439
to the Duke of Guise, vii, 19
Lenten, extract from, vii, 131
Prologue to Albion and Albanus, vii, 228
Don Sebastian, vii, 302
spoken the first day of the King’s House acting after the fire,
x, 319
for the women, when they acted at the old theatre,
Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields, x, 321
spoken at the opening of the new house, x, 323
to the University of Oxford, x, 328
original to Circe, x, 333
to Circe, as corrected by Dryden, x, 335
to the True Widow, x, 345
Cæsar Borgia, x, 347
to Lee’s Sophonisba, x, 350
ib.
to the Duke of Guise, vii, 19
Lenten, extract from, vii, 131
Prologue to Albion and Albanus, vii, 228
Don Sebastian, vii, 302
spoken the first day of the King’s House acting after the fire,
x, 319
for the women, when they acted at the old theatre,
Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields, x, 321
spoken at the opening of the new house, x, 323
to the University of Oxford, x, 328
original to Circe, x, 333
to Circe, as corrected by Dryden, x, 335
to the True Widow, x, 345
Cæsar Borgia, x, 347
to Lee’s Sophonisba, x, 350
ib.
Dryden - Complete
441
the satires of Persius, xiii, 217, 227, 239, 248, 262, 274
Æneis of Virgil, xiv, 262, 322, 353, 424, 461, xv, 29, 62, 102, 183
and observations on Empress of Morocco, preface to, xv, 401, 405
postscript to, ib. 409
upon Dryden’s poems, extract of, i, 154
Notices of Dryden’s family, ib. 462
Nottingham, Earl of, account of, ix, 400
O.
Oates, Titus, account of, vol. ix, 282
pensioned by King William, viii, 464
North’s description of, ix, 355
fate of, ib. 356
Obscurity of Persius, xiii, 72
Observations on Du Fresnoy’s Art of Painting, xvii, 392
Obsolete language of Spenser, xiii, 19
Oblivion, act of, ix, 50
Odes, Songs, and Lyrical Pieces, xi, 161-191
on the death of Charles II. , titles of some of, x, 59
Ode on the death of Mr Purcell, xi, 148
remarks on, ib. 145
in honour of St Cecilia’s day, ib. 183
set to music by Handel, i, 410
circumstances concerning composition of, i, 408
on the death of Dryden, xviii, 234
Œdipe of Corneille, character of, vi, 119
Œdipus, a tragedy, ib. 115
remarks on, ib. 117
preface to, ib. 124
prologue to, ib. 128
epilogue to, ib. 222
Tyrannus, of Sophocles, character of, ib. 117
Coloneus, character of, ib. 117
Ogleby, account of, x, 452
Old Testament, critical history of, x, 32
Oldham, John, account of, xi, 98
extract from the works of, ib. 100
elegy to the memory of, ib. 99
Oldys, Alexander, ode of, on the death of Dryden, xviii, 234
Opera of the State of Innocence, v, 89
Albion and Albanius, vii, 209
King Arthur, viii, 107
Opinion of Sir John Denham on verbal translation, xii, 14
Opinions of Freethinkers, x, 143
Order for the reformation of the stage, xviii, 152
Origin and nature of satire, xiii, 37
of dramatic performances among the Romans, xiii, 51
of mysteries or religious plays, xv, 247
Original prologue to Circe, x, 333
Tales of Chaucer, modernized by Dryden, xii, i-xci
prose works of Dryden, xv, 281
Originality of Shadwell, x, 418
Ormond, Duke of, account of, ix, 294, xi, 195
dedication to, ib. 195, xvii, 5
behaviour of, at the battle of Landen, xi, 202
Duchess of, dedication to, xi, 245
Orpheus Britannicus, dedication of, ib. 146
Orrery, Earl of, account of, ii, 113
dedication to, ib. 113
Osburne, Sir Thomas, vide Danby, Earl of
Ossory, Earl of, account of, ix, 299
Otho, character of, ib. 43
Ovid, account of, xii, 4
causes of the banishment of, ib. 5, 7
character of works of, ib. 8
epistles of, ib. 11
Ovid and Chaucer, parallel between, xi, 214
Ovid’s epistles, translations from, xii, 1-41
preface to, ib. 3
Epistle xi. Canace to Macareus, ib. 21
xvii. Helen to Paris, ib. 26
vii. Dido to Æneas, ib. 35
Metamorphoses, translations from, xii, 43-227
dedication to, ib. 47
remarks on, ib. 45
first book of, xii, 63
Golden Age, ib. 66
Silver Age, ib. 67
Brazen Age, ib. 68
Iron Age, ib. 68
Giant’s war, ib. 69
twelfth book of, ib. 156
Art of Love, translations from, xii, 229
Amours, translations from, ib. 257, 259
Oxford, University of, decree of, concerning non-resistance, x, 241
prologues spoken to, ib. 328, 358, 378, 385
epilogues spoken to, ib. 330, 360, 381
Parliament, King’s speech to versified, ix, 309
P.
Pacurius, the satirist, character of, xiii, 58
Pages, the sons of gentlemen, viii, 338
Painter, advice to a young, xvii, 377, 468
Painters of the two last ages, judgment of C. A. Du Fresnoy on, xvii, 489
Painting, Art of, xvii, 279, 339
and poetry, parallel of, ib. 286
invention necessary to, ib. 313
what is beautiful in, ib. 343
invention the first part of, ib. 347, 410
design the second part of, xvii, 349, 420
colouring the third part of, ib. 361, 450
passions to be expressed in, ib. 359
Palæmon, a pastoral, xiii, 378
Palæmon and Arcite, or the Knight’s tale, xi, 241
remarks on, ib. 243
Book I. ib. 252
II. ib. 271
III. ib. 291
dedication to, ib. 245
Panegyric on the coronation of Charles II. ix, 54
remarks on, ib. 53
notes on, ib. 59
on Pope Nicholas V. xviii, 25
Papers found in King Charles II’s strong-box, extract from x, 188
Papist plot, ix, 259
Parabolical signification of the Hind and the Panther, x, 90
criticised, ib. 90
Parallel between Shakespeare and Dryden, v, 287
the story of the Duke of Guise and affairs in England, vii, 4
the Duke of Guise and Monmouth, not intended, ib. 144
political disputes in 1680 and 1681, x, 353
Ovid and Chaucer, xi, 214
Chaucer and Boccace, ib. 233
poetry and painting, xvii, 286
the League in France and the Covenant in England, i, 281
Paraphrase, in translation, what, xii, 12
of the Third Idyllium of Theocritus, xii, 287
of Veni Creator Spiritus, xi, 190
Paris, Epistle to, xii, 26
Pardon, the king’s power of granting, after condemnation questioned,
ix, 310
Parliament, dissolution of by Cromwell, ix, 45
Oxford, king’s speech to versified, ib. 309
Healing, what, x, 71
Parmegiano, character of as a painter, xvii, 495
Parody on part of the Empress of Morocco, xv, 407
the Hind and the Panther, x, 91, i, 330
Parson, character of a good one, xi, 395
Parsons, Robert, account of, x, 20
Particulars regarding the test-act, x, 260
Parting of Hector and Andromache, xii, 382
Parts of a poem, tragedy, or comedy, xv, 386
Party-names, Stillingfleet’s opinion of, x, 243
Paston, Mrs Margaret, epitaph on, xi, 151
Pastorals of Virgil, translated, xiii, 335, 421
dedication of, ib. 337
character of, ib. 339
Tityrus and Melibœus, xiii, 369
Alexis, ib. 374
Palæmon, ib. 378
Pollio, ib. 386
Daphnis, ib. 391
Silenus, ib. 397
Melibœus, ib. 402
Pharmaceutria, ib. 407
Lycidas and Mœris, ib. 413
Gallus, ib. 417
rules to be observed in writing, ib. 355
Pate, William, account of, xviii, 130
Patent of Dryden as poet-laureat and historiographer royal, xviii, 187
Pelham, Thomas, vide Newcastle, Duke of
Penny, John, or Martin Mar-prelate, account of, x, 27
Pension from France received by Charles II. ix, 385
People, concern of for the death of Charles II. x, 79
Pepys, Samuel, account of, xviii, 154
letter of Dryden to, ib. 154
to Dryden, ib. 156
Performers, female, first introduced after the Restoration, x, 321
Personal resemblance of Shadwell to Ben Jonson, i, 265
Personal appearance of Gilbert Burnet, x, 270
Perspective, when known in England, xi, 86
Petrarch, not the inventor of the story of Griselda, xi, 215
Persius, not equal as a satirist to Juvenal and Horace, xiii, 68
obscurity of, ib. 72
Causabon’s commentary on, ib. 72
character of, ib. 75
and Horace, comparison between, ib. 78
translations from, ib. 203-247
First Satire of, ib. 207
notes on, ib. 217
Second Satire of, xiii, 221
notes on, ib. 227
Third Satire of, ib. 230
notes on, ib. 239
Fourth Satire of, ib. 242
notes on, ib. 248
Fifth Satire of, ib. 251
notes on, ib. 262
Sixth Satire of, ib. 267
notes on, ib. 274
Personal satire, abuse of, ib. 281
licence in, xv, 218
Peterborough, Earl of, account of, xv, 189
Pharmaceutria, a pastoral, xiii, 407
Philips, Mrs Katherine, account of, xi, 111
Philosophy of Pythagoras, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, xii, 207
Phylacteries, what, x, 132
Physicians who attended Charles II. ib. 79
Pickering, Sir Gilbert, character of, i, 34
Dryden clerk to, ib. 36
Picture of the Duke of York at Guildhall defaced, vii, 51
Piety, the first quality of a hero, xiv, 161
Piles, Mons. de, preface of to the Art of Painting, xvii, 333
Pilgrim, a comedy, revived for Dryden’s benefit in 1700, i, 434,
viii, 437
prologue written for, ib. 441
song written for, ib. 449
secular masque written for, ib. 455
epilogue written for, ib. 462
Pindar, Cowley’s translation of, xii, 15
Pindaric funeral poem, x, 53
Pilot’s prayer to Neptune, vii, 17
Pitcairn’s epitaph on Viscount Dundee, xi. 114
Pitt’s, William, extract from epistolary poem of, xviii, 218
Place, unity of, what, xv, 306
Plagiarism charged on Shadwell, x, 418
Plague in London in 1665, ix, 189
Play, first one among the Romans, xiii, 54
definition of a, xv, 302
of words, a particular taste in the age of James I. i, 10
Plays of Dryden, list of, with the respective dates of their being
acted
and published, i, 367
Heroic, an Essay on, iv, 16
English superior to French, xv, 349
rhyme unnatural in, ib. 363
serious, defence of rhyme in, ib. 367
effect of in the representation, ib. 393
rhyming or heroic, i, 69
heroic, character of, ib. 118
of Richard Flecknoe, x, 442
Player, Sir Thomas, account of, ix, 361
Players, rival companies of united, x, 393
Dryden’s contract with the King’s Company of, i, 102
Plot of the Papists, ix, 259
Grecian dramas, xv, 313
Roman dramas, ib. 314
Plutarch, Lives of, advertisement to translation of, xvii, 3
preface to, appearance of, i, 289
Life of, xvii, 1
remarks on, ib. 3
birth of, xvii, 19
education of, ib. 23
travels, ib. 27
religion of, ib. 31
marriage of, ib. 39
children of, ib. 39
visits Rome, ib. 45
letter of to Trajan, ib. 49
chosen Archon of Chæronea, ib. 51
his Lives, ib. 51
other works, ib. 52
character of the Lives of, ib. 62
Poem on the restoration of Charles II. ix, 30
birth of the prince, x, 283
an epic one the greatest work of human genius, xiii, 36
parts of, xv, 386
epic, meditated by Dryden, i, 215
epistolary to Dryden, extract from, xviii, 218
Poems, satirical, of Dryden, effect of on English poetry, i, 275
attacking Dryden for his silence on the death of Queen Mary, extract
from, xviii, 222
Poems Historical and Political, ix, 1
of Sprat and Dryden, comparison between, ib. 6
on the accession of James II. titles of some of, x, 59
recommendatory on Dryden’s translation of Virgil, xiii, 289
ascribed to Dryden, xv, 197
advertisement regarding, ib. 199
Poet-Laureat, Dryden appointed to the office of, i, 115
Dryden loses the office of, i, 354
Poetic licence, apology for, v, 105
Poetical addresses to James II. on the birth of a son, x, 286
Poetical Epistles, xi, 1-90
Epistle to John Hoddeson, ib. 4
Sir Robert Howard, ib. 7
Dr Charleton, ib. 14
Lady Castlemain, ib. 20
Mr Lee, ib. 23
the Earl of Roscommon, ib. 28
the Duchess of York, ib. 33
Mr J. Northleigh, ib. 37
Sir George Etherege, ib. 42
Mr Southerne, ib. 50
Henry Higden, ib. 55
Mr Congreve, ib. 59
Mr Granville, ib. 64
Mr Motteux, ib. 69
John Driden, ib. 75
Sir Godfrey Kneller, ib. 85
from Pope to Jervas, xvii, 282
Poetry, Dramatic, Essay on, iv, 211
Heroic, apology for, v, 105
the chief end of instruction, vi, 246
French, character of, xiii, 366
expression in, the same as colouring in a picture, xiv, 210
Art of, xv, 227
remarks on, ib. 229
Elegy, ib. 240
Ode, ib. 240
Pastoral, ib. 238
Epigram, ib. 241
Poetry, Art of, Satire, xv, 243
Tragedy, ib. 245
and painting, parallel of, xvii, 286
of England before the Civil Wars, remarks on, i, 4
study of interrupted by the Civil Wars, ib. 20
Sir William Davenant a restorer of true taste in, ib. 48
character of Homer’s, xii, 59
English, effect of Dryden’s satirical poems upon, i, 275
Poets, metaphysical, what, ib. 10
Cowley the most ingenious of, ib. 15
neglected harmony of numbers, ib. 17
Poland, crown of, Shaftesbury ridiculed as aspiring to, ix, 441
Political and Historical Poems, ib. 1
satire of Reynard the Fox, x, 155
Political affairs, skill of Polybius in, xviii, 31
Politics, Dryden engages in, i, 239
Pollio, a pastoral, xiii, 386
Polybius, the historian, account of, xviii, 26
skill of in political affairs, ib. 31
Marcus Brutus employed in writing an epitome of, ib. 30
character of and of his writings, ib. 17
Shere’s translation of, viii, 203
character of, xviii, 19
Polydore, character of as a painter, xvii, 492
Pope-burning, description of vi, 222
account of, x, 370
right of over kings, ib. 19
infallibility not alone in the, x, 164, 187
treats Castlemaine with contempt, ib. 305
Nicholas V. character of, xviii, 24
panegyric on, ib. 25
Alexander, poetical epistle of, xvii, 282
lines of on the fate of Elkanah Settle, i, 274
Pordage, Samuel, account of, ix, 372
Portsmouth, Duchess of, epigram on picture of, xv, 280
Postscript to the Æneis, ib. 187
History of the League, xvii, 150
Powell’s, George, retort on Dryden, xi, 65
Powlet, John, vide Winchester, Marquis of
Prayer, pilot’s, to Neptune, vii, 17
Preface to the Sullen Lovers, extract from, i, 260
translation of Plutarch’s Lives, appearance of, ib. 289
Blackmore’s Prince Arthur, extract from, ib. 422
the Wild Gallant, a comedy, ii, 17
Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen, ib. 383
the Tempest, iii, 99
an Evening’s Love, ib. 218
Tyrannic Love, ib. 349
All for Love, v, 306
the State of Innocence, ib. 105
Œdipus, vi, 124
Troilus and Cressida, ib. 238
Albion and Albanus, vii, 216
Don Sebastian, ib. 291
Cleomenes, viii, 196
Religio Laici, x, 11
the Hind and the Panther, ib. 109
prefixed to the Fables, xi, 205
to translation of Ovid’s Epistles, xii, 3
on Translation, prefixed to Dryden’s Second Miscellany, ib. 263
the translation of the Pastorals of Virgil, xiii, 345
Notes and Observations on the Empress of Morocco, xv, 401
remarks on, ib. 397
every Husband his own Cuckold, xv, 414
the Art of Painting, by Mons. de Piles, xvii, 333
a dialogue concerning women, xviii, 1
remarks on, ib. 3
the New Converts Exposed, extract from, x, 103
Reasons for Mr Bayes changing his Religion, extract from, ib. 103
Pregnancy of the Queen of James II. ridiculed, ib. 303
Prejudices of Sir Matthew Hall, xiii, 67
Preliminary remarks on the poetry of England before the Civil Wars,
i, 4
Premature decrepitude of the Earl of Shaftesbury, ix, 454
Presbyterianism, account of the rise of x, 148
Presbyterians, tradition of no weight with, ib. 169
Prevalence of false taste in the age of King James I. i, 9
Prince Rupert’s gallant actions, ix, 167, 174
Arthur, of Blackmore, extract from, i, 422
Princess of Cleves, prologue to, x, 400
epilogue to, ib. 402
Prior and Montague, parody of on the Hind and the Panther, i, 330
Prodigies of hawkers, x, 348
Profession of James II. on his accession, x, 262
Projected works of Dryden, xiii, 31
Prologue to the Wild Gallant, ii, 19, 21
Rival Ladies, ib. 123
Indian Queen, ib. 205
Indian Emperor, ib. 295
Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen, ii, 388, 389
Sir Martin Mar-all, iii, 5
the Tempest, ib. 103
An Evening’s Love, ib. 218
Tyrannic Love, ib. 355
the Conquest of Granada, iv, 30, 113
Marriage A-la-mode, iv, 241
the Assignation, iv, 356
Amboyna, v, 10
Aureng-Zebe, ib. 188
All for Love, v, 321
the Spanish Friar, vi, 382
Limberham, vi, 13
Œdipus, vi, 128
Troilus and Cressida, vi, 267
Amphitryon, viii, 12
King Arthur, ib. 122
Cleomenes, ib. 246
Love Triumphant, ib. 344
the Pilgrim, attack upon Blackmore, i, 436
Prologue, Song, Secular Masque, and Epilogue, written for the
Pilgrim, viii, 437
remarks on, ib.
439
to the Duke of Guise, vii, 19
Lenten, extract from, vii, 131
Prologue to Albion and Albanus, vii, 228
Don Sebastian, vii, 302
spoken the first day of the King’s House acting after the fire,
x, 319
for the women, when they acted at the old theatre,
Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields, x, 321
spoken at the opening of the new house, x, 323
to the University of Oxford, x, 328
original to Circe, x, 333
to Circe, as corrected by Dryden, x, 335
to the True Widow, x, 345
Cæsar Borgia, x, 347
to Lee’s Sophonisba, x, 350
ib. 352
the University of Oxford, ib. 385
his Royal Highness the Duke of York, ib. 366
to the Earl of Essex, ib. 368
Loyal Brother, ib. 374
University of Oxford, ib. 378, 385
King and Queen, ib. 393
Princess of Cleves, ib. 400
Arviragus and Philicia, ib. 404
the first satire of Persius, xiii, 206
Prophetess, x, 406
prohibited, ib. 406
Mistakes, ib. 408
ib. 415
to Albumazar, ib. 416
Prologues and Epilogues, x, 309
remarks on, ib. 311
Dryden’s ridiculed in the Rehearsal, x, 313
and Epilogues, sold by hawkers at the door of the theatres, x, 316
Projected translation of Homer by Dryden, i, 334
Prophetess, prologue to, x, 406
prohibited, ib. 406
Propriety of comic scenes in tragedy, i, 230
Prose works of Dryden, xv, 281
Protestant Joiner’s ballad, vii, 5
Flail, account of, ib. 19
Protestants, French, relief given by James II. to, x, 264
Publications of Dryden’s enemies in opposition to the Medal, ix, 415
Punctilios of the French stage, v, 307
Purcel, Henry, account of, xi, 145
Purcel, Henry, Ode on the death of, ib. 148
Purgatory, what founded on, x, 189
Pusillanimous conduct of Lord Grey, ix, 276
Pygmalion and the Statue, fable of, xii, 123
Psyche, an Opera, imitated from Moliere, x, 448
Pythagorean Philosophy, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, xii, 207
Q.
Quakers, account of the rise of, x, 141
Qualification of a translator, xviii, 81
Qualifications of St Francis Xavier, xvi, 473
Quatrains, or stanzas of four verses in alternate rhyme, defended,
ix, 94
Queen, dedication to the, xvi, 3
pregnancy of ridiculed, x, 303
Querouailles, Louise de, account of, xi, 163
verses addressed to, ib. 163
R.
Radcliffe, Lord, account of, xii, 47
dedication to, ib. 47
Ravenscroft, Edward, account of, iv, 345
Dryden’s controversy with, i, 160
Reasons for Mr Bayes changing his religion, extract from, x, 103
for and against transubstantiation, ib. 154
which might have influenced Dryden in his change of faith, i, 303
Reception of the Duke of Monmouth in an excursion through England,
ix, 288
Dryden’s translation of Virgil, i, 392
Recommendatory verses to Absalom and Achitophel, ix, 213
the author of the Medal, ib. 427
on Religio Laici, x, 33
poems on Dryden’s translation of Virgil, xiii, 289
Reeves, Mrs, Dryden’s intrigue with, i, 87
Reflections on Milton’s Paradise Lost, xiii, 20
Reformation of the stage, order for, xviii, 152
Refugee Clergy, Huguenot, not all of the same communion, x, 203, 244
Rehearsal, time spent in composing the, ixi, 46
first appearance of, i, 133
authors of, i, 136
Dryden’s prologues ridiculed in, x, 313
Relations of Dryden, when he composed the Spanish Friar, i, 233
Relief given by James II. to the French exiled Protestants, x, 264
Religio Laici, or a Layman’s faith, an epistle, x, 1
remarks on, ib. 3
preface to, ib. 11
recommendatory verses on, ib. 33
of Charles Blount, ib. 8
by J. R. extracts from, ib. 9
Medici of Thomas Browne, ib. 7
Religion of Lucian, xviii, 63
Japan, xvi, 292
Religious plays, origin of, xv, 247
Remarkable comet, ix, 160
sea fight, ib. 168
Remarks on the poetry of England during the civil wars, i, 4
the Duke of Guise, vii, 3
Vindication of the Duke of Guise, ib. 127
Albion and Albanius, ib. 211
Don Sebastian, ib. 273
the Wild Gallant, a comedy, ii, 15
the Rival Ladies, ib. 111
the Indian Queen, ib. 203
the Indian Emperor, ib. 290
Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen, ib. 381
Sir Martin Mar-all, iii, 3
the Tempest, or the Enchanted Island, ib. 97
An Evening’s Love, ib. 217
Tyrannic Love, ib. 343
the Conquest of Granada, iv, 3
Defence of the Epilogue, ib. 229
Marriage A-la-mode, ib. 233
Remarks on the Assignation, iv. 345
Amboyna, v, 3
Aureng-Zebe, ib. 169
All for Love, ib. 287
the State of Innocence, or Fall of Man, ib. 91
the Spanish Friar, vi, 367
Limberham, ib. 3
Œdipus, ib. 117
Troilus and Cressida, ib. 228
Amphitryon, viii, 3
King Arthur, ib. 109
Cleomenes, viii, 183
Love Triumphant, viii, 333
Prologue written for the Pilgrim, ib. 439
Song written for do. ib. 446
Secular Masque, written for do. ib. 451
Epilogue written for do. ib. 459
Heroic Stanzas to the memory of Oliver Cromwell, ix, 3
Astrea Redux, ib. 41
Panegyric on the Coronation of Charles II. ib. 53
Satire on the Dutch, ix, 70
Verses to the Duchess of York, ib. 73
Annus Mirabilis, ib. 83
Absalom and Achitophel, Part I. ib. 197
II. ib. 315
the Medal, or Satire against Sedition, ib. 409
Religio Laici, x, 3
Threnodia Augustalis, ib. 55
the Hind and the Panther, ib. 87
some parts of Bishop Burnet’s conduct and writings, ib. 271
Britannia Rediviva, ib. 285
Prologues and Epilogues, ib. 311
Mac-Flecknoe, ib. 427
Poetical Epistles, xi, 3, 5, 12, 18, 22, 26, 31, 35, 38, 47, 52,
57, 63, 67, 71, 84
Elegies and Epitaphs, ib. 93, 102, 113, 145, 152
Eleonora, a panegyrical poem, ib. 119
Song for St Cecilia’s day, ib. 165
Palæmon and Arcite, ib. 243
Remarks on the Cock and the Fox, a fable, xi. 326
the Flower and the Leaf, a fable, ib. 354
the Wife of Bath, a tale, ib. 376
Character of a good parson, ib. 394
Sigismonda and Guiscardo, a tale, ib. 403
Theodore and Honoria, ib. 433
Cymon and Iphigenia, ib. 452
translations from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, xii, 45
translation of Virgil, xiii, 281
Essay on Satire, xv, 201
Epistle to Mr Julian, ib. 218
Art of Poetry, ib. 229
Tarquin and Tullia, ib. 266
Verses on the Young Statesman, ib. 273
Essay of Dramatic Poesy, ib. 283
Heads of an Answer to Rhymer’s Remarks, ib. 383
Preface to the notes and observations on the Empress of Morocco,
ib. 397
Life of Plutarch xvii, 3
specimen of translation of the History of the League, ib. 79
the controversy between Dryden and Stillingfleet, xvii, 187
translation of Du Fresnoy’s Art of Painting, ib. 281
Reply to Absalom and Achitophel, i, 253
the Medal, ib. 255
Report of the death of the Chevalier de St George, x, 307
Requests, Court of, a scene of political intrigue, ib. 348
Resemblance, personal, of Shadwell to Ben Jonson, i, 265
Resentment of Dryden against the clergy, ib. 428
Residence of Dryden at the university, ib. 31
Restoration of Charles II. poem on, ix, 30
conduct of Shaftesbury at, ib. 447
led the way to the revival of letters, i, 42
Dryden’s poems on, ib. 50
revival of the Drama at, ib. 65
Retort on Dryden, xi, 65
Revel of James I. viii, 452
Revival of the Drama at the Restoration, i, 65
Revolter, a tragi-comedy, extracts from, x, 9
criticism of, on the Hind and the Panther, ib. 99
Revolution, consequences of to Dryden, i, 347
effects of upon literary pursuits, ib. 385
Reynard the Fox, an ancient political satire, x, 155
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, poetical epistle to, xvii, 284
Rhyme unnatural in plays, xv, 363
defence of in serious plays, ib. 367
a constraint to poets, xiv, 207
Rhyming or heroic plays, pattern of set by France, i, 69
Ridicule of Dryden’s use of the Alexandrine, ix, 415
Right of the Pope over kings, x, 19
Rise of the Quakers, account of, ib. 141
Settle’s animosity to Dryden, xv, 398
Rival Ladies, a tragi-comedy, ii, 109
remarks on, ib. 111
dedication to, ib. 113
prologue to, ib. 123
companies of players united, x, 393
Rochester, Earl of, character of, iv, 235
account of, vii, 13, ix, 307
Dryden’s memorial to, i, 296
letters to, xviii, 89, 101
epistle dedicatory to, iv, 235, vii, 13
banished the court, iv, 238
cowardice of, xv, 215
dismissal from the treasury of, epitaph on, ib. 279
assaults Dryden in Rose-street, i, 204
Rod of divination, what, ix, 20
Rogers, Mr, epitaph upon, xi, 144
Roman satirical poetry, rise of, xiii, 47
Roman satire, first author of, ib. 58
dramas, plot of, xv, 314
Roman Catholic plot, ix, 259
Romances of Mademoiselle Scuderi, xi, 232
Romano, Julio, character of as a painter, xvii, 491
Romans, origin of dramatic performances among, xiii, 51
first author of a play among the, ib. 54
what satire meant among, ib. 65
Roscius Anglicanus, extract from, x, 325
Roscommon, Earl of, account of, xii, 341
poetical epistle to, xi, 28
remarks on, ib. 26
verses of on Religio Laici, x, 33
Roundelay, xi, 178
Rovers sporting at, what, xiii, 10
Royal Martyr, a tragedy, iii, 341
mistresses, xv, 206
exile, soliloquy of, ib. 280
Society, Dryden chosen a member of, i, 56
historiographer, Dryden appointed to the office of, i, 115
Rubens, character of as a painter, xvii, 498
Rules to be observed in writing pastorals, xiii, 355
Rumbold, Richard, account of, vii, 261
Run-a-muck, a Malay term, what, x, 276
Rupert, Prince, gallant actions of, ix, 167, ib. 174
Russell’s bill for Dryden’s funerals, xviii, 194
Ruyter, Michael Adrian de, account of, ix, 182
Rymer, Thomas, account of, xv, 383
reflections of, on Milton’s Paradise Lost, xiii, 20
controversy of Dryden with, i, 379
S.
Sackville, Edward, account of, ix, 387
Salisbury, Earl of, epistle dedicatory to, viii, 337
Sancian, island of, description of, xvi, 437
Sancroft, Archbishop, account of, ix, 301
Santio, Raphael, character of, xvii, 490
Satire on the Dutch, ix, 71
remarks on, ib. 70
on Shadwell, ib. 379
of Mac-Flecknoe, character of, i, 266
against sedition, or the Medal, ib. 407
political of Reynard the Fox, x, 155
essay on, xiii, 3
origin and nature of, ib. 37
Roman, first, author of, ib. 58
history of, among the Romans, ib. 56
Varronian, what, ib. 61
Menippean, what, ib. 63
what meant by among the Romans, ib. 65
personal, abuse of, xiii, 81
Heinsius’s definition of, ib. 103
Satire, modern, definition of, xiii, 105
Essay on, Duke of Buckingham author of, xv, 201
Essay on, ib. 203
remarks on, ib. 201
on the Duke of Buckingham’s gallantry, xv, 212
personal, license in, xv, 218
upon the silent poets, xviii, 224
Satires of Horace, character of, xiii, 99
Juvenal, xiii, 119-198
Persius, ib. 207-267
Satirical poetry of the Greeks and Romans, difference between, xiii,
47
poetry of Dryden, effect of on English poetry, i, 275
Satirist, Dryden’s character as a, i, 279
Saturnine and Fescennine verses, what, xiii, 51
Saunders, Charles, author of the tragedy of Tamerlane, x, 356
Saville, Sir George, vide Marquis of Halifax,
Scenery first introduced on the stage, x, 323
Scenes, moveable, introduced on the stage, i, 79
Scotish judge, anecdote of a, ix, 20
Scotland, Cromwell’s conduct to, ix, 19
theatrical amusements introduced into, x, 360
Scott, Anne, vide Monmouth and Buccleuch, Duchess of
Scroop, Mr, stabbed by Sir Thomas Armstrong, x, 327
Scuderi, Mademoiselle, romances of, xi, 232
Sea-fight, remarkable, ix, 168
Sebastian, Don, a tragedy, vii, 271
Second epode of Horace, xii, 351
miscellany of Dryden, appearance of, i, 340
Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen, a comedy, ii, 379
remarks on, ib. 381
preface to, ib. 383
prologues to, ib. 388
epilogue to, ib. 469
Secretary of the muses, epistle to, xv, 222
Secular Masque, written for the Pilgrim, viii, 455
remarks on, ib. 451
Sedition, satire against, ix, 407
Sedley, Sir Charles, account of, iv, 348
anecdote of, ib. 351
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 348
Shadwell assisted by, in the comedy of Epsom Wells, x, 454
Selling-bargains, what, x, 408
Seneph, battle of, xi, 239
Sense of the author to be preserved inviolable in translation, xii,
18
Servility of the French in attention to the unities, xv, 346
Settle, Elkanah, account of, ix, 373
rise of animosity of to Dryden, xv, 398
Dryden’s controversy with, i, 259
Absalom senior, or Achitophel transposed of, extracts from, ix, 376
last period of the life of, i, 273
Pope’s lines on the fate of, ib. 274
Seymour, Sir Edward, account of, ix, 308
Sforza, Lodovico, account of, ix, 46
Shadwell, Thomas, Dryden’s satire on, ix, 379
account of the reception of the Lancashire Witches by, vii, 15
machinery of in the Lancashire Witches, x, 382
humours of, what meant by, ib. 396
plagiarism charged on, ib. 418
originality of, ib. 418
a satire against, x, 425
remarks on, ib. 427
causes of enmity between Dryden and, x, 427
Dryden’s controversy with, i, 259, 286
personal resemblance of to Ben Jonson, i, 265
Duke of Guise attacked by, i, 286
account of, x, 443
character of, ib. 445
humours of, ib. 444, i, 261
proficiency in music of, x, 448
assisted in his comedy of Epsom Wells by Sir Charles Sedley, x,
454
an imitator of Ben Jonson, ib. 456
Shaftesbury, Earl of, account of, ix, 409
anecdote of, ix, 265
attempt of to alter the succession, ib. 268
imprisonment and acquittal of, ib. 409
Bower’s medal of, ib. 412
account of last period of the life of, ib. 415
ridiculed as aspiring to the crown of Poland, ix, 441
offers his services to Charles I. ix, 444
situation of during Cromwell’s usurpation, ib. 445
conduct of at the Restoration, ib. 447
circumstances which influenced him in his change of politics, ib. 448
North’s opinion of the designs of, upon the person and authority of
Charles II. ib. 451
premature decrepitude of, ib. 454
Shakespeare and Dryden, parallel between, v, 287
attack on, by Ben Jonson, xv, 344
character of, ib. 350
Chandos portrait of, xi, 87
Share of Dryden in the composition of the Duke of Guise, i, 281
Shere, Sir Henry, translation of Polybius by, viii, 203
account of xviii, 19
Shipwreck of the Duke of York, ix, 401
ceremonies observed by the ancients on escape from, ix, 34, 44
Shirley, James, account of, x, 446
Shooting at Rovers, what, xiii, 10
Shovel-board, an ancient game, viii, 122
Shrewsbury, Duke of, account of, xv, 192
Sidney, Philip, vide Leicester, Earl of
Sigismonda and Guiscardo, a tale, xi, 405
remarks on, ib. 403
original from the Decameron of Boccace, xi, 443
Signification, parabolical, of the Hind and the Panther, x, 90
critised, ib. 90
Silence of Dryden upon the death of Queen Mary, extracts from poems
attacking him for, xviii, 222
Silent Woman, examination of the comedy of the, xv, 354
poets, a satire upon, xviii, 224
Silenus, a pastoral, xiii, 397
Silver Age, from Ovid, xii, 67
Silvester, John, extract from astrological observations of, x, 421
Simon, Pere Richard, character of, x, 31
Sincerity of Dryden in his attachment to the Catholic faith, i, 322
Singleton, a musical performer of eminence, x, 450
Singular fashion of writing, x, 457
event at the siege of Bologna, ix, 18
Sir Martin Mar-all, or the Feigned Innocence, a comedy, iii, 1
remarks on, ib. 3
prologue to, ib. 5
epilogue to, ib. 93
Skill of Polybius in Political affairs, xviii, 31
Smollett’s account of the birth of the son of James II. x, 305
Society, Dryden’s connections in after the Revolution, i, 369
Socinius, Lelius, doctrine of, x, 46
Soliloquy of a royal exile, xv, 280
Song, written for the Pilgrim, viii, 449
remarks on, ib. 446
Songs, Odes, and Lyrical Pieces, xi, 161-191
the Fair Stranger, xi, 163
for St Cecilia’s day, ib. 167
the Tears of Amynta, ib. 171, xi, 173
The Lady’s, ib. 175, xi, 176, 177
to a fair Young Lady, ib. 181
Sophocles, Œdipus Tyrannus and Coloneus of, character of, vi, 117, 124
Sophonisba, prologue to, x, 350
Southerne, poetical epistle to, xi, 50
remarks on, ib. 47
account of, ib. 48
verses of to Congreve, xi, 61
anecdote of, i, 237
commencement of Dryden’s friendship with, i, 294
character of, i, 372
Spanheim’s dissertations, extract from, xiii, 47
Spanish Friar, or the Double Discovery, vi, 365
remarks on, ib. 367
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 373
prologue to, ib. 382
epilogue to, ib. 485
prohibited by James II. ib. 371
represented by Queen Mary by her order, ib. 371
account of, representation of, ib. 371
character of, i, 227
relations of Dryden when it was composed, i, 233
Specimen of Milbourne’s translation of Virgil, i, 400
poetical attacks upon Dryden, i, 350
of translation of the History of the League, xvii, 77
remarks on, ib. 79
Speech, King’s, to Oxford Parliament, versified, ix, 309
Speeches of Ajax and Ulysses, xii, 181
Speght’s edition of Chaucer, xi, 220
Spenser, character of, xiii, 18
obsolete language of, ib. 19
Sports of the Chace, King James I. much attached to, viii, 451
Spottiswoode, Archbishop, account of, xvii, 159
Spragge, Sir Edward, account of, ix, 178
gallant action of, xi, 24
Sprat’s verses to the memory of Cromwell, ix, 5
Stage, regular scenery first introduced on, x, 323
moveable scenes introduced on, i, 79
scenes of death improper on, xv, 332
laws of, observed more exactly by the French than by the English, xv,
336
order for the reformation of, xviii, 152
indelicacy of, in the age of Dryden, i, 417
Stanzas, heroic, to the memory of Oliver Cromwell, ix, 8
of four verses in alternate rhyme, defended, ib. 94
Stapylton, Sir Robert, account of, xiii, 93
Star visible at the birth of Charles II. ix, 51
State of Innocence and Fall of Man, an opera, v, 89
remarks on, ib. 91
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 95
verses on, ib. 103
preface to, ib. 105
State of Learning in England, on the accession of James I. i, 5
Dryden’s connexions in society after the Revolution, i, 369
State Tracts, extract from, x, 185
Statius, Harte’s vindication of, xiv, 130
Steward, Elmes, letter of Dryden to, xviii, 143
Mrs Elizabeth, account of, ib. 141
letters of Dryden to, xviii, 141, 144, 146, 147, 149, 150, 153,
161, 169, 171, 174, 178, 180
Stillingfleet, Bishop, account of, xvii, 194
opinion of, on party names, x, 243
and Dryden, illiberality of, x, 251
controversy between, xvii, 187, i, 323
answer of to the Duchess of York’s paper, xvii, 194
Storm at the death of Oliver Cromwell, ix, 23
Story of Griselda, not invented by Petrarch, xi, 215
Acis, Polyphemus, and Galatea, xii, 199
Stothard’s painting of Chaucer’s Pilgrims, xi, 217
Strong box of Charles II. extract from papers found in, x, 188
Stuart, James, vide Duke of Monmouth
Succession, Shaftesbury’s attempt to alter the, ix, 268
Sullen Lovers, extract from preface to, i, 260
Sunderland, Earl of, account of, vi, 231
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 231
Superiority of English to French plays, xv, 349
Suum Cuique, xv, 276
Swallows, application of the fable of the, x, 253
Swan, Owen, account of, xiii, 97
Swash-buckler, what, iii, 6
Swift’s attacks on Dryden, i, 374
the Virgil of Dryden, ib. 393
inscription for Sir R. Blackmore’s picture, viii, 445
account of the Hind and the Panther, x, 106
Synalepha, example of, xii, 57
T.
Talbot, Charles, vide Shrewsbury, Duke of
Tale of the Nun’s Priest, xi, 327
Wife of Bath, ib. 377
Sigismonda and Guiscardo, ib. 405
Tales from Chaucer, fables, xi, 193-399
of Chaucer modernized by Dryden, xii, i-xci
Knightes Tale, xii, iii
Nonnes Preestes Tale, ib.
the satires of Persius, xiii, 217, 227, 239, 248, 262, 274
Æneis of Virgil, xiv, 262, 322, 353, 424, 461, xv, 29, 62, 102, 183
and observations on Empress of Morocco, preface to, xv, 401, 405
postscript to, ib. 409
upon Dryden’s poems, extract of, i, 154
Notices of Dryden’s family, ib. 462
Nottingham, Earl of, account of, ix, 400
O.
Oates, Titus, account of, vol. ix, 282
pensioned by King William, viii, 464
North’s description of, ix, 355
fate of, ib. 356
Obscurity of Persius, xiii, 72
Observations on Du Fresnoy’s Art of Painting, xvii, 392
Obsolete language of Spenser, xiii, 19
Oblivion, act of, ix, 50
Odes, Songs, and Lyrical Pieces, xi, 161-191
on the death of Charles II. , titles of some of, x, 59
Ode on the death of Mr Purcell, xi, 148
remarks on, ib. 145
in honour of St Cecilia’s day, ib. 183
set to music by Handel, i, 410
circumstances concerning composition of, i, 408
on the death of Dryden, xviii, 234
Œdipe of Corneille, character of, vi, 119
Œdipus, a tragedy, ib. 115
remarks on, ib. 117
preface to, ib. 124
prologue to, ib. 128
epilogue to, ib. 222
Tyrannus, of Sophocles, character of, ib. 117
Coloneus, character of, ib. 117
Ogleby, account of, x, 452
Old Testament, critical history of, x, 32
Oldham, John, account of, xi, 98
extract from the works of, ib. 100
elegy to the memory of, ib. 99
Oldys, Alexander, ode of, on the death of Dryden, xviii, 234
Opera of the State of Innocence, v, 89
Albion and Albanius, vii, 209
King Arthur, viii, 107
Opinion of Sir John Denham on verbal translation, xii, 14
Opinions of Freethinkers, x, 143
Order for the reformation of the stage, xviii, 152
Origin and nature of satire, xiii, 37
of dramatic performances among the Romans, xiii, 51
of mysteries or religious plays, xv, 247
Original prologue to Circe, x, 333
Tales of Chaucer, modernized by Dryden, xii, i-xci
prose works of Dryden, xv, 281
Originality of Shadwell, x, 418
Ormond, Duke of, account of, ix, 294, xi, 195
dedication to, ib. 195, xvii, 5
behaviour of, at the battle of Landen, xi, 202
Duchess of, dedication to, xi, 245
Orpheus Britannicus, dedication of, ib. 146
Orrery, Earl of, account of, ii, 113
dedication to, ib. 113
Osburne, Sir Thomas, vide Danby, Earl of
Ossory, Earl of, account of, ix, 299
Otho, character of, ib. 43
Ovid, account of, xii, 4
causes of the banishment of, ib. 5, 7
character of works of, ib. 8
epistles of, ib. 11
Ovid and Chaucer, parallel between, xi, 214
Ovid’s epistles, translations from, xii, 1-41
preface to, ib. 3
Epistle xi. Canace to Macareus, ib. 21
xvii. Helen to Paris, ib. 26
vii. Dido to Æneas, ib. 35
Metamorphoses, translations from, xii, 43-227
dedication to, ib. 47
remarks on, ib. 45
first book of, xii, 63
Golden Age, ib. 66
Silver Age, ib. 67
Brazen Age, ib. 68
Iron Age, ib. 68
Giant’s war, ib. 69
twelfth book of, ib. 156
Art of Love, translations from, xii, 229
Amours, translations from, ib. 257, 259
Oxford, University of, decree of, concerning non-resistance, x, 241
prologues spoken to, ib. 328, 358, 378, 385
epilogues spoken to, ib. 330, 360, 381
Parliament, King’s speech to versified, ix, 309
P.
Pacurius, the satirist, character of, xiii, 58
Pages, the sons of gentlemen, viii, 338
Painter, advice to a young, xvii, 377, 468
Painters of the two last ages, judgment of C. A. Du Fresnoy on, xvii, 489
Painting, Art of, xvii, 279, 339
and poetry, parallel of, ib. 286
invention necessary to, ib. 313
what is beautiful in, ib. 343
invention the first part of, ib. 347, 410
design the second part of, xvii, 349, 420
colouring the third part of, ib. 361, 450
passions to be expressed in, ib. 359
Palæmon, a pastoral, xiii, 378
Palæmon and Arcite, or the Knight’s tale, xi, 241
remarks on, ib. 243
Book I. ib. 252
II. ib. 271
III. ib. 291
dedication to, ib. 245
Panegyric on the coronation of Charles II. ix, 54
remarks on, ib. 53
notes on, ib. 59
on Pope Nicholas V. xviii, 25
Papers found in King Charles II’s strong-box, extract from x, 188
Papist plot, ix, 259
Parabolical signification of the Hind and the Panther, x, 90
criticised, ib. 90
Parallel between Shakespeare and Dryden, v, 287
the story of the Duke of Guise and affairs in England, vii, 4
the Duke of Guise and Monmouth, not intended, ib. 144
political disputes in 1680 and 1681, x, 353
Ovid and Chaucer, xi, 214
Chaucer and Boccace, ib. 233
poetry and painting, xvii, 286
the League in France and the Covenant in England, i, 281
Paraphrase, in translation, what, xii, 12
of the Third Idyllium of Theocritus, xii, 287
of Veni Creator Spiritus, xi, 190
Paris, Epistle to, xii, 26
Pardon, the king’s power of granting, after condemnation questioned,
ix, 310
Parliament, dissolution of by Cromwell, ix, 45
Oxford, king’s speech to versified, ib. 309
Healing, what, x, 71
Parmegiano, character of as a painter, xvii, 495
Parody on part of the Empress of Morocco, xv, 407
the Hind and the Panther, x, 91, i, 330
Parson, character of a good one, xi, 395
Parsons, Robert, account of, x, 20
Particulars regarding the test-act, x, 260
Parting of Hector and Andromache, xii, 382
Parts of a poem, tragedy, or comedy, xv, 386
Party-names, Stillingfleet’s opinion of, x, 243
Paston, Mrs Margaret, epitaph on, xi, 151
Pastorals of Virgil, translated, xiii, 335, 421
dedication of, ib. 337
character of, ib. 339
Tityrus and Melibœus, xiii, 369
Alexis, ib. 374
Palæmon, ib. 378
Pollio, ib. 386
Daphnis, ib. 391
Silenus, ib. 397
Melibœus, ib. 402
Pharmaceutria, ib. 407
Lycidas and Mœris, ib. 413
Gallus, ib. 417
rules to be observed in writing, ib. 355
Pate, William, account of, xviii, 130
Patent of Dryden as poet-laureat and historiographer royal, xviii, 187
Pelham, Thomas, vide Newcastle, Duke of
Penny, John, or Martin Mar-prelate, account of, x, 27
Pension from France received by Charles II. ix, 385
People, concern of for the death of Charles II. x, 79
Pepys, Samuel, account of, xviii, 154
letter of Dryden to, ib. 154
to Dryden, ib. 156
Performers, female, first introduced after the Restoration, x, 321
Personal resemblance of Shadwell to Ben Jonson, i, 265
Personal appearance of Gilbert Burnet, x, 270
Perspective, when known in England, xi, 86
Petrarch, not the inventor of the story of Griselda, xi, 215
Persius, not equal as a satirist to Juvenal and Horace, xiii, 68
obscurity of, ib. 72
Causabon’s commentary on, ib. 72
character of, ib. 75
and Horace, comparison between, ib. 78
translations from, ib. 203-247
First Satire of, ib. 207
notes on, ib. 217
Second Satire of, xiii, 221
notes on, ib. 227
Third Satire of, ib. 230
notes on, ib. 239
Fourth Satire of, ib. 242
notes on, ib. 248
Fifth Satire of, ib. 251
notes on, ib. 262
Sixth Satire of, ib. 267
notes on, ib. 274
Personal satire, abuse of, ib. 281
licence in, xv, 218
Peterborough, Earl of, account of, xv, 189
Pharmaceutria, a pastoral, xiii, 407
Philips, Mrs Katherine, account of, xi, 111
Philosophy of Pythagoras, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, xii, 207
Phylacteries, what, x, 132
Physicians who attended Charles II. ib. 79
Pickering, Sir Gilbert, character of, i, 34
Dryden clerk to, ib. 36
Picture of the Duke of York at Guildhall defaced, vii, 51
Piety, the first quality of a hero, xiv, 161
Piles, Mons. de, preface of to the Art of Painting, xvii, 333
Pilgrim, a comedy, revived for Dryden’s benefit in 1700, i, 434,
viii, 437
prologue written for, ib. 441
song written for, ib. 449
secular masque written for, ib. 455
epilogue written for, ib. 462
Pindar, Cowley’s translation of, xii, 15
Pindaric funeral poem, x, 53
Pilot’s prayer to Neptune, vii, 17
Pitcairn’s epitaph on Viscount Dundee, xi. 114
Pitt’s, William, extract from epistolary poem of, xviii, 218
Place, unity of, what, xv, 306
Plagiarism charged on Shadwell, x, 418
Plague in London in 1665, ix, 189
Play, first one among the Romans, xiii, 54
definition of a, xv, 302
of words, a particular taste in the age of James I. i, 10
Plays of Dryden, list of, with the respective dates of their being
acted
and published, i, 367
Heroic, an Essay on, iv, 16
English superior to French, xv, 349
rhyme unnatural in, ib. 363
serious, defence of rhyme in, ib. 367
effect of in the representation, ib. 393
rhyming or heroic, i, 69
heroic, character of, ib. 118
of Richard Flecknoe, x, 442
Player, Sir Thomas, account of, ix, 361
Players, rival companies of united, x, 393
Dryden’s contract with the King’s Company of, i, 102
Plot of the Papists, ix, 259
Grecian dramas, xv, 313
Roman dramas, ib. 314
Plutarch, Lives of, advertisement to translation of, xvii, 3
preface to, appearance of, i, 289
Life of, xvii, 1
remarks on, ib. 3
birth of, xvii, 19
education of, ib. 23
travels, ib. 27
religion of, ib. 31
marriage of, ib. 39
children of, ib. 39
visits Rome, ib. 45
letter of to Trajan, ib. 49
chosen Archon of Chæronea, ib. 51
his Lives, ib. 51
other works, ib. 52
character of the Lives of, ib. 62
Poem on the restoration of Charles II. ix, 30
birth of the prince, x, 283
an epic one the greatest work of human genius, xiii, 36
parts of, xv, 386
epic, meditated by Dryden, i, 215
epistolary to Dryden, extract from, xviii, 218
Poems, satirical, of Dryden, effect of on English poetry, i, 275
attacking Dryden for his silence on the death of Queen Mary, extract
from, xviii, 222
Poems Historical and Political, ix, 1
of Sprat and Dryden, comparison between, ib. 6
on the accession of James II. titles of some of, x, 59
recommendatory on Dryden’s translation of Virgil, xiii, 289
ascribed to Dryden, xv, 197
advertisement regarding, ib. 199
Poet-Laureat, Dryden appointed to the office of, i, 115
Dryden loses the office of, i, 354
Poetic licence, apology for, v, 105
Poetical addresses to James II. on the birth of a son, x, 286
Poetical Epistles, xi, 1-90
Epistle to John Hoddeson, ib. 4
Sir Robert Howard, ib. 7
Dr Charleton, ib. 14
Lady Castlemain, ib. 20
Mr Lee, ib. 23
the Earl of Roscommon, ib. 28
the Duchess of York, ib. 33
Mr J. Northleigh, ib. 37
Sir George Etherege, ib. 42
Mr Southerne, ib. 50
Henry Higden, ib. 55
Mr Congreve, ib. 59
Mr Granville, ib. 64
Mr Motteux, ib. 69
John Driden, ib. 75
Sir Godfrey Kneller, ib. 85
from Pope to Jervas, xvii, 282
Poetry, Dramatic, Essay on, iv, 211
Heroic, apology for, v, 105
the chief end of instruction, vi, 246
French, character of, xiii, 366
expression in, the same as colouring in a picture, xiv, 210
Art of, xv, 227
remarks on, ib. 229
Elegy, ib. 240
Ode, ib. 240
Pastoral, ib. 238
Epigram, ib. 241
Poetry, Art of, Satire, xv, 243
Tragedy, ib. 245
and painting, parallel of, xvii, 286
of England before the Civil Wars, remarks on, i, 4
study of interrupted by the Civil Wars, ib. 20
Sir William Davenant a restorer of true taste in, ib. 48
character of Homer’s, xii, 59
English, effect of Dryden’s satirical poems upon, i, 275
Poets, metaphysical, what, ib. 10
Cowley the most ingenious of, ib. 15
neglected harmony of numbers, ib. 17
Poland, crown of, Shaftesbury ridiculed as aspiring to, ix, 441
Political and Historical Poems, ib. 1
satire of Reynard the Fox, x, 155
Political affairs, skill of Polybius in, xviii, 31
Politics, Dryden engages in, i, 239
Pollio, a pastoral, xiii, 386
Polybius, the historian, account of, xviii, 26
skill of in political affairs, ib. 31
Marcus Brutus employed in writing an epitome of, ib. 30
character of and of his writings, ib. 17
Shere’s translation of, viii, 203
character of, xviii, 19
Polydore, character of as a painter, xvii, 492
Pope-burning, description of vi, 222
account of, x, 370
right of over kings, ib. 19
infallibility not alone in the, x, 164, 187
treats Castlemaine with contempt, ib. 305
Nicholas V. character of, xviii, 24
panegyric on, ib. 25
Alexander, poetical epistle of, xvii, 282
lines of on the fate of Elkanah Settle, i, 274
Pordage, Samuel, account of, ix, 372
Portsmouth, Duchess of, epigram on picture of, xv, 280
Postscript to the Æneis, ib. 187
History of the League, xvii, 150
Powell’s, George, retort on Dryden, xi, 65
Powlet, John, vide Winchester, Marquis of
Prayer, pilot’s, to Neptune, vii, 17
Preface to the Sullen Lovers, extract from, i, 260
translation of Plutarch’s Lives, appearance of, ib. 289
Blackmore’s Prince Arthur, extract from, ib. 422
the Wild Gallant, a comedy, ii, 17
Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen, ib. 383
the Tempest, iii, 99
an Evening’s Love, ib. 218
Tyrannic Love, ib. 349
All for Love, v, 306
the State of Innocence, ib. 105
Œdipus, vi, 124
Troilus and Cressida, ib. 238
Albion and Albanus, vii, 216
Don Sebastian, ib. 291
Cleomenes, viii, 196
Religio Laici, x, 11
the Hind and the Panther, ib. 109
prefixed to the Fables, xi, 205
to translation of Ovid’s Epistles, xii, 3
on Translation, prefixed to Dryden’s Second Miscellany, ib. 263
the translation of the Pastorals of Virgil, xiii, 345
Notes and Observations on the Empress of Morocco, xv, 401
remarks on, ib. 397
every Husband his own Cuckold, xv, 414
the Art of Painting, by Mons. de Piles, xvii, 333
a dialogue concerning women, xviii, 1
remarks on, ib. 3
the New Converts Exposed, extract from, x, 103
Reasons for Mr Bayes changing his Religion, extract from, ib. 103
Pregnancy of the Queen of James II. ridiculed, ib. 303
Prejudices of Sir Matthew Hall, xiii, 67
Preliminary remarks on the poetry of England before the Civil Wars,
i, 4
Premature decrepitude of the Earl of Shaftesbury, ix, 454
Presbyterianism, account of the rise of x, 148
Presbyterians, tradition of no weight with, ib. 169
Prevalence of false taste in the age of King James I. i, 9
Prince Rupert’s gallant actions, ix, 167, 174
Arthur, of Blackmore, extract from, i, 422
Princess of Cleves, prologue to, x, 400
epilogue to, ib. 402
Prior and Montague, parody of on the Hind and the Panther, i, 330
Prodigies of hawkers, x, 348
Profession of James II. on his accession, x, 262
Projected works of Dryden, xiii, 31
Prologue to the Wild Gallant, ii, 19, 21
Rival Ladies, ib. 123
Indian Queen, ib. 205
Indian Emperor, ib. 295
Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen, ii, 388, 389
Sir Martin Mar-all, iii, 5
the Tempest, ib. 103
An Evening’s Love, ib. 218
Tyrannic Love, ib. 355
the Conquest of Granada, iv, 30, 113
Marriage A-la-mode, iv, 241
the Assignation, iv, 356
Amboyna, v, 10
Aureng-Zebe, ib. 188
All for Love, v, 321
the Spanish Friar, vi, 382
Limberham, vi, 13
Œdipus, vi, 128
Troilus and Cressida, vi, 267
Amphitryon, viii, 12
King Arthur, ib. 122
Cleomenes, ib. 246
Love Triumphant, ib. 344
the Pilgrim, attack upon Blackmore, i, 436
Prologue, Song, Secular Masque, and Epilogue, written for the
Pilgrim, viii, 437
remarks on, ib.
439
to the Duke of Guise, vii, 19
Lenten, extract from, vii, 131
Prologue to Albion and Albanus, vii, 228
Don Sebastian, vii, 302
spoken the first day of the King’s House acting after the fire,
x, 319
for the women, when they acted at the old theatre,
Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields, x, 321
spoken at the opening of the new house, x, 323
to the University of Oxford, x, 328
original to Circe, x, 333
to Circe, as corrected by Dryden, x, 335
to the True Widow, x, 345
Cæsar Borgia, x, 347
to Lee’s Sophonisba, x, 350
ib. 352
the University of Oxford, ib. 385
his Royal Highness the Duke of York, ib. 366
to the Earl of Essex, ib. 368
Loyal Brother, ib. 374
University of Oxford, ib. 378, 385
King and Queen, ib. 393
Princess of Cleves, ib. 400
Arviragus and Philicia, ib. 404
the first satire of Persius, xiii, 206
Prophetess, x, 406
prohibited, ib. 406
Mistakes, ib. 408
ib. 415
to Albumazar, ib. 416
Prologues and Epilogues, x, 309
remarks on, ib. 311
Dryden’s ridiculed in the Rehearsal, x, 313
and Epilogues, sold by hawkers at the door of the theatres, x, 316
Projected translation of Homer by Dryden, i, 334
Prophetess, prologue to, x, 406
prohibited, ib. 406
Propriety of comic scenes in tragedy, i, 230
Prose works of Dryden, xv, 281
Protestant Joiner’s ballad, vii, 5
Flail, account of, ib. 19
Protestants, French, relief given by James II. to, x, 264
Publications of Dryden’s enemies in opposition to the Medal, ix, 415
Punctilios of the French stage, v, 307
Purcel, Henry, account of, xi, 145
Purcel, Henry, Ode on the death of, ib. 148
Purgatory, what founded on, x, 189
Pusillanimous conduct of Lord Grey, ix, 276
Pygmalion and the Statue, fable of, xii, 123
Psyche, an Opera, imitated from Moliere, x, 448
Pythagorean Philosophy, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, xii, 207
Q.
Quakers, account of the rise of, x, 141
Qualification of a translator, xviii, 81
Qualifications of St Francis Xavier, xvi, 473
Quatrains, or stanzas of four verses in alternate rhyme, defended,
ix, 94
Queen, dedication to the, xvi, 3
pregnancy of ridiculed, x, 303
Querouailles, Louise de, account of, xi, 163
verses addressed to, ib. 163
R.
Radcliffe, Lord, account of, xii, 47
dedication to, ib. 47
Ravenscroft, Edward, account of, iv, 345
Dryden’s controversy with, i, 160
Reasons for Mr Bayes changing his religion, extract from, x, 103
for and against transubstantiation, ib. 154
which might have influenced Dryden in his change of faith, i, 303
Reception of the Duke of Monmouth in an excursion through England,
ix, 288
Dryden’s translation of Virgil, i, 392
Recommendatory verses to Absalom and Achitophel, ix, 213
the author of the Medal, ib. 427
on Religio Laici, x, 33
poems on Dryden’s translation of Virgil, xiii, 289
Reeves, Mrs, Dryden’s intrigue with, i, 87
Reflections on Milton’s Paradise Lost, xiii, 20
Reformation of the stage, order for, xviii, 152
Refugee Clergy, Huguenot, not all of the same communion, x, 203, 244
Rehearsal, time spent in composing the, ixi, 46
first appearance of, i, 133
authors of, i, 136
Dryden’s prologues ridiculed in, x, 313
Relations of Dryden, when he composed the Spanish Friar, i, 233
Relief given by James II. to the French exiled Protestants, x, 264
Religio Laici, or a Layman’s faith, an epistle, x, 1
remarks on, ib. 3
preface to, ib. 11
recommendatory verses on, ib. 33
of Charles Blount, ib. 8
by J. R. extracts from, ib. 9
Medici of Thomas Browne, ib. 7
Religion of Lucian, xviii, 63
Japan, xvi, 292
Religious plays, origin of, xv, 247
Remarkable comet, ix, 160
sea fight, ib. 168
Remarks on the poetry of England during the civil wars, i, 4
the Duke of Guise, vii, 3
Vindication of the Duke of Guise, ib. 127
Albion and Albanius, ib. 211
Don Sebastian, ib. 273
the Wild Gallant, a comedy, ii, 15
the Rival Ladies, ib. 111
the Indian Queen, ib. 203
the Indian Emperor, ib. 290
Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen, ib. 381
Sir Martin Mar-all, iii, 3
the Tempest, or the Enchanted Island, ib. 97
An Evening’s Love, ib. 217
Tyrannic Love, ib. 343
the Conquest of Granada, iv, 3
Defence of the Epilogue, ib. 229
Marriage A-la-mode, ib. 233
Remarks on the Assignation, iv. 345
Amboyna, v, 3
Aureng-Zebe, ib. 169
All for Love, ib. 287
the State of Innocence, or Fall of Man, ib. 91
the Spanish Friar, vi, 367
Limberham, ib. 3
Œdipus, ib. 117
Troilus and Cressida, ib. 228
Amphitryon, viii, 3
King Arthur, ib. 109
Cleomenes, viii, 183
Love Triumphant, viii, 333
Prologue written for the Pilgrim, ib. 439
Song written for do. ib. 446
Secular Masque, written for do. ib. 451
Epilogue written for do. ib. 459
Heroic Stanzas to the memory of Oliver Cromwell, ix, 3
Astrea Redux, ib. 41
Panegyric on the Coronation of Charles II. ib. 53
Satire on the Dutch, ix, 70
Verses to the Duchess of York, ib. 73
Annus Mirabilis, ib. 83
Absalom and Achitophel, Part I. ib. 197
II. ib. 315
the Medal, or Satire against Sedition, ib. 409
Religio Laici, x, 3
Threnodia Augustalis, ib. 55
the Hind and the Panther, ib. 87
some parts of Bishop Burnet’s conduct and writings, ib. 271
Britannia Rediviva, ib. 285
Prologues and Epilogues, ib. 311
Mac-Flecknoe, ib. 427
Poetical Epistles, xi, 3, 5, 12, 18, 22, 26, 31, 35, 38, 47, 52,
57, 63, 67, 71, 84
Elegies and Epitaphs, ib. 93, 102, 113, 145, 152
Eleonora, a panegyrical poem, ib. 119
Song for St Cecilia’s day, ib. 165
Palæmon and Arcite, ib. 243
Remarks on the Cock and the Fox, a fable, xi. 326
the Flower and the Leaf, a fable, ib. 354
the Wife of Bath, a tale, ib. 376
Character of a good parson, ib. 394
Sigismonda and Guiscardo, a tale, ib. 403
Theodore and Honoria, ib. 433
Cymon and Iphigenia, ib. 452
translations from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, xii, 45
translation of Virgil, xiii, 281
Essay on Satire, xv, 201
Epistle to Mr Julian, ib. 218
Art of Poetry, ib. 229
Tarquin and Tullia, ib. 266
Verses on the Young Statesman, ib. 273
Essay of Dramatic Poesy, ib. 283
Heads of an Answer to Rhymer’s Remarks, ib. 383
Preface to the notes and observations on the Empress of Morocco,
ib. 397
Life of Plutarch xvii, 3
specimen of translation of the History of the League, ib. 79
the controversy between Dryden and Stillingfleet, xvii, 187
translation of Du Fresnoy’s Art of Painting, ib. 281
Reply to Absalom and Achitophel, i, 253
the Medal, ib. 255
Report of the death of the Chevalier de St George, x, 307
Requests, Court of, a scene of political intrigue, ib. 348
Resemblance, personal, of Shadwell to Ben Jonson, i, 265
Resentment of Dryden against the clergy, ib. 428
Residence of Dryden at the university, ib. 31
Restoration of Charles II. poem on, ix, 30
conduct of Shaftesbury at, ib. 447
led the way to the revival of letters, i, 42
Dryden’s poems on, ib. 50
revival of the Drama at, ib. 65
Retort on Dryden, xi, 65
Revel of James I. viii, 452
Revival of the Drama at the Restoration, i, 65
Revolter, a tragi-comedy, extracts from, x, 9
criticism of, on the Hind and the Panther, ib. 99
Revolution, consequences of to Dryden, i, 347
effects of upon literary pursuits, ib. 385
Reynard the Fox, an ancient political satire, x, 155
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, poetical epistle to, xvii, 284
Rhyme unnatural in plays, xv, 363
defence of in serious plays, ib. 367
a constraint to poets, xiv, 207
Rhyming or heroic plays, pattern of set by France, i, 69
Ridicule of Dryden’s use of the Alexandrine, ix, 415
Right of the Pope over kings, x, 19
Rise of the Quakers, account of, ib. 141
Settle’s animosity to Dryden, xv, 398
Rival Ladies, a tragi-comedy, ii, 109
remarks on, ib. 111
dedication to, ib. 113
prologue to, ib. 123
companies of players united, x, 393
Rochester, Earl of, character of, iv, 235
account of, vii, 13, ix, 307
Dryden’s memorial to, i, 296
letters to, xviii, 89, 101
epistle dedicatory to, iv, 235, vii, 13
banished the court, iv, 238
cowardice of, xv, 215
dismissal from the treasury of, epitaph on, ib. 279
assaults Dryden in Rose-street, i, 204
Rod of divination, what, ix, 20
Rogers, Mr, epitaph upon, xi, 144
Roman satirical poetry, rise of, xiii, 47
Roman satire, first author of, ib. 58
dramas, plot of, xv, 314
Roman Catholic plot, ix, 259
Romances of Mademoiselle Scuderi, xi, 232
Romano, Julio, character of as a painter, xvii, 491
Romans, origin of dramatic performances among, xiii, 51
first author of a play among the, ib. 54
what satire meant among, ib. 65
Roscius Anglicanus, extract from, x, 325
Roscommon, Earl of, account of, xii, 341
poetical epistle to, xi, 28
remarks on, ib. 26
verses of on Religio Laici, x, 33
Roundelay, xi, 178
Rovers sporting at, what, xiii, 10
Royal Martyr, a tragedy, iii, 341
mistresses, xv, 206
exile, soliloquy of, ib. 280
Society, Dryden chosen a member of, i, 56
historiographer, Dryden appointed to the office of, i, 115
Rubens, character of as a painter, xvii, 498
Rules to be observed in writing pastorals, xiii, 355
Rumbold, Richard, account of, vii, 261
Run-a-muck, a Malay term, what, x, 276
Rupert, Prince, gallant actions of, ix, 167, ib. 174
Russell’s bill for Dryden’s funerals, xviii, 194
Ruyter, Michael Adrian de, account of, ix, 182
Rymer, Thomas, account of, xv, 383
reflections of, on Milton’s Paradise Lost, xiii, 20
controversy of Dryden with, i, 379
S.
Sackville, Edward, account of, ix, 387
Salisbury, Earl of, epistle dedicatory to, viii, 337
Sancian, island of, description of, xvi, 437
Sancroft, Archbishop, account of, ix, 301
Santio, Raphael, character of, xvii, 490
Satire on the Dutch, ix, 71
remarks on, ib. 70
on Shadwell, ib. 379
of Mac-Flecknoe, character of, i, 266
against sedition, or the Medal, ib. 407
political of Reynard the Fox, x, 155
essay on, xiii, 3
origin and nature of, ib. 37
Roman, first, author of, ib. 58
history of, among the Romans, ib. 56
Varronian, what, ib. 61
Menippean, what, ib. 63
what meant by among the Romans, ib. 65
personal, abuse of, xiii, 81
Heinsius’s definition of, ib. 103
Satire, modern, definition of, xiii, 105
Essay on, Duke of Buckingham author of, xv, 201
Essay on, ib. 203
remarks on, ib. 201
on the Duke of Buckingham’s gallantry, xv, 212
personal, license in, xv, 218
upon the silent poets, xviii, 224
Satires of Horace, character of, xiii, 99
Juvenal, xiii, 119-198
Persius, ib. 207-267
Satirical poetry of the Greeks and Romans, difference between, xiii,
47
poetry of Dryden, effect of on English poetry, i, 275
Satirist, Dryden’s character as a, i, 279
Saturnine and Fescennine verses, what, xiii, 51
Saunders, Charles, author of the tragedy of Tamerlane, x, 356
Saville, Sir George, vide Marquis of Halifax,
Scenery first introduced on the stage, x, 323
Scenes, moveable, introduced on the stage, i, 79
Scotish judge, anecdote of a, ix, 20
Scotland, Cromwell’s conduct to, ix, 19
theatrical amusements introduced into, x, 360
Scott, Anne, vide Monmouth and Buccleuch, Duchess of
Scroop, Mr, stabbed by Sir Thomas Armstrong, x, 327
Scuderi, Mademoiselle, romances of, xi, 232
Sea-fight, remarkable, ix, 168
Sebastian, Don, a tragedy, vii, 271
Second epode of Horace, xii, 351
miscellany of Dryden, appearance of, i, 340
Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen, a comedy, ii, 379
remarks on, ib. 381
preface to, ib. 383
prologues to, ib. 388
epilogue to, ib. 469
Secretary of the muses, epistle to, xv, 222
Secular Masque, written for the Pilgrim, viii, 455
remarks on, ib. 451
Sedition, satire against, ix, 407
Sedley, Sir Charles, account of, iv, 348
anecdote of, ib. 351
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 348
Shadwell assisted by, in the comedy of Epsom Wells, x, 454
Selling-bargains, what, x, 408
Seneph, battle of, xi, 239
Sense of the author to be preserved inviolable in translation, xii,
18
Servility of the French in attention to the unities, xv, 346
Settle, Elkanah, account of, ix, 373
rise of animosity of to Dryden, xv, 398
Dryden’s controversy with, i, 259
Absalom senior, or Achitophel transposed of, extracts from, ix, 376
last period of the life of, i, 273
Pope’s lines on the fate of, ib. 274
Seymour, Sir Edward, account of, ix, 308
Sforza, Lodovico, account of, ix, 46
Shadwell, Thomas, Dryden’s satire on, ix, 379
account of the reception of the Lancashire Witches by, vii, 15
machinery of in the Lancashire Witches, x, 382
humours of, what meant by, ib. 396
plagiarism charged on, ib. 418
originality of, ib. 418
a satire against, x, 425
remarks on, ib. 427
causes of enmity between Dryden and, x, 427
Dryden’s controversy with, i, 259, 286
personal resemblance of to Ben Jonson, i, 265
Duke of Guise attacked by, i, 286
account of, x, 443
character of, ib. 445
humours of, ib. 444, i, 261
proficiency in music of, x, 448
assisted in his comedy of Epsom Wells by Sir Charles Sedley, x,
454
an imitator of Ben Jonson, ib. 456
Shaftesbury, Earl of, account of, ix, 409
anecdote of, ix, 265
attempt of to alter the succession, ib. 268
imprisonment and acquittal of, ib. 409
Bower’s medal of, ib. 412
account of last period of the life of, ib. 415
ridiculed as aspiring to the crown of Poland, ix, 441
offers his services to Charles I. ix, 444
situation of during Cromwell’s usurpation, ib. 445
conduct of at the Restoration, ib. 447
circumstances which influenced him in his change of politics, ib. 448
North’s opinion of the designs of, upon the person and authority of
Charles II. ib. 451
premature decrepitude of, ib. 454
Shakespeare and Dryden, parallel between, v, 287
attack on, by Ben Jonson, xv, 344
character of, ib. 350
Chandos portrait of, xi, 87
Share of Dryden in the composition of the Duke of Guise, i, 281
Shere, Sir Henry, translation of Polybius by, viii, 203
account of xviii, 19
Shipwreck of the Duke of York, ix, 401
ceremonies observed by the ancients on escape from, ix, 34, 44
Shirley, James, account of, x, 446
Shooting at Rovers, what, xiii, 10
Shovel-board, an ancient game, viii, 122
Shrewsbury, Duke of, account of, xv, 192
Sidney, Philip, vide Leicester, Earl of
Sigismonda and Guiscardo, a tale, xi, 405
remarks on, ib. 403
original from the Decameron of Boccace, xi, 443
Signification, parabolical, of the Hind and the Panther, x, 90
critised, ib. 90
Silence of Dryden upon the death of Queen Mary, extracts from poems
attacking him for, xviii, 222
Silent Woman, examination of the comedy of the, xv, 354
poets, a satire upon, xviii, 224
Silenus, a pastoral, xiii, 397
Silver Age, from Ovid, xii, 67
Silvester, John, extract from astrological observations of, x, 421
Simon, Pere Richard, character of, x, 31
Sincerity of Dryden in his attachment to the Catholic faith, i, 322
Singleton, a musical performer of eminence, x, 450
Singular fashion of writing, x, 457
event at the siege of Bologna, ix, 18
Sir Martin Mar-all, or the Feigned Innocence, a comedy, iii, 1
remarks on, ib. 3
prologue to, ib. 5
epilogue to, ib. 93
Skill of Polybius in Political affairs, xviii, 31
Smollett’s account of the birth of the son of James II. x, 305
Society, Dryden’s connections in after the Revolution, i, 369
Socinius, Lelius, doctrine of, x, 46
Soliloquy of a royal exile, xv, 280
Song, written for the Pilgrim, viii, 449
remarks on, ib. 446
Songs, Odes, and Lyrical Pieces, xi, 161-191
the Fair Stranger, xi, 163
for St Cecilia’s day, ib. 167
the Tears of Amynta, ib. 171, xi, 173
The Lady’s, ib. 175, xi, 176, 177
to a fair Young Lady, ib. 181
Sophocles, Œdipus Tyrannus and Coloneus of, character of, vi, 117, 124
Sophonisba, prologue to, x, 350
Southerne, poetical epistle to, xi, 50
remarks on, ib. 47
account of, ib. 48
verses of to Congreve, xi, 61
anecdote of, i, 237
commencement of Dryden’s friendship with, i, 294
character of, i, 372
Spanheim’s dissertations, extract from, xiii, 47
Spanish Friar, or the Double Discovery, vi, 365
remarks on, ib. 367
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 373
prologue to, ib. 382
epilogue to, ib. 485
prohibited by James II. ib. 371
represented by Queen Mary by her order, ib. 371
account of, representation of, ib. 371
character of, i, 227
relations of Dryden when it was composed, i, 233
Specimen of Milbourne’s translation of Virgil, i, 400
poetical attacks upon Dryden, i, 350
of translation of the History of the League, xvii, 77
remarks on, ib. 79
Speech, King’s, to Oxford Parliament, versified, ix, 309
Speeches of Ajax and Ulysses, xii, 181
Speght’s edition of Chaucer, xi, 220
Spenser, character of, xiii, 18
obsolete language of, ib. 19
Sports of the Chace, King James I. much attached to, viii, 451
Spottiswoode, Archbishop, account of, xvii, 159
Spragge, Sir Edward, account of, ix, 178
gallant action of, xi, 24
Sprat’s verses to the memory of Cromwell, ix, 5
Stage, regular scenery first introduced on, x, 323
moveable scenes introduced on, i, 79
scenes of death improper on, xv, 332
laws of, observed more exactly by the French than by the English, xv,
336
order for the reformation of, xviii, 152
indelicacy of, in the age of Dryden, i, 417
Stanzas, heroic, to the memory of Oliver Cromwell, ix, 8
of four verses in alternate rhyme, defended, ib. 94
Stapylton, Sir Robert, account of, xiii, 93
Star visible at the birth of Charles II. ix, 51
State of Innocence and Fall of Man, an opera, v, 89
remarks on, ib. 91
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 95
verses on, ib. 103
preface to, ib. 105
State of Learning in England, on the accession of James I. i, 5
Dryden’s connexions in society after the Revolution, i, 369
State Tracts, extract from, x, 185
Statius, Harte’s vindication of, xiv, 130
Steward, Elmes, letter of Dryden to, xviii, 143
Mrs Elizabeth, account of, ib. 141
letters of Dryden to, xviii, 141, 144, 146, 147, 149, 150, 153,
161, 169, 171, 174, 178, 180
Stillingfleet, Bishop, account of, xvii, 194
opinion of, on party names, x, 243
and Dryden, illiberality of, x, 251
controversy between, xvii, 187, i, 323
answer of to the Duchess of York’s paper, xvii, 194
Storm at the death of Oliver Cromwell, ix, 23
Story of Griselda, not invented by Petrarch, xi, 215
Acis, Polyphemus, and Galatea, xii, 199
Stothard’s painting of Chaucer’s Pilgrims, xi, 217
Strong box of Charles II. extract from papers found in, x, 188
Stuart, James, vide Duke of Monmouth
Succession, Shaftesbury’s attempt to alter the, ix, 268
Sullen Lovers, extract from preface to, i, 260
Sunderland, Earl of, account of, vi, 231
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 231
Superiority of English to French plays, xv, 349
Suum Cuique, xv, 276
Swallows, application of the fable of the, x, 253
Swan, Owen, account of, xiii, 97
Swash-buckler, what, iii, 6
Swift’s attacks on Dryden, i, 374
the Virgil of Dryden, ib. 393
inscription for Sir R. Blackmore’s picture, viii, 445
account of the Hind and the Panther, x, 106
Synalepha, example of, xii, 57
T.
Talbot, Charles, vide Shrewsbury, Duke of
Tale of the Nun’s Priest, xi, 327
Wife of Bath, ib. 377
Sigismonda and Guiscardo, ib. 405
Tales from Chaucer, fables, xi, 193-399
of Chaucer modernized by Dryden, xii, i-xci
Knightes Tale, xii, iii
Nonnes Preestes Tale, ib.
