Don Sebastian, 338. Amphytrion, derived from Plautus and
Molere, 339.
Cleomenes, 339. King Arthur, 339- Love
Triumphant, 340. Did not raise his fortune by the number of his
pieces, 340.
Ufed to add a preface of criticifm to his plays, 341.
Wrote Prologues to many plays, the price of which was two guineas,
and afterwards raifed to three guineas, 341. Contracted to furnish
four plays a year, 341. In 1678, produced fix full plays, 341.
Attacked by criticks, and oppofed by rivals, 342. Characterised
by the name of Bayes in the Rehearsal, 342. Criticks nor rivals
did him no harm, 344. Repels cenfure by an adamantine con-
fidence, 314. Waylaid and beaten for being fuppofed to have been
the author of an Effay on Satire, 345. His name thought neceflary
for the fuccefs of every poetical and literary performance, 345.
He wrote the lives of Polybius, Lucian, and Plutarch, and tranflated
the first book of Tacitus, 345. Affifted in tranflating Ovid's Epittles,
and add a preface on tranflation, 345. Writes Abfalom and
Achitophel, which is feveral times answered, 346. Medal, which
is anfwered by Settle and others, 347. After the acceffion of
James, declared himself a convert to popery, 348. Engaged to
defend the papers found in the ftrong box of Charles II. 350.
Tranflites Maimburg's hiftory of the league, and the life of Francis
Xavier, 350. Suppofed to have undertaken to translate Varillas's
Hillory of Herefies, and to have answered Burnet, 351. Burnet's
obfervation on the Answer, 351. Publishes the Hind and Panther,
which is anfwered by the Earl of Halifax, Prior, Tom Brown, &c.
At the Revolution

352.

Writes on the birth of a prince, 354.
loofe the place of Laureat, 354. Celebrates Shadwell's inaugura-
tion in Mac Feckroe, 355. Lord Dorfet is faid to have continued
the falary of I aureat to him, 355. In 1690, writes Don Sebastian,
and in 1691 four other dramas, 355. In 193, publishes his
tranflation of Juve, al and Perfius, 355. Purpofes writing an Epick
Poem either on Arthur or the Black Prince, 356. He charged
Blackmore with fealing his plan, 357- In 1694, begins his
tranflation of Virgil, which he publishes in 1697, 357. Tranfl.tes
Frefoy's Art of Painting into English profe, 357. Fables, bis
laft work, published 1599, 357. Doubts refpecting the person who
Brit fet the Ode on St. Cecilia's Day, to mufick, 358. Died in
Gerard-fireet, May 1, 1701, 358. A wild flory respecting his
funeral, 359. Buried amongst the Poets in Weftminster Abbey,
362. A monument erected to his memory by the Duke of Buck-
inghamshire, 363. Account of his defcendants, 363. His cha-
racter as defcribed by Congreve, 364. Differently defcribed by Dr.
Johnlor, 365. Copy of the agreement with Jacob Tonfon, to
pay him 250 guineas for 10,0co verfes, 373. Said to have re-
ceived 5col. from the Dutchefs of Ormond, as a compliment for
his Fables, 375. Said to have received forty pounds from a mufical
fociety for the ufe of Alexander's Featt, 375. In his younger
years put confidence in judicial astrology, 376. His character as a
poet and critick, 377. The father of English criticism, 377. Cri-
ticifms on various paffages of his poems, 391. Specimen of M-
borne's criticiim on Dryden's tranflation of Virgil, 415. Hs

oblervations

obfervations on Rymer's remarks on the tragedies of the laft age, 435. Copy of a Letter to his fons in Italy, 445. His opinion of Lord Rofcommon's Effay on tranflated Verfe, 212. Milton thought him a good rhymift, but no poet, 142. Declares that Swift will never be a poet, iii. 375. Compared with Pope, iv. 107. Wrote merely for the people, 107. His profe works characterifed, 109. Compofed without confideration, and published without correction, 109. His inattention and inaccuracy remarked, v. 201. His character of Shakespeare, ix. 300. Defcribed in the affembly of bards, xi. 169.

Dryden, John, jun. writer of The Hufband his own Cuckold, ii. 363. Duke, Richard, his life, ii. 476. Bred at Westminster, and took his Mafter's Degree at Cambridge 1682. 476. Prebendary of Gloucefter, and chaplain to Queen Anne, 477. Died February 10,

171C-11, 477.

Dumb and Deaf, account of Braidwood's academy at Edinburgh for,

x. 520.

Dun er Borough, in the life of Sky, defcribed, x. 401. Suppofed to have been places of fafety for the cattle, 402.

Dun Bay, account of, x. 334.

Dunciad, the part Savage was fuppofed to have in publishing it, iii.

281.

Dutch War of 1652, account of the engagement at fea between the Dutch Admirals and Admiral Blake, iv. 353.

Dutch, their revolt the power of Spain, x. 159. Raised to power by. their plan of commerce, 160. Their increafing power, 164. Dyer, John, his life, iv. 210. Born in 1700, at Aberglafney, in Caermarthenshire, 210. Educated at Westminster, and defigned for the law, 210. Becomes itinerant painter, 210. Travels to Italy, and on his return publishes the Ruins of Rome, 211. Enters into the church, 211. His preferments, 211. Publishes The Fleece, 1757, 211. Died 1758, 212. His works characterised, 212. Akenfide's opinion of The Fleece, 213.

E.

FARBURY, Mr. account of him, and his pretending to prophecy, iv. 512. His difputes with Mr. Cheynal, 512.

Earfe Language, ufed in a Kirk at Inverness, x. 345. Account of, 459. No MS. of that language more than 100 years old, 459. Many dialects of, 461.

Earfe Poetry, understood by Mifs Maclean of Mull, x. 487.
Earth, advantages from the pofition of it, vii. 171.

Editors, the impropriety of their altering works of authors left to their care, iv. 169. The duty of, ix. 29.

Education, the difficulty attending it, iv. 20. Those who make the avenues to it eafier, are the friends of mankind, 462. The method ufed by Barretier for inftructing his fon in the languages, 466.

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The

The importance of conducting it aright, vi. 78, 88. Errors in the conduct thereof cenfured, 243. 388. 393. vii. 294. The pernicious effects of wrong management in this affair, vi. 255 Some instances of remiffness and irregularity fpecified, vi. 388. vii. 280. 327. The folly of employing girls on ufeless needlework, and neglecting every other part of their education, viii. 50. The importance of, ix. 401. Want of variety and novelty in books defigned for, 402. Plan of the Preceptor, 407. Confiderations on the education of the children of the poor, x. 232. Expence of a fcholar of the highest clafs in the Univerfity of St. Andrews, for the term of seven months 154 for the lower clafs 107. 320. The courfe of, in the University of Aberdeen, 331.

Egmont Part. See Falkland Islands.

Eigin, accourt of, x. 339.

The ruins of the Cathedral, 339. Eloquence, that falfe fort which only confuses the reader, ridiculed, viii. 141.

Einucod, the Quaker, fome account of, ii. 123.

Eminent Men, leall eminent at home, viii. 202.

Embalming, on the practice of, xi. 138.

Emigration, flate of, from the Hebrides, confidered, x. 432. Eminence, a proof of it in having many enemies as well as friends, v. 58.

Employment, the neceffity of, viii. 291.

Eichantment, the history of, ix. 312.

Enemies, the duty and charity of relieving them, x. 285.

England fupposed by Milton to be too cold a climate for flights of imagination, ii. 128.

Englife, remarkably barren of historical genius, vi. 329. The little proficiency made by them in civil wisdom, x. 4. On the bravery of their common foldiers, 286. Arifes very much from the diffolution of dependence which obliges every man to regard his own character, 288.

English Dictionary, plan of that work addreffed to the Earl of Chefterneld, ix. 165. Original motives, only from the patronage of the Proprietors, 165. Difficulties in fixing the plan, 169. from the words to be omitted, 169. from the accents, 172. from the uncertainty of orthography, 172, 194. from the pronunciation, 174 from the etymology, 176, 203. from the fyntax, 180. from explanation with brevity, 181, from the various meaning of the fame word, 182. from antiquated words, 187, 205. from impure words, 187. Preface to the English Dictionary, 193. Writer of dictionaries characterised, 193.

English Language, the progress of, viii. 255. Richer than commonly fuppofed, 365. Contains fufficient information in every branch of fcience, 366,

Ennius, his epitaph, written by himself, ix. 443.

Enterprises, the various opponents to, iv. 414.

Envy, its malignant influence defcribed, vii. 252. Will often crifice truth and friendship to weak temptations, 253. Epaminondas, his death a proper fubject for

ISI.

a piЯure, viii.

Requifites in a writer of, 155.

Epick Poetry, what it is, ii. 154. Boileau's opinion of, 356. Epictetus, his falutary inftructions for preferving the mind from the elevation of vanity, and the dejection of grief, v. 12. His excellent fentiments on the advantage of being influenced by the fears of poverty and death, 111. His epitaph, ix. 445. Epigramma, xi. 426. Epigram, de Sacerdote furem confolante epigramma, iii. 151. De Bardilla, Latrone Mantuano, 151.

Epifcopacy, Mr. Waller's fpeech against it, ii. 231.

Epiftolary Writing, its difficulty and excellence, vii. 70. It ought to bear a ftrict conformity to nature, and the various purposes defigned by it. 72, 74.

Epitaphs, the difficulty of writing them on common characters, iv. 151. Effay on, ix. 436. Enquiry into what the perfection of, confifts, 437. Intended to perpetuate examples of virtue, 438. The name alone fufficient for eminent men, 438. All allufions to Heathen mythology abfurd, 440. Impropriety of addreffing the paffenger in, 442. First rule in writing, not to omit the name, 443. Regard for truth to be observed, 444. Private virtue the best fubject for, 444.

Erafmus, his diligent and unwearied improvement of time applauded, vi. 237:

Eriphile, her exceffive peevifhnefs cenfured, vi. 262.

Errol, Earl of, invites Dr. Johnfon to his feat at Slanes Caftle, x. 333.

Error, the averfion of moft perfons to be convinced of it, v. 201: 203. Their attempts to justify it generally the effect of obttinacy or pride, 201. 203.

Etymology, difficulties in fettling it, ix. 176.

Elays, the extenfiveness and variety of this kind of writing, vii. 254. The advantages and inconveniencies of it, 254.

Effence of Things, lefs regarded than their external and accidental appendages, vii. 130.

Eubulus, his character, v. 168. 180.

Evening, An Ode, to Stella, xi. 35%.

Events, fome of the most confiderable, often produced by cafual and flender causes, vii. 1.

Evil, thoughts on the origin of, viii. 357. The cause of all good, 358. Review of a Free Enquiry into the Nature and Origin of, x. 220. How far may be faid to be our good, 241. The folly of lamenting evils which may never happen, xi. 77. Eumathes, his free cenfure of the errors of modern education, vi. 388, 393. His judicious conduct in the tuition of a young noble. man, vii. 310. His narrative of the low infidious arts by which his good defigns were obstructed and defeated, 313. The mean adventures of his pupil related, 317.

Eumenes, his character, v. 4c4.

Euphelia, an account of her rural amufements, v. 273, 298.

Euphemia, her character, v. 8o.

Euphues, his character, v. 160.

Evremond,

Evremond, M. St. defcribed in the affembly of bards, xi. 175.
Euripides, parody of a tranflation from the Medea, xi. 376. Excerpta
ex Medea, 426.

Euryalus, his story, i. 107.

Expeditions and Voyages, in fearch of new countries, abftract account
of, x. 34. Il confequences of, 63.

Eutropius, his account of the indecent and infulting conduct of Tri-
pherus, vi. 175, 176, 177.

Excellence, the defire of it laudable, v. 421. Practical and ideal,
widely different, vi. 259.

Exercife, its neceffity to the health and vigour of the body, vi. 86.
Existence, every stage and period of it should be diftinguished by fome
improvement, vii. 94.

Expectation, the torment of it greatest in the early feasons of life, vi.
255. The practice of difappointing the expectations of others, in-
confiftent with true friendship, vii. 135. This instance of wrong
conduct exemplified in the cafe of Liberalis, 141, 140. Our ex-
pectations often vifionary and difappointing, 323, 324.

External Appearances frequently delufive, vii. 323.
Extravagance, fome inftances of it related, vii. 299.

F.

FAILINGS, the detection of them too generally received with
difguit, v, 156.

Falkland, Lord, tries the Sortes Virgilianæ, ii. 11.

Falkland lands, thoughts on the late tranfactions refpecting them,
(1771) X. 34. Suppofed to have been firft difcovered by Capt.
Davis 1592. 56. Vifited 1594, by Sir Richard Hawkins, and called
Hawkins's Maiden Land, 37. Difcovered by the Dutch 1598, and
called Sebald's Islands, 37.
Obtained the name of Falkland Islands
1698, from Capt. Strong, 37. Said by Strong to have no wood,
and by Dampier to have to water, 37. Called the Malouines by
the Spaniards, 38. A fettlement recommended on Pepys Inland by
Anfon, 8. An expedition for the further difcovery of, purpofed
in 1748, but oppofed, and put off by the Spaniards, 40. Captain By.
ron fent to take poffeffion of them 1765, with his favourable account
of the fland, and called the harbour Port Egmont, 42. Captain
Macbride fent 1766, 43. His unfavourable account of the Island,
43. A garrifon fationed at Port Egmont, 44. Meffages and replies
between the governor of Port Egmont and the Spanish Port Solidad,
45. Port Egmont attacked by a fleet from Buenos Ayres, and
taken, 48. A fleet prepared by England, and negociations
opened to fettle the differences, 50. The Spaniards agree to restore
Port Egmont, 54. Confequences to be expected had a war taken
place, 61.

Fall of Fiers, account of, x. 351.

False Alarm, (1770.) x. 3. Former general caufes of, removed, 4.
Through want of proficiency in civil learning, 4.

Falsehood,