Croft, Herbert, his "Life of Young,"
iii. 295-341; criticised by Burke,

341.

Cromwell, Cowley's verses on death
of, i. 13, 14; his intimacy with
Waller, 274; Dryden's Heroic
Stanzas on, 353, 459.
Cromwell, Mr. Henry, his account of
Gay's farce, ii. 260; called by
Gay, "honest and hatless," iii. 69.
Crousaz, Jean Pierre de, his attack
on Pope, iii. 127.

Customs, Dryden made collector of,
i. 422.

Cutlers, the Polish, and the Scotch
settlers, i. 506.

Cutter of Coleman Street, Cowley's
Comedy of The Guardian repro-
duced under that name, i. 17.

Dacier, Madame, her French Homer
translated into English, iii. 88.
"Dalilahs of the Theatre," Dryden's
name for bursts of extravagance,
i. 476.

Damask cloths bearing representa-
tions of victories over the Turks, i.

506.

Darkness, Hymn to, Yalden's, ii. 290.
Dati, Carlo, account of, i. 104; his
"tumid lapidary style," ibid.
Davenant, Sir William, Poet Laureate
in succession to Ben Jonson, i.
138; succeeded in that office by
Dryden, 359; Dryden's favourite
author, 439; Cowley's verses on,
44; Milton said to have befriended
him, 138; ridiculed in The Re-
hearsal, 387; account of, ibid.
Davideis, The, literary value of Cow-
ley's notes on, i. 44, 63; criticised,
56-64; imitated by Dryden, 57;
metre of, 72.

Davies, Sir John, Professor Masson's

note on his Nosce Teipsum, i. 298.
Deane, Thomas, one of Pope's in-
structors, iii. 64.

Decay, intellectual, not universal in
old age, i. 295.

Decay, the world considered to be in
its, in Milton's time, i. 146.
Decimation of the Scots in Poland, i.
80; statute enforcing, 503; con-
sequences of, 510.

Decree of the Diet of Poland, i.
503; regarding Scotch pedlars,
506-507.

Dedications, Halifax "fed with," ii.
55.

Defensio pro populo Anglicano, Milton's
tract, i. 122.

De Guiana Epicum, poem probably
by Raleigh ascribed to Chapman,
i. 193.

Denham, Lady, i. 82.

Denham, Sir John, i. 77-89; Life,
77-83; his Works criticised, 83-
89; "The dreamingest young
fellow," 77; his "Cooper's Hill ”
published just after the battle of
Edge Hill, 78; journey to Poland,
80;"His eie of a strange piercing-
ness," 82; his anxiety to be thought
"a merry fellow," 83; his cha-
racter of a good translator, 84; the
author of local poetry, 85; compares
his poem to the flowing stream, 85;
his own translations, 86; examples
of" the strength of Denham," 87;
his "concatenated metre," 88; imi-
tated by Lord Orrery, Garth, and
Pope, 84, 85.

Denmark, Molesworth's account of,
confuted by King, ii. 34.
Dennis, John, his abuse of Addison, íí.

110; his remarks on "Cato," 136;
his criticism of Blackmore's poems,

226, 229; epigram on, by Savage,
351; his attacks on Pope, iii. 69,
71-74; his remarks on the Rape of
the Lock, 118.

Derby, Countess of. Spenser and
Milton dedicate poems to her, i.

102.

Derrick, Samuel, i. 352.

Despairing Shepherd, The, Rowe's bal-

lad on Addison's courtship, ii. 116.
Dialogues of the Dead, Lord Lyttel-
ton's, iii. 391; Fontenelle's, trans-
lated by Hughes, ii. 158.
Dialogues on Medals, Addison's, ii.

95.

Dibben,Thomas, Prior's friend, ii. 194.
Dickey, Little, Henry Norris the actor,
ii. 119.

Dictionary, Milton's collections for,
i. 129, 130; the Cambridge, 150;
Addison's design for an English,
ii. 117.

Dido's Curse to Eneas, and King
Charles, i. 11.

Dies Irae, Roscommon's, i. 237.
Digby, Robert and Mary, Pope's
epitaph on, iii. 203, 205.
Diodati, Charles, Milton's verses to,
quoted, i. 97, account of, 107.
Diodati, Dr. Jean, uncle of Milton's
friend, i. 107.

Disestablishment tracts, Milton's, i.

135.

Dispensary, Garth's, ii. 69, 71-72.
Dissensions in Athens and Rome, Swift's
first work, iii. 10; ascribed at first
to Burnet, ibid.

Distrest Mother, The, by A. Philips,

almost a translation of Racine's
Andromaque, iii. 252.

Divine, Progress of a, poem by Savage
described, ii. 375.

Divorce, Milton's tracts on, i. 116.
Dobson, iii. 131; translates the Essay

on Man at Pope's house, 164; his
account of Pope's learning, 165.
"Doctrine, Thorough-paced," ii. 289.
Domestic Chaplain, Oldham's, copied
by Macaulay, i. 205.

Donne, a man of very extensive and
various knowledge, i. 27; Cowley
borrows from, 65; Pope's version
of his Satires, iii. 136.

Don Sebastian, Dryden's, i. 582; the
chef d'œuvre of Dryden's plays,
403.

Dorset, Earl of, Life of, i. 313-316;
Pope's epitaph on, iii. 196.

Double Dealer, The, Congreve's play,
ii. 209.

Downes, Extract from his Theatrical
Register on Cowley's Play, i. 18.
Dramatic Poetry, Dryden's Essay on,
i. 425.

Drapier's Letters, The wonderful effect
produced by Swift's, iii. 28-31.
Drayton, Michael, his Polyolbion, i.
480.

Drummer, The, a Comedy said to be

written by Addison, ii. 112.
Dryden, John, Life, i. 351-409; his
person, 410; his character, 412;
made Historiographer, 359, 420;
his first play, 355; made Poet
Laureate, 359; his dispute with
Settle, 361-367, 371-376; his dis-
like of the priesthood, 369, 419;
his profits small, 384; publishes six
plays in one year, 385-386; nick-
named "Bayes," 386, 399-401; his
conversion to Popery, 395-396, 399;
his design of a grand epic poem,
303-304; wild and untrue story of
his funeral, 406, 409; monument
to, 409; his marriage, 410; his
dispute with Collier, 416; his
poverty, 422; his dialogue on the
Drama, 426; his portraits of drama-

tists, 427; his criticism, 427-428,
433; compared with Rymer, 428;
not so learned as Milton or Cowley,
431-433; his genius, 432; his prose,
434; he fixed the limits of poetical
liberty, and gave just rules and
examples of translation, 436;
mingles too often the sublime with
the ridiculous, 447; his last and
perhaps best poem, 471; general
survey of his work, 471-482; he
embellished English poetry as
Augustus adorned Rome, 482; his
observations on Rymer's "Re-
marks," 484; Chronology of his
Plays, 496; his story of Cowley's
behaviour under the ill-success of
his play, 17; Milton's opinion of,
161; remarked that Satan is the
hero of "Paradise Lost," 179; his
reproaches as to the ill-treatment of
Butler, 205; thought Spenser want-
ing in concentration of design, 208;
Sheffield's early patronage of, ii.
167; beaten for Sheffield's Essay
on Satire, i. 389; ii. 170; said
"Cousin Swift, you will never be a
poet," iii. 8; Pope taken to see,
65; Pope professed to have learned
his poetry from, 167; difference
of Dryden's method and Pope's,
ibid.; rectitude of his mind, ibid.;
and Pope compared, 169.
Dryden's Satire on his Muse, Satire on
Dryden attributed to Somers, i.
393; quoted, 413.
Dublin University, Swift at, iii. 4.
Duck, Stephen, "thresher and fa-
vourite poet," ii. 391.
Ducket, Mr. George, his tale about
the publication of Clarendon's
History, ii. 22.

Duke of Guise, by Dryden and Lee, i.
378.

Duke, Richard, Life of, ii. 29, 30.
Dunciad, The, account of, iii. 113,
114-119; Pope's history of, 115;
criticised, 184-186.
Dutch Universities, i. 111.
Dyer, Robert, Life of, iii. 279-282.

Edinburgh, Thomson at, iii. 222.
Editor, an, cannot be justified in alter-
ing the text of his author, iii. 228.
Education, Milton's letter on, i. 141;
his scheme of, 90; his objections
to academical, 99; he puts theory
into practice, 110.

Edward and Eleanora, Thomson's play,
prohibited for its political allusions,
iii. 229.

Eleanora, Dryden's Elegy on the
Countess of Abington, i. 456-457.
Elegies, Milton's early, i. 96; Dry-
den's skill in, 455-457; Ham-
mond's, ii. 304-305.
Elegy, Denham's, on Cowley, quoted,
i. 64; Tickell's "sublime and
elegant," on Addison, ii. 299.
Elements, Cowley's strange conceit of
the harmony of the, i. 31.
Eliza, Blackmore's epic, ii. 228.
Eloisa to Abelard, iii. 80, 180.
Elwood, the Quaker, reads Latin to
Milton, i. 141; suggests to Milton
"Paradise Regained," 149.
Elys, Edmund, one of the severe
theologians of that time," i. 48.
Empress of Morocco, The, Settle's play,

i. 361.

66

Endeavour, old use of this word, i. 117.
English Language, Proposal for ascer-
taining the, Swift's, ii. 180.
English Poetry, Arts of, by Webbe,
and by Puttenham, i. 425.
Epigram, on the death of Scaliger, i.
65; by Savage on Dennis, ii. 351;

a Greek, ascribed to Plato, 193;
Latin by Sabinus, 198.
Epilogue, The, to A. Philips's The
Distrest Mother, the "most success-
ful ever spoken on an English
stage," iii. 252; said to have been
corrected by Addison, 253.
Episcopacy, Waller's speech on, i.
260; to be "reformed not abo-
lished," 263.

Epistolae Ho-Elianae, contemptuous
notice of Milton in, i. 117.
Epitaph, on Cowley, by Dr. Sprat, i.

21; Milton's on Shakespeare, 98.
Epitaphs, Pope's, criticised, iii. 195-

Fables, Dryden's, i. 405; criticised,

469-471.

Fables, Gay's, written for the Duke of
Cumberland, ii. 263; second volume
of, 268, 269.

Fairfax, his translation of Tasso, i.
255; Waller's model, 298; quota-
tion from, 301-305.

Fair Penitent, The, tragedy by Rowe,
ii. 77-78.

Faithorne, his portrait of Milton, i.

154.

Falkland, Lord, his notice of Cowley,
i. 8; Cowley's verses on, 43.
False Historians, On. Satire by Savage,
ii. 380.

Fame, Milton's confident expectation
of future, i. 103.

Fanshaw, Sir Richard. Denham on

his version of Guarini, quoted, i. 84.
Fan, The, Gay's Poem, ii. 269.
Farquhar, George, his account of

Dryden's funeral, i. 409.

Fees on release of prisoners in New-
gate abolished, i. 205; Story of
Addison and his, ii. 99; to servants,
Savage's lines complaining of, 383.
Fell, Dr. John, i. 326.

Feltham, his method of translation
line for line, i. 436.

Felton, on Cowley, quoted, i. 73.
Fenton, Elijah, Life of, ii. 245-253;
his splendid edition of Waller, i.
231; ii. 249; his "Life of Milton
an "elegant abridgement," i. 93,
written with tenderness and in-
tegrity, ii. 249; Pope's Epitaph
on, iii. 207; Pope's Letter to
Broome on the death of, ii. 251.
Fenton and Broome, their share in
Pope's translation of the “Odys-
sey," iii. 110.

Fermor, Lady Arabella, the heroine
of the Rape of the Lock, iii. 78.

Fiction, Waller's saying "Poets suc-
ceed better in, than in Truth," i.
276.

Fisher, Elizabeth, a witness to Mil-

ton's will, i. 514.

"Flatterers, open, privy mockers,"

Ascham's saying, i. 285.

Fleece, The, Dyer's greatest poetical

work, iii. 280.

Fleets, English and Dutch, Dryden's
description of the, i. 448.

Fletcher, Denham's verses to, i. 83.
Florence, Milton at, i. 103, 104-
107.

Folio, The largest, in the range of
English poetry said to be Prior's
poems, ii. 187.

Fontenelle, his Dialogues of the Dead,
ii. 158.

Ford, Cornelius (Parson), ii. 248; his
account of Broome, iii. 53.
Fortitude, named by Aristotle first
of the cardinal virtues, iii. 76.
Foster, Rev. James, his fine delivery,
iii. 244.

Francini, one of Milton's friends at

Florence, i. 104.

Fraus Honesta, Comedy acted in the

Hall of Trinity College, i. 99.
Freeholder, The, Addison's paper, ii.

114.

Freethinker, The, a paper conducted
by A. Philips, iii. 258.
French idioms vitiated Pope's later
diction, iii. 192.

Fresnoy, his Art of Painting, trans-
lated by Dryden, i. 404.

Gabriel, Cowley's absurd description

of the dress of, i. 61.
Galileo, Milton visits, i. 106.
Gaming, Denham's Essay on, i. 78.
Gardener, Philip Miller the, i. 332.

Garrick, David, whose death "eclipsed
the gaiety of nations," ii. 25; wrote
in praise of Gray's poems, iii. 373.
Garth, Samuel, ii. 67-72; copies
Cooper's Hill, i. 85.

Gascoign, warns against alliteration,
i. 299.

Gataker, Thomas, on Lots, i. 213.
Gauden, Dr. his forgery of "Icon
Basilike," i. 121.

Gay, John, Life of, ii. 257-271; sum-
moned by Addison to his death-bed,
121; the death of, iii. 120; Pope's
epitaph on, 208-9.

Genere honesto, Milton's description
of his family, i. 93.

Geneva, Milton at, i. 107.
Genius, the "power which constitutes
a poet," described, iii. 169, 190;
Pope's, 165.

Georgics, The, specimen of Milbourne's
translation of, i. 483.

Gery, The Rev. Mr., Swift's friend,
iii. 24.

Gibbons, Dr. his "Life of Isaac

Watts" used by Johnson, iii. 239;
his account of Dr. Watts and the
Abney family, 242-3.

Gigantesca sublimata Miltoniana, Al-
garotti's saying, i. 180.

Gill, Alex., Master of St. Paul's
school in Milton's time, i. 95.
Goffe, Dr. Stephen, i. 10.
Golden Book, The, Castiglione's
Courtier, so called, ii. 101.
Goldsmith, Johnson's tribute to his
genius, ii. 59.

Gondibert, Davenant's poem, i. 358.
Goodman, Dr., his opinion that the

world is in its decay, i. 146.
Good Sense, the fundamental principle
of Pope's intellectual character, iii.
165.

Goodwin, Thomas, his Obstructors of

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