*Boccaccio, Giovanni, and Francesco Petrarca
(the "Pentameron "), iii. 427-549

and Petrarca, iv. 299-307

Chaucer, and Petrarca, iv. 708-347
remains of his villa to be seen near
Certaldo, iii. 425; his illness, 427; visited
by Petrarca, ib., viii. 441; his design of
destroying his "Decameron," iii. 448;
disclaims jealousy of any other author, ib.;
destroyed his poetry, 429; his "Lectures
on Dante," 430, 465; his story of Gregorio
Peruzzi and the dogs, 432-434; his opinion
of the style of Cicero, 438; his genius su-
perior to Cicero's, 439; his power over the
affections, 440; his writings criticised, ib.;
his idea of the origin of the various moods
of poetry, 450; his reflections on the death
of friends, 458; criticises Dante, 461, 463,
469, 486 et seq.; his share in the improve-
ment of the Italian language, 464; his
visit to his friend Acciaioli, 465, 466 and
note; his remarks on the Psalms of David,
470; on the Italian language, 472; on the
Sonnet, ib.; criticises Virgil, 473 et seq.;
his remarks on Dante's prose writings,
490; on republics, 492; his strictures on
confession, 499; his lines on "The Pilgrim's
Shell," 505, 506; his opinion of the nightin-
gale, 507; his remarks on the characters
of various nations, 509, 510; his "Com-
mentary," 510; his visit to Dante's house,
512; criticises Horace, 514 et seq.; his lines
on leaving Fiametta, 517; his reflections
on his own fame, 523; his recovery, 528;
his verses on the occasion, 529; visited by
Fra Biagio, 533; his lines on him, 534;
quotes lines to the child Carlino, 537;
resolves to preserve the "Decameron,'
539; his dream of Fiametta, ib. et seq.;
his story of Raffaellino, 543; his cat, 544;
his death, 550; his intended confession,
553; remarks on the alleged jealousy
between him and Petrarca, 554 et seq.; his
story of Monna Tita Monalda, iv. 301 et seq.;
of the Prince of Policastro, 343-347; the
scene of the last stories of his "Decameron,"
viii. 155 n.; origin of his great work, and its
rank in continental literature, 439; his
friendship for Petrarca, 441; estimate of
his "Decameron," ib. 445; his character, 441
Boileau compared with Filicaja, iv. 98; defil-
cient in earnestness of thought and expres-
sion, ib. note; criticism on his poetry, 99
et seq.; estimate of his merits, 130
Boleyn, Anne, and Henry VIII., v. 180-187

-, her character, 181 n.; large sums
contributed by her in charity, 183 and note
Bonaparte and the President of the Senate,
vi. 37-40. See also Napoleon

Louis, and Count Molé, vi.
624-627. See also Napoleon, Louis
Books, English, small number of early, iv.
164; importation and distribution of, in
Spain, prohibition of, proposed, vi. 342
Borgia, Cæsar, his character, iv. 415, 416
Bossuet and the Duchess de Fontanges, v.
192-198

his opposition to Quietism, v. 195,
196 n.; ungenerous conduct towards Féne-
lon, 197 n.

Bothwell and Mary, v. 263-268
*Boulter, Archbishop, and Philip Savage, iii.
202-210

Boulter, Primate of Ireland, his munificent
charity, iii. 202 n.

Bows, their use in war considered, vi. 76 et seq.
*Boxley, Abbot of, and Richard I., iii. 3-9
"Boys, the, of Venus," vii. 419-422
Bozzaris, Noti and Kitzo, their noble efforts
in the cause of liberty, vi. 291, 292
Britons, their position in the time of Harold,
iii. 12 n.

*Brooke, Lord, and Sir Philip Sidney, iv.

8-17

-, notice of his character, iv. 3 n.; his
poem on "The Poet and the Lady," 16;
death of, v. 157

Brougham, Lord, his opinions on Caesar,
Cromwell, and Bonaparte censured, v. 553
et seq.

Bruis, Pierre, a reformer of the Church of
Rome, iii. 38, 39

Brutus, Marcus, his character, ii. 370
Bucks, swans, and herons, their knightly
appurtenance, ii, 498

*Bugeaud, Marshal, and Arab Chieftain, vi.
481-484

Bullock, Ebenezer, and his son Jonas, anec-
dote of, iii. 125, 126

Burial refused to heretics, vi. 494

Burke, Edmund, no authority on finance, iii.

191

*Burnet, Bishop, and Humphrey Hardcastle,
iv. 84-90

Burns, Porson's opinion of his poetry, iv. 54
Bury, Richard de, sent as ambassador to
Rome, iii. 508; his learning, ib.; accom-
panied by Chaucer, ib.

Business, time lost in, v. 401
Byron, Lord, his character, iv. 44; his poems
criticised, 44-46, 126, 127; his preference
of Chaucer to Shakespeare, 76; quotation
from Tacitus applicable to, v. 111; accused
of underrating Chaucer, 151 n.

C.

*Cæsar and Lucullus, ii. 350-367

-, his generous behaviour to Quinctus
Cicero, ii. 368; his character, 369, 370; his
"Analogy," 447; his "Commentaries"
commended, 451; opinions on, v. 553
Calendar, said to be reformed by Numa, v.
436; the Athenian, ib.

Caliban of Shakespeare and Cyclops of Euri-
pides compared, iv. 122, 129, 130
California, importance of, vi.

26; taken

possession of by Drake, ib.; claimed by
Russia, 27

*Callisthenes and Aristoteles, ii. 171–189
*Calvin and Melancthon, v. 70-79

Montaigne's opinion of, iv. 295, 296
Calvinism, Barrow's opinion on, iv. 356
*Calvus, Licinius, and Asinius Pollio, ii.
433-441, 441-453

his speech against Vatinius, ii. 447;
similarity of his style to that of Catullus,
viii. 400

Cambridge University, treatment of the fel-
lows of, by Cromwell, iii. 415

Camden, his opinion of Chaucer and Shake-
speare, iv. 76; Latin verses preserved by
him quoted, ib.

*Canning and Pitt, iii. 187-201

desired by Pitt to be his successor in
power, iii. 189; his character, ib., vi. 299, 300

Canova, his demands concerning the pictures
and statues taken from Italy, iii. 388
"Canterbury Tales," Chaucer's, estimate of, v.
151

Capital letters, use of, iv. 215

Capital punishments, iii. 46, 339; offences,
proposition of Romilly to diminish the
number of, 162, 163

*Capo d'Istria and the Emperor Alexander,
vi. 21-36

Capuchin, story of a, iii. 293

Cardinals have no right to elect a pope, iii.
31; why instituted, ib.

Cards, their origin, vi. 456; reasons why
George IV. indulged in, ib.
Carew, Fanny, lines on, ii. 543

Carlino, lines to, quoted by Boccaccio, iii. 537
*Carlo-Alberto, King, and Princess Belgioioso,
vi. 599-612

Carnaby, Joseph, a witness against Shake-
speare, ii. 472; his character as given by
the accused, 473; his evidence, ib. et seq.;
is dismissed, 504

Carthage, destruction of, ii. 314 et seq.; anec-
dote concerning it, 317, 318; cause of her
fall, 319, 320, 371, 372; trade of, with
America, 320 and note

Carthaginians, their respect for female
chastity, ii. 316

Cartoons for decorating the Houses of Par-
liament, observations on, addressed to
Cornelius at Munich, v. 567-569
Casaubon, Isaac, and King James I., iii.

22-44

his treatise "De Libertate Eccle-
siasticâ," iii. 22 n.
Castles, destruction of English, during the
Commonwealth, v. 157, 160

Cat, Boccaccio's, iii. 544
*Catharine, the Empress, and Princess Dash-
kof, v. 208-214

murders her husband, the Em-
peror Peter, v. 208, 214 n.; her estimate of
her own character, 213

Catholic, the import of the term, iii. 25
Catholicism. Sec Church of Rome

Catholics, reasons why they should not be
admitted to power, iii. 26 et seq.
"Catillus and Salia," vii. 437-444
Cato, revered but not loved, ii. 359
Catullus, his galliambic, ii. 175 n., viii. 386;
criticisms on his "Poems," ii. 416, viii.
379-423; Doering's edition of, noticed,
379; brief sketch of his history, ib.; criti-
cisms on his imitators, 381 et seq.; remarks
on his being called the "learned," 386;
his description of Morning, 391, 392;
compared with Milton, 392, 393; ridicules
Egnatius, a Celtiberian, 404; his style,
421-423

Causes, natural, correctness of the expression
questioned, ii. 496

Cecci, Angiolina, story of, iv. 146, 147
Cecil and Queen Elizabeth, v. 173-176

-, Queen Elizabeth, Duke of Anjou, and
De La Motte Fénelon, v. 256-262
Celibacy, reason why it was imposed on the
Romish priesthood, iii. 86, 211

Cellularius, Michael, his censure of Leo X.,
iii. 6 n.

"Cenci, Beatrice: Five Scenes," a Dialogue
in Verse, vii, 342-363

Cenci, Count, his character, vii. 342

Censorship in France, vi. 267, 268

Certaldo, Boccaccio's tower at, iii. 538
Cervantes, his attack against the worship of
the Virgin, iii. 59

Character of a people indicated by their
language, iii. 77 et seq.

Charity sometimes injudicious, v. 10
Charlcote Hall commended, ii. 513
Charles I., the policy of his death discussed,
iii. 15 et seq., 338; objections to his canoniza-
tion, v. 15

Charles II., his character, v. 159

Charles X., speech of the President of the
Court of Cassation to, vi. 40 n.
Chateaubriand, his conduct as a minister, vi.
95, 107, 299; his "Spirit of Christianity,"

299

*Chatham, Lord, and Lord Chesterfield, iii.
141-160
*Chaucer, Boccaccio, and Petrarca, iv. 308-347
accompanied Richard de Bury to
Rome, iii. 508; his amiable character, ib. ;
Byron's preference of him to Shakespeare,
iv. 76; his tale of Sir Magnus Lucy,
312-337; his high merit, 502; estimate of
his "Canterbury Tales," v. 151; Landor,
with Byron and Wordsworth, accused of
underrating him, ib. n.

"Chesterfield, Lord, and Lord Chatham, iii.
141-160

-, success of his government in
Ireland, iii. 142

Chiabrera, character of his works, iv. 97
Children, their character, ii. 212, 213; pleasure
received from, 403, 404; of criminals, plan
for their care and employment, iii. 54, 55;
censure of the Act regulating their labour,
282 n.; in new and old countries, 316, 317
*China, Emperor of, and Tsing-Ti, vi. 485-562
his reasons for sending an

envoy to England, vi. 486
China, great wall of, vi. 8
Chinese literature translated by Hyacinthos,

a learned Russian, vi. 74

Chiron the instructor of Achilles, ii. 4, 5
Chivalry, its ennobling tendency, iv. 13
Chloe, Sir Thomas Lucy's verses on, ii. 531
Chloros, story of, ii. 59 et seq.

Cholera, a sort of, supposed to be communi-
cated by the breath, ii. 506 and note
Chorus, propriety of its introduction in
comedy questioned, iv. 152

Christianity, conduct of its professors, ii. 259
et seq., iii. 235, 297, 405, 406, 435; illustrated
by the story of Xenophanes and his horse,
ii. 261, 262; its doctrines objected to by
Lucian, 268 et seq.; borrowed from the
priests of Isis, 273; questionable profes-
sions of, iii. 8; its advantages to mankind,
306; benefits derived from it by literature,
iv. 139; its connection with persecution,
v. 38; asserted to be extinct by missionary
tracts circulated in China, vi. 486; Chinese
opinions of, 490 et seq., 513 et seq.; character
of modern, 619

Christians, their persecution by Nero, iii.

435

Christina, Queen of Sweden, notices of her,
iv. 483, 484, 521

Christmas should be celebrated in April, iv.

145

"Chrysaor," vii. 456-463

Church, Anglican. See Anglican Church

Churches, true meaning of the term, iii. 296,
iv. 263; dignities in, forbidden by the Gos-
pel, iii. 297

Church Establishments censured, iii. 289,
294 et seq.

Church-going, reflections on, v. 24, 25
Church of Rome, idol-worship in, iii. 7 n., iv.
139; marriages between uncle and niece,
aunt and nephew, sanctioned by, iii. 32, 65 ;
its extravagant claims. 36 and note; notice
of early reformers of, 38 et seq.; fratricide
protected by, 40; mischiefs occasioned by,
42 n.; its composition, 43; its character-
istics, 55 et seq.; conduct of its partisans,
86; a support to the throne, 90; abuses in,
first exposed by the lower clergy, 116;
jealous of the Greek Church, 211; why its
priests must be opposed to the civil magis-
trate, 264; evils produced by its doctrines,
265, 283 et seq.; effects of its luxury and
rapacity, 456; main distinctions between it
and the Anglican Church, 550; tenets of,
discussed by Middleton and Magliabechi,
iv. 132 et seq.; approximation of its doc-
trines to those of the Anglican Church, v.
35; compared with the latter, 134; infalli-
bility of the, remarks on, ib. ; its pretensions
to universal dominion illustrated in a Con-
versation between Martin and Jack, 165-
167; power of its clergy, vi. 337 n.; its pub-
lic processions, 351 n.; designs of Russia
respecting, 597, 598; its teachings respect-
ing oaths, 626, 628; and on incest, 626; im-
prisonment of Francesco Madiai and his wife
for disobedience to its doctrines, 631 et seq.
Church property, proper mode of dealing with
it, iii. 381, 382

*Cicero, Marcus Tullius and Quinctus, ii. 368
-406

his opinion of Epicurus, ii. 190, 388;
his style, 357, 450 et seq., iii 438; his
views on the immortality of the soul, ii.
379, 380; his preference for a private life,
387 n.; his change of opinions, ib. 389;
discourses on life, death, and glory, 395
et seq.; his views on friendship, 397, 398;
remarks on his character, 397 n.; his
opinion of Aquilius Cimber, 399, 400; on
leaving children behind us, 403; on season-
able sorrow and inoffensive pleasure, 404;
on the use of tears, 405; expression of his
countenance, 417; compared with Demos-
thenes, 452; inferior in genius to Boccaccio,
iii. 439; estimate of his "Offices," v. 64; his
fondness for diminutives, viii. 381
Cimber, Aquilius, type of the insincerity of
his nation, ii. 399; anecdote of, ib. 400
Cimon, the erection of a statue to, proposed
by Pericles, v. 390; speech of Pericles on
the banishment of, 391; invited to return to
Athens by Pericles, 392

Circassians, their character, vi. 587; policy of
Russia towards them, ib. 588
Circumcision, its efficacy, iii. 7

"Citation and Examination of William
Shakespeare," ii. 455-557

Citron-wood, probably mahogany, ii. 320 n.
Civilisation, influence of the Saracens on, vi.
583, 584

Clarendon, character of his "History," v. 38.
Clement VI., Pope, his character, viii. 436
Clément, Jacques, his defence of his attempt
to murder the Prince of Orange, iii. 28, 29

Cleobuline of Lyndos, verses by, v. 350, 351
Cleone, the friend of Aspasia, v. 315; her grief
at the death of Xeniades, 333, 341; her re-
marks on absurdities in female dress, 343;
on the poems of Sappho, 344, 345; on
schools of poetry, 351; on the customs of
Thrace, 353, 354; on education, 359; on
religion, 366; her interview with Thraseas,
367; her Epitaph on her nurse Demophile,
398; her opinions on war, 408; her lines on
Youth, 416; her account of abuses in Samos,
419-421; her remarks upon poets, 423 et
sey.; on the tendency of Esop's Fables,
424; on the character of Hephaestion,
425; on the poetry of Sappho, 452, 453;
her lines on Aspasia, 534, 535; death of
her father, 543; proposes to visit Athens,
ib.; arrives at Athens, 547; expires on the
tomb of Xeniades, 549

Cleopatra, her personal attractions, vii. 381 n.
"Clytemnestra, the Death of," a Dramatic
Scene, v. 535-537

*Coelho, Dona Juana, and Philip II., v. 245—
248
her intercession for her husband, v.
245 el sey.
Coleraine, Lord, Rev. Mr. Bloombury, and
Rev. Mr. Swan, vi. 112-120

-, his death-bed, vi. 112 et seq.
Coleridge, Porson's remarks on, iv. 30
Colin Clout, reason given for his learning,
ii. 491

"Colloquies." Southey's, modified by the
"Imaginary Conversations" of Landor, v.

122

"Colocotrini (the elder) and Maurocordato,
vi. 72-87

Colonna, Giacomo, the friend of Petrarca,
viii. 430; made Bishop of Lombes, ib.;
Petrarca's dream of him, 436; his death, ib.
Vittoria, and Michel-Angelo Buona-
rotti, v. 278-297
Colossus, destruction of the, ii. 421 n.
Combs, silver, edict against, vi. 434 and note
Comedies, English and Italian, vi. 82
Comedy and tragedy, why to be avoided, ii.
528; Milton's advice t› Marvel on the con-
struction of a, iv. 148 et seq.; propriety of
the introduction of Chorus in, questioned,
152; among the ancients, 154, 155; true
province of, v. 321; abuse of, at Athens,
443; prohibited there, 444; restored at
Athens, 464

"Commentary" of Boccaccio, iii. 510
Commons, House of, placed in opposition to
the Barons by Henry IV., iii. 12, 13; first
appointment of a Speaker of the, 14; cha-
racter of its members, vi. 51

Companions, unworthy, not the peculiar curse
of private men, iii. 245

Composition, obscurity the greatest fault in,

ii. 220; quotation to be avoided in, 281, 282;
Petrarca's rules for, iii. 440

"Comus," Milton's, criticised. iv. 501 et seq.
Confession, effects of, iii. 60; the practice cen-
sured, 331, 332; of the Duchess de Fontanges,
v. 192 et seq.; of Talleyrand, vi. 479, 480
Constantia and Tancredi, v 232-255

taken prisoner by Tancredi, v. 232;
her parentage and marriage, ib. n
Constitution, character of the English, iii. 129
and note; anomalies in it, iv. 287 et seq.; a,
proposed by the Pope to Portugal, vi. 259

Constitutionalists of Spain, plan proposed by
Ferdinand for destroying them, vi. 348, 349
Content and, Happiness contrasted, iv. 9 et seq.
Controversial writings, reason and origin of,
ii. 209

Convents and abbeys, destruction of, in Eng-
land, v. 158

Conversation and Dialogue contrasted, v. 162
Cook, qualities of a good, ii. 42
*Corbière and Villèle, vi. 264-271
"Coresus and Callirhoë," vii. 432-437
Corilla, character of her poetry, vi. 232
Corinna, why preferred to l'indar, iv. 24; her
poetry superior to that of Hesiod or Myrtis,
v. 334; the instructress of Pindar, 338; her
Ode on her native town, 342

Corinth, destruction of, ii. 320 and note; and
Lacedæmon, speech of Pericles on the de-
clarations of, v. 457, 458
"Corinth, to," vii. 475, 476

Cork recommended as a substitute for iron
armour, vi. 79

Cornaro, Luigi, and Tiziano Vecelli, v. 168-

170

*Cornelia and Tasso, v. 269-277

-, mother of the Gracchi, her letter to
her son Caius, ii. 374, 375; her house and
garden at Misenus, 384; her mode of life, ib.
385
Cornelius, observations addressed to him at
Munich on the cartoons for decorating the
Houses of Parliament, v. 567-569
"Coronation, the," a Dialogue in Verse, vii.
317-320

Correggio, character of his works, vi. 427 et seq.
Azzo da, his character, viii. 436
Corsican honey, unwholesomeness of, viii.
315 n.

Corsini, Prince, his parsimony, vi. 234
Cortes of Spain, vi. 42, 43; revocation of di-
plomas and licenses granted by, 110 and

note

"Corythos," vii. 496-502; Second Part, 502
-504

*Cotes, Sir Firebrace, Duke de Richelieu, Lady
Glengrin, and Mr. Normanby, vi. 121-204
*Cotton, Walton, and Oldways, iv. 396-409
visits Oldways at Ashbourne, iv. 396;
verses by, 397-399
Councils of the Church, the four (Ecumenical,
iii. 25; of the Lateran, 30, 32; of Nicæa, 31;
at Rome in 610, ib.; of Chalcedon, 32; at
Constantinople, ib.

"Count Julian," a Dialogue in Verse, vii. 45
-100

Country, advantages of a residence in the, ii.

191

Country gentlemen. English, change in their
condition, vi. 52, 53

Country-girls, Irish, superstition respecting
the cuckoo, viii. 145 n.

Courage of women, v. 221

Courts, iniquities of, v. 27 et seq.; Fénelon's
description of, 30, 31; why purifiers of
nations, 54, 55

Covilla, origin of the name of the city, vii. 45
Cowley, treatment of, by Sir Humphrey Hard-
castle, iv. 85; comparison between him and
Sir Humphrey as poets, 88; his Latin
poetry compared with Milton's, 517
Cowper, his poetry commended, iv. 72;
compared with Dryden, ib. 73; and Young,
73; his character, v. 131

Crabbe, his poems criticised, iv. 43; his cha-
racter, ib.

Crimes, their productiveness to the govern-
ment in the Papal States, vii. 342
Criminals, plan for the care and employment
of their children, iii. 54, 55
Criticism on various Greek and Latin writers,
ii. 430, 431, 442 et seq.; rules for, iii. 463, iv.
277; on critics, iv. 20 et seq., v. 118, 119, 290,
291; low state of, in Italy, v. 86 and note,
viii. 431, 432; on various poets, v. 289 et seq.
Criticisms on the "Idyls" of Theocritus, viii.
357-378; the "Poems" of Catullus, 379-
423; Francesco Petrarca, 424-458

Critics, their injustice, iii. 463; their duty,
464; criticism on, iv. 20 et seq., v. 118, 119,
290, 291; their merits as compared with
poets, iv. 47; modern, 69, 70

Critobulus, his Apologue of Truth, ii. 401,

402

iii. 410-416

Cruelty the greatest of all crimes, ii. 176
Cuckoo, superstition of Irish country-girls
respecting, viii. 145 n.

Culinary art, state of, among the early
Romans, v. 162

Cupid, lines on, v. 412, 413

"Cupid and Ligeia," an epigram, v. 457
"Cupid and Pan," vii. 451-454

Curiosity a feminine quality, ii. 8; picture of,
9; misapplication of the word, v. 67
Cybele, statue of, by Phidias, ii. 56 n.
Cyclops of Euripides and Caliban of Shake-
speare compared, iv. 122, 129, 130
Cypress, remarkable one, vi. 6

Cyropædia" of Xenophon criticised, ii. 356
Cyrus the Younger and Xenophon, ii. 113-

121

D.

Dagobert, King, cruelty of, to the Bulgarians,
iii. 180 n.

Dairo, or Japanese Pope, iii. 37 n.

"Damætas and Ida," vii. 413

"Damocle and Hiera," vii. 552, 553

Dancing, its propriety considered, iii. 276
Danes, iii. 12 n.

Dante and Beatrice, v. 249-255

and Gemma Donati, v. 305-30S

estimation of, by the Florentines, iii.
429; greater part of his "Divina Commedia”
bad, 430; criticisms on it, ib. et seq., v. 150;
Boccaccio's "Lectures" on it, iii. 430, 465;
his attacks on the Pisans and Genoese, 432;
places Brutus and Cassius in the mouth of
the devil, 434; treatment of Nero by, ib.; his

remarks on the Florentine ladies, 436: char-
acter of his Ugolino and Francesca di Rimini,
441; his delineation of Francesca di Rimini
the perfection of poetry, 443; his "In-
ferno "immoral and impious, ib.; his
defects, 445; character of his poetry, 447;
his lines on the "Skylark," 461; his share in
the improvement of the Italian language,
464; in some parts superior to Virgil, 469;
considered in relation to Virgil, 473; fixed
the Italian language, 485; his prose writ-
ings, 490; further criticism of, 504; reve-
rence paid to, in Italy, 510; his love for
Beatrice Porticari, 516; his commentary on
his "Commedia," ib.; remarks on his Mere-
trice, ib. 517; influence of his love for
Beatrice on, 518, v. 307; his temper, iii.
520, v. 128; less dignified than Lucretius,
iii. 526; often admits lines of little worth,
iv. 24; compared with Homer and Milton,
475; his verses on parting with Beatrice, v.
255; his merits as a poet considered, 289;
treatment of, by his countrymen, 306, 307
Dashkof, Princess, and the Empress Catha-
rine, v. 208-214

Dead, burial of the, in temples in Thrace, v.
354; respect for the, among the English,
vi. 212 et seq.; treatment of the, in Italy, ib.
Deaneries, Sir Silas Gough's admiration of,
ii. 542

Death, reflections on, ii. 16; no leveller of the
human race. 57; the fear of, to be cast
aside, 195; the punishment of, considered,
iii. 46, 339; of friends, 458, 518
Death-bed repentance futile, v. 48, 49
"Death of Blake," a Dialogue in Verse, vii.
402, 403

"Death of Paris and Enone," vii. 513-517
"Decameron," the, proposed destruction of,
by Boccaccio, iii. 428; opposed by Petrarca,
ib.; character of, as compared with the
"Divina Commedia," 429; improvements
in, suggested, 429, 437; its effects upon
young readers, 431; its merits, 527; Boc-
caccio resolves to preserve it, 539; the scene
of its last stories, viii. 155 n.; its origin due
to the plague, 439; its rank in continental
literature, ib.; estimate of it, 441

"Defence of the English People," Milton's,
V. 46

Deformed and under-sized persons usually
vain, ii. 10

Delciego, Don Britomarte, anecdote of, vi. 52
Delicacy, false, observations on, v. 141
*Delille, the Abbé, and Walter Landor, iv. 91
-131

his poetry noticed, iv. 112
Democracies, their use, v. 326
Democracy, advantages of, iii. 287; opposed
to quiet, ib.; and Aristocracy, the two forms
of government considered, v. 500-503
Democrats and Aristocrats defined, iii. 262,
iv. 265

Democrats, how they are made, v. 141, vi. 576
Democritus, his style, ii. 1:6; first proposed
the theory of colours, ib and note
Demophile, the nurse of Cleone, her death,
v. 397; her epitaph, 398

Demosthenes and Eubulides, ii. 130-141, 141
149

135; his use of idiom, 138; Halmuros's esti-
mate of him, 143; his practice of solitary
walking to collect matter for his discourses,
145; advocates the killing of usurpers, 147;
Epicurus's opinion of him, 250; his opinion
of public life, 387 n.; compared with Milton,
iv. 57
Despot, proper punishment of a, iii. 126, 127
Despotism, principle of, iii. 490; when most
secure, vi. 44; protected by the institution
of a Peerage, 98

Destiny the supreme power, ii. 115
Devil, belief in the, considered, iv. 262
*Dewah, Walker, Hattaji, and Gonda, vi. 470

-475

Dialogue, considered as a mode of communi-
cating knowledge, ii. 391 et seq.; the noblest
works have assumed the form of, iii. 425;
and Conversation, distinction between, v.
162; a difficult medium for the delineation
of character, vi. 32 n.; effects of, on the
mind, 607

"Dialogues," Lucian's, estimate of, vii. 551 a
Diana, her temple at Ephesus, v. 367
Dias and the onions, story of, vi. 353.
Diaz, Juan, his assassination, iii. 40
Diogenes and Plato, ii. 64-111

-, his definition of a great man, ii.
65; censures Plato for his absence at the
death of Socrates, 73; his temper, 75; criti-
cises Plato's writings, 76 et seq.; his opinion
on national armies, 82, 83; accuses Plato oʻ
plagiarism, 83, 101; sketch of his life, 111
112; the wisest man of his time, 283
Diopeithes accuses Anaxagoras and Aspasia
of impiety, v. 464 et seq.

Dirce, lines on, v. 542

Dispensations, price of, 413 and note
Dissimulation a feminine virtue, v. 318
Dithyrambic verse adapted to all modern lan-
guages except the French, iv. 97
Dittany, its fabled effects, iv. 161, 162 n.
"Divina Commedia," Dante's, the greater
part of it bad, iii. 430; criticised, ib. et seq.,
v. 150.

Divorce, Milton's Treatise on, v. 39
Doering, his editions of Catullus noticed, viii.
879

Dogs, their merits. v. 66. 67; variety of cha-
racter in, 81; fighting for a bone, apologue
of, vi. 96
*Dominican,

Milton, and Galileo, v. 80-89
Donati, Gemma, and Dante, v. 305-308
Donne, Dr. John, compared with Milton, iv.
350; his passion for Margaret Hayes, 402;
his lines on her, 404-406; his style criti-
cised, 407; his marriage, 408

Dorkins, Sieur, anecdote of, vi. 208, 209
Drake took possession of California, vi. 26
Drama, the French, commended by Sir
Thomas Lucy, ii. 527

Drawing, arguments in defence of, iii. 277
Dream of Boccaccio. iii. 540-542; of Petrarca,
547-549, v. 590-592; of the latter respect-
ing Giacomo Colonna, Bishop of Lombes,
viii. 436

Dress, absurdity of that in the time of La
Fontaine, v. 68, 69; remarks on that of the
Grecian women, 343

"Drimacos," vii. 470-473

Druids, their religion, ii. 136; did not con-
struct the altars called after them, ib.
"Dryope," vii. 429--432