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repent me of them, fince they have been innocent at leaft, and even ingenuous; and, what I am fondeft to recollect, have helped to enliven thofe many years of friendship we have paffed together in this place. I fee indeed, with regret, the approach of that time, which threatens to take me both from it and you. But, however fortune may difpofe of me, fhe cannot throw me to a distance, to which your affection and good wifhes, at leaft, will not follow me.

:And for the reft,

"Be no unpleafing melancholy mine."

The coming years of my life will not, I forefee, in many refpects, be what the paft have been to me. But, till they take me from myself, I must always bear about me the agreeable remembrance of our friend

fhip.

CAMBRIDGE,. Aug. 15, 1757.

I am,

Dear Sir,

Your most affectionate

Friend and Servant.

INDEX

IN DE X

TO THE

THREE VOLUMES.

A

A.

RT and NATURE, their provinces in forming a poet, vol. i. p. 271.

AGLAOPHON, his rude manner of painting; why preferred to Parrhafius and Zeuxis, ii. 58. ANTIENTS, immoderately extolled, why, ibid. ATELLANE, fable, a fpecies of comedy, i. 182. different from the fatiric piece, 186. the Ofcan language ufed in it, 189. why criticized by Horace, 197. in what fenfe Pomponius the inventor of it, 188.

AENEIS, prefigured under the idea of a temple, ii. 44. the deftruction of Troy, an episode, why, i. 122.

ATHENAEUS, of the moralizing turn of the Greeks, i. 176.

ALLEGORY, the diftinguished pride of ancient

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poetry, ii. 55. a fine inftance from Virgil,

44.
ADDISON, Mr. his judgment of the double fense

of verbs, ii. 73. his Cato, defended, 74. not
too. poetical, ib. its real defects, i. 86. his
criticism on Milton proceeds on juft principles,
ii. III. how far defective, 114.
ARISTOTLE, his opinion of Homer's imitations,
i. 41. of Euripides, 97. of the bufiness of the
chorus, 129. of the fententious manner, 175.
his fine ode, corrected, 177, note; translated,
179. of the origin of tragedy, 185. a paffage
in his Poetics explained, 104. his cenfure of
the Iphigenia at Aulis, cónfidered, 113. he
was little known at Rome in Cicero's time,
181. why Horace differs from him in his
account of Aeschylus's inventions, 236. a sup-
pofed contradiction between him and Horace
reconciled, 261. his judgment of moral pic-
tures, ii. 91. his admiration of an epithet in
Homer, on what founded, iii. 18.

ANTIGONE, the chorus of it defended, i. 144.
APOLLONIUS Rhodius, why cenfured by Arifto-
phanes and Ariftarchus, i. 266.

APOTHEOSIS, the ufual mode of flattery in the
Auguftan age, ii. 43.

APHORISMS, Condemned in the Roman writers,
i. 180. why used fo frequently by the Greeks,

ib.

AUCTOR,

AUCTOR ad Herennium, defines an aphorifm,

i. 173.

AUGUSTUS, fond of the old comedy, i. 223. n.

B.

BACON, lord, his idea of poetry, iii. 75. BALZAC, Mr. his flattery of LOUIS LE JUSTE,

ii. 57.

BENTLEY, Dr. corrections of his cenfured, i.

46. 84. 126. an interpretation of his confuted, 90. a conjecture of his confirmed, ii. 62.

BEAUTY, the idea of, how diftinguished from the pathetic, i. 89.

Bos, M. de, how he accounts for the effect of

tragedy, i. 99. for the degeneracy of taste and literature, 263. what he thought of modern imitations of the ancient poets, iii. 126. BOUHOURS, P. his merit, as a critic, pointed out, ii. III. wherein cenfured, 113.

BUSIRIS, in what fenfe a ridiculous character, i.

200.

BRUYERE, M. de la, an obfervation of his concerning the manners, iii. 28. BRUMOY, P. his character, i. 115. commende the Athalie and Efther of Racine, 129. juftifies the chorus, ib. accounts for the fententious manner of the Greek ftage, 174, an obfervation R 2

of

of his on the imitation of foreign characters,

243.

C.

CASAUBON, Ifaac, his book on fatiric poetry
recommended, i. 184. an emendation of his
confirmed, 200.

CHARACTER, the object of comedy, ii. 192.
of what fort, 174. of what perfons, ib. plays
of, in what faulty, 183. inftances of such
plays, 189.

CHARACTERS, of comedy, general; of tragedy,
particular, why, ii. 182. this matter ex-
plained at large, to 190.

CAESAR, C. Julius, his judgment of Terence, i

219.

CRITICISM, the ufes of it, ii. 246. its aim,
109. when perfect, ib.

CICERO, M. Tullius, of the ufe of old words, i.,

66. of feif-murder, 148. of poetic licence,

162. of the language of Democritus and Plate,
168. of the mufic of his time, 171. of the
neglect of philofophy, 181. of the mimes,
196. of Plautus's wit, 214. does not men-
tion Menander, 224. mentions corporal in-
firmities as proper fubjects for ridicule, 225.
of a good poet, 246. of decorum, 248. of
the ufe of philofophy, ib.

CID,

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