FOOTNOTES:

[15] Fox thought that Shakespeare’s reputation would have stood higher if he had never written Hamlet!

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE.

1660.Dryden’s Astraea Redux.
Pepys begins his Diary.
1662.Bentley born.
Atterbury born.
Royal Society incorporated.
1663.First part of Hudibras published.
Dryden begins to write for the stage.
London Gazette established.
L’Estrange licenser of the press.
1664.Second part of Hudibras.
Evelyn’s Sylva.
Vanbrugh born.
1665.Bunyan’s Grace Abounding.
1667.Paradise Lost.
Dryden’s Annus Mirabilis.
Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy.
Cowley died.
Swift born.
1669.Pepys discontinues his Diary.
1670.Dryden made Poet Laureate.
Walton’s Lives collected.
Congreve born.
1671.Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes.
The Rehearsal.
1672.Wycherley begins to write for the stage.
Addison born.
Steele born.
1674.Milton died.
1676.Barclay’s Apology.
Hoadly born.
1677.Barrow died.
1678.Pilgrim’s Progress, first part.
Cudworth’s Intellectual System.
Hudibras, third part.
Dryden’s All for Love.
Farquhar born.
Marvell died.
1679.Burnet’s History of the Reformation in England.
1680.Bunyan’s Life and Death of Mr. Badman.
Otway’s Orphan.
Butler died.
1681.Absalom and Achitophel, first part.
Thomas Burnet’s Sacred Theory of the Earth.
1682.The Medal.
Absalom and Achitophel, second part.
Religio Laici.
Otway’s Venice Preserved.
Bunyan’s Holy War.
1683.Izaak Walton died.
Oldham died.
1684.Pilgrim’s Progress, second part.
Berkeley born.
1685.Otway died.
1687.Newton’s Principia.
The Hind and the Panther.
Waller died.
1688.Pope born.
Bunyan died.
Cudworth died.
1689.Locke’s Letter on Toleration.
Dryden deprived of the Laureateship.
Richardson born.
1690.Locke’s Essay on the Human Understanding.
Dryden’s Don Sebastian.
Wood’s Athenae Oxonienses.
1691.Ray’s Wisdom of God manifested in Creation.
Nathaniel Lee died.
1692.Bishop Butler born.
1693.Locke’s Treatise on Education.
Congreve’s Old Bachelor.
Congreve’s Double Dealer.
1694.Tillotson died.
1695.Locke’s Reasonableness of Christianity.
Congreve’s Love for Love.
1697.Dryden’s translation of the Aeneid.
Congreve’s Mourning Bride.
Dampier’s Voyages.
Vanbrugh begins to write for the stage.
1698.Collier’s Short View of the Immorality of the Stage.
Warburton born.
Bentley’s Dissertation on Phalaris.
1699.Farquhar begins to write for the stage.
Stillingfleet died.
Sir William Temple died.
1700.Dryden’s Fables.
Dryden died.
Thomson born.

INDEX.

Absalom and Achitophel, [10], [21]-[24];

second part of, [11], [25].

Account of a Conversation for a right Regulation of Governments, [174].

Account of the English Dramatic Poets, [257].

Adventures of Five Hours, [5].

Advice to a Dissenter, [254].

Advices to a Painter, [52].

Alcibiades, [102].

Alexander’s Feast, [14], [32], [35].

All for Love, [9], [93], [94], [95], [96], [97], [98], [100].

Allestree, Richard, [227].

Amboyna, [99].

Amphitryon, [9], [92].

Anatomy of an Equivalent, the, [251].

Anne Killigrew, Elegy on, [68], [69], [70], [71].

Annus Mirabilis, [17]-[19].

Antiquarians, [259]-[266].

Antiquities of Warwickshire, [261].

Apology, the, [226].

Archippus, [92].

Arnold, Matthew, [4].

Arundel Marbles, [257].

Ashmole, Elias, [261], [262].

Astraea Redux, [16].

Astro-Theology, [229].

Atalanta, [246].

Atheist, the, [103].

Athenae Oxonienses, [260].

Aubrey, John, [262], [263].

Aurengzebe, [9], [87], [88], [89].

Autobiography, [195]-[220].

Barclay, Robert, [226].

Baronage of England, [261].

Barrow, Isaac, [222], [223].

Barry, Mrs., [102], [103].

Baxter, Richard, [226].

Beaux’ Stratagem, the, [129], [144], [145].

Behn, Aphra, [146], [147], [245], [246].

Bentley, Richard, [153], [154], [231], [232].

Bentley-Boyle controversy, [154].

Biography, [195]-[220].

Bold Stroke for a Wife, a, [148].

Boyle, Hon. Robert, [229].

Boyle, Roger, Earl of Orrery, [119].

Boyle Lectures, [154].

Brady, Dr. Nicholas, [118].

Britannia Rediviva, [31].

Browne, Dr. Edward, [276].

Buckingham, Duke of. See [Villiers, George].

Buckinghamshire, Duke of. See [Sheffield, John].

Bull, George, [225], [226].

Bunyan, John, [233]-[244];

Grace Abounding, [234], [243], [244];

Some Gospel Truths Opened, [234];

Pilgrim’s Progress, [235], [236]-[239];

Defence of Justification by Faith, [235];

The Life and Death of Mr. Badman, [235], [242], [243];

The Holy War, [235];

The Jerusalem Sinner Saved, [235].

Burnet, Gilbert, [178]-[183], [274], [275].

Burnet, Thomas, [229]-[231].

Busy Body, the, [148].

Butler, Samuel, [53]-[66], [248];

Mola Asinaria, [54];

Hudibras, [54], [55], [56]-[63];

The Elephant in the Moon, [63], [65];

Characters, [248]-[251].

Byron and Dryden as dramatic authors, [100].

Caius Marius, [102].

Caligula, [115].

Calisto, [115].

Call to the Unconverted, a, [226].

Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety, [227].

Centlivre, Mrs. Susannah, [147], [148];

The Busy Body, [148];

The Wonder, [148];

A Bold Stroke for a Wife, [148].

Chaplin, Dr., [227].

Character of a Trimmer, the, [251].

Characters, [248]-[251].

Charles II., [81];

personal influence of, on letters, [2], [3];

epitaph on, [47].

Chaucer, adaptations from, [32].

City Politics, [115].

Claudian, [39].

Cleomenes, [99].

Collier, Jeremy, [126], [153].

Committee, the, [119].

Complete Angler, the, [218], [219], [268].

Confederacy, the, [128], [140], [141]-[143].

Congreve, William, [124]-[127], [130], [134], [136], [138], [140];

on Dryden, [15];

Incognita, [125];

The Old Bachelor, [125], [139];

The Double Dealer, [125], [134], [137];

Love for Love, [126], [138], [146];

The Mourning Bride, [126], [134], [146];

The Way of the World, [126], [134].

Conquest of Granada, the, [9], [85], [86], [120].

Considerations on the Value of Money, [159].

Constant Couple, the, [129].

Cotton, Charles, [271].

Country Wife, the, [124], [132].

Crowne, John, [114], [115];

The English Friar, [115];

City Politics, [115];

The Married Beau, [115];

Calisto, [115];

Darius, [115];

Pandion and Amphigenia, [115];

Juliana, [115];

Caligula, [115].

Cudworth, Ralph, [164]-[166].

Culverwell, Nathaniel, [164].

Cumberland, Richard, [164].

Cymon and Iphigenia, [33].

Dampier, William, [273], [274].

Daniel, Samuel, [2].

Darius, [115].

Defence of Justification by Faith, [235].

De Fide et officiis Christianorum, [229].

Dennys, John, [268].

Derham, W., [229].

De Statu mortuorum et resurgentium, [229].

Dialogue on Dramatic Poesy, [150], [151].

Dillon, Wentworth, Earl of Roscommon, [48].

Discourse of the Winds, [274].

Discourse on Government, [170], [171], [172].

Divinity, [221]-[232].

Don Carlos, [102], [103], [104].

Don Sebastian, [9], [97], [98].

Double Dealer, the, [125], [134], [137].

Dryden, John, as a poet, [7]-[41];

at Cambridge, [8];

married to Lady Elizabeth Howard, [9];

made Laureate, [9];

joins the Church of Rome, [11];

death of, [14];

and Pope, [38];

and the Restoration Drama, [76]-[100];

and Byron as dramatic authors, [100];

criticism on, [149]-[152];

and Milton, [149];

the great reformer of English prose, [149];

as a letter-writer, [255];

The Wild Gallant, [9], [76], [82];

The Indian Emperor, [9], [76];

Tyrannic Love, [9], [84];

The Conquest of Granada, [9], [85], [86];

Aurengzebe, [9], [87]-[89];

All for Love, [9], [93]-[96];

Don Sebastian, [9], [97], [98];

The Spanish Friar, [9], [90], [91];

Amphitryon, [9], [92];

Absalom and Achitophel, [10], [21]-[24];

The Medal, [10], [24];

MacFlecknoe, [11], [26];

second part of Absalom and Achitophel, [11], [25], [26];

Religio Laici, [11], [26]-[28];

Hind and Panther, [11], [28]-[31], [85];

Translations of the Classics, [13], [36]-[38];

Virgil, [13];

Fables from Chaucer and Boccaccio, [13], [32]-[35];

Annus Mirabilis, [17]-[19];

Alexander’s Feast, [14], [32], [35], [68];

Astraea Redux, [16];

Heroic Stanzas, [16];

Britannia Rediviva, [31];

Marriage à la Mode, [89], [90];

The Mock Astrologer, [99];

Cleomenes, [99];

King Arthur, [99];

Oedipus, [99];

State of Innocence and Fall of Man, [99];

Amboyna, [99];

The Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy, [151];

Essay on Satire, [152].

Dugdale, Sir William, [260], [261];

Monasticon Anglicanum, [260];

Antiquities of Warwickshire, [261];

History of St. Paul’s Cathedral, [261];

Baronage of England, [261].

Duke of Guise, the, [110].

D’Urfey, Thomas, [119].

Ecclesiastical Polity, [220].

Elephant in the Moon, the, [63], [65].

Eliot, George, [132].

Empress of Morocco, the, [118], [119].

English Friar, the, [115].

Epistles of Phalaris, [154].

Epsom Wells, [118].

Essay on Poetry, [48].

Essay on Satire, [152].

Essay on the Human Understanding, [158], [159], [160].

Essay on Toleration, [157].

Essay on Translated Verse, [48].

Essayists, [248]-[254].

Etheredge, Sir George, [121], [122];

Love in a Tub, [121];

She Would if she Could, [121];

The Man of Mode, [121].

Evelyn, John, [195]-[199];

Diary, [196]-[199], [266];

Sylva, [267].

Exposition of the Articles, [179].

Exposition of the Creed, [223].

Fables from Chaucer and Boccaccio, Dryden’s, [13], [32]-[35].

False Friend, the, [128].

Farquhar, George, [128]-[130], [143], [146];

Love and a Bottle, [129];

The Constant Couple, [129];

The Recruiting Officer, [129], [144];

The Beaux’ Stratagem, [129], [144].

Fatal Marriage, the, [116].

Fiction, [233]-[247].

Filmer, Sir Robert, [168].

Fletcher of Saltoun, [173].

Flower and the Leaf, the, [33].

Foedera, [260].

Fowler, Bishop, [235];

on Locke, [161].

Fox, George, [226].

Friendship in Fashion, [102].

Garden, the, [49].

Gentleman and Ladies’ Calling, the, [227].

Gentleman Dancing Master, the, [124], [133].

Glanvil, Joseph, [164], [166].

Government of the Tongue, the, [227].

Grace Abounding, [234], [243], [244].

Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy, [151].

Hacket, Bishop, [213], [218].

Halifax, Marquis of. See [Savile, George].

Health and Long Life, [255].

Heraclitus Ridens, [175].

Heroic Stanzas, [16].

Hind and Panther, the, [11], [28]-[31], [85].

Historians, literary, [257], [258].

Histories, [177]-[194].

History and Antiquities, [260].

History of his Own Times, [179]-[182].

History of St. Paul’s Cathedral, [261].

History of the Reformation, [179], [182].

History of the Royal Society, [263].

Holy War, the, [235], [239]-[242].

Horace, Dryden’s, [37].

Howard, Sir Robert, [119].

Hudibras, [54], [55], [56], [57], [58], [59], [60], [61], [62], [63].

Hugo, Victor, [39].

Hume, David, [2].

Hunt, Leigh, on Dryden, [40].

Hutchinson, Mrs., [217].

Ibrahim, the Illustrious Bassa, [119].

Incognita, [125], [246].

Indian Emperor, the, [9], [76].

Indian Queen, the, [119].

Institution, Laws and Ceremonies of the Order of the Garter, [261].

Intellectual System, the, [165].

Intelligencer, [174].

Jerusalem Sinner Saved, [235].

Johnson, Rev. George, [169].

Jonson, Ben, [131], [132].

Journey to London, a, [128], [140].

Juliana, [115].

Juvenal, Dryden’s, [37].

King Arthur, [99].

Knight’s Tale, the, [33].

Knox, Robert, [272], [273].

Lacy, John, [119].

Langbaine, Gerard, [257].

Lee, Nathaniel, [109]-[113];

The Rival Queens, [110], [111];

Mithridates, [110], [112], [113];

The Duke of Guise, [110];

Theodosius, [110].

L’Estrange, Roger, [174]-[176].

Letters on Toleration, [158], [163].

Letter Writers, [255]-[257].

Life and Death of Mr. Badman, [235], [242], [243].

Life of Archbishop Williams, [217].

Life of Col. Hutchinson, [217].

Life of Mahomet, [257].

Lilly, William, [187]-[189], [211]-[213].

Locke, John, [156]-[164], [169], [170];

Essay on Toleration, [157];

Letter on Toleration, [158];

Essay on the Human Understanding, [158], [159], [160];

Considerations on the Value of Money, [159];

Reasonableness of Christianity, [159], [163];

Treatise on Education, [159];

On Words, [162];

On Knowledge, [162];

Some Thoughts concerning Education, [163].

London Gazette, [174].

Love and a Bottle, [129].

Love for Love, [126], [138], [146].

Love in a Tub, [121].

Love in a Wood, [123], [133].

Loyal Brother, the, [116].

Lucius Junius Brutus, [110].

Ludlow, Edmund, [184]-[187];

Memoirs, [185].

Luttrell, Narcissus, [190];

Luttrell Ballads, [190].

Lyric Poetry, [67]-[75].

MacFlecknoe, [11], [26].

Manley, Mrs., [147], [246].

Man of Mode, the, [121].

Marriage à la Mode, [89], [90].

Married Beau, the, [115].

Marvell, Andrew, [49]-[53];

The Garden, [49];

The Rehearsal Transprosed, [50];

Thoughts in a Garden, [51];

Advice to a Painter, [52];

To the Glowworm, [72].

Medal, the, [10], [24].

Medici, Duke Cosmo de, [278].

Memoirs, [177]-[194].

Mercurius Britannicus, [174].

Mercurius Politicus, [174].

Mercurius Pragmaticus, [174].

Meredith, George, [132].

Milton, John, and Dryden, [149].

Mistake, the, [128].

Mithridates, [110], [112], [113].

Mock Astrologer, the, [99].

Mola Asinaria, [54].

Molesworth, Lord, [275].

Molière, [92];

Misanthrope, [133].

Monasticon Anglicanum, [260].

More, Henry, [164].

Mourning Bride, the, [126], [134], [146].

Needham, Marchamont, [174].

New and further Discovery of the Isle of Pines, [246].

News, [174].

Nicaenae Fidei Defensio, [225].

No Cross, no Crown, [226].

North, Roger, [213]-[216].

Observator, [175].

Oedipus, Dryden’s, [99], [110].

Old Bachelor, the, [125], [139].

Oldham, John, [42]-[46];

Satires upon the Jesuits, [42], [43]-[46].

O’Neill, Miss, [104].

On Knowledge, [162].

On the Reasonableness of Christianity, [159], [163].

On Words, [162].

Origines Sacrae, [225].

Oroonoko, [116], [246].

Orphan, the, [102], [103], [104], [105].

Orrery, Earl of. See [Boyle, Roger].

Osborne, Dorothy. See [Temple, Lady].

Othello, [152].

Otway, Thomas, [101]-[109];

Venice Preserved, [102], [103], [104], [105]-[109];

Alcibiades, [102];

Don Carlos, [102], [103], [104];

Friendship in Fashion, [102];

Caius Marius, [102];

The Orphan, [102], [103], [104], [105];

The Soldier’s Fortune, [102], [103];

The Atheist, [103].

Oxford, the, [174].

Pakington, Lady, [227].

Palamon and Arcite, [33].

Pandion and Amphigenia, [115].

Parthenissa, [245].

Pearson, John, [225].

Penn, William, [226].

Pepys, Samuel, [80], [195], [199]-[210];

Diary, [201]-[210].

Periodical Press, development of the, [174].

Phillips, Edward, [258].

Philosophy, [155]-[167].

Pilgrim’s Progress, [220], [235], [236]-[239].

Plain Dealer, the, [124], [132].

Plautus, [92].

Pope and Dryden, [38].

Porter, Major Thomas, [119].

Portugal History, the, [210].

Practical Discourse concerning Death, [228].

Present State of the Ottoman Empire, [276].

Prideaux, Dean, [256], [257].

Provoked Husband, the, [128].

Provoked Wife, the, [128], [140].

Rape of Proserpine, [40].

Ravenscroft, Edward, [119].

Ray, John, [228].

Reasonableness of Christianity, [159], [163].

Recruiting Officer, the, [129], [144].

Rehearsal Transprosed, the, [50].

Relapse, the, [128], [140].

Religio Laici, [11], [26]-[28].

Reliquiae Wottonianae, [219].

Reresby, Sir John, [210], [211].

Return from Parnassus, the, [78].

Rival Queens, the, [110], [111].

Rochester, Earl of. See [Wilmot, John].

Roscommon, Earl of. See [Dillon, Wentworth].

Rycaut, Paul, [276].

Rymer, Thomas, [152], [260].

Sacred Theory of the Earth, the, [229].

Saducismus Triumphatus, [166].

Saintsbury, Mr., on Dryden, [20], [21].

Saints’ Everlasting Rest, the, [226].

Satires upon the Jesuits, [42]-[46].

Satyr against Mankind, [47].

Savile, George, [251]-[254].

Science, Men of, [266]-[271].

Secrets of Angling, the, [268].

Sedley, Sir Charles, [119].

Session of the Poets, the, [47].

Settle, Elkanah, [118], [119].

Shadwell, Thomas, [25], [116]-[118], [132];

The Virtuoso, [117];

Epsom Wells, [118];

Squire of Alsatia, [118];

Volunteers, [118].

Shakespeare, William, [81].

Sheffield, John, Duke of Buckinghamshire, [48].

Sherlock, William, [228].

She Would if She Could, [121].

Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, [153].

Sidney, Algernon, [168], [169], [170].

Soldier’s Fortune, the, [102], [103].

Some Gospel Truths Opened, [234].

Some Thoughts concerning Education, [163].

Sorbière, Samuel de, [277].

South, Robert, [223].

Southern, Thomas, [115], [116];

The Loyal Brother, [116];

The Fatal Marriage, [116];

Oroonoko, [116].

Spanish Friar, the, [9], [90], [91].

Sprat, Thomas, [74], [263];

on the English and French drama, [77].

Squire of Alsatia, [118].

State of Innocence and Fall of Man, [99].

Sterne, Archbishop, [227].

Stillingfleet, Edward, [225].

Sylva, [196].

Tate, Nahum, [11], [25].

Temple, Lady, [256].

Temple, Sir William, [173], [190]-[194], [254];

Memoirs, [192].

Tenison, Archbishop, [227].

Theodore and Honoria, [33].

Theodosius, [110].

Thoughts in a Garden, [51].

Tillotson, John, [224], [225].

Timon, [78].

Tracts on Government, [170].

Tragedies of the Last Age, [152].

Travellers, [272]-[279].

Treatise on Education, [159].

Treatise on Immutable Morality, [165].

Treatise on the Pope’s Supremacy, [223].

Troilus and Cressida, [151], [152].

Trollope, Anthony, [132].

Tuke, Sir Samuel, [5].

Two Kings of Brentford, the, [120].

Types of Ethical Theory, [166].

Tyrannic Love, [9], [84].

Vanbrugh, Sir John, [127], [128], [139], [140];

The Relapse, [128], [140];

The Provoked Wife, [128], [140];

The False Friend, [128];

The Confederacy, [128], [140];

The Mistake, [128];

A Journey to London, [128], [140];

The Provoked Husband, [128].

Vanity of Dogmatizing, the, [166].

Venice Preserved, [102], [103], [104], [105], [106], [107], [108], [109].

Villiers, George, [119], [120].

Virgil, Dryden’s, [13], [37].

Virtuoso, the, [117].

Volunteers, [118].

Walton, Izaak, [213], [218]-[220], [268].

Ward, Professor, on Wycherley, [132].

Way of the World, the, [126], [134].

Whichcote, Benjamin, [164].

Whitelocke, Bulstrode, [189], [190];

Memorials, [190].

Whole Duty of Man, the, [227].

Wild Gallant, the, [9], [76], [82].

Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester, [46], [47].

Wilson, John, [119].

Wisdom of God in the Creation, [228].

Wonder, the, [148].

Wood, Anthony à, [259], [260].

Wotton, Sir Henry, [268].

Writers on Government, [168]-[176].

Wycherley, William, [123], [124], [132], [134], [136];

Love in a Wood, [123], [132];

The Gentleman Dancing Master, [124], [133];

The Country Wife, [124], [132];

The Plain Dealer, [124], [133].

Zarah, [246].

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