This, by way of contrast, should be compar'd with B. II, 881. "On a fudden open fly "With impetuous recoil and jarring found "Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate "Harfh thunder." The reader, if he has any ear, will plainly perceive how the found of these verses corresponds to the sense; and how finely they are improved from Virgil. Aen. VI, 573"Tum demum horrifono ftridentes cardine facrae Panduntur portae." Hell gates grate harsh thunder; the gates of Heaven open with harmonious found. This' (to omit Homer and the Pfalmift mentioned already) he had from Amadis de Gaul, B. IV. Ch. XI. where he describes the palace of Apolidon. And the Witty Rabelais [B. V. Ch. 37.] has the self-fame image.. In these two last instances here brought no mention is made of Shakespeare, but this fmall digreffion, perhaps, the reader will excufe as it fhews in a new light fome fine paffages of our epic poet. INDEX. N. B. The figures fhew the page; the lettern, the note: and the Roman figures the Preface. A CTORS (ftage,) their original, 100, &c. Acts of the Apoftles, explained, 323, n. 341. Admiration, how the paffion is to be raised, 44, 45, n. 85, 86. ADONIS, his gardens, 151, &c. AESCHYLUS, his improvement of the ftage, 101, &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. Avloplaλμen TM avé, to fail in the wind's eye, 341. Apofiopefis, a figure in rhetorick used by Shakespeare, B. II. Sect. IV. ARISTARCHUS, the refemblance between him and Dr. Bentley, 132, 133. What be difliked in Homer be rejected, Ibid. & n. An inftance of his arbitrary alteration of Homer, 220, 221. ARISTOPHANES, bis 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, ARRIAN, bis difcourfes of Epictetus, 32, 69, n. 223, n. 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 Æolians prefixed C' and 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. 404. Falfe One, explained, 259, n. Beauty, in what it confifts, 54, & n. Beauty of character, 79, 80. In what the The mind neceffarily in love with beauty, 131, 132. See Truth. How conftituted in variety, 134. BENTLEY, his critical rules examined, B. I. Sect. I. The refemblance between him and Ariftarchus, 132, 133. His correction of a paffage of Virgil examined and refuted, 390, &c. Of feveral paffages in Horace, refuted, 88, n. 109, n. 165, 166, &c. 398. A paffage in his differtation on Phalaris, examined, 106, 107. Βελυλός, 322. Bourn, 319, 320. BRITONS, fee Englishmen. BRUTUS, his character, 74, 78, 79. Buffoon, 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. CATILINE. characterized in Virgil, 140. CATULLUS, explained, 361. Characters poetic, B. I. Sect. X. Character of man, 68, 69. CHAUCER, in the prologue of the Canterbury Tales, cor. In the Miller's tale, corrected, 226, n. In the Reve's tale, explained, xx. In the Romaunt of the Rofe, corrected,, 241, n. In Troilus and Crefeide, explained, 346, n. Chivalry, a picture of ancient chivalry in Shakespeare, 21, &c. His character, 75 |