INDEX

TO THE

TWO VOLUMES.

A.

ADDISON, Mr. his judgment of the double sense
of verbs, i. 359. his Cato, defended, 102. not
too poetical, ib. its real defects, ib. his criti-
cism on Milton proceeds on just principles, 393.
how far defective, 396.

AENEIS, prefigured under the idea of a temple,
i. 333. the destruction of Troy, an episode,
why, i. 139.

AGLAOPHON, his rude manner of painting; why
preferred to Parrhasius and Zeuxis, i. 346.
ALLEGORY, the distinguished pride of ancient
poetry, i, 343. a fine instance from Virgil, 333.
ANCIENTS, immoderately extolled, why, i. 346.
ANTIGONE, the chorus of it defended, i. 158.
APHORISMS, Condemned in the Roman writers, i,

184. why used so frequently by the Greeks, 185.
APOLLONIUS Rhodius, why censured by Aristopha-
⚫nes and Aristarchus, i, 267.

APOTHEOSIS, the usual mode of flattery in the Au-
gustan age, i. 333.

ARISTOTLE, his opinion of Homer's imitations, i.
67. of Euripides, 116. of the business of the
chorus, 145. of the sententious manner, 186.
his fine Ode, corrected, 188. n. translated, 189.
of the origin of tragedy, 194. a passage in his
poetics explained, 123. his censure of the
Iphigenia at Aulis, considered, 131. he was
little known at Rome in Cicero's time, 191. why
Horace differs from him in his account of Aeschy-
lus's inventions, 240. a supposed contradiction
between him and Horace reconciled, 263. his
judgment of moral pictures, 375. his admiration
of an epithet in Homer, on what founded, ii. 126.
ART and NATURE, their provinces in forming a
poet, i. 273.

ATELLANE FABLE, a species of Comedy, i. 192.

different from the satyric piece, 195. the Oscan
language used in it, 198. why criticised by Ho-
race, 206. in what sense Pomponius, the In-
ventor of it, 198.

ATHENAEUS, of the moralizing turn of the Greeks,
i. 187.

AUCTOR ad Herennium, defines an aphorism, i. 184.
AUGUSTUS, fond of the old Comedy, i. 228. n.

B.

BACON, Lord, his idea of poetry, ii. 178.

BALZAC, Mr. his flattery of LOUIS LE JUSTE, i. 344,

BEAUTY, the idea of, how distinguished from the
pathetic, i. 110.

BENTLEY, Dr. corrections of his censured, i. 71,
72, 106, 142. an interpretation of his confuted,
110. a conjecture of his confirmed, 349.

Bos, M. de, how he accounts for the effect of Tra-
gedy, i. 119. for the degeneracy of taste and
literature, 264. what he thought of modern imi-
tations of the ancient poets, ii. 224.is
BOUHOURS, P. his merit as a critic, pointed out,
i. 393. wherein censured, 395.

.

BRUMOY, P. his character, i. 133. commends the
Athalie and Esther of Racine, 145. justifies the
chorus, ib. accounts for the sententious manner
of the Greek stage, 185. an observation of his
on the imitation of foreign characters, 247.
BRUYERE, M. de la, an observation of his concern-
ing the manners, ii. 135.

BUSIRIS, in what sense a ridiculous character, i.

208.

C.

CAESAR, C. Julius, his judgment of Terence, i. 225.
CASAUBON, Isaac, his book on satyric poetry re-
commended, i. 194. an emendation of his con-
firmed, 208.

CHARACTER, the object of comedy, ii. 56. of what
sort, 40. of what persons, ib. plays of, in what
faulty, 48. instances of such plays, 53.

CHARACTERS, of comedy, general; of tragedy,
particular, why, ii. 48. this matter explained at
large, to 54.

CHORUS, its use and importance, i. 145. its moral
character, 156. more easily conducted by ancient

than modern poets, 161. improvements in the
Latin tragic chorus, 179.

CICER, M. Tullius, of the use of old words, i. 891 of
self-murder, 162. of poetic licence, 174. of the
language of Democritus and Plato, 180. of the
music of his time, 182. of the neglect of philo-
sophy, 191. of the mimes, 205. of Plautus's wit,
220. does not mention Menander, 229. mentions
corporal infirmities as proper subjects for ridicule,
231. of a good poet, 249. of decorum, 251. of
the use of philosophy, ib.

CID, of P. Corneille, its uncommon success, to
what owing, i. 398.
CLOWNS, their character in Shakespear, i. 186.
COMEDY, Roman, three species of it, i. 192.

the author's idea of it, ii. 30. conclusions
concerning its nature, from that idea, 37. attri-
butes, common to it and tragedy, 42. attributes,
peculiar to it, 45. its genius, considered at large,
57. M. de Fontenelle's notion of it, considered,
75. idea of it enlarged since the time of Aristotle,
65. polite and heroic, what we are to think of it,
86. on high life, censured, ib. of modern inven-
tion, ib. accounted for, 87. why more difficult
than tragedy, ib.