Application of the Hind and the Panther censured, x, 90 defended, ib. 91 justified, ib. 197, 240 the fable of the Swallows, ib. 253 Appointment of Dryden to the office or poet-laureat, and historiographer-royal, i, 115 fasts and thanksgivings belongs only to the king, ix, 388 Apprentices duty in ancient times, vi, 382 loyal, dinner, ix, 396 Archbishop Sancroft, account of, ix, 301 Spottiswoode, account of, xvii, 159 Argument of the fable of the Flower and the Leaf, xi, 354 Arius, doctrine of, x, 146 and Athanasius, controversy between, ib. 15 Aristotle’s division of the integral parts of a play, xv, 312 Arlington, Earl of, account of, ix, 395 Armour, ancient, rivetted after put on, xi, 363 Armstrong, Sir Thomas, account of, xv, 204 stabs Mr Scroop, x, 327 Art of Love, Ovid’s, translations from, xii, 229 Painting, by C. A. Du Fresnoy, translation of xvii, 279, 339 remarks on, ib. 281 observations on, ib. 392 when translated, i, 405 Poetry, xv. 227 remarks on, ib. 229 Canto II. pastoral, ib. 238 elegy, ib. 240 ode, ib. 240 epigram, ib. 241 satire, ib. 243 III. tragedy, ib. 245 IV. ib. 258 Arthur, or the British Worthy, viii, 107 Arts, Dryden’s degree of master of, xviii, 185 Arviragus and Philiciæ, prologue to, x, 404 Assassination of the Duke of Guise, xvii, 148 Assault upon Dryden, in Rose-street, i, 204 upon Sir John Coventry, ix, 258 Assignation, or Love in a Nunnery, a comedy, iv, 343 remarks on, ib. 345 epistle dedicatory to, ib. 348 prologue to, ib. 356 epilogue to, ib. 447 Associating club, account of, vii, 154 Association for the defence of Queen Elizabeth ix, 422 Aston, account of, xv, 204 Astrea Redux, a poem, ix, 25 remarks on, ib. 27 notes on, ix. 41 Astrological observations of John Silvester, extract from, x, 421. Astrology, Dryden’s belief in, xviii, 207 Athanasius and Arius, controversy between, x, 15 Atheists, address of, ib. 144 Attack on Dryden, xi, 237 Shakespeare, by Ben Jonson, xv, 344 upon Blackmore and Collier, in the prologue and epilogue to the Pilgrim, i, 436 Attacks, poetical, against Dryden, specimen of, ib. 350 by Swift on Dryden, ib. 374-393 Attempt, Shaftesbury’s, to alter the succession, ix, 268 Aureng-Zebe, a tragedy, v, 167 remarks on, ib. 169 epistle dedicatory to, ib. 174 prologue to, ib. 188 epilogue to, ib. 282 Authority of Dryden in Will’s Coffee-house, i, 371 Authors of the Rehearsal, ib. 136 Author’s apology for heroic poetry, and poetic licence, v, 105 Aylesbury, Earl of, account of, xv, 207 B. Bacon, Friar, anecdote of, vol. vii, 10 Ballad of College, the Protestant joiner, vii, 5 The Brawny Bishop’s Complaint, x, 270 Bancroft, John, account of, ib. 412