276
infamous of Lord Howard, ib.
infamous of Lord Howard, ib.
Dryden - Complete
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.
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.
