Abelard, ranks among the heretics, i. 145; book condemned as his written by another, ib.; absolution granted to, 146; wrote and sung finely, 147; raises the school of the Paraclete, ib.
Abram-men, ii. 312, and note, ib.
Abridgers, objections to, and recommendations of, i. 397; Bayle’s advice to, 398; now slightly regarded, 399; instructions to, quoted from the Book of Maccabees, ib.
Absence of mind, anecdotes of, i. 206.
Absolute monarchy, search for precedents to maintain, iii. 510, note.
Abstraction of mind, instances of, amongst great men, ii. 59-60; sonnet on, by Metastasio, 61.
Academy, the French, some account of, i. 413-417; visit of Christina Queen of Sweden to, 414; of Literature, designed in the reign of Queen Anne, ii. 407; abortive attempts to establish various, ib.; disadvantages of, ib.; arguments of the advocates for, ib.; should be designed by individuals, 408; French origin of, 408-410; origin of the Royal Society, 410-412; ridiculous titles of Italian, 479; some account of the Arcadian, and its service to literature, 482; derivation of its title, ib.; of the Colombaria, 483; indications of, in England, 484; early rise of among the Italians, 485; establishment of the “Academy,” 486; suppressed, and its members persecuted, ib.; of the “Oziosi,” 488; suppression of many, at Florence and Sienna, ib.; considerations of the reason of the Italian fantastical titles of, &c., 489.
Acajou and Zirphile, a whimsical fairy tale, ii. 308-311.
Accademia of Bologna originated with Lodovico Caracci, ii. 399.
Accident, instances of the pursuits of great men directed by, i. 85.
Acephali, iii. 193, and note, ib.
Aches, formerly a dissyllable; examples from Swift, Hudibras, and Shakespeare; John Kemble’s use of the word, i. 81, note.
Acrostics, i. 295-296.
Actors, tragic, i. 248; who have died martyrs to their tragic characters, 249; should be nursed in the laps of queens, 250; anecdotes of, 250-251.
Addison, silent among strangers, i. 104.
Adriani, his continuation of Guicciardini’s History, iii. 180.
Advice, good, of a literary sinner, i. 350.
Agates, presenting representations of natural forms, i. 244.
Agobard, Archbishop of Lyons, i. 21, and note.
Agreda, Maria, wrote the Life of the Virgin Mary, i. 367.
Alberico, vision of, ii. 422.
Albertus Magnus, his opinion concerning books of magic, iii. 281; his brazen man, 282; his entertainment of the Earl of Holland, 290.
Alchymists, results of their operations, iii. 284; their cautious secresy, 285; discoveries by, ib.
Alchymy, anecdotes of professors of, i. 283-284; Henry VI. endeavoured to recruit his coffers by, 284; professors of, called multipliers, 285; books of, pious frauds, ib.; Elias Ashmole rather the historian of, than an adept in, 286; opinions of modern chemists on, 287.
Alexandria, library of, i. 1; Demetrius Phalereus, its industrious and skilful librarian, ib.; original manuscripts of Æschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides procured for, ib.: destruction of, 47-57.
Ambassadors, anecdotes of frivolous points of etiquette insisted on by, ii. 195-206.
Amicable ceremonies in various nations, ii. 12.
Amilcar, the author of the Second Punic War, iii. 143.
Amphigouries, i. 298.
Amusement, periodical, during study, a standing rule among the Jesuits, i. 31; various, practised by different celebrated men, 38-41.
Anagrams, i. 298, ii. 229; are classed among the Hebrews with the cabalistic sciences, 230; Platonic notions of, ib.; specimens of Greek, ib.; several examples of curious, 231-233; amusing anecdotes concerning, 234.
Ancillon and his library, i. 10, and note.
Andreini, an actor and author of irregular Italian comedies, ii. 141; a drama of his gave the first idea to Milton of his “Paradise Lost,” ib.
Anecdotes of European Manners, ii. 30-39; of Abstraction of Mind, 59-62; literary, their importance, 300; Dr. Johnson’s defence of, 301; the absurdity of many transmitted by biographers, ib.; general remarks on, 303.
Anglesea, Earl of, his MSS. suppressed, ii. 447.
Animals, influence of music on, i. 272-4.
Annius of Viterbo published seventeen books of pretended antiquities, iii. 305; and afterwards a commentary, ib.; caused a literary war, 306.
Antediluvian researches, i. 301-303.
Anti, a favourite prefix to books of controversy, i. 318.
Antiquaries, Society of, inquiry into its origin and progress, ii. 413-415.
Antony, Marc, anecdote of, ii. 10.
Apparel, excess in, proclamation against, by Elizabeth, iii. 375.
Apples grafted on mulberry stocks, ii. 157, note.
Archestratus, a celebrated culinary philosopher, ii. 246.
Arguments, invented by a machine, ii. 419.
Ariosto, his merits disputed in Italy, i. 386; public preference given to, by the Accademia della Crusca, 387; his verses sung by the gondoliers, 388.
Aristocrat, a nick-name, iii. 83.
Aristotle, account of criticisms on, i. 25; fate of his library, 53; Arabic commentaries on, 61; rage for, ib.; his opinions on sneezing, 127; letter of Philip of Macedon to, 142; description of the person and manners of, ib.; will of, 143; studied under Plato, ib.; parallel between him and Plato, by Rapin, ib.; anecdote concerning him and Plato, 144; raises a school, ib.; attacked by Xenocrates, ib.; his mode of pointing out a successor, 145; writers against and for, 314; bon-mot on his precepts, 407.
Armstrong, Archibald, jester to Charles I., ii. 236, note.
Arnauld, one of the most illustrious members of the Port Royal Society, i. 94; anecdotes of, 96; was still the great Arnauld at the age of eighty-two, 97.
Ashmole, Elias, his Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum, i. 286; his Diary, ii. 209; his superstition, ib., note.
Astræa, D’Urfé’s romance of the, i. 451; sketch of, 452-454.
Astrologers, faith in, by celebrated characters, i. 278; Lilly consulted by Charles I., ib.; Nostrodamus, by Catherine de Medici, 279; several have suffered death to verify their skill, ib.; shifts and impostures of, 279-280.
Astrology, greatly flourished in the time of the Civil Wars, i. 280; attacks on and defences of, 281-282.
Atellanæ Fabulæ, Atellan farces, ii. 131, and note, 132.
Atticus, employed to collect for Cicero, ii. 397; traded in books and gladiators, 398.
Aubrey, John, extract from his correspondence, iii. 294; his search after gold, ib.; his idea of universal education, 296.
Audley, a lawyer and usurer, ii. 158; his commencement of life, and means of rising in, 159; anecdote of him and a draper, 161; his maxims of political economy, 162; his reply to a borrowing lord, ib.; his manners and opinions, 168-170; his death and general character, 170.
Autographs, indications of character, iii. 163; of English sovereigns, 165-166.
Babington’s conspiracy, some account of its progress, and of the noble youths concerned in it, ii. 171; trial and defences of the conspirators, 173; their execution, 175-176.
Bacchus, ancient descriptions of, and modern translations of them, ii. 292.
Bacon, Lord, sketch of his life as a philosopher, iii. 320-326; more valued abroad than at home, 327.
Baker, Sir Richard, author of the “Chronicle,” died in the Fleet, ii. 452; his papers burnt, ib.
Bales, Peter, a celebrated caligrapher, i. 275; iii. 173-177.
Ballard, the Jesuit, concerned in Babington’s conspiracy, ii. 172; expression of his on his trial, 173.
Baptista Porta, founded the Accademie of the Oziosi and Segreti, iii. 290; considered himself a prognosticator, ib.; his magical devices, ib.
Barbier, Louis, anecdote relating to, ii. 11; his superstitious observances, ib., note.
Barnard, Dr., his “Life of Heylin,” iii. 217-221.
Barthius, Gaspar, a voluminous author, ii. 536; an infant prodigy, ib.; published a long list of unprinted works, 537; its fate, ib.
Basnage, his Dictionary, iii. 233.
Bayle, publishes his Nouvelles de la République des Lettres, i. 14; account of his death, 391; his conduct to his friend, 392; read much by his fingers, ib.; amusements of, ib.; anecdotes relating to, 393; his “Critical Dictionary,” remarks on its character, ii. 382-388; Gibbon’s remarks on, 385; publication of, ib.; his originality, how obtained, 386; his errors, 388; his personal traits, 389; his characteristics, 388-396; changes his religion twice, 390; extract from his diary, ib.; his methods of study, 391; appointed to a professorship, ib.; deprived of it, ib.; laments his want of books, 392; anecdotes of the effects of his works, 394; a model of a literary character, 395.
Beam in the eye of the Pharisee, literally represented in early art, i. 307, and note.
Beards, various fashions in, i. 220.
Beaussol, M. Peyraud de, his preface to his condemned tragedy, ii. 304-307.
Ben Jonson, masques by, iii. 12; assisted Rawleigh in his history of the world, 131, and note.
Bentley, notice of his criticisms on Milton, i. 370-373.
Bethlehem Hospital, its original foundation, ii. 311, and note.
Betterton, anecdote of, i. 250.
Beza, Theodore, an imitator of Calvin in abuse, i. 310; effect of his work against toleration, iii. 245.
Bible, the prohibition of, ii. 19; various versions of, 20-23; a family one, 22; the Olivetan, iii. 155; corrupt state of the English, formerly, 427; printing of, an article of open trade, 428; shameful practices in the printing of, 428-431, and note; privilege of printing granted to one Bentley, 430; Field’s Pearl Bible contained 6000 faults, 431; division of, into chapter and verse, 432.
Bibliomane, iii. 343.
Bibliomania, i. 9.
Bibliognoste, iii. 343.
Bibliographe, iii. 343.
Bibliography, remarks on its importance, iii. 341.
Bibliophile, iii. 343.
Bibliotaphe, iii. 343.
Biographical parallels, iii. 425; a book of, proposed by Hurd, ib.; between Budæus and Erasmus, 426; instances of several, 427.
Biography, painted, a, iii. 137-141; remarks on, 414; sentimental, distinguished from chronological, ib.; of Dante, by Boccacio and Aretino, 415-419; domestic, 420-423; customary among the Romans, 424; comparative, a series of, projected by Elizabeth Hamilton, ib.
Birch, Dr., his great services to history, iii. 383.
Birkenhead, Sir John, a newspaper writer and pamphleteer during the great rebellion, i. 159.
Black Cloaks, a political nickname for a party in Naples, iii. 82.
Blenheim, secret history of the building of, iii. 102-111; drawn from MSS., 103, note.
Bonaventure de Perriers, specimen of his stories, i. 128.
Book of Sports, effect of, ii. 148.
Books, collections of, see Libraries; collectors of, see Collectors; reviews of, and criticisms on, see Literary Journals and Sketches of Criticism; destruction of, see Title; lost, i. 47-57; prices of, in early times, 76; treatise on the art of reading printed, 78; curious advertisements of, 157; titles of, 288; various opinions as to the size of, 347; difficulties encountered in publishing many books of merit, 375; works of another description better remunerated, 377; leaves of, origin of their name, ii. 23, note; table-books, 26; derivation of the name “book,” 28; description of the form and condition of ancient, ib.; censors and licensers of, 216; catalogue of, condemned at the Council of Trent, ib.; inquisitors of, ib.; see Index; burning of, anecdote of its good effect in promoting their sale, 219; mutilations caused by the censors in Camden’s works, Lord Herbert’s History of Henry VIII., and the Poems of Lord Brooke, 220; anecdotes of purloiners of, iii. 316-319; predilection of celebrated men to particular, iii. 340-343; calculations as to their present number, 342; different terms for amateurs of, 343; which have been designed but not completed, 493, 494.
Booksellers, two ruined by one author, ii. 533.
Borrowers, destructive to collections of books, i. 12.
Botanic Garden, Darwin’s remarks on, i. 341.
Bourdaloue, i. 257.
Bourgeois, Père, one of the Chinese missionaries, account of his attempt at preaching in Chinese, i. 268.
Bouts Rimes, i. 296.
Brandt, Ship of Fools, i. 7.
Bridgewater, late Duke of, destroyed many family MSS., ii. 451.
Buckingham, Duke of, his familiarity and coarseness with James I., i. 463, note; his conduct in Spain, ii. 4; equally a favourite with James I. and Charles I., 5; Hume’s character of, ib. and 355; anecdote of him and the Queen of France, 6; his audacity and “English familiarity,” ib.; anecdote of him and Prince Charles, 7; his rise, 10; his magnificent entertainment of Charles I. and the French ambassador, 327; his character, 356-358, and notes; his fears of being supplanted, 357, note; contrast between him and Richelieu, 358; secret history of his expedition to Spain with Prince Charles, 359; prognostics of his death, 364; portrait of, 366, note; determined to succour Rochelle, 367; his death, 371; satires on, 369, 370; possessed the esteem of Charles I., ib.; his extravagance in dress, iii. 407; intrigued with the Puritans, 443; his intercourse with Dr. Preston, a Puritan, 444; discovers Preston’s insincerity, and abandons the Puritans, 445; his impeachment, 452; his failure at the Isle of Rhé, 458; offers to resign his offices, 469; hatred of, by the parliament, 470-474.
Buffon, Vicq d’Azyr’s description of his study, iii. 208.
Buildings in the metropolis, opposition to, from the days of Elizabeth to those of Charles II., iii. 363; statutes against, 364; proclamations against, 365.
Burnet, his book against Varillas, i. 132, and note.
Burying grounds, iii. 231.
Butler, the author of “Hudibras,” vindicated, ii. 491-495.
Cadiz, expedition to, in the time of Charles I., ii. 366; satirical lines on, 367.
Calamy, his “History of the Ejected Ministers,” iii. 240.
Calumny, political advantages of, iii. 81.
Calvin, less tolerant than Luther in controversy, i. 309.
Camus, his “Médecine de l’Esprit,” ii. 469.
Caracci, family of the, ii. 399; Lodovico, character of, ib.; the school of the, 401, note; Agostino and Annibale, their opposite characters, 402; the three opened a school in their own house, 403; Agostino’s eminence there, ib.; his sonnet, comprising the laws of painting, 404; Domenichino, Albano, Guido, Guercino, their pupils, 405; disputes between Annibale and Agostino, ib.; their separation, 406.
Cardinal Richelieu, anecdotes of, and considerations on his character, i. 139-142.
Carleton, Sir Dudley, Vice-Chamberlain of Charles I., his speech to the Commons on the imprisonment of two of their members for their impeachment of Buckingham, iii. 455.
Cartoons of Raphael, now at Hampton Court, offered for sale, and bought by Cromwell, ii. 333; nearly sold to France by Charles II., ib., note; the gallery for their reception built by William III., ib.
Catherine de’ Medici, her belief in astrology, iii. 347; employs Montluc to intrigue to secure the election of the Duke of Anjou to the crown of Poland, 349.
Catharinot, a voluminous writer, ii. 545; his singular mode of publishing his unsaleable works, 546.
Cause and Pretext, distinction between, to be observed by historians, iii. 141; anecdotal illustrations, 142-144.
Caxton, the printer, his earliest works, i. 75, note.
Cayet, Dr., his “Chronologie Novenaire,” ii. 7.
Censers used to sweeten houses in the reign of Elizabeth, ii. 38, note.
Censors of books, designed to counteract the press, ii. 216; originated with the Inquisition, ib.; appointed with the title of Inquisitors of Books, ib.; disagreement among these Inquisitors, 217; in Spain, 218; their treatment of commentators on the “Lusiad,” ib.; instances of the injury done to English literature by the appointment of, 220; never recognised by English law, 221; regularly established under Charles I., 223; office of, maintained by the Puritans, ib.; treatment of Milton by, ib.; the office lay dormant under Cromwell, 224; revived and continued under Charles II. and James II., ib.; anecdotes relative to, 226-228.
Centos, i. 299.
Ceremonies, different, among various nations, ii. 12-15.
Cervantes, remark of i. 394; taken prisoner at the battle of Lepanto, ib.
Chamillart, Minister of France, his rise, ii, 11.
Charades, i. 297.
Charles Martel, his combat with, and defeat of, the Mahometans, ii. 430.
Charles the Bald of France, his remarkable vision, ii. 423.
Charles the First, account of his expedition into Spain, ii. 1-4; anecdote of him and Buckingham, 6; history of his diamond seal, 326; his love of the fine arts, 327; the magnificence and taste of his court entertainments, 328; anecdote of, 329; catalogue of his effects, 331-334; an artist and a poet, 334, 335, and note; influence of his wife on, doubted, 336; his dismissal of his wife’s French establishment, 345; reply to the French ambassador’s remonstrances, 347; his conduct on the death of Buckingham, 371; secret history of him and his first Parliaments, iii. 448; the latter a sullen bride, ib.; his address to his first Parliament, and their ungracious conduct, 449; they abandoned the king, 450; raises money on Privy Seals, ib.; on the failure of the expedition to Cadiz he called his second Parliament, 451; communications between him and his Parliament, ib.; his address to them, noticing the impeachment of Buckingham, 452; his conduct on that occasion the beginning of his troubles, 453; on the Commons’ further remonstrance against Buckingham, he dissolves his second Parliament, 457; his distress for money, ib.; his fresh distresses on the failure of the expedition to the Isle of Rhé, and his expedients to raise money, 458, 459; their ill success, 460, 461; reflections on his situation, 463; rejects the proffered advice of the President of the Rosy-Cross, 464; anonymous letter sent to the Commons, and by them forwarded to the king without perusing, 465; secret measures used by the opposition, 466; speech of the king to Parliament, 467; his emotion on being informed that the Parliament had granted subsidies 468; debates on the king’s message, 469; Eliot’s speech thereon, 470; Coke’s memorable speech, 473; the king grants his assent to the Petition of Right, 475; popular rejoicings, 476; presentation of the Remonstrance, ib.; the king’s conduct after the assassination of Buckingham, 477; vow of the Parliament to maintain the Articles of Religion of the 13th Eliz., 478; tumult in the House, and dissolution of the Parliament, 480.
Charles the Fifth, his edicts against the Reformed religion, iii. 242; his conduct influenced by political, not religious motives, 243.
Charles the Ninth, account of the death of, ii. 7-9; his apology for the massacre of St. Bartholomew, iii. 255-259; his character, 260.
Cherries, introduction of, into Great Britain, ii. 156; loss and reintroduction of, in the reign of Henry VIII., ib.
Chess, clergymen prohibited from playing, ii. 32; Kempelen’s Mechanical Chess-player, iii. 284, note.
Chinese language, i. 267; difficulties of, experienced by P. Bourgeois, 268.
Chocolate, brought from Mexico by the Spaniards, ii. 325; treatise against the use of, ib.; chocolate-houses in London, ib.
Christmas Prince at the Universities, ii. 268; account of one at Oxford, 1607, ib., note.
Christodins, iii. 81.
Chronograms, i. 295.
Churchill abhorred the correction of his MSS., ii. 85.
Cicero a punster, i. 69; a manufacturer of prefaces, 71; a collector, ii. 396; his projected library, ib.; employs Atticus to procure books and statues, 397; discovered the tomb of Archimedes, iii. 409.
Cities, Free, shook off the yoke of feudal tyranny, i. 184.
Clairon, Mademoiselle, anecdote of, i. 251.
Clarendon House, history of its erection, iii. 189-191; popularly called Dunkirk House, or Tangier Hall, 189; satire on the building of, 190; existing remains of, 191, note.
Classical learning, ii. 332.
Clovis, his reasons for adopting Christianity, ii. 433, 434, and note.
Coaches, introduction of, into England, ii. 36; use of, in France, ib.
Cockeram, H., his English Dictionary and its new words, iii. 24.
Cock-fighting in Ceylon, i. 188.
Coffee, introduction of, into Europe, ii, 320; made fashionable at Paris by the Turkish ambassador, 321; invectives and poetical satires against, 322-324; advantages of its use, 325.
Coffee-houses, the first opened at Paris, ii. 321; improvements in, ib.; the first in England, 322; shut up by proclamation, ib.; and iii. 379, note.
Coke, or Cook, Sir Edward, his most pleasing book, his Manual, or Vade Mecum, ii. 519; his MSS. seized on his death, ib.; yet to be recovered, ib., note; his character, 520; his matrimonial alliances, ib.; his disgrace, 521; disputes between him and his wife, Lady Hatton, concerning the marriage of his daughter, 523; curious letter of advice to Lady Hatton, for her defence before the Council, 524; his daughter married to Lord Villiers, and Coke reinstated, 529; his daughter’s bad conduct, ib.; his death, 530; his vituperative style, ib.; his conduct to Rawleigh, 531; his abjectness in disgrace, 532; pricked as sheriff, to exclude him from Parliament, iii. 446; eludes the appointment by excepting to the oath, 448.
Coke, Mr. Clement, a violent opposition leader in the second Parliament of Charles I., iii. 498, 499.
Coleridge, method pursued by him in his remarkable political predictions, iii. 268.
Collections of books, see Libraries; of engravings, see Engravings.
Collector of books, i. 1-8; defence of himself, as one of the body, by Ancillon, 10; Aristotle first saluted as a, 53.
Collectors, their propensity to plunder, iii. 316-319.
Collins, Anthony, a great lover of books, iii. 16; a free-thinker, ib.; the friend of Locke, 18; fate of his MSS., 19-23.
Comedies, extemporal, ii. 130; opinion of northern critics on, 131; the amusement of Italy, ib.; practised by the Romans, ib.; Salvator Rosa’s prologue to one, 133; opinions and descriptions of, by Riccoboni and Gherardi, 134, 135; anecdote of the excellence of, 137; when first introduced in England, 138.
Comfits universally used under Henry III. of France, i. 221.
Comines, notice of, i. 263.
Composition, various modes of literary, ii. 85; correction in, necessary, ib.; but by some authors impossible, ib.; illustrative anecdotes, 86; use of models in, 88; various modes of, used by celebrated authors, 90-92; passion for, exhibited by some authors, 533-546.
Conde, great Prince of, expert in physiognomy, i. 150.
Confreres de la Passion, i. 353.
Confusion of words by writers, iii. 65; by the Nominalists and Realists, 66; in modern philosophy, ib.; between the Antinomians and their opposers, and the Jansenists and Jesuits, 68; between Abelard and St. Bernard, ib; other instances, 69; in jurisprudence and politics, 70; historical instances, 71-73; arising from a change of meaning in the course of time, 74; serious consequences of, 77; among political economists, 78; illustrative anecdote of Caramuel, a Spanish bishop, 79.
Constantine, motives of his acknowledgment of Christianity, ii. 433.
Controversial writings, acrimony infused into by scholars, i. 153, and 317.
Controversy, literary, that of the Nominalists and Realists, i. 312; between Benedetto Aletino and Constantino Grimaldi, 314; abuse lavished on each other by learned men in, 308-320; challenges sent on occasion of, 317.
Cookery and cooks of the ancients, ii. 245; Epic composed in praise of, 246; illustrative translations from Athenæus,247-252; the dexterity of the cooks, 253; writers on, 254; anecdotes, 255.
Corneille, Peter, died in poverty, i. 32; deficient in conversation, 104; sketch of his life, 428-432.
Corneille, Thomas, impromptu written under his portrait, i. 432.
Cornelius Agrippa, accused of magic, i. 27; his dog supposed to be a demon, 28; his belief in demons, iii. 282.
Cornhert, Theodore, a great advocate for toleration, iii. 253, and note.
Corpus Christi plays at Chester, i. 353; at Kendal, iii. 442, and note.
Cosmetics, use of, by the ladies of the Elizabethan age, i. 227.
Cotton, Sir Robert, his manuscript collections, iii. 316; his character of Charles I., 456, 457.
Country gentlemen, their former habits commended, ii. 214; Lord Clarendon’s mention of his grandfather’s conduct as one of the body, ib.; their conduct created a national character, ib.
Country residence, opinion of Justice Best upon, iii. 363; James I. recommendation of, 364; proclamations to compel a, ib.; and proceedings in the Star Chamber against the disobedient, 365-368; Ode upon, by Sir Richard Fanshaw, 369.
Court of Wards and Liveries, ii. 158, note.
Cranmer, Jansenist character of, i. 373.
Creation of the World, precise date of, i. 303.
Crebillon, his creditors attached the proceeds of his tragedy of Catiline, i. 405; decree of Louis XV. thereupon, 406.
Critics may possess the art of judging without the power of execution, i. 407; Abbé d’Aubignac and Chapelaine quoted as instances, ib.
Criticism, Periodical, see Literary Journals, i. 12-17; sketches of amongst the ancients, 24-27; effect of, upon authors, 409.
Cromwell, his great political error, ii. 435; prediction of his future eminence, iii. 269; reasons for his delay in naming a successor, 328, 329.
Cruikshank, George, curious error concerning, i. 321, note.
Cyre, the Abbé, an envoy of the Emperor’s in Poland, iii. 350; seized and imprisoned, 360.
D’Aguesseau, the Chancellor, his advice to his son on the study of history, iii. 179.
Dance of Death, iii. 211-215.
Dante, origin of his Inferno, disputes on, ii. 421; the entire work Gothic, ib.; Vision of Alberico supposed to be borrowed, 422; and probably read by Dante, ib.; his originality vindicated, 423; the true origin of the Inferno, 427, and note.
Day-fatality, i. 279; lucky and unlucky days, ib., note.
Death, anecdotes relating to the death of many distinguished persons, i. 417-421; book containing the accounts of the deaths of remarkable persons, compiled by Montaigne, iii. 200; reflections on death, ib.; anecdotes of the death of some celebrated persons, 201, 202; effect of the continual consideration of, 203; Lady Gethin’s ideas on, 204; conversations of Johnson and Boswell on, ib.; singular preparations for, by Moncriff, 205; opinions of the ancients on, 207; personifications of, among the ancients, 208, and note; Gothic representations of, 209.
Dedications, curious anecdotes concerning, i. 337-341; price for the dedication of a play, 338; one to himself, composed by a patron, ib.; practice of Elkanah Settle with regard to, 339; of the Polyglot Bible to Cromwell, ib.; altered at the Restoration, ib.; to Cardinal Richelieu, 340; Dryden’s, ib.; ingenious one by Sir Simon Degge, 341.
De Foe, his honour questioned as to the publication of Robinson Crusoe, ii. 274; probably struck by Steele’s observations on Selkirk’s narration, 276; wrote Robinson Crusoe in comparative solitude, ib.; vindication of his character, ib.
De la Chambre, secret correspondence of, with Louis XIV. on physiognomy, i. 148.
Deliquents, a convenient revolutionary phrase, iii. 86.
Descares, persecuted for his opinions, i. 29; silent in mixed company, 104; his description of his life in Amsterdam, 113.
Descriptions, local, when prolonged tedious, iii. 1; Boileau’s criticisms on, 1, 2; inefficiency of, instanced by a passage from Pliny, 2; example of elegant, in a sonnet by Francesca de Castello, 3.
Descriptive Poems, general remarks on, i. 341; race of, confined to one object, ib.; titles of, and notices on several of these, 342, 343.
Des Maizeaux, a French refugee, iii. 13; his Life of Bayle, 14; notices of his literary life, 15-18; Anthony Collins bequeaths his MSS. to, 19; relinquishes them to Collins’s widow, 20; correspondence concerning, 19-22.
Desmarets, his comedy of the “Visionnaires,” ii. 48.
De Serres, introduced the cultivation of the mulberry tree and silk-worm into France, ii. 152; opposition to his schemes, ib.; supported by Henry IV., ib.; medal struck in honour of his memory, 153.
Destruction of books and MSS. by the monks, i. 18, 50; account of, at Constantinople, by the Christians, suppressed, 47; burning of Talmuds, 48; of Irish and Mexican, ib.; anecdotes regarding, 49; of Korans, ib.; of the classics, 50; of Bohemian, ib.; in England under Henry VIII., 51; at Stationers’ Hall in 1599, 53; of many of Lady Mary Wortley Montague’s letters, 54; of Anglo-Saxon MSS., 55; anecdotes concerning the, ib., note; by fire and shipwreck, 56, 57.
D’Ewes, Sir Symonds, a sober antiquary, but a visionary, iii. 433; extracts from his Diary, 434, 435.
Diary, of a Master of the Ceremonies, ii. 194-206; Shaftesbury’s definition of a, ib.; Colonel Harwood’s, 206; kept by Titus, ib.; Alfred’s, 207; Prince Henry’s, ib.; Edward VI.’s, ib.; kept by James II., 208; usually kept by heads of families, 209; kept by Swift and Horace Walpole, ib.; recommended by Sir Thomas Bodley to Sir Francis Bacon, ib.; Coke’s, ib.; Camden’s, 210; of Sir Symonds D’Ewes, ib.; Baxter’s, 211; the thoughtful disposition giving rise to the keeping of a diary, partaken even by women, ib.; Whitelocke’s, 212; Laud’s, 213; Lord Clarendon’s, 214; practice of keeping one recommended, 215.
Diaries, Religious, iii. 435.
Dictionary of Trevoux, account of its origin and progress, iii. 229; of Basnage, 230; of Dr. Johnson, 233.
Digges, Sir Dudley, a violent opposition leader in Charles I.’s second parliament, iii. 451; opened the impeachment of Buckingham, 452; committed to the tower, 454.
Dilapidations of MSS.—See Manuscripts.
Dinner hour, variations of, in different times, ii. 34, 35.
Dinner parties, Roman limitation of the number of guests at, ii. 246.
Discoveries in literature and science, aptitude in, obtained by studious men, iii. 408; illustrative anecdotes, 409-413.
Divinity, scholastic, i. 60, 61; curious accounts and specimens of, 63-65.
Dodd’s Church History of England, iii. 239.
Dragons, origin of the old stories of, ii. 311.
Drama, anecdotes of the early, ii. 40-43; Mexican, ib.; account of a curious drama, entitled Technotamia, or the Marriage of the Arts, 43-46; account of one written by a madman, 48.
Dramatic works made the vehicle of political feeling, ii. 277; by the Catholics at the Reformation, ib.; such conduct caused a proclamation by Edward VI. against English interludes, &c., ib.; those on the side of the Reformation allowed, and specimens of one, 279-281; proceedings against in the Star Chamber, ib.
Dramatic Annals.—See Dramatic Works. Suppression of the drama during the civil wars of Charles I., ii. 281; opposite conduct of actors at that time, and at the period of the French revolution, 282; writers against the stage, 283; custom of boys personating females, 284; introduction of actresses, 285; Histriomastix, ib.; all theatres suppressed in 1642, ib.; ordinance against theatres, 286; plays enacted secretly during their suppression, ib.; Cox’s “drolleries,” 287; petitions against the drama, 289; the player’s petition in favour of, ib.; secretly acted at Holland House, 291; the suppression of the drama caused the publication of many MS. plays, ib.
Dress, costliness of, in the reigns of Elizabeth, James I., and Charles I., iii. 405-408.
Drinking, hard, a borrowed custom among the English, ii. 293; learnt by them in the Netherlands, ib.; statutes against, ib., note; terms of, 294, note, 295-298; anecdotes of, 300.
Drunkards, their different characteristics, ii. 299; “A Delicate Diet for,” ib., note; toasts of, 300, and note.
Du Clos, origin of his fairy tale of Acajou and Zirphile, and account of his satirical preface to it, ii. 308-310.
Dutch literature, remarks and strictures on, i. 403-405; satirical medals, iii. 156-160.
Echo verses, specimen of, ii. 236.
Eclectic School of Art founded by the Caracci, ii. 401, note.
Edward the Fourth, to what he owed his crown, i. 261.
Eglishaw, Dr., his political libels, ii. 357, note; is murdered in Holland, ib.
Elizabeth, queen, i. 264; her amours, 265; wished to be thought beautiful by all the world, ib.; her habits studious, but not of the gentlest kind, 266; her writing, 267; her education severely classical, ib.; various anecdotes concerning, 264-267; her able management of her parliaments, ii. 179-186; her conduct regarding the succession, iii. 328; her treatment of James I., 332; her proclamation against excess in apparel, 375.
Eliot, Sir John, a violent opposition leader in Charles I.’s second Parliament, iii. 452; his speech on the impeachment of Buckingham, 453; committed to the Tower, 454; violent against Buckingham in Parliament, 469-471; his collection of satires against him, ib.; a leader in the last Parliament of Charles I., 474-479.
Eloisa, solicited and obtained Abelard’s absolution, i. 146; buried with Abelard, ib.; a fine lady, 147; Pope’s reprehensible lines found in original letters of, 148.
Enchanters, origin of the old stories of, ii. 31.
English Poetry, scarcely known in France in 1610, iii. 233; ignorance of, displayed by Quadrio in his History of Poetry published in 1750, 236.
Engraving, early origin among the Egyptians, i. 43, note.
Engravings, first collection of, under Louis XIV., by Colbert, i. 7; collecting of engraved portraits originated the work of Granger, 45.
Epitaph on Cardinal Richelieu, by his protégé, Benserade, i. 84; by celebrated persons on themselves, 417; on Philip I., 471; on Butler, the author of Hudibras, ii. 548.
Errata, remarkable anecdotes concerning, i, 78-82.
Erroneous proper names, given in foreign authors, i. 327, and note.
Etiquette, Court, reflections on its rise and progress, ii. 194; forms of, observed between the English ambassadors and Cardinal Richelieu, 195; creation of a master of the ceremonies, 196; absurd punctilios of, illustrated from the Diary of Sir John Finett, 196-204.
Evelyn, his mode of composition, ii. 88; praise due to him for his Sylva, 152; his design for arms of Royal Society, 411, and note.
Events which have not happened, ii. 428-438.
Excommunication, by the Popes, dreadful consequences of, ii. 84.
Fairfax Papers, curious discovery of, i. 24, note.
Fairfax, Sir Thomas, anecdotes of him and his family, ii. 461-474.
Fame, contemned, 66.
Familiar spirits, intercourse with, believed, i. 27, 28, 280.
Fanshaw, Sir Richard, his Ode on the king’s commanding the gentry to reside on their estates, iii. 369-371.
Farces, ancient, reprehensible, but their pleasantry and humour not contemptible, i. 358; customary among the Romans after a serious piece, ii. 131.
Fashions.—See Literary Fashions. Anecdotes of their origin, changes and extravagances, i. 216-230; introduction of French, 227, 228; chronicled by Stowe, 225; French, prevailed in the reign of Charles II., 228; notice of modern, 229; lines condemning the acts of, 230; expensive in the reigns of Henry VII. and VIII., ii. 36.
Feast of Fools, ii. 31.
Feast of Asses, ii. 31.
Felton, John, the assassin of the Duke of Buckingham, his motives for the act, ii. 371; his passage to London in triumph, 372; anagram on his name, 373; his remorse, ib.; his character, 374; his family, ib., and note; propositions found in his trunk, 375; history of the remarkable written paper found in his hat, ib., note; answer to a threat of torture, 376; poem addressed to, 378.
Female beauty and ornaments, opinions and practices of various nations concerning, i. 211.
Fenelon, Jansenist character of, i. 373; his admiration of Homer, iii. 339.
Feudal customs and rights, the barbarous, the first attempts at organizing society, i. 183; servitude of the land, 184; maiden rights, ib.; wardship, 185; German lords privileged to rob on the highway, ib.; anecdote of Geoffrey, Lord of Coventry, ib.; anecdotes of the abuse of feudal rights and power, 186, 187.
Filbert, origin of the name, ii. 157, and note.
Filchers, literary, iii. 316-319.
Filicaja, a sonnet of, iii. 197, translated, ib.
Finett, Sir John, master of the ceremonies to Charles I.—See Etiquette.
Fire, in primæval ages, a signal of respect, ii. 16; worshipped as a divinity, ib.; a symbol of majesty, ib.; ancient observances regarding, ib.
Fire-works, not known to antiquity, ii. 15; their epoch, 17; originated with the Florentines and Siennese, ib.; their use passes to Rome, ib.; exhibition of at Paris, 18.
Flap-dragons, ii. 298.
Flea, collection of poems on, i. 304.
Floral gifts, withheld by the Capitouls of Toulouse from Maynard, a French poet, i. 437.
Flogging, a discussion on, occasioned Roger Ascham to write his Schoolmaster, i. 87.
Flowers and Fruits, praise of the introducers of exotic, ii. 151; Peirese and Evelyn, ib.; Hartlib, 153; enthusiasm evinced by the transplanters of, ib.; notice of many introduced by particular persons, 154; origin of, distinguished by their names, 155; worthy pride of introducers of, 156, 157.
Forgeries and fictions, political and religious, iii. 144; historical instances, 145-150; literary, iii. 304-319.
Formosa, Psalmanazar’s pretended history of, i. 136, note.
Foscolo, Ugo, his opinion on the titles of Italian Academies, ii. 490.
Fourmont, the Oriental scholar, anecdote of, iii. 396.
Fox’s Acts and Monuments, iii. 239.
Friendships of literary men, interesting anecdotes of, ii. 55-59.
Franklin, Dr., experiments with lightning, ii. 413.
French Revolution a commentary on the English, iii. 489.
Frondeurs, organized by Cardinal de Retz, iii. 83.
Fuggers, a wealthy family of merchants, i. 6, and note.
Funeral honours paid to their kings by the Goths and Huns, i. 196.