55
first profession of, ib.
first profession of, ib.
Dryden - Complete
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
Life of John Dryden,--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.
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
Life of John Dryden,--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.
