Prologues and Epilogues sold by

hawkers at the door of the
theatres, x. 312.

Dryden, i. 346.

Prophetess, prologue to, x. 407.
Prohibited, x. 407.

Songs in the, xviii. 302-308.

Propriety of comic scenes in tragedy,
i. 192.

Prose Works of Dryden, xv. 267.
Protestant Joiner's ballad, vii. 3.
Flail, account of, vii. 18.
Protestants, French, relief given by
James II. to, x. 248.
Publications of Dryden's enemies
opposition to the Medal, ix. 419.
Punctilios of the French stage, xv. 329.
Purcell, Henry, account of, xi. 147.

in

Ode on the death of, xi. 150.
Purgatory, what founded on, x. 172.
Pusillanimous conduct of Lord Grey,
ix. 266.

Pygmalion and the Statue, fable of,
xii. 132.

Psyche, an opera, imitated from
Molière, x. 445.

Pythagorean philosophy, from Ovid's
Metamorphoses, xii. 223.

Q.

QUAKERS, account of the rise of, x. 122.
Qualification of a translator, xviii. 82.
Qualifications of St. Francis Xavier,
xvi. 480.

Quatrains, or stanzas of four verses in

alternate rhyme, defended, ix. 81.
Queen, dedication to the, xvi. 3.
Pregnancy of, ridiculed, x. 289.
Querouaille, Louise de, account of, xi.

167.

Verses addressed to, xi. 167.

R.

RADCLIFFE, Lord, account of, xii. 53.
Dedication to, xii. 53.
Ravenscroft, Edward, account of, iv.
366.

Dryden's controversy with, i. 136.
Reasons for Mr. Bayes changing his
religion, extract from, x. 103.
For and against transubstantiation,
x. 147.

in an excursion through Eng-
land, ix. 282.

Dryden's translation of Virgil, i. 329.
Recommendatory verses to Absalom
and Achitophel, ix. 215.

The author of the Medal, ix. 433.
On Religio Laici, x. 34.
Poems on Dryden's translation of
Virgil, xiii. 284.

Reeve, Mrs., Dryden's intrigue with,
i. 73.

Reflections on Milton's Paradise Lost,

xiii. 18.

Reformation of the stage, order for,
xviii. 151.

Refugee clergy, Huguenot, not all of
the same communion, x. 205, 248.
Rehearsal, time spent in composing
the, xi. 45.

First appearance of, i. 114.
Authors of, i. 114.

Dryden's prologues ridiculed in,
x. 309.

Relations of Dryden when he composed
the Spanish Friar, i. 195.
Relief given by James II. to the French
exiled Protestants, x. 248.
Religio Laici, or a Layman's Faith, an
epistle, x. 1.

Remarks on, x. 1.
Preface to, x. 10.

Recommendatory verses on, x. 34.
Of Charles Blount, x. 6.

By J. R., extracts from, x. 7.
Medici of Thomas Browne, x. 6.
Religion of Lucian, xviii. 66.
Japan, xvi. 297.

Religious plays, origin of, xv. 238.
Remarkable comets, ix. 108.
Sea fight, ix. 122.

Remarks on the poetry of England
during the Civil Wars, i. 4.

The Wild Gallant, a comedy, ii. 23.
The Rival Ladies, ii. 127.
The Indian Queen, ii. 225.
The Indian Emperor, ii. 317.
Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen,
ii. 415.

Sir Martin Mar-all, iii. 1.
The Tempest, or the Enchanted
Island, iii. 101.

An Evening's Love, iii. 237.
Tyrannic Love, iii. 371,

Remarks on-continued.

Palamon and Arcite, xi. 247.
The Cock and the Fox, a fable, xi. 338.
The Flower and the Leaf, a fable,

xi. 370.

The Wife of Bath, a tale, xi. 396.
Character of a good parson, xi. 416.
Sigismonda and Guiscardo, a tale,
xi. 425.

Theodore and Honoria, xi. 461.
Cymon and Iphigenia, xi. 484.
Translations from Ovid's Metamor.
phoses, xii. 51.

Translation of Virgil, xiii. 275.
Essay on Satire, xv. 200.
Epistle to Mr. Julian, xv. 214.
Art of Poetry, xv. 223.

Verses on the Young Statesman, xv.

254.

Tarquin and Tullia, xv. 257.
Essay of Dramatic Poesy, xv. 273.
Heads of an Answer to Rymer's

Remarks, xv. 378.

Preface to the Notes and Observations
on the Empress of Morocco, xv.
393.

Life of Plutarch, xvii. 3.
Specimen of translation of the His-
tory of the League, xvii. 81.
The controversy between Dryden and
Stillingfleet, xvii. 189.
Translation of Du Fresnoy's Art of

Painting, xvii. 283.

Reply to Absalom and Achitophel, i,
204.

The Medal, i. 214.

Report of the death of the Chevalier
de St. George, x. 299.
Requests, Court of, a scene of political
intrigue, x. 345.

tion, ix. 413.

Religio Laici, x. 1.

Threnodia Augustalis, x. 57.
The Hind and the Panther, x. 87.
Some parts of Bishop Burnet's con-

duct and writings, x. 259.
Britannia Rediviva, x. 283.
Prologues and Epilogues, x. 307.
Mac-Flecknoe, x. 429.
Poetical Epistles, xi. 3, 5, 12, 18, 22,

26, 30, 33, 36, 46, 51, 55, 61,
65, 69, 82.
Elegies and Epitaphs, xi. 93, 102,
114, 147, 154.

Eleonora, a panegyrical poem, xi. 119.
Song for St. Cecilia's Day, xi. 169.

Revolter, a tragi-comedy, extracts from,
x. 7.

Criticism of, on the Hind and the
Panther, x. 102.
Revolution, consequences of, to Dryden,
i. 297.

Effects of, upon literary pursuits, i.

309.

Reynard the Fox, an ancient political
satire, x. 150.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, poetical epistle
to, xvii. 287.

Rhyme unnatural in plays, xv. 357.
A constraint to poets, xv. 361.
Defence of, in serious plays, xv. 362.
Rhyming or heroic plays, pattern of,

set by France, i. 58.
Ridicule of Dryden's use of the Alex-
andrine, ix. 419.

Right of the Pope over kings, x. 19.
Rise of the Quakers, account of, x. 122.
Settle's animosity to Dryden, xv.
394.

Rival Ladies, a tragi-comedy, ii. 125.
Remarks on, ii. 127.
Dedication to, ii. 129.
Prologue to, ii. 141.
Companies of players united, x. 394.
Rochester, Earl of, character of

(Wilmot), iv. 252.
Letters to, xviii. 91.
Account of (Hyde), vii. 12, ix. 306.
Dryden's memorial to (Hyde), i. 246.
Epistle dedicatory to, iv. 252
(Hyde), vii. 16.
Banished the Court (Wilmot), iv.

Roscius Anglicanus, extract from, x.

320.

Roscommon, Earl of, account of, xii.
359.

Poetical epistle to, xi. 27.

Remarks on, xi. 26.

Verses of, on Religio Laici, x. 34.
Roundelay, xi. 181.

Rovers shooting at, what, xiii. 9.
Royal Martyr, a tragedy, iii. 369.
Mistresses, xv. 203.

Exile, soliloquy of, xv. 266.
Society, Dryden chosen a member
of, i. 47.

Historiographer, Dryden appointed
to the office of, i. 99.
Rubens, character of, as a painter, xvii.
503.

Rules to be observed in writing
pastorals, xiii. 335.
Rumbold, Richard, account of, vii. 277.
Run-a-muck, a Malay term, what, x.
270.

Rupert, Prince, gallant actions of, ix.
120-127.

Russell's bill for Dryden's funerals,
xviii. 204.

Ruyter, Michael Adrien de, account
of, ix. 159.

Rymer, Thomas, account of, xv. 378.
Reflections of, on Milton's Paradise
Lost, xiii. 18.

Controversy of Dryden with, i. 318,

144.

S.

SACKVILLE, Edward, account of, ix. 380.
Salisbury, Earl of, epistle dedicatory
to, viii. 371.
Sancian, island of, description of, xvi.

445.

Sancroft, Archbishop, account of, ix.
299.

Santio, Raphael, character of, xvii. 495.
Satire on the Dutch, ix. 69.

Remarks on, ix. 68.

On Shadwell, ix. 362.

Of Mac-Flecknoe, character of, i. 221.
Against Sedition, or the Medal, i. 412.
Political, of Reynard the Fox, x. 150.
Essay on, xiii. 1.

Origin and nature of, xiii. 37.
History of, among the Romans, xiii.

53.

Roman, first, author of, xiii. 55.
Varronian, what, xiii. 63.

Satire-continued.

Menippean, what, xiii. 65.
What meant by, among the Romans,
xiii. 67.

Personal, abuse of, xiii. 83.
Heinsius's definition of, xiii. 107.
Modern, definition of, xiii. 107.
Essay on, Duke of Buckingham[shire]
author of, xv. 200.
Essay on, xv. 201.

Remarks on, xv. 200.

On the Duke of Buckingham[shire]'s
gallantry, xv. 208.

Personal, licence in, xv. 214.
Upon the silent poets, xviii. 234.
Satires of Horace, character of, xiii. 99.
Juvenal, xiii. 124-208.
Persius, xiii. 211-271.
Satirical poetry of the Greeks and
Romans, difference between,
xiii. 47.

Poetry of Dryden, effect of, on
English poetry, i. 230.
Satirist, Dryden's character as a, i. 232.
Saturnine and Fescennine verses, what,
xiii. 53.
Saunders, Charles, author of the
tragedy of Tamerlane, x. 354.
Saville, Sir George, vide Marquis of
Halifax.

Scenery first introduced on the stage,
x. 318.

Scenes, moveable, introduced on the
stage, i. 66.

Scottish judge, anecdote of a, ix. 18.
Scotland, Cromwell's conduct to, ix. 17.
Theatrical amusements introduced

Secular Masque, written for the Pilgrim,
viii. 495.

Remarks on, viii. 491.
Sedition, satire against, ix. 411.
Sedley, Sir Charles, account of, iv. 369.
Anecdote of, iv. 373.

Epistle dedicatory to, iv. 369.
Shadwell assisted by, in the comedy
of Epsom Wells, x. 454.
Selling-bargains, what, x. 409.
Seneff, battle of, xi. 244.
Sense of the author to be preserved
inviolable in translation, xii. 16.
Servility of the French in attention to

the unities, xv. 339.

Settle, Elkanah, account of, ix. 355.
Rise of animosity of, to Dryden, xv.

393.
Dryden's controversy with, i. 216.
Absalom senior, or Achitophel
transprosed of, extracts from,
ix. 358.

Last period of the life of, i. 228.

Pope's lines on the fate of, i. 228.
Seymour, Sir Edward, account of, ix.
307.

Sforza, Lodovico, account of, ix. 42.
Shadwell, Thomas, Dryden's satire on,
ix. 362.

Account of the reception of the
Lancashire Witches by, vii. 14.
Machinery of, in the Lancashire
Witches, x. 383.

Humours of, what meant by, x. 397.
Plagiarism charged on, x. 419.
Originality of, x. 419.

A satire against, x. 427.

Remarks on, x. 429.

Causes of enmity between Dryden
and, x. 429.

Dryden's controversy with, i. 216,

238.

Personal resemblance of, to Ben
Jonson, i. 221.

Duke of Guise attacked by, i. 238.
Account of, x. 439.
Character of, x. 440.

Humours of, i. 217, x. 444.
Proficiency in music of, x. 444.
Assisted in his comedy of Epsom

Wells by Sir Charles Sedley, x.

454.

An imitator of Ben Jonson, x. 456.
Shaftesbury, Earl of, account of, ix. 420.
Anecdote of, ix. 242.

Attempt of, to alter the succession,
ix. 252.

Shaftesbury, Earl of-continued.

Ridiculed as aspiring to the Crown
of Poland, ix. 436.

Offers his services to Charles I., ix.
440.

Situation of, during Cromwell's

usurpation, ix. 441.
Conduct of, at the Restoration, ix. 443.
Circumstances which influenced him

in his change of politics, ix. 445.
North's opinion of the designs of,
upon the person and authority
of Charles II., ix. 452.
Premature decrepitude of, ix. 457.
Shakespeare and Dryden, parallel
between, v. 307.

Attack on, by Ben Jonson, xv. 337.
Character of, xv. 344.

of

Chandos portrait of, xi. 87.
Share of Dryden in the composition of
the Duke of Guise, i. 234.
Shere, Sir Henry, translation
Polybius by, viii. 220.
Account of, xviii. 21.
Shipwreck of the Duke of York, ix.
403.

Ceremonies observed by the ancients
on escape from, ix. 38.
Shirley, James, account of, x. 441.
Shooting at Rovers, what, xiii. 9.
Shovel-board, an ancient game, viii. 138.
Shrewsbury, Duke of, account of, xv.

192.

Sidney, Philip, vide Leicester, Earl of.
Sigismonda and Guiscardo, a tale, xi.

427.

Remarks on, xi. 425.

Original from the Decameron of
Boccace, xi. 451.
Signification, parabolical, of the Hind
and the Panther, x. 90.
Criticised, x. 90.

Silence of Dryden upon the death of

Queen Mary, extracts from poems
attacking him for, xviii. 232.

Silent Woman, examination of the
comedy of the, xv. 343.
Poets, a satire upon, xviii. 234.
Silenus, a pastoral, xiii. 374.
Silver Age, from Ovid, xii. 74.
Silvester, John, extract from astro-
logical observations of, x. 422,
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to the Catholic faith, i. 268.
Singleton, a musical performer of
eminence, x. 446.

Singular fashion of writing, x. 458.

Event at the siege of Bologna, ix. 16.
Sir Martin Mar-all, or the Feigned
Innocence, a comedy, iii. 1.
Remarks on, iii. 1.
Prologue to, iii. 3.
Epilogue to, iii. 97.

Skill of Polybius in political affairs,

xviii. 31.

Smollett's account of the birth of the
son of James II., x. 294.
Society, Dryden's connections in, after
the Revolution, i. 309.
Socinus, Lelius, doctrine of, x. 48.
Soliloquy of a royal exile, xv. 266.
Song, written for the Pilgrim, viii. 489.
Remarks on, viii. 486.

Songs, Odes, and Lyrical Pieces, xi.
163-194.

The Fair Stranger, xi. 167.
For St. Cecilia's Day, xi. 171.
The Tears of Amynta, xi. 174, 176.
The Lady's, xi. 178, 179, 180.
Rondelay, xi. 181.

To a fair Young Lady, xi. 184.
Sophocles, Edipus Tyrannus and Colo-
neus of, character of, vi. 123,
125.

Sophonisba, prologue to, x. 347.
Southerne, poetical epistle to, xi. 49.
Remarks on, xi. 46.
Account of, xi. 47.

Verses of, to Congreve, xi. 57.
Anecdote of, i. 245.

Commencement of Dryden's friend-
ship with, i. 311.
Character of, i. 311.

Spanheim's dissertations, extract from,

xiii. 47.

Spanish Friar, or the Double Discovery,
vi. 393.

Remarks on, vi. 395.

Epistle dedicatory to, vi. 402.
Prologue to, vi. 412.
Epilogue to, vi. 522.

Prohibited by James II., vi. 399.
Represented by Queen Mary by her

order, vi. 399.

Account of, representation of, vi. 400.
Character of, i. 190.

Relations of Dryden when it was
composed, i. 195.

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