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 AEschylus,
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.
ASTRAEA, D'Urfe'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.
ATELLANAE Fabulae, 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 Republique 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.
BENEVOLENCES, iii. 218, 219.
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 Budaeus 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, Pere, 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 Rhe, 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 "Medecine 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 Rhe, 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 Athenaeus,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; Abbe 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 Abbe, 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 protege, 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 primaeval 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.
GALILEO, condemned to disavow his own opinions, i. 28; his
annotations on Tasso, ii. 444.
GAMESTERS, memoirs of celebrated, i. 190.
GAMING, a universal passion, i. 187; treatises on, ib.; among the
nations of the East, 188, 189; the ancients, ib.; picture of a
gambling-house in 1731, ib.
GARDENS, mediaeval, ii. 154, note; gradual introduction of fruits and
flowers, 151-157.
GAS, origin of the word, iii. 282.
GAYTON, Edmund, his pleasant notes upon Don Quixote and other works,
i. 139, note.
GEMARA.--See TALMUD.
GENIUS, inequalities of, i. 88; men of, deficient in conversation,
103; modern persecution of, 197.
GERBIER, Sir Balthazar, a confidential agent of the Duke of
Buckingham, ii. 358; notices of his Memoirs, 359-369; his account
of the preparations for the siege of Rochelle, 368.
GESTURES significant, used by the ancients and by modern
Neapolitans, ii. 119, note.
GETHIN, Lady Grace, her statue in Westminster Abbey, ii. 270; her
papers collected and published, under the title of Reliquiae
Gethinianae, 271; character of the book, ib.; Congreve's laudatory
lines on, ib.; its authenticity doubted, 272; her considerations on
the choice of a husband, 273.
GHOSTS, theory of, iii. 287, 288.
GIANNONE, his History of Naples, iii. 184; threatened by the
Inquisition, 185; died in the citadel of Turin, ib.
GIBBON, his mode of study useful to students, ii. 89.
GILL, Alexander, committed by the Star Chamber, ii. 373.
GLOVES, supposed to be mentioned in the 108th Psalm, i. 235; account
of, by Xenophon, ib.; mentioned by several ancient writers, ib.; use
of, universal in the 9th century, 236; regulations concerning, ib.;
employed on great and solemn occasions, such as investitures, ib.;
Abbots forbidden to use, ib.; blessing of, 237; deprivation of, a
mark of degradation, ib.; challenging by, ib.; used for secret
correspondence, ib., note; use of, in carrying the hawk, 238;
formerly forbidden to judges, ib.; singular anecdote concerning,
ib.; ancient, in the Denny family, 239.
GLOVE-MONEY, i. 238.
GOFF, Thomas, a tragic poet, specimens of his works, ii. 42.
GONDOLIERS of Venice, description of their chanting the verses of
Tasso and Ariosto, i. 388.
GOUGH, the antiquary, anecdote of, iii. 319.
GRAY, loss of his MSS., ii. 451.
GROTIUS, account of his life and studies, i. 129, 130.
GRUB-STREET Journal, extract from, ii. 492; its authors, ib., note.
GUELPHS and Ghibellines, iii. 89.
GUEUX, iii. 81.
GUIBERT, foretold the French Revolution, iii. 300.
GUICCIARDINI, his history posthumous, iii. 180; first editions of
his works castrated, ib.; continuation of his history by Adriani,
ib.
GUILT, trials and modes of proof of, in superstitious ages, i.
161-166.
GULLIVER'S Travels, account of the first edition, i. 320, note.
HAIR, early taste in the colour of, ii. 33, and note.
HALIFAX, Marquis of, his MS. memoirs suppressed, ii. 447.
HALL, Bishop, his belief in witches, iii. 293, and note.
HALLEY, anecdote of his perseverance and sagacity, iii. 411.
HAMILTON, Elizabeth, her projected series of comparative biography,
iii. 424.
HANS CARVEL, origin of Prior's story of, i. 111.
HARDI, a French tragic author, ii. 41.
HARLEQUIN, his Italian origin, ii. 117; turned into a magician by
the English, ib.; the character essentially Italian, 118; treatises
written on it, 121; a Roman mime, ib. and note; his classical
origin, 123, note; his degeneration, 125; his renovation under the
hand of Goldoni, ib.; improved into a wit in France, ib.
HARTLIBB, Samuel, a collector and publisher of manuscripts on
horticulture and agriculture, ii. 153.
HARVEY, his discovery of the circulation of the blood, iii. 412.
HAZLERIGG, Sir Arthur, "an absurd bold man," a violent leader of the
Rump Parliament, iii. 487.
HEART of a lover, story of, i. 233, 234.
HEAVY hours of literary men, i. 392.
HELL, Purgatory, and Heaven, topographical descriptions of, i. 202;
treatises on, 204, 205.
HEMON DE LA FOSSE, a modern Polytheist, executed in 1503, i. 216.
HENRIETTA, queen of Charles I., her character, ii. 337; anecdote
illustrative of, ib.; after the Restoration, 338; various
descriptions of her person, ib.; her contract with the Pope, 339;
account of her journey to England on her marriage, 340; her French
establishment, 341; anecdote of her confessor's conduct, 342; the
dismissal of her French attendants, 345; the amount of her supposed
influence over her husband, 348.
HENRY the Seventh, anecdote of, ii. 10.
HENRY the Eighth, anecdote of, ii. 10; his proclamation against
reading the Bible in English, iii. 373, note.
HENRY, prince, son of James I., anecdote of, iii. 186-194.
HENRY, the English historian, loose and general in his references,
ii. 418.
HERETICS, a classification of, i. 350.
HERMIPPUS REDIVIVUS, a curious jeu-d'-esprit, i. 320.
HEYLIN, a popular writer, died in 1662, iii. 215; his rival
biographers, 216-221; his History of the Puritans and Presbyterians,
239.
HIGH SHERIFF'S Oath, exceptions taken to, by Sir Edward Coke, iii.
446.
HISTORY, of events which have not happened, a good title for a
curious book, ii. 428; speculative history of the battle of
Worcester, had it terminated differently, 429; a history of this
kind in Livy, ib.; subjects for, 430-438.
HISTORY of New Words.--See NEOLOGY. Of suppressed opinion, iii.
150-163; of writing masters, 167-177.
HISTORIANS, remarks on the infidelities of, i. 191; Italian,
commended, iii. 177; notices of the most celebrated, 180-186; wrote
for posterity, 182, 183; fate of Giannone, who published in his
life-time, 185; observations on, 186.
HOLYDAY, Barton, author of the comedy "The Marriage of the Arts,"
ii. 43.
HOME, the author of the tragedy of "Douglas," persecuted for
composing it, i. 197.
HOMER, notice of his detractors, i. 24; profound knowledge of
history, geography, arts, sciences, and surgery ascribed to, 303.
HUDIBRAS, attacks upon Butler, the author of, ii. 491; various
accounts of the original of the character, 492; indecency avoided
in, 493; epitaph on the author of, ib.; attacks on Butler's
character, 494; and vindication of, 495.
HUGH of Lincoln, legend of, iii. 145, note.
HUGUENOT, origin of the term, iii. 82.
HUME, his carelessness in research, iii. 368.
HUMPHREY, Duke, origin of the phrase "dining with," ii. 169, note.
HURD, Bishop, his proposed book of parallels, iii. 425.
HYMNS set to popular tunes, ii. 149, note.
IDLENESS punished among the ancients, i. 199, 200.
IKON BASILIKE; its probable effects had it appeared a week sooner,
ii. 435.
ILIAD, in a nut-shell, i. 275.
IMAGE-BREAKERS, proclamation by Elizabeth against, iii. 375, 376.
IMITATORS, masterly, i. 258, 261.
IMITATIONS, of Cicero, i. 67; Le Brun's religious Virgil and Ovid,
ib.; Sannazarius's poem _de Partu Virginis_, 68; Arruntius an
ancient imitator of Sallust, ib.; modern, ib.; Arabian anecdote, 69.
IMITATIONS and Similarities, Poetical, various and curious instances
of, ii. 92-110.
INDEPENDENTS, their intolerance, iii. 85.
INDEX, of prohibited books, ii. 216; Expurgatory, ib.; Congregation
of the, ib.; reprinted by the heretics with annotations, 217; effect
of, in raising the sale of books, 219.
INDEXES, Fuller's observations on, i. 72.
INFLUENCE of a name, ii. 65-75.
INGHIRAMI, and forged Etruscan antiques, iii. 307.
INIGO JONES, his excellent machinery for exhibiting masques, iii.
12, 13.
INK, inferiority of modern, ii. 29; various kinds anciently used,
30.
INQUISITION, establishment of, at Toulouse, i. 166; in Spain, 167;
first proceeding of, ib.; taciturnity of the Spaniards attributed
to, ib.; anecdotes concerning, 168-170; history of, by Orobio, 167.
INTEMPERANCE in study, i. 8.
INTRODUCERS of exotic flowers, fruits, &c., ii. 151, 157.
IRELAND, W. H., his Shakesperian forgeries, i. 137, note.
ISABELLA-COLOUR, origin of term, i. 217.
ITALIANS, their national genius dramatic, ii. 118.
ITALIAN HISTORIANS, iii. 177-186.
ITALIC letter, introduction of, i. 77; formerly called the Aldine, 78.
JACQUERIE, iii. 82.
JAMES the First gave credit to physiognomy, i. 149; injustice done
to his character for wit, 156; distinguished as Queen James, 462;
his ambassador's speech, 463; _cleanliness_ of his court, ib.; his
effeminacy, ib.; his general character, ib.; his imbecility in his
amusements, 464; his pedantry, 465; account of his death, 466;
results of the author's further inquiry into the character of, 467;
his conduct regarding his son's expedition into Spain, ii. 2; his
objections to Laud's promotion, iii. 297; his character vilified,
333; his attention to the education of his children, ib.; his
conduct towards his wife, 334-337.
JAMES the Second, kept a diary, ii. 214.
JAMET L'AINE, proposes to edit a new edition of the Dictionary of
Trevoux, iii. 232.
JANSENISTS, the Methodists of France, i. 373; cause a Biographical
Dictionary to be compiled, devoted to their cause, in opposition to
that of L'Avocat, ib.; specimens of this dictionary, 373, 374; their
curses never "lapsed legacies," 375.
JERUSALEM, Arabic chronicle of, only valuable from the time of
Mahomet, i. 191; several portions translated by Longuerue, ib.
JESUITS, a senate of, sent by Sigismund, King of Sweden, to
represent him at Stockholm, destroyed by stratagem, i. 231-233.
JESUIT'S snuff poisoned, ii. 442, note.
JEWS of York, history of their self-destruction, ii. 75-79.
JOCULAR PREACHERS, i. 251-258.
JODELLE, Etienne, the first author of French tragedy, ii. 40.
JOHNSON, Dr., his original Memorandum of Hints for the Life of Pope,
ii. 380-382.
JONSON, Ben, Fuller's character of, i. 380; his arrogance, 381; his
Ode on the ill reception of his play of "The New Inn" quoted, 382;
Owen Feltham's Ode in reply, 383; Randolph's Consolatory Ode to,
385; his poem on translation, ii. 501; employed on court masques,
iii. 6-8, 12.
JOSEPH VELLA, pretended to have recovered seventeen of the lost
books of Livy, i. 135; patronized by the king of Naples, ib.;
discovered and imprisoned, 136.
JOURNALS.--See LITERARY JOURNALS.
JOURNALIST, Public, indispensable acquirements of a, i. 16.
JUDICIAL Combats, anecdotes of, i. 162, 163.
KINGS, remark of St. Chrysostom on, i. 173; willing to be aided, but
not surpassed, 174; anecdotes of, ib.; observations of the Duke of
Alva and of Dr. Johnson on, 176; divine honours bestowed on, 179;
dethroned, 181; anecdotes of, and their families, in misfortune,
181, 182; descendants of, found among the dregs of the populace in
conquered countries, 183; funeral honours paid to, by the Goths and
Huns, 196.
KIRK, Colonel, original of the horrid tale of, related by Hume, iii.
148.
KISSING hands, customary among the ancients as an act of adoration,
ii. 81; used by the primeval bishops, ib.; declined with Paganism,
ib.; prevailed at Rome, 82; an essential duty under the emperors,
ib.; practised in every known country, ib.
KNOX, John, his Machiavelian politics, iii. 242; his opinions on
toleration, 251; his predictions, 277, 278.
LAMBE, Dr., a magician, murdered in the streets of London, ii. 364;
fine and assessment on City companies in consequence, ib., note.
LA MOTHE LE VAYER, a great quoter, ii. 417.
LAMPS, Perpetual, i. 243; possibility of, ib.; Rosicrucians, ib.
LA RUE, i. 257.
LATIMER, Bishop, curious sermons by, i. 256, and note; his youthful
history, ii. 39, note.
LATOUR DU CHATEL, a neglected contributor to the Dictionary of
Trevoux, procures the mediation of the French government, iii. 231.
LAUDER, William, pretended discovery of plagiarisms of Milton, i.
137, and note.
LAUREATS, sketch of the history of, i. 454; ancient, ib.; Petrarch
the first modern, ib.; degrees granted to, ib.; formula employed in
granting the degree of, 455; their honours disgraced in Italy, ib.;
Querno crowned in a joke, ib.; honours lavished on, by Maximilian
I., 456; honours still conferred on, in Germany, ib.; unknown among
the French, ib.; appointment of, in Spain, ib.; in England never
solemnly crowned, 457; salary of, in England, ib.
LAZZARONI, iii. 82.
LAZZI, dramatic side-play, ii. 128.
LEAGUE, the, its pretext and its cause, iii. 142, 143.
LEARNED men, persecution of, i. 27; poverty of, 29; imprisonment of,
35; amusements of, 38.
LE CLERC, antagonist of Bayle, and author of three Bibliotheques,
the Universelle et Historique, Choisie, and Ancienne et Moderne, i.
15.
LE FEVRE, Nicholas, edition of his works by Lenglet du Fresnoy, iii.
249, and note.
LEGENDS, origin of, i. 89; Golden, 90; of the Seven Sleepers, 91;
account of several, 92, 93; Golden, abounds in religious
indecencies, 366; of St. Mary the Egyptian, ib.
LEIBNETZ, his admiration of Barclay's Argenis, iii. 339; anecdote
of, iii. 455.
LENGLET DU FRESNOY, his "Methode pour etudier l'Histoire," iii. 221;
his peculiar character, ib.; history of his Methode, 222, 224, and
note, ib.; his literary history, 224; a believer in alchymy, 225;
his political adventures, 227.
LE KAIN, anecdote of, i. 251.
LEO the Tenth, motive of his projected alliance against the Turks,
iii. 142.
L'ESTRANGE, Sir Roger, a strong party writer for Charles II., i.
159; his AEsop's Fables, 160.
LETTRES DE CACHET, invented by Father Joseph, confessor to
Richelieu, iii. 196.
LIBEL, singular means used to discover the author of a, ii. 314.
LIBELS on the Duke of Buckingham, ii. 365-370.
LIBERTY of the Press, restrictions on, ii. 216-227; its freedom did
not commence till 1694, 227; reflections on, 228.--See CENSORS.
LIBRARIES, i. 1; celebrated Egyptian and Roman, 1-3; public, in
Italy and England, 3, 4; in France and Germany, 6, 7; use of lights
in, 7; that of the Palatine Apollo destroyed by Pope Gregory
VIII., 50; in Bohemia, destroyed by the Jesuits, ib.; destruction
of, under Henry VIII. ib.; astronomical, in the ark of Noah, 303;
Irish, before the Flood, ib.; Adams's, ib.; modern opinion on their
utility, iii. 345.
LICENSERS of the Press.--See CENSORS.
LIGHTS, in public libraries, ordered in France by Charles V., i. 6;
objection to, 7.
LILLY, the astrologer, notices of, i. 280-283; his great work, 282;
an exquisite rogue, ib.
LIPOGRAMMATIC works, i. 293.
LIPSIUS, Justus, his opinions on toleration, iii. 253.
LITERARY Blunders, a pair of lexicographical, i. 305; instances of
curious, 320-327.
LITERARY Composition, ii. 85-92.
LITERARY Controversy, specimens of Luther's mode of managing, i.
308; Calvin's conduct of, 309; Beza imitates Calvin's style in, 310;
opinion of Bishop Bedell on, ib.; conduct of the fathers in, ib.;
grossness used in, 311; of the Nominalists and Realists, 312.
LITERARY Fashions, ii. 113; applause given to a work supposed to be
written by a celebrated man, ib.; notices of various, ib.; love all
the fashion, 114; Spenser's Faerie Queen became one, ib.; the
translation of Greek tragedies, a, ib.; of the seventeenth century,
115; of the time of Charles I., ib.; of Charles II., and of more
modern times, ib.
LITERARY Follies, instances of various in the fantastical
composition of verses, i. 293-307; strange researches made in
antediluvian times to be classed with, 301-303; anecdote of a
malicious one, ib.; various anecdotes concerning, 301-307.
LITERARY Forgeries, by Dr. Berkenhout, a letter from Peele to
Marlow, i. 380; by George Steevens, iii. 297; history of one, 299,
300; by Horace Walpole, 302; anecdote of Steevens and Gough, 303,
304, and notes; by De Grassis, ib.; by Annius of Viterbo, 305, and
mischievous consequences of, ib.; Sanchoniathon, 306; of Etruscan
antiquities, ib.; the false Decretals of Isidore, 308; in the
prayer-book of Columbus, ib.; in the Virgil of Petrarch, ib.; by the
Duke de la Valliere, 309; by Lauder, 310; by Psalmanazar, 311.
LITERARY Friendships, ii. 55-58.
LITERARY Impositions, curious anecdotes of, i. 260, 261.
LITERARY Impostures, i. 132; by Varillas, the French historian, ib.;
supposed by Gemelli Carreri, but afterwards discovered to be fact,
ib.; Du Halde's account of China compiled, 133; Damberger's Travels,
ib.; titles of works announced by the historiographer Paschal, his
works at his death amounting to six pages, ib.; by Gregorio Leti,
ib.; forgeries of Testaments Politiques, ib.; pretended
translations, 134; Travels of Rabbi Benjamin, ib.; by Annius
Viterbo, ib.; by Joseph Vella, who pretended to have recovered
seventeen of the lost books of Livy, 135; by Medina Conde, 136; by
George Psalmanazar, ib.; Lauder's, 137; Ireland's, ib.; by a learned
Hindu, ib.; anecdotes concerning, 138.
LITERARY Journals, i. 12; originated with the Journal de Scavans, by
Denis de Sallo, counsellor in the Parliament of Paris, 13; Nouvelles
de la Republique des Lettres, published by Bayle in 1684--continued
by Bernard, and afterwards by Basnage in his Histoire des Ouvrages
de Scavans, 15; Le Clerc's Bibliotheques Universelle et Historique,
Choisie, and Ancienne et Moderne, ib.; Apostolo Zeno's Giornale de
Litterati d'Italia, ib.; Bibliotheque Germanique, 16; Bibliotheque
Britannique, ib.; Journal Britannique by Dr. Maty, ib.; Review
conducted by Maty, jun., 16; Memoire des Trevoux, ib.; Journal
Litteraire, ib.; Memoirs of Literature and Present State of the
Republic of Letters, the best early English, ib.; monthly, ib.
LOLLARDS, oath against them enforced upon sheriffs until reign of
Charles I., iii. 447; repealed by the political feeling of Coke, ib.
LONGOLIUS, or Longueil, composed a biographical parallel between
Budaeus and Erasmus, iii. 425.
LORENZO DE' MEDICI, effect of his death, ii. 436.
LOUIS the Eighth, singular anecdote of the cause of his death, ii.
32.
LOUIS the Eleventh, anecdote of, ii. 10, 11.
LOUIS the Twelfth, cause of his death, ii. 34.
LOUIS the Fourteenth, chose his courtiers by the rules of
physiognomy, i. 148; some remarks on his real character, ii, 449;
passages suppressed in his instruction to the Dauphin, 450.
LOUIS L'ABE, the Aspasia of Lyons, i. 362; wrote the morality of
"Love and Folly," ib.
LOUPS-GAROUX, iii. 293.
LUCULLUS, description of the library of, i. 3.
LUKE, Sir Samuel, the true prototype of Hudibras, ii. 491, and note.
LUNSFORD, Colonel, imputed a cannibal, iii. 149, note.
LUTHER, Martin, remarks on, and extracts from, his controversial
writings, i. 308, 309; caricatures on, 309, note; Jansenist
character of, 374; anecdote of, from Guicciardini, ii. 479, 480; his
political conduct, iii. 144.
LUYNES, Duc de, his origin, ii. 11.
LUXURY, in dress, an old dramatist's opinion on, iii. 400; doctrines
of political economy concerning, 401; excessive amongst our
ancestors, ib.; the Pas de Sandricourt, 402-405; ruinous in the
reigns of Elizabeth, James I., and Charles I., 405.
MABBE, James, translator of "Guzman" and "Celestina," Spanish plays,
ii. 501; Ben Jonson's verses in praise of, ib.
MACHIAVEL discovered the secret of comparative history, iii. 179.
MACKENZIE, Sir George, notice of his Treatise on Solitude, ii. 50.
MAD-SONG, specimen of an ancient, ii. 315.
MAGIC, instances of many learned men accused of, i. 27-29; Solomon
accounted an adept in, 122.
MAGIUS, Charles, a noble Venetian, iii. 136; his travels and
adventures contained in a volume of paintings, ib.; detailed
description of, 137-141.
MAGLIABECHI, Anthony, celebrated for his great knowledge of books,
i. 394; description of him and his mode of life, 394-397.
MAII, the discoverer of Cicero's treatise _de Republica_, i. 18, and
note.
MAILLARD, Oliver, a famous cordelier and preacher, i. 252.
MAINE, Duc de, instituted the Journal de Trevoux, iii. 230; and the
Dictionary of Trevoux, ib.
MAINTENON, Madame de, marries Scarron, i. 424; corrects his style,
ib.
MALHERBE, his love of Horace, iii. 340.
MALIGNANTS, iii. 86.
MAN of one book, iii. 337-340.
MANDRAKE, i. 246.
MANNERS, anecdotes of European, ii. 30-39; domestic, among the
English, 42-44.
MANUSCRIPTS, more valued by the Romans than vases of gold, i. 2; two
thousand collected by Trithemius, abbot of Spanheim, who died 1516,
7; recovery of, 17-24; of the classics, disregarded and mutilated by
the monks, 18; researches for, at the restoration of letters, 19;
great numbers imported from Asia, 20; of Quintilian discovered by
Poggio under a heap of rubbish, ib.; of Tacitus found in a
Westphalian monastery, ib.; of Justinian's code found in a city of
Calabria, ib.; loss of, ib.; unfair use made of by learned men, 22;
anecdotes concerning, 22-25; of Galileo, partly destroyed by his
wife's confessor, 28; ancient, frequently adorned with portraits of
the authors, 42; destruction of, at the Reformation, 51; of Lord
Mansfield destroyed in the riots of 1780, and of Dr. Priestley by
the mob at Birmingham, 53; loss of many of Lady Mary Wortley
Montagu's letters, 54; loss of letters addressed to Peiresc, ib.; of
Leonardo da Vinci, ib.; anecdotes of manuscripts of several
celebrated works, 375-377; description of the ancient adornments of,
ii. 28; of Pope's versions of the Iliad and Odyssey, 110; of Sir
Matthew Hale, bequeathed to Lincoln's Inn, to avoid their mutilation
by the licensers of the press, 220; slaves employed to copy, 398; of
the Vision of Alberico, preserved in the king's library at Paris,
422: of Galileo's annotations on Tasso, 444; destruction of Hugh
Broughton's, by Speed, 445; destruction of Leland's, by Polydore
Vergil, ib.; dilapidation of the Harleian, 446; suppression of one
relating to Sixtus IV. by Fabroni, ib.; of the Marquis of Halifax
suppressed, 447; Earl of Pulteney's and Earl of Anglesea's MS.
Memoirs suppressed, ib.; anecdotes of the suppression of various,
448-452; mutilators of, 448; of Oldys's, iii. 493.
MARANA, John Paul, author of the Turkish Spy, i. 377-379.
MARBLES, presenting representations of natural forms, i. 244-247.
MARE CLAUSUM, written by Selden in answer to the Mare Liberum of
Grotius, ii. 80; copies preserved in the chest of the Exchequer and
in the Court of Admiralty, ib.
MARIONETTES, improved by the English, iii. 238.
MARLBOROUGH, the great Duke of (See BLENHEIM), account of his
wealth, iii. 108.
MAROLLES, Abbe de, a most egregious scribbler, i. 350; wrote his own
memoirs, 351; good advice in the postscript to the epistle
dedicatory of that work, ib.; his memoirs, ii. 538; anecdote of him
and De L'Etang, a critic, 539; notices of his voluminous works, ib.;
his magnificent collection of prints, 541.
MAROT, Clement, his character, ii. 474; his translation of the
Psalms, ib.; sung to the airs of popular ballads, 476; his Psalms
the fashion, 477; edition published by Theodore Beza, set to music,
ib.; his Psalms declared Lutheran, and himself forced to fly to
Geneva, ib.
MAR-PRELATE, the book suppressed, ii. 453.
MASKS, worn by Italian actors, ii. 124.
MASSINGER a student of the Italian drama, ii. 138.
MASQUES, notices of magnificent, in the time of Charles I., ii. 327;
the farewell masque of the Duke of Buckingham, 369; mistaken notions
of commentators regarding, iii. 5; their real nature, 7, 8, 9;
description of the masque of Night and the Hours, 10; their ultimate
ruin, by their splendour, at the court of Louis XIV., 13, note.
MASSILLON, i. 250.
MASTER of the Ceremonies, created by James the First, ii. 196.
MASTERLY IMITATORS, i. 258-261.
MATRIMONY, its suitableness to learned men considered, i. 332-334;
opinions of Sir Thomas Browne upon, 335; not borne out by his
practice, ib.
MAXIMILIAN the First, founds a poetical college at Vienna, i. 456.
MEALS, hours of, ii. 315.
MEDAL, struck by the Catholics to commemorate the massacre of the
Huguenots, iii. 249.
MEDALS, satiric, used as money in the Saturnalia, iii. 151; modern
applications of, 158-160.
MEDICINE and Morals, considerations on their connection, ii.
464-469; connection of the mind with the body, 470.
MEDINA CONDE, forges deeds and inscriptions to benefit the Church,
i. 136; sold a bracelet to the Morocco ambassador, as part of the
treasure of the last Moorish king, yet in fact fabricated by
himself, ib.
MEMOIRS, remarks on their interest as compared with history, i. 462.
MENDELSSOHN, anecdote of, i. 392.
MENDICITY, punished among the Jews and nations of antiquity, i. 199,
200; first made a trade of by liberated Christian slaves, 201;
punishment of in China, 202.
MENOT, Michael, a celebrated preacher, specimen of his sermons, i.
256.
MENTAL DISORDERS, singular mode of cure of, ii. 466; remarkable
anecdotes of, 468-470.
METEMPSYCHOSIS, doctrines of, advocated in the present age, i. 192;
notion long extant in Greece before the time of Pythagoras, ib.;
taught by the Egyptians, ib.; entertained by many Eastern nations
and by the Druids, ib.; Welsh system of, explained by Sharon Turner,
193; believed in Mexico, 194; Plutarch's description of, ib.
MICHAEL ANGELO, anecdote of, i. 258.
MIGNARD, a celebrated painter, curious anecdote concerning, i. 258,
259.
MILTON, his controversy with Salmasius and Morus conducted with
mutual revilings, i. 152, 153; absurdly criticised by Bentley,
370-373; indebted to Andreini for the first idea of Paradise Lost,
ii. 141; his works suffered at the hands of both Royalist and
Republican licensers, 223; his Areopagitica, 225; a passage in his
History of England suppressed, but preserved in a pamphlet, 448; his
Comus escaped the destruction of the Bridgewater papers, 451; the
story of him and the Italian lady, probably an invention of George
Steevens, iii. 299; copied from a French story purporting to be of
the 15th century, 300.
MILLINERS'bills, ancient and modern, ii. 39.
MIMES, Arch-mime followed the body of Vespasian at his funeral, iii.
120.
MIMI, an impudent race of buffoons, ii. 120; harlequin, a Roman
mime, 121, and note.
MINISTERS, origin of the term as applied to the pastors of Christian
churches, i. 128; palaces built by, notices of several, iii.
186-192; Sir Robert Walpole's remarks on the imprudence of their
erecting such, 193; yet builds one himself, ib.
MINSTRELS, ancient and modern, pickpockets, ii. 146, note.
MISHNA, see TALMUD.
MISSALS, gross adornments of, i. 366.
MODERN stories and plots, many derived from the East, i. 111, 112.
MODES of salutation in various nations, ii. 12.
MONK, General, anecdote of him and his wife, i. 468; his conduct
towards Charles II. at his landing, iii. 389.
MONTAGU, Lady Mary Wortley, suppression of her MSS., ii. 450.
MONTFLEURY, a French actor, death of, i. 248.
MONTLUC, Bishop of Valence, his negotiations for the election of the
Duke of Anjou as King of Poland, iii. 349-362.
MORALIITIES, see MYSTERIES and MORALITIES.
MORALITY of "Every Man," referred by Percy to the class of tragedy,
ii. 278.
MORE, Doctor, his extravagant Platonic opinions, i. 216.
MORUS, controversy of Salmasius with Milton, continued by, with
mutual abuse, i. 153.
MUSIC, use of, in discovering indispositions by the voice, i. 151;
influence of, in the cure of diseases, 269-271; effect of, on
animals, 272-274.
MUTILATIONS commonly practised in the middle ages, ii. 311.
MYSTERIES, ANCIENT, bibliographical note of such as are printed, i.
352, note; one still performed in Bavaria, i. 360, note.
MYSTERIES and Moralities introduced by pilgrims, i. 352;
subsequently distinguished characters actors in, 353; performed in
open plains, ib.; indulgence granted to frequenters of, ib.; at
Chester, ib.; singular anecdotes concerning a mystery, 354;
specimens from French mysteries, 355; observations of Bayle and
Warton on, 357; distinguished from each other, ib.; specimen of a
morality, 358; moralities allegorical dramas, ib.; passion of Rene
d'Anjou for, 360; triple stage used for representation of, 361;
anecdote relating to an English mystery, ib.; morality of "Love and
Folly," 362; at Kendal, Yorkshire, iii. 442; usually performed in
the festival of Corpus Christi, ib., note.
NAMES, anecdotes relating to, and to their effect on mankind, ii.
65-75; orthography of proper, ii. 237-239; names of our streets,
239-243.
NAMES, significance of Roman, ii. 75, note.
NARDI, his history of Florence, iii. 181.
NATURAL PRODUCTIONS resembling artificial compositions, i. 244-246.
NEAL, his account of the Nonconformists, iii. 240.
NEEDHAM, Marchmont, the great patriarch of newspaper writers, i.
158; short account of, ib.
NEOLOGY, or the novelty of new words and phrases, remarks on, iii.
23; Neological Dictionary proposed by Lord Chesterfield, 26; not
always to be condemned, 27; examples of the introduction of various
new words in French and English, 28-32; the term "fatherland"
introduced by the author, 31; picturesque words, 32.
NERLI, Philip, his "_Commentarj de Fatti Civili_," iii. 182.
NEWCASTLE, Margaret, Duchess of, celebrated among literary wives, i.
327-337; her account of her husband's mode of life, ii. 38, 39.
NEWSPAPERS, forged, and used unsuspectingly by historians, i. 156,
note.
NEWSPAPERS, originated in Italy, i. 155; called Gazettas, ib.; first
a Venetian, published monthly, ib.; circulated in manuscript, ib.;
prohibited by Gregory XIII., ib.; first English, 156; much used by
the English during the Civil Wars of Cromwell, and notices of these,
157-159; origin of, in France, 160; first daily one after the
Restoration, ib.; only one daily, in the reign of Queen Anne, ib.;
union between them and literary periodicals, opinions expressed on,
ib.
NEWTON, remarks on, iii. 413.
NICCOLI, Nicholas, founded the first public library in Italy, i. 4.
NICKNAMES, use of, practised by political parties, iii. 80;
instances of many, 81-89; serve to heat the minds of the people, 83;
of various Parliaments, 85; effect of, on ministers, 89.
NOBILITY, conduct of kings towards, ii. 11, 12.
NOBLEMEN turned critics, pair of anecdotes concerning, i. 131.
NOMINALISTS and Realists, i. 312.
NOSTRODAMUS, consulted by Catherine de' Medici, i. 279.
NOVELS, the successors of romances, i. 450; Adam Smith's favourable
opinion of, ib.
NUMERICAL Figures, of Indian origin, i. 276; introduction of Arabic,
277; Roman, ib.; origin of Roman, ib.; falsification of Arabic, 278.
OBSCURITY, in style, taught by a professor, i. 401; Lycophron
possessed this taste, 402; defence of, by Thomas Anglus, ib.;
Gravina's observations on, ib.
OLD AGE, progress of, in new studies, i. 98; remark of Adam Smith,
on resumption of former studies in, ib.
OLDYS, a literary antiquary, iii. 493; caricature of, by Grose, 495;
released from the fleet by the Duke of Norfolk, and made Norroy King
at Arms, ib., and note; author of the anacreontic, "Busy, curious,
thirsty fly," 496; placed in the library of the Earl of Oxford, 497;
his integrity, ib., and note; his literary labours, 497-499; his
life of Rawleigh, 499; history of his two annotated copies of
Langbaine, 502; fate of his MSS., 503; his diaries, 504; his
readiness to aid others with his knowledge, 506; his Dissertation on
English Poetry curtailed by the bookseller, 507; extracts from his
diaries, 508-511; his intended Life of Shakspeare, 509; anecdote of
him and Pope, 511.
OLIVETAN Bible, iii. 155.
OPINIONS, suppressed, modes of expressing them in ancient and modern
times, iii. 150; in the Saturnalia, ib.; by carvings and
illuminations, 152; preceding the Reformation, 153; instance of the
Olivetan Bible, 155; by medals and prints, 156.
ORCHIS, Bee and Fly, i. 245.
ORDEALS, i. 161-166.
ORDINARIES, the "Hells" of the 17th century, ii. 165; description of
the arts practised at, 165-167.
OROBIO, his description of his imprisonment in the Inquisition, i.
167.
ORTHOGRAPHY of proper names, ii. 261; of the name of Shakespeare,
ii. 238, note; of Sir Walter Raleigh, iii. 111.
OSMAN, Sultan, promotes his gardener, ii. 10.
OXFORD, Edward Vere, Earl of, his secret history, ii. 243-245.
PALACES built by ministers, iii. 186-192.
PALINGENESIS.--See REGENERATION.
PALMER, the actor, his death, i. 249.
PAMPHLETS, sketch of Myles Davis's history of, i. 343; origin and
rise of, 344; one pretended to have been composed by Jesus Christ,
ib.; Alexander Pope denounced as a plotter in a, 345; etymologies of
the word, 345-347.
PANTOMIME, French verses in praise of, and translation of, ii. 116;
Cervantes and Bayle's delight in, 116, 117; harlequin, 119; of the
lower Italians in their gestures, ib.; treatises on, 121;
transmitted from the Romans, 123; improvement of, by Ruzzante, 124;
the history of a people traced in, 125; description of the various
characters in Italian, 126.
PANTOMIMI, tragic actors usually mute, ii. 120; Seneca's taste for,
ib.; their influence over the Roman people, 121.
PANTOMIMICAL Characters. See PANTOMIME; Massinger and Moliere
indebted to, ii. 138; remarks on Shakspeare's "Pantaloon," 139.
PAPER, among the ancients, ii. 27, 28; introduction into England,
29; various sorts of modern, ib.
PARACELSUS, his receipt for making a fairy, iii. 286, 287.
PARADISE LOST, prose and verse versions of, i. 305.
PARISIAN Massacre, apology for, iii. 255-260, 352.
PARK, Mungo, his book interpolated and altered by his editor, Bryan
Edwards, ii. 453.
PARKER, Bishop of Oxford, iii. 279, note.
PARODIES, anecdote relating to, ii. 453; resembles mimicry, 454; not
made in derision, ib.; practised by the ancients, 455; ancient, of
Homer, ib.; modern, 456; dramatic, anecdotes of modern, 458-460;
legitimate use of, ib.
PARPAILLOTS, or Parpirolles, iii. 82.
PARTICULAR Providence, various opinions on, ii. 428-431; the
granting a free-conduct to Luther, by Charles V., possibly one, 432.
PASQUIN and Marforio, account of, i. 208.
PASQUINADES, origin of, and instances of several, i. 208.
PATRONS, their treatment of authors, i. 82; anecdotes regarding, 83,
84; opinion of Dr. Johnson upon, 83.
PAULUS JOVIUS, description of the country-house and collections of
statues, books, and portraits belonging to, i. 45; description of
the villa built by, iii. 397.
PAZZI, Cavaliero, founder of the Accademia Colombaria, ii. 483.
PEG-TANKARDS, ii. 296, and note.
PEIRESC, a man of incessant literary occupations, and an enthusiast
in the importation of exotic plants, ii. 151; anecdotes of, iii.
409.
PEMBROKE, Anne, Countess of, designed a history of her family, iii.
421.
PERFUMERY and costly washes, introduced into England by the Earl of
Oxford, i. 225.
PETITIONS, to Parliament against the Drama, ii. 289; mock, ib.
PETITIONERS and Abhorrers, iii. 87.
PETRACH, formula used at his coronation with the Laurel Crown, i.
455; his passion for literary composition, ii. 592; his Laura, iii.
309.
PICTORIAL Biography.--See MAGIUS.
PISISTRATUS, the first projector amongst the Greeks of a collection
of the works of the learned, i. 2.
PHILIP the First of Spain, i. 469; his marriage with Mary of
England, ib.; sought Queen Elizabeth in marriage, 470; offered
himself to three different sisters-in-law, ib.; his advice to his
son, ib.; his death-bed, ib.; his epitaph, 471.
PHILOSOPHY, dreams at the dawn of, iii. 280-290; mechanical fancies,
291, 292; inquiries after prodigies, 293; further anecdotes of,
294-296.
PHYSIOGNOMY, credited by Louis XIV. and James I., i. 148, 149.
PICART, his _impostures innocentes_, i. 259.
PICTURES belonging to Charles I., ii. 332, 333.
PINAMONTI, his book on the eternal punishments, i. 204, note.
PINELLI, his great library, and its partial destruction, i. 57, and
note.
PLAGIARISM, in printed sermons, i. 400; a professor of, ib.
PLANTS, presenting representations of natural forms, i. 245.
PLANTYN the printer, and his office at Antwerp, i. 77, note.
PLATINA, his account of his persecution and tortures, for having
been a member of the "Academy" at Rome, ii. 486.
PLATO, Aristotle studied under, i. 143; parallel between him and
Aristotle, ib.; contest between him and Aristotle, 144; the model
of the moderns who profess to be anti-poetical, 433; a true poet
himself, ib.
PLATONISM, modern, originated among the Italians, i. 213; system of,
by Gemisthus Pletho, ib.; professed by a Mr. Thomas Taylor, 215; by
a scholar in the reign of Louis XII., 216; by Dr. More, ib.
PLETHO, or Gemisthus, a remarkable modern professor of Platonism, i.
213.
PLATTS or Plots, theatrical discovery of curious ones at Dulwich
College, and remarks upon, ii. 138-140; see SCENARIO.
PLOTT, Dr., his project of a tour, iii. 292.
PLUNDER, etymology of, iii. 87, and note.
POETS, Plato's description of the feelings of, in the Phaedon, i.
433; opinions of various learned men on the works of, 433; remarks
on the habits of, 434, 435; behaviour of Frederic King of Prussia
(father of the Great Frederic) to, 436; different conduct of other
kings towards, 437; honours paid to, in the early stage of poetry,
ib.; anecdote of Margaret of Scotland and Alain the poet, 438;
opinions of the pious on the works of, ib.; too frequently merely
poets, 439; hints to young, 440; to veteran, ib.; mistresses of,
441; change their opinions of their productions, ib.; antiquity of
the custom of crowning, 454; abolished in the reign of Theodosius,
ib.; regal, 457; condemned, ii. 303-308; laureat, see LAUREATS.
POETICAL GARLAND, i. 247.
POETICAL imitations and similarities, ii. 92-113.
POINT-DEVICE, etymology of, iii. 188, and note.
POLAND, history of the election of the Duke of Anjou as King of,
iii. 346-363.
POLICHINELLO.--See PUNCH.
POLITIAN, Angelo, a polished Italian writer of the 15th century, i.
457; his dedicatory epistle, prefixed to his epistles, 458.
POLITICAL Nicknames, iii. 80-90.
POLITICAL Reports, false maxim on the efficacy of, ii. 438;
ancient instances, ib.; of the battle of Lutzen, 439; on the battle
of the Boyne, ib.; other anecdotes, modern and ancient, of the
effect of, 440-443.
POLITICAL Religionism, illustrations of its effects, iii. 238-244.
POLITICAL Prognostics.--See PREDICTIONS. Dugdale hastened his
labours in anticipation of the disorders of the Rebellion, iii. 261.
POLITICAL Parallels, iii. 267.
POLYDORE VERGIL, a destroyer of MSS., ii. 445.
POMPONIUS LAETUS, in the 15th century raised altars to Romulus, ii.
485; chief of the "Academy" at Rome, 486.
POPE, his manuscripts, ii. 110; passage from, with the various
alterations, 111, 112; Dr. Johnson's memorandum of hints for the
life of, 381; anecdote of, iii. 397.
POPE, project of the, for placing a cardinal on the throne of
England, ii. 505; favoured by Henry IV., ib.
POPES, their early humility and subsequent arrogance, ii. 83;
Celestine kicks off the crown of the Emperor Henry the Sixth, ib.;
their infallibility first asserted, ib.; protest of the University
of Vienna against, 84; their excommunications, ib.
PORTA, John Baptiste and John Vincent, found the academy "Degli
Oziosi," ii. 488; Baptiste's mechanical genius, iii. 290.
PORTRAITS, of authors, of celebrated men, i. 42-47; of the Fugger
family, 6; commonly prefixed to ancient manuscripts, 42; collections
of, amongst the ancients, 43; query upon the mode of their
transmission and their correctness, ib.; use of, ib.; anecdotes
relative to the effect of, 45; objections of ingenious men to sit
for, reprobated, 46; Granger's illustrations of, 45; Perrault's
"Eloges" confined to French, ib.; collection by Paulus Jovius, ib.;
doubts as to authenticity of several, ib.; literary, of himself, by
St. Evremond, 102; in minute writing, 275.
PORT ROYAL SOCIETY, the, i. 94; their Logic, or The Art of
Thinking, an admirable work, ib.; account of its rise and progress,
95; many families of rank erected houses there, ib.; persecuted and
destroyed by the Jesuits, 96; their writings fixed the French
language, ib.
POSIES on rings, iii. 39, note.
POVERTY, abridgment of history of, by Morin, i. 198; regulations
regarding, among the Jews, ib.; among the Greeks, Romans, and
Egyptians, 199; uncommon among the ancients, 201; introduction of
hospitals for the relief of, ib.
PRAYER-BOOKS, gross illustrations of, i. 366.
PREACHERS, jocular, i. 251-258.
PREDICTION, political and moral, determined by certain prognostics,
iii. 260; of the Reformation by Cardinal Julian, Sir Thomas More,
and Erasmus, 262; by Sir Walter Rawleigh, 263; of Tacitus, ib.; of
Solon, 264; of Charlemagne, ib.; Cicero's art of, ib.; faculty of,
possessed by Du Vair, 265; principles of, revealed by Aristotle,
266; by Mr. Coleridge, 268; of the French Revolution, 269, 270;
frequently false, 272; anecdotes, 273; of the end of the world, ib.,
note; of the destruction of London in 1750, ib., note; of American
independence, 274; sometimes condemned as false when really
verified, 275; caution to be observed in, 276; instances of, by
Knox, 277; of the death of Henry IV., ib.; reflections on, 278, 279.
PREFACES, frequently superior to the work, i. 71; a volume of,
always kept ready by Cicero, ib.; ought to be dated, 72; anecdote of
Du Clos' to a fairy tale, ii. 340.
PREFERMENT, anecdotes of, ii. 12.
PRESBYTERIANS, their conduct under Charles II., iii. 240; their
intolerance, 254.
PRESS-MONEY, proposition that those who refused it should be tried
by martial law, iii. 462, and note.
PRICE, Robert, a Welsh lawyer, incidents in his life, iii. 422.
PRIMERO, a game at cards described, ii. 166, note.
PRINCE HENRY, son of James I., resembled Henry V. in his features,
ii. 186; Dr. Birch's life of, 187; anecdotes concerning, 187-194;
his diary, 207.
PRINTING, art of, possessed by the Romans without being aware of it,
i. 43, and note; probably originated in China, ib., and note;
general account of early, 73-78.
PRINTERS, mention of early, i. 75.
PRINTS, satiric, iii. 160.
PROCLAMATIONS, against long swords and deep ruffs, i. 222; royal,
against buildings in London, iii. 365; to enforce a country
residence, 367; never possessed the force of laws, 366; of Henry
VIII., 372; of Mary, 373; of Edward VI., 374; of Elizabeth, 375; of
James I., 376; of Charles I., 377; of Charles II. against vicious,
debauched, and profane persons, ib.; others by Charles II., 379.
PROFESSION, the choice of one and its influence on the mind, with
some illustrative anecdotes, ii. 461-463.
PROPER names, orthography of, the uncertainty of, ii. 237; anecdotes
and instances of, 237-243.
PROTESTANTISM, once existed in Spain, ii. 434.
PROVERBS, use of, derided by Lord Chesterfield, iii. 33; records of
the populace, 34; existed before books, ib.; abound in the most
ancient writers, ib.; "the dark sayings of the wise," 35; introduced
into the Greek drama, 36; definition of, 38; influence of, over a
whole people, ib.; collection of, by Franklin, ib.; inscribed on
furniture, ib.; English, collected by Heywood, 39; a speech of, 40;
an era of, amongst the English, 41; long favourites in France, ib.;
comedy of, ib.; family, 42; ancient examples of the use of, 43;
some, connected with the characters of eminent men, 44; use of, by
poets, ib.; Eastern origin of many, 45; collection of, by Polydore
Vergil and Erasmus, of Spanish by Fernandez Nunes, of Italian and
French, English and Scotch, 46, 47; study of, 48; illustrative of
national character, 48-56; anecdotes of the origin of certain,
56-61; historical, 61; remarks on the arrangement of collections of,
63.
PRYNNE, his method of composition, ii. 534; his extraordinary
perseverance, ib.; title of the catalogue of his writings, 535; copy
of his works bequeathed to Sion College, ib.; the pretended
retractation of his Histriomastix, iii. 315, note.
PSALM-SINGING, remarks on, ii. 472; first introduction of, ib.; T.
Warton's criticism of, 473; history of, 473-478; practised at lord
mayor's feasts, 479.
PSALMANAZAR, his extraordinary literary forgery, i. 137, note; iii.
311; some account of, 312-314.
PUCK, the Commentator.--See STEEVENS.
PULTENEY, Earl of Bath, MS. Memoirs of, suppressed, ii. 447.
PUNCH, his ancient origin, ii. 122, and note; origin of his name,
ib., note.
PUNCHINELLO.--See PUNCH.
PUNNING, in a dictionary, i. 305.
PUNS, Cicero's, i. 69.
PUPPET-SHOWS in England, iii. 238.
PURGATORY, Cardinal Bellarmin's treatise on, i. 204.
PURITANS, turn bacchanalian songs into spiritual ones, ii. 148.
PURITANS and Precisians, party nicknames at the Reformation, iii.
84, 85.
PYROTECHNICS.--See FIREWORKS.
QUADRIO, his Universal History of Poetry, iii. 233; his ignorance of
English poetry, 234-236; his opinion of English comedy, 236; praises
our puppet-shows, 238.
QUEEN MARY the First, her marriage with Philip of Spain, i. 469; her
letter of instructions, ib.
QUEEN ELIZABETH, letter of, to her brother, Edward VI., i. 461; her
exhibition of youthfulness to the ambassador of the Scottish king,
463; remarkable period in her annals, ii. 179; her maiden state,
ib.; real cause of her repugnance to change it, ib., and note; her
artifices to conceal her resolution, 180; debates of the Commons on
the succession to, 181; address to, by the Duke of Norfolk, and her
answer, ib.; despatch of the French ambassador on this occasion,
181-186; her judicious conduct, ib.; her conduct towards printers
and authors, 221, 222; her dislike to the appointment of a
successor, iii. 331; account of her death-bed, 331, 332.
QUEEN ANNE BULLEN, anecdote relative to her execution, i. 462.
QUERNO, made laureat for the joke's sake, i. 455.
QUEVEDO, his love for Don Quixote, iii. 339.
QUINCE, origin of, ii. 157, note.
QUODLIBETS, or Scholastic Disquisitions, i. 60.
QUOTATION, remarks on the use of, ii. 416; Selden's precept for,
violated by himself, 417; Bayle's remarks on the use of, 418; when
used by an eminent author often appropriated by an inferior, 419;
value of the proper application of, 420.
RABBINICAL Stories, specimens of, i. 120-126; scripture quoted to
support, 126.
RANTZAU, founder of the great library at Copenhagen, stanzas by, i. 5.
RANZ DES VACHES, effect of, i. 274.
RAWLEIGH, Sir Walter, composed his History of the World in prison,
i. 36; assisted in that work by several eminent persons, ib.;
variations in orthography of his name, iii. 111, note; author's
account of his character, 112; Gibbon's and Hume's observations on,
113; cunning practised by, ib.; anecdotes of, 114; account of his
return from Guiana, 115, 116; his attempt to escape, 118; betrayed
by Sir Lewis Stucley, 119; narrative of his last hours, 124-129; his
History of the World, the labour of several persons, 131; note on
Mr. Tytler's remarks on the author's account of, 135, note; his
extravagance in dress, 407; notice of Oldys's life of, 499.
RAYNAUD, Theophilus, his works fill twenty folios, and ruined his
bookseller, 542; notice of, 543; his curious treatises, ib.
REALISTS, a sect of Scholars, i. 312.
REFORMATION, origin of, iii. 142.
REFUTATION, a Catholic's, i. 349.
REGENERATION of material bodies, iii. 286, 287.
RELICS of Saints, bought, sold, and stolen, i, 239; treatise on, by
Gilbert de Nogent, ib.; of St. Lewin, ib.; of St. Indalece, 240; of
St. Majean, ib.; of St. Augustin's arm, ib.; flogging of, ib.;
miracles performed by, ib.; miraculously multiplied, 241; anecdote
of a box of, presented by the Pope to Prince Radzivil, ib.;
Frederick the Wise, a great collector of, 242; phial of the blood of
Christ sent to Henry III., ib.; fall in price of, ib.; deceptive,
243.
RELIGION, state of, during the Civil Wars, iii. 433; illustrative
anecdotes of, 434-436; contest between Owen and Baxter on, 437;
confusion of, ib.; a colt baptised in St. Paul's Cathedral, 439, and
note; anecdotes, 439-441; noticed by George Wither the Poet, 442;
ordinance of the Parliament to rectify the disorders in, 443.
RELIGIONISM distinguished from religion, iii. 239.
RELIGIOUS Nouvellettes, a class of very singular works, i. 363;
account of one, 364; notice of one discussing three thousand
questions concerning the Virgin Mary, 365; Life of the Virgin, 367;
Jesuits usual authors of, 368; one describing what passes in
Paradise, ib.; the Spiritual Kalendar, ib.
REPRESENTATION, right of, not fixed in the 10th century, i. 162.
RESIDENCES of literary men, notices of several, iii. 394-399.
REVIEWS.--See LITERARY JOURNALS.
REVOLUTIONS, maxim on, iii. 278.
RHYMES inscribed on _knives_, and alluded to by Shakespeare, iii.
38, note; on _fruit trenchers_, ib.; on _rings_, 39, note.
RICCOBONI, a celebrated actor, his remarks on the Italian extempore
comedy, ii. 134; anecdote of, 137; his inscription on the curtain of
his theatre, ib.
RICH, a celebrated harlequin, ii. 130, and note.
RICHARDSON, the author of _Sir Charles Grandison_, remarks on him
and his works, ii. 62-65.
RICHELIEU, Cardinal de, his general character, ii. 349; his death-bed,
ib.; anecdotes of the sinister means practised by, 350; his
confessor, Father Joseph, 351-353; projects of assassination of,
354, and note; drives Father Caussin, the king's confessor, into
exile, 355.
RIVE, Abbe de, librarian of the Duke de la Valliere, iii. 341; his
style of criticism, 342; his collections for works never begun, ib.;
his observations on the cause of the errors of literary history,
344.
ROBINSON CRUSOE, remarks on, ii. 274; history of, traced, 275;
written by Defoe, after illness, and in comparative solitude, 276;
not published till seven years after Selkirk's adventures, 277.
ROC, the, of Arabian tales, a creature of Rabbinical fancy, i. 124.
ROCHEFOUCAULT De la, remarks on him and his maxims, i. 110.
ROCHELLE, expedition to, ii. 367; preparations for, ib.; frustrated
by the death of Buckingham, 369.
ROMANCES, the offspring of fiction and love, i. 442; early, ib.;
that of Heliodorus denounced in the synod, 443; forbidden in the
Koran, ib.; of the Troubadours, 444; modern poets indebted to, ib.;
Le Roman de Perceforest, 445; of chivalry, examples of, 446;
Italian, 448; use made of by poets, 449; French, ib.; went out of
fashion with square cocked hats, 450; modern novels, ib.; histories
of, 451; D'Urfe's Astraea, ib.
ROMNEY the painter, his belief in alchymy, i. 282, and note.
RONSARD, the French bard, and his Bacchanalia, ii. 41.
ROSY-CROSS, the President of, proffers his advice to Charles I., iii.
464.
ROUSSEAU, his prediction of the French Revolution, iii. 271, 272,
and note; his favourite authors, iii. 340.
ROYAL Autographs, iii. 165.
ROYAL Promotions, ii. 10.
ROYAL SOCIETY, origin of, ii. 410-413.
ROYAL Society of Literature, ii. 406, note.
RUBENS, his house at Antwerp, iii. 398; his love for collections of
art, 399, and note.
RUFFS, extravagances in, i. 222-227.
RUMP, the origin of the term, iii. 482, 483; three stages in its
political progress, 484; songs upon, 485; debate of the, whether to
massacre all the king's party, 487; parallel between their course of
conduct and that of the leaders in the French Revolution, 489-493.
SAINTE Ampoule, ii. 434, note.
SALMASIUS, his controversy with and abuse of Milton, i. 152-154.
SALVATOR ROSA, fond of acting in extemporal comedy, ii. 133.
SANDRICOURT, the Sieur de, ruined himself by one fete, iii. 402-405.
SANS CULOTTES, iii. 83.
ST. AMBROSE, writes a treatise on Virgins, i. 412; and another on
the Perpetual Virginity of the Mother of God, ib.; his chastisement
of an erring nun, ib.
ST. BARTHOLOMEW, apology for the massacre of, iii. 255-260.
ST. EVREMOND, literary portrait of, by himself, i. 102.
ST. URSULA and the Eleven Thousand Virgins all created out of a
blunder, i. 324.
ST. VIAR, created by an error, i, 323.
SATIRICAL medals, iii. 156-160.
SATIRISTS may dread the cane of the satirised, i. 442.
SATURNALIA, institution of among the Romans, derived by Macrobius
from the Grecians, ii. 256; dedicated to Saturn, ib.; latterly
prolonged for a week, 257; description of, ib.; crept into the
Christian Church, 258, and note; practised in the middle ages, 259;
Feast of Asses, ib.; "December liberties," 260; the boy-bishop, 261;
Lord of Misrule, ib.; Abbot of Unreason, 262; description of a grand
Christmas held at the Inns of Courts, 263-265, and note; the last
memorable, of the Lords of Misrule of the Inns of Court, 266;
anecdote of a Lord of Misrule, 267; the Mayor of Garratt, 269;
regiment de la Calotte, ib., and note, 270; Republic of Baboonery,
ib.; medals used for money in, iii. 150, 151.
SAUNTERING, i. 175.
SAVAGES, various usages of at meals, i. 171-173.
SCALIGER, Julius, his singular manner of composition, ii. 86.
SCARAMOUCHES.--See PANTOMIME. Punch and Zany, prints of, ii. 125;
character of, invented by Tiberio Fiurilli, 126; power of a
celebrated, ib.
SCARON, account of his life and works, i. 421-428.
SCENERY of the old English stage, iii. 4, and note.
SCENARIE, the plots of extemporal comedies, ii. 130; description of,
note; some discovered at Dulwich College, 139, 140, and note.
SCRIBLERAID, the, a poetical jest on pseudo-science, by R. O.
Cambridge, i. 295, and note.
SCRIPTURE story treated like mediaeval romance, i. 163, and note.
SCUDERY, Mademoiselle, composed ninety romances, i. 106; panegyrics
on, ib.; her "Great Cyrus and Map of Tenderness," 107.
SCUDERY, George, famous for composing romances, i. 107; a votary of
vanity, ib.; author of sixteen plays, 108.
SECRET HISTORY, of authors who have ruined their booksellers, ii.
532-546; of an elective monarchy, iii. 346-363; the supplement of
history itself, iii. 380; reply to an attack on the writers of, 382;
two species of, positive and relative, ib.; the true sources of to
be found in MS collections, 383; neglect of by historians, 384; its
utility, 385; of the Restoration, 386; of Mary, the Queen of William
III., 389-393.
SEDAN chairs, introduced into England by the Duke of Buckingham, ii.
36.
SEGNI, Bernardo, his History of Florence, iii. 182.
SENTIMENTAL biography, iii. 414-424.
SERASSI, writes the life of Tasso, ii. 444; finds Galileo's MS.
annotations, copies them, and suppresses the original, ib.
SERMONS, printed, Bayle's saying on, i. 345.
SEYMOUR, William, his family and character, ii. 508; enters into a
treaty of marriage with the Lady Arabella Stuart, ib.; summoned
before the Privy Council, ib.; his marriage, 509; imprisoned in the
Tower, ib.; his wife's letter to him, 510; his escape, 515; is
permitted to return, 519.
SHAKESPEARE, Fuller's character of, i. 380; orthography of his name,
ii. 238, and note; introduces a masque in his "Tempest," and
burlesques the characters in court masques, iii. 5, and note;
bequest to his wife, 302.
SHENSTONE, the object of his poem of the Schoolmistress misunderstood,
ii. 496; his ludicrous index to, 499; his character, his life, and
his works, iii. 90-102.
SHOEING-HORNS, ii. 297, note.
SILHOUETTE, a term not to be found in any dictionary, iii. 84;
originated in a political nickname, ib.
SILK stockings, pair of, presented to Queen Elizabeth, i. 226.
SILLI, ancient parodies, ii. 455.
SKELTON, his satire on Wolsey, iii. 187.
SNEEZING, the custom of saluting after, i. 126; attributed to St.
Gregory, ib.; Rabbinical account of, ib.; anecdotes concerning, 127.
SNUFF-BOXES, the rage, in the reign of Queen Anne, i. 229; the
Jesuits', reported to be poisoned, ii. 442.
SOLITUDE, treatise on, by Sir George Mackenzie, ii. 50; necessary
for the pursuits of genius, 52; discomforts of 53, 54.
SOLOMON, accounted an adept in necromancy, i. 122; story of him and
the Queen of Sheba, 202.
SONGS among the Grecians, ii. 142; sayings of Fletcher of Saltoun,
and Dr. Clerk on, ib.; Greek songs of the trades, 143; of the
weavers among the English, ib.; harvest and oar-songs in the
Highlands, ib.; of the gondoliers, ib.; Dibdin's, 144; old English,
145; Swiss, 146; Italian, composed at Florence, under the Medici,
ib.; French "Chansons de' Vendange," 147; parodied, by Puritans,
148; slang or flash, known to the Greeks, and specimens from
Athenaeus, 149; ancient practices in, connected with old English
customs, 150; political, iii. 179, 180.
SONNAH, the, i. 113.
SOTADES travestied the Iliad, ii. 455.
SOTTIES, more farcical than farce, i. 358; specimen of one, 359-360.
SOVEREIGNTY of the seas, ii. 79-81.
SPANISH Etiquette, instances of its absurdity, i. 194.
SPANISH Poetry, i. 100; remarks on and illustrative quotations of,
101; translation of a madrigal found in a newspaper, 102.
SPEED, the historian, suspicions of his originality, ii. 445.
SPENSER, Fuller's character of, i. 379.
SPIDERS, influence of music on, i. 272; admired as food, ii. 355,
note.
STANZAS to Laura, i. 230.
STARCHING, origin of, i. 227.
STEEVENS, George, the Puck of commentators, iii. 296; account of his
literary forgeries, 297, 298; the story of Milton and the Italian
lady attributed to, 299; his motives for omitting the Poems from his
edition of Shakespeare, 301; his trick on the antiquary Gough, 303,
304.
STEPHENS, Robert, the printer, his family and their works, i. 76,
note; divided the Bible into chapter and verse, iii. 433.
STERNHOLD and Hopkins, their version of the Psalms, ii. 472.
STONES, presenting representations of natural forms, i. 244, 245.
STOSCH, Baron, his dishonest collecting, iii. 318.
STREETS of London, origin of many of their names, ii. 239-243.
STUART, Arabella, mistakes of historians regarding, ii. 502; her
history, 503-519.
STUCLEY, Sir Lewis, Vice-Admiral of Devon, accepted a surveillance
over his kinsman, Sir Walter Rawleigh, iii. 116; his base treachery,
119; universally shunned in consequence, 120; convicted of clipping
gold, ib.; his miserable death, 121.
STUDENT in the metropolis, the, description of, by Gibbon, Rogers,
and Descartes, i. 112.
STUDY, plans of historical, ii. 90-92.
STUKELEY, Dr., his Imaginary History of the Empress Oriuna, i. 324,
note.
STYLE, remarks on, in the composition of works of science, i. 89;
strictures on the, of theological writers, ii. 21, 22; on that of
Lancelot Addison, 23.
SUGAR-LOAF-COURT, origin of the name, ii. 10.
SUPPRESSION of MSS.--See MANUSCRIPTS.
SYDENHAM, F., his melancholy death occasions the foundation of the
Literary Fund, i. 34, and note.
TABLETS, and Table-books, ii. 26.
TALMUD, many copies of, burnt, i. 48; a collection of Jewish
traditions orally preserved, 114; comprises _Mishna_, which is the
text of the _Gemara_, its commentary, ib.; general account of, ib.;
believed apocryphal, even by a few among the Jews, ib.; time of the
first appearance of its traditions uncertain, ib.; compiled by
Jewish doctors to oppose the Christians, ib.; analysis of, by W.
Wotton, 115; two Talmuds, ib.; committed to writing, and arranged by
R. Juda, prince of the Rabbins, forming the Mishna, ib.; disputes
and opinions of the Rabbins on the form of the Mishna, ib.; God's
study of, ib.; curious, from its antiquity, 116; specimens of, from
the Mishnic titles, 116-118; and from the Gemara, 119.
TASSO, various opinions on the respective merits of him and Ariosto,
i. 386; Boileau's criticism on, 388; his errors national, ib.; his
verses sung by the gondoliers, ib.
TAXATION, remarks on the popular feeling on, in ancient and modern
times, iii. 193; associated with the idea of tyranny, ib.;
illustrative anecdotes, 194; efficacy of using a mitigated term for,
195; gifts, tribute, benevolences, and loans, 195-198; Burleigh's
advice on, 199.
TAYLOR, Thomas, a modern professor of Platonism, i. 215.
TEA, opposition to the introduction of, ii. 317; present of,
declined by the Russian ambassador, 318; Dutch bargain for, 319;
introduction into Europe, ib.; shop-bill of the first vendor of,
320.
TENURES, curious ancient, i. 187, note.
THOMAS AQUINAS, some account of the works of, i. 63-65.
TIMON of Philius, his parodies of Homer, ii. 455.
TICHBOURNE, Chidiock, concerned in Babington's conspiracy, ii. 171;
his address to the populace at his execution, 176; his letter to his
wife, 177; verses composed by him the night before his execution,
178.
TITLES, origins of, and anecdotes concerning, i. 155; book of,
published in Spain, ib.; Selden's _Titles of Honour_, ib.; of books,
288-292.
TOLERATION, practised by the Romans, and inculcated by Mahomet, iii.
245; caution used in publishing works on, ib.; early English
advocates of, 246, and note; in Holland, ib.; facts illustrative
of the history of, 247, 248; condemned by all parties, 249-253;
opinions of an English clergyman on, 252.
TOM O' BEDLAMS, account of, ii. 311-314, and notes; songs of, 315-317.
TORTURE, Felton threatened with, ii. 376; its frequent use in
England, ib.
TORQUEMADA, first Spanish inquisitor, in fourteen years persecuted
80,000 individuals, i. 166.
TOWNLEY, Zouch, his poem on Felton, ii. 378; collection of antique
marbles formed by his descendant Charles Townley, purchased for the
British Museum, ib., note.
TRAITORS, barbarous mode of execution of, in Queen Elizabeth's time,
ii. 175, and note.
TREASURES in hills, iii. 295, note.
TREVOUX.--See DICTIONARY.
TROUBADORS, their poems and their loves, i. 444.
TRUSLER, Doctor, first vendor of printed sermons imitating manuscript,
i. 400.
TURNER, Doctor, a violent opposition leader in the second Parliament
of Charles I., iii. 451; an agent of the opposition in Parliament
against the measures of Charles I., 466; a disappointed courtier,
467, note.
TURKISH SPY, the, i. 377; John Paul Marana, the author of, 378.
URBAN the Eighth, instances of his poetic sensibility, i. 456.
USURERS of the 17th century, notice of the practices of, ii. 158-170.
USURY, contrary opinions on, ii. 174, 175.
UTOPIA, Sir Thomas More's, missionaries proposed to be sent to, i. 320.
VACCINATION, strange dread of, ii. 317.
VALLANCEY'S Collectanea, curious error in, i. 326, note.
VANBRUGH, the architect of Blenheim, got a power from Lord Godolphin
to contract in the Duke of Marlborough's name, iii. 104; produces
the power, 106; his depositions, ib.; attempt of the Duchess of
Marlborough to charge the debts of Blenheim on, 108; conduct of the
Duchess towards, 109; discovery of his origin, 110, 111.
VARCHI, Benedetto, his "Storie Florentine," iii. 183; remarks of Mr.
Merivale on, ib., note.
VARILLAS, his fictitious work on the Reformation, i. 132, note.
VASARI'S History of Artists, not entirely written by himself, iii.
131.
VATICAN, library of, i. 4.
VAUCANSON, his mechanical figures, iii. 284, note.
VAUDEVILLES, origin of the name, ii. 148.
VERSES, follies in the fantastical forms of, i. 295-300; reciprocal,
ib.
VICAR OF BRAY, story of the, i. 196; Dr. Kitchen, Bishop of
Llandaff, acted the same part, 197; type of, ii. 37.
VIDA, Jerome, from the humblest obscurity attained to the episcopacy,
i. 105.
VISION OF ALBERICO, ii. 422; of Charles the Bald, 423.
VIRGIN MARY, images of, frequently portraits of mistresses and
queens, i. 366; miraculous letter of, 367; Louis II. conveys
Boulogne to, ib.; Life of, by Maria Agreda, ib.; worship paid to, in
Spain, 368; system of, in seven folio vols., 369.
VIRGINITY, St. Ambrose's treatise on, i. 412.
WALKER, his account of the clergy of the Church of England who were
sequestered, &c., iii. 243.
WALPOLE, Sir Robert, his magnificent building at Houghton, iii. 191.
WALSINGHAM, Sir Francis, died in debt, iii. 192.
WALWORTH, Sir William, his private motive for killing Wat Tyler,
iii. 470, note.
WARBURTON, J., by neglect causes the destruction of old manuscript
plays, i. 54, note.
WAT TYLER, anecdote of, iii. 470, note.
WESTMINSTER elections always turbulent from the days of Charles the
First, iii. 461, note.
WHIG and Tory, origin of the terms, iii. 88.
WHISTLECRAFT'S Poem on King Arthur, ii. 496, note; imitated by Byron
in his Beppo, ib.
WHITELOCKE, his Memorials, ii. 212; his remembrances, a work
addressed to his family, lost or concealed, ib.; preface to the
Remembrances preserved, ib.; omissions in first edition of his
Memorials, ii. 448.
WIFE, Literary, i. 327; of Budaeus, 328; of Evelyn, who designed the
frontispiece to his translation of Lucretius, ib.; of Baron Haller,
ib.; Calphurnia, wife of Pliny, ib.; Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle,
329; extract from her epistle to her husband, ib.; notices of the
wives of various celebrated men, 332-337.
WIGS, custom of using, i. 217-220; Steele's, 229.
WILKINS, Bishop, his museum, iii. 291.
WINKELMANN, the plan on which he composed his works, ii. 89.
WOLSEY, Cardinal, his magnificent houses, iii. 187.
WOMEN, actors, first introduced on the Italian stage, ii. 140; on
the English, 284; Kynaston a favourite actor of female characters,
285, note.
WOODCUTS, ancient, in the British Museum, i. 74, note.
WORDS, introduction of new.--See NEOLOGY.
WOOD, Anthony, when dying, caused his papers to be destroyed, ii.
243; some, however, preserved, ib.; secret history of the Earl of
Oxford drawn from, ib.; compelled to disavow the translation of his
book, 453; Gibbon's opinion of his dulness opposed, 538, note.
WRITING, minute, i. 275; ancient modes of, ii. 20-26; materials used
for, 27-30.
WRITING-MASTERS, iii. 167; Massey's lives of, 169; anecdote of
Tomkins, 171; Peter Bales, a celebrated, 173; account of his contest
with David Johnson, 173-177.
XENOCRATES, pupil of Plato, attacked Aristotle, i. 142.
YVERY, notice of the History of the House of, iii. 420, and note.
ZANY, etymology of the word, ii. 123; and notes.