ATHENIANS, rife and progress of dramatic poetry among

them. 111, &c.

Attic writers, fee Greek authors.
AUGUSTUS CAESAR, Jee OCTAVIUS.

L

BATAVIA, its etymology. 285.

Mr. BAYS. 15, n, see DRYDEN.

Beauty, in what it confifts, 67, 68, n. 3. Beauty of character, 91. Of diction, 335, 336. fee character. In what the chief beauty in poetry confists, 95, 96, 97, 98. The mind neceffarily in love with beauty. 150. See Truth. How conftituted in variety. 152, 153.

BENTLEY, his critical rules examined. B. I. S. I. His correc tion of a paffage of Virgil examined and refuted. 4, &c. n. Of feveral paffages in Horace, refuted. 99, and n. 119. n. 137, n. 178, &c. A passage in his differtatien on Phaleris, examined. 117, 118.

Βελυλός. 300.

Bourn. 298, 299.

Bramble. 207. n.

Break. 207.

Breeding, modern good-breeding. 14. 88: 132.

Brawler. 207. n.

Brap. 23, n.

Bright. 207.

BRITONS, fee Englishmen.

BRUTUS, bis character. 86. 9o.

Buffoon. 11, n.

Buffoonery, all, or all formality. 107, 108.

BURNET, bishop, wrongly judges of Milton. 18, 19.

Burning of the Palatine library. 34. and n. 3. of the Greek

authors. 34, 35. and n. 4.

C.

C.

CALEDONIA, its etymology. 285.
CALLIMACHUS, Carrected. 133. n.
CASSIUS, his character. 87.
CATILINE, characterized in Virgil. 157, 158.
Characters poetic. 78, 79, &c. Character of man. 80, 81.
proper character for tragedy,what? 46. 81, 82. fuitableness
of character, 82, 83. characters of women, 83, 84, and
n. known characters, how to be drawn, 85, 86. confiften-
cy of character, 88, 89. the mind pleased with this con-
fiftency, and why, 91. honeft character of poets, whether
neceffary. B. I. Sect. XI. bonefty of Shakespeare's charac-
ter, 93, 94.

CHARLES, firft, king. 158. 159.

CHARLES, fecond, king. 14. 160.

Chivalry, a picture of ancient chivalry in Shakespeare. 36,&e.
CICERO, his opinion of music, 32. corrected, 271. 287. his
accuracy, 282. explained, 324, 325. his character, 87.
characterized in Virgil. 157.

Comedy, its original and improvement, 120, &C. proper fub-
jects for it. 122, 123, n.

Confistency of character, fee character.

Courtier, a ridiculous character in Shakespeare. 101.
Critics, their whimsical rules. B. I. Sect. I. a very good cri-
tical rule, 3, n. the province of critics, B. II. Sect. I.
Cruelty, without necessity not allowable in tragedy. 45,and n.80.

D

Daemon. 193.

Dear. 303.

Devil, his character in Milton, 79. called by Shakespeare

Monarch of the North. 214.

Diction, poetic, 102, 103. its chief beauty, what? 335-
Digamma, Aeolic. 207, n. 57, n.

Dignity of character. 97.

DIOGENES LAERTIUS, explained. 119, n.

DIOMEDES, the grammarian, explained. 112, n.

Diverfions, public. 29, &c.

DRYDEN. 15, n. 18, 19, n. 106. 129. 253-
Dunces, their pride and pertnefs. 12. 28. 283.

E

Eidukorosta, a fine inftance of that figure. 51, and n.
ELIZABETH, Queen, her learning, 13, n. Shakespeare wrote
a comedy at her request, 101. complemented by Shakespeare.
128, n. 135.

Eloquence, perfonated, 146. flourishes in popular government.

132, 133.

EMFEDOCLES, corrected. 217.

Englishmen, their tafte, 14, 15, 28, 29. 39, 40. 130.
-282. ancient Britons. 35, 36:

EPICHARMUS, his improvement of comedy, 122, &c. feveral
of his verfes corrected. 123, n.

EPICURUS, his doctrine to be found in Homer. 104, n.

Επιγενήματα τῶν καλῶν. 67, 1.

EPIMENIDES, corrected. 30, n.

Εν διαβάς. 227, 228.

Ευμνημόνευτον. 68, n.

EURIPIDES, his cyclops, 105, n. 111, 112, n. bis Oreftes,

144. To explained, 313. Phaen. explained, 324. a verse in
his Medaea corrected. 235, ǹ.

Ευσύνοπλον. 68, n.

F

Fable, of the man and his two wives, applied to Critics on
Shakespeare. 280.

Fade. 209, n.

Fanaticism, its influence on arts and Sciences, 14. 29, &c. n.
Fashion, vicious in poetry, 97. folly of judging from mode and
fabion. 39 344, 345.

Fathers, of the church, destroyed the Greek writers. 34.
35, and n.

Flattery, how defpicable. 133, &c.

Fool, a character in our old plays. 16.

Formal authors. 107, 108. all formality, or all buffoonery.
ibid.

FRANCE, its influence on English taft and manners. 14, 132.

G.

Genius, Jee Daemon.

Gorboducke, a play. 75, n.

Gothic chivalry. 36, &c. fee Englishmen.

Government, popular, its influence on arts and Sciences. B. I.
Sect. XV. fee Liberty. Tyranny.

Grave writers, 107, 108. Gravity and humour, how they
be blended. ibid.

may

Greek writers, their excellency, 134. the only models for
improvement of taft, 149, &c. how so many came to be
deftroyed, 34, 35, and n. ancient Greek language, what?
328. its pronunciation, 143. bow written in Homer's
time. 186, n.

GREGORY the great. 34.

H

Hand, for power. 221.

H.

Hebrews, author of the epiftle, corrected. 266.
Hell, variety of torments there. 215, &c.

HERCULES, Μεσαγίτης. 141.

Hieronymo, or the Spanish tragedy, a play ridiculed by
Shakespeare and Johnson. 273, 274,п.

High and low life. 97, 98.

HOBBES, noted. 95, 96,

HOMER, a fpecimen of writing in his time. 186, n. an account
of his editor Ariftarchus. 151. explained, 61, n. 220, 221,
n. 222, 321. corrected. 57, n.

Honefty, whether requifite in a paet. B. I. Sect. XI. 130.
HORACE, his character, 132, n. a flatterer of O&tavius,

133, 134. dwells too long on the fatyric drama, 112, n.
paffages explained and defended, 99, and n. 119, 120, and
n. 174. fome of the odes explained and corrected. 178, 179,
180, 181, 182. 278, 279, 280.

Hofpitality, facred. 46, n.

Human nature. 80, 81.

Humour and gravity, feldom found mixed in the fame che
rafter. 107, 108.

JAMES, firft, king, 13, 14. complemented by Shakespeare. 541

135.

Jealousy, 64, 66.

Inchantments of witches. 51, 52, &c..

Inspiration, poetical. 11, 12, and n.

Interesting jubjects of poetry, what? 81, 82. 46.

JOHN, St. explained. 319.

JOHN