Anachronism of Virgil defended, xiv, 176 Ancient political satire of Reynard the fox, x, 155 Ancient armour, rivetted after put on, xi, 363 British custom, xviii, 120 Ancients, excelled by the English in dramatic writing, xv, 396 ceremonies observed by, on escape from shipwreck, ix, 34, 44 Andronicus, Livius, first author of a play in Roman republic, xiii, 54 account of, ib. 54 Anecdote traditionary of Ben Jonson, i, 13 James I. ib. 13 Anecdote of Robert Keies, i, 23 Dryden’s brothers and sisters, ib. 25 Southerne, ib. 237 Jacob Tonson, ib. 389 Dryden, ib. 390 Dryden and Jacob Tonson, ib. 391 Heliodorus, vi. 126 Andrew Naugeria, ib. 370 a Scottish judge, ix, 20 the Earl of Shaftesbury, ib. 265 Gilbert Burnet, ib. 371 Charles II., ib. 413 Nell Gwynn, ib. 426 Peter Fabel, vii, 10 Friar Bacon, ib. 10 the Loyal Brother, x, 370 John Hales, xv, 351 Angelo, Michael, character of, ib. 489 Animadversions, Dryden’s, on Melbourne, i, 403 Animosity to Dryden of Elkanah Settle, rise of, xv, 398 Annals or commentaries, what, xvii, 56 Annus Mirabilis, the year of wonders, 1666, an historical poem, ix, 81 Dryden’s first poem of consequence, ib. 83 remarks on, ib. 83 dedication of, ib. 89 notes on, ib. 158 account of, in a letter to Sir Robert Howard, ib. 92 character of, i, 61 Answer of Samuel Pepys to a letter of Dryden’s, xviii, 156 to the preface of the Great Favourite, or the Duke of Lenna, ii, 265 Dryden’s Medal, extracts from, ix, 452 Rymer’s remarks, heads of, xv, 385 the Duchess of York’s paper, xvii, 194 Absalom and Achitophel, i, 253 the Medal, ib. 255 Apology for heroic poetry, and poetic licence, v, 105 Apostle of the Indies, St Francis Xavier, life of, xvi, 1 Appeal to honour and justice, extract from, x, 387 Appendix to the Fables, containing the original tales of Chaucer, modernized by Dryden, xii, i-xci. to Dryden’s works, xviii, 183 No. I. Dryden’s degree of master of arts, ib. 185 No. II. Dryden’s patent as poet-laureat, and historiographer-royal, ib. 187 No. III. Dryden’s agreement with Jacob Tonson concerning the Fables, ib. 191 No. IV. Mr Russel’s bill for Dryden’s funerals, ib. 194 Description of Dryden’s funeral, ib. 195 No. V. Mrs Thomas’s letters concerning Dryden’s death and funeral, ib. 200 No. VI. Monument in the church at Tichmarsh, ib. 215 No. VII. Extract from an epistolary poem to Dryden, occasioned by the death of the Earl of Abingdon, by William Pitts, ib. 218 No. VIII. Extracts from poems attacking Dryden for his silence upon the death of Queen Mary, ib. 222 No. IX. Verses occasioned by reading Dryden’s Fables, by Mr Hughes, ib. 227 No. X. Ode on the death of Dryden, by Alexander Oldys, ib. 234