The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 18Dryden, John
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The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 18
Dryden, John
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Buckingham, Duke of, account of, v, 174
epistle dedicatory to, v, 174
intrepidity of, ib. 175
character of, v, 175, ix, 270, 304
answer of, to Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel, extracts from, ib. 272
Battle, by extract from, ix, 398
author of the Essay on Satire, xv, 201
gallantry of, ib. 211
satire on gallantry of, ib. 212
Buffoon, or Gracioso, what, i, 77
Burlesque inscription by Swift, to be placed under Blackmore’s picture,
viii, 442
Burnet, Gilbert, anecdote of, ix, 371
account of, x, 267
personal appearance of, ib. 270
account of the relief given by James II. to the French exiled
Protestants, ib. 264
remarks on some part of conduct and writings of, ib. 271
examination of, by the House of Commons, ib. 274
why named Captain of the Test, ib. 276
Burning a Pope, what, vi, 222
Busby, Rev. Dr, Dryden’s letters to, xviii, 96-98
Bussy, D’Ambois, a tragedy, extracts from, vi, 376
Butler, James, vide Ormond, Duke of
Butler, the author of Hudibras, unrewarded by the Court, x, 250
C.
Cæsar Borgia, prologue to, x, 347
Calisto, a masque, dramatis personæ of, x, 337
Calvin, account of, x, 150
Calvinism, history of, by Lewis Maimbourg, x, 30
Cambridge, Dryden admitted to Trinity College of, i, 28
Campian, Edmund, account of, x, 20
Canace to Macareus, epistle of, xii, 21
Candour of Polybius, instance of, xviii, 40
Captain of the Test, Bishop Burnet, why named, x, 276
Carbery, Earl of, vide Vaughan, Lord
Carlell, Lodovick, account of, x, 404
Carrache, character of Ludivico, Hannibal, and Augustine, xvii, 496
Castlemaine treated with contempt by the Pope, x, 305
Castlemain, Lady, poetical epistle to, xi, 20
remarks on, ib. 18
account of, ib. 18
Catholic missionaries, diligence of in the conversion of the Heathen,
x, 192
Catholic faith, Dryden becomes a convert to, i, 303
Dryden firm in his attachment to, ib. 322
Gibbon’s account of his conversion to, ib. 316
Caulfield’s history of the gunpowder plot, extract from, i, 24
Causabon’s commentary on Persius, xiii, 72
Causes of enmity between Dryden and Shadwell, x, 427
Ovid’s banishment, xii, 5-7
Cavendish, William, vide Newcastle, Duke of,
Cayet, P. V. P. account of, xvii, 94
Cecil, John, vide Exeter, Earl of,
Cecilia’s, St, day, song for, xi, 167
remarks on, ib. 165
account of, ib. 165
festival of, ib. 166
day, Ode in honour of, ib. 183
circumstances attending the composition of,i, 408
set to music by Handel, ib. 310
Ceremonies observed by the ancients on escape from shipwreck, ix, 34,
44
Ceyx and Alcyone, fable of, xii, 139
Chancellor Hyde, verses to, ix, 65
Chandos portrait of Shakespeare, xi, 87.
Chapman, George, extracts from tragedy of Bussy D’Ambois of, vi, 376
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