N. B. The figures fhew the page; the letter n, the note: and the Roman figures the Preface.

A

CTORS (ftage,) their original, 100, &c.

Acts of the Apostles, explained, 323, n. 341. Admiration, how the passion is to be raised, 44, 45, n. 85, 86.

ADONIS, his gardens, 151, &c.

AESCHYLUS, his improvement of the ftage, 161, &c.

ALCYONIUS, Petrus, cited and corrected, 19, n.

Alliteration, 266, 267, 408, &c. The affectation of it ridiculed in Shakespeare, 268.

Ambition, its effects exemplified in Shakespeare's Macbeth, 27, &c.

ANACREON, Spurious, 291, 292.

ANTONY, Mark, his character, 75, 89.

Ailoplaλμe r aveμw, to fail in the wind's eye, 341.
APOLLONIUS, Rhodius, corrected, 155, n.

Apofiopefis, a figure in rhetorick used by Shakespeare, B. II.
Sect. IV.

ARISTARCHUS, the refemblance between him and Dr. Bentley, 132, 133. What he disliked in Homer be rejected, Ibid. & n. An inftance of his arbitrary alteration of

Homer, 220, 221.

ARISTOPHANES, his Plutus a play after the middle Comedy,

119, & n.

His Plutus explained, 161.

His Scholiaft corrected, 111, n.

ARITOTLE, in his poetics explained, paffim. explained and corrected, 14, n. 24, 25, n. 27, 44, 45, 46, n. 56, 57, n.

88, n. 103, n. 112, 113, n.

ARRIAN,

ARRIAS, his difcourses of Epictetus, 32, 69, n. 223, 0.
315, 316.

Arts and sciences, flourish in popular government, and why,
B. I. Sect. XV.

ASCHAM, cited, 5, n. 20, n.

Afiatic eloquence, 89, & n. 90.

ATHENIANS, rife and progress of dramatic poetry among
them, 100, &c.

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

B.

Band prefixed to English words, as the Eolians prefixed
Cand the digamma F. 209.

BATAVIA, its etymology, 298.

BEAUMONT and FLETCHER's Knight of the burning Peftle,

corrected, 154, n. 404.

Two Noble Kinfmen, corrected, 185, n.

424.

Falfe One, explained, 259, n.

Beauty, in what it confifts, 54, & n. Beauty of character,

79, 80. Of diction, 374. fee Character.

In what the
The mind ne-
ceffarily in love with beauty, 131, 132. See Truth. How

chief beauty in poetry confifts, 83, 84, &c.

conftituted in variety, 134.

BENTLEY, his critical rules examined, B. L. Se&t. I. The
refemblance between him and Ariftarchus, 132, 133. His
correction of a passage of Virgil examined and refuted,
390, &c. Of feveral paffages in Horace, refuted, 88, n..
109, n. 165, 166, &c. 398. A passage in his differtati-
on on Phalaris, examined, 106, 107.

Βελυλός, 322.

Bourn, 319, 320.

BRITONS, fee Englishmen.

BRUTUS, his character, 74, 78, 79.

Buffoon,

Buffoon, 397.

Buffoonery, all, or all formality, 97, 98.

BURNET, bishop, wrongly judges of Milton, 10.

Burning of the Palatine library, 18, 19. Of the Greek

authors, 19.

C.

CALEDONIA, its etymology, 298.

CALLIMACHUS, corrected, 124, n. Explained, 413.
CASSIUS, his character, 75.

CATILINE. characterized in Virgil, 140.

CATULLUS, explained, 361.

Characters poetic, B. I. Sect. X. Character of man, 68, 69.
Proper character for tragedy, what? .30, 31, 69, 70.
Suitableness of character, 69, 70. Characters of women,
71, 72, & ǹ. Known characters, how to be drawn, 73,
74. Confiftency of character, 76, &c. The mind pleafed
with this confiftency, and why, 79, 80. Honeft charac-
ter of poets, whether neceffary, B. I. Se&t. XI. Honefly
of Shakespeare's character, ibid.

CHAUCER, in the prologue of the Canterbury Tales, cor-
rected and explained, 184, 185, n. 403, 404.

In the Miller's tale, corrected, 226, n.

In the Reve's tale, explained, xx.

In the Romaunt of the Rofe, corrected,, 241, n.
xxvii.

In Troilus and Crefeide, explained, 346, n.
Plowman's tale, the alliteration affected, 410.
In the boufe of Fame, corrected, 297, n.
In the Chanon Yeman's tale, corrected, 297, n.
In the Legende of Hypfiphyle and Medea, cors
rected, 403.

Chivalry, a picture of ancient chivalry in Shakespeare, 21, &c.
CICERO, his opinion of mufic, 32.

His character, 75.

CICERO, characterized in Virgil, 139, 140.
His accuracy, 294.

In his epiftles, explained, 188, n.

De Natura deorum, corrected, 282.

De Finibus, explained, 359.

De Officiis, alluded to by Shakespeare, 300, 301, n.
Comedy, its original and improvement, 109, &c. Proper
fubject for it, 112, 113, n.

Confistency of character, fee Character.

Courtier, a ridiculous character in Shakespeare, 90.

Critics, their whimfical rules, B. I. Se&. I. a very good cri-
tical rule, 2, n. The province of critics, B. II. Sect. I.
Cruelty, without neceffity not allowable in tragedy, 45, & n.
D.

Dæmon, 183, &c.

Drar, 327.

Devil, bis character in Milton, 66. Called by Shakespeare
Monarch of the North, 216.

Diction, poetic, 92, 93. Its chief beauty, what ? 374.
Digamma, Aeolic, 209, 210, & n. 43, n. 175, n.
Dignity of character, 86, 87.

DIOGENES LAERTIUS, explained, 102, n.

DIOMEDES, the grammarian, explained, 102, n.
DIONYSIUS, in his Roman Antiquities, corrected, 256.

Diverfions, public, 16, &c.

DRYDDN, alters Shakespeare's poems, 7, n. Turns the Pa-
radife Loft of Milton into rime, 10, 11. Characterized in
the Rehearsal, 120. Fond of repeating the fame letters
in his verfes, 266.

Dunces, their pride and pertness, 5, 15, 295.

E.

Eidwdoroiía, a fine inftance of that figure, 36, & n.

ELIZABETH, Queen, her learning, 5, & n. Shakespeare

arets

wrote a comedy at ber request, 91. Complemented by Shake

Speare, 119, n.

Eloquence, flourishes in popular government, B. I. Sect. XV. EMPEDOCLES, corrected, 219, n.

Englishmen, their tafte, 6, 7, 15, 16, 121. B. III. Se&. I.

Ancient Britons, 19, 20.

EPICHARMUS, his improvement of comedy, 112, &c. Several of his verses corrected, 113, 114, n.

EPICURUS, his doctrine to be found in Homer, 94, n.

ΕπιΓεννήματα τῶν καλῶν, 55, Π.

Εὖ διαβάς, 236, 237.

Ευμνημόνευον, 55, Α.

EURIPIDES, his cyclops, 94, 95, n. 101, n.

his Medaea corrected, 407.

Ευσύνοπλον, 55, n.

Εφέσια γράμματα, 324, Α.

Εχεια, Εχοντα, 321.

FAIRIES, an account of them, 323, n. &c.

A verfe in

Fanaticism, its influence on arts and sciences, 6, 16, & n: Fashion, vicious in poetry, 86. Folly of judging from mode and fashion, 385, 386.

Fathers, of the church, deftroyed the Greek writers, 18, 19,

& n.

Flattery, how despicable, B. I. Se&. XV.

Fool, a character in our old plays, 8.

Formal authors, 97, 98. All formality, or all buffoonery, ibid.

FRANCE, its influence on English taft and manners, 6, 7. B. I. Sect. XV.

French crown, meaning of the phrase, 147, 148, & n.