French stage, punctilios of, v, 307 exiled Protestants, relief given by King James II. to, x, 264 poetry, character of, xiii, 366 better critics than the English, xiv, 159 authors, scrupulous observers of the unities of time and action, xv, 325 observe the laws of the stage, and decorum more exactly than the English, xv, 336 plays, character of, ib. 337 servility of the, in attention to the unities, ib. 346 Friar Bacon, anecdote of, vii, 10 Friends, literary, of Dryden, i, 373 Friendship of Dryden with Southerne and Congreve, i, 372 Frontispiece to Albion and Albanus, vii, 231 Fuller, William, account of, viii, 329 Fuller’s anecdote of Robert Keies, i, 23 Funeral Pindaric poem, x, 53 of Dryden, i, 440 Farquhar’s ludicrous account of, ib. 441 Tom Brown’s account of, ib. 443 Mr Russel’s bill for, xviii, 194 Mrs Thomas’s letters concerning, ib. 200 description of, ib. 195 procession at the death of St Francis Xavier, description of, xvi, 465 G. Gallant, Wild, a comedy, vol. ii, 13 actions of Prince Rupert, ix, 167-174 the Duke of Albemarle, ix, 168, 171 action of Edward Spragge, xi, 24 Gallantry of the Duke of Buckingham, xv, 211 Gallus, a pastoral, xiii, 417 Garth’s character of Dryden’s Translations, i, 340 Georgic, definition of, xiv, 16 Georgics of Virgil, translation of, xiv, 1-122 dedication of, ib. 3 essay on, ib. 14 character of, ib. 25 notes on, ib. 123 Book I. ib. 27 II. ib. 49 III. ib. 73 IV. ib. 98 Georgione, character of, xvii, 492 German jollity, xi, 44 Giants’ war, xii, 69 Gibbon’s account of his conversion to the Catholic faith, i, 316 character of Pope Nicholas V. xviii, 24 account of the murder of Lucian, ib. 57 Gilbert, Dr William, account of, xi, 15 Goa, description of, xvi, 71 Godfrey, Sir Edmondbury, account of, ix, 285 Golden age, from Ovid, xii, 66 Government of Japan, xvi, 291 Gracioso, or buffoon, what, i, 77 Grafton, Duke of, account of, ix, 396 Graham, James, vide Dundee, Viscount Granville, George, poetical epistle to, xi, 64 remarks on, xi, 63 Great Favourite, answer to the preface of the, ii, 265 Grecian dramas, plot of, xv, 313 Greek satirical drama, and the satirical poetry of the Romans, distinction between, xiii, 47 Greeks, comedy distinguished by acts not known to the early, xv, 311 Grey, Lord, pusillanimous conduct of, ix, 276 Griselda, story of, not invented by Petrarch, xi, 215 Grounds of criticism in tragedy, vi, 243 Growth of Popery, by Andrew Marvel, ix, 420 Guardian angels, machinery of, xiii, Guibbons, Dr William, Dryden’s acknowledgment to, xi, 77 Guido, character of as a painter, xvii, 496 Guise, Duke of, a tragedy, vii, 1 assassination of, xvii, 148 Gunman, Captain Christopher, extract from journal of, i, 301