of the foreft of Shotover. 82. His father a Scrivener, and eminent for his kill in mufick, 82. His mother's name Cafton, a Welsh family, 83. His brother Chriftopher, knighted by King James, and made a Judge, 83. His fifter Anne married Edward Philips, Secondary in the Crown Office, who left two fons John and Edward, who were educated by the Poet, 83. Born at his father's, the Spread Eagle in Bread-Street, London, Dec. 9, 1608. 84. Received private tuition under Mr. Young, then went to St. Paul's fchool, and entered Sizar at Chrift's College, Cambridge, Feb. 12, 1624, 84. At fifteen years of age, he verfified pfalm cxiv. and cxxxiv. 85. Wrote many elegies in his eighteenth year, 85. Wrote Latin verfes with claffick elegance, 85. Received corporal punishment at Cambridge, 86. Took his Batchelor's degree 1628, and Master's 1632, 87. Obfervations on his " Scheme of Education," 87. One of his objections to academical education, 87. His objections to entering into the miniftry, 88. After leaving the univerfity, he spent five years with his father in the country, where he read the Greek and Latin authors, 89. His Masque of Comus, first acted in 1634, 89. His Lycidas, written in 1637, and his Arcades about the fame time, 90. Travels in 1638, 90. Scarce any ever wrote fo much, or praised fo few, 91. Particularly noticed at Florence, 91. Receives various Italian testimonies in his favour, 92. Returns to London, 94. Inftructs his nephews J. and E. Philips, and fome other boys, 94. His Biographers inclined to fhrink from this part of his life, 94. A fchoolmaster an honest and useful employment, 95. In education he is faid to have performed wonders, 95. On Sundays he inftructed his scholars in theology, 97. His treatife on reformation, published in 1641, 97. Anfwe's a book of Bishop Ufher's, in defence of Epifcopacy, 97. Publishes his reafons of church government urged against prelacy, and two other pamphlets on the fame subject, 98. Marries Mary Powell, who leaves him after one month, 100. Publishes feveral books on divorce, for which he is called before the Lords, but foon difmiffed, 101. Becomes an enemy to the Prefbyterians, 101. Pays his addreffes to a daughter of Dr. Davis, 101. His wife afks forgiveness, and returns to him, 102. Publishes his Areopagitica, 102. Publishes a collection of Latin and English poems 1645, 103. Takes a larger houfe in Barbican for his cholars, 103. Grants a refuge to the relations of his wife, 103. As a fchoolmafter compared to a chamber milliner, 103. Is fuppofed to have had a defign of entering into Sir W. Waller's army as Adjutant General, 104. Removes to a fmall house in Holborn, 104. Writes in juftification of the King's murder, 104 Writes remarks on the articles of peace between Ormond and the Irish rebels, 104. Sufpected of having interpolated the Icon Bafilike, 105. Anfwers Salmafius's Defenfio Regis, 106. His blindness laid to the charge of Salmafius's book, 108. Lofes his wife in childbed, 109. Marries a daughter of Capt. Woodcock, who also dies in childbed in the fift year, 109. Various anfwers to the " Defenfio Populi," 109. Writes his "Defenfio Secunda," 109. Inftance of his flattery to Cromwell, 109. Suppofed to have written the de

claration

claration of the reafons for a war with Spain, 110. Attempts f
collect a Latin Dictionary, which is afterwards made ufe of in a
new edition of Littleton, 112. Compiles a History of England
to the Conquest, defigns his Paradife Loft, 113. Sketch of the
original plan, 114. Continues to write in favour of a Common-
wealth, even to within a few weeks of the Restoration, 118. At
the Restoration concealed himself in Bartholomew Close, 119. His
Defence burned by the common hangman, 119. His profecution
ftopped by the interceffion of Davenant, whofe life Milton had
faved, 120. Removes to Jewin Street, and marries Elizabeth
Minshul, 121. Is faid to have had an offer of continuing in his
place, 122. Axidence commenced Grammar 1661, 122. Em-
ploys Elwood the quaker to read Latin to him, 123. Takes a
houfe in Artillery Lane, 124. Wrote his Paradife Loft only between
the autumnal and vernal equinoxes, 126. Was of opinion that the
world was in its decay, 127. Imagined the climate too cold for
fights of imagination, 128. His daughters were not taught to
write, 129. Lives unmolefted after the Refloration, 131. Retires
to Chafont during the plague, 131. The next year returns to Bun•
hill-fields, 131. A complete copy of Paradife Loft first feen 1665,
131. Obtains a licence, and fells the copy for 5. and 57. at the
fale of 1300 copies of each of the first three editions, 131. Caufes
of the fuppofed neglect of the Paradife Loft, 133. Books of
various languages read to him by his daughters and friends, 135.
Publishes his Hiftory of England three years after Paradife Loit,
135. Publishes Paradife Regained, and Samplon Agonistes, in the
faire year, 136. Publishes his Artis Logica plenior Inftitutio 1672,
137. Publifhes a Treatife on true Religion, &c. 237. Reprints
his juvenile Poems with fome additions, 138. His last publication
was familiar Epiftles in Latin, fome academical exercises, 138.
Died, Nov. 10, 1674. and buried at St. Giles's Cripplegate, 138.
A monument erected to his memory in Westminster Abbey by Mir.
Benton, 138. His perfon defcribed, 139. His domeftick habits
defcribed, 140. His falary, as Latin fecretary, 2col. a year, 141.
Received 1000l. for his Defence of the People, loft very con-
fiderable fums of money, 141. Left 1500l. to his widow, 141.
Account of his great learning, 141. His theological opinions.
His political notions, 143. He thought woman made only
for obedience, and man for rebellion, 144. Account of his family,
144. Comus, acted April 5, 1750, for the benefit of a grand-
daughter of Milton, Dr. Johnfon wrote a prologue, 146. Ac-
count of his poetical works, 146. Character of his Lycidas, 148.
Character of L'Allegro and 1 Penferofo, 149. Many of their
images borrowed from Burton's anatomy of melancholy, 151.
Maik of Comus characterifed, 151. His Sonnets characterised, 154.
His Paradife Loft characterised, 154. His Paradife Regained
characterised, 172. His Samplon Agonifles characterised, 172.
Philips's Parody on him, characterifed, 292. His Paradife Loft be-
comes popular through Addifon's remarks, iii. 108. Remarks on
his verfification, vi. 91. 105. The peculiarity of it, wherein it
confifts, 106. He formed his fcheme of it upon the models of

142.

Greece

Greece and Rome, 115. Critical remarks on his Samfon Agonifes, a tragedy, vi. 431 437. The apotheofis of, a vifion, xi. 163. Character of his profe works, 179. The Prefident's fpeech for the adm ffion of Milton into the affembly of bards, 186. Cowley's fpeech against his admiffion, 187. Prologue to the Mafque of Comus, acted at Drury Lane Theatre for the benefit of a granddaughter of Milton, 346.

Mince Pies and Plumb l'orridge, animofities excited by the ufe of, ii.

190.

Mind, the tranquillity of it, from what fources generally derived, v. 33. Its extenfive powers difplayed, 266. The rife and progrefs of its difpofitions and faculties, vii. 65. Shewn in the gradations from pleafure to ambition and avarice, 68. The med cires moft fuitable to its diftempers, often unpleafing to the tafte, 117. Mines, alone, not the fource of wealth, x. 309. Without agri ulture, must be exhaufted for the purchase of bread, 509.

Minim, Dick, his hiftory, viii. 239. Ufed the company of the lower players, 239. His opinion of many of the poets, 240. Becomes a critick, 242. Forms a plan for an academy of criticism, 244. Prefides in a critical fociety, 245. His advice to a ftudent, 247. Minifters, account of the difputes between the Independents and Prefbyterians on the authority of, iv. 510.

Mijella, her affecting narrative of her being betrayed by the treachery of her uncle, and the fatal influence of it on her virtue and happinefs, vii. 175. 181.

Mifellus, his account of his commencing an author, v. 103.
Mifery, how encreafed by comparison with happiness, ix. 110.
Miseries of the World, the knowledge of, neceffary to happiness, xi. 9.
Mifapelus, the events which difcouraged him from engaging in
trade, vi. 288. His appearing in the character of a wit, 336.
Mifocolax, his cenfure of the practice of giving unmerited praife, vi.

355

Mijothea, her fondnefs for difputation, vi. 268.

Mify, Dick, his ftory, viii. 315.

Mitia, her conduct in a married life defcribed, v. 230.

Modena, Duke of, tranflation of a diftich on his running away from a comer, xi. 379.

Moderation, man of, his character, vii. 26.

Molefworth, his account of Denmark anfwered by Dr. King, ii. 2. Monaflick life, confiderations on, x'. 135.

Monboddo, Lord, vifited by Dr. Johnfon, x. 326.

Money, no man can be born a lover of it, iv. 73. Enquiry into the value of, in the time of Henry VIII. 626. Enquiry into the value of, in Scotland, about 200 years ago, x. 330. Money landers, their vile practices expofed, ix. 9.

Montague, Lady Mary Wortley, Savage's flattery of her in the dedica tion to his mifcellany of poems, ii. 264.

Montague, Mrs. on feeing a buft of her, xi. 373

Montrofe, account of, x. 325.

Morad, his hiftory, vii. 287. His dying charge to

289.

VOL. XI.

Morality, inquiries relating to it vafly preferable to phyfica! contemplations, v. 157. This truth illuftrated in the character of Gelidus, 157. The ancient poets very exceptionable teachers of it,

188.
Morin, Lewis, his life, tranflated from the Eloge by Fontenelle, iv.
472. Born at Mens 1635, 472. Applies to the ftudy of botany,
472. Studied philofophy at Paris, 473. Studies phyfick, and con-
fines himself to a regimen of bread, water, and fruits, 473. Ad-
mitted Doctor of Phyfick 1662, 474. Phyfician to the Hotel Deau,
474. Phyfician to the Mad. de Guife, who, at her death, leaves
him a pension of 2000 livres, 475. Retires to St. Victor, 475.
Affociate botanift of the Royal Academy 1699, 475• Penfionary
of the Royal Academy, 476. Died 1714, 477.
He kept a
journal of the weather for forty years, 478.

Morrow, Demetrius's fpeech on the expectation of, xi. 257.
Mortality, the due confideration of it a proper means of preventing
our mifery and promoting our happiness, v. 110.

Mother, their greater cruelty in dittieffing their offspring than in
murdering it, ii. 260.

Mountains, on the measurement of the height of, x. 358. Advan-
tages of travelling through mountainous and barren countries, 360.
Mountainous countries generally contain the oldest inhabitants, 364.
Contain inhabitants more barbarous than maritime parts, 365.
Mountaineers are warlike and thievish, 367.

Muack, account of the clan of, x. 399.

Muck and, account of, x. 400.

Mull, Ile, account of, x. 486.

Murray, Lady Sophia, celebrated by Waller under the name of
Amoret, i. 228.

Myrtilla, her account of the character and behaviour of Flavia, vi. 78.
Mujes, memory the mother of, viii. 206.

Muick, the pleasure of ladies in attending mufical performances, viii.

68.

Margyrus, his hittorv, ix. 1. §. Hitory of his companions in the
Flect prifon, 26. zc.

NAIRN. account of, 2. 341,

Narration, hittorical, the difficulty of this kind of writing illuftrated, vi. 328.

Nature, the contemplation of its works, fitted to afford pleasure and intruction, v. 50. It furnishes a fource of proper materials for reflection from the objects about us, and difcovers new reasons for adoring the fovereign Author of the univerfe, 30. By enlarging our curiofity after the works of nature we multiply the inlets of happiness, 32.

Nation, its flate to be difcovered by the manners of the common peo ple, x. 338.

Natural Hijlory, difficulties in writing on that subject, viii. 220.

Nature,

Nature, no danger of her being exhausted, viii. 10.
Naval dominion, its origin, x. 159.

Navigation, no tradition of, before Noah's Ark, ix. 374. Slow
progress of, for two centuries after the discovery of the compafs,
375- Don Henry, fon of John I. King of Portugal, the first who
formed the defign of making new difcoveries about 1410, 375.
Short account of difcoveries made under the direction of Don
Henry, 376. Short account of the progrefs of other discoveries,
387.
Neale, Edmund, known by the name of Smith. See Smith.
Neceffaries, and fuperfluities of life confidered, viii. 147.
Needle work, the folly of confining girls wholly to it, viii. 50.
Negligence, the power of it ftrengthened by fmall indulgencies, vii.
354.

Nekayah joins her brother Raffelas in flying from the happy valley, in
purfuit of happiness, xi. 44. Her enquiries in private life, 68.
During a vifit to the Pyramids, her companion Pekuah carried away
by the Arabs, 92. Her forrow for the lofs of Pekuah, 96. Pekuah
is recovered, 101. Pekuah's adventures, 103. See Raffelas.
Nelson, James, anecdote of him, ix. 147.

Neutrality, a prifoner may promise to observe it, ii. 14.
News, on the fond appetite for, v. 387.

News Papers, account of the Mercurius Aulicus, Mercurius Rufticus,
and Mercurius Civicus, iii. 53. Account of L'Eftrange's Obfervator,
and Lesley's Rehearsal, 53. The advantage of, to idlers, viii. 25.
Contribute to the knowledge of the common people, 26. Direc-
tions for fpinning out news, 27. The amazing encrease of, 119.
Description of a news-writer by Sir Henry Wotton, 119. Quali-
fications of a news-writer, 119. On the encrease of advertisements,
159-
New Scotland, the first plan of establishing a colony there, x. 152.
Newton, Sir Ifaac, Pope's Epitaph intended for him, with the
Vifitor's criticisms, iv. 156. Obfervations on his character, ix.
142. An Epitaph recommended for him, 439. Review of
his four Letters to Dr. Bentley, containing fome arguments in
proof of a Deity, x. 194. Confiderations on the hypothefis of
Matter, 196.

Night, defcribed by Dr. Donne, ii. 38.

Nitella, her exceffive nicety freely cenfured, vi. 281.

Noir, M. le, fhort account of, viii. 192.

Nombre de Dios, account of Drake's expedition against it, iv. 382.
Nothing, criticifm on Lord Rochester's poem on, ii. 200. Poema J.
Pafferatii de Nihilo, zoz.

Novelty, the strong propenfity of the human mind towards it, vi. 54.
Hence we grow weary of uniformity, 55. An eminent fource of
pleafing gratification, 409. The charms of it tranfitory, however
endearing the poffeffion, vii. 191. In writers, confidered, ix. 77.
Nouradin, the merchant of Samarchand, his dying address to his fon
Almamoulin, vi. 314.