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Accuracy, important every where, but where MOST 60; A 133, 134 Acroftics, Chronograms, Wings, Altars, Eggs, &c.

finely described,

ACTS of the Apostles,

475 to 479 B 274

ADDISON, his elegant Comedy, A 209. fuperior to

SWIFT, both in Diction and Wit, and Philanthropy, B 538. fine Comment on Milton, Admiration, upon what founded, A 48. foolish, how

A 24

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ENEAS SYLVIAS (afterward Pope Pius the second) de

plores the taking of Conftantinople, and describes its ftate, immediately previous to that fatal Event, B 315

ESCHINES, the Socratic,

Affability, fee Saladin,

Agriculture, in Arabian Spain, how excellent,
ALARIC, takes Rome,

to 318

A 230

332

547

B 277

ALBIGEOIS, Cruelty of the Crusaders towards them, B 409. See Beziers—Inquifition.

ALCIDAMAS, his fine Metaphor in describing the

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B 508, &c.

ALLEGRO and PENSEROSO of Milton, A 56. See Accumulation.

Alliteration, A 93. Examples of, from Latin, 94, 95. from Greek, 96 to 98. from old English, 98. from

Englife

English lefs antient, 99, 100. from modern English, IỎI, 102

ALMANUM, Caliph, the great Patron of Literature, B 326, 327. 361

ALMANZOR, Caliph,

B 326

B 328

ALOMOST ASSEM, Caliph, his mean Behaviour, B 386
ALPHARABI,
AMALFI, the City, where the Pifans found Justi-
nian's Code,

B 407

AMMONIUS, his Defcription of Contraries, A 52. account of Him, and his valuable Comments,

AMRUS,

Αναγνώρισις. See Difcovery.

B 250

B 252. 350

Anapaflic Measure, its Solemnity and Beauty, ` B 474

Angel of Death,

B 349

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Antiphona, defcribed,

B 566

Annominatio, fame with Alliteratie,

ANSON, his Adventure with an old Greek,

Anthology Greek. See PLANUDES,

Arabians, B from 322 to 390. their national Character, 323. 338. favoured Medicine, and Afro

logy, 374. 381 to 384. had no Ideas of Civil Liberly, 385. 552. their Poetry, 346 to 356. loved Allegory, B 348. their Degeneracy,

Arabian Poetry. See Poetry.

ARATUS,

ARCESSILAS,

ARISTOPHANES,

B 388

B 274 B 261

B 293

ARISTOTLE, Father of Criticism, A 8. quoted, A 50, 51, 52. 58, 59. 66, 67. 71. 73, 74. 90. 98. 103. 139. 141. 143. 146. 140. 149. 151. 153. 158. 166. 174, 175. 179, 180, 181, 182. 186, 187. 189, 190, 191, 192. 196. 199. 201. 206, 207, 208. 210. 219, 220, 221. 229. 231. B 259. 264. 267. 286. 294. 356. 389. 406. 431. 470, 471.

508. 546 A 33

ARRIAN'S EPICTETUS,
ASHLEY, Honourable Maurice Afb. Cowper, his fine
Tranflation of the Cyropædia,

Aftrology,

Atheism, what leads to it,

A 29

B 374 381 to 384
B 537

B 268. 286

ATHENAEUS, ATHENS, a place of Education, B 273. of Philofophical Retreat, B 274. St. Paul there, ibid. befieged by Alaric, B 277. How faved, and BY WHOM, 278. taken, and by whom, 282. present Character of its Inhabitants, from Spon, Wheeler, and Stuart, B 283 ATHENIANS, B 255, 256. their high Tafte, when it began, ibid. furvived their Empire, B 258. 269

ATTICA, ftill famous for Olives and Honey, B 286 ATTICUS. See T. Pomponius.

AVERROES, B 328. his Patience, 369. his Comment

upon Ariftotle,

AUGUSTUS,

AVICENNA,

AULUS GELLIUS, his Enigma,

B.

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BACON, ROGER, thought a Magician, WHY,

399 BACON,

BACON, Lord Verulam, his Judgment upon ftrange

B 280

Stories, BAGDAD, WHEN founded, and BY WHOM, B 386.,

WHEN taken,

MONIAL,

386, 387

Banquet, Imperial, at Conftantinople, part of its CEREB 298 BARBARIANS, Western LATINS, B 401. See Barons, Counts, &c.

BARBARIANS, PERSIANS fo called, both by the old Greeks, and modern Arabians,

B 346, 347

Barons, B 401. 512. See Counts, Barbarians, &c. BARRINGTON, his valuable Book,

Battle, Trials by,

Bayle,

B 504

B 242, 243. 515
B 384

Beauty, natural or inanimate, WHENCE derived, B 492. 495. See Tempe, 493. Virgil and Horace, 494. Milton, 495. Leland, 498. Sannazarius, 499. Petrarch, 501. Cyrus, 503. Philip le Bell, 504.

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B 392

A 60, 61. 222, 223

BEDE, Beginners, Advice to, Beings, Aerial, fighting for their Friends: Minerva and Achilles; Caftor and Pollux; St. George, St, Demetrius, and St. Mercury; Peter de Paz, B 278, 279 BENTLEY, his ftrange Idea of Conjecture, A 34. his ftrange treatment of the PARADISE LOST, A 37. his fine Tract de Metris Terentianis,

BESSARIO,

A 82

BEZIERES, fackt by the Crusaders in a peculiar way,

BOCCACCIO,

B 320

B 409

B 367

BOETHIUS, tranflated into Greek, by wном, B 295 BOHADIN, Arabian Hiftorian, account of him, B 330, 331. Extracts from his Hiftory, 331 to 345. and again, 444 to 449

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Bombaft Style, prior to the Claffical, WHY,
Books, corrupted in HOW MANY ways,
Bossu,

A 46
A 30

A 166. 183

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BROWN'S Fafciculus rerum, &c. a curious Book,

BRUTUS and CASSIUS,

BUCKINGHAM, Duke of, a Critic

C.

CASAR, his Clemency to the Athenians,

Caliphate, its Splendor, B 325. 347. 363.
tination,

B 271

its Ex-

387

Caliphs, Inftances of their Affability, Refentment, Mu-
nificence, Magnificence, Publick Works, B 357 to 366.
Story of the Caliph and his Phyfician, Honaïn, 376.
of the fame, and his Physician, Baɛtish, 378. of
another Caliph, and his Phyfician, 379. mean End
of the laft reigning Caliph,
CAMBALU, fuppofed the modern Pekin, defcribed,

Carrion-Crows, know what they like,

386

B 481

A 233

A 27

CARTER, Mrs. excellent Tranflator, WHY,
CASAUBON, Meric, excellent Tranflator, wHY, A 27
Catastrophe. in Dramas, difficult, A 162, 163. how it

is effected often in Tragedy, 162. how in Comedy,
ibid. lame Expedients in both, ibid. Happy Cata-
ftrophe fuited for Comedy, 149 unhappy for Tra-
gedy,
CAVE, the Author,

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150
B 245. 432

CAUSE, always exifts, but not always apparent, A 48.
fhould always be traced, otherwise all is darkness,

A 48

CEBES, perfect MS. of his Work in the King of
France's Library,

B 557 to 559

Cere-

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