ACADEMY, the ancient, compared with a modern university, iv. 214.
ACCOMMODATION, of one’s-self, a great art, in public life, iii. 82.
ADDISON, Mr. his contemplation in the ruins of Kenelworth Castle,
iii. 172.
his political character exhibited in his Whig Examiner, 177. n.
calls in question the praises bestowed on Queen Elizabeth, 178.
his strictures on the manners of that age, 186.
character of his treatise on medals, 24.
his remark on the use of popular superstitions in poetry, iv. 289.
his observation on the fairy way of writing, 323.
ADMIRALTY COURT, the imperial law still obtains there, iii. 375.
ALLODIAL estates, in France, what, iii. 318.
AMADIS DE GAULE, remarkable passage in a preface to, iv. 347.
ARBUTHNOT, Dr. discourses with Mr. Addison and Mr. Digby on the age
of Queen Elizabeth, iii. 168.
his veneration for the manners of those times, 180.
his opinion on the influence of the nobility, 184.
on the pageants at Kenelworth, 203.
See Elizabeth.
ARIOSTO, why considered inferior to Tasso by the French critics,
iv. 310.
his work admirable for its pictures of life and manners, 328.
ARTHUR, a subject to the writers of romance, iv. 241.
the superior character in the Fairy Queen, 303.
ASCHAM, his remark on the pernicious tendency of books of chivalry,
iii. 192. n.
ATHEISM, imported by our travelling gentry, iv. 99.
ATHENS, its manly character corrupted by Asiatic manners, iv. 201.