INDEX TO VOL. IV. A. ABDIEL, his character exhibits a noble moral, 154. Abraham, his lineage traced in Paradise Lost, 203. Absence, called by the poets, death in love, 37. Consolations of Academy for politics, projected at Paris, 243. Acarnania, its promontory called Leucate, for what famous, 4. Achilles, why chosen by Homer as the hero of his poem, 94. Acquirement, used for acquisition, 331, note. Action, in epic poetry, rules respecting it, 88. Actions, of a mixt nature, and modified by circumstances, 73. Why Actors, Roman, their speech on making their exit, 251, 252. Adam, description of, in Paradise Lost, 145. His tender address to Admiration, one of our most pleasing passions, 29. Of great men, lessens on nearer acquaintance with them, 67. A pleasing emotion Adversity, the post of honour in human life, 31. Advice to the fair sex, 85. Advice, remarks on asking and giving it in love affairs, 452. Eneas, a perfect character, 92. Why chosen by Virgil for his hero, 94. His descent to hell furnished a hint to Milton, 172. His real Eneid, its action short but extended by episodes, 90. Only one Eschines and his wife, take the Lover's Leap and are both cured, 23. Afflictions of our neighbours, not to be interpreted as judgments, Agur, his prayer, on what consideration founded, 436. Ajax, a beautiful distich on, from the Art of Criticism, 61. Aldus, the printer, more famous than any Doge of Venice, 285. Allegories, certain stories in the Iliad so called, 137. Well chosen, Allegory of Chremylus and Plutus, 438. Allusions, one great art of a writer, 376. Amazons, a commonwealth of them, 379. Their education, and Ambition, why implanted by Providence in mankind, 62. Most in- Ancients excel the moderns in works of genius, 52. Inferior to the Angels, the battle of, in Paradise Lost, 156. Antiochus, his passion for his mother-in-law, how discovered, 17. Anvil, Jack, (Sir John Enville), his letter to the Spectator, 239. Arguing in a catechetical method, introduced by Socrates, 33. Aridæus, a youth of Epirus, how cured by the Lover's Leap, 24. Arrogance, offensive to the Deity, 234. Art, its works less pleasing to the imagination than those of nature, 347. Art of Criticism, Mr. Addison's strictures on that poem, a proof of Artillery, why introduced into the battle of the angels, 157. Asteria, her letter to the Spectator on her absent lover, 36. Athenais, her letter to the Spectator inquiring the situation of the Augustus, the great poets of his reign, friends and admirers of Authors, for what most to be admired, 278. Babel, tower of, 350. B. Bacon, his aphorism on nature, a proper motto for modern gardens, Babylon, its noble works of architecture, 351. Baker's chronicle, a favourite book with Sir Roger de Coverley, Balance, the king of Babylon weighed in, 431. Milton's use of that Balk, the king's palace at, called a caravansary, 230. Balzac (Mons.) instance of his greatness of mind, 278. Bamboo, Benjamin, his philosophic resolution on his shrew of a Bar, British, gestures of orators there, ridiculous, 328. Barnes, Mr. Joshua, the Achilles of the University Greeks, 46. Bashfulness, without merit, awkward, 19. Of the English, in all that Battle of the angels, 155. Speech of Chaos to Satan in allusion to Battus, his passion for Bombyca, how cured by the Lover's Leap, 23. Baxter, his Last Words, 398. Bayes, Mr. in the Rehearsal, confines his spirits to speak sense, 369. Beau's head dissected, 216. History of the person to whom it be- Beauty, a source of pleasure to the imagination, 342. Final cause of Belial, how characterized, 127. Belvidera, a critique on a song on her, 446. Belus, Jupiter, temple of, 350. Belzebub, described with wonderful majesty, 128. His moderation in Bigotry, its evil tendency, 318. Birds, how affected by colours, 356. Biton and Clitobus, story of, 471. Blank verse, in what more difficult than rhyme, 106. Blast, Lady, an agent for the Whisper news-letter, 422. Blown upon, a metaphor well applied, 435, note. Boileau, Monsieur, his translation of a fragment from Sappho, 16. Boccalini, his story of Apollo and the critic, 110. His fable of the Boleyn, Ann, her last letter to King Henry, 313, 314. Bossu, supposes the action of the Eneid to begin in the second Brutus, his exclamation before his death, 233. A saying of his, on Burlesque, of two kinds, 53. In the Iliad, 100. Busby, Dr. Sir Roger de Coverley's remark on him, 262. Business of mankind in this life, is rather to act than to know, 30. Business, public, advantage of employing men of learning in, 444. C. Cacus, comparison of Sappho to him, by Plutarch, 4. Cæsar, his remedy for baldness, 22. A noble saying of his, 70. His Cæsar's Commentaries, new edition of, an honour to the English Calamities, in the language of the gods, blessings, 433. Canticles, written in a noble spirit of Eastern poetry, 148. Card-match-makers, a whimsical circumstance respecting them, 56. Cartesian philosophy, whimsically and happily exemplified, 360. Catechetical method of arguing introduced by Socrates, 33. Cato would allow none but the virtuous to be handsome, 41. His visit to the Roman theatre, 402. Catullus, his translation of a fragment from Sappho, 15. Cavaliers, female, 385. Fashion brought from France, 356. Celia, her consultation with Leonilla, 452. Censorious, the, a class of female orators, 47. |