218
prologue to, ib.
prologue to, ib.
Dryden - Complete
281
colleagues of in the Notes and Observations on the Empress of Morocco,
ib. 399
characterised, ib. 399
Life of Plutarch by, xvii, 1
extract from Epistolary Poem to, xviii, 218
Letters of, ib. 83
to Madam Honor Dryden, ib. 86
to the Earl of Rochester, ib. 89, 101
to the Rev. Dr. Busby, ib. 96, 98
to Jacob Tonson, ib. 103, 106, 109, 118, 119, 121, 122, 123, 124,
126, 127, 128, 130, 136, 137, 138
with Mr Dennis, ib. 111, 114
with Mrs Steward, ib. 141, 144, 146, 147, 149, 150, 153, 156, 157,
161, 169, 171, 174, 178, 180
with his sons at Rome, ib. 131
with Elmes Stewart, Esq. , ib. 143
with Samuel Pepys, ib. 154, 156
with the Right Hon. Charles Montague, ib. 159
with Mrs Elizabeth Thomas, junior, ib. 164, 167, 173
Dryden, Charles, letter of to Corinna, xviii, 213
Duchess of York, account of the, v, 95, ix, 73
Epistle Dedicatory to, v, 95
Verses to, ix, 76
Poetical Epistle to, xi, 33
paper of, xvii, 189
controversy between Dryden and Stillingfleet concerning paper of,
ib. 185
Stillingfleet’s answer to, ib. 194
Dryden’s defence of, ib. 208
Stillingfleet’s answer to defence of, ib. 252
Newcastle, account of, iii, 210
Buccleugh and Monmouth, account of, ix, 256
Ormond, Dedication to, ib. 245
Portsmouth’s picture, epigram on, xv, 280
Duke of Guise, a tragedy, vii, 1
remarks on, ib. 3
Parallel between, and affairs in England, ib. 4
Epistle Dedicatory to, ib. 18
Prologue to, ib. 19
Epilogue to, ib. 122
a tragedy, Vindication of, vii, 125
remarks on Vindication of, ib. 127
Advertisement to, ib. 133
and Monmouth, no parallel intended between, ib. 144
Massacre of Paris transposed for, ib. 188
attacked by Shadwell, i, 286
share of Dryden in, ib. 281
assassination of, xvii, 148
Duke of Newcastle, Congreve’s Dedication to, ii, 5
account of, iii, 209
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 209
Lerma, answer to the Preface of the, ii, 265
York, Dedication to, iv, 9
personal bravery of, ib. 10, ix, 161
attempt to counteract the influence of in the city, ix, 388
shipwreck of upon the Lemman Ore, ib. 401
picture of, at Guildhall, defaced, vii, 51
Prologue to, x, 366
requested by Charles II. to retire to the continent, ix, 384
presence of acceptable to the Scots, ib. 385
Albemarle, account of, ix, 394
gallant actions of, ix, 250-6
Monmouth, account of, ix, 250
Buckingham, account of, v, 174
intrepidity of, v, 175
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 174
Answer of to Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel, extracts from, ix, 272
Battle of, extract from, ib. 398
author of the Essay on Satire, xv, 201
gallantry of, ib. 211
satire on gallantry of, ib. 212
Ormond, account of, ix, 294-8, xi, 195
dedication to, xi, 195, xvii, 5
behaviour of at the battle of Landen, xi, 202
Beaufort, account of, ix, 390
noble house-keeping of, ib. 391
Grafton, account of, ix, 396
examination of Bishop Burnet concerning, x, 274
Shrewsbury, account of, xv, 192
Du Bartas, poem of, extract from, xv, 233
Dumfounding, what, x, 408
Dundee, Viscount, account of, xi, 113
Epitaph on the death of, ib. 115
remarks on, ib. 113
Pitcairn’s Epitaph upon, ib. 114
Du Fresnoy, Chas. Alphonse, account of, xvii, 281
Du Fresnoy’s Art of Painting, ib. 279
remarks on, ib. 281
observations on, ib. 392
judgment of the works of the principal painters of the two last ages,
ib. 489
Duras, Lewis, vide Earl of Feversham
Dutch, satire on, ix, 71
Dutch insolence, ib. 162
Duty of apprentices in ancient times, vi, 382
E.
Eagre or Higre, what, x, 65
Earl of Orrery, account of the, ii, 113
dedication to, ib. 113
of Mulgrave, account of the, v, 174
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 174
character of, ib. 175
vide Duke of Buckingham,
of Danby, account of the, v, 296
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 296
of Lindsay, account of the, ib. 304
of Carbery, vide Vaughan, Lord
of Sunderland, account of, vi, 231
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 231
of Rochester, account of, vii, 13, ix, 607
character of, iv, 235
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 235, vii, 13
banished the Court, ib. 238
assaults Dryden in Rose-street, i, 204
Dryden’s memorial to, ib. 296
account of, vii, 283
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 283
of Salisbury, epistle dedicatory to, viii, 337
of Clarendon, character of the, ix, 63
of Ossory, account of the, ib. 299
of Feversham, account of, ix, 397
of Nottingham, account of, ix, 400
of Shaftesbury, imprisonment and acquittal of, ib. 409
last period of the life of, ib. 415
ridiculed as aspiring to the crown of Poland, ix, 441
offers his services to Charles I. , ib. 444
character of, during usurpation of Cromwell, ib. 445
conduct of, at the Restoration, ib. 447
circumstances which influenced him in his change of politics, ib. 448
North’s opinion of the designs of, upon the person and authority of
Charles II. , ib. 451
premature decrepitude of, ib. 454
of Roscommon, account of the, xii, 341
poetical epistle to, xi, 28
of Dorset, Dryden indebted to the bounty of, i, 370
Essay on Satire, addressed to the, xiii, 3
character of, ib. 7
Dryden’s exaggerated praise of, ib. 15
epistle dedicatory to, xv, 286
song of, written the evening before the battle, ib. 284
of Peterborough, account of the, ib. 189
of Exeter, character of the, ib. 191
epitaph of the, ib. 191
of Aylesbury, account of the, ib. 207
of Essex, account of the, ib. 207
prologue to, x, 368
Ecclesiastical policy, Hooker’s treatise upon, ib. 26
Effect of Dryden’s satirical poems on English poetry, i, 275
Effects of the Revolution upon literary pursuits, ib. 385
Elegies and epitaphs, xi, 91, 160
Elegy upon the death of Lord Hastings, ib. 94
to the memory of Mr Oldham, xi, 99
Mrs Anne Killigrew, ib. 105
on the death of Amyntas, ib. 139
on a very young gentleman, ib. 142
Election of Sheriffs for London, contest at, ix, 404
Eleonora, a panegyrical poem, to the memory of the Countess of Abingdon,
xi, 117
remarks on, ib. 119
dedication of, ib. 121
Elizabeth, Queen, age of, abundant in false wit, i, 7
John Lillie’s share in determining the taste of, ib. 7
association for the defence of the person of, ix, 422
Empress of Morocco, character of, i, 187
notes and observations on, xv, 405
postscript to, ib. 409
parody on part of, ib. 407
preface to notes, and observations on, ib. 401
England, poetry of, before the civil wars, i, 4
state of learning in, on the accession of James I. , ib. 5
milled money not struck in, before 1663, ix, 451
loyalty of church of, x, 154
tradition of no weight with the church of, ib. 156
establishment of the Jesuits in, ib. 255
English poetry, effect of Dryden’s satirical poems on, i, 275
versification improved by Denham and Waller, ib. 18
fleet, names of changed, ix, 63
verse, Virgil translated into, xiii, 279
lawyers, cruel doctrine of, xv, 297
plays, superiority of, ib. 349
excel the ancients in dramatic writing, ib. 3
Enchanted Island, or the Tempest, a comedy, iii, 95
Ennius, first author of Roman satire, xiii, 58
Ent, Dr George, account of, xi, 16
Enterprize of Sir Thomas Allen, ix, 177
Sir Robert Holmes, ib. 178, 184
Epic poem meditated by Dryden, i, 215
Epilogues and Prologues, x, 309, 424
to the Wild Gallant, a comedy, ii, 106-7
the Indian Queen, ib. 255
the Indian Emperor, ib. 377
Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen, ib. 469
Sir Martin Mar-all, iii, 93
the Tempest, or the Enchanted Island, ib. 205
An Evening’s Love, ib. 340
Tyrannic Love, iii, 435
the Conquest of Granada, iv, 110, 210
Defence of the, ib. 211
remarks on, ib. 229
to Marriage a-la-Mode, ib. 342
the Assignation, ib. 447
Amboyna, v, 87
Aureng-Zebe, ib. 282
All for Love, ib. 411
the Spanish Friar, vi, 485
Limberham, ib. 114
Œdipus, ib. 222
Troilus and Cressida, ib. 363
the Duke of Guise, vii, 122
Albion and Albanus, ib. 268
Don Sebastian, ib. 444
Amphitryon, viii, 106
Cleomenes, ib. 329
Love Triumphant, ib. 435
the Pilgrim, ib. 462
remarks on, ib. 459
attack upon Jeremy Collier in, i, 436
spoken at the opening of the New House, x, 326
Oxford, ib. 330
intended to have been spoken by Lady H. M. Wentworth, ib. 337
to the Man of Mode, ib. 339
Mithridates, ib. 341, 354
Tamerlane, ib. 356
the University of Oxford, ib. 360, 381
for the King’s House, ib. 362
to the Loyal Brother, ib. 377
Constantine the Great, ib. 386
the Disappointment, ib. 390
upon the union of the two companies, x, 398
to the Princess of Cleves, ib. 402
Henry II. , ib. 412, 420
the Husband his own Cuckold, ib. 423
the Humourists, from, ib. 456
Epistle dedicatory to the King, xvii, 81
Queen, xvi, 3
Duke of Newcastle, ii, 5, iii, 209
Earl of Orrery, ii, 113
Duchess of Monmouth and Buccleuch, ii, 259
Duke of Monmouth and Buccleuch, iii, 346
Duke of York, iv, 9
Earl of Rochester, ib. 235
Sir Charles Sedley, ib. 348
Lord Clifford, v, 5, xiii, 337
the Duchess of York, v, 95
Earl of Mulgrave, ib. 174
Earl of Danby, ib. 296
Lord Vaughan, vi, 6
the Earl of Sunderland, ib. 231
Lord Haughton, ib. 373
the Earl of Rochester, vii, 13
Earl of Leicester, ib. 283
Sir William Leveson Gower, viii, 7
the Marquis of Halifax, ib. 113
Earl of Salisbury, ib. 337
Metropolis of Great Britain, ix, 89
Earl of Abingdon, xi, 121
Duke of Ormond, ib. 195
Duchess of Ormond, ib. 245
Lord Radcliffe, xii, 47
the Earl of Chesterfield, xiv, 3
Marquis of Normandy, ib. 127
Earl of Dorset, xv, 286
Duke of Ormond, xvii, 5
Mr Congreve’s edition of Dryden’s Dramatic Works, ii, 5
Orpheus Britannicus, xi, 146
Creech’s Horace, extract from, viii, 202
of the History of the League, to the French King, xvii, 89
to the Empress of Morocco, extract from, xv, 398
to the Whigs, ix, 417
by Sir George Etherege, to the Earl of Middleton, xi, 40
poetical, from Pope to Jervas, xvii, 282
Mason to Sir Joshua Reynolds, ib. 284
Epistles of John Dryden, xviii, 83
remarks on, ib. 85
of Dryden to Madam Honor Dryden, ib. 86
to the Earl of Rochester, ib. 89, 101
to the Rev. Dr Bushby, ib. 96, 98
to Jacob Tonson, ib. 103, 106, 109, 118, 119, 121, 122, 123, 124,
126, 127, 128, 130, 136, 137, 138
to Mr Dennis, ib. 111, 114
to Mrs Steward, ib. 131, 144, 146, 147, 149, 150, 153, 156, 157,
161, 169, 171, 174, 178, 180
to his sons, at Rome, ib. 131
to Elmes Steward, Esq. , ib. 143
to Samuel Pepys, ib. 154, 156
to the Right Hon. Charles Montague, ib. 159
to Mrs Elizabeth Thomas, junior, ib. 164, 167, 173
Epistles poetical, xi, 1-90
to John Hoddeson, ib. 4
to Robert Howard, ib. 7
to Dr Charleton, ib. 14
to Lady Castlemain, ib. 20
to Mr Lee, ib. 23
to the Earl of Roscommon, ib. 28
to the Duchess of York, ib. 33
to Mr J. Northleigh, ib. 37
to Sir George Etherege, ib. 42
to Mr Southerne, ib. 50
to Henry Higden, ib. 55
to Mr Congreve, xi. 59
to Mr Granville, ib. 64
to Mr Motteux, ib. 69
to John Driden, ib. 75
to Sir Godfrey Kneller, ib.
Ovid’s, translations from, xii, 1-41
preface to, ib. 3
character of, ib. 11
Canace to Macareus, ib. 21
Helen to Paris, ib. 26
Dido to Æneas, ib. 35
Epitaph on the Earl of Rochester’s being dismissed from the treasury,
xv, 279
Epithalamium of Helen and Menelaus, xii, 292
Epitome of Polybius, engaged in by Marcus Brutus, xviii, 30
Epode to Dryden, vii, 133
second of Horace, xii, 351
Essay of Dramatic Poesy, defence of, ii, 265
on Heroic Plays, iv, 16
on the dramatic poetry of the last age, iv, 211
on translated verse, xi, 28
Poetical Epistle on, ib. 28
on Virgil’s Georgic’s, xiv, 14
upon Satire, xv, 203
remarks on, ib. 201
upon Satire, Duke of Buckingham, author of, xv, 201
of Dramatic Poesy, xv, 293
remarks on, ib. 283
dedication to, ib. 286
advertisement to, ib. 292
Essex, Earl of, prologue to, x, 368
Establishment of the Jesuits in England, ib. 255
Etherege, Sir George, account of, ib. 454
epistle of, to the Earl of Middleton, xi, 40
Evremont, M. St, account of, xviii, 11
character of, ib. 9
Examination of Bishop Burnet by the House of Commons, x, 274
Evening’s Love, or the Mock Astrologer, a comedy, iii, 207
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 209
remarks on, iii, 217
preface to, ib.
218
prologue to, ib. 233
epilogue to, ib. 340
Extract from preface to the Sullen Lovers, i, 260
Journal of Capt. Christopher Gunman, ib. 301
Preface to Blackmore’s Prince Arthur, ib. 422
Epistle to Sir Richard Blackmore, ib. 437
from epilogue to the Humourists, x, 456
letter to Jacob Tonson, xv, 194
Wilson’s life of Congreve, xviii, 200
an epistolary poem to Dryden, occasioned by the death of the Earl of
Abingdon, ib. 218
Extracts from poems attacking Dryden for his silence upon the death of
Queen Mary, ib. 222
Vindication of the Answer to some late Papers, x, 246, 249
Roscius Anglicanus, x, 325
Appeal to Honour and Justice, x, 387
Love’s Kingdom, ib. 453
epilogue to the Humourist, ib. 456
Malone’s History of the English Stage, xi, 58
Spanheim’s Dissertation, xiii, 47
poem of Du Bartas, xv, 233
epilogue upon reviewing Every Man in his Humour, xv, 310
dedication to the Empress of Morocco, xv, 398
Caulfield’s History of the Gunpowder Plot, i, 24
one of Dryden’s first poems, i, 33
Creech’s dedication to Horace, viii, 202
poem of John James, ix, 164
Naboth’s Vineyard, ib. 198
Judah Betrayed, a poem, ib. 266
the Duke of Buckingham’s answer to Absalom and Achitophel, ib. 272
Settle’s Absalom senior, ib. 375
poem of Loyal Feast Defeated, ib. 390
The Battle, ib. 398
Loyal Medal vindicated, ib. 423
Hickeringill’s answer to Dryden’s Medal, ix, 452
Lenten Prologue, vii, 131
the Religio Laici of J. R. , x, 9
Revolter, a tragi-comedy, x, ib.
Lord Herbert’s history, ib. 23
Tom Brown’s works, ib. 51
preface to the New Converts Exposed, ib. 103
Reasons for Mr Bayes changing his Religion, ib. 103, 313, 315
papers found in the strong-box of King Charles II. ib. 188-190
F.
Fabel, Peter, anecdote of, vol. vii, 10
Fable of the Swallows, application of, x, 253
Cock and Fox, xi, 327
Flower and Leaf, or the Lady in the Arbour, ib. 356
remarks on, ib. 354
argument of, ib. 354
Fables, tales from Chaucer, xi, 193, 399
translations from Boccace, ib. 401, 480
Dedication of, ib. 195
Preface prefixed to, ib. 205
Dryden’s agreement with Jacob Tonson, concerning, xviii, 191
verses occasioned by reading, xviii, 227
Appendix to, containing the original tales of Chaucer, modernized by
Dryden, xii, i-xci
of Iphis and Ianthe, xii, 116
Pygmalion and the Statue, ib. 123
Cinyras and Myrrha, ib. 127
Ceyx and Alcyone, ib. 139
Fair Stranger, a song, xi, 163
Fairborne, Sir Palmes, epitaph on tomb of, xi, 155
account of the death of, xi, 156
Fairfax, Edward, translator of Tasso’s Jerusalem, xi, 207
Falkland, Anthony, Lord Viscount, account of, v, 307
Fall of Man, an opera, v, 89
False wit, one character of the poetry of Queen Elizabeth, i, 7
taste, prevalence of in the age of James I. ib. 9
Familiar epistle to Mr Julian, xv, 222
remarks on, ib. 218
Familiarity of Augustus with Virgil and Horace, xiii, 313
Farquhar’s ludicrous account of the Funeral of Dryden, i, 441
Fasts and thanksgivings, appointment of, belongs only to the king, ix,
388
Fate of Titus Oates, ib. 356
Fates, Jupiter cannot alter the decrees of the, xv, 103
Feigned Innocence, or Sir Martin Mar-all, a comedy, iii, 1
Female Prelate, and Lancashire Witches, account of, vii, 142
performers first introduced on the stage after the Restoration, x, 321
Ferrex and Perrex, a tragedy, mistake of Dryden concerning, ii, 118
Ferguson, Robert, account of, ix, 363
Fescennine and Saturnine verses, what, xiii, 51
Festival, St Cecilia’s, account of, xi, 166
Feversham, Earl of, account of, ix, 397
Finch, Sir Keneage, vide Nottingham, Earl of
Fire of London, conduct of Charles II. on, ix, 187
its dreadful effects, ib. 189
First Miscellany, appearance of, i, 294
First poems of Dryden, i, 28
Fitzharris’s Plot, Waller’s Discovery of, ib. 382
Flail, account of Protestant, vii, 19
Flecknoe, Richard, account of, vi, 7, x, 441
Marvell’s description of, ib. 441
plays of, ib. 442
Fleet, English, names of changed, ix, 48
Flower and the Leaf, a fable, xi, 356
Floure and the Leafe, by Chaucer, xii, lxviii
Fontenelle’s Reflections, defence of Virgil from, xiii, 345
Forbes, James, account of, ix, 368
Fourth Miscellany, appearance of, i, 382
Four days battle, account of, ib. 168, 174
Frampton, Mary, epitaph on monument of, xi, 158
France, Charles II. receives a pension from, ix, 385
France set the pattern of rhiming or heroic plays, i, 69
League in, and Covenant in England, parallel between, i, 281
Freethinkers, their opinions, x, 143
Free translation, Cowley’s mode of, xii, 15
French stage, punctilios of, v, 307
exiled Protestants, relief given by King James II. to, x, 264
poetry, character of, xiii, 366
better critics than the English, xiv, 159
authors, scrupulous observers of the unities of time and action,
xv, 325
observe the laws of the stage, and decorum more exactly than the
English, xv, 336
plays, character of, ib. 337
servility of the, in attention to the unities, ib. 346
Friar Bacon, anecdote of, vii, 10
Friends, literary, of Dryden, i, 373
Friendship of Dryden with Southerne and Congreve, i, 372
Frontispiece to Albion and Albanus, vii, 231
Fuller, William, account of, viii, 329
Fuller’s anecdote of Robert Keies, i, 23
Funeral Pindaric poem, x, 53
of Dryden, i, 440
Farquhar’s ludicrous account of, ib. 441
Tom Brown’s account of, ib. 443
Mr Russel’s bill for, xviii, 194
Mrs Thomas’s letters concerning, ib. 200
description of, ib. 195
procession at the death of St Francis Xavier, description of, xvi, 465
G.
Gallant, Wild, a comedy, vol. ii, 13
actions of Prince Rupert, ix, 167-174
the Duke of Albemarle, ix, 168, 171
action of Edward Spragge, xi, 24
Gallantry of the Duke of Buckingham, xv, 211
Gallus, a pastoral, xiii, 417
Garth’s character of Dryden’s Translations, i, 340
Georgic, definition of, xiv, 16
Georgics of Virgil, translation of, xiv, 1-122
dedication of, ib. 3
essay on, ib. 14
character of, ib. 25
notes on, ib. 123
Book I. ib. 27
II. ib. 49
III. ib. 73
IV. ib. 98
Georgione, character of, xvii, 492
German jollity, xi, 44
Giants’ war, xii, 69
Gibbon’s account of his conversion to the Catholic faith, i, 316
character of Pope Nicholas V. xviii, 24
account of the murder of Lucian, ib. 57
Gilbert, Dr William, account of, xi, 15
Goa, description of, xvi, 71
Godfrey, Sir Edmondbury, account of, ix, 285
Golden age, from Ovid, xii, 66
Government of Japan, xvi, 291
Gracioso, or buffoon, what, i, 77
Grafton, Duke of, account of, ix, 396
Graham, James, vide Dundee, Viscount
Granville, George, poetical epistle to, xi, 64
remarks on, xi, 63
Great Favourite, answer to the preface of the, ii, 265
Grecian dramas, plot of, xv, 313
Greek satirical drama, and the satirical poetry of the Romans,
distinction between, xiii, 47
Greeks, comedy distinguished by acts not known to the early, xv, 311
Grey, Lord, pusillanimous conduct of, ix, 276
Griselda, story of, not invented by Petrarch, xi, 215
Grounds of criticism in tragedy, vi, 243
Growth of Popery, by Andrew Marvel, ix, 420
Guardian angels, machinery of, xiii,
Guibbons, Dr William, Dryden’s acknowledgment to, xi, 77
Guido, character of as a painter, xvii, 496
Guise, Duke of, a tragedy, vii, 1
assassination of, xvii, 148
Gunman, Captain Christopher, extract from journal of, i, 301
Gunpowder Plot, extract from Caulfield’s history of, i, 24
Gwynn, Nell, anecdote of, ix, 426
H.
Hacket, Coppinger, and Arthington, enthusiasm of, vol. x, 28
Hale, Sir Matthew, prejudices of, xiii, 67
Hales, John, anecdote of, xv, 351
Halifax, Marquis of, epistle dedicatory to, viii, 113
account of, ib. 113, ix, 305
Handel, Ode to St Cecilia set to music by, i, 410
Harman, Sir John, exploit of, ix, 179
Harmony of numbers, neglected by the metaphysical poets, i, 17
Hart, the tragedian, account of, x, 328
Harte’s vindication of Statius, xiv, 130
Harvey, William, account of, xi, 15
Hastings, Lord, elegy upon the death of, xi, 94
remarks on, ib. 93
Haughton, Lord, account of, vi, 373
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 373
Hawkers, prodigies of, x, 348
Heads of an answer to Rymer’s remarks, xv, 385
remarks on, ib. 383
Healing Parliament, what, x, 71
Heathen, diligence of Catholic missionaries in converting the, x, 192
Hector and Andromache, last parting of, xii, 382
Heinsius’s definition of satire, xiii, 103
Helen and Paris, epistle of, xii, 26
to Menelaus, epithalamium of, from Theocritus, ib. 292
Heliodorus, anecdote of, vi, 126
Henry II. , epilogue to, x, 412
Herbert’s, Lord, History of Henry VIII. , extracts from, x, 23
Heresies, History of, Dryden projects a translation of, i, 334
Hero, piety the first quality of, xiv, 161
Heroic plays, character of, i, 118
an essay on, iv, 16
poetry, apology for, v, 105
stanzas to the memory of Oliver Cromwell, ix, 8
remarks on, ib. 3
notes on, ib. 15
or rhyming plays imitated from the French, i, 69
Heylin, Dr Peter, account of, xvii, 190
Heywood, Thomas, account of, x, 446
Hickeringill’s, Edmund, answer to the Medal of Dryden, ix, 452
Higden, Henry, poetical epistle to, xi, 55
remarks on, ib. 52
account of, ib. 52
Higgons’s verses to Congreve, ib. 61
Higre or Eagre, what, x, 65
Hind and Panther, Part I. x, 85
remarks on, ib. 87
parabolical signification of, ib. 90
criticised, ib. 90
application of censured, ib. 90
defended, ib. 91
transversed, extracts from, ib. 91
where composed, i, 325
parody on by Prior and Montague, ib. 330
parody on, x, 91
letters on, ib. 102
libels occasioned by publication of, ib. 104
Swift’s account of, ib. 106
preface to, ib. 109
notes on, ib. 139-157
Part II. ib. 159
notes on, ib. 185-194
Part III. ib. 195
application of justified, ib. 197
notes on, ib. 240-282
Historiographer-royal, Dryden appointed to the office of, i, 115
loses the office of, i, 354
Historical and Political Poems, ix, 1
History of Calvinism by Lewis Maimbourg, x, 30
Satire among the Romans, xiii, 56
divisions of, xvii, 56
proper, what, ib. 57
of the League, specimen of translation of, xvii, 77
appearance of, i, 290
author’s dedication to, ib. 89
advertisement to the reader, ib. 98
Book III. translation of, ib. 101
translator’s postscript to, ib. 150
of Heresies, Dryden projects a translation of i, 334
Hoddeson, John, poetical epistle to, xi, 4
remarks on, ib. 3
Hollis, Sir Freschville, account of, ix, 180
Holmes, Sir Robert, enterprise of, ix, 178, 184
Holyday, Barten, account of, xiii, 93
Homer, character of, xi, 211
Homer’s poetry, character of, xii, 59
translations from, ib. 355-388
Virgil’s imitation of, xiv, 182
Dryden meditates a translation of, i, 414
Hooker, Richard, account of, x, 26
treatise of upon Ecclesiastical Policy, ib. 26
Hoped and unhoped, ancient meaning of, xi, 336
Hopkins, Charles, account of, xviii, 163
Horace, character of, xii, 280
translations from, ib. 339-354
Ode 3. of Book I. inscribed to the Earl of Roscommon, ib. 341
Ode 9. of Book I. inscribed to the Earl of Rochester, ib. 344
Second Epode of, ib. 351
character of his father, xiii, 77
and Persius, comparison between, ib. 78
Juvenal, comparison between, ib. 78
Satires of, Dacier’s character of, ib. 99
Housekeeping, noble of the Duke of Beaufort, ix, 391
Howard, Sir Robert, joint author with Dryden of the Indian Queen, ii, 203
note concerning, ib. 263
letter to, ix, 92
poetical epistle to, xi, 7
remarks on, ib. 5
account of, i, 54
Dryden’s controversy with, ib. 94
Lord, infamous conduct of, ix, 278
Hudibras, author of, unrewarded by the court, x, 250
at court, ib. 250
Hughes’s verses, occasioned by reading Dryden’s Fables, xviii, 227
Huguenot refugee clergy, not all of the same communion, x. 203, 244
Human body, measures of, xvii, 424
Hume’s account of the rise of the Quakers, x, 141
Humours, Shadwell’s, what meant by, x, 396, i, 261
Humourists, dramatis personæ of, x, 452
extract from epilogue to, ib. 456
Hungary, breach of treaty, and death of Ladislaus, king of, vii, 184
Hunt, Thomas, account of, ib. 127
Husband his own Cuckold, epilogue to, x, 423
Hyde, Lord Chancellor, verses to, ix, 65
Anne, vide York, Duchess of
Laurence, vide Rochester, Earl of
Hymn for St John’s Eve, translation of by Dryden, i, 344
I.
James I. state of learning in England on the accession of, i, 5
false taste in age of, ib. 9
play of words in age of, ib. 10
traditionary anecdote of, ib. 13
attached to the sports of the chace, viii, 451
account of one of the revels of, ib. 452
II. titles of poems on accession of, x, 59
character of addresses on accession of, ib. 110
professions of at accession of, ib. 262
declaration of concerning the church of England, ib. 262
relief given by to the French exiled Protestants, x, 264
character of, ib. 226, 265
poetical addresses to on the birth of a son of, ib. 286
birth of son of said to be spurious, ib. 286
believed by the Papists miraculous, ib. 285, 302
pregnancy of queen of ridiculed, ib. 303
account of the birth of son of by Smollet, ib. 305
vide York, Duke of
Eleanor, account of, x, 116
author of a Vindication of the Church of England, ib. 116
John, extract from poem of, ix, 164
Japan, island of, description of, xvi, 290
government of, ib. 291
religion of, ib. 292
language of, ib. 295
Idylliums of Theocritus, translations from, xii, 285-307
Jervas, poetical epistle to, xvii, 282
Jesuits, establishment of in England, x, 255
Iliad of Homer, Book I. translations from, xii, 357
moral not intended in, xiv, 134
Tasso’s imitation of, xiii, 17
Illegitimate children of Charles II. ix, 250
Illiberality of Stillingfleet and Dryden, x, 251
Imitation of Cowley, ix, 191
in translation, what, xii, 12
of Homer by Virgil, xiv, 182
Immunities of the city of London defended, vii, 127
Impossible to translate verbally, xii, 12
Imprisonment and acquittal of the Earl of Shaftesbury, ix, 409
Indelicacy of the stage in the age of Dryden, i, 417
Independents, description of, x, 140
Infallibility, not in the Pope alone, ib. 164-187
Indian Queen, a tragedy, ii. 201
remarks on, ib. 203
prologue to, ib. 205
epilogue to, ib. 255
Indian Emperor, a tragedy, ii, 257
dedication to, ib. 259
remarks on, ib. 290
prologue to, ib. 295
epilogue to, ib. 377
connection of to the Indian Queen, ib. 293
Inaccuracy of Dryden with regard to Sir Philip Sydney, xiii, 18
Indelicacy of Lucretius, xii, 276
Infamous conduct of Lord Howard, ix, 278
Innocent Traitor, extract from, ix, 198
Inscription, burlesque, to be placed under Sir Richard Blackmore’s
picture, viii, 445
Inscription under Milton’s picture, xi, 160
Insolence of the Dutch, ix, 162
Instruction, the end of all poetry, vi, 246
Instructions of St Francis Xavier to missionaries, xvi, 228
Insurrection of Count Teckeli, x, 387
Integral parts of a play, Aristotle’s distinction of, xv, 312
Interment of St Francis Xavier, xvi, 456
Intrigue, comedies of, introduced, i, 76
of Dryden with Mrs Reeves, ib. 87
Invention, necessary both to painting and poetry, xvii, 318
the first part of painting, xvii, 347, 410
John’s (St) Eve, hymn for, i, 344
Johnson, Samuel, account of, ix, 369
Jones, Sir William, account of, ib. 278
Jonson, Ben, character of by Dryden, iii, 222
Shadwell an imitator of, x, 456
a metaphysical poet, i, 11
traditionary anecdote of, ib. 13
attack of on Shakespeare, xv, 344
Journal of Captain Christopher Gunman, extract from, i, 301
Iphis and Ianthe, fable of, xii, 116
Iron Age, from Ovid, xii, 68
Irreligion of Polybius, xviii, 46
Irruption of the Bishop of Munster into the United States, ix, 165
Iter Boreale of Dr Robert Wild, xv, 296
Judah Betrayed, a poem, extract from, ix, 266
Judgment of Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy on the works of the principal
painters of the two last ages, xvii, 489
Judicial astrology, Dryden’s belief in, xviii, 207
Jupiter cannot alter the decrees of the fates, xv, 103
Juvenal, translations from, xiii, 1-202
and Horace, comparison between, xiii, 78
First Satire of translated, ib. 119
Third, ib. 130
Sixth, ib. 148
Tenth, ib. 178
Sixteenth, ib. 198
K.
Keis, Robert, anecdote of, vol. i. 23
Ket’s insurrection defeated, v, 181
Killigrew, Dr Henry, account of, xi, 106
Mrs Anne, account of, ib. 102
Elegy to the memory of, ib. 105
remarks on, ib. 102
Kind Keeper, a comedy, vi, 1
King Arthur, or the British Worthy, a Dramatic Opera, viii, 107
remarks on, ib. 109
prologue to, ib. 122
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 113
epilogue to, ib. 178
King James I. attached to the sports of the chace, viii, 451
account of one of the revels of, ib. 452
II. , vide Duke of York, and James II.
King William, Titus Oates pensioned by, viii, 464
King, confuting arguments used by, disrespect of his person, x, 252
King and Queen, Epilogue to, ib. 393
dedication to the, xvii, 81
of France, dedication to, ib. 89
King’s speech to Oxford Parliament versified, ix, 309
power of granting pardon after condemnation questioned, ix, 310
Head clubs, account of, ib. 380
House, epilogue for, x, 362
and Duke’s players united, ib. 393
company of players, Dryden’s contract with, i, 162
right of the Pope over, x, 19
Kneller, Sir Godfrey, poetical epistle to, xi, 85
account of, ib. 84
character of, ib. 89
Knight’s Tale, or Palamon and Arcite, xi, 241
by Chaucer, xii, iii
L.
Ladislaus, King of Hungary, breach of treaty, and death of, vol. vii, 184
Lady in the Arbour, a fable, xi, 356
Lancashire Witches, reception of, vii, 15
account of, ib. 142
machinery of, x, 382
Landen, behaviour of the Duke of Ormond at, xi, 202
Lanfranc, character of, xvii, 497
Langbaine’s account of Lodowick Carlell, x, 404
Language of Spenser obsolete, xiii, 19
of Japan, xvi, 295
Lansdowne, Lord, account of, xi, 63
Last period of the life of Dryden, i, 439
Settle, ib. 273
Lauderdale, Duke of, examination of Bishop Burnet concerning, x, 274
Earl of, character of, translation of Virgil by, xiv, 223
Laureat, a poem, x, 104
Dryden appointed to the office of, i, 115
Laws of the stage observed more exactly by the French than the English,
xv, 336
Lawson, Sir John, account of, ix, 161
Lawyers, cruel doctrine of, xv, 297
Layman’s faith, or Religio Laici, an epistle, x, 1
League in France, and Covenant in England, parallel between, i, 281
specimen of translation of history of, xvii, 77
history of, author’s dedication to, ib. 89
Learning in England, on the accession of James I. i, 5
Lee, Nat. verses to Mr Dryden by, v. 103
share of in the tragedy of Œdipus, vi, 117
poetical epistle to on his tragedy of the Rival Queens, xi, 23
remarks on, ib.
colleagues of in the Notes and Observations on the Empress of Morocco,
ib. 399
characterised, ib. 399
Life of Plutarch by, xvii, 1
extract from Epistolary Poem to, xviii, 218
Letters of, ib. 83
to Madam Honor Dryden, ib. 86
to the Earl of Rochester, ib. 89, 101
to the Rev. Dr. Busby, ib. 96, 98
to Jacob Tonson, ib. 103, 106, 109, 118, 119, 121, 122, 123, 124,
126, 127, 128, 130, 136, 137, 138
with Mr Dennis, ib. 111, 114
with Mrs Steward, ib. 141, 144, 146, 147, 149, 150, 153, 156, 157,
161, 169, 171, 174, 178, 180
with his sons at Rome, ib. 131
with Elmes Stewart, Esq. , ib. 143
with Samuel Pepys, ib. 154, 156
with the Right Hon. Charles Montague, ib. 159
with Mrs Elizabeth Thomas, junior, ib. 164, 167, 173
Dryden, Charles, letter of to Corinna, xviii, 213
Duchess of York, account of the, v, 95, ix, 73
Epistle Dedicatory to, v, 95
Verses to, ix, 76
Poetical Epistle to, xi, 33
paper of, xvii, 189
controversy between Dryden and Stillingfleet concerning paper of,
ib. 185
Stillingfleet’s answer to, ib. 194
Dryden’s defence of, ib. 208
Stillingfleet’s answer to defence of, ib. 252
Newcastle, account of, iii, 210
Buccleugh and Monmouth, account of, ix, 256
Ormond, Dedication to, ib. 245
Portsmouth’s picture, epigram on, xv, 280
Duke of Guise, a tragedy, vii, 1
remarks on, ib. 3
Parallel between, and affairs in England, ib. 4
Epistle Dedicatory to, ib. 18
Prologue to, ib. 19
Epilogue to, ib. 122
a tragedy, Vindication of, vii, 125
remarks on Vindication of, ib. 127
Advertisement to, ib. 133
and Monmouth, no parallel intended between, ib. 144
Massacre of Paris transposed for, ib. 188
attacked by Shadwell, i, 286
share of Dryden in, ib. 281
assassination of, xvii, 148
Duke of Newcastle, Congreve’s Dedication to, ii, 5
account of, iii, 209
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 209
Lerma, answer to the Preface of the, ii, 265
York, Dedication to, iv, 9
personal bravery of, ib. 10, ix, 161
attempt to counteract the influence of in the city, ix, 388
shipwreck of upon the Lemman Ore, ib. 401
picture of, at Guildhall, defaced, vii, 51
Prologue to, x, 366
requested by Charles II. to retire to the continent, ix, 384
presence of acceptable to the Scots, ib. 385
Albemarle, account of, ix, 394
gallant actions of, ix, 250-6
Monmouth, account of, ix, 250
Buckingham, account of, v, 174
intrepidity of, v, 175
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 174
Answer of to Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel, extracts from, ix, 272
Battle of, extract from, ib. 398
author of the Essay on Satire, xv, 201
gallantry of, ib. 211
satire on gallantry of, ib. 212
Ormond, account of, ix, 294-8, xi, 195
dedication to, xi, 195, xvii, 5
behaviour of at the battle of Landen, xi, 202
Beaufort, account of, ix, 390
noble house-keeping of, ib. 391
Grafton, account of, ix, 396
examination of Bishop Burnet concerning, x, 274
Shrewsbury, account of, xv, 192
Du Bartas, poem of, extract from, xv, 233
Dumfounding, what, x, 408
Dundee, Viscount, account of, xi, 113
Epitaph on the death of, ib. 115
remarks on, ib. 113
Pitcairn’s Epitaph upon, ib. 114
Du Fresnoy, Chas. Alphonse, account of, xvii, 281
Du Fresnoy’s Art of Painting, ib. 279
remarks on, ib. 281
observations on, ib. 392
judgment of the works of the principal painters of the two last ages,
ib. 489
Duras, Lewis, vide Earl of Feversham
Dutch, satire on, ix, 71
Dutch insolence, ib. 162
Duty of apprentices in ancient times, vi, 382
E.
Eagre or Higre, what, x, 65
Earl of Orrery, account of the, ii, 113
dedication to, ib. 113
of Mulgrave, account of the, v, 174
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 174
character of, ib. 175
vide Duke of Buckingham,
of Danby, account of the, v, 296
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 296
of Lindsay, account of the, ib. 304
of Carbery, vide Vaughan, Lord
of Sunderland, account of, vi, 231
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 231
of Rochester, account of, vii, 13, ix, 607
character of, iv, 235
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 235, vii, 13
banished the Court, ib. 238
assaults Dryden in Rose-street, i, 204
Dryden’s memorial to, ib. 296
account of, vii, 283
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 283
of Salisbury, epistle dedicatory to, viii, 337
of Clarendon, character of the, ix, 63
of Ossory, account of the, ib. 299
of Feversham, account of, ix, 397
of Nottingham, account of, ix, 400
of Shaftesbury, imprisonment and acquittal of, ib. 409
last period of the life of, ib. 415
ridiculed as aspiring to the crown of Poland, ix, 441
offers his services to Charles I. , ib. 444
character of, during usurpation of Cromwell, ib. 445
conduct of, at the Restoration, ib. 447
circumstances which influenced him in his change of politics, ib. 448
North’s opinion of the designs of, upon the person and authority of
Charles II. , ib. 451
premature decrepitude of, ib. 454
of Roscommon, account of the, xii, 341
poetical epistle to, xi, 28
of Dorset, Dryden indebted to the bounty of, i, 370
Essay on Satire, addressed to the, xiii, 3
character of, ib. 7
Dryden’s exaggerated praise of, ib. 15
epistle dedicatory to, xv, 286
song of, written the evening before the battle, ib. 284
of Peterborough, account of the, ib. 189
of Exeter, character of the, ib. 191
epitaph of the, ib. 191
of Aylesbury, account of the, ib. 207
of Essex, account of the, ib. 207
prologue to, x, 368
Ecclesiastical policy, Hooker’s treatise upon, ib. 26
Effect of Dryden’s satirical poems on English poetry, i, 275
Effects of the Revolution upon literary pursuits, ib. 385
Elegies and epitaphs, xi, 91, 160
Elegy upon the death of Lord Hastings, ib. 94
to the memory of Mr Oldham, xi, 99
Mrs Anne Killigrew, ib. 105
on the death of Amyntas, ib. 139
on a very young gentleman, ib. 142
Election of Sheriffs for London, contest at, ix, 404
Eleonora, a panegyrical poem, to the memory of the Countess of Abingdon,
xi, 117
remarks on, ib. 119
dedication of, ib. 121
Elizabeth, Queen, age of, abundant in false wit, i, 7
John Lillie’s share in determining the taste of, ib. 7
association for the defence of the person of, ix, 422
Empress of Morocco, character of, i, 187
notes and observations on, xv, 405
postscript to, ib. 409
parody on part of, ib. 407
preface to notes, and observations on, ib. 401
England, poetry of, before the civil wars, i, 4
state of learning in, on the accession of James I. , ib. 5
milled money not struck in, before 1663, ix, 451
loyalty of church of, x, 154
tradition of no weight with the church of, ib. 156
establishment of the Jesuits in, ib. 255
English poetry, effect of Dryden’s satirical poems on, i, 275
versification improved by Denham and Waller, ib. 18
fleet, names of changed, ix, 63
verse, Virgil translated into, xiii, 279
lawyers, cruel doctrine of, xv, 297
plays, superiority of, ib. 349
excel the ancients in dramatic writing, ib. 3
Enchanted Island, or the Tempest, a comedy, iii, 95
Ennius, first author of Roman satire, xiii, 58
Ent, Dr George, account of, xi, 16
Enterprize of Sir Thomas Allen, ix, 177
Sir Robert Holmes, ib. 178, 184
Epic poem meditated by Dryden, i, 215
Epilogues and Prologues, x, 309, 424
to the Wild Gallant, a comedy, ii, 106-7
the Indian Queen, ib. 255
the Indian Emperor, ib. 377
Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen, ib. 469
Sir Martin Mar-all, iii, 93
the Tempest, or the Enchanted Island, ib. 205
An Evening’s Love, ib. 340
Tyrannic Love, iii, 435
the Conquest of Granada, iv, 110, 210
Defence of the, ib. 211
remarks on, ib. 229
to Marriage a-la-Mode, ib. 342
the Assignation, ib. 447
Amboyna, v, 87
Aureng-Zebe, ib. 282
All for Love, ib. 411
the Spanish Friar, vi, 485
Limberham, ib. 114
Œdipus, ib. 222
Troilus and Cressida, ib. 363
the Duke of Guise, vii, 122
Albion and Albanus, ib. 268
Don Sebastian, ib. 444
Amphitryon, viii, 106
Cleomenes, ib. 329
Love Triumphant, ib. 435
the Pilgrim, ib. 462
remarks on, ib. 459
attack upon Jeremy Collier in, i, 436
spoken at the opening of the New House, x, 326
Oxford, ib. 330
intended to have been spoken by Lady H. M. Wentworth, ib. 337
to the Man of Mode, ib. 339
Mithridates, ib. 341, 354
Tamerlane, ib. 356
the University of Oxford, ib. 360, 381
for the King’s House, ib. 362
to the Loyal Brother, ib. 377
Constantine the Great, ib. 386
the Disappointment, ib. 390
upon the union of the two companies, x, 398
to the Princess of Cleves, ib. 402
Henry II. , ib. 412, 420
the Husband his own Cuckold, ib. 423
the Humourists, from, ib. 456
Epistle dedicatory to the King, xvii, 81
Queen, xvi, 3
Duke of Newcastle, ii, 5, iii, 209
Earl of Orrery, ii, 113
Duchess of Monmouth and Buccleuch, ii, 259
Duke of Monmouth and Buccleuch, iii, 346
Duke of York, iv, 9
Earl of Rochester, ib. 235
Sir Charles Sedley, ib. 348
Lord Clifford, v, 5, xiii, 337
the Duchess of York, v, 95
Earl of Mulgrave, ib. 174
Earl of Danby, ib. 296
Lord Vaughan, vi, 6
the Earl of Sunderland, ib. 231
Lord Haughton, ib. 373
the Earl of Rochester, vii, 13
Earl of Leicester, ib. 283
Sir William Leveson Gower, viii, 7
the Marquis of Halifax, ib. 113
Earl of Salisbury, ib. 337
Metropolis of Great Britain, ix, 89
Earl of Abingdon, xi, 121
Duke of Ormond, ib. 195
Duchess of Ormond, ib. 245
Lord Radcliffe, xii, 47
the Earl of Chesterfield, xiv, 3
Marquis of Normandy, ib. 127
Earl of Dorset, xv, 286
Duke of Ormond, xvii, 5
Mr Congreve’s edition of Dryden’s Dramatic Works, ii, 5
Orpheus Britannicus, xi, 146
Creech’s Horace, extract from, viii, 202
of the History of the League, to the French King, xvii, 89
to the Empress of Morocco, extract from, xv, 398
to the Whigs, ix, 417
by Sir George Etherege, to the Earl of Middleton, xi, 40
poetical, from Pope to Jervas, xvii, 282
Mason to Sir Joshua Reynolds, ib. 284
Epistles of John Dryden, xviii, 83
remarks on, ib. 85
of Dryden to Madam Honor Dryden, ib. 86
to the Earl of Rochester, ib. 89, 101
to the Rev. Dr Bushby, ib. 96, 98
to Jacob Tonson, ib. 103, 106, 109, 118, 119, 121, 122, 123, 124,
126, 127, 128, 130, 136, 137, 138
to Mr Dennis, ib. 111, 114
to Mrs Steward, ib. 131, 144, 146, 147, 149, 150, 153, 156, 157,
161, 169, 171, 174, 178, 180
to his sons, at Rome, ib. 131
to Elmes Steward, Esq. , ib. 143
to Samuel Pepys, ib. 154, 156
to the Right Hon. Charles Montague, ib. 159
to Mrs Elizabeth Thomas, junior, ib. 164, 167, 173
Epistles poetical, xi, 1-90
to John Hoddeson, ib. 4
to Robert Howard, ib. 7
to Dr Charleton, ib. 14
to Lady Castlemain, ib. 20
to Mr Lee, ib. 23
to the Earl of Roscommon, ib. 28
to the Duchess of York, ib. 33
to Mr J. Northleigh, ib. 37
to Sir George Etherege, ib. 42
to Mr Southerne, ib. 50
to Henry Higden, ib. 55
to Mr Congreve, xi. 59
to Mr Granville, ib. 64
to Mr Motteux, ib. 69
to John Driden, ib. 75
to Sir Godfrey Kneller, ib.
Ovid’s, translations from, xii, 1-41
preface to, ib. 3
character of, ib. 11
Canace to Macareus, ib. 21
Helen to Paris, ib. 26
Dido to Æneas, ib. 35
Epitaph on the Earl of Rochester’s being dismissed from the treasury,
xv, 279
Epithalamium of Helen and Menelaus, xii, 292
Epitome of Polybius, engaged in by Marcus Brutus, xviii, 30
Epode to Dryden, vii, 133
second of Horace, xii, 351
Essay of Dramatic Poesy, defence of, ii, 265
on Heroic Plays, iv, 16
on the dramatic poetry of the last age, iv, 211
on translated verse, xi, 28
Poetical Epistle on, ib. 28
on Virgil’s Georgic’s, xiv, 14
upon Satire, xv, 203
remarks on, ib. 201
upon Satire, Duke of Buckingham, author of, xv, 201
of Dramatic Poesy, xv, 293
remarks on, ib. 283
dedication to, ib. 286
advertisement to, ib. 292
Essex, Earl of, prologue to, x, 368
Establishment of the Jesuits in England, ib. 255
Etherege, Sir George, account of, ib. 454
epistle of, to the Earl of Middleton, xi, 40
Evremont, M. St, account of, xviii, 11
character of, ib. 9
Examination of Bishop Burnet by the House of Commons, x, 274
Evening’s Love, or the Mock Astrologer, a comedy, iii, 207
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 209
remarks on, iii, 217
preface to, ib.
218
prologue to, ib. 233
epilogue to, ib. 340
Extract from preface to the Sullen Lovers, i, 260
Journal of Capt. Christopher Gunman, ib. 301
Preface to Blackmore’s Prince Arthur, ib. 422
Epistle to Sir Richard Blackmore, ib. 437
from epilogue to the Humourists, x, 456
letter to Jacob Tonson, xv, 194
Wilson’s life of Congreve, xviii, 200
an epistolary poem to Dryden, occasioned by the death of the Earl of
Abingdon, ib. 218
Extracts from poems attacking Dryden for his silence upon the death of
Queen Mary, ib. 222
Vindication of the Answer to some late Papers, x, 246, 249
Roscius Anglicanus, x, 325
Appeal to Honour and Justice, x, 387
Love’s Kingdom, ib. 453
epilogue to the Humourist, ib. 456
Malone’s History of the English Stage, xi, 58
Spanheim’s Dissertation, xiii, 47
poem of Du Bartas, xv, 233
epilogue upon reviewing Every Man in his Humour, xv, 310
dedication to the Empress of Morocco, xv, 398
Caulfield’s History of the Gunpowder Plot, i, 24
one of Dryden’s first poems, i, 33
Creech’s dedication to Horace, viii, 202
poem of John James, ix, 164
Naboth’s Vineyard, ib. 198
Judah Betrayed, a poem, ib. 266
the Duke of Buckingham’s answer to Absalom and Achitophel, ib. 272
Settle’s Absalom senior, ib. 375
poem of Loyal Feast Defeated, ib. 390
The Battle, ib. 398
Loyal Medal vindicated, ib. 423
Hickeringill’s answer to Dryden’s Medal, ix, 452
Lenten Prologue, vii, 131
the Religio Laici of J. R. , x, 9
Revolter, a tragi-comedy, x, ib.
Lord Herbert’s history, ib. 23
Tom Brown’s works, ib. 51
preface to the New Converts Exposed, ib. 103
Reasons for Mr Bayes changing his Religion, ib. 103, 313, 315
papers found in the strong-box of King Charles II. ib. 188-190
F.
Fabel, Peter, anecdote of, vol. vii, 10
Fable of the Swallows, application of, x, 253
Cock and Fox, xi, 327
Flower and Leaf, or the Lady in the Arbour, ib. 356
remarks on, ib. 354
argument of, ib. 354
Fables, tales from Chaucer, xi, 193, 399
translations from Boccace, ib. 401, 480
Dedication of, ib. 195
Preface prefixed to, ib. 205
Dryden’s agreement with Jacob Tonson, concerning, xviii, 191
verses occasioned by reading, xviii, 227
Appendix to, containing the original tales of Chaucer, modernized by
Dryden, xii, i-xci
of Iphis and Ianthe, xii, 116
Pygmalion and the Statue, ib. 123
Cinyras and Myrrha, ib. 127
Ceyx and Alcyone, ib. 139
Fair Stranger, a song, xi, 163
Fairborne, Sir Palmes, epitaph on tomb of, xi, 155
account of the death of, xi, 156
Fairfax, Edward, translator of Tasso’s Jerusalem, xi, 207
Falkland, Anthony, Lord Viscount, account of, v, 307
Fall of Man, an opera, v, 89
False wit, one character of the poetry of Queen Elizabeth, i, 7
taste, prevalence of in the age of James I. ib. 9
Familiar epistle to Mr Julian, xv, 222
remarks on, ib. 218
Familiarity of Augustus with Virgil and Horace, xiii, 313
Farquhar’s ludicrous account of the Funeral of Dryden, i, 441
Fasts and thanksgivings, appointment of, belongs only to the king, ix,
388
Fate of Titus Oates, ib. 356
Fates, Jupiter cannot alter the decrees of the, xv, 103
Feigned Innocence, or Sir Martin Mar-all, a comedy, iii, 1
Female Prelate, and Lancashire Witches, account of, vii, 142
performers first introduced on the stage after the Restoration, x, 321
Ferrex and Perrex, a tragedy, mistake of Dryden concerning, ii, 118
Ferguson, Robert, account of, ix, 363
Fescennine and Saturnine verses, what, xiii, 51
Festival, St Cecilia’s, account of, xi, 166
Feversham, Earl of, account of, ix, 397
Finch, Sir Keneage, vide Nottingham, Earl of
Fire of London, conduct of Charles II. on, ix, 187
its dreadful effects, ib. 189
First Miscellany, appearance of, i, 294
First poems of Dryden, i, 28
Fitzharris’s Plot, Waller’s Discovery of, ib. 382
Flail, account of Protestant, vii, 19
Flecknoe, Richard, account of, vi, 7, x, 441
Marvell’s description of, ib. 441
plays of, ib. 442
Fleet, English, names of changed, ix, 48
Flower and the Leaf, a fable, xi, 356
Floure and the Leafe, by Chaucer, xii, lxviii
Fontenelle’s Reflections, defence of Virgil from, xiii, 345
Forbes, James, account of, ix, 368
Fourth Miscellany, appearance of, i, 382
Four days battle, account of, ib. 168, 174
Frampton, Mary, epitaph on monument of, xi, 158
France, Charles II. receives a pension from, ix, 385
France set the pattern of rhiming or heroic plays, i, 69
League in, and Covenant in England, parallel between, i, 281
Freethinkers, their opinions, x, 143
Free translation, Cowley’s mode of, xii, 15
French stage, punctilios of, v, 307
exiled Protestants, relief given by King James II. to, x, 264
poetry, character of, xiii, 366
better critics than the English, xiv, 159
authors, scrupulous observers of the unities of time and action,
xv, 325
observe the laws of the stage, and decorum more exactly than the
English, xv, 336
plays, character of, ib. 337
servility of the, in attention to the unities, ib. 346
Friar Bacon, anecdote of, vii, 10
Friends, literary, of Dryden, i, 373
Friendship of Dryden with Southerne and Congreve, i, 372
Frontispiece to Albion and Albanus, vii, 231
Fuller, William, account of, viii, 329
Fuller’s anecdote of Robert Keies, i, 23
Funeral Pindaric poem, x, 53
of Dryden, i, 440
Farquhar’s ludicrous account of, ib. 441
Tom Brown’s account of, ib. 443
Mr Russel’s bill for, xviii, 194
Mrs Thomas’s letters concerning, ib. 200
description of, ib. 195
procession at the death of St Francis Xavier, description of, xvi, 465
G.
Gallant, Wild, a comedy, vol. ii, 13
actions of Prince Rupert, ix, 167-174
the Duke of Albemarle, ix, 168, 171
action of Edward Spragge, xi, 24
Gallantry of the Duke of Buckingham, xv, 211
Gallus, a pastoral, xiii, 417
Garth’s character of Dryden’s Translations, i, 340
Georgic, definition of, xiv, 16
Georgics of Virgil, translation of, xiv, 1-122
dedication of, ib. 3
essay on, ib. 14
character of, ib. 25
notes on, ib. 123
Book I. ib. 27
II. ib. 49
III. ib. 73
IV. ib. 98
Georgione, character of, xvii, 492
German jollity, xi, 44
Giants’ war, xii, 69
Gibbon’s account of his conversion to the Catholic faith, i, 316
character of Pope Nicholas V. xviii, 24
account of the murder of Lucian, ib. 57
Gilbert, Dr William, account of, xi, 15
Goa, description of, xvi, 71
Godfrey, Sir Edmondbury, account of, ix, 285
Golden age, from Ovid, xii, 66
Government of Japan, xvi, 291
Gracioso, or buffoon, what, i, 77
Grafton, Duke of, account of, ix, 396
Graham, James, vide Dundee, Viscount
Granville, George, poetical epistle to, xi, 64
remarks on, xi, 63
Great Favourite, answer to the preface of the, ii, 265
Grecian dramas, plot of, xv, 313
Greek satirical drama, and the satirical poetry of the Romans,
distinction between, xiii, 47
Greeks, comedy distinguished by acts not known to the early, xv, 311
Grey, Lord, pusillanimous conduct of, ix, 276
Griselda, story of, not invented by Petrarch, xi, 215
Grounds of criticism in tragedy, vi, 243
Growth of Popery, by Andrew Marvel, ix, 420
Guardian angels, machinery of, xiii,
Guibbons, Dr William, Dryden’s acknowledgment to, xi, 77
Guido, character of as a painter, xvii, 496
Guise, Duke of, a tragedy, vii, 1
assassination of, xvii, 148
Gunman, Captain Christopher, extract from journal of, i, 301
Gunpowder Plot, extract from Caulfield’s history of, i, 24
Gwynn, Nell, anecdote of, ix, 426
H.
Hacket, Coppinger, and Arthington, enthusiasm of, vol. x, 28
Hale, Sir Matthew, prejudices of, xiii, 67
Hales, John, anecdote of, xv, 351
Halifax, Marquis of, epistle dedicatory to, viii, 113
account of, ib. 113, ix, 305
Handel, Ode to St Cecilia set to music by, i, 410
Harman, Sir John, exploit of, ix, 179
Harmony of numbers, neglected by the metaphysical poets, i, 17
Hart, the tragedian, account of, x, 328
Harte’s vindication of Statius, xiv, 130
Harvey, William, account of, xi, 15
Hastings, Lord, elegy upon the death of, xi, 94
remarks on, ib. 93
Haughton, Lord, account of, vi, 373
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 373
Hawkers, prodigies of, x, 348
Heads of an answer to Rymer’s remarks, xv, 385
remarks on, ib. 383
Healing Parliament, what, x, 71
Heathen, diligence of Catholic missionaries in converting the, x, 192
Hector and Andromache, last parting of, xii, 382
Heinsius’s definition of satire, xiii, 103
Helen and Paris, epistle of, xii, 26
to Menelaus, epithalamium of, from Theocritus, ib. 292
Heliodorus, anecdote of, vi, 126
Henry II. , epilogue to, x, 412
Herbert’s, Lord, History of Henry VIII. , extracts from, x, 23
Heresies, History of, Dryden projects a translation of, i, 334
Hero, piety the first quality of, xiv, 161
Heroic plays, character of, i, 118
an essay on, iv, 16
poetry, apology for, v, 105
stanzas to the memory of Oliver Cromwell, ix, 8
remarks on, ib. 3
notes on, ib. 15
or rhyming plays imitated from the French, i, 69
Heylin, Dr Peter, account of, xvii, 190
Heywood, Thomas, account of, x, 446
Hickeringill’s, Edmund, answer to the Medal of Dryden, ix, 452
Higden, Henry, poetical epistle to, xi, 55
remarks on, ib. 52
account of, ib. 52
Higgons’s verses to Congreve, ib. 61
Higre or Eagre, what, x, 65
Hind and Panther, Part I. x, 85
remarks on, ib. 87
parabolical signification of, ib. 90
criticised, ib. 90
application of censured, ib. 90
defended, ib. 91
transversed, extracts from, ib. 91
where composed, i, 325
parody on by Prior and Montague, ib. 330
parody on, x, 91
letters on, ib. 102
libels occasioned by publication of, ib. 104
Swift’s account of, ib. 106
preface to, ib. 109
notes on, ib. 139-157
Part II. ib. 159
notes on, ib. 185-194
Part III. ib. 195
application of justified, ib. 197
notes on, ib. 240-282
Historiographer-royal, Dryden appointed to the office of, i, 115
loses the office of, i, 354
Historical and Political Poems, ix, 1
History of Calvinism by Lewis Maimbourg, x, 30
Satire among the Romans, xiii, 56
divisions of, xvii, 56
proper, what, ib. 57
of the League, specimen of translation of, xvii, 77
appearance of, i, 290
author’s dedication to, ib. 89
advertisement to the reader, ib. 98
Book III. translation of, ib. 101
translator’s postscript to, ib. 150
of Heresies, Dryden projects a translation of i, 334
Hoddeson, John, poetical epistle to, xi, 4
remarks on, ib. 3
Hollis, Sir Freschville, account of, ix, 180
Holmes, Sir Robert, enterprise of, ix, 178, 184
Holyday, Barten, account of, xiii, 93
Homer, character of, xi, 211
Homer’s poetry, character of, xii, 59
translations from, ib. 355-388
Virgil’s imitation of, xiv, 182
Dryden meditates a translation of, i, 414
Hooker, Richard, account of, x, 26
treatise of upon Ecclesiastical Policy, ib. 26
Hoped and unhoped, ancient meaning of, xi, 336
Hopkins, Charles, account of, xviii, 163
Horace, character of, xii, 280
translations from, ib. 339-354
Ode 3. of Book I. inscribed to the Earl of Roscommon, ib. 341
Ode 9. of Book I. inscribed to the Earl of Rochester, ib. 344
Second Epode of, ib. 351
character of his father, xiii, 77
and Persius, comparison between, ib. 78
Juvenal, comparison between, ib. 78
Satires of, Dacier’s character of, ib. 99
Housekeeping, noble of the Duke of Beaufort, ix, 391
Howard, Sir Robert, joint author with Dryden of the Indian Queen, ii, 203
note concerning, ib. 263
letter to, ix, 92
poetical epistle to, xi, 7
remarks on, ib. 5
account of, i, 54
Dryden’s controversy with, ib. 94
Lord, infamous conduct of, ix, 278
Hudibras, author of, unrewarded by the court, x, 250
at court, ib. 250
Hughes’s verses, occasioned by reading Dryden’s Fables, xviii, 227
Huguenot refugee clergy, not all of the same communion, x. 203, 244
Human body, measures of, xvii, 424
Hume’s account of the rise of the Quakers, x, 141
Humours, Shadwell’s, what meant by, x, 396, i, 261
Humourists, dramatis personæ of, x, 452
extract from epilogue to, ib. 456
Hungary, breach of treaty, and death of Ladislaus, king of, vii, 184
Hunt, Thomas, account of, ib. 127
Husband his own Cuckold, epilogue to, x, 423
Hyde, Lord Chancellor, verses to, ix, 65
Anne, vide York, Duchess of
Laurence, vide Rochester, Earl of
Hymn for St John’s Eve, translation of by Dryden, i, 344
I.
James I. state of learning in England on the accession of, i, 5
false taste in age of, ib. 9
play of words in age of, ib. 10
traditionary anecdote of, ib. 13
attached to the sports of the chace, viii, 451
account of one of the revels of, ib. 452
II. titles of poems on accession of, x, 59
character of addresses on accession of, ib. 110
professions of at accession of, ib. 262
declaration of concerning the church of England, ib. 262
relief given by to the French exiled Protestants, x, 264
character of, ib. 226, 265
poetical addresses to on the birth of a son of, ib. 286
birth of son of said to be spurious, ib. 286
believed by the Papists miraculous, ib. 285, 302
pregnancy of queen of ridiculed, ib. 303
account of the birth of son of by Smollet, ib. 305
vide York, Duke of
Eleanor, account of, x, 116
author of a Vindication of the Church of England, ib. 116
John, extract from poem of, ix, 164
Japan, island of, description of, xvi, 290
government of, ib. 291
religion of, ib. 292
language of, ib. 295
Idylliums of Theocritus, translations from, xii, 285-307
Jervas, poetical epistle to, xvii, 282
Jesuits, establishment of in England, x, 255
Iliad of Homer, Book I. translations from, xii, 357
moral not intended in, xiv, 134
Tasso’s imitation of, xiii, 17
Illegitimate children of Charles II. ix, 250
Illiberality of Stillingfleet and Dryden, x, 251
Imitation of Cowley, ix, 191
in translation, what, xii, 12
of Homer by Virgil, xiv, 182
Immunities of the city of London defended, vii, 127
Impossible to translate verbally, xii, 12
Imprisonment and acquittal of the Earl of Shaftesbury, ix, 409
Indelicacy of the stage in the age of Dryden, i, 417
Independents, description of, x, 140
Infallibility, not in the Pope alone, ib. 164-187
Indian Queen, a tragedy, ii. 201
remarks on, ib. 203
prologue to, ib. 205
epilogue to, ib. 255
Indian Emperor, a tragedy, ii, 257
dedication to, ib. 259
remarks on, ib. 290
prologue to, ib. 295
epilogue to, ib. 377
connection of to the Indian Queen, ib. 293
Inaccuracy of Dryden with regard to Sir Philip Sydney, xiii, 18
Indelicacy of Lucretius, xii, 276
Infamous conduct of Lord Howard, ix, 278
Innocent Traitor, extract from, ix, 198
Inscription, burlesque, to be placed under Sir Richard Blackmore’s
picture, viii, 445
Inscription under Milton’s picture, xi, 160
Insolence of the Dutch, ix, 162
Instruction, the end of all poetry, vi, 246
Instructions of St Francis Xavier to missionaries, xvi, 228
Insurrection of Count Teckeli, x, 387
Integral parts of a play, Aristotle’s distinction of, xv, 312
Interment of St Francis Xavier, xvi, 456
Intrigue, comedies of, introduced, i, 76
of Dryden with Mrs Reeves, ib. 87
Invention, necessary both to painting and poetry, xvii, 318
the first part of painting, xvii, 347, 410
John’s (St) Eve, hymn for, i, 344
Johnson, Samuel, account of, ix, 369
Jones, Sir William, account of, ib. 278
Jonson, Ben, character of by Dryden, iii, 222
Shadwell an imitator of, x, 456
a metaphysical poet, i, 11
traditionary anecdote of, ib. 13
attack of on Shakespeare, xv, 344
Journal of Captain Christopher Gunman, extract from, i, 301
Iphis and Ianthe, fable of, xii, 116
Iron Age, from Ovid, xii, 68
Irreligion of Polybius, xviii, 46
Irruption of the Bishop of Munster into the United States, ix, 165
Iter Boreale of Dr Robert Wild, xv, 296
Judah Betrayed, a poem, extract from, ix, 266
Judgment of Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy on the works of the principal
painters of the two last ages, xvii, 489
Judicial astrology, Dryden’s belief in, xviii, 207
Jupiter cannot alter the decrees of the fates, xv, 103
Juvenal, translations from, xiii, 1-202
and Horace, comparison between, xiii, 78
First Satire of translated, ib. 119
Third, ib. 130
Sixth, ib. 148
Tenth, ib. 178
Sixteenth, ib. 198
K.
Keis, Robert, anecdote of, vol. i. 23
Ket’s insurrection defeated, v, 181
Killigrew, Dr Henry, account of, xi, 106
Mrs Anne, account of, ib. 102
Elegy to the memory of, ib. 105
remarks on, ib. 102
Kind Keeper, a comedy, vi, 1
King Arthur, or the British Worthy, a Dramatic Opera, viii, 107
remarks on, ib. 109
prologue to, ib. 122
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 113
epilogue to, ib. 178
King James I. attached to the sports of the chace, viii, 451
account of one of the revels of, ib. 452
II. , vide Duke of York, and James II.
King William, Titus Oates pensioned by, viii, 464
King, confuting arguments used by, disrespect of his person, x, 252
King and Queen, Epilogue to, ib. 393
dedication to the, xvii, 81
of France, dedication to, ib. 89
King’s speech to Oxford Parliament versified, ix, 309
power of granting pardon after condemnation questioned, ix, 310
Head clubs, account of, ib. 380
House, epilogue for, x, 362
and Duke’s players united, ib. 393
company of players, Dryden’s contract with, i, 162
right of the Pope over, x, 19
Kneller, Sir Godfrey, poetical epistle to, xi, 85
account of, ib. 84
character of, ib. 89
Knight’s Tale, or Palamon and Arcite, xi, 241
by Chaucer, xii, iii
L.
Ladislaus, King of Hungary, breach of treaty, and death of, vol. vii, 184
Lady in the Arbour, a fable, xi, 356
Lancashire Witches, reception of, vii, 15
account of, ib. 142
machinery of, x, 382
Landen, behaviour of the Duke of Ormond at, xi, 202
Lanfranc, character of, xvii, 497
Langbaine’s account of Lodowick Carlell, x, 404
Language of Spenser obsolete, xiii, 19
of Japan, xvi, 295
Lansdowne, Lord, account of, xi, 63
Last period of the life of Dryden, i, 439
Settle, ib. 273
Lauderdale, Duke of, examination of Bishop Burnet concerning, x, 274
Earl of, character of, translation of Virgil by, xiv, 223
Laureat, a poem, x, 104
Dryden appointed to the office of, i, 115
Laws of the stage observed more exactly by the French than the English,
xv, 336
Lawson, Sir John, account of, ix, 161
Lawyers, cruel doctrine of, xv, 297
Layman’s faith, or Religio Laici, an epistle, x, 1
League in France, and Covenant in England, parallel between, i, 281
specimen of translation of history of, xvii, 77
history of, author’s dedication to, ib. 89
Learning in England, on the accession of James I. i, 5
Lee, Nat. verses to Mr Dryden by, v. 103
share of in the tragedy of Œdipus, vi, 117
poetical epistle to on his tragedy of the Rival Queens, xi, 23
remarks on, ib.
