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Blackstone, Sir William, ii. 237 | Cataline, ii. 127

Blackwell, Professor, i. 129, 173" Cato, tragedy of," i. 256

Blount, Miss, ii. 389
Boccace, i. 64, 183, 332; ii.

1, 17, 222

Bocchini, Bartholomeo, i. 202
Buffon, i. 148

Boileau, i. 62, 65, 95, 100,
148, 150, 154, 160, 189,
197, 203, 231, 236, 240,
263; ii. 54, 139, 150, 211,
222, 257, 286, 310, 392
Bolingbroke, Lord, i. 112, 116,
256, 321; ii. 19, 58, 115,
141, 184, 223, 265, 288,
305, 331, 357, 383, 400
Bonnecorse, M. de, i. 209
Bononcini, i. 77
Bos Du, i. 100
Bossu, i. 109, 115
Bossuet, i. 148

Bracciolini, Francesco, i. 201
Bridgewater, Lady, ii. 385
Browne, Hawkins, ii. 49, 55
Bruneleschi, i. 183
Bruni, Antonio, i. 294
Bruyere, La, i. 109, 162; ii. 122
Buckingham, Sheffield, Duke of,
i. 69, 191, 329.
Budgell, Eustace, ii. 234
Burlington, Earl of, ii. 172, 194
Burman, i. 169

Burnet, of the Charterhouse, i.
115, 266

Burnet, Bishop, ii. 225

Busby, Dr. ii. 126

Catullus, i. 308; ii. 22
Caylus, Count de, i. 364
Cervantes, i. 127, 242; ii. 398
Chandos, Duke of, ii. 185
Chapelain, M. i. 88; ii. 216
Charles II. age of, i. 153; ii. 47
Charles V. of France's library,
ii. 10
Charlemagne, i. 177
Charron, ii. 122, 128
Chateaubrun, i. 259
Chaucer, i. 253, 332, 338, 394,
395; ii. 7

Chesterfield, Earl of, ii. 357
Chrysoloras, Emanuel, i. 64; ii.
230

Cibber, Colley, ii. 370
Cicero, i. 115, 116, 385
Clarendon, Lord, ii. 330
Clarke, Dr. Samuel, ii. 125,
184, 231
Claudian, ii. 20

Clergy, ignorance of, in early
ages, i. 174
Clifford, Mat. ii. 41
Cobb, Mr. i. 69

Collins, William, i. 67
Colman, George, ii. 327
Commentators, remarks on, ii. 230
Congreve, i. 101, 118; ii. 223
Cornbury, Lord, ii. 331
Corneille, i. 88, 100, 111, 119,
152, 157, 258; ii. 344, 390
Correctness, remarks on, i. 196

Butler, Samuel, ii. 240, 363, Cowley, i. 76, 80; ii. 7, 8, 39, 349

398

C

Craggs, Mr. Secretary, ii. 204,

206

Crashaw, i. 85, 90

Cambridge, R.O. "Scribleriad," Crebillon, i. 148, 259; ii. 130,

i. 242

Carew, i. 85
"Carmina Quadragesimalia," i. 48
Carrache, Annibal, i. 83
Caryl, Mr. i. 214

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Cudworth, i. 117

Fielding, Henry, ii. 122, 398

Flatman, Thomas, i. 85, 87
Fleury, Cardinal, ii. 134

Cumberland, William, Duke of, Fontaine, La, i. 118, 144; ii.

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Dandilly, M. i. 88

Dante, i. 77, 182, 250, 333;

ii. 221, 371
Davila, the historian, ii. 130
Death, the prevalence of the ruling
passion at, ii. 135
Demosthenes, i. 385
Denham, i. 30, 34
Desbillons, J. ii. 393.
Des Cartes, i. 115; 1. 391
Dialogues, remarks on, ii. 197
Dionysius, i. 110, 166
Domenichino, i. 83
Donatus, i. 88

Donne, Dr. ii. 348
Dorset, Earl of, ii. 48
Drayton, i. 25, 292
Dryden, i. 10, 50, 60, 80, 90,

101, 109, 111, 143, 149,
192, 253, 255, 284, 340,
362; ii. 7, 8, 11, 16, 132,

220, 241, 377
Durer, Albert, i. 130
Dyer, i. 34; ii. 55

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5, 150, 245, 393
Fontenelle, i. 3, 157; ii. 51, 108
Fracastorius, i. 187; ii. 54
France, state of its learning in
early times, i. 176; origin of
the French drama, ii. 343
Fresnoy, ii. 385
Fuentes, Alonzo de, i. 187

Furetiere, M. de, i. 88

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223

Gay, John, i. 92, 243; ii. 244
Genius, early, instances of, i. 76;
when at the highest, instanced
in Virgil, Horace, Racine,
Corneille, Boileau, Moliere,
Congreve, Raphael, Shake-
spear, Milton, Spenser, and
Dryden, 100; true genius
rare, 108; list of geniuses
who have at once enjoyed in full
vigour, a sublime and splendid
imagination, a solid and pro-
found understanding, and an
exact and tenacious memory,
115; list of real poetical ge-
niuses who succeeded Pope,
134; influence of government
upon genius, 172; five ages of
the world in which the human
mind has exerted itself in a won-
derful manner, 180; geniuses
apparently most original borrow
from each other, ii. 51; in-
stances of singularities in men of
genius, 125; list of men of wit
who had extensive learning, 398
Gerbert,

Fairfax's Tasso, ii. 38
Fenelon, ii. 176, 385
Fenton, Elijah,i. 144, 290;ii. 270
Fermor, Mrs. Arabella, i, 214
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Gerbert, i. 176
Gildon, i. 152
Giotto, the disciple of Cimabue,
i. 183
Glover's "Leonidas," i. 184;
ii. 395

Godeau, M. i. 88
Godstow Nunnery, lines on the
ruins of, i. 20
Gravina, J. Vincentius, i. 129,
369
"Grandison, Sir Charles," i. 271
Gray, i. 30, 134, 355, 371;

11. 55, 174, 224, 349, 405
Greek language, introduction of
into Europe, i. 64
Grocyn, William, i. 64
Guido, i. 83

Guy of Arezzo, i. 183

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Horace, i. 26, 98, 100, 162,
163, 168, 282, 377; ï. 22,
108, 266, 290, 305, 335
Hume, David, ii. 31, 66, 122, 158
Hurd, Dr. i. 98, 109; ii. 32

J

Jervas, the painter, ii. 385
Johnson, Dr. Samuel, i. 120,

146, 192, 195; ii. 113
Jonson, Ben, i. 90, 93; ii. 349
Juvenal, ii. 213

K

Kennet's "edition of Vida, "i. 185
Kent, William, ü. 175
King, Archbishop, "Origin of
Evil," ii. 58, 96, 121
King, Dr. of St. Mary Hall, ii. 140
Kneller, Sir Godfrey, ii. 387
Knight's "Life of Erasmus, "i. 180
Kyrle, John, the Man of Ross,
11. 170

ii.

L

Lamoni, Puccio, i. 203

Language, impossibility of fixing,
i. 148

Hegemon, the author of Parodies, Lansdown, Lord, ii. 223

ii. 373

Helvetius, i. 148

Henault, President, i. 22
Herbert, i. 85

Hercules, (the Farnesian,) i. 343
"Hermippus Redivivus," i. 216
Herodotus, i. 115
Hervey, Lord, i. 298; ii. 250
Hill, Aaron, ii. 186
Hobbes, i. 153; ii. 122, 272
Hogarth, i. 118

Homer, i. 26, 120, 126, 127,
181, 187, 200, 276, 364;
ii. 160, 366
Hooke, Nath. ii. 140

Lee, Nat. ii. 45

Legacy-hunters, ii. 321
Leibnitz'"Theodicée,” ii. 58
Leo X. intimation of T. Warton's
History of, i. 182
Lippi, Lorenzo, i. 202
Livy, i. 115

Locke, i. 113, 160; ii. 125, 271
Longinus, i. 110, 170
Loris, William de, i. 337
Lowth, Bishop, i. 13
Lucan, ii. 20

Lucretius, i. 50; ii. 22, 98, 100,
112, 162, 328
Lully, the musician, i. 61

Luther,

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Melancthon, ii. 126, 263

Meleager, ii. 397

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Painters seldom good poets, i. 150

Melisoni, the assumed name of Painting, progress of, in England,

Tassoni, i. 201

Menage, i. 87, 89

Metastasio, i. 65

Meun, John de, i. 297
Middleton, Dr. ii. 253, 315
Milton, i. 6, 25, 26, 35, 90,
101, 115, 149, 153, 173,
176, 193, 253, 272, 274,
349; . 43, 110, 151, 166,
178, 202, 250, 347, 349
Minturnus, i. 187
Moliere, i. 100, 145, 209; ii. 124
Monarchy, its effects on genius,

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ii. 388

Parnell, Dr. i. 143; ii. 383

Parodies, remarks on, ii. 373
Pafcal, M. ii. 122
Patru, i. 189; ii. 393
Perizonius, i. 169
Perrault, i. 125
Perrier, Du, i. 156
Peterborough, Lord, ii. 176, 290
Petrarch, i. 64, 183, 332; ii. 222
Petre, Lord, i. 214
Petronius, i. 168
Phædrus, ii. 28
Phalereus, Demetrius, ii. 335
Philips, Edward, i. 193
Philips, Ambrose, ii. 234

Phillips,

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Pliny, i. 110

Poetry, pastoral, i. 3; what dis-
criminates poetry from history,
47; descriptive, 49; the ode,
62; resemblances not thefts,
86; scarcity of great poets,
108; epic poetry, 120; rhymes,
142; alexandrine verses, 143;
an "Art of Poetry" a com-
mon subject, 187; Boileau's
the best, 189; the English lan-
guage the least poetic of any,
197; origin of heroi-comic
poetry, 200; use of parodies,
231; poets ever enemies to su-
perstition and slavery, 239;
epic poems, 274; translations
of Latin and Greek poets, 285;
epistles, 292; history of poetry,
331; list of Roman poets un-
exceptionably excellent, ii. 28;
didactic and descriptive poetry,
54; remarks on antithesis, 145;
rhyme and blank verse, 149;
independent spirit of poets, 206;
remarks on the persons of vari-
ous poets, 221; list of poets
who wrote elegantly in Latin,
349
Poggius, ii. 5
Politian, ii. 54

POPE. Works criticised in this

Essay
Pastorals, i. 2

Messiah, 10

Windsor Forest, 19
Lyric Pieces, 50
Ode on Solitude, 76
The Dying Christian to
his Soul, 84

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Satires and Epistles of Ho-
race, 265

Donne's Satires, 348
One Thousand Seven
Hundred and Thirty-
Eight, 351
Dunciad, 365

Imitations of Horace and
Miscellanies, 379
Epitaphs, 396

Prose Works, 397
POPE. His first poetical efforts,
i. 77; Alcander, 80; profits
of the Iliad and Odyssey, 105;
preface to the Iliad, 111; at-
tachment to painting, 149; his
genius unfit for the epic, 274;
his translation of Homer, 400;
general character as a poet, 401

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