Aches, formerly a dissyllable; examples from Swift, Hudibras, and Shakespeare; John Kemble’s use of the word, i. 81, note.
Acrostics, i. 295-296.
Actors, tragic, i. 248; who have died martyrs to their tragic characters, 249; should be nursed in the laps of queens, 250; anecdotes of, 250-251.
Addison, silent among strangers, i. 104.
Adriani, his continuation of Guicciardini’s History, iii. [180].
Advice, good, of a literary sinner, i. 350.
Agates, presenting representations of natural forms, i. 244.
Agobard, Archbishop of Lyons, i. 21, and note.
Agreda, Maria, wrote the Life of the Virgin Mary, i. 367.
Alberico, vision of, ii. 422.