confidential friend of Henry Fox, vi. 44; confided in by George III., 67; his character, 67; mediated between the king and the Whigs, 68, 69.
Dacier, Madame, v. 339. D'Alembert, i. 23; Horace Walpole's opinion of him, iii. 156. Dallas, Chief Justice, one of the counsel for Hastings on his trial, v. 127.
Danby, Earl, iii. 169; his connection with Temple, abilities and charac- ter, iv. 57; impeached and sent to the Tower, 62; owed his office and dukedom to his talent in debate, 72. Danger, public, a certain amount of, will warrant a retrospective law, ii. 470.
Dante, criticism upon, i. 55–79; the earliest and greatest writer of his country, 55; first to attempt com- position in the Italian language, 56; admired in his own and the following age, 58; but without due appreciation, 59, 829, 830; unable to appreciate himself, 58; Sismon- di's remark about him, 58; his own age unable to comprehend the Divine Comedy, 59; bad con- sequence to Italian literature of the neglect of his style down to the time of Alfieri, 60, 61; period of his birth, 62; characteristics of his native city, 63, 64; his rela- tions to his age, 66; his personal history, 66; his religious fervor, 66; his gloomy temperament, 67; his Divine Comedy, 67, 220, 277; his description of Heaven inferior to those of Hell or Purgatory, 67; bis reality the source of his power, 18, 69; compared with Milton, 68, 69, 220: his metaphors and com- arisons, 70-72; little impressed by the forms of the external world 72, 74; dealt mostly with the sterner passions, 74; except in the story of Rimini, 74; his use of the ancient mythology, 75, 76; igno- rant of the Greek language, 76; bis style, 77, 78; his translators, 18, 79; his admiration of writers inferior to himself, 329; of Virgil, 829; "correctness," of his poetry, fi. 338; story from, vi. 3.
Danton, compared with Barère, ▼ 426; his death, 481, 432. D'Arblay, Madame, review of het Diary and Letters, v. 248-320; wide celebrity of her name, 248; bet Diary, 250; her family, 250, 251; her birth and education, 252 254; her father's social position, 254- 257; her first literary eforts, 258, her friendship with Mr. Crisp, 259, 265; publication of her " Evelina," 266, 268; her comedy, "The Wit- lings," 273, 274; her second novel, "Cecilia," 275; death of her friend Crisp and Johnson, 275, 276; her regard for Mrs. Delany, 276; her interview with the king and queen, 277, 278; accepts the situation of keeper of the robes, 279; sketch of her life in this position, 279- 287; attends at Warren Hastings' trial, 288; her espousal of the cause of Hastings, 288; her incivil- ity to Windham and Burke, 288, 289; her sufferings during her keepership, 290, 291–300; her mar- riage, and close of the Diary, 301; publication of "Camilla," 802; subsequent events in her life, 302, 803; publication of "The Wan- derer," 303; her death, 303; char- acter of her writings, 303-318; change in her style, 311-314; spec- imens of her three styles, 315, 316; failure of her later works, 318; service she rendered to the English novel, 319, 320. Dashwood, Sir Francis, Chancellor of the Exchequer under Bute, vi. 36; his inefficiency, 51. David, d'Angers, his memoirs of Barère reviewed, v. 423-539. Davies, Tom, ii. 384. Davila, one of Hampden's favorite authors, ii. 450. Daylesford, site of the estate of the Hastings family, v. 5; its purchase and adornment by Hastings, 142 De Auginentis Scientiarum, by Ba con, iii. 888, 433. Debates in Parliament, effects of their publication, i. 538. Debt, the national, effect of its abro-
gation, ii. 153; England's capa Blities in respect to it, ii. 188. Declaration of Right, iii. 317. "Declaration of the Practices and Treasons attempted and commit
ted by Robert Earl of Essex," by Lord Bacon, iii. 873. Dedications, literary, more honest than formerly, ii. 191. Defoe, Daniel, i. 57. De Guignes, v. 256.
Delany, Dr., his connection with Swift, v. 276; his widow, and her favor with the royal family, 276, 277. Delhi, its splendor during the Mo. gul empire, iv. 204. Delium. battle of, iv. 21. Demerville, v. 521. Democracy, violence in its advocates induces reaction, iii. 11; pure, characteristics of, i. 513, 514. Democritus the reputed inventor of the arch, iii. 438; Bacon's estimate of him, 439. Demosthenes, Johnson's remark, that he spoke to a people of brutes, i. 146; transcribed Thucydides six times, 147; he and his contempo- rary orators compared to the Ital- ian Condottieri, 156; Mitford's misrepresentation of him, 191-193, 195, 197; perfection of his speeches, 376; his remark about bribery, iii. 428.
Denham, dictum of, concerning Cowley, i. 203; illustration from, 1. 01.
Denmark, contrast of its progress
to the retrogression of Portugal, iv. 340.
Dennis, John, his attack upon Addi- son's "Cato," v. 393; Pope's nar- rative of his Frenzy, 394, 395. "Deserted Village (the), Gold- smith's, vi. 162, 163. Desmoulin's Camille, v. 483. Devonshire, Duchess of, v. 126. Devonshire, Duke of, forms an ad- ministration after the resignation of Newcastle, iii. 235; Lord Chamberlain under Bute, vi. 38; dismissed from his lord-lieutenan- cy, 47; his son invited to court by the king, 71. Dewey, Dr., his views upon slavery in the West Indies, vi. 393, 401. Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay, reviewed, v. 248-320. Dice, i. 13, note.
Dionysius, of Halicarnassus, i. 141, 413.
Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, i. 178; v. 143.
Discussion, free, its tendency, ii. 167 Dissent, its extent in the time of Charles I., ii. 168; cause of, in England, iv. 333; avoidance of in the Church of Rome, 334; ses also Church of England. Dissenters (the), examination of the reasoning of Mr. Gladstone for their exclusion from civil offices, iv. 147-185..
Disturbances, public, during Gren- ville's administration, vi. 70. Divine Right, i. 236. Division of labor, its necessity, iv. 123; illustration of the effects of disregarding it, 123.
Dodington, Bubb, vi. 13; his rind ness to Johnson, 101. Donne, John, comparison of his wit with Horace Walpole's, iii.
Dorset, the Earl of, i. 350; the pa- tron of literature in the reign of Charles II., ii. 400; iv. 376. Double Dealer, by Congreve, its re- ception, iv. 390; his defence of its profaneness, 401.
Dougan, John, his report on the cap- tured negroes, vi. 362; his human- ity, 363; his return home and death, 303; Major Morly's charges against him, 370.
Dover, Lord, review of his edition of Horace Walpole's Letters to Sir Horace Mann, iii. 143-193; sce Walpole, Sir Horace. Dowdeswell, Mr., Chancellor of the Exchequer under Lord Rocking. ham, vi. 74.
Drama (the), its origin in Greece, i 216; causes of its dissolute charac- ter soon after the Restoration, iv. 366; changes of style which it ro quires, i. 365.
Dramas, Greek, compared with the English plays of the age of Eliza beth, ii. 339.
Dramatic art, the unities violated in all the great masterpieces of, ii. 341. Dramatic literature shows the state of contemporary religious opinion, iii. 29.
ner in which they treat religious subjects, iii. 29. Drogheda, Countess of, her character, acquaintance with Wycherley, and marriage, iv. 376; its consequences, 377.
Dryden, John, review of his works, f. 321-375; his rank among poets, 321; highest in the second rank of poets, 367; his characteristics, 321; his relations to his times, 321, 322, 351; greatest of the critical poets, 351, 367; characteristics of the different stages in his literary career, 352; the year 1678 the data of the change in his manner, 352; his Annus Mirabilis, 353-355; he resembles Lucan, 355; charac- teristics of his rhyming plays, 355-361, 368; his comic characters, 356; the women of his comedies, 356; of his tragedies, 357, 358; his tragic characters, 356, 357; his violations of historical propriety, 358; and of nature, 359; his tragi- comedies, 359; his skill in the management of the heroic coup- lets, 360; his comedies, 360; his tragedies, 360, 361; his bombast, 361, 362; his iinitations of the ear- lier dramatists unsuccessful, 362, 364; his Song of the Fairies, 364; his second inanner, 365, 867; the improvement in his plays, 365; his power of reasoning in verse, ·366, 308; ceased to write for the stage, 367; after his death Eng- lish literature retrograded, 367; his command of language, 367; excellences of his style, 368; his appreciation of his contemporaries, 369; and others, iv. 389; of Ad- dison and of Milton, i. 369, 370; his dedications, 369, 370; his taste, 870, 371; his carelessness, 371; the Hind and the Panther, 371, 372; Absalom and Ahithophel, 372 iv. 83-85; his resemblance to Juvenal and to Boileau, i. 372, 873; his part in the political dis- putes of his times, 373; the Ode on St. Cecilia's Day, 374; general characteristics of his style, 371, 875; his merits not adequately ap- preciated in his own day, ii. 191; alleged improvement in English poetry since his time, 347; the connecting link of the literary
schools of James I. and Anne, 355; his excuse for the indecency and immorality of his writings, iv. 355 his friendship for Congreve and lines upon his Double Dealer, 390; censured by Jeremy Collier, 398, 400; Addison's complimentary verses to him, v. 322; and critical preface to his translation of the Georgics, 335; the original of his Father Dominic, i. 296. Dublin, Archbishop of, his work ou Logic, iii. 477.
Dumont, M., his Recollections of Mi- rabeau reviewed, iii. 37-74; his general characteristics, 37, 41; his views upon the French Revolu tion, 41, 43, 44, 46; his services in it, 47; his personal character, 74; his style, 73, 74; his opinion that Burke's work on the French Revo lution had saved Europe, 44. 264; as the interpreter of Bentham, 38- 40, 153.
Dumourier, v. 453, 462, 481. Dundas, Mr., his character, and hos- tility to Hastings, v. 108, 120; eulogizes Pitt, vi. 234; becomes his most useful assistant in the House of Commons, 247; patron- izes Burns, 261. "Duodecim Scriptæ," a Roman game, i. 4, note. Dupleix, governor of Pondicherry, his gigantic schemes for establish- ing French influence in India, iv. 202, 209, 212, 220, 222, 228; his death, 228, 294. Duroc, v. 522.
East India Company, its absolute authority in India, iii. 246; its condition when Clive first went to India, 198-200; its war with the French East India Company, 202; increase of its power, 220; its factories in Bengal, 230; fortunes made by its servants in Bengal, 205, 266; its servants transferred into diplomatists and generals, v. 8; nature of its government aud power, 16, 17; rights of the Nabob of Oude over Benares ceded to it 75; its financial embarrassinents 80; Fox's proposed alteration in its charter, vi. 244–247. Ecclesiastical commission (the),ii. 10
Ecclesiastics, fondness of the old dra- matists for the character of, iii. 29. Eden, pictures of, in old Bibles, ii. 343; painting of, by a gifted master, 343. Edinburgh, comparison of with Flor- ence, iv. 340. Education in England in the 16th century, iii. 354; duty of the gov- ernment in promoting it, iv. 182, 183; principles of should be pro- gressive, vi. 343, 344; character- istics of in the Universities, 344, 815, 855-360; classical, its ad- vantages and defects discussed,
Education in Italy in the 14th century, i. 277.
Egerton, his charge of corruption against Bacon, iii. 413; Bacon's decision against him after receiv- ing his present, 430.
Egotism, why so unpopular in con- versation, and so popular in writing, i. 81, 82, ii. 365. Eldon, Lord, vi. 422, 426. Elephants, use of, in war in India, iv. 218.
Eleusinian mysteries, i. 49-54; Al- cibiades suspected of having ns- sisted at a mock celebration of, 49, note; crier and torch-bearer im- portant functionaries at celebra- tion of, 53, note.
'Eleven" (the), police of Athens, i. 34, note.
Eliot, Sir John, ii. 446-448; his treatise on Government, 449; died a martyr to liberty, 451. Elizabeth (Queen), fallacy enter- tained respecting the persecutions under her, i. 439-441; her penal laws, 441; arguments in favor of, on the head of persecution, apply with more force to Mary, 450-452; condition of 'he working classes in her reign, ii. 175, 437; her rapid advance of Cecil, iii. 8; character of her government, 16, 18, 22, 32; a persecutor though herself indifferent, 31, 32; her early notice of Lord Bacon, iii. 353; her favor towards Essex, 361; factions at the close of her reign, 362, 363, 382; her pride and temper, 370, 397; and death, 383; progress in knowledge since her days, iv. 302: her Protestantism 328.
Ellenborough, Lord, one of the counsel for Hastings on his trial 1. v. 127: his proclamations, 472. Ellis, Welbore, vi. 235. Elphinstone, Lord, iv. 298. Elwes, v. 309.
Elwood, Milton's Quaker friend, allusion to, i. 265.
Emigration of Puritans to America, ii. 459.
Emigration from England to Ireland under Cromwell, iv. 26.
Empires, extensive, often more flour
ishing after a little pruning, iii. 88. England, her progress in civilization due to the people, ii. 190; her physical and moral condition in the 15th century, 434, 435; never so rich and powerful as since the loss of her American colonies, iii. 83; conduct of, in reference to the Spanish succession, 103, 104; suc- cessive steps of her progress, iii. 279-281; influence of her revolu- tion on the human race, 281, 321; her situation at the Restoration compared with France at the restoration of Louis XVIII., 282- 284; her situation in 1678, 290, 293, 301; character of her public men at the latter part of the 17th century, iv. 11; difference in her situation under Charles II., and under the Protectorate, 32; her fertility in heroes and statesmen, 176; how her history should be written by a perfect historian, i. 428-432; characteristics of her liberty, 399; her strength con- trasted with that of France, ii. 24; condition of her middle classes, vi. 423, 424.
English (the), in the 16th century a free people, iii. 18, 19; their char acter, iii. 292, 800. English language, iv. 308. English literature of that age, i. 341, 342; effect of foreign influencer upon, 349, 350.
English plays of the age of Eliza. beth, i. 344-346, ii. 339. "Englishman," Steele's, v. 403. Enlightenment, its increase in the world not necessarily unfavorable to Catholicism, iv. 301. Enthusiasts, dealings of the Church of Rome and the Church of Eng land with them, iv. 331–336.
Epistles, Petrarch's, i. 98, 99; address- ed to the dead and the unborn, 99. Epitaphs, Latin, ii. 417.
Epithets, use of by Homer, i. 354; by the old ballad-writers, 354. Ercilla, Alonzo de, a soldier as well as a poet, iii. 81. Essay on Government, by Sir Wil- liam Temple, iv. 50; by James Mills, ii. 5-51.
Essays, Bacon's, value of them, iii. 367, 388, 433, 481, 491. Essex, Earl of, iii. 36; his character, popularity and favor with Eliza- beth, iii. 361, 364, 373; his politi- cal conduct, 364; his friendship for Bacon, 365, 366, 373, 397; his con- versation with Robert Cecil, 365; pleads for Bacon's marriage with Lady Hatton, 368, 406; his expo- dition to Spain, 807; his faults, 368, 369, 397; decline of his for- tunes, 308; his administration in Ireland, 369; Bacon's faithlessness to him, 369-371; his trial and ex- ecution, 371, 373; ingratitude of Bacon towards him, 369-380, 398; feeling of King James towards him, 384; his resemblance to Buck- ingham, 397.
Essex, Earl of, (temp. Ch. I.,) ii.
Etherege, Sir George, iv. 353. Eugene of Savoy, I. 143. Euripides, his mother an herb-wom- an, i. 45, note; his lost plays, 45; quotation from, 50, 51; attacked for the immorality of one of his verses, 51, note; his mythology, 75; Quintilian's admiration of him, 141; Milton's, 217; emendation of a passage of, ii. 381, note; his char- acteristics, vi. 352.
Europe, state of, at the peace of Utrecht, iii. 135; want of union in, to arrest the designs of Lewis XIX., iv. 35; the distractions of, suspended for a short time by the treaty of Nimeguen, 60; its prog- ress during the last seven cen- turies, 307.
Evelina, Madame D'Arblay's, spe- cimen of her style from, v. 315, 316. Evelyn, iv. 31, 48.
Evils, natural and national. ii. 188. Exchequer, fraud of the Cabal mia istry in closing it, iv. 53. Exclusiveness of the Greeks. i. 411. 412; of the Romans, 413–116.
Fable (a), of Pilpay, ii. 188. Fairfax, reserved for him and Crom- well to terminate the civil war, ii.
Falkland, Lord, his conduct in re- spect to the bill of attainder against Strafford, i. 466; his character as a politician, 483; at the head of the constitutional Royalists, ii.
Female Quixote (the), v. 319. Fénélon, the nature of and standard of morality in his Telemachus, iv. 359, iii. 60-62.
Ferdinand II., his devotion to Ca- tholicism, iv. 329. Ferdinand VII., resemblance_be- tween him and Charles I. of Eng- land, ii. 488.
Fictions, literary, i. 267. Fidelity, touching instance of, in the
Sepoys towards Clive, iv. 216. Fielding, his contempt for Richard- son, v. 261; case from his "Ame- lia," analogous to Addison's treat. ment of Steele, 370; quotation from, illustrative of the effect of Garrick's acting, i. 332. Filicaja Vincenzio, v. 360. Finance, Southey's theory of, ii. 150- 155.
Finch, Chief Justice to Charles I.,
ii. 456; fled to Holland, 469. Fine Arts (the), encouragement of, in Italy, in the 14th century, i 277; causes of their decline in England after the civil war, iii. 157; government should promote them, iv. 184.
Fletcher, the dramatist, iv. 356, 388 vi. 352.
Fletcher, of Saltona, vi. 388, 339. Fleury, v. 170, 172.
Florence, i. 63, 64; difference be
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