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INDEX
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VOLUMES III. AND IV.
- A.
- Academy, the ancient, compared with a modern university, iv. [214].
- Accommodation, of one’s-self, a great art, in public life, iii. [82].
- Addison, Mr., his contemplation in the ruins of Kenelworth Castle, iii. [172].
- his political character exhibited in his Whig Examiner, [177]. n.
- calls in question the praises bestowed on Queen Elizabeth, [178].
- his strictures on the manners of that age, [186].
- character of his treatise on medals, [24].
- his remark on the use of popular superstitions in poetry, iv. [289].
- his observation on the fairy way of writing, [323].
- Admiralty Court, the imperial law still obtains there, iii. [375].
- Allodial estates, in France, what, iii. [318].
- Amadis de Gaule, remarkable passage in a preface to, iv. [347].
- Arbuthnot, Dr. discourses with Mr. Addison and Mr. Digby on the age of Queen Elizabeth, iii. [168].
- his veneration for the manners of those times, [180].
- his opinion on the influence of the nobility, [184].
- on the pageants at Kenelworth, [203].
- See Elizabeth.
- Ariosto, why considered inferior to Tasso by the French critics, iv. [310].
- his work admirable for its pictures of life and manners, [328].
- Arthur, a subject to the writers of romance, iv. [241].
- the superior character in the Fairy Queen, [303].
- Ascham, his remark on the pernicious tendency of books of chivalry, iii. [192]. n.
- Atheism, imported by our travelling gentry, iv. [99].
- Athens, its manly character corrupted by Asiatic manners, iv. [201].
- B.
- Bacchus, a knight errant, iv. [266].
- Bacon, Lord, his remark on retirement, iii. [137].
- why he was neglected by Queen Elizabeth, iii. [243]. n.
- his excuse for bribery, [269].
- his remark on depression of nobility, iv. [27]. n.
- Bacon, Nat. character of his discourses on government, iii. [307].
- his observation on the state of the law in Henry V’s reign, [378].
- his character of Henry VIII. iv. [29]. n.
- Barons, their contests with the king, whence arising, iii. [332].
- how reduced by Henry VII. [334].
- they originally formed the great council of the kingdom, ib.
- their opposition to a law for legitimating bastards, [363].
- their castles courts, as well as fortresses, iv. [247].
- described in romances as giants, [264].
- Bashfulness in young persons, whence arising, iv. [161].
- a wise provision of nature, [162].
- Bastards, how legitimated by the imperial and canon laws, iii. [362].
- Bear-baiting practised in the reign of Elizabeth, iii. [186]. n.
- Beneficiary Estates, in France, what, iii. [318].
- Berkeley, Bishop, his “Minute Philosopher” excellent as a specimen of modern dialogue, iii. [24].
- Boileau, a word of his overturned the reputation of the Italian poetry, iv. [314].
- Bracton, his notion of a free government, iii. [370].
- Breeding, forms of, a primary concern in foreign travel, iv. [147].
- Bribery, common in Elizabeth’s reign, iii. [267].
- Burghley, Lord, practised on the fears of Queen Elizabeth, iii. [257].
- Burnet, Bishop, his notion of the danger to be apprehended from the Pretender, iii. [293].
- Augurs favourably of the Revolution, iv. [9], [10].
- his inquiry into the increase of Prerogative under the Tudors, [19].
- and after the ecclesiastical supremacy was transferred, [46].
- his apology for the clergy, [58] to [64].
- his opinion on resistance, [66]. n.
- Butler, ridicules the circumstance of women warriors in romance, iv. [317].
- C.
- Cæsar, tribute to, misapplication of that precept by our reformers, iv. [74].
- Camden, Mr. his opinion of the Irish rebellion in the reign of Elizabeth, iii. [232]. n.
- Canon law, introduction of, discountenanced by our Kings, iii. [355], [358].
- retained in the church after the Reformation, iv. [67].
- its doctrine convenient for the maintenance of absolute supremacy, [69].
- Capet, Hugh, the nobles had become independent on his accession, iii. [321].
- Cervantes, his ridicule destroyed the remains of Spanish prowess, iii. [199].
- keenly satirizes the Grecian epics, iv. [272].
- Chace, the favourite passion of our home-bred gentry, iv. [116].
- Challenge, accepted, through deference to the opinion of the ladies, iv. [168].
- Charlemagne, a subject to the writers of romance, iv. [241].
- Charles I. arguments of the lawyers in his time, for divine right, iv. [78]. n.
- Charles II. how far his court benefited by foreign travel, iv. [100].
- his restoration introduced the French manners and prejudices among us, [311].
- Charms, in romance, often metaphorical, iv. [268].
- Charters, Great, by some considered as usurpations on the Prince, iii. [298].
- Chaucer, has left an unfinished story on the Gothic model, iv. [294].
- his Rime of Sir Topaz a banter on books of romances, [335].
- compared with the work of Cervantes, [336].
- his tale of Cambuscan a proof that he did not intend to ridicule the marvellous, [342].
- Chivalry, its tendency to refine the manners, iii. [189].
- its ill effects, [192]. n.
- contributed to the revival of letters, [195].
- had its origin in a barbarous age, iv. [238].
- sprung out of the feudal constitution, [242].
- its characteristics accounted for, [245].
- passion for arms, ib.
- romantic ideas of justice, [246].
- courtesy and gallantry, [247].
- love of God and of the Ladies, [250].
- its genuine character displayed in the Crusades, [252], [254].
- two distinct periods in deducing its rise and progress, [258].
- agreement between heroic and Gothic manners, [262].
- their differences noted, [272].
- custom which prevailed at festivals, [297].
- women-warriors, [317].
- Greek fire, [320].
- Church, its revenues dilapidated by queen Elizabeth, iii. [273].
- more immediately subjected to the feudal system than the civil power, iii. [326].
- struggles between the ecclesiastics and the monarchs, thence arising, [331].
- distinction between ecclesiastical and temporal courts by William I. [352].
- canon law discountenanced by our Kings, [359].
- Cicero, introduced the writing of Dialogue among the Romans, iii. [20].
- his remark on the advantage of applying it to real personages, [26].
- his rule respecting the appropriate style and expression, [36].
- character of his dialogue defined, [40].
- Citizens and Burgesses, whence originating, iii. [338].
- Clarendon, Lord, his character of Lord Falkland, iii. [67]. n.
- of Waller, [69]. n.
- his eulogium on Ben Jonson and Cowley, [140]. n.
- Clergy, justified in attending the courts of princes, iii. [145].
- in the reign of the Conqueror, turned common lawyers, [352].
- the Imperial law their favourite study, [361].
- opposed by the barons, [363].
- supported by the judges and great officers of the realm, [366].
- at the Reformation propagated the doctrine of passive obedience, iv. [57].
- and of divine right, [62].
- apology for them, [63], [64].
- Combat, a mode of deciding questions of right and property, iii. [200].
- Comnena, Manuel, a crusade in his time attended by women-warriors, iv. [317].
- Constitution, English, enquiry into, iii. [284].
- hath at all times been free, [286].
- many have but crude notions of it, [297].
- summary of erroneous doctrines respecting it, [298].
- question proposed, [305].
- its origin in the Saxon institutions, [309].
- æra of the Conquest, [310].
- contest for liberty throughout the Norman and Plantagenet lines, [313].
- council of the Kingdom originally consisting of such as held in capite of the crown, by barony, or knight’s service, [334].
- origin of knights of shires, [337].
- of citizens and burgesses, [338].
- formation of a House of Commons, [340], [346].
- its freedom shewn in the perpetual opposition of the people to the civil and canon laws, [349] to [358].
- proofs of it, [363], [367].
- Imperial law still prevails in certain of our Courts, and in the Universities, [375].
- fate and fortunes of the Civil law down to the present time, [378].
- contrasted with the free principles of the English law, [384] to [386].
- increase of prerogative under the Tudor line, [392]. iv. [16].
- state of the nation at the accession of Henry VII. [24], [27].
- Henry VIII. [28].
- Rupture with the Court of Rome, [29].
- high prerogative, [37].
- Commons house rising in importance, [39].
- causes of the increase of Royal authority, [40].
- translation of the Pope’s supremacy to the king, [41].
- use made of the title, Supreme head of the Church, [49].
- high commission court and star-chamber, [50].
- dispensing power, [52].
- instances of its exercise, [53], [54].
- passive obedience, [57].
- why inculcated by the clergy, [58].
- doctrine of divine right whence originating, [62].
- growth of Puritanism, [63].
- Canon laws retained after the yoke of Rome was thrown off, [67].
- influence of the crown, after the Reformation, required to be limited by another change in the government, [71].
- translation of the supremacy no argument against the freedom of the constitution, [73].
- causes concurring with the Reformation to favour liberty, in the time of Charles I. [76], [77].
- issue of the conflict between prerogative and liberty, [79], [80].
- what is meant by the free constitution of the English monarchy, [81]. n.
- Court, but two sorts of men that should live in one, iii. [124].
- the clergy justified in attending, [145].
- Cowley, Mr. his motives for retiring from the world, iii. [101].
- expatiates on the benefit of solitude, [104].
- grounds of his apology for seclusion, [110].
- his early habits, [112].
- his residence at Oxford, and friendship with Lord Falkland, [116].
- his peculiar disposition, [120].
- his invective against courts, [124].
- his pursuits in retirement, [127].
- uses of applying experiment and observation to natural science, [129].
- his cynical severity against courts, [135].
- eulogium on him by Lord Clarendon, [140]. n.
- remonstrance of his friend on his seclusion, [147].
- his reply in the words of Spenser, [148].
- his resolution unshaken, [150].
- his purposed apology to Lord St. Alban’s begun in his Essays, [152].
- his poem, called “The Complaint,” [157].
- Craig, his opinion of the feudal law, iii. [328].
- Criticism, bad, arises from abuse of terms, iv. [324].
- Cromwell, his design for setting up a Protestant Council, iv. [14].
- Crusades, state of things when they were set on foot, iv. [252].
- considered as the origin of knight errantry, [255].
- domestic disorders resulting from them, [277].
- vast armies which were sent out, [318].
- Cutter of Coleman Street, origin and purpose of that comedy, iii. [122]. n.
- D.
- Davenant, Sir W. a new sort of criticism in his preface to Gondibert, iv. [311].
- Declaration of rights, a barrier against future encroachments of the crown, iii. [293].
- Decretals, of the popes, against the civil law, iii. [355].
- Dialogue, a favourite form of instruction with the ancients, iii. [19].
- its advantages, [21].
- only three in the English language worthy of mention, [24].
- real persons only to be introduced in it, [27].
- a new species, created by Lucian, [28].
- the serious and philosophic, the best, [32].
- its requisites, [34].
- rule for restraining the characteristic peculiarities of style, [39].
- modern writers cannot aspire to the elegance of the ancient, [43].
- remedies for their difficulties, ib. [46].
- the ancient notion of, very little comprehended in our days, iv. [90].
- Disparity, a passage from a tract so called, iii. [235]. n.
- another, illustrative of Queen Elizabeth’s policy, [258]. n.
- Dispensing power of the Crown, iv. [52].
- exercised by various sovereigns, [53], [54].
- eleven out of twelve judges declared for it, [55].
- Dissipation of mind, caused by travel, iv. [145].
- Divine right, doctrine of, why preached up, iv. [62].
- arguments for it used by the lawyers in the time of Charles I. [78]. n.
- Drama, a particular precept for, mistaken for a general maxim, iv. [326].
- Dutch towns, accomplished scholars sometimes met within them, iv. [121].
- E.
- Education, that commonly called liberal, wherein defective, iv. [117], [118].
- its proper objects pointed out, [138].
- one of its great secrets, to fix the attention of youth, [145].
- private, why preferable to public, [210].
- Edward the Confessor, formed a digest of the Saxon laws, iii. [349].
- Edward I. dispute concerning the succession to the crown of Scotland in his reign, iii. [367].
- Edward III. a house of commons originating in his reign, iii. [340], [344].
- Ειρηναρχια, a Latin panegyric on Queen Elizabeth taught in schools, iii. [239]. n.
- Elizabeth, Queen, dialogue on the age of, iii. [167].
- humour of magnifying her character, whence arising, [177].
- her romantic spirit, [196].
- examples of it, ib. n.
- honours paid her at Kenelworth, [203].
- superiority of poets in her reign, to what owing, [209].
- language of that age, favourable to poetry, [210].
- inquiry into the merits of her government, [219].
- sketch of its history, [221], [222].
- splendour of her reign how far owing to fortunate circumstances, [223].
- her enthusiasm for her Protestant subjects, [225].
- contending factions of Papists and Puritans, [226].
- condition of the Continental powers, [230].
- of Ireland, [231].
- of Scotland, [233].
- her prerogative uncontrouled, [234].
- passion for letters in her reign, [236].
- a Latin panegyric on her, taught in grammar-schools, [239]. n.
- spirit and genius of the nation roused by the dangers of the time, [241].
- manners of her subjects debased by servility and insolence, [242].
- her choice of ministers, ib.
- her personal qualities, [245].
- her love for her people called in question, [250].
- her foreign and domestic policy glanced at, [252].
- her popularity in part ascribed to her vices, [255].
- her cowardice, [256].
- her avarice, [261].
- her fondness for shew, [265].
- sale of offices, [266].
- reason why she did not marry, [271]. n.
- her government oppressive, [272].
- two great events which cast an uncommon lustre over her reign, [274].
- causes of her domestic successes, [275].
- her character, [276].
- vindicated, [279].
- established the Reformation, iv. [31], [32].
- exercised the dispensing power, [54].
- her inclination for the fancies of chivalry, iv. [347].
- Empson and Dudley, how enabled to violate the constitution, iii. [379].
- their proceedings sanctioned by Parliament, iv. [34].
- England, a constitutional history of, highly desirable, iii. [286], [288].
- its monarchy by some declared to be absolute, [298], [299].
- its lands were allodial in the Saxon times, [324].
- how possessed, ib.
- introduction of feudal tenures at the conquest, why popular, [325].
- origin of the struggles between the Church and the King, [331].
- between the King and his Barons, [332].
- never famous for the civility of its inhabitants, iv. [112].
- early travel recommended as a cure for this defect, [113].
- prejudices and low habits of our youth, [115].
- liberal arts not much advanced, [127].
- foreign nations to be emulated, [129].
- qualifications for a Senator, [140].
- another view of the state of the country, [151].
- ideas of liberty connected with it, [153].
- Epic narration, less restricted to truth than the drama, iv. [327].
- Erasmus, improved on the dialogue of Lucian, iii. [28].
- Erudition, present state of, iv. [132].
- Esprit, De l’, remark on a work so called, iv. [89]. n.
- Europe, why not fit for an Englishman to travel in, iv. [200].
- view of the Protestant Universities of, [212], [213].
- F.
- Faery Court, means the reign of chivalry, iv. [248].
- Fairies, more engaging than the rabble of Pagan divinities, iv. [283].
- Fairy Queen of Spenser, to be criticized as a Gothic, and not a classical poem, [292], [296].
- derives its method from the established modes of chivalry, [297].
- in what its unity consists, [300].
- expedients of the poet in connecting the subject, [302].
- allegorical character of the poem, [304].
- conduct of the story justified by its moral, [305].
- principal defect arising from the union of two designs, [306].
- Fairy way of writing, vindicated, iv. [316].
- allegory its last resource, [349].
- Falkland, Lord, his scruples on accepting the office of Secretary of State, iii. [67].
- Feugregeois, wonders told of it in the history of the crusades, iv. [320].
- Feudal law, instituted by William the Conqueror, iii. [313].
- or rather new-modelled by him, [317].
- previously adopted in France, [319], [320].
- its fruits, [321].
- favourable to the cause of liberty, [323].
- definition of the feudal system, [329].
- its defects, [333], [334].
- fitted itself to the varying situations of society, [345].
- Feudal constitution, the origin of chivalry, iv. [242].
- consideration had of females under it, [274].
- distinction between the early and later feudal times, [276].
- dissensions of leaders, domestic disorders, and usurpations, [277], [278].
- Foreigners, their disputes with British subjects, by what laws decided, iii. [376].
- Fortescue, his distinction between regal and political forms of government, iii. [388]. n.
- Fortune, the making of one, an indefinite expression, iii. [131].
- Franc-almoign, a particular tenure in the Saxon times, iii. [327].
- France, its lands, under the Carlovingian line, of two kinds, iii. [318].
- changes introduced, ib. [319], [320].
- most of its lands were beneficiary, [324].
- her pre-eminence in taste and politeness, iv. [130].
- Freedom, English, best supported by the ancient nobility, iii. [184].
- Free men, persons holding allodial estates in France, so called, iii. [318].
- French critics, preferred the Gierusalemme Liberata to the Orlando Furioso, iv. [309].
- Fynes Moryson, his remark on the condition of the English people, iii. [183]. n.
- G.
- Gardening, Gothic method of design in, iv. [301].
- Genius, men of, infelicities attending the sensibility of their gratitude, iii. [140].
- Gentleman, what his chief object, iv. [123].
- German nations, foundation of gallantry in their ancient manners, iv. [250].
- their predatory disposition, [269].
- Giants of Romance, were oppressive feudal lords, iv. [263].
- Gothic romance, incorporated with pagan fable, in a pageant given to Queen Elizabeth at Kenelworth, iii. [203].
- whence fallen into disrepute, iv. [333].
- steps of its decline traced, [345].
- ---- MANNERS,
- in some circumstances agree with the heroic, iv. [262].
- military enthusiasm, ib.
- giants and savages, [263].
- monsters, dragons, and serpents, [265].
- robbery and piracy, [268].
- bastardy, [269].
- hospitality and courtesy, [270].
- martial exercises, ib.
- passion for adventures, [271].
- wherein they differed from the heroic, [272].
- in the affair of religion and gallantry, [274].
- more poetical than the heroic, [280].
- in the displays of love and friendship, [282].
- in religious machinery, [283].
- their effect on Spenser, [291].
- on Milton, [292].
- on Shakespear, [294].
- method of design in poetry, [300].
- Greeks, a sort of chivalry prevailed among them, iv. [273].
- Grotius, his character of the English in Elizabeth’s reign, iii. [242]. n.
- his remark on the foreign policy of that Queen, [259]. n.
- Guarini, his Pastor Fido, for what admirable, iv. [315].
- Guy, earl of warwick, his return from the wars, compared with that of Ulysses, iv. [278].
- H.
- Habits, low and immoral, how far likely to be corrected by foreign travel, iv. [157].
- Hale’s case, afforded an alarming proof of the influence of the dispensing power, iv. [55].
- Hampden, Mr. his allegation in the great cause of ship-money, [78]. n.
- Harrington, Sir James, his opinion on the statutes against retainers, in Henry VII.’s reign, [184]. n.
- Harrison, his account of the progress of learning in Queen Elizabeth’s reign, iii. [237]. n.
- Helmet, used as a signal of hospitality in the ages of chivalry, iii. [182].
- Henriade, why not long-lived, iv. [331].
- Henry III. issued a prohibition against the teachers of the Roman law in London, iii. [357], [358].
- Henry VII. his character, iv. [19].
- increased his own authority and diminished that of his nobles, [25].
- filled the great offices with churchmen only, [26].
- exercised the dispensing power, contrary to act of parliament, [53].
- Henry VIII. favoured the study of the civil law, though constrained to abolish it, iii. [380].
- his character, iv. [19].
- advantageous circumstances on his accession, [29].
- his rupture with the court of Rome, ib.
- obtained of his parliament to have his proclamations pass for laws, [34].
- Helvidius, Priscus, a fine trait in his character, as given by Tacitus, iii. [142].
- Hentznerus, Paulus, praises Queen Elizabeth’s skill in languages, iii. [257]. n.
- Herbert, Mr. George, commended king James as a greater orator than any of the ancients, iii. [240]. n.
- Hercules, a knight errant, iv. [266].
- Heroic poetry, why it has survived the Gothic, iv. [333].
- High Commission Court, iii. [381].
- in what originating, iv. [49].
- History, English, study of it essential to a young senator, iv. [142].
- Hobbes, Mr. assisted in establishing a new sort of criticism, iv. [311].
- his notion of poetical truth, [324].
- Homer, correspondence of his descriptions with those of Gothic romance, iv. [266].
- his two poems intended to expose the evils arising from the political state of old Greece, [277].
- felicity of his age, for poetical manners, [280].
- Hospitality, much practised by the great, in former times, iii. [181].
- species of it peculiar to the purer ages of chivalry, [182]. n.
- House of Commons, its origin, iii. [340].
- generated by the constitution, [346].
- Human nature, how to be studied, iv. [197].
- Hume, ground of his apology for the House of Stuart, iii. [391]. n.
- his account of the feudal times the best part of his history of England, iv. [80]. n.
- his zeal for the house of Stuart a disgrace to his work, [82].
- I & J.
- James I. favoured the study of the civil law, iii. [381].
- advantages under which he succeeded to the crown, iv. [33].
- believed himself absolute, [37].
- his bold language to his parliaments, [38].
- asserts the right of the King to suspend the laws, [54].
- considered a most able judge of church work, [59], [60]. n.
- styles himself the great schoolmaster of the land, [69]. n.
- Jesuits, their expedient to justify the pope in deposing kings, iv. [61].
- Ignorance, the parent of many vices, iv. [108].
- Interest, of men in office, how connected with duty, iii. [139].
- Jonson, Ben, praised by Lord Clarendon, iii. [140]. n.
- his encomium on legends of ancient chivalry, [194].
- contrasts them with real life and manners, [198].
- design of the witch-scenes in his Masque of Queens, iv. [287].
- Ireland, distractions in, during the reign of Elizabeth, iii. [231].
- Irish, savage, in the reign of Elizabeth, held their rhymers in principal estimation, iv. [271].
- Italian Poetry, a short history of, [309] to [315].
- vindicated, [316], [328].
- its fictions ingenious as well as bold, [330].
- Italy, the theatre of politeness in the age of Elizabeth, iv. [99].
- abounding with literary men, [121].
- Jury, trial by, when disgraced and rejected, iii. [379], [382].
- Justices of Peace, in Queen Elizabeth’s reign, notoriously corrupt, iii. [270].
- Justinian Law, when introduced into England, iii. [354].
- Why the chief study of the clergy, [361].
- opposed by the barons, [363].
- allows legitimation by subsequent marriage, [365].
- in what courts it obtains to this day, [375].
- its fate and fortunes down to the present time, [378].
- Justs and Turnaments, their origin, iv. [243].
- K.
- Kenelworth Castle, contemplations in the ruins of, iii. [170].
- behaviour of Lord Leicester’s porter on Queen Elizabeth’s visit, [174].
- pageants in honour of her, [203].
- Knights of Shire, whence originating, iii. [337], [338].
- Knights Errant, iv. [247].
- their devotion to the fair sex, [248].
- their most essential qualities, courage and faith, [251].
- origin ascribed to the crusades, [255].
- objection to that hypothesis, [257].
- what the principal mover of their adventures, [275].
- Knowledge of the world, necessary for enlarging the mind, iv. [108].
- what is meant by it, [122], [123].
- not attainable by early travel, [170].
- to be acquired by degrees, [180].
- L.
- Ladies, attach a high degree of merit to good breeding, iv. [168].
- though bred at home, have a manifest advantage over their travelled brothers in liberal acquirements, [176].
- virtues and faults more conspicuous in them than in the other sex, [177], [178].
- “Lady of the Lake,” a pageant at Kenelworth Castle, iii. [203].
- Laga, or Leaga, the Saxon word for law, its extensive import, iii. [308].
- Language, English, at what period most favourable to poetry, iii. [210].
- Languages, time sometimes wasted in studying, iv. [147].
- Laws, how rendered necessary, iv. [108].
- Learning, revival of, began first by poetry, iii. [206].
- Legislators, ancient, why required to travel for instruction, iv. [95].
- Legislature, their right to settle the government, unquestionable, iii. [302].
- Leicester, Earl of, his splendid monument in the great church of Warwick, iii. [168].
- Strictures on his conduct, [176].
- Letters, the cultivation of, its own reward, iii. [130].
- Liberal Arts, of late growth in England, iv. [127].
- study of them less important than other branches of education, [192].
- Liberty, a right understanding of its principles necessary to the security of the British government, iii. [295].
- religious, made way for the entertainment of civil, in all its branches, iv. [76].
- Life-guard, instituted by Henry VII. iv. [25].
- Livy, his dialogues, if preserved, would have suffered by comparison with those of Cicero, iii. [41].
- Locke, Mr. Lord Shaftesbury’s opinion of him as a philosopher, iv. [88].
- his notion of education, opposed to that of his lordship, [136], [138].
- denies that its objects can be attained by foreign travel, [143].
- his remarks on England, [151].
- on national prejudices, [152], [154].
- on evil habits, [156].
- on bashfulness in youth, [161].
- on knowledge of the world, [170].
- on the means of instilling it into the minds of youth, [180].
- his objections to the study of the fine arts, [191], [193].
- of the fine arts, [191], [193].
- Declares against European travels, [200].
- his remarks on the universities, [204].
- on clergy tutors, [217].
- Presage of brighter days for the universities, [224].
- Lollardism, spreading in the reign of Henry VII. iv. [27].
- London, a fit scene for seeing the world, iv. [190].
- Lucan, his magic scenes excelled by those of Apuleius, iv. [283], [284].
- Lucian, created a new species of dialogue, iii. [28].
- its nature defined, [30], [32].
- his remark on the social use of the table, [182].
- M.
- Manners, best acquired by early travel, iv. [119].
- meaning of the term, [120].
- a chief object of study, [124].
- Masks and Shows, their origin and design, iii. [207].
- Matthew Paris, his remark on the subjection of the ecclesiastical to the secular power at the Conquest, iii. [327]. n.
- Maynard, Sir John, one of the most accomplished lawyers of his time, iii. [289]. n.
- traces the origin of the English Constitution, [306].
- was one of the eleven members proceeded against, on the charge of the army, [383]. n.
- his opinion that the power of the militia was not in the king, iv. [75]. n.
- Melvil, Sir James, his frank reply to Queen Elizabeth touching her celibacy, iii. [271]. n.
- Milton, recommends gymnastics in his Tractate of Education, iii. [188].
- why he preferred the classic to the Gothic model in poetry, iv. [292].
- pleased with the manners described in books of chivalry, [293].
- his allusion to the vast armies described in romance, [318].
- Pagan gods and Gothic fairies out of credit when he wrote, [331].
- admired Chaucer’s tale of Cambuscan, [342].
- His reason for relinquishing his design of Prince Arthur, [348].
- Modesty, in young persons, a grace and ornament, iv. [162].
- the blush of budding reason and virtue, [164].
- Montesquieu, his observation on the Gothic government, iii. [341]. n.
- More, Dr. Henry, his dialogue with Mr. Waller on sincerity, iii. [53].
- his character, according to Bishop Burnet, [93]. n.
- Mountjoy, Lord, how reprimanded by Queen Elizabeth, iii. [249].
- N.
- Nations, improved by intercourse with each other, iv. [109].
- Nature, how to be followed in poetry, iv. [324].
- Neutrality, why another name for insincerity, iii. [66].
- Norham, great Council of, rejected the Cæsarean law, iii. [367].
- O.
- Obedience, Passive, doctrine of, by whom propagated, iv. [57].
- P.
- Pagan superstitions, fall short of the Gothic, iv. [284].
- Pandects, when and by whom introduced into England, iii. [354].
- their doctrine concerning the origin of government, [371].
- Papal Supremacy, its extent in this kingdom, iv. [42].
- how transferred to Henry VIII. [43].
- qualifying clauses, ib.
- high notions entertained of the pope’s power, [46].
- dispensing power, [52].
- exercised by the popes against the Gospel itself, [56]. n.
- indignation of the popes against our reforming sovereigns, [61].
- Parliaments, their authority acknowledged even under our most despotic Princes, iv. [37].
- transferred the papal supremacy to Henry VIII. [43].
- how curbed by the dispensing power, [51], [52].
- Personification, why frequent in old poetry, iii. [211], [212].
- Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy, a festival given by him, for a crusade, iv. [298].
- Philosophers, ancient, considered travel as a necessary part of their studies, iv. [95].
- Philosophy, how at present degraded, iv. [131].
- Plato, the model, if not the inventor, of the Greek dialogue, iii. [20].
- Plot, of Mr. Waller, its failure, iii. [71], [72].
- confounded with another of more dangerous tendency, [75].
- Plutarch, his life of Theseus reads like a modern romance, iv. [266].
- Poetry, what point in the revolutions of taste and language most favourable to it, iii. [210].
- the sublime species not subject to strict rules of credibility, iv. [325], [326].
- Poets, generally enamoured of solitude, iii. [113], [114].
- Pole, Cardinal, violent in his invectives against Henry VIII. iv. [60].
- Politeness, not attainable by great men, iv. [166].
- what its most reasonable sense, [201].
- Prejudices, of home-bred gentlemen, iv. [114].
- the term equivocal, [152].
- some ought not to be removed, [153].
- proper cure for vicious prejudices, [155].
- Prerogative, of English monarchs, controuled by law, iii. [287].
- Protestant Council, projected by Cromwell, iv. [14]. n.
- Protestantism, had made considerable progress on the accession of Elizabeth, iii. [224].
- its effects on the public morals, [238].
- Protestants, French, persecution of, iv. [12]. n.
- Puritanism, growth of, iv. [63].
- Puritans, how managed by Queen Elizabeth, iii. [227].
- R.
- Raleigh, Sir Walter, his opinion on the conduct of the Spanish war, iii. [252].
- received money to use his interest with the Queen, [268].
- Reason, best exercised in society, iii. [106].
- Recreant, why a term of disgrace for a vanquished knight, iv. [251].
- Reformation, established in the reign of Elizabeth, iv. [31], [32].
- though founded on principles of liberty, for a time favoured the power of the crown, [70].
- carried on and established by the whole legislature, [73].
- Religious Houses, suppression of, favoured the extension of prerogative, iv. [20].
- Representation, Dramatic, requires stricter adherence to truth than narration, iv. [326].
- Retainers, laws of Henry VII. against, iv. [25].
- Retirement, foundation of the dialogue concerning, iii. [97]. n.
- its good effects on the mind, [104].
- its disadvantages, [106].
- retirement of good men from public employments prejudicial to the state, [141].
- Revolution of 1688, why justifiable, iii. [283].
- settlement introduced by it, how to be rendered secure, [295].
- Rhetorician, one who taught the art of not speaking, iv. [121].
- Richard II. the wonder-working parliament in his reign rejected the Roman civil law, iii. [367].
- his declaration that his will was law, [374].
- Robert the Norman, his wife fought by his side in battle, iv. [317].
- Roman Emperors, their policy in assuming the title of Pontifex Maximus, iv. [47].
- Rome, Court of, its authority rejected by Henry VIII. iv. [29].
- Romance, Spirit of, whence originating, iv. [239].
- principal subjects, [241].
- from what period its writers derive their ideas of chivalry, [259].
- practice of mixing Pagan fable with it, [272].
- Gothic superstitions introduced, [284].
- decline of this species of writing, [333], [345], [348].
- Rousseau, his observation on the use of the marvellous in epic and dramatic compositions, iv. [327]. n.
- Royal Society, much talked of, before it was instituted, iii. [143]. n.
- Ryswick, treaty of, wherein defective, iv. [12].
- S.
- St. Alban’s, Lord, the patron of Cowley, iii. [97], [99], [102].
- Saxons, the principles of their policy still maintained in our government, iii. [307].
- spirit of liberty prevailed among them, [309].
- their institutions, after the decline of the Romans, the standing laws of this kingdom, [349].
- Savages of Romance, dependants of feudal lords, iv. [263].
- Selden, his character of Ben Jonson, iii. [209].
- a curious extract from his dissertation on Fleta, [370].
- Self-love, when uncontrouled, engenders vices, iv. [108].
- Senator, English, requisite qualifications of one, iv. [140].
- are not attainable by foreign travel, [143].
- Sidney, Sir Philip, the flower of knighthood, iii. [197].
- Sincerity in the commerce of the world, a dialogue on, iii. [53].
- Shaftesbury, Lord, eminent as a writer of dialogue, iii. [24].
- his remarks on the difficulties attending that class of composition, [42].
- represented in a dialogue with Mr. Locke, on the uses of foreign travel, iv. [87].
- states its advantages, [107].
- asserts it to be the most important part of education, [111].
- descants on the prejudices of home-bred gentlemen, [115].
- on the state of the arts in Britain, [126].
- on the decay of philosophy, [131].
- his raillery against the Gothic manner in poetry, [311].
- Shakespear, remark of his best critic on the witch-scenes in Macbeth, iv. [286].
- greater in the Gothic than in the classic manner, [295].
- Socrates, whence he took his name of Ironist, iii. [28].
- never stirred out of Athens, iv. [96].
- Somers, Mr. his fears that the principles of liberty are not thoroughly established in the minds of the people, iii. [295], [297].
- his notion of the varying ascendancy of liberty and prerogative, iv. [18].
- Spain, Queen Elizabeth’s triumph over, to what owing, iii. [274].
- Spenser, had talent for business as well as for poetry, iii. [243].
- his funeral, ib. n.
- charmed by Gothic Romance, iv. [239].
- his account of the courtesy of chivalry, [247].
- of the connection of gallantry with the profession of Knighthood, [249].
- his description of characters in romance, [264].
- his design in the Fairy Queen, [280].
- why he chose chivalry for his theme, and Fairy land for his scene, [291].
- why he had recourse to allegory, [346].
- with whom he ranks highest among the poets, [350].
- Sprat, the Rev. Mr. his account of a conversation with Mr. Cowley on retirement, iii. [99].
- Star-Chamber, iii. [381].
- when confirmed by act of parliament, iv. [25], [34].
- its jurisdiction why extended, [50].
- Stephen, the Justinian laws introduced into England during his reign, iii. [354].
- interdicted the study of them, [356].
- Stillingfleet, Dr. his remark on the dispensing power, iv. [54].
- Stuart, House of, part of their difficulties ascribed to the bad policy of their predecessor, iii. [228].
- English Government despotic under the first princes of that line, iii. [390].
- prerogative increased in the preceding reigns, iv. [20], [33].
- confirmed the jurisdiction of the Star-Chamber by statute, [34].
- exercised the dispensing power to a dangerous degree, [55].
- T.
- Tacitus, bears testimony to the free spirit of the German constitutions, iii. [309].
- Tasso, his Gierusalemme Liberata planned on the model of the Iliad, iv. [279].
- his description of a garden, iv. [301].
- his Gierusalemme Liberata considered, [308].
- how estimated by the French critics, [309], [310].
- his Clarinda not so extravagant a character as is generally supposed, [318].
- remark of a French critic on his enchantments, [322].
- his fairy tales do him more honour than the classical parts of his poem, [329].
- Terence, his characters all express themselves with equal elegance, iii. [39].
- Theobald, Archbishop, favoured the reading of the Justinian laws in England, iii. [354].
- Third Estate in France, their deputies how stigmatized by one of the popes, iv. [59]. n.
- Thuanus, his remark on the romantic spirit of Queen Elizabeth, iii. [196].
- Thurkeby, Judge, exclaims against the dispensing power, iv. [53]. n.
- Tilt Yard, a school of fortitude and honour to our forefathers, iii. [185].
- Its exercises excelled those of the Grecian gymnastics, [188].
- Toleration-act, when passed, iv. [11]. n.
- Topaz, Sir, of Chaucer, a prelude to Don Quixote, iv. [336].
- Tour of Europe, too limited for a philosophic traveller, iv. [198].
- Travel, foreign, dialogue on the uses of, iv. [87].
- considered as a part of early education, [93].
- question stated, [94].
- example of the ancient philosophers, [96].
- allusion to the court of Elizabeth, [98].
- of Charles II. [100].
- youth more exposed to vice abroad than at home, [103].
- arguments in favour of it, [107].
- its tendency to remove prejudices and correct low habits, [115].
- and to qualify a person for bearing his part in public affairs, [124].
- the argument refuted, [135].
- proper objects of education, [138].
- does not contribute to attain them, [143].
- waste of time, ib.
- dissipation of mind, [145].
- objects to which the traveller’s application is directed, [146].
- hinder him from more important studies, [149].
- vicious prejudices may be removed without it, [155].
- low habits not likely to be corrected by it, [157], [158].
- precipitates youth into manhood, [165].
- is become fashionable through the influence of the ladies, [168].
- knowledge of the world not to be acquired by it, [172].
- unseasonable and useless in youth, [173].
- considered as a means of dissolving hasty and ill-timed connexions, [188].
- of studying the fine arts, [191].
- when to be practised with most advantage, [195].
- to be extended beyond the tour of Europe, [198].
- foreign and English universities compared, [212].
- what tutorage most proper, [217].
- Tudor Line, government of England more despotic under them than in the preceding reigns, iii. [390].
- Tutor, Travelling, how to be chosen, iv. [106].
- the best cannot teach every thing requisite, [149].
- what tutorage most proper, [217].
- V. and U.
- Vacarius taught the civil law in England, iii. [355].
- Virtue, exists most in the offices of social life, iii. [106].
- not incompatible with ambition, [139].
- Virtuosoship, one of the objects of foreign travel, iv. [146].
- Ulysses, his return afforded an exception to the domestic licence of the time, iv. [278].
- Unity of design in Gothic poems, iv. [300].
- Universities, the Imperial law still obtains in them, iii. [375].
- strictures on, iv. [132].
- a sketch of their institution and genius, [204].
- why the barbarous plans of education still prevail, [206].
- a reformation contemplated, [208].
- their studies and discipline not without their use, [211].
- compared with those of the continent, [212].
- their forms and regulations commended, [214].
- much room for improvement in them, [223].
- happy presage of their future condition, [224].
- W.
- Waller, Mr. Edmund, represented in dialogue with Dr. More, on sincerity in the commerce of the world, iii. [53].
- recites his history, [57].
- his introduction at court, where he recommended himself by his poetry, [60].
- engaged actively in the parliament of 1640, [63].
- his relationship and attachment to Mr. Hampden could never bias him from moderation, [65].
- his resolution to pursue the King’s interests, and yet keep clear with the Parliament, [69].
- his popularity drew him into difficulties, [71].
- failure of his plot, [72].
- his address in extricating himself from the danger thence arising, [77].
- his hypocrisy, [79].
- retired into France during the troubles of the country, [83].
- ascribes his misfortunes to sincerity, and his escape from them, to dissimulation, [84].
- is admitted, on his return, to the confidence of the Protector, whom he panegyrized, [86].
- congratulated Charles II. on his restoration, [88].
- his arguments in justification of his conduct, [91].
- Walls of Fire, mentioned in romance, what in reality, iv. [320].
- Walsingham, Secretary, recounts the ill effects of Queen Elizabeth’s frugality, iii. [263]. n.
- his illustrious poverty, [264].
- Warwick, Great Church of, famous for its monuments, iii. [168].
- William I. his Conquest by some considered as the foundation of absolute monarchy in England, iii. [298], [309].
- his claim to the crown not conquest but testamentary succession, [311].
- instituted the feudal law, [313].
- consequences of his distribution of forfeited estates and seignories, [333].
- obliged to ratify the old standing laws of the kingdom, [349].
- illustration of his policy in his distinction of the ecclesiastical and temporal courts, [351], [352].
- styles himself Bastard, in one of his charters, [363].
- William III. King, his character, iv. [14].
- Wolsey, Cardinal, charged with subjecting the laws of the land to the imperial laws, iii. [380].
- Women-Warriors, in times of chivalry, iv. [317].
- World, the Commerce of, how to be prepared for, iv. [138].
- a knowledge of, the most momentous part of education, and least understood, [179].
- X.
- Xenophon, why lavish in praise of hunting, iii. [189].
- Y.
- Yorke, the late Right Hon. Charles, extract from a letter of his, on the origin of chivalry, iv. [254].
- Youth, the season for acquiring right propensities and virtuous habits, iv. [113].
- education of, in England, wherein defective, iv. [117].
- value of time at that age, [144].
- bashfulness a favourable symptom, [161].
- what period of it requires most care and vigilance, [180].
- entrance into the world, [181].
- necessity of moral discipline, [184].
- Z.
- Zeal for the faith, actuated the professors of chivalry, iv. [251].