Brown, Marshal, 683.
Brownrigg, Mrs., her apprentices, 658. Bruce, Lord, 698.
Brunswick, Ferdinand of, 683, 693; House of, 647, 761; feeling of the English for, 815.
Brussels, 393, 395, 400, 663, 671.
Brydges, Sir Egerton, 718.
Buckingham, 393, 395, 400.
Budgebudge, 553.
Budgell, Eustace, 742, 755, 757. Buffon, 674.
Buhl, Count, 677, 678.
Bunyan, John, the Pilgrim's Progress, Southey's edition, 217; his history, mind, and character, 221; his charac- ters met with in critical poems, 51. Burghley, Lord, his Life and Times, by Dr. Nares, 252; his talents, principles, and character, 253; means of his poli- tical advancement, 254; his parlia- mentary opposition to Queen Mary's court, ib.; promotion by Queen Elizabeth, 255; the Reformation, Elizabeth's power based on the people's support, 258; limitation of English monarchy, the Tudor rule as compared with that of the Cæsars, 260; causes of re-esta- blishment of Papal supremacy, 260; position of Henry VIII. to Catholic and Protestant parties, 262; partiality of dramatists for Catholic ecclesiastics, 263; Elizabeth's attachment to Catholic ceremonials and Burghley's conformity to them, the national reaction, 263; Elizabeth's power of Government, 264; Elizabethan literature, 265. Burgundy, Duke of, his character and projects, 917.
Burke, Edmund, his speech on reform, 134; understanding and conduct, 137; his statement about Jacobins and East Indians, 540;-and Pitt, 605; men- tioned, 634, 639 ;-and Fox, 641; his opening speech at trial of Warren Hastings, 648; mentioned, 677, 703, 710; on Miss Burney's writings, 695; his comparison of Grenville to Ovid's Evil Spirit, 820; mentioned, 838, 840, 849, 852, 911, 912; on the French Revolution, 910; on Longinus, 923. Burnet, Bishop, 344.
Burney, Dr., 695, 702.
Burney, Frances (see Madam D'Arblay). Burns, his Tam O'Shanter, 57. Burton Pynsent, Cedars at, 843. Bussy, 528.
Bute, Earl of, 595, 820, 825, 829, 836, 840. Butler, S., his wit and learning, 60; Hudibras, 464; mentioned, 745.
Butler, W., his estimate of the Catholic population in England, 261.
Byng, Admiral, 328; trial of, 329. Byron, Lord, his life by Moore, 177; Lady Byron, 179.
CABAN the, 450.
Cabinet, formation of a, 455. Cabul, 610.
Cæsars, the, despotic rule of, 86, 260, 665.
Calcutta, 542, 601, 602, 614, 616, 618, 22, 623, 629; Black hole of, 522, 535, 602; English functionaries at, 536. Calais, 730.
Calderon, sparkling verse of, 274; quota- tion from, 660. Callimachus, 922.
Calvinists, the, 552, 559, 564. Camaldoli, order of, 555. Cambray, 681.
Cambridge, Christ Church College 716; Trinity, 760; the University favoured by Hanoverian Sovereigne, 823.
Camden, Lord, 349, 852. Campagna, the 763.
Campbell, Thomas, his editorship of History of Frederick the Great, 656. Candahar, 610.
Canning, Mr., 717, 722, 736. Cape Comorin, 610. Capraæ, 734.
Capuchins, their subtilty, 2.
Caraffa, Giov. Pietro, Pope Paul IV., 555,
Carleton, Lord, 737.
Carlton House, 638. Carmagnoles, the, 565, 809.
Carnatic, the, 510, 601, 622, 626, 628, 635, 682.
Carnot blinded by party spirit, 803. Carrero, Porto, 273, 274, 288. Carrier, 795, 809.
Carteret, Lord, 307, 308, 309, 665, 692 Cary, his translation of Dante, 883. Cashmere, shawls of, 628; looms of, €58. Casina of Plautus, 39.
Casti, his Animali Parlanti, 880. Castile, 734.
Castilian, the, 268; gravity of, 278; faith of, 557; at the beginning of the six- teenth century, 563.
Castilians, conduct of the, 284; their proverb, 521.
Catharine II., 693.
Catholic Association, the, 593. Catholicism, triumph of, 562. Catholicity, true, 501.
Catholics, restraints of the, 358; rising against Protestants, 264; of Ireland, 670; of Silesia, 670. Catiline, Conspiracy of, 82. Catinet, 735.
Cato, play of, 66, 733, 751, 752. Catullus, 56, 726, 741, 886.
Cavendish, Lord, 461; Lord John, 837, 847.
Cecil, Robert, 377, 388. Cemetery of the Escurial, 274. Censorship, 367.
Cervantes, qualities of, 52, 613. Cevennes, war of the, 564. Chamier, Mr., 613.
Champion, Colonel, 611. Chandernagore, 521, 525. Chandos, Duke of, 758. Chantrey, 883.
Charles I., the resistance of the people,
14; his advocates, 16, 108; his execu tion defended by Milton, 18; his con- sent to Strafford's death, 106; attempt to seize the five members, 107; his character, 109; fall, 118; his death, 119, 901; at Westminster Hall, 647; mentioned, 912.
Charles II., 59; character of, 353; and Wycherley, 577, 578; after the Re- storation, 904; Regent Orleans, a facsimile of, 917.
Charles II. of Spain, 745.
Charles III. of Spain, 820. Charles V., 551.
Charles VI. of Germany, death of, 662. Charles VIII. of Bavaria, 666, 667. Charles X., 628, 913.
Charles XII., 665; Life of, by Voltaire, 661.
Charles of Lorraine, 637. Charles Martel, 745.
Chateaubriand, M. de, note by, on Louis XIV., 915.
Chateauroux, Duchess of, 666. Chatham, Earl of, Thackeray's history
of, 312-334; the biographer, indis- criminate praise, 312; character of Pitt, 313; family, 314; returned for Old Sarum, 314; Walpole's ministry, 314; Townshend, 315; Chesterfield, 316; Duke of Argyle, the Pelhams, 316; the patriots, 317; Pitt in Parliament, 317; Prince Frederick in opposition, 317; Pitt's first speech, 318; as a speaker, 319; as patriot, 321; courtier, 322; Paymaster, 323; Pitt and Fox, 324; fragment of a speech, 327; the nation angry, 327; Secretary of State, 328; ministry defeated, Pitt recalled to office, 329; his moderation, 329; no ministry,
Christianity, its triumph over Paganism, 86.
Christian Utopia, Southey's, 143.
Chunar, rock of, 632, 633. Chunda Sahib, 516, 518.
Church and State, Gladstone on, 477. Church of England, whence sprung, 97; of Scotland, 560; the Catholic, 548, 560; the Established, 562.
Churchill, his history, 127, 517; lines on, by Philips, 738; (author), 601. Churchmen, marriage of, 263.
Cicero, his coalescence with Catiline, 82; Life of, 731; mentioned, 647, 727; Epistles of, 924.
Clarendon, Lord, his history, 19; his reputation, 19; Nugents' memorials, his character of Hampden, 89, 225; power declining, 442; mentioned, 745. Clarke, 549. Clarkson, 641, 718. Claudian, 726, 727.
Clavering, Colonel, 612, 614, 615, 617, 619, 620, 621, 629.
Clement VII., patron of Machiavelli, 28.
Clergy and Courts of Law, struggle between, 262.
Cleveland, Duchess of, 576. Clifford, Lord Treasurer, 452. Clive, Robert, 601, 602, 606, 607; his
choice of a Champion, 639; military
skill, 667; troops of, 682 (see Lord Clive).
Clizia, Machiavelli's, 39.
Clootz, atheism of, 565.
Cobham, Lord, 591.
Cock Lane Ghost, the, 727. Cofhis, Mr. Mackensie, 808.
Coke, Sir Edward, 391; Lady, 397 Colbert, 668. Coleridge, 882 Coligni, 825. Collé, 680.
Collier, Jeremy, 570, 585, 723, 746; his essay on the stage, 586. Collot sent to Guiana, 798. Colman, 455, 601, 698.
Commoner, the Great (see Pitt), 845. Commons, House of, 302, 545, 596, 599, 639, 643, 644, 645, 646, 695, 711, 730, 739, 740, 741, 747, 818, 913.
Commons, House of, Irish, 744. Commonwealth, the, 725. Commune, the, of Paris, 565. Compact, Family, the, 290.
Companies, European, in Bengal, 521 (see East India).
Composition, absurdity of rules for 52. Comus, Milton's, 7.
Confession of Augsburg, 559.
Congreve, childhood of, 583; characters in his comedies, 570, 572; history of, 584; and Collier, 588; his attachments, death and funeral. 591; mentioned,
724, 728, 758.
Congreveran, 517.
Connoisseur, the, 746.
Conquest of Granada, the, Dryden's, 65. Conraden, 522.
Conspiracy of English officers in India 538.
Constance, Council of, 553.
Constitution, Old, of England, 352. Constitutional History of England, Hallam's, 93.
Consul Mummius, 339. Control, Board of, 653.
Convention, the, 798.
Conversation, a, between Cowley and Milton, 896-906.
Conway, General, 533, 838, 841, 845, 846,
Cossimbuzar, 526, 602.
Council of Constance, 262; of Five Hundred, 798; of Trent, 559.
Court of Common Pleas, the, 560; of Versailles, Vienna, 679.
Coventry, Lord Keeper, 658; Lady, 700, 701.
Covelong, fort of, 519.
Cowley, Abraham, dictum of Denham's concerning him, 2; his lack of imagina- tion, 5; as a critical poet, 57; his wit and learning, 60; conversation with Milton, 896; mentioned, 745, 923. Cowper, poet, the forerunner of the great restoration of our literature, 187, 601; tenderness and purity of his style, 763. Cowper, Lord, 648, 739, 760, 752. Coxe, Archdeacon, 304.
Craftsman, the, 741.
Craggs, 760, 763.
Cranmer, his character, 99.
Crebillon, 674, 680.
Crewe, Mrs., 709.
"Crisis," 756.
Crisp, Samuel, 699, 701, 704, 705. Critias, 800.
Criticism on the principal Italian writers, 878-895.
Croker, his edition of Boswell's Johnson, 194; his blunders, 195. Cromwell, parallel instituted between, and Napoleon, 120; the execution of Charles I., 119; despatch of gentlemen as slaves to Barbadoes, 124; painted by Lely, 599; Dryden compared to, 49. Cromwellian System, the, 441.
Crown, the, power of, in the sixteenth century, 259.
Culloden, 664; "Butcher of" (see Duke of Cumberland).
Cumberland, Duke of, 533, 683, 684, 817, 826, 827, 835, 839.
Cumberland, author, 601, 703. Curio, Epistle to, 307, 756. Cyprian, 559.
Cyrus, the life of, 77.
Coote, Sir Eyre, 622, 623, 627.
Corneille, 613, 674, 752.
Coromandel, coast of, 627, 664. Correspondence between Laud and Straf- ford, 103; Political, of Machiavelli, 40. Corruption, Ministerial, 301.
Danby, Earl of, 453, 459.
Dante, the Divine Comedy, 8; his genius compared with that of Milton, 8; his accuracy in details, 9; his poetry, 9; his character, 12; his admiration for inferior writers, his idolatry of Virgil displayed in his Divine Comedy, 52; his contemporaries, 52; his avoidance of
bombast, 55; vision of, 811; criticised, 879.
Dante, essay on, 878; the Oromasdes of Italian literature, 878; his birth, 880; youth, 881; the Divine Comedy, 883; his style, 885. Danube, the, 656.
D'Arblay, Madame, 695, 723.
Alexander, 716.
D'Argens, Marquis, 672, 675. D'Arnand, Baculard, 674, 675.
Dashwood, Sir Francis, 823, 829. Daun, Capt., 683, 689, 692. Daylesford, 600, 652, 653. Deccan, Viceroy of the, 514. Decennali, the, Machiavelli's, 37.
Declaration of Indulgence, 452; of Right, 363.
Defoe's Romance, reason of its interest to youth, 53.
Delany, Mrs., 706, 712.
Della Crusca, 695.
Delhi, 605, 628.
Delta of the Ganges, 630.
Demerville beheaded, 802. Democritus and Heraclitus, 705. Denham, Sir John, 2, 880. Denis, Madame, 674, 677. Denmark, 562, 628.
Dennis, John, 589; his Remarks on Cato, 752; Frenzy of, by Pope, 753. Desfontaines, 673.
De Stael, Madame, 715.
D'Estrées, Marshal, 684. Dettingen, 666.
Devonshire, Duke of, 328, 827, 837. Devonshire, Georgiana, Duchess of, 647. Diaries, Evelyn's, Pepys', 711.
Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay, 695-723; contrast between earlier and later style of Frances Burney, 695; the Burney family, 696; surroundings and character of Miss Burney, 698; her first attempt at authorship, 699; novel of Evelina, 702, 703; Dr. Johnson's approval of, 703; the Witlings, 704; Cecilia, 705; introduction to George III., 706; station at court, 707; Madame Schwellenberg, 708, 709; trial of War- ren Hastings, 710; Miss Burney's fail- ing health, 714; her marriage, 715; novel of Camilla, 715; The Wanderer, last illness and death, 716; on sketches of character, and caricatures, 717, 718; Madame D'Arblay's characters, 719; her imitation of Johnson, 720; French style, 721; novel writing raised by Madame D'Arblay's Evelina, 723. Dickens, Charles, 750. Dionysius, 85, 654.
Divine Comedy, the, 883, 884; mythology of, 886; translations of, Boyd's, Cary's, Hayley's, 887.
Doctor Akakia, 676. Dodd, Dr., 642.
Dodington, Bubb, 595, 808, 814, 840. Dodsley, publisher, 702.
Doge of Genoa, 733, 763.
Dona, Count, Swedish minister at the Hague, 447.
Donne, his grotesque conceits, 57.
Don Quixote, 52, 613.
Doria, House of, 733.
Dorset, Lord, 60, 729.
Dover, Lord, 292.
Dowdeswell, Chancellor of the Exchequer, 838.
Drama, the object of the, 88; Old English, charms of, 58; theatrical re- presentations prohibited, 59.
Dramatic art, its effects, 53.
Dramatists of the Elizabethan age, 263. Draper, Sir William, 665. Dresden, 680, 689.
Drogheda, Countess of, 578.
Drummer, the, Addison's, 755, 756. "Drunken administration," the, 309. Drury Lane Theatre, 705, 749, 751, 752. Dryden, his failure in attempting to reunite parts of the Paradise Lost, 60; the poetical works of, 49-70; his rank as a poet, influence on national taste and political eminence, 49; his poetical characteristic, change of style and order of productions, 61; bombast and con- ceits of his early panegyrical verses, 61; his Annus Mirabilis, 61; unreality of characters in his rhyming plays, com. parison of his comic and vicious characters with those of Smollett, 62; violation of historic propriety, the persons of his dramas not men and women, 62; his diction, versifications, descriptions, and rhetoric, 63; his imagery compared with that of Homer and Shakspeare, 64; his reasoning in verse, his best scenes between men, his abandonment of stage writing and after success, 66; unsoundness of his logic, his love of the old poets, 67; exaggerations of his panegyrics, superiority of his critical works, 68; superiority of Hind and Panther to Religio Laici, 68; his Absalom and Ahithophel, 464; his method of treating subjects, 68; comparison with Pope and Juvenal, his Ode on St. Cecilia's Day, his power to produce an epic poem, 69; conditions under which he might have attained higher excellence, 70; com-
pared with other poets of the Restora- tion, 570; frankness of, 587; and Addison, 727; Essay on Criticism, 735; The Spanish Friar, 762; energy and purity of style, 763; invectives of, 880; Mock Astrologer, the, 893. Du Barry, Madame, 918. Dublin, 743, 754.
Dubois, Cardinal, 50, 763.
Du Châtelet, Madame, 674.
Duchy of Lancaster, lawyers of, 597. Duke of Grafton, vessel, 604. Dumont, Etienne, his Souvenirs
Mirabeau, 907; his literary acquire- ments and services to Mr. Bentham, 907; no admirer of the French Revo- lution, 910; his attempt to instruct the National Assembly in parliamentary tactics, 911; his vivid picture of that Assembly, 920; his sterling character,
Electorate of Hanover, 684.
Elector of Bavaria, 664, 665, 925; of Saxony, 559; the Great, 656. Eliot, Sir John, 332.
Elizabeth, Queen, the persecutions under her government, 95; penal laws, 96; under head of persecutions, arguments in favour of, apply with greater force to Mary, 97; state of literature in her reign, 57; an Adiaphorist, 263; con- forming to the ceremonials of the Roman Church, 264; the dark side of her character, 264; her ability to secure the love and confidence of her subjects,
265; suspicions, 383; decline of, 388; a Protestant from policy, 539. Elphinstone, 547. Elwes, 718.
Emperor Joseph II., birth of, 665; men- tioned, 635.
Emperor of Germany, 659; Russia, 654. Empire, the Carlovingian, 628; the Mo- gual, 609; of Philip II., 266.
Empress Elizabeth of Russia, 680 (see Maria Theresa, Catherine II.); Faustina, 739.
English administration, war policy of, 287.
English Drama, a blow dealt to the, 60. English expedition to Spain, 278. English literature in the reign of Eliza beth and James I., 57.
English people welcoming Charles II., 352.
English, revolutions of 1641 and 1688, their mildness, 911.
Englishman, the, Steele's, 753, 754, 756. English vintage, 829. Epictetus, 418.
Epicurean infidelity, 564. Erasmus, 732.
Essex, Earl of, 393; trial of, 394. Etheredge, 747.
Eugene, Prince, religion of, 485, 923. Eugenio, 749.
Euripides, 7, 56, 886.
Europe, its formation into a federal com-
European coalition, 773; war against, 786.
Examiner, the, 751. Exchange, the, 749. Eylau, 663, 683.
Ezekiel, poetry of, 564.
FAIRY QUEEN, Spenser's, Pitt's accurate knowledge of, 820.
Falkland, a resolute champion of liberty, 112. Falstaff, 661.
Family Compact, the, 290, 821.
Fénélon, his Telemachus and Dialogues of the Dead, 571, 661; doctrines of, 916. Ferdinand II., 559.
Ferguson, Sir Adam, his suggestion that luxury corrupts, 211.
Fielding, extract from, 53; mentioned, 695, 700, 749, 756; his Amelia, Dr. Harrison in, 743.
Filmer, his theory, 479, 817.
Fine arts, certain operations of their laws, 50.
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