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.

D.

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.

163.

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.

E.

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,

346-354.

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.

489-491.

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.

F.

Fable (a), of Pilpay, ii. 188.
Fairfax, reserved for him and Crom-
well to terminate the civil war, ii.

491.

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.

474.

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