Plutarch, Lives of, advertisement to translation of, xvii, 3 preface to, appearance of, i, 289 Life of, xvii, 1 remarks on, ib. 3 birth of, xvii, 19 education of, ib. 23 travels, ib. 27 religion of, ib. 31 marriage of, ib. 39 children of, ib. 39 visits Rome, ib. 45 letter of to Trajan, ib. 49 chosen Archon of Chæronea, ib. 51 his Lives, ib. 51 other works, ib. 52 character of the Lives of, ib. 62 Poem on the restoration of Charles II. ix, 30 birth of the prince, x, 283 an epic one the greatest work of human genius, xiii, 36 parts of, xv, 386 epic, meditated by Dryden, i, 215 epistolary to Dryden, extract from, xviii, 218 Poems, satirical, of Dryden, effect of on English poetry, i, 275 attacking Dryden for his silence on the death of Queen Mary, extract from, xviii, 222 Poems Historical and Political, ix, 1 of Sprat and Dryden, comparison between, ib. 6 on the accession of James II. titles of some of, x, 59 recommendatory on Dryden’s translation of Virgil, xiii, 289 ascribed to Dryden, xv, 197 advertisement regarding, ib. 199 Poet-Laureat, Dryden appointed to the office of, i, 115 Dryden loses the office of, i, 354 Poetic licence, apology for, v, 105 Poetical addresses to James II. on the birth of a son, x, 286 Poetical Epistles, xi, 1-90 Epistle to John Hoddeson, ib. 4 Sir Robert Howard, ib. 7 Dr Charleton, ib. 14 Lady Castlemain, ib. 20 Mr Lee, ib. 23 the Earl of Roscommon, ib. 28 the Duchess of York, ib. 33 Mr J. Northleigh, ib. 37 Sir George Etherege, ib. 42 Mr Southerne, ib. 50 Henry Higden, ib. 55 Mr Congreve, ib. 59 Mr Granville, ib. 64 Mr Motteux, ib. 69 John Driden, ib. 75 Sir Godfrey Kneller, ib. 85 from Pope to Jervas, xvii, 282 Poetry, Dramatic, Essay on, iv, 211 Heroic, apology for, v, 105 the chief end of instruction, vi, 246 French, character of, xiii, 366 expression in, the same as colouring in a picture, xiv, 210 Art of, xv, 227 remarks on, ib. 229 Elegy, ib. 240 Ode, ib. 240 Pastoral, ib. 238 Epigram, ib. 241 Poetry, Art of, Satire, xv, 243 Tragedy, ib. 245 and painting, parallel of, xvii, 286 of England before the Civil Wars, remarks on, i, 4 study of interrupted by the Civil Wars, ib. 20 Sir William Davenant a restorer of true taste in, ib. 48 character of Homer’s, xii, 59 English, effect of Dryden’s satirical poems upon, i, 275 Poets, metaphysical, what, ib. 10 Cowley the most ingenious of, ib. 15 neglected harmony of numbers, ib. 17 Poland, crown of, Shaftesbury ridiculed as aspiring to, ix, 441 Political and Historical Poems, ib. 1 satire of Reynard the Fox, x, 155 Political affairs, skill of Polybius in, xviii, 31 Politics, Dryden engages in, i, 239