Canace to Macareus, ib. 21
xvii. Helen to Paris, ib. 26
vii. Dido to Æneas, ib. 35
Metamorphoses, translations from, xii, 43-227
dedication to, ib. 47
remarks on, ib. 45
first book of, xii, 63
Golden Age, ib. 66
Silver Age, ib. 67
Brazen Age, ib. 68
Iron Age, ib. 68
Giant’s war, ib. 69
twelfth book of, ib. 156
Art of Love, translations from, xii, 229
Amours, translations from, ib. 257, 259
Oxford, University of, decree of, concerning non-resistance, x, 241
prologues spoken to, ib. 328, 358, 378, 385
epilogues spoken to, ib. 330, 360, 381
Parliament, King’s speech to versified, ix, 309
P.
Pacurius, the satirist, character of, xiii, 58
Pages, the sons of gentlemen, viii, 338
Painter, advice to a young, xvii, 377, 468
Painters of the two last ages, judgment of C.A. Du Fresnoy on, xvii, 489
Painting, Art of, xvii, 279, 339
and poetry, parallel of, ib. 286
invention necessary to, ib. 313
what is beautiful in, ib. 343
invention the first part of, ib. 347, 410
design the second part of, xvii, 349, 420
colouring the third part of, ib. 361, 450
passions to be expressed in, ib. 359
Palæmon, a pastoral, xiii, 378
Palæmon and Arcite, or the Knight’s tale, xi, 241
remarks on, ib. 243
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
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

IV.

V.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

No. X. TO THE MEMORY OF MR DRYDEN, A POEM.

No. XI. EXTRACT FROM POETÆ BRITANNICI. A POEM, SATIRICAL AND PANEGYRICAL.

No. XII. SOME ACCOUNT OF THE NINE MUSES; Or, Poems written by nine several Ladies, upon the death of the late famous John Dryden, Esq.

No. XIII. VERSES IN PRAISE OF MR DRYDEN. To Mr Dryden, by Jo. Addison, Esq.

INDEX.

No. X.
TO THE
MEMORY OF MR DRYDEN,
A POEM.

No. XI.
EXTRACT
FROM
POETÆ BRITANNICI.
A POEM, SATIRICAL AND PANEGYRICAL.

No. XII.
SOME ACCOUNT
OF
THE NINE MUSES;
Or, Poems written by nine several Ladies, upon the death of the late famous John Dryden, Esq.

No. XIII.
VERSES
IN PRAISE OF MR DRYDEN.
To Mr Dryden, by Jo. Addison, Esq.