No More Learning

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.