De la Chambre, secret correspondence of, with Louis XIV. on physiognomy, i. 148.
Deliquents, a convenient revolutionary phrase, iii. [86].
Descares, persecuted for his opinions, i. 29; silent in mixed company, 104; his description of his life in Amsterdam, 113.
Descriptions, local, when prolonged tedious, iii. [1]; Boileau’s criticisms on, [1], [2]; inefficiency of, instanced by a passage from Pliny, [2]; example of elegant, in a sonnet by Francesca de Castello, [3].
Descriptive Poems, general remarks on, i. 341; race of, confined to one object, ib.; titles of, and notices on several of these, 342, 343.
Des Maizeaux, a French refugee, iii. [13]; his Life of Bayle, [14]; notices of his literary life, [15]-18; Anthony Collins bequeaths his MSS. to, [19]; relinquishes them to Collins’s widow, [20]; correspondence concerning, [19]-22.
Desmarets, his comedy of the “Visionnaires,” ii. 48.
De Serres, introduced the cultivation of the mulberry tree and silk-worm into France, ii. 152; opposition to his schemes, ib.; supported by Henry IV., ib.; medal struck in honour of his memory, 153.
Destruction of books and MSS. by the monks, i. 18, 50; account of, at Constantinople, by the Christians, suppressed, 47; burning of Talmuds, 48; of Irish and Mexican, ib.; anecdotes regarding, 49; of Korans, ib.; of the classics, 50; of Bohemian, ib.; in England under Henry VIII., 51; at Stationers’ Hall in 1599, 53; of many of Lady Mary Wortley Montague’s letters, 54; of Anglo-Saxon MSS., 55; anecdotes concerning the, ib., note; by fire and shipwreck, 56, 57.
D’Ewes, Sir Symonds, a sober antiquary, but a visionary, iii. [433]; extracts from his Diary, [434], [435].