James I. state of learning in England on the accession of, i, 5 false taste in age of, ib. 9 play of words in age of, ib. 10 traditionary anecdote of, ib. 13 attached to the sports of the chace, viii, 451 account of one of the revels of, ib. 452 II. titles of poems on accession of, x, 59 character of addresses on accession of, ib. 110 professions of at accession of, ib. 262 declaration of concerning the church of England, ib. 262 relief given by to the French exiled Protestants, x, 264 character of, ib. 226, 265 poetical addresses to on the birth of a son of, ib. 286 birth of son of said to be spurious, ib. 286 believed by the Papists miraculous, ib. 285, 302 pregnancy of queen of ridiculed, ib. 303 account of the birth of son of by Smollet, ib. 305 vide York, Duke of Eleanor, account of, x, 116 author of a Vindication of the Church of England, ib. 116 John, extract from poem of, ix, 164 Japan, island of, description of, xvi, 290 government of, ib. 291 religion of, ib. 292 language of, ib. 295 Idylliums of Theocritus, translations from, xii, 285-307 Jervas, poetical epistle to, xvii, 282 Jesuits, establishment of in England, x, 255 Iliad of Homer, Book I. translations from, xii, 357 moral not intended in, xiv, 134 Tasso’s imitation of, xiii, 17 Illegitimate children of Charles II. ix, 250 Illiberality of Stillingfleet and Dryden, x, 251 Imitation of Cowley, ix, 191 in translation, what, xii, 12 of Homer by Virgil, xiv, 182 Immunities of the city of London defended, vii, 127 Impossible to translate verbally, xii, 12 Imprisonment and acquittal of the Earl of Shaftesbury, ix, 409 Indelicacy of the stage in the age of Dryden, i, 417 Independents, description of, x, 140 Infallibility, not in the Pope alone, ib. 164-187 Indian Queen, a tragedy, ii. 201 remarks on, ib. 203 prologue to, ib. 205 epilogue to, ib. 255 Indian Emperor, a tragedy, ii, 257 dedication to, ib. 259 remarks on, ib. 290 prologue to, ib. 295 epilogue to, ib. 377 connection of to the Indian Queen, ib. 293 Inaccuracy of Dryden with regard to Sir Philip Sydney, xiii, 18 Indelicacy of Lucretius, xii, 276 Infamous conduct of Lord Howard, ix, 278 Innocent Traitor, extract from, ix, 198 Inscription, burlesque, to be placed under Sir Richard Blackmore’s picture, viii, 445 Inscription under Milton’s picture, xi, 160 Insolence of the Dutch, ix, 162 Instruction, the end of all poetry, vi, 246 Instructions of St Francis Xavier to missionaries, xvi, 228 Insurrection of Count Teckeli, x, 387 Integral parts of a play, Aristotle’s distinction of, xv, 312 Interment of St Francis Xavier, xvi, 456 Intrigue, comedies of, introduced, i, 76 of Dryden with Mrs Reeves, ib. 87