Virgil, works of translated into English verse, xiii, 279 remarks on, ib. 281 advertisement to first edition of, ib. 281 recommendatory poems on, ib. 289 names of subscribers to cuts of, ib. 283 life of, ib. 297 birth of, ib. 298 education of, ib. 300 visits Rome, ib. 301 is introduced to Octavius, ib. 302 visits Athens, ib. 306 loses his patrimony, ib. 307 recovers his patrimony, ib. 309 favour of with Augustus, ib. 313 Georgics of, ib. 311 Pastorals of, ib. 310 Æneis of, ib. 316 sickness and death of, ib. 321 account of the person, manners, and fortune of, ib. 323 character of, xi, 211 Pastorals of translated, xiii, 335-421 dedication of, ib. 337 character of, ib. 339 preface to, ib. 34,5 defence of against the reflections of M. Fontenelle, ib. 345 Pastorals of, Tityrus and Melibæus, ib. 369 Alexis, ib. 374 Palemon, ib. 378 Pollio, ib. 386 Daphnis, ib. 391 Silenus, ib. 397 Melibæus, ib. 402 Pharmaceutria, ib. 407 Lycidas and Mæris, ib. 413 Gallus, ib. 417 Georgics of translated, xiv, 1-122 Æneis of translated, ib. 125, xv, 1-186 anachronism of defended, xiv, 176 an imitator of Homer, ib. 182 Dryden’s translation of the best, ib. 209 character of Lauderdale’s translation of, ib. 223 attack of Swift on Dryden’s translation of, i, 393 specimen of Milbourne’s translation of, i, 397 Dryden’s translation of, circumstances concerning, i, 383 Virtuoso, a comedy, character of, x, 454 Viscount Falkland, account of, viii, 196 W. Wakeman, George, account of, vi, 223 Waller, Sir William, account of, ix, 381 discovery of the meal-tub plot by, ib. 382 Fitzharris’s plot by, ib. 382 Waller and Denham, improvers of English versification, i, 18 Walsh, William, account of, xiii, 297 preface by to the translation of Virgil’s Pastorals, ib. 345 Walter, William, tragedy of Guiscard and Sigismund by, xi, 403 Warlock, what meant by, xiv, 164 Wars, civil, interrupted the study of poetry in England, i, 20 Wentworth, Lady Henrietta Maria, account of, x, 337 Whig and Tory, origin of the names of, ix, 208 Whigs, epistle to the, ib. 417 Whip and Key, account of, ib. 425 White, John, account of, x, 257 White-boys, what meant by, vii, 257 Whitmore, Lady, epitaph on, xi, 150 Wif of Bathes Tale, by Chaucer, xii, lxxxii Wife of Bath, a tale, xi, 377 remarks on, ib. 376 Wild, Dr Robert, Iter Boreale of, xv, 296 Wild Gallant, a comedy, ii, 13 remarks on, ib. 15 preface to, ib. 17 prologues to, ib. 19, 21 epilogues to, ib. 106, 107 Will’s Coffee-house, authority of Dryden in, i, 371 William III. Titus Oates pensioned by, viii, 464 Wilmot, John, vide Earl of Rochester Wilson’s life of Congreve, extract from, xviii, 200