ST. ALBAN’S, Lord, the patron of Cowley, iii. 97, 99, 102.
SAXONS, the principles of their policy still maintained in our
government, iii. 307.
spirit of liberty prevailed among them, 309.
their institutions, after the decline of the Romans, the standing
laws of this kingdom, 349.
SAVAGES of Romance, dependants of feudal lords, iv. 263.
SELDEN, his character of Ben Jonson, iii. 209.
a curious extract from his dissertation on Fleta, 370.
SELF-LOVE, when uncontrouled, engenders vices, iv. 108.
SENATOR, English, requisite qualifications of one, iv. 140.
are not attainable by foreign travel, 143.
SIDNEY, Sir PHILIP, the flower of knighthood, iii. 197.
SINCERITY in the commerce of the world, a dialogue on, iii. 53.
SHAFTESBURY, Lord, eminent as a writer of dialogue, iii. 24.
his remarks on the difficulties attending that class of composition,
42.
represented in a dialogue with Mr. Locke, on the uses of foreign
travel, iv. 87.
states its advantages, 107.
asserts it to be the most important part of education, 111.
descants on the prejudices of home-bred gentlemen, 115.
on the state of the arts in Britain, 126.
on the decay of philosophy, 131.
his raillery against the Gothic manner in poetry, 311.
SHAKESPEAR, remark of his best critic on the witch-scenes in Macbeth,
iv. 286.
greater in the Gothic than in the classic manner, 295.
SOCRATES, whence he took his name of Ironist, iii. 28.
never stirred out of Athens, iv. 96.
SOMERS, Mr. his fears that the principles of liberty are not
thoroughly established in the minds of the people, iii. 295, 297.
his notion of the varying ascendancy of liberty and prerogative,
iv. 18.
SPAIN, Queen Elizabeth’s triumph over, to what owing, iii. 274.
SPENSER, had talent for business as well as for poetry, iii. 243.
his funeral, _ib._ n.
charmed by Gothic Romance, iv. 239.
his account of the courtesy of chivalry, 247.
of the connection of gallantry with the profession of Knighthood,
249.
his description of characters in romance, 264.
his design in the Fairy Queen, 280.
why he chose chivalry for his theme, and Fairy land for his scene,
291.
why he had recourse to allegory, 346.
with whom he ranks highest among the poets, 350.
SPRAT, the Rev. Mr. his account of a conversation with Mr. Cowley on
retirement, iii. 99.
STAR-CHAMBER, iii. 381.
when confirmed by act of parliament, iv. 25, 34.
its jurisdiction why extended, 50.
STEPHEN, the Justinian laws introduced into England during his reign,
iii. 354.
interdicted the study of them, 356.
STILLINGFLEET, Dr. his remark on the dispensing power, iv. 54.
STUART, House of, part of their difficulties ascribed to the bad
policy of their predecessor, iii. 228.
English Government despotic under the first princes of that line,
iii. 390.
prerogative increased in the preceding reigns, iv. 20, 33.
confirmed the jurisdiction of the Star-Chamber by statute, 34.
exercised the dispensing power to a dangerous degree, 55.