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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Gunpowder Plot, extract from Caulfield’s history of, i, 24
Gwynn, Nell, anecdote of, ix, 426
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Hacket, Coppinger, and Arthington, enthusiasm of, vol. x, 28
Hale, Sir Matthew, prejudices of, xiii, 67
Hales, John, anecdote of, xv, 351
Halifax, Marquis of, epistle dedicatory to, viii, 113
account of, ib. 113, ix, 305
Handel, Ode to St Cecilia set to music by, i, 410
Harman, Sir John, exploit of, ix, 179
Harmony of numbers, neglected by the metaphysical poets, i, 17
Hart, the tragedian, account of, x, 328
Harte’s vindication of Statius, xiv, 130
Harvey, William, account of, xi, 15
Hastings, Lord, elegy upon the death of, xi, 94
remarks on, ib. 93
Haughton, Lord, account of, vi, 373
epistle dedicatory to, ib. 373
Hawkers, prodigies of, x, 348
Heads of an answer to Rymer’s remarks, xv, 385
remarks on, ib. 383
Healing Parliament, what, x, 71
Heathen, diligence of Catholic missionaries in converting the, x, 192
Hector and Andromache, last parting of, xii, 382
Heinsius’s definition of satire, xiii, 103
Helen and Paris, epistle of, xii, 26
to Menelaus, epithalamium of, from Theocritus, ib. 292
Heliodorus, anecdote of, vi, 126
Henry II., epilogue to, x, 412
Herbert’s, Lord, History of Henry VIII., extracts from, x, 23
Heresies, History of, Dryden projects a translation of, i, 334
Hero, piety the first quality of, xiv, 161
Heroic plays, character of, i, 118
an essay on, iv, 16
poetry, apology for, v, 105
stanzas to the memory of Oliver Cromwell, ix, 8
remarks on, ib. 3
notes on, ib. 15
or rhyming plays imitated from the French, i, 69
Heylin, Dr Peter, account of, xvii, 190
Heywood, Thomas, account of, x, 446
Hickeringill’s, Edmund, answer to the Medal of Dryden, ix, 452
Higden, Henry, poetical epistle to, xi, 55
remarks on, ib. 52
account of, ib. 52
Higgons’s verses to Congreve, ib. 61
Higre or Eagre, what, x, 65
Hind and Panther, Part I. x, 85
remarks on, ib. 87
parabolical signification of, ib. 90
criticised, ib. 90
application of censured, ib. 90
defended, ib. 91
transversed, extracts from, ib. 91
where composed, i, 325
parody on by Prior and Montague, ib. 330
parody on, x, 91
letters on, ib. 102
libels occasioned by publication of, ib. 104
Swift’s account of, ib. 106
preface to, ib. 109
notes on, ib. 139-157
Part II. ib. 159
notes on, ib. 185-194
Part III. ib. 195
application of justified, ib. 197
notes on, ib. 240-282
Historiographer-royal, Dryden appointed to the office of, i, 115
loses the office of, i, 354
Historical and Political Poems, ix, 1
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