Dinner of loyal apprentices, ix, 396 Disaffected, American colonies a refuge for the, x, 394 Disappointment, epilogue to, ib. 390 Dispute of Dryden with Milbourne, i, 394 Blackmore, ib. 420 Disputes, political, in 1680 and 1681, parallel between, x, 353 Dissolution of Parliament by Cromwell, ix, 45 Distinction between the Greek satirical drama, and the satirical poetry of the Romans, xiii, 47 of comedy into acts, not known to the early Greeks, xv, 311 Distressed circumstances of Wycherly, xiii, 77 Divination, rod of, what, ix, 20 Divines, moderate, what, x, 242 Division of the integral parts of a play, xv, 312 Divisions of history, xvii, 56 commentaries or annals, ib. 2 history proper, ib. 57 biography, ib. 58 Doctrine of Socinius, x, 46 Arius, ib. 146 Dolben, Bishop, account of, ix, 303 Gilbert, account of, xv, 190 Domenichino, character of, as a painter, xvii, 497 Don Sebastian, a tragedy, vii, 271 remarks on, ib. 273 epistle dedicatory to, ib. 283 preface to, ib. 291 prologue to, ib. 302 epilogue to, ib. 444 Donne, character of, as a love-poet, xi, 123 Dorset, Earl of character of, xiii, 7 Essay on Satire, addressed to the, ib. 3 Dryden’s exaggerated praise of, ib. 15 dedication to, xv, 286 song of, written the evening before battle, xv, 284 Double Discovery, or the Spanish Friar, xi, 365 Drama of the Greeks, plot of, xv, 313 Romans, ib. 314 revival of, at the Restoration, i, 65 Dramatic career of Dryden, commencement of, i, 80 termination of, i, 364 poesy, defence of, an essay of, ii, 265 notes concerning, ib. 263 poetry of the last age, essay on, iv, 211 miscellanies, extract from, v, 172 performances among the Romans, origin of, xiii, 51 Dramatic poesy, essay on, xv, 293 writing, English excel the ancients in, xv, 396 Dramatis personæ of Calisto, x, 337 The True Widow, ib. 343 The Humorists, ib. 452 Driden, Sir John, character of, i, 37 Driden, John, of Chesterton, account of, xi, 71 Poetical Epistle to, ib. 75 remarks on, ib. 71 Drury-lane theatre burnt, x, 319