Constantine the Great, epilogue to, x, 386 Contest at the election of Sheriffs for London, ix, 404 Contract, Dryden’s, with the King’s company of players, i, 102 Controversy between Athanasius and Arius, x, 15 concerning the comparative merits of the ancients and moderns, xii, 45 between Dryden and Stillingfleet, concerning the Duchess of York’s paper, xvii, 185 remarks on, ib. 187 between Dryden and Sir Robert Howard, i, 94 Matthew Clifford, ib. 154 Richard Leigh, ib. 157 Edward Ravenscroft, ib. 160 Earl of Rochester, ib. 195 Shadwell, ib. 259 Elkanah Settle, ib. 259 Rymer, ib. 379 Milbourne, ib. 394 Contumacy, Dryden punished at College for, ib. 28 Copy of a paper written by the late Duchess of York, xvii, 189 Corinna, Charles Dryden’s letter to, xviii, 213 Corneille, character of Œdipe of, vi, 119 Coronation of Charles II. panegyric on, ix, 54 Corregio, character of, as a painter, xvii, 494 Correspondence of Dryden with Madam Honor Dryden,xviii, 86 with the Earl of Rochester, ib. 89, 101 with the Rev. Dr Busby, ib. 96, 98 with Jacob Tonson, ib. 103, 106, 109, 118, 119, 121, 122, 123, 124, 126, 127, 128, 130, 136, 137, 138 with Mr Dennis, ib. 111, 114 with Mrs Steward, ib. 141, 144, 146, 147, 149, 150, 153, 156, 157, 161, 169, 171, 174, 178, 180 with his sons, at Rome, ib. 131 with Elmes Steward, Esq. ib. 143 with Samuel Pepys, ib. 154, 156 with the Right Hon. Charles Montague, ib. 159 with Mrs Elizabeth Thomas, junior, xviii, 164, 167, 173 Court of Requests, a scene of political intrigue, x, 348 Covenant in England, and League in France, parallel between, i, 281 Coventry, Sir John, assault on, ix, 258 Cowardice of the Earl of Rochester, xv, 215 Cowley, the most ingenious poet of the metaphysical class, i, 15 character of Cromwell by, ix, 4 imitation of, ib. 191 and Denham’s manner of Prose translation, xii, 14 translation of Pindar by, ib. 15 Cranmer, George, account of, x, 26 Creech, Thomas, account of, xii, 277 Dryden’s conduct with regard to, censured, viii, 200 justified, ib. 202 Dedication of to Horace, extract from, ib. 220 Life of Cleomenes by, ib. 207 Verses by on Religio Laici, x, 36 Note and Letter on a passage in Translation of Lucretius by, xviii, 94 Cressy, Hugh Paulin, account of, x, 21 Critical history of the Old Testament, translator of, x, 32 Criticism, in tragedy, grounds of, vi, 243 specimen of Milbourne’s on Dryden’s Virgil, i, 397 Critics censured by Dryden, xii, 49 French better than the English, xiv, 159