DRAYTON'S national work, "The Polyolbion," ill received, and the
author greatly dejected, 210
angry preface addressed "To any that will read it", 211
DRUMMOND of Hawthornden, his love of poetry, 213
conversation with Jonson, 475
DRYDEN, in his old age, complains of dying of over-study, 204
his dramatic life a series of vexations, 205
regrets he was born among Englishmen, 206
remarkable confession of the poet, _ib._
vilified by party spirit, 427
compares his quarrel with Settle to that of Jonson with Decker,
_n._ 477
DUNCIAD, Pope's collections for, 278
early editions of, _n._ 283
rage of persons satirized in, _n._ 284
satire on naturalists in, 342