Almanzor, Caliph, 479.
Al-Mostasem, caliph, his mean behaviour,
495.
ABASSIDE, caliphs, 479. illustrious race,
ibid. extinguished, when, 495, 496.
Abelard, Peter, and Heloisa, 508.
Abulfeda, Arabian historian, account of Alpharabi, 479.
of him, 480. quoted, passim.
Abulpharagius, Arabian historian, account
him, 480. quoted, passim.
Academy, the place where Plato taught,
Academy, New, by Arcesilas and Car-
neades, 461.
Accent, differs from quantity, how, 405.
accurately distinguished, anciently, ibid.
prevailed at length over quantity, 408,
515. samples of its force, 409, 410.
Accentual quantity, used even by classic
writers, and by whom, and how far, 411.
prevails in English verse, and in that of
all the other modern languages, 411,
Accumulation, exemplified, 402, 403. cause
or reason of its force, 403, 404.
Accuracy, important every where, but
where most so, 425.
Acrostics, chronograms, wings, altars, eggs,
&c. finely described, 520, 521.
Acts of the Apostles, 464.
Addison, his elegant comedy, 446. superior
to Swift, both in diction and wit and
philanthropy, 538. fine comment on Mil-
ton, 394.
Admiration, upon what founded,401. foolish,
how cured, 453.
Adrian, a capital benefactor to Athens, 464.
Ælian, 525.
Eneas Sylvias (afterward pope Pius the
Second) deplores the taking of Constan-
tinople, and describes its state, imme-
diately previous to that fatal event, 476.
Æschines, the Socratic, 452.
Affability, see Saladin, 480.
Amalfi, the city, where the Pisans found
Justinian's Code, 501.
Ammonius, his description of contraries,
402. account of him, and his valuable
comments, 457.
'Avayrápiois. See Discovery.
Anapastic measure, its solemnity and
beauty, 520.
Anger, should remit, and why, 438.
Anna Comnena, 530, 531.
Annominatio, same with alliteratio, 415.
Anson, his adventure with an old Greek,
477.
Anthology, Greek, See Planudes, 470,
473.
Antipater, 463.
Antiphona, described, 549.
Arabians, 478-496. their national cha-
racter, 478, 482. favoured medicine and
astrology, 492, 494, 495. had no ideas
of civil liberty, 495, 543. their poetry
484-487. loved allegory, 485. their
degeneracy, 496.
Arabian poetry. See Poetry.
Aratus, 464.
Arcesilas, 461.
Aristophanes, 469.
Aristotle, father of criticism, 389. quoted,
401, 402, 404, 406, 407, 408, 413, 415,
416, 427, 428, 429, 430, 431, 432, 434,
436, 437, 438, 439, 440, 441, 442, 443,
444, 445, 446, 449, 451, 452, 460, 461,
462, 467, 470, 487, 496, 501, 508, 518,
519, 530, 540.
Arrian's Epictetus, 397.
Agriculture, in Arabian Spain, how excel- Ashley, Honourable Maurice Ash. Cowper,
Alaric takes Rome, 465.
Albigeois, cruelty of the crusaders towards
them, 502. See Beziers-Inquisition.
Alcidamas, his fine metaphor in describing
the Odyssey, 441.
Alexander the Great, 463.
Alexandrian library, burnt, 458, 478.
Alexius, Greek emperor, 530.
Allegro and Penseroso of Milton, 403. See
Accumulation.
Alliteration, 414. examples of, from Latin,
ibid. from Greek, 415. from old English,
ibid. from English less ancient, ibid. 416.
from modern English, 416.
his fine translation of the Cyropædia,
395.
Astrology, 492, 494, 495.
Atheism, what leads to it, 538.
Athenæus 463, 467.
Athens, a place of education, 464. of phi-
losophical retreat, ibid. St. Paul there,
ibid. besieged by Alaric, 465. how saved,
and by whom, ibid. taken, and by whom,
466. present character of its inhabitants,
from Spon, Wheeler, and Stuart, 467.
Athenians, 459. their high taste, when it
began, ibid. survived their empire, 460,
463.
Attica, still famous for olives and honey, 467.
Atticus. See T. Pomponius.
Almamun, caliph, the great patron of litera- Averroes, 479. his patience, 491. his com-
ture, 479, 488.
ment upon Aristotle, 496.
Augustus, 464.
Avicenna, 479.
Aulus Gellius, his enigma, 444.
Bacon, Roger, thought a magician, why, 499.
Bacon, Lord Verulam, his judgment upon
strange stories, 466.
Bagdad, when founded, and by whom, 495.
when taken, ibid. 496.
Banquet, imperial, at Constantinople, part
of its ceremonial, 471.
Barbarians, Western Latins, 499.
Barons, Counts, &c.
Barbarians, Persians so called, both by the
old Greeks and modern Arabians, 484.
Barons, 499, 531. See Counts, Barbarians,
&c.
Barrington, his valuable book, 528.
Battle, trials by, 455, 531.
Bayle, 495.
Beauty, natural or inanimate, whence de-
rived, 525, 526. See Tempe, 525. Virgil,
and Horace, ibid. Milton, 526. Leland,
527. Sannazarius, ibid. Petrarch, ibid.
Cyrus, 528. Philip le Bell, ibid.
Bede, 497.
Beginners, advice to, 404, 405, 449, 450.
Beings, aerial, fighting for their friends:
Minerva and Achilles; Castor and Pol-
lux; St. George, St. Demetrius, and St.
Mercury; Peter de Paz, 465.
Bentley, his strange idea of conjecture, 397.
his strange treatment of the Paradise
Lost, 398. his fine tract De Metris
Terentianis, 411.
Carter, Mrs., excellent translator, why, 395.
Catastrophe, in dramas, difficult, 433. how
it is effected often in tragedy, ibid. how
in comedy, ibid. lame expedients in both,
ibid. happy catastrophe suited for comedy,
429, 430. unhappy for tragedy, ibid.
Cave, the author, 456, 508.
Cause, always exists, but not always ap-
parent, 401. should always be traced,
otherwise all is darkness, ibid.
Cebes, perfect MS. of his work in the king
of France's library, 545, 546.
Ceremonial of the Byzantine court, 471.
eluded, how, and by whom, 490.
Chance, nothing happens by, 388, 399, 401.
Chapel of King's College, Cambridge, 524.
Chaucer, genealogy of English poets from
him, 518. his language obsolete, his wit
and learning excellent, ibid. his litera-
ture and philosophy, ibid. 519. takes
from Aristotle, and how, 519.
Chivalry, 530.
Christianus Fredericus Matthæi, a learned
professor in the university of Moscow,
549, 550.
Church, 470. its superior knowledge, both
in the East and West, whence, 529. its
humanity, 531.
Cicero, a critic, first in rank among the
Romans, 390. his tract De Oratore, ibid.
quoted, 407, 408, 412, 413, 417, 418,
419, 438, 460, 461, 462, 463, 464, 465,
471, 475, 476, 501, 508.
Cimabue, the first Italian painter, taught
by Greeks, 514.
Bezieres, sacked by the crusaders in a pe- Circulation, providential, 539.
culiar way, 502.
Boccaccio, 490.
Boethius, translated into Greek, by whom,
470.
Bohadin, Arabian historian, account of him,
480. extracts from his history, 480—
484. and again, 511, 512.
Bombast style, prior to the classical, why,
Books, corrupted in how many ways, 396.
Bossu, 434, 439.
Brown's Fasciculus Rerum, &c. a curious
book, 498.
Brutus and Cassius, 458, 463.
Buckingham, duke of, a critic, 392.
Cæsar, his clemency to the Athenians, 463.
Caliphate, its splendour, 479, 485, 489.
its extinction, 496.
Caliphs, instances of their affability, resent-
ment, munificence, public works, 487-
490. story of the caliph and his physi-
cian Honaïn, 493. of the same and his
physician Bactish, ibid. of another caliph
and his physician, ibid. 494. mean end
of the last reigning caliph, 495.
Cambalu, supposed the modern Pekin, de-
scribed 522.
Carrion-crows, know what they like, 452.
Classes of men in letters, during the middle
age, three, 456.
Classics, their value, 398.
Climate, its effect, 532.
Coffee, a council of divines held upon it, 542.
Comic poetry, subsequent to tragic and
epic, why, 400.
Commentators, 391, 457.
Commodianus, a bad poet, 408. samples of
his bad verses, ibid. 409.
Commodus, 464.
Composition, numerous, 389, 390, 399, 405
-408.
Concatenation. See Accumulation.
Conjecture, critical, 397. its misuse, ibid.
398. and use, 398.
Constantine, founder of the city called after
him, 470, 476.
Constantine Porphyrogenitus, his book of
the ceremonial of the Byzantine court,
471. remarkable instances of it, ibid.
Constantinople, 454, 470. Latin MSS.
were probably preserved in its libraries,
471. sacked by the Barbarians. See
Nicetas, and 502.
Contemplation, noblest species of, 539.
Conversation. See Saladin, 481. See also
493, 494.
Cornelius Nepos, 465.
Counts, 530. their employ, 531.
Barons and Barbarians.
Critics, modern, philosophical, 392.
torical, 392-395. corrective, 396.
Critics, young, advised in two respects, as
to the conduct of their judgment, 404,
405.
Critics, English, enumerated, 394.
Criticism, its origin, 388, 389. its objects,
389. the philosophical, chap. i. and iii.
392. the historical, chap. ii. and iii. 392,
393. the corrective, chap. v. philoso-
phical critics enumerated, chap. i. his-
torical critics enumerated, 391. correc-
tive critics enumerated, chap. v. criticism
has been misused, 397. yet defended,
398. its three species repeated, 399.
Crusades, 455. Baldwin's crusade, 472.
when they began, 501. accounts of them,
503, 530, 531.
Crusaders, their destructive barbarity, 472
-475. their character by Nicetas, 475.
Crusaders, their cruelty, 474, 502. (See
Bezieres and Constantinople.) causes of
their cruelty, 506. murdered all the
Mahometans, when they took Jerusa-
lem, 482, 483. never mended, but grew
worse, 475, 501, 532.
Cupping, described in an enigma, 444.
Curiosity, cautioned against, and why, 438.
Custom, its force, 483.
Cyclopes, their brutality, whence, 532.
Cyropædia of Xenophon, finely translated,
395.
Dante, 518.
Del-Rio, 465.
Demetrius of Phalera, a critic, 389. his
character as such, ibid. quoted, 408, 416,
420.
Despotism, Oriental, 495, 543.
Alávola. See Sentiment.
Diction, its species described, 439-445.
the vulgar, 439. the obscure, ibid. the
elegant, ibid. the metaphorical, 440-
443.
Dictionaries, writers of, 393, 394.
Dido, restless, while others rest, 401.
Diodorus Siculus, when entire, 469.
Diogenes Laert. 389, 460, 461.
Dion, Chrysost. Oratio, 549.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus a critic, 389,
418. his character as such, ibid. quoted,
420.
Discovery, dramatic, àvayvúpiois, described,
429, 431, 446.
Domestic stories, their force, 447.
Dramatic piece, defined, 427. its consti-
tuent parts, how many and what, 427,
428. which of these parts appertain to
the poet, which to other artists, 428.
dramatic piece often fails in the fable,
432. more often admired for other merits,
433. may be justly admired for those
other merits, 446, 447. yet to be per-
fect, must be complete in every part, 446.
illustrated from painting, 447. English
drama capable of improvement, and how,
ibid.
Drummer, comedy. See Addison.
Dryden, 406, 410, 416, 438, 442, 443, 530.
Duck, civilian, 501.
Durfey, 453.
Ecclesiastes, quoted, 538.
Ecclesiastics. See Church.
Edgcumb, mount, 526, 528.
Education, places of, same in England be-
fore the conquest as now, 501. plan of
education during the time of Edward
the Confessor, ibid. during the time of
Henry the Sixth, 524. perhaps began
from Venerable Bede, 506.
Edward, Confessor.
Normandy.
Egitha, queen, and wife to Edward the
Confessor, an accomplished woman, both
in knowledge and in virtue, 500, 501.
Elements of natural beauty, four, 525, 526.
of the universe, as few, ibid.
Eloquence, the noblest, where to be found,
390.
Emanuel Martin, a critic, 393.
Empiric, story of, 394.
Eneas, 402, 403, 539.
English authors quoted, why, 400.
English Drama, may be improved, how,447.
English language, its praise, 394. why
quoted, 400. its quantity, for the greater
part, accentual, yet sometimes syllabic,
411, 412.
Enigmas, 444. from Aristotle, ibid. from
Aulus Gellius, ibid.
Ennius, his alliteration, 416.
Epic and tragic poetry, prior to comic, why,
400.
Epictetus, 460.
Epicurus, short sketch of his doctrine, 461.
his gardens, 462.
Epopee comic, where to be found, 433.
'Epuéрakλal. See Mercury and Hercules.
Escurial Library, account of its Arabic
MSS., 540-543.
Eugenius, the Greek translator of the
Georgics, 550.
Euripides, 398, 438, 450, 452, 457, 469.
Eustathius, commentator upon Homer, 470.
Eustratius, commentator upon Aristotle,470.
Fables, dramatic, their species, 428, &c.
tragic fable, 430-432. comic fable, 429,
432. good fables, rare, 432. fable of the
Fatal Curiosity described, 431. super-
latively excellent, ibid. tragic fable, the
soul of tragedy, and why, 432. where to
be found, 447, 449. fable, manners, and
sentiment, estimated by Horace, 447.
Fabricius, 457, 465, 468, 469, 470, 472,
473, 474, 475, 507, 517, 546.
Fatal Curiosity of Lillo, its fable, 431. its
manners, 435. its sentiment, 436, 437.
Faust, John, thought a magician, why, 499.
Fazelius, the historian, 532.
Feet, syllabic, 405. the heroic, 406. the
iambic, 407. the pæan, ibid. 408. the
cretic, 408. English iambics, ibid. Eng-
lish spondees, ibid. English dactyls, ibid.
Feudal tenures, a supposed sketch of their
rise, 532.
Fielding, Henry, sketch of his character,
433. his Joseph Andrews and Tom
Jones, master-pieces in the comic epopee,
Fortescue, sir John, chancellor of England
under Henry the Sixth, his admirable
book, 523, 524. his literature, 524.
Fortitude, true, by what supported, 539.
Franks. See Latins.
Friend, another self, a Peripatetic and Ara-
bic sentiment, 487.
Fuller, 465, 474, 484, 501, 502.
Future, how seen in the past, 539.
Greeks, Byzantine, account of their taste
and literature, 456-477.
Gronovius, (Thesaur. Antiq. Græcar.) 463,
464, 466, 546.
Guido, 403.
Gulliver, 538.
Gurdun, Bertram de, wounds Richard Cœur
de Leon mortally, 513. his intrepid an-
swer to Richard, as this last lay dying,
ibid.
Gymnasia, their end, 462. adorned with sta-
tues of Mercury and Hercules, why, 463.
Habits, how easy, when acquired, 418, 481.
Hagley, 526.
Hamlet, play of, its awful opening, 403.
(See Accumulation.)
Hamlet, his manners, questionable, and
why, 434, 435, 503. quoted, 451.
Harmodius and Aristogiton, 463.
Helen, a capital statue of, described, 474.
Heloisa. See Abelard, 508.
Henry the First, 505. a learned prince, 506.
speech before his father, ibid.
Henry of Huntingdon, 504.
Gardens, of Epicurus, 462. modern, their Herbelot, 479, 496.
Genius, none but men of, can metaphorize
well, 440. genius never cramped by
rules, 449, 450.
Gerbertus, a learned ecclesiastic, 488. be-
came pope, ibid. thought, from his know-
ledge, a magician, ibid. 499.
Giraldus Cambrensis, 415, 511.
Glossary, a singular one, 410.
Tváμn. See Sentiment.
Gnomologic sentiment, its character, 437.
its species, 438. should be used sparingly,
ibid. whom it becomes, ibid.
God, a cause intelligent and rational, 401.
never forsakes mankind, 456. nor leaves
himself without a witness, 533. his pro-
vidential circulation, 539. See Piety.
Good-breeding, its most perfect model, when
and where it existed, 390.
Good-humour, its importance, 538.
Gothic architecture, finest sample of it,
where, 524.
Grammar, 391, 510, 511.
Grammar, writers upon, 393, 394.
Gratian, a monk, collected and published
the Canon Law, 501.
Great, who are commonly called so, 504.
Greece, ancient, its character, 388.
Greek language, its quantity syllabic de-
generates into accentual, 409. preserved
a competent purity to the fifteenth cen-
tury, 475.
Greek genius, not yet extinct, 477.
Greek authors, the capital, translated into
Arabic, 479, 480.
Hercules and Mercury. See Gymnasia.
Hercules, a capital statue of, by Lysippus,
described, 473.
Hermogenes, 415.
Herodes, called Atticus, why, 465.
Heroes major, Attila, Tottila, &c. 393.
Heroes minor, Edmundus, Bernoldus, Dago-
bertus, Huchaldus, Hildigrim, Halabal-
dus, &c. 516, 517.
Hildebert, archbishop, his fine taste for the
antique, and his warm verses, 507.
Histoire Ecclesiastique, 531.
History, may furnish fables dramatic, 447,
449. its different modes, 463, 464.
Hody, 475, 476.
Holy War. See War.
Homer, 404. his poems debased from hexa-
meters into trochaïcs, 409. his fine use
of the metaphor, 441. his bad pun, 444.
quoted, 450, 452, 470, 486, 499, 516,
520, 534. hymn of his to Ceres, and
fragment of another to Bacchus, in the
library at Moscow, 551.
Honaïn, a Christian physician, fine story of,
493.
Horace, a critic, 390. quoted, 401, 435,
442, 443. paraphrased, 447. quoted,
ibid. 452, 459, 462, 464, 468, 475, 487,
492, 516, 521, 525, 535.
Hospitality, Arabian, 478, 482, 486.
Humanity and bounty, 487.
Hymettus, still famous for honey, 467.
Hyperides, entire, when, 469.
Ibrahim, contest for his body, as for that of
Patroclus, 485.
Jerusalem, called the Holy City, both by
Christians and Mahometans, 512. taken
by the former, 482. by the latter, 483.
Ignorance, leads to admiration, 401.
Imitation, more perfect, as are the number
of resemblances, in which it resembles
the thing imitated, 448. instances in
place, ibid. in time, 449. proof from con-
traries, ibid.
Latins, or Franks, 456, 472. ignorance of
their laity, 499.
Law, canon and civil, when they began to
flourish in Western Europe, and by what
causes, 501. their effect, ibid.
Lear, 430.
Impressions, present and remote, their dif- Learned men, their Oriental character, 479.
ference, 538.
Indignation, 488.
Ingulphus, 499. his conversation with queen
Egitha, 500. account of English manners,
ibid. of his own education, 501. his
fortune, how made, and by whom, ibid.
Innocent the Third, pope, modest account
of himself, 455. fond of crusades and
regal excommunications, ibid.
Inquiries, philological, 388, 539.
Inquisition, its rise, 502. whence it took
its forms, ibid. its effect, 394, 506. its
conduct, 543.
Inventions, capital ones of the middle age,
533.
Inventors, unknown, 533. yet all the in-
ventions referable to man and human
wit, ibid. inference, ibid.
Joannes Erigena, a scholar, 487. his quick
reply to a dull pun, ibid.
John the Grammarian (Philoponus), his ac-
count of the burning of the library at
Alexandria by Omar, 458.
John of Salisbury, 504, 505. his age, 508.
his classical taste, ibid. his ideas of li-
berty and servitude, 509. of philosophy,
ibid. of virtue and felicity, ibid. of the
soul, ibid. of art, and its three requisites,
genius, memory, and the reasoning fa-
culty, 510. of nature, ibid. of grammar,
with respect to substantives, adjectives,
comparison, verbs, time, tenses, and con-
signification, ibid. 511. his two works,
and their names, 509, 510. coincides in
sentiment with the author of Hermes,
and why, 511.
Johnson, his valuable dictionary, 394.
Isocrates, 439, 549.
Justice. See Saladin, 481.
Justinian, 471. his code found, when, and
where, 501.
Juvenal, 504, 535.
Kuster, 468.
Laity, of the middle age, their ignorance,
499. their ignorance and barbarity, 530,
531, 532, 533. their ferocity, whence,
532, 533.
Language, English. See English.
Latin language, lost its syllabic quantity in
the fifth century, 408. ceased to be the
common language of Rome in the seventh
century, 409, 454, 471. Latin classics,
see Planudes. Latin tongue, conjectures
concerning its duration at Constantinople,
471. Latin ceremonial there, ibid.
Latin laity. See Laity.
Learning, when it most flourished in the
middle age, and why, 506, 511. in its
worst state, when, 506. when it mended,
and whence, ibid. 518, 519.
Leland, (Guy's Cliff described by him,) 527.
Lenity, 494.
Letters, their great patron, Almamum, 479.
a Turkish envoy in a late period shews
his love for them, 496.
Lexicons, 391.
Liberality. See Saladin, 483. See Al-
mamum, 488, 489.
Liberty, civil, unknown to the Orientals,
495, 543.
Libraries, at Alexandria, 458. at Con-
stantinople, 471. in Spain, under the
Arabians, 490, 542. that of the king of
France, 496. MSS. there, 546. Escurial
library, its Arabic manuscripts, 540. the
same at Mount Athos, 551.
Life, age, described by metaphors, 440,
441. how to make the best life agree-
able, 453.
Liking, importance of liking well; peril of
liking foolishly, 452, 453. good liking
to be learnt, and how, 453. See Taste.
Lillo, 431.
Literature, 479, 496, 507, 511. came to
Rome from Constantinople, when, and
by what incidents, 477, 514, of Chaucer,
518, 519. of Fortescue, 524. of Russia,
547.
Livy, 471. many manuscripts of his history
in the Escurial library, but no entire
copy, 544, 545.
Logic, differently treated by the Peripatetics
and Stoics, how, 460. Zeno elegantly dis-
tinguished it from rhetoric by a simile, ib.
Longinus, a critic, 390. his character as
such, ibid. fine edition of him by Toupe,
396. his account of metre and rhythm,
406. quoted, 420.
Lowth, bishop, his incomparable Grammar
of the English tongue, 394.
Lucian, 469.
Lucretius, 414. his gods, ibid. same with
those of Epicurus, 461.
Lycæum, the place where Aristotle taught,
Lyttleton, first lord, his fine history of the
state of literature during Henry the
Second, 511.
Macbeth, his manners, morally bad, but
poetically good, 434. See Richard the
Third.
Magicians, men thought such by the ig
norant for being wise, 485, 498, 499.
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