DAVENANT, Sir W. a new sort of criticism in his preface to Gondibert,
iv. 311.
DECLARATION OF RIGHTS, a barrier against future encroachments of the
crown, iii. 293.
DECRETALS, of the popes, against the civil law, iii. 355.
DIALOGUE, a favourite form of instruction with the ancients, iii. 19.
its advantages, 21.
only three in the English language worthy of mention, 24.
real persons only to be introduced in it, 27.
a new species, created by Lucian, 28.
the serious and philosophic, the best, 32.
its requisites, 34.
rule for restraining the characteristic peculiarities of style, 39.
modern writers cannot aspire to the elegance of the ancient, 43.
remedies for their difficulties, ib. 46.
the ancient notion of, very little comprehended in our days, iv. 90.
DISPARITY, a passage from a tract so called, iii. 235. n.
another, illustrative of Queen Elizabeth’s policy, 258. n.
DISPENSING POWER of the Crown, iv. 52.
exercised by various sovereigns, 53, 54.
eleven out of twelve judges declared for it, 55.
DISSIPATION OF MIND, caused by travel, iv. 145.
DIVINE RIGHT, doctrine of, why preached up, iv. 62.
arguments for it used by the lawyers in the time of Charles I. 78. n.
DRAMA, a particular precept for, mistaken for a general maxim, iv. 326.
DUTCH TOWNS, accomplished scholars sometimes met within them, iv. 121.